Why Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based Triggers Me More Than It Used To

The expected arc of inner work is: do the work, become less reactive, approach previously triggering things with more equanimity. When the arc runs the other way — when something triggers more as development deepens, not less — it’s understandably confusing. And it can feel like evidence that the inner work has made things worse rather than better.

If magnetic marketing and showing up trigger you more than they did before you started doing inner work, the most likely explanation isn’t that the work is failing. It’s that something is succeeding.

What Increasing Activation Actually Signals

What increasing activation actually signals in most cases is not escalating damage. It’s increasing sensitivity — the developing capacity to notice and feel what was previously numbed, suppressed, or below the threshold of awareness.

Before significant inner work, many practitioners carry their material around magnetic marketing and visibility in a way that doesn’t generate much surface activation — because the awareness isn’t developed enough to register it clearly. The block is there, but it’s below conscious awareness. The practitioner feels vague reluctance, general avoidance, mild resistance — not the specific, named activation that accompanies genuine awareness of what the block contains.

As inner work deepens, the sensitivity increases. The practitioner can now feel what was previously felt only as vague discomfort. The block hasn’t grown — what’s grown is the capacity to feel it. And feeling it more accurately generates more specific activation.

This is progress, even though it doesn’t feel like it from inside. The thing that’s increasing is awareness, not damage.

Working With Increased Somatic Sensitivity

Working with increased somatic sensitivity in relation to showing up requires a different approach than working with the numbed version. When the activation was low and vague, it was possible to move through it with moderate effort. When the activation is clearer and more specific, that same movement requires attending to what the activation is carrying.

The increased activation is communicating something — about what the block contains, about what the nervous system is protecting against, about what would need to change for the block to release. This communication is more useful than the previous vague resistance, even though it’s less comfortable.

Body-first when the body is more activated means attending to the activation before attempting to move through it — genuinely receiving the somatic communication rather than treating the activation as an obstacle to get past. What is the body communicating? What is the activation about, as specifically as possible? Where in the body is it located, and what quality does it have?

This inquiry, conducted with genuine curiosity rather than urgency to resolve the activation, often reveals what the block has been carrying — the specific material that has become visible as awareness has developed.

A Practice Calibrated to Increased Sensitivity

A practice calibrated to increased sensitivity for practitioners in this experience looks different from a practice calibrated for lower activation. The volume of showing up may be smaller — fewer pieces, less frequent — because each instance of genuine attention to the showing up is carrying more. The quality of attention is what matters here, not the quantity of output.

The practitioner who is more activated around showing up than before is at a stage where the genuine work is in the activation itself, not in moving past it. The activation is the territory. Showing up is the practice of entering that territory — which, done with genuine attention, changes the territory rather than just crossing it.

Each time the activated practitioner genuinely attends to what the activation is carrying — rather than suppressing it to create or avoiding creation to escape it — the block becomes slightly more visible and slightly more workable. The activation is the access point, not the obstacle.

The full approach for practitioners who are more activated recognizes increasing activation as a stage of genuine development — the stage where the material is becoming accessible enough to work with directly. It’s not the last stage, and it’s not the longest stage. It’s the stage where the work actually engages the material.

The Abundance GPS Skool community includes practitioners at the increasing-activation stage — where the inner work has begun to surface what the showing-up block has been carrying. The door is open at https://www.skool.com/miraclesforme/about.