How Divine Play actually happens in soulful work/regenerative entrepreneurship

As someone who is in the ideation stage of building an impact-driven startup accelerator for the New Earth, I still grapple with the thought of making the journey “playful”.

Perhaps a lot would resonate when I say that entrepreneurship, in its current extractive, ego-driven state, can be extremely demanding in energy and responsibility.

That also explains the “hustle culture” that many of us would love to detach from but persists in our society as of today.

Hence, we in Gaianet uphold transformation and divine play as core values.

Transformation talks about whole people creating whole systems, while Divine Play is about joyfully co-creating a new game. 

That pairing of core values got me thinking:

Perhaps the reasoning behind the “hustle culture” was that as we create new systems for the New Earth to emerge, we may have held on to beliefs that equate hard work to success, abundance, and security within and without.

That belief may subconsciously tell us that if it weren’t for what we do, we may not feel complete or whole.

It may also be the same belief on why we might be forcing ourselves too much on work—because we might have that idea that we are incomplete without that “driving force” to prove ourselves.

I fell for that trap multiple times in my journey.

Since I started working on this endeavor which nourishes my soul deeply, I have begun to exert as much effort as I can to talk to as many people as I could for me to make it happen.

However, now that I have taken a slow week as of publishing this article, I reflected that perhaps parts of me have started attaching too much of my identity to this endeavor—which may have made me “work harder” and forget the play that comes with birthing this vision into life.

Don’t get me wrong, the definitions of hard work and “joyful co-creation” may be different for everyone. 

Some would find it joyful to work 18 hours in a day for something worthwhile, while others thrive in an 18-hour week of work. 

But ultimately, the thought inside my head is that maybe when we allow ourselves to feel whole deep within, we get to create systems that reflect our wholeness.

And that can come from allowing ourselves to co-create our visions not only with other people but also with our Highest Selves and the Divine playfully.

One way is to set intentions on where we want to go and release control from how it shows up—because it’s always either what we want or something even better than what we can currently comprehend.

In my case, even with the intent to create LightYear for Southeast Asia, I am seeing it resonate with more people from Western Europe as I continue to hop on calls with different people globally.

Another would be that we work on what feels alive at the moment and that we allow ample time to rest and let go when it becomes too much.

For me, it can show up as taking “slow weeks” and giving myself time to reflect and see what comes alive. 

It can also be about inviting more trust and surrender into the process while staying true to our intentions—just like how we intend to win each round of a board/video/card game but not knowing how it will unfold.

What I imagine here is the integration of the masculine, the feminine, and the child within when it comes to committing to joyfully treat our visions as a playground for our wildest dreams and soul’s longings to move around.

Masculine talks about leadership, follow-through, and structure. It creates safe containers to which we can go about certain situations and solve problems by reconnecting to our inner authority. 

Feminine, on the other hand, is about creativity and devotion. It is the flow and magnetism from the intentions we set out for our visions—allowing resources in different forms to be received and relating to others to be fluid and genuine.

The child then, is about joy and authenticity, about being untethered to what the world demands of them and following what excites them. It is the spark growing inside of us that reminds us why we love what we do and we do what we love. 

Because of this, when we come from love, we express our love wholeheartedly to what we work in and towards.

So, when we nourish ourselves within, stay rooted in our wholeness, and work on beliefs that suggest otherwise, we get to continuously incorporate Divine Play into the mix, which ultimately transforms the systems and solutions we build for the New Earth we are all co-creating.

I hope that this becomes an invitation for us to continuously fill our cups and let things flow as we remind ourselves of our completeness—and only then can we open ourselves to play while bringing our visions to life.