Signs of Abundance Blocks and Curses

You built something. You’ve done everything right. You’ve hired the coaches, invested in the marketing, taken the courses, worked the systems. You know your numbers. You know your positioning. You know your offer.

And your business has hit a wall you can’t get past.

Revenue is flat or declining. Leads that used to convert don’t. Deals collapse right before closing. The clients you attract lately are the wrong clients. You’re working harder than you’ve ever worked for less than you were making two years ago. Your team is off. Your energy is off. The business you built with such clarity feels like a stranger now.

You’re probably not stuck for the reasons everyone keeps telling you you’re stuck.

Businesses have an energetic layer, and when the energetic layer is blocked, cursed, or drifting, no amount of tactical work on the physical layer breaks the pattern. Here’s what actually blocks a business energetically, how to tell if that’s what you’re dealing with, and what it takes to clear it.

Does This Sound Like Your Business?

If several of these are familiar, you’re probably looking at an energetic block rather than a strategy problem:

Your revenue plateaued or dropped without a clear market or operational reason.

Leads that would have closed a year ago now stall, ghost, or object at the last minute.

Deals fall apart right before closing. Contracts don’t get signed. Money doesn’t wire. The buyer disappears the day of the signature.

You keep attracting the wrong clients despite better filtering, better positioning, and clearer offers.

You feel like you’re pushing rope. Everything takes more effort than it should for the result.

You’re working more hours for less money than you were a year or two ago.

Marketing that used to work stopped working, and your new tests aren’t producing what they should.

Team dynamics have deteriorated. People who worked well together suddenly can’t. Small issues become huge.

You’ve lost your original vision. You can barely remember what you set out to build.

You dread going into work at your own business.

You feel physically off when you sit down to work on it. Headaches. Fatigue. Chest tightness.

You’re sleeping poorly. Your business decisions are keeping you up. Your body knows something is wrong.

Competitors doing the same thing you’re doing are growing while you’re stuck.

Certain team members drain the entire room every time they show up.

Partnerships and collaborations that looked promising are quietly falling apart.

Clients who were enthusiastic ghost you after contracts get signed.

Something feels like it’s actively working against you and you can’t name it.

A cluster of these together points at the energetic layer. Individual items could be strategy issues. The pattern is different.

The Business Coaches Missed the Layer

Business coaches, marketing consultants, sales trainers, and operations experts work on real layers of your business. Strategy, positioning, funnel, systems, hiring, culture, execution. Their work is valuable and often necessary. Many businesses need exactly this kind of help and grow beautifully once they get it.

If you’ve hired the help, applied the advice, done the work, and you’re still stuck, the layer being blocked isn’t the one they operate on. You can perfect your funnel and still have leads that don’t convert. You can hire the best sales trainer and still watch deals collapse at the finish line. You can systematize everything and still feel like the business is grinding you down.

That’s usually a sign the block is at the energetic layer. Business coaches don’t work on that layer, not because they’re bad at their jobs, but because it isn’t their toolkit. They’re not trained to see it.

What Actually Blocks a Business Energetically

The most common patterns I see in stuck businesses:

Curses or hexes placed on the business itself. More common than most business owners would guess. Once placed, they interfere with revenue, deals, team dynamics, and reputation until they’re actively cleared.

Curses or hexes on you personally that spill into the business. If someone targeted you, everything you touch, including your business, gets affected.

Team members carrying heavy energy. One person can quietly wreck the energy of an entire company. Not always consciously. Not always maliciously. Sometimes just an employee going through something dark whose energy affects everyone around them.

Toxic clients whose energy stayed after they left. Bad clients don’t just cost you time. They leave energetic residue in the business that affects your ability to attract better clients.

Your intention for the business drifting off course. You started with clarity. Pressures came. Compromises accumulated. Now you’re running a business that doesn’t match what you set out to build. The energy of the business itself is misaligned with your original intent, and everything downstream feels forced.

Abundance blocks from your own history. Money patterns from your family. Financial trauma from a previous business failure. Beliefs about wealth you never consciously chose. These block the flow independent of your mindset work.

Environmental issues in your office or workspace. The physical space carries energy. Previous tenants, land history, heavy foot traffic, and dark portals on the property all affect what happens inside.

Active malice from a former employee, partner, or competitor. Sustained negative focus from someone with a grudge functions like a curse. They don’t have to be practicing anything magical. They just have to be projecting.

You bought a business that came with existing energetic issues. Some acquired businesses come with attached curses, dark portals in the location, or residue from the previous owner’s struggles.

Why Successful Businesses Get Attacked

This is one of the pieces of the puzzle most business owners miss.

If you’re building something that helps people, changes an industry, or makes real money, you attract attention. Not all of that attention is good. Ex-employees who felt wronged. Competitors who resent your growth. Clients who blame you for their own decisions. People who envy what you’ve built.

Sustained negative focus from any of these can function like directed energy. The person doesn’t need to be a witch or a practitioner. They just need enough intensity and enough duration. Over months of resentment, over years of grudge, over the long slow burn of somebody wishing you would fail, real energetic effects accumulate.

Some of it lands on you. Some of it lands on the business itself. Both interfere with what you’re trying to build.

I protect my own business every single day for exactly this reason. From day one of doing this work I’ve built protection into my daily practice, and I still find curses and hexes placed on my business or on me. It happens to anyone building something visible. What matters is whether you notice and whether you clear it.

The Owner Intention Drift Pattern

This one is subtle and it wrecks more businesses than most owners realize.

You started with a clear vision. You knew what you were building and why. Then reality showed up. Cash flow got tight. A client wanted something outside your scope and you said yes because the money mattered. A team member left and you filled their role with someone who wasn’t quite right. A market opportunity opened and you chased it even though it didn’t fit.

Two years later, you’re running a business you don’t recognize. You’re doing work you never wanted to do. You’re serving clients you never meant to serve. You’re spending your days on tasks that have nothing to do with why you started.

The energetic effect of this drift is real. The business’s energy no longer matches your intent. The intent you’re actually putting into it every day is compromised and reluctant. And the business responds. Growth stalls. The right clients stop showing up. The wrong ones proliferate. The strain you feel is the business itself trying to tell you it isn’t aligned.

This can be cleared. Realigning the business’s energy with your true intention often unlocks stuck patterns that no amount of strategy work could touch.

How Abundance Blocks Actually Work

Abundance block is a phrase that gets thrown around in a lot of vague ways. Here’s what’s usually happening underneath it.

Some blocks are inherited. Family patterns around money that go back generations. Parents who were terrified of money, ashamed of money, cheated of money, defined by lack of money. These patterns pass down bloodlines the way other family patterns do. You don’t remember choosing them. They’re operating anyway.

Some blocks are traumatic. A previous business failure that broke your relationship with financial risk. A bankruptcy that shaped how you approach every subsequent venture. A lawsuit, a partner who stole from you, a fraud that changed how you trust.

Some blocks are early programming. Your parents’ relationship with money. What was said in your childhood home about wealth, about wealthy people, about what money does to you. What you absorbed before you had language for it.

Mindset work helps with some of this. It doesn’t reach the energetic structures underneath. Those structures block the actual flow of money into your life independent of what you consciously believe. This is why so many entrepreneurs do years of abundance work and still hit the same ceiling.

Team Members Who Drain the Business

One employee can quietly cost a company more than they cost in salary.

The chronically negative team member. The active saboteur. The person going through hell in their personal life who brings hell into every meeting. The senior leader whose contempt for the mission trickles down to everyone under them.

You don’t have to fire them. You have to see them clearly and either clear the space around them or make an actual decision about their role. Businesses I’ve worked on where the owner cleared the space and stayed, and businesses where the clearing revealed the person actually had to go, both produce results. Ignoring the pattern is what doesn’t work.

For empath business owners especially, absorbing your team’s energy is a massive drain. Half the exhaustion you feel is theirs, not yours.

What About Your Physical Workspace?

Office energy matters more than most people account for.

The space clients enter carries an impression before anyone opens their mouth. If it feels heavy, they feel that. If previous tenants left residue, that residue is in your walls. Some spaces carry portals from long before you moved in. Retail and hospitality spaces get hit hardest because sustained heavy foot traffic loads energy fast.

Working from home has its own version. The office corner in a house that also carries whatever the household is carrying. Your business energy mixes with your family energy. Sometimes that’s fine. Sometimes it’s exactly why nothing is working.

Signs Your Business Has Been Specifically Targeted

Some patterns point specifically at directed negative energy rather than general block:

A sudden drop in revenue or performance that doesn’t track with anything in the market or your operations.

Multiple simultaneous problems appearing at once. Sales, team, tech, finance, client relationships all going sideways in the same window.

Key relationships collapsing at the same time. Vendors leaving. Partnerships dissolving. Advisors going quiet.

Every attempt to restart, rebrand, or pivot fails in a similar way.

You feel physically off specifically when working on the business. You’re fine on weekends. Monday morning your body knows.

Recurring numerical patterns of loss. The same specific shortfall showing up over and over.

Clustered illnesses across the team. Multiple people getting sick or having crises in the same window.

The sense of being watched or drained when you’re doing business work but not when you’re doing personal work.

Any single one of these is not proof. Together they suggest something specific is at work.

What You Can Try Right Now

Some things you can do this week that address parts of the picture:

Write your original intention down. What did you set out to build. Why. For whom. Whatever came before the compromises. Get it back on paper.

Deep clean and declutter your workspace. Physical accumulation and energetic accumulation track each other.

Identify the heaviest energy source in your business. Is it a person? A location? A specific client? A specific stream of revenue? Name it.

Set clear intent for the business daily. Not affirmations. Actual intent, spoken or written, for what you’re building and what you refuse to do.

Cut ties with clients or team members who consistently cost more than they contribute. This one is hard. It’s usually the right move.

Check your own energetic state. If you’re an empath running a business, you’re absorbing your team, your clients, and your industry. Your exhaustion is not all yours.

Pray, meditate, or use whatever spiritual practice fits you over the business. Concentrated intent does real work.

For lighter blocks, these can move the needle. For businesses carrying curses, deep abundance blocks, active malice, or serious owner drift, the surface tools help around the edges without touching the source.

If you’ve done the strategic work, hired the coaches, applied the advice, and your business is still stuck in patterns you can’t explain, that’s exactly what Herman’s gifted 15-minute call is for. No pressure, no sales pitch. He’ll listen to what’s been happening in your business, give you his read on whether there’s likely energetic interference, and tell you whether a clearing or the Corporate Programme is the right fit for what you’re building. The booking link is at the end of this post.

Why Business Owners Especially Need Ongoing Protection

Personal clearings work well for individual people because your life is relatively stable. The clearing addresses what you’ve accumulated, and if you’re not walking back into an intense environment, the effects hold.

A business is different. You’re public-facing every day. You’re producing something visible. You’re accumulating client energy, team energy, competitor energy, market energy every hour you’re open. A one-off clearing helps for a stretch and then the load rebuilds fast.

That’s why the Corporate Programme runs across six months instead of being a single session. Each month I work on the business itself, on you as the owner, and on the leadership team. I clear whatever is currently blocking. I maintain alignment with your original intention. I address curses, hexes, and abundance blocks as they surface. The work compounds over the six months, and by the end, your business is operating from a much cleaner energetic baseline than it started with.

For businesses in acute stuck patterns or actively under attack, that ongoing structure is usually the difference between a temporary shift and a real reset.

What Changes When a Business Is Cleared

Common patterns clients report:

Leads start converting again. The same funnel that was leaking suddenly holds.

Deals close instead of collapsing at the finish line.

Team dynamics shift. The person who was heavy either lightens up or self-selects out.

The right clients start showing up. Wrong-fit clients stop.

Revenue moves. Sometimes gradually, sometimes in a single quarter.

You reconnect to what you actually wanted to build. Decision-making gets clearer because the aim is clear again.

The physical strain of pushing rope stops. You have energy at the end of the day.

Your relationship to the business stops feeling adversarial. It starts working with you again.

For many business owners, this is the shift they’ve been trying to force for years through effort. You can’t force a business back into alignment. You can clear what’s blocking it and let it come back on its own.

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Most owners say the shift after the first month of corporate work is the first time in years they’ve felt the business moving with them instead of against them.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the signs my business is energetically blocked?

The clearest signs are sustained patterns rather than single bad quarters. Revenue plateau or decline without market cause, leads that stop converting, deals collapsing at the finish line, wrong-fit clients showing up repeatedly, team dynamics deteriorating, loss of connection to your original vision, and a feeling that something is actively working against you despite good strategy and execution.

Can a business be cursed?

Yes, and it happens more often than most owners would guess. Curses on a business can come from ex-employees, competitors, disgruntled clients, or anyone sustaining strong negative focus toward you. Once placed, they interfere with revenue, deals, team dynamics, and reputation. Clearing them is standard energy work.

What causes abundance blocks in business?

Common causes include inherited family patterns around money, financial trauma from previous ventures, early childhood programming about wealth, and unresolved energetic residue from bankruptcies, lawsuits, or business failures. These blocks operate independent of your mindset work and often don’t respond to standard abundance practices.

How do you clear negative energy from your business?

Surface practices like decluttering the workspace, reconnecting to your original vision, setting daily intention, and cutting ties with draining people can shift lighter blocks. For businesses carrying curses, deep abundance blocks, or active energetic attack, an actual clearing addresses the source. The Corporate Programme is specifically built for ongoing business-level work.

Why does my business keep hitting the same wall?

Recurring walls at the same growth threshold usually indicate a structural energetic block rather than an operational one. Common causes include a curse or hex on the business or the owner, an abundance ceiling from personal history, or the owner’s intention having drifted so far from the original vision that the business’s energy is no longer aligned with growth.

Can employees drain business energy?

Yes. One heavy team member can quietly cost a business more than they cost in salary. Chronically negative employees, active saboteurs, or team members going through personal crises drop energy across every meeting they’re in. For empath business owners, absorbing your team’s energy is a major source of exhaustion and business drag.

Should I do a business energy clearing?

If your business is stuck in patterns that strategy work hasn’t broken, if you’ve applied the coaching and consulting advice and you’re still spinning, and if any of the signs above are familiar, a clearing is worth exploring. Start with a gifted 15-minute call to figure out whether a one-off clearing or the ongoing Corporate Programme fits your situation.

What is corporate energy work?

Corporate energy work addresses the business itself, the owner, and the leadership team. It clears curses and hexes, resolves abundance blocks, realigns the business’s energy with the owner’s true intention, and addresses interference from clients, team members, or external sources. The Corporate Programme runs six months because business energy is dynamic and requires ongoing maintenance rather than one-off work.

How long does energy clearing for business take to work?

Individual effects are often visible within days to weeks. Leads that were stalled start moving. Deals that would have collapsed close. The atmosphere of the business shifts. For the Corporate Programme specifically, the compounding effect across six months usually produces sustained change rather than a temporary bump.

Can my competitors curse my business?

Yes. Competitors don’t have to be practicing anything magical to do damage. Sustained resentment, jealousy, or ill-wishing from a competitor who’s watching your success can function like directed energy. The higher-profile and more successful your business becomes, the more of this kind of attention you accumulate.

Is energy clearing different for business vs personal?

Yes. Personal clearing addresses your individual energy. Business energy involves the entity itself, your role as the owner or leader, your team, your clients, and your physical space. It requires focused work on the business as a distinct energetic system, which is why the Corporate Programme is structured differently from personal clearings and runs ongoing rather than one-off.

Can office space have negative energy?

Yes. Offices carry the energy of previous tenants, the history of the building and land, and the sustained emotional patterns of everyone who works there. Retail and hospitality spaces load fastest because of high foot traffic. A physical space carrying heavy energy affects both the team working in it and the clients who enter it.