A cardinal rule of Flowdreaming is that you are a magnificently powerful being….but your power extends only to YOU and YOUR OWN LIFE. Anyone else…well they’re also incredibly powerful…in their own life.

As long as you stick with manifesting for yourself, you’re going to prosper. Once you start trying to change someone else, you’re going to hit walls. Why?

As beings made of energy and information, we’re constantly creating our futures through every thought and feeling, action, and re-sponse or pre-sponse that ripples through us. Everything we do or feel today moves forward and out in our energy like the ripples around a rock tossed in a pond—little fingers that shape our tomorrow. Each one of us is made of moving energy, “swimming” forward, showering the future with our current trajectory, and that’s precisely why we can so powerfully influence the course of our lives at an energetic level.

Now, if you try to change, control, or influence someone else’s life, you’re going to run into all their feelings, actions, responses, beliefs, etc. that are pushing them forward. And oh my, that’s a lot of energy! And no matter what you do, try, say, or cajole, you cannot force that person to do something or see something they don’t want to see, or do, or tackle.

Every person is a king in their own land. You know this already, because I bet you’ve tried at one time or another to make someone do something or behave a certain way, and what you discovered was that even if they tried, it still wasn’t exactly how YOU would have done it, or whatever occurred didn’t last, or it didn’t turn out like you’d expected. Or, perhaps they didn’t even try–and you suffered and were upset that they wouldn’t “listen.” You might have even said to them, “You just don’t care about me.”

Caring or love has nothing to do with it, unfortunately. Even our own children, with whom we are guides and teachers, will ultimately behave how they want, no matter how much we try to force them or push them into certain actions or decisions. We can influence them, but we can’t change them any more than you can decide the color of a rose that blooms. You can feed the rose, water it, and give it sun, but it will bloom into whatever beauty is within it, within the positive or negative environment you give it.

Knowing this, and also knowing that my tendency is to want to change people, I have to periodically check in with myself and ask if I’m unhappy because I’m trying to change someone else. And surprisingly, I often am trying. The desire has crept in insidiously. Whenever I’m feeling upset or disappointed, or when I feel I’ve been “waiting for something to happen” or change that depends on another person’s actions, there’s a good chance that I’ve started trying to get someone to change. And this someone can be as intimate as my husband, or as removed as a colleague that I’m hoping will help me. My frustration is the indicator that all my wonderful manifesting energy has been pouring into a broken vessel of someone else—and I need to take it back and start thinking about me again.

Here’s an example:

Last week, I was feeling depressed by a friendship. Every time I suggest a way for my friend to change her life for the better, she shuts it down and tells me “I don’t understand” and “it’s impossible.” Or worse, she agrees with me, then does absolutely nothing about it. For me, it means I hardly ever get to see my friend or spend time with her. This frustrates me. But, I don’t give up: She’s my friend and we’ll figure something out, right?

Wrong. She’s my friend, but she’s the keeper of her own castle. If she’s blind, she’ll only open her eyes when she’s ready. And that is that. So my choice is either to pull my power back, or continue to leak it out in my ineffectual desire to change her, or help her change.

So when I choose to pull my power back and leave her to her own devices, I’m not being callous or unloving. If anything, I’m loving myself more and giving her room to explore the dead-end she’s in until she’s fully satisfied with the experience of her rut. (Yes, odd as it sounds, like a patron at a fancy banquet, no matter how crazy or irrational it seems to outsiders, she needs to reach full satisfaction with her misery before she’ll change it.)

The first thing I do to take my power back is to ask myself, “Did she actually ask for my help?” (No). “Does she truly feel motivated to try something new and courageous?” (No.) Now I can face up to an idea: maybe it’s ME who is wanting something that she doesn’t see a way to give. I want my friendship and intimacy with her, but I may have to adjust my desires instead.

This is where manifesting becomes powerful, because it asks, “How do I adjust so that I’m not allowing my life and energy to be drained and disappointed by this relationship?” By asking this of myself, I’m no longer at my friend’s mercy, waiting for her to change: I am the one who will adjust my needs and desires. Flowdreaming is a potent ally in this process: Instead of Fowdreaming to try to make her see how her behavior is always negating our friendship, or Flowdreaming to pull her back into my life (both are examples of me trying to run her castle) instead I Flowdream that my need for close, intimate friends, in general, is being constantly fulfilled.

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I Flowdream that I have people in my life who swirl me forward and inspire me, instead of it always being the other way around. I Flowdream that my friends are always available to share time with me, and enjoy good experiences with my family. I let go of my particular desires that I’ve loaded on this friend, and I ask my Flow to give me so much inner fulfillment in my personal relationships, with whichever friends are ready to give it, that I no longer burden this particular one with requests she can’t fulfill. My Flow, in return, starts offering up this to me as new people come into my life, and new friendships start to coalesce, and I discover that there really are people whom I like just as they are or who can even show me a thing or two about friendship.

Flow makes all this possible. I just have to take my power back by taking my “I need you to change” energy back. What is hard, though, is releasing my hopes and expectations. I don’t want my friend to drift away. I don’t want to see her get mired in her life, and no longer be the shining light I know she is. I want to be able to confide in her, but I can’t if she’s not a flexible, supportive, willing presence in my life. And that is where I need to pluck up my courage to say, “So be it.”

I end the process of letting go by feeling, in my Flow, that our relationship is divinely guided. I feel how she’s being guided to see whatever she needs to see, by whatever means her Flow sees best. I feel how our connection is still strong and open secure, and even though I may not be getting from the friendship what I need right now, we might again be close someday. I let our Flow move us both toward the people and experiences that nurture us and support us.

This example is not just limited to just friendships, by the way. I could be talking about a spouse, or a child, parent, or soon-to-be-ex-romantic partner. The principle is the same. You probably have a person in your life with whom you feel this way, too.

I know, it can sound a bit sad, but look deeper and what you see is a very positive willingness to face where you’re at in a courageous and hopeful way. Manifesting means accepting the now fully and clearly, so you can make even better, more effective decisions about creating a fulfilling future. When you can see things clearly like this everyday, day after day, the “now” becomes better and better, and even things like friendships, or the need to change someone, become fluid and flexible, and move through your life with much less agony and much more faith.

Changing my friend is no longer an option. She may not realize it yet, but now she can explore whatever place she’s in without the additional burden of me haranguing her. And, I feel better, knowing that there will probably come a point when we again become close, after she reaches her own realizations in whatever way she chooses to do so. But in the meantime, I am very happy with whatever new intimacies Flow brings me.

Flow always works to offer the best to everyone—there are no losers in the land of spirit. We just have to trust, and allow, and have the courage to move on. May you Flow with joy and release, now and always.

You can guess what kind of “go leap off a cliff” look I gave him. When you’re blue, it’s hard to hear any kind of pick-me-up talk, even from people who care about you.

You see, I’ve been feeling passed over a lot lately, like the dish at the picnic that no one tries. The kid not picked for the team, while all her buddies pick each other. The girl waiting to be asked to the dance, while all her best guy friends ask someone else. Rejection is an experience that comes early and the sting stays, no matter how old we get. Psychology Today has a good article that explains why it’s necessary that we carry around such deep emotional responses to rejection.

As professionals and adults, we still encounter it when we’re passed over for a job, or when the person we’re dating kindly lets us know that we’re not “clicking,” or when the bank rejects your loan application, or in any of a myriad of other situations. “What’s wrong with me?” we ask ourselves.

What does the Flow tell us about this? Why are we overlooked, or snubbed, or passed by or not chosen? Let’s take a moment to acknowledge our feelings, first:

To begin with, we have the emotional response. This is the pout, the hurt feelings, the ego that says, “But why not me? Am I not [insert any word here: 'good enough,' 'talented enough,' 'smart enough,' etc.].” The emotional response is based on biology, and it’s actually necessary for our survival. But we don’t have to let it dominate.

This is where the intellectual response comes in, as we try to rationalize the rejection: “Maybe I just wasn’t exactly what they were looking for. Who knows what criteria they really have. Maybe the fit really wouldn’t have been right.”

But finally, there’s the Flow response, and this is where you involve trust. It’s true, trust is hard to come by on the heels of hurt and disappointment, but if you steer your thoughts back to your Flow, you can release both the emotional and intellectual responses, and feel peace again.

When you’re rejected, your Flow is saying: “Listen up! You wanted a great fit, right? You wanted happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, expression and reward from this thing on your list, right? Well I’m telling you is that this path wasn’t it. You thought it was, but you need to consider whomever or whatever it was that rejected you as a cog in the machine, spinning you into a different direction–one that’s better for you. You can’t see it yet, but someday you will. Trust me.”

Think about this for a moment: What areas of your life right now are flowing freely, where you’re experiencing very little rejection? And now, in which areas are you encountering rejection?

You see, some areas are wide open for you now. Think of a toll road: these are your fast track lanes. If you want to get stuff done, drive there. Those areas may not always be on “fast track.” Take up the opportunity while you can, instead of looking at those lanes where you’re stuck behind the slow moving trucks while the other drivers are honking at you and making rude gestures.

We often take for granted the lanes that move for us, particularly if they’re a lifelong. Maybe you’ve always had an easy time in your career, but never with love. Or vice versa. And so we dwell on what we don’t have, rather than on what we do. The obsession to fix the “delayed” or “dysfunctional”  or “non-flowing” areas can become overwhelming.

But, Flow thinking says, “Trust.” Just let go and trust for awhile. Trust isn’t for wimps. It’s one of the very hardest things to do. So allow the areas where the rejection is roiling to settle and cool. Then return, and begin feeling around the area again. Things are always changing; people, jobs, health, everything. So release it, trust, and return to the game. Consider your time spent on other activities the equivalent of time at the batting cages, warming up. Rejection, as my friend says, means you’re still in the game. At some point, you will be chosen.

So please grant me this exception…you see, a few weeks ago my second book about Flowdreaming came out. It’s called Creative Flowdreaming. And hot on the book’s heels is my other new project: a 6-month online course called, The Art of Flowdreaming, to teach you how to become a Manifesting Practitioner in your own life.

Between these two, you can learn everything you need to know to make real, concrete changes in your own life. First, it isn’t another “Law of Attraction” book. (LOL, I think just about anything worth being said on that has been said.)

Instead, Creative Flowdreaming takes you deep into what living in the Flow really means. Sure, the first few chapters lay out the nuts and bolts of the technique, and give you a thorough introduction to the art of manifesting in general, but from there, I go into the deeper questions that I’ve encountered over the years. Questions that are usually deal-breakers for the inexperienced manifestor, such as why we have to suffer if we’re supposed to be able to “control” our destinies through manifesting. Or, if those “learning experiences” we supposedly set up for ourselves are real, and how much of our lives are “preplanned?” Or, how does karma fit into a manifestor’s life?

I also talk about why seem to go through the same experiences again and again, and why sometimes it takes so long to receive what we ask for. Many of the answers to these questions are surprising–even to myself. But every answer gives you that “ah ha” feeling, because manifesting is really a philosophy–a  way of living that follows an internal logic. When you become aware of this logic, you move to a deeper level in your practice, and the world stops “happening to you.” Instead, it begins happening for you.

The online course that I’ve put together takes the material in the book and applies it to our lives over the course of six months. I hope that many of you will take up the challenge with me and come together as a highly creative, potent group. We’ll use the course to explore your individual potential for manifesting, and sharpen and develop your skills. Nothing I do is fluffy filler. Like my blogs, every class has an objective, and will have a purpose in your development. (If you’ve taken my Flowdreaming Prosperity Challenge, you know this to be the case.) I’ll even be giving you free Flowdreaming mp3s throughout the series to practice with between classes. There’s so much more I could say about it–but just take a look here at the course outline by scrolling to the bottom.

Many years ago, I remember feeling a desperate need for a teacher. I wanted someone to show me my next step, and take responsibility for mentoring my spiritual development. Not long after, the Flow began winding its way into my life, asking me to examine all of my beliefs and forcing me to rebuild my spirituality from practically scratch. It also led me into new areas–changing my career, and even causing me to begin teaching others though books and radio. I realized belatedly that the Flow itself has been my teacher, a vast net of creative intelligence from which our lives are brought into fruition moment by moment.

While working with the Flow since then, I have in fact encountered deeply intelligent “teachers” of the variety I’d been expecting, but overall, to my surprise what I got instead was the whole University, like a campus in which I can walk into any building and ask any question. It’s an open University, though. You don’t need to apply, you don’t need to be accepted–you just need the desire to walk through its door, and the Flow will take you from there.

So…I invite you to class with me. Hope to see you in the front row soon.

With love and blessings,

Summer

P.S. My deep appreciation and thanks to all of you who are beginning to write reviews of Creative Flowdreaming on Amazon.com.

Let’s start with #1. For many years, I’ve been in a position where I’ve offered some excellent business ideas to someone. These are ideas that will really make her business take off—and likewise I’ve told her where she’s made some pretty obvious business blunders. The problem is, my friend never actually asks for my opinion, and this is hard for me, since I think I have such good opinions to give (sound like anyone you know?), and I know her industry well. However, lately I’ve finally had to face the idea that to her, my ideas are always lead—not gold. This hurts me. It hurts that she doesn’t think I can offer her anything of value. It hurts my self-esteem, since somewhere along the way I realize that I’ve tied some of my self-esteem to what she thinks of me. This is because I care about her, and want her to think well of me.

This has probably happened to you, too, somewhere in your life. Someone you care about (it could be your mom, brother, friend, or even your boss) doesn’t value your opinion, and since you judge your own value based on what they think of you, you always lose out. What can you do about this? What can I do about this?

This brings me to #2. Sometimes our ideas are clunkers, but often they aren’t. They may just need a little tweaking to get them right. Or they may need a lot of effort or resources. But if you have an idea and you have the passion to fulfill it, then who, really, is to stop you? You might say that you need help. You need the authority. You need funding. You need emotional support. Your list can get very long of all the things you think you need. You can look at any one of the big obstacles in your life right now and create a nice list of all the things you need to fix it as well as all the ideas you had to fix it that were tossed out. The bottom line is, sometimes you just have to pick something a go for it, and stop thinking that anyone else has to think it’s a good idea too. True, you could be wrong. The idea could be lead. But your only other option is often paralysis—you don’t go for what you think is right because you aren’t supported or are told you can’t and on and on.

So where does #3 fit in? That’s the concept that some things will flow for you, while others won’t. Golden ideas flow. The energy of life is behind them. Clunkers largely sink. Some bad ideas do seem to perpetuate themselves longer than you’d think is possible, but that’s always because they have an enabler involved. The enabler might be a big source of funding, a bad boss, a family member, or someone or something invested in them even as their project or job or relationship is crumbling. Bad ideas don’t heed the Flow, and if viewed correctly are allowed to wash away so good ideas can take their place. So, what if you have an idea for something (a new career, a new way of handling your relationship, or even new hobby you want to take up), but you can’t find support for it? If you were me, I’d go for it anyway. I’d begin to see what happens—do I get resistance or do I get opportunities? And what, you say, if your ideas are blocked? What if my boss or husband or someone who really counts is opposed to it?

If that’s the case, then step back a minute. Ask yourself, are my ideas habitually blocked? Is this a large source of frustration in my life? If the answer is yes, then pull back from your latest greatest idea and begin asking the larger question: Why am I allowing so much blockage in my life?

….and to answer that one, it’ll take a whole other post.

*To support your creative or entrepreneurial idea, I suggest the audio CD Flowdreaming for Enhanced Creativity and Success.

Anyway, she posted recently about how to find your life’s work. Now, this is coming from a woman who’s written for yahoo business, and other fancy big-name sites. Penelope has also worked for corporations—as have I. She’s had start-ups. So have I. And she’s got young kids in the midst of it all. So do I. So I was curious to see her advice, and after I read it, I thought, Gee, what would I say?”

I think most of us have wandered into our careers, rather than chosen them. Few of us set a goal, got a job, and worked our way in our selected field until we found that perfect niche, that ultimate job, that showcases all our talents, and makes us happy and rich.

Instead, we’ve taken what’s offered—the best we can find—in any area we think we might have a talent for. We always keep a burning thought in our mind of what we want or could be doing, but getting from A to Z is too much work amid just keeping it all afloat in our lives. So, I would say this to the question of “What should be doing with my life?”

First, recognize that you may never find that “ultimate” career. Your life may be more like a buffet, where you sample many pleasurable—and some awful—dishes. You’re moving from one experience to the next, “interviewing” each passage or phase of your life to see what it can offer to you. Change will come (it always does), and the good phases will drop away, along with the bad.

The idea of continuity in our lives is made up. Few people “become something” like a doctor or lawyer and stay that way all their lives. Even doctors and lawyers change their minds. Last week, a woman in a conference I was moderating told me she was in finance (a lawyer), and had just decided to get out. She had no idea where to go next. She just knew she had to end this phase.

A person who understands this—that what we “do” in our lives is always in the making—learns to be especially artful in the Flow. We see ourselves as riding a track, skating along, pausing sometimes for long intervals as we explore something (a teaching career, raising kids, selling real estate, working in the factory), then moving on once the experience is over. We learn that our lives are more like a quilt, with every patch of experience sewn into place—some poorly and haphazardly, while others are crafted with love. But at the end of the day, the quilt is our masterpiece, because we lived it. And every square brings memories to our minds.

When I think about my perfect career, or what I should be doing with my life, I never find the “right” job for me. Sometimes I think spreading the word about the Flow is my ultimate calling—because the Flow found me and often seems to use me for its own ends. And at other times, I think raising my kids is my calling. Sometimes, I look at my talents in my current job, and think, I’m pretty damn good at this. Maybe this is It. And sometimes, I let my mind wander and turn up all kinds of crazy ideas, unrelated to anything I’m doing in my life at all.

My point is that you will be many things. You are here to have many experiences. You won’t go in a straight line. That’s boring. You’ll go in zigzags and backtrack and sometimes even repeat yourself. The only thing you need to do is focus on what makes you feel good. Balance that with what pays your bills. Eventually, those two desires WILL come into alignment, like two roads merging to meet another.

So stop looking. Instead, Flow feelings of joy, appreciation, stability, and creativity when you think of your work or unknown life purpose—whatever it is that flicks your Bic. Pre-act these feelings, and allow your Flow to bring you the next most interesting thing it can find for you. Then explore that for awhile, suck the juice from it . . . and move on toward the next ripe fruit.

I took a yoga class this evening with a new teacher. We spent an entire hour doing what felt like a variation of the same standing pose, and the teacher was full of criticism. My butt was too high, my shoulders were drooping, and my feet were not wide enough apart. When I inadvertently stretched in between poses to unkink my aching arms, she scolded me, “We are not doing that stretch right now.”

Twenty minutes into the class, I wanted to leave. And twenty minutes later, I found myself thinking what an awful teacher she was, and how her rigid yoga philosophy was so unlike my own. Twenty minutes after that, I thought, “What is my Flow doing bringing me here?” and so I spent the rest of class thinking about that way I really disliked this teacher, while around her the other students were happily chirping that this was the best class in town, since you really got to learn each yoga pose so well.

Not long ago, I made the decision to finally begin teaching workshops in person. My biggest fear about intimate presentations and workshops is that I won’t give my attendees all that they come to learn. That somehow I’ll fail to communicate what I intend to, and they’ll be disappointed. I worry that they won’t like me. I will be like this yoga teacher with a half a dozen huffing, puffing, happy students doing headstands, and one sulky disappointed one like me.

I know this is silly. I know that some people just don’t energetically match up. And I think my Flow is bringing me into contact with a lot of people right now who don’t energetically match with me, just so I’ll be sure to get the point. It’s not their fault; it’s not my fault. We just don’t look at the world the same way, and the accumulation of experiences we each carry from our lives is so different that we have little to relate to each other with.

However, my Flow heard my desire to teach, so it’s bringing me experiences right now that will help my teaching become a smooth, enjoyable act. Apparently, I can start by watching other “bad” teachers and realizing that they are only “bad” to my way of relating to the world—the happy class around her reminds me that my judgements are only applicable to my own feelings.

Somewhere along the way of my life, I became a people-pleaser. And now I am unlearning that trait, because when I spend so much of my time trying to make that one or two sulky people happy, it means I’m ignoring (or not concentrating my energy) on those people with whom I do match, and who can learn from me, or with whom I can be a good friend, or a good employee to, or share myself with. 

It’s like in your family: if you worry constantly about that one person in your family with whom you don’t get along, then you’re giving over “X” amount of your energy—your precious moments of life—to that disharmony.

What about all the people in your family who do love you and want to have more good times with you? Like this teacher, don’t give all your attention and obsessive thoughts to the one angry student (or lover, friend, employer, coworker, teacher, parent, child, etc.) in your life. Some people just won’t like you, and no matter how you try to please them, or how much you rail about not liking them, your energy signatures will just never match up, and you won’t ever see the world the same way or look eye to eye.

Be choosy where you expend your energy—focus on areas of harmony first, where your Flow carries you effortlessly forward. These are probably areas that you habitually ignore—you overlook them since they are so mellow and easy. Maybe it’s your marriage. Or your relationship with a parent, or good friend. Maybe it’s a good customer or client, or some other aspect of work where you’re always rewarded. 

Stop trying to please everyone, and simply please those with whom you create the most mutual benefit. Take a moment now to think about the people who don’t like you, and the people who do. Now send the people who love you a little note or email telling them that you love them too: “I love you and I’m glad you’re in my life.” “I always enjoy doing business with you.” “I had such a good time the last time we went out—we should do it again.” “I love your class and think you’re great at teaching this material.” And so on.

Thank you, yoga teacher, for reminding me that I won’t like everyone, and they won’t like me, and that’s perfectly okay.

But I promised listeners of yesterday’s Flowdreaming show that we would continue this conversation about worth—especially self-worth. My own self-worth has been rocked pretty hard lately. And you know how things seem to happen at once? Well, I have news: they don’t just seem to—they do. That’s a perfect instance of Flow in action—whatever you begin to experience “moves forward” energetically, like the wake that precedes a boat in the water—to contaminate (for good or bad) your future experiences. What you feel in response to your present  will condition or “mold” what will occur next. So if you feel crummy about yourself, you can bet a gang of things will come in to support continuing that experience. If you’re feeling a streak of low self-worth, you can bet that a slew of stuff will come to you to reinforce this feeling. This is what you call “going from bad to worse.”

Things do shift, of course. Every flow peters out. Winds change. Your mood changes. You beliefs change. And then you swing back on course again. You get a compliment. Someone tells you they love you. Someone lets you know you helped them, or that something you did was really good. Your self-worth peeks its head up from the dirty clothes pile where it’s been hiding, and you gulp and say, “I can manage one more day.” You have confidence once again.

This is, incidentally, where our economy is at right now. We’ve gone from bad to worse, not because anything about us has changed, but because we’re in a state of collective, paralyzing fear. We think, “What if I don’t have a job tomorrow?” And so we don’t spend money, instead stockpiling for that rainy day, or trying to finally address that mountain of debt we’ve been pulling along.

And businesses are doing the same thing: the men and women who run them are thinking, “People aren’t going to be out buying stuff.” So they lay off people, order less, or let stock dwindle. Less output means that the people who make the stuff they sell, lose their jobs. And on it continues. It’s a crisis of confidence. Business confidence, economic confidence, internal confidence—all the same thing. When we live in fear and feelings of low confidence, our lives reflect this scarcity. When economically, our business leaders and banks feel this way, our economy reflects the scarcity. It’s not about money, actual money. It’s about human feeling.

Money in itself is just an energy condition. Money isn’t just paper currency or coins, or IUOs or mutual fund valuations. That is just the physical “body” of money, like your body is not really the “you” of you. Money is a unit of value that we totally make up! It helps to think of money like this—like a person—with both a body and a deeper spirit or essence. So ask yourself, What is my relationship to this person like?

When you think about money, do you always feel fearful? Do you think it will leave you, like a spouse running out on a 30-year marriage? Do you mistrust it, thinking it is fickle and unreliable? This feeling shows you exactly how you relate to money. And if money was a person, how would it react to these feelings from you? If you’ve been sending it your hurt, doubt, frustration, or fear for a long time, chances are it wants to stay away from you.

You have also probably tied this relationship to your income or work into your own internal sense of self-worth.

So few of of were ever brought up to to think that we, ourselves, were intrinsically of high value. And we should be treated as such. So we value ourselves based on all kinds of outside criteria. Sometimes I get caught up valuing myself on the coolness of my job, or my paycheck. But if both were gone tomorrow, would I be any less? I hope not. Because this could happen. Anything could happen. Where will your Flow lead you next? What new adventure will you be off on? Your sense of internal value shouldn’t be tied to anything so transient in your life as a job or paycheck. These will always come and go. Money as an energy, however, as a friend, will show its constancy to you, if you are a friend to it—if you treat it well, spend it well, tell it you love having it in your life. It will find a way to get more of itself to you, like a friend who wants to spend time in your company.

Our economy, too, will rebound only when we begin showing it our faith. All of us—bank managers, business people, farmers and homemakers. But to make this happen, all of us must have internal self-worth and a feeling of “I’m good enough for this. I can make this happen!”

Remember, as I said on my February 3, 2009 Flowdreaming show today: You are a diamond. Let everyone see that value. And watch as life (and your Flow) begin reflecting all the facets of your brilliance back to you.

I’m so happy that you’re here, visiting my blog. I’m birthing it during a time of some serious upheaval in my life. Outside my home office window here in Southern California, the sky is like a solid turquoise upturned bowl, radiating light and warmth. But my own sky has been falling. My Flow is carrying me into very new waters. I’ve learned to let go and follow during points like this, and it’s coinciding (mysteriously! synchronistically!) with the debut my new way of speaking with you in the world, through this blog.

You’ll find my free Online Learning Library here, where I’ll be tucking especially informative articles. You can also sign up to receive my blog posts as emails, automatically, whenever I publish one. Just go to the top right of this page and type in your email address.

But I need your help. I’m the kind of person who rarely asks for help, so when I do, you know I mean it. I’d love to see this blog become a giant source of information for seekers like you out there in our world. To do this, I need to get the word out. Would you help me? Would you send a link to this blog or post to some of your friends right now? Would you link it to your own site, or blog about it yourself? Every blog comes into the world alone—like a baby—with no one but its momma or papa with it. So I’m asking, from my heart, for all of you to be my midwives.

My goal is manyfold: I want to have a way to continue to share and teach with you about being a manifesting practitioner and working with the subtle energies of the universe. I want to continue to bring Flowdreaming to the world, since when people use it to grasp their true inner power, we all benefit. And I want to get to know you, in this new community, through your comments and your experiences with this work.

Much love and blessings! May you stay in your Flow.

Summer

Sometimes people ask me what the difference is between my CD, Flowdreaming for Lots of Money, a Great Job, and a Luxury Lifestyle, and my Flowdreaming Prosperity Challenge. Here is what I posted on the Powerful Intentions Flowdreaming Forum:

When I made the CD “Flowdreaming for Lots of Money, a Great Job, and a Luxury Lifestyle”, I was thinking specifically about situations in my own life that I’d encountered. I wanted each of those things: money, great work, a fabulous lifestyle. So I recorded the Flowdream I myself used to create each of these outcomes in my life. Each Flowdream is distinct and has a pinpointed purpose to bring these things in–to change your career painlessly, to bring in new avenues of income, etc.

Years later, because I had learned so much more about manifesting wealth using the Flow, I knew that a systematic program would really reach a lot of people. Each “day” in the 2 week program addresses a different aspect where people get hung up in both their thoughts and in the energies when it comes to creating or flowing wealth in. So some people get the most from the Flowdreams for Day 2 and 4, others from Days 1 and 7, and so on. Cumulatively, they add up to create a whole shift in your thinking. Plus I wrote a little book to with it that better explains the process itself.

Together, both support each other. So I guess it’s a matter of individual preference which you like best!