When someone asks me on a podcast to walk through the 6-Layer Block Model in plain language, I usually start by saying what it isn’t — because most people arriving at the question have already collected a shelf of frameworks that promised to explain why they’re still plateaued, and what they really want to know is whether this one is going to give them somewhere new to stand. You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books, sat in the trainings, run the protocols. And if something still isn’t clicking in your business, it’s not because you missed a chapter. It’s almost always because the block you’re working on is sitting on a different layer than the one you’ve been treating.

That’s the whole reason the model exists. It gives you a map for where a block actually lives — so you stop trying to solve a body-level block with a journaling prompt, or a story-level block with a breathwork session, and feel discouraged when neither one shifts the needle.

The six layers, walked through quickly

The model names six places a business block can actually be sitting. From the surface down:

  • Behavioral — what you do and don’t do. The unsent email. The pricing page you keep meaning to update. The sales call that turns into a free consultation.
  • Ego — the protective self-image. The part that needs to be seen as humble, generous, spiritual, or “not one of those people who pushes.” This layer decides which behaviours are even allowed.
  • Narrative — the stories you’ve inherited about money, visibility, worth, and what people like you are allowed to have. Often older than you are.
  • Somatic — what the body does around success. Shoulders tight before a launch. Throat closing on a sales call. The full freeze that arrives on the morning of a big visibility moment.
  • Relational — what happens in the presence of other human beings. Fawning with difficult clients. Shrinking around peers. The way a single comment from a parent can reorganise a whole quarter.
  • Essence — the deepest layer. Who you take yourself to be at the level of being, before any of the other layers get involved.

Each layer is real. Each one can be the actual location of the block. And — this is the part that matters — the layer where a block lives is the layer where it has to be addressed. You can’t reason your way out of a somatic freeze. You can’t breathe your way out of an ego-level identity that won’t let you charge what your work is worth.

A concrete example

A while back I sat with a coach — I’ll call her Priya [illustrative example] — who had spent close to a decade on her own inner work. Certifications in two modalities. A shelf of books that any of us would recognise. She had a beautiful offer and a small, devoted client base, and she could not, for the life of her, raise her prices past a number she’d held since 2019.

She had tried the obvious things. Affirmations. Money mindset programs. A pricing strategist who gave her a perfectly defensible new number. None of it stuck. Within a month she’d quietly discount the new price, or undercharge a “special” client, or add bonuses until the maths reverted to the old rate.

When we walked her stuck point through the six layers, the picture changed. The behavioural layer was obvious — she discounted. The narrative layer had some material too: “people like me don’t charge that.” But neither was the load-bearing one.

The actual block was relational. Her mother had been the kind of giver who never let anyone pay her back, and Priya had built her entire sense of being “good” on top of that template. The somatic layer agreed — when she rehearsed saying her new number out loud, her chest locked. We weren’t dealing with a pricing problem at all. We were dealing with a body and a relationship script that experienced “ask, and receive what you’re worth” as a betrayal of who she’d been raised to be.

Once she could see the layer, the work changed. Somatic practice for the chest. Relational repair around the original template. Then the pricing conversation became possible — and the number held.

Why this is useful (not just interesting)

Three reasons it earns its keep:

First, it ends the “I’ve tried everything” loop. When you’ve tried everything, what usually happened is you tried everything on one or two layers. Most personal development is concentrated on the narrative and ego layers. Most business advice lives on the behavioural layer. The somatic, relational, and essence layers are where a lot of the real material is — and they’re the ones most often skipped.

Second, it tells you which tool to reach for. A behavioural block wants a structural change — a calendar, a script, an accountability piece. A somatic block wants slow, embodied work. A narrative block wants parts work or reframing. An essence-level block wants something quieter and more contemplative than any of the above. The model isn’t a method; it’s a triage system.

Third, it removes the shame of “still being stuck.” If you’ve worked on three layers and the block is sitting on the fourth, of course it hasn’t moved. That’s not a character flaw. That’s a map problem.

The 6-Layer Block Model sits underneath the rest of the work we do — it’s the diagnostic piece that GPS+I and CLARITI both lean on, and it’s how we make sense of why the same person can need very different things in different seasons. It also explains why the Three Pillars are treated as parallel rather than hierarchical: blocks show up on every layer, and every pillar has its own version of each.

How to use it on your own situation

Pick one block. Not the whole shape of your business — one stuck point. Then walk it down through the six layers and ask, at each one: is this where the load is actually being carried? You’ll often find the answer in the body before the mind catches up. The layer that produces the small flinch is usually the one to start with.

You don’t have to do this work alone, and you might want to read this in pieces. If you’d like a place where the layers get walked through with other people doing the same work — and where the inner-game pieces and the business pieces are held in the same room — you’re welcome inside the miraclesfor.me Skool community. Come in, look around, and see whether the map feels like one you could actually use.

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