Zenpreneur Success Talk is a series of weekly interviews with successful entrepreneurs. They share life lessons and business tips you can use to create your dreams of financial success and still stay true to you. 

This week I talk with Q-Mars Imandel. I've know Q for quite a few years. He's been a web designer since 2006. He also teaches and promotes juicing, raw food and healthy living through  his non-profit organization the GIVE project. We talk about how spirituality and business success go hand in hand. 

Listen in and find out how you can live a richer healthier life as an entrepreneur. 

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INTERVIEW WITH Q-MARS IMANDEL

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Whether you have your own business or would like to, or you work for
a corporation or small business, the infinite organizing power of
consciousness can flow through you to create far greater results
than trying to do everything from the daily limited mindset that so
many of us operate from on a daily basis.

A few weeks ago I experienced a profound shift in my awareness. In
the morning I felt strangely uncomfortable like something was off, but
I couldn't put my finger on it at all. It didn't feel like any 'normal' angst
or worry. I asked if it was mine and or not and it did lighten up, but still
the sense of strangeness persisted.  As the day passed I felt something
new and exciting moving in my spirit; almost like being born to a 
new freshness of spirit.

At a certain point as I walked along a pathway towards Mt. Tamalpais,
the central land mark in Marin County just north of San Francisco where
I live,  I felt something opening… consciousness started flowing throughout
me,  my body and my life. I felt a vast bliss and delight.

It kept flooding through me. It felt like nothing in the world could come close
to that experience. No material possessions or experiences, no cars, clothes,
houses, travel or personal relationships could come close to this experience of
consciousness flooding through and illuminating everything. Yet this is at the
very heart of far greater aliveness in all those areas of life.

The experience faded away over night. The next day I didn't have such a vast
sense of consciousness. Yet it had shifted something in me in a way that I knew
that my life would never be the same. Since then I've found that I am much more
aware of how I spend my time. Especially with my business. I have much a much
sharper focus and at the same time feeling more relaxed and having fun with
everything I do. I complete asks with far less effort and much more of a sense of
ease and expansiveness and being true to me.

My business has grown exponentially with very little effort. A few well
placed actions have created so much greater results than hours of
planning and activity. It's amazing what a difference having consciousness
working directly for you can make!

I've found that clients I work with also experience faster and easier
results with their business when they let go of limiting beliefs and
habit patterns and embrace more energy and awareness.

What's missing in so much of our lives is a deeper wholeness and
connection with everything. At the fundamental basis of everything we
choose and create is our awareness of Self – pure consciousness. All our
endeavors and all we desire to have things in the world can be enriched
with unsurpassable strength and ease and fullness. Consciousness is the
conduit for your talents and abilities to flow through and be magnified a
hundred fold.

When you get in touch with that vast consciousness that you truly are and
feel that flowing through your unique talents and strengths, then you know
that the universe can work for you and with you and allow far greater
things to show up for you than you can with just your mind alone.

Here's a meditation that will help you have more consciousness flowing "
through you and supporting you.

Close your eyes.
Take a long deep breath.
Now take another even bigger deep breath being aware of your whole body.
And another deep breath letting go of any sense of anxiety, fight or flight.

Put your awareness on any small or large sense of joy that you are aware of.
If you have a hard time feeling any joy, think of someone or something you
are grateful for. Allow yourself to bathe in that and keep expanding that
awareness to fill your whole body and beyond.

Keep expanding out and allow consciousness to flood your whole life.
Allow all this to quickly or all at once if it comes that way.

Now just be with all of that and allow yourself to fully bathe in it!

Are you willing to call forth  the power of consciousness to expand
your business?

I'd love to hear your comment.

Are you aware that there is a huge change in consciousness happening right now? And if you choose, you can help make the possibilities far greater? 

What is conscious business? It's not what a lot of people think it is. There's a lot of talk about conscious business these days. It's often thought of as contributing to the planet, being green and paying a fair wage etc.

While these are all laudable goals for business. They are not necessarily conscious. Consciousness is actually not the appearance of the actions we do.

So what does  it really mean to be conscious? Consciousness, as my mentor Gary Douglas the founder of Access Consciousness says, consciousness includes all things and judges nothing.

Why is non-judgment so important to business? Well a lot of people think that judgment is a creative force. After all they use it all the time to live their lives thinking that they will be more powerful. In fact, judgment is a destructive force.We either judge ourselves or judge others. Judgment contracts our bodies and your personalities. It stops us from receiving anything that doesn't match our judgment. And that severely limits our lives and the lives of people we come into contact with. And so much of the time we're not even aware we're doing it.

Judgment is so pervasive and persistent, we do it all the time as second nature. Look around and watch the people you interact with everyday.. There's some good will and also a lot of judging going on. Envy, jealousy, prejudice, hatred. And the worst form of judgment is self-judgment because that's usually the cause of all judgment.

A conscious business leader doesn't  judge themselves, other people or events. They're open to greater possibilities and willing to be connected to everything and everybody.

A great example of a conscious business is Richard Branson and his Virgin companies. Richard Branson is amazingly non-self judging. He's willing to do just about anything and look ridiculous if it will promote the Virgin brand.

He's also an acutely savvy entrepreneur. He finds the best people and allows them to be self-determine their jobs. Richard Branson doesn't try to control them and hold back their creativity like so many corporations do.

That willingness to trust your own instincts and to trust your reading of people comes from not judging and being willing to be aware. It opens the doors to enormous creativity and generosity of spirit towards customers and the public.. That's what builds truly valuable good will and customer loyalty for a company.

And non-judgment is not just a lack of judgment. It's an overflowing generosity of spirit and invitation to being and doing more.

One of the greatest keys to not judging is gratitude. Gratitude for everything that happens in your life, the good, the bad and the ugly. When you are grateful, you let go of the charge you have on things that makes you want to judge it. That doesn't mean you don't choose to change what isn't working or that you're a doormat at the mercy of people who want to take advantage of you. . But in fact it's far easier to change things if you're in allowance of what is and

And when you're grateful, things can happen faster and a lot easier. When you're not judging

So gratitude and being willing to receive everything without judgment opens you and your business to being greater and to creating and receiving more enjoyment, satisfaction and money for you and your business.

Are you willing to let go of judgment?