Sales and Ecoerotics, Pt II: Nurturing a Soulcentric Approach to Sales
Note: The following content was first delivered as an asynchronous audio teaching in the first iteration of The Vision Society, recorded and delivered by Daje Aloh. Enjoy.
This is part two of a three-part series on Sales and Ecoerotics, an Entrepreneurial Philosophy series for reframing our thinking about how we approach sales. In this audio we review concepts shared in part one and explore “Soul-Centricity” as an approach for thinking about sales.
We are overcomplicating sales.
In a world where “business” often prioritizes speed, conversion, and mechanized performance, many of us feel disconnected from the process of selling and sharing our work. But what if the discomfort wasn’t because something was wrong with us, but because we were being asked to participate in a system that ignores the body, the Earth, our sensitivity, and the subtle field of real connection?
Let’s bring a more nuanced and remembered experience of sales back into the body, back into the nervous system, and into our root structures. Let’s remember that humans have been practicing relational economies, markets, bazaars, trades, and exchange since long before it was co-opted by a colonial mindset of domination and driving profit at all costs.
The Body Knows: Sensation as an Exchange Intelligence
"Erotics" refers to our capacity for experiencing sensation or life force. In eco-erotic thinking, we extend this concept: sensation is not only personal, it is relational and ecological. Eco-erotics asks us to understand the body as a sensor within the ecosystem of business, community, and culture.
When our capacity to feel is shut down, our capacity to connect is compromised. And when we freeze, fawn, or disappear in sales, our offers often fall flat in that experience. Not because they lack value, but because the nervous system isn’t resourced to transmit and receive.
This is where eco-erotics becomes a medicine: a way to remember our natural capacity to exchange life force, resources, and power in relationship. Sales is not a script. It’s a subtle signal sent between bodies and systems.
Reclaiming the Flow: Currency as River
Sales is a natural flow of cultural and economic exchange that nourishes ecosystems. But the patriarchal story of business has reduced it to extraction and domination. When we forget the river, we forget that currency is meant to move, feed, and distribute vitality.
What if we remembered that money is not the point, but the pulse?
Through an eco-erotic lens, sales is not about controlling outcomes. It’s about stewarding flow—about resourcing our bodies and others' through reciprocal, generous engagement.
Soulcentric Sales: A Call to Ecological Belonging
In Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin writes:
"A healthy society cannot be created by simply sitting down and planning one... It arises only through a natural process of cultural evolution galvanized by soul-infused actions."
To build soulcentric sales processes, we must locate our ecological niche, recognizing that our work is not random. Our medicine is not irrelevant. There are people who need exactly what we offer, but not if we fracture ourselves to fit.
Ask yourself:
What is my soul’s ecological niche?
What am I uniquely here to offer?
Where do I belong in the ecosystem of culture, commerce, and healing?
Sales as a Developmental Process
Sales is not just about generating income. It is a vital developmental process between a business and its community. It reflects how well we are attuned to the cultural moment, how clearly we are expressing our essence, and how open we are to receiving.
Carol Sanford writes:
"Developmental processes increase people's capability and will to grow as autonomous actors... enabling them to create unique, value-adding offerings to their communities."
If we ignore or reject sales, we cut off one of the most vital systems of distribution in our ecosystem. When we embrace it soulcentrically, we create channels for vitality to move and for futures to materialize.
When the River is Tainted
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés writes:
"If we are gasping for creative energy... if we have difficulty focusing on our personal vision, acting on it, or following through with it, then something has gone wrong at the waterspill juncture between the headwaters and the tributary."
In other words: if sales feels impossible, the flow may be blocked at the root.
Eco-erotic sales invites us to investigate the root system of our nervous system, our self-concept, and our capacity to receive. What stories are shaping our exchanges? Are we leading with presence, or performance? Are we numbing or listening?
Sales as Soul Work
When we engage sales from a soulcentric lens, we bless the lifeblood of society. Sales becomes cultural Shakti. A source of nourishment. A reminder that ecosystems are moved by conscious exchange, not coercion.
We ask:
How can I grow my capacity for healthy, resonant sales interactions?
How can my sales process reflect care and consideration for complexity, nuance, and place?
How can my offerings add value and become part of cultural regeneration, not depletion?
Soulcentric sales asks us to stop contorting and start contributing. It invites us to bring the fertile into form through honesty, reciprocity, and Earth-rooted presence.
This is how we sell from the soul.
Through embodied presence. Through ecological and relational sensitivity. Through commitment to culture and community.
Because in the end, sales isn’t just about making money and stacking cash. It’s about knowing out manage resource inputs and outputs and how to steward nodal exchanges and flows.
