Your karmic knot of professional identity is a shape-shifter. 

When you are creating a body of work that alchemizes, synthesizes or crosses the silos of established disciplines—particularly when it weaves together the intuitive, the creative, and the energetic with the logical, the measurable and the concrete—your karmic knot of professional identity sits at the threshold of that work’s full realization. 

It confronts you with the operational pattern of your life, often on both personal and professional fronts, and with the limits of our existing systems and structures’s ability to nurture, hold and deliver a mature, integrated body of work.

There is one, single pattern at the root of your karmic knot—where your professional identity, the operational pattern of your life, and the collective karmic knot of our existing systems and structures converge. 

When you untangle this one thing, you will untangle all of it.

Untangling this one pattern at the root of your karmic knot of identity, value, safety and respect is the first phase of the work that I do with clients—and I’ve found that it has the most profound and broad-reaching impact. Integrating the sacred and the strategic parts of your work into a coherent whole and bringing your business into structural coherence around that then happens with relative speed and ease.

But you cannot untangle it through strategy or the mechinations of your mind. You must meet it as what it is—where it is in you.

Karma is an energetic memory of a pattern of past action—that creates a prism through which you experience Life. A karmic knot is a fundamental, operational pattern of your life that expresses through your thoughts, feelings, energy, and actions. It is pervasive; it is elusive; it is sticky—and it is wise. It holds the wisdom, the fuel, all the tools and tenacity, discernment and experience that you need to fully realize your mature, integrated body of work. 

(I went deeper into what your karma is, where it lives in you, and how it relates to your dharma in Episodes 16: What—and Where—Is Your Karma? And I shared what a practice, any spiritual practice, needs to do in order to untangle karma—and why—in Episode 17: How Do You Untangle A Karmic Knot? I invite you to go back and listen for context, clarity or a deepened understanding.)

I work with clients through the practice of chanting mantra because it is the primary tantric practice for untangling karma. It was discerned and developed for this purpose, which makes it different from the other work that you may have done—and effective where your other practices might not have been.

My experience (and what’s been reflected back to me by clients) is that the practice of mantra—when tailored to exactly what’s happening with you—can reach and untangle what has otherwise been unreachable, perhaps even unnamable. 

Because a mantra works directly with the root of your karmic knot of professional identity—by speaking to it in its own language of vibration and prāṇa, life force. 

There is no abstraction—and no translation or mediation. 

It’s direct. (You actually don’t even need to “understand” it.) 

It is targeted—specifically to how your karma creates interference in the flow of your prāṇa through your cakras, and how you experience that interference.

It creates not only the energetic, but the physiological conditions in your brain and nervous system that allows you to change a habitual pattern.

And it is the vibrational fabric of the Universe itself.

In today’s episode of Sacred & Strategic, I detail how the practice of mantra works—energetically and physiologically—to untangle your karmic knot of professional identity through breath and sound. And I guide you in a practice so you can experience mantra for yourself.

I work privately with a small number of clients—through a synthesis of sacred practice, strategic precision and structural coherence—to midwife your mature, integrated body of work into its full realization.