Andrrea Hess, Financial Psychic

Today’s article is written by my guest blogger, Andrrea Hess. Andrrea has been a coach, mentor and spiritual teacher to me over the past few years, and she has been instrumental in helping me get to where I am today. One of the most important things she has helped me do is heal my money stuff connected to spirituality and living my purpose. I asked Andrrea to write an article that would really speak to you, and she delivered. I am thrilled to share her with you.

All of us actually have the same Soul Purpose: To be who we truly are.  It really is that simple!

Of course, who we really are is a Divine Being in a human experience.  And since each of us is unique, individuated expression of the Divine, each of us also has a unique self-expression that is our Soul Purpose.

When we express the glorious Divine Being that we truly are into this human experience, we create abundance – financial and otherwise! – as a natural consequence.    We’ll attract success, and money, and we’ll do so quite easily – because we were created from infinite abundance.  If we express our inherent abundant nature, of course we’ll experience abundance as a result!

That sounds nice, right?

Then why is it that living our Soul Purpose appears to be hard?  After all, most people are not effortlessly creating abundance in their lives!  Most people are struggling.  Worse, we’ve collectively gotten so used to struggle that we’ve created a whole culture around it – a culture where financial struggle and scarcity is “normal.”

There is one giant error in thinking that I see spiritual seekers and entrepreneurs run into time and again when they want to create a life of purposeful abundance.

And here it is:  “When I figure out my Purpose, I’ll do it.”

We believe that if we just “knew” our Soul Purpose, if we somehow could just figure it out, if someone would tell us what it was, then we’d be all over it like white on rice.  Surely, if we knew what it was, we’d do it … right?

Nope.

I can tell you all about your Divine nature and your Soul Purpose in great detail – in fact, this is what I do for my clients all the time!  Hopefully, you’d be willing to put some of what I tell you into action.

But you’d be acting on faith.  You’ll still lack the “knowing” of your Purpose that you crave.  There still won’t be a sense of certainty that what I’m telling you is REALLY your Purpose.

That’s because the only way we can know our Purpose is by experiencing ourselves DOING IT.  Our Soul Purpose cannot be intellectually grasped!

This is the human experience, after all!  It’s not the human understanding, or the human intellectual exercise.  We’re here to live, to do, to make choices and find ourselves living the consequences.

The only way to know our Purpose for sure is to experience it.  And when we experience the abundance we create through our purposeful choices, then we’re more willing to make bigger choices that align to our Purpose, and then we experience our Purpose in even bigger ways.  Before long, we know exactly who we are – and who we are not.  Our bank account will confirm what we now know about ourselves.

Unfortunately, most of us would like a written, signed guarantee from the Universe that, indeed, THIS is our Soul Purpose … before we’re willing to start doing it.  And so we run around seeking and questing, hoping to finally find intellectual certainty that this is “it.”  But we never do … because we never give ourselves the experience of our Purpose.

The crazy thing is that we actually impose lack on ourselves and our Soul Purpose through one giant assumption: That we don’t know enough of our Purpose to get started.

It’s never true.  Our Purpose is just to be who we are, and no matter how many choices in how many lifetimes we’ve made that have taken us out of alignment with our Divine nature … our Divinity is still there, always accessible to us.

Our Divinity whispers to us, makes itself known through the secret desires in our hearts, our dreams and visions of greatness.

Ask yourself this:  If you could do anything, be anyone, how would you like to contribute value to the world?  What would your life look like?

Now think about how you can do even the smallest version of any aspect of that vision TODAY.  Imagine taking just one step towards your vision, right now.

Do you notice how your mind immediately starts arguing with you?  “What if that isn’t really it?  You can’t do that – you don’t have the education, the background, you’ll never make money doing that!”  It will argue with you on and on … because you have no intellectual certainty.  You actually talk yourself out of your Purpose, all the time.

Your mind is lying to you.  Wherever you are right now, whatever your circumstances, there is at least one small step into your Purpose that’s available to you NOW.  You even know what it is.

You just have to choose it.  Just do it now, even if it’s inconvenient, which it inevitably will be.  If it weren’t inconvenient, you’d be doing it already.

The secret to creating abundance through your Soul Purpose is simple: Just start.  Start today.

To your infinite abundance,

Andrrea Hess

Andrrea Hess is a financial psychic, spiritual teacher, business mentor, author and speaker.  She works with entrepreneurs who are willing to embrace their path into financial abundance as their spiritual path and create income through self-awareness, authenticity, and consciousness.  You can find out more about her work at her website, Empowered Soul. Don’t miss her special birthday sale featuring some of  her most popular products, Wednesday through Friday, May 16 – 18. Andrrea’s new live event, Money and Purpose, is included in the sale! I’ll be there, and I’d love to see you. It’s going to be great.

"I'm going in there!"

Every day, in the work I do, I come across beliefs that have taken root in people and are keeping them from moving forward, creating what they desire, and maintaining their successes.

These beliefs are driving your bus, and yet, much of the time you are not even aware of them. At some point, they became a part of you. Now, they are holding you back.

Identifying and letting go of beliefs that no longer serve you is at the heart of transformation work, be it personal or spiritual.

It begins with a belief you have accepted, usually very early in your life, and over time it has become fact. Your subconscious uses this belief to navigate you through your daily life, and you are nudged to notice everything that is in line with and supports this belief. Thus, you get what you expect.

I have seen miracles occur as soon as a belief is loosened and dissolved and replaced with a more powerful and supportive belief. Reality is restructured. Life begins to be very different.

Affirmations were all the craze a few years ago. Positive thought. And yet, people continue to show up and tell me, “I am saying all these affirmations, and they are not working.” That’s because you can’t fool the body. And the Universe does not listen to your words. It responds to your emotions – your energy in motion.

In order to transform a limiting belief into an empowering belief, you have to:

• Get in touch with the belief
• Determine the strength of the belief
• Connect with the feelings around the belief
• Crack through the resistance the limiting belief is creating
• Build a new belief

Recently, I led my Inner Circle members through an exercise to do just this. I recorded this class and now have made it available to you. I know how powerful and life-changing this work can be. It’s a game-changer. Imagine doing this work with your own personal coach walking you through it step-by-step. Imagine working on your beliefs from many levels at one time – physically, energetically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Imagine shifting a belief that has a hold on you and beginning to create more good in your life.

Pick a belief, any belief, and get started bringing it to the surface, so you can deal with it head on. And pretty soon, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!”

All it takes is a little courage .

I’d love for you to visit my website and see the new products I just released. These are coaching tools and processes I use with my own private coaching clients and Inner Circle members to help them change their lives and move in the direction of their dreams and desires. The feedback I have been getting has been so affirming and exciting that it motivated me to make these available to you now.

Transformation is within your reach. As Dorothy says, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard.” It begins within, right in your own “back yard.”

You have a right to follow your heart. Knowing that is where your power is.

Let’s look at the things that stop you most:

• The fears you face stepping into your purpose
• Self-doubt
• A Feeling of uncertainty of how to show up or where to go
• Negative internal chatter
• External voices telling you to play it safe
• Trust

You exist exactly as you are for a reason. Your Purpose is that reason.

So, why does it seem so hard to find and fulfill?

You can tell yourself all kinds of stories for not taking action toward your dreams.

You can come up with all sorts of justifications for why you haven’t fully stepped into your own calling or taken things to the next level in your life.

You say you’ll put it off for later, for another time, and then a year later you find yourself still spinning in circles, searching endlessly for answers or waiting to be shown the way.

And where does that leave you?

Stuck because you don’t know your purpose.

Confused about how to get started and which way to go.

The Truth is there is a combination that unlocks the door to discovering your purpose.

You have a map made just for you. Let me help you find it and read it.

Have you ever found yourself saying, “Something really needs to change in my life right now!” then decide to wait until the support shows up that will allow you to move forward?

Here’s the problem with that.

You were made to express your purpose in this lifetime.

Your life today is a direct result of you either living in your purpose or not living in your purpose.

If you are waiting for your freedom to show up so that you can finally find and live your purpose, it will continually elude you.

Your Freedom comes to you as a result of living and growing into your purpose, from where you are right here and right now.

Are you ready to have clarity?

Are you eager to claim your gifts and receive the good that awaits you?

Are you all set to find the peace and joy you crave?

If you want to discover “The Truth About Finding Your Purpose,” join me on this Free Training Call

 Monday, May 21 at 8 p.m. Central

Attend this event by webcast or phone. This is a great option for my international clients.

This event will be recorded, and you will have access to the recording as a downloadable mp3 as soon as the live event is over.

This is the type of training I regularly do for my Inner Circle and Private Coaching Clients, and now I want to share it with you.

No more waiting. The answer is available to you NOW.

It’s Your Purpose. It already IS.

Simply register for your Free Access Pass to attend this training call. Once you’ve registered, you can visit the event page and submit your questions before and during the live event.

See you on the call!

There is no black and white. We are always operating along a continuum and playing out either end of the spectrum of a particular energy or somewhere in the middle. Fear and Love. Consciousness and Unconsciousness. Victim and Creator.

If you want to optimize your positive impact in your world, here are 3 ways to approach any situation, circumstance or life choice.

Be intentional. Be conscious. State what you choose to create in your life. This is the first step to manifesting it.

It is important that you learn to use the power of intention. Manifesting your dreams and desires begins always with an intention. Setting an intention means to have a purpose in mind, and so you direct the mind to seek out what you are asking for, and every choice you make and action you take has a focus to aim for.

I found when I had my private practice in healing that if I had my clients set an intention for the session as we started, they got so much more from the session, and what they were hoping for was delivered. I was the facilitator, but their intention pulled to them exactly what they desired.

Being intentional requires that you spend time getting clear, and it causes you to make a commitment. Clarity and commitment are keys to success. Taking the time to set an intention helps us tap into our intuition. We have to become aware of our dreams and desires and connect with our heart. Words have power and hold energy, and setting intentions allows us to activate the vibration associated with the words we are focusing on and become a match to it.

Your life becomes like that which you are putting your attention on. Put your attention toward what you choose to create in your life, thus flowing your energy to it, which feeds and nurtures it, and it will begin to show up.

Many of us continue to pour our energy into things we have committed to that we don’t love and that do not serve us. Then we focus on everything that is wrong, everything that we don’t like, all the while hoping that somehow what we do want will start showing up. If you would begin to direct your attention and flow your energy toward what you want to create, you would begin withdrawing your energy from that which you don’t want. Energy flows where attention goes. As you begin to feed your dreams and desires, they begin to grow. Evidence of this starts to show up in your everyday life. Those things you are no longer feeding naturally begin to lose their hold in your life. You’ll stop being a match to them. In this way, you work with the Universe rather than against it.

Be open always to what is showing up in each moment. Work with that. When you hold tightly to your concepts of how things should be or have to be, you constrict your energy, you shut off the flow. This prevents you from the fulfillment of your personal destiny and the receiving of the evidence of your dreams and desires. Instead, expand your energy, asking always, “What is possible?”

The Universe is always responding to us, and so every thing that is showing up is a clue, valuable feedback you can use. Too often, when confronted with what we perceive as “bad,” we pull into ourselves and begin complaining, asking “Why is this happening to me?” We interpret this as wrong timing or not being supported in what we are trying to do, when in reality we are begin given clear and explicit information so that we can move forward and achieve exactly that which we have intended.

The value in working with these principals of deliberate creation are immeasurable. Where are you currently on the continuum between conscious and unconscious creating? Having awareness is key to creating our own lives as we want them. The more responsibility you are willing to take for your life and your circumstances, the more power you are given over them.

In May, I am focusing on Making It Happen! Make May the month you make it happen. I have many ways we can work together to help you connect with your Purpose and translate it into a plan. Let’s talk.

Whenever you are thinking about making a big life transition, there are really three ways to go about it. Knowing yourself well can make a difference in the amount of stress you experience during this time as well as the amount of success you are able to create.

I talk a lot about taking honest inventory, and this is one of those times when the pay off for doing this consistently can be huge.

You want to pay attention both to the actions you are taking, and not taking, and to the energy you are carrying about it.

When working with clients who come to me ready to make a move or at least considering the possibility, I take some time with them first to explore their hardwiring and their mindset.

I have had clients who have successfully taken big leaps on the spot without much looking back at all and have been able to move forward very quickly without experiencing a lot of fallout. The energy they are holding is that as they go off the side of that cliff, either the road will rise up to meet them or they will grow wings and be taught how to fly. The key to making this work is that they immediately get into massive action and stay in massive action.

Know yourself. If you are not a risk-taker, the stress you may cause yourself in taking the big leap will work against the positive energy you need to “just keep swimming.” For these clients, I suggest they determine what I call a tolerate date. They are using up valuable time and energy spinning in how much they don’t like where they are and how unhappy they are, and they get into a lot of asking how things might change for them. By setting a date with yourself, the absolute maximum time you are willing to tolerate these circumstances, you stop the mind’s endless chatter about it, and you satisfy its need to know. Now, everything will begin to conspire to work for you toward that goal, and you are no longer working against yourself. As you shift from the negative energy to the positive energy, you begin to be differently and to do things differently, and things start to come together for your benefit. Very often, people end up coming out of their undesirable circumstances much sooner than the date they set, and it happens in a much more natural way.

The third scenario is those who continue to work with the positive energy of their growing desire. They are visualizing it, feeling it, and sending their order out to the Universe. But they are not taking any action, and they have not set any goals. What most often happens here is that as the desire grows stronger and the feelings associated with it become a part of who you are, the Universe begins to work in your favor in response to your ever-increasing desire. Because you are not taking action, you are not creating space, and you are not letting go of what no longer serves you. What you end up seeing here is the rug being ripped out from under you. This is when you are suddenly forced out of a job, a home, a relationship, or a geographical location.

Each of these is a choice. The more responsibility you are willing to take, the more power you are given over your own life. It is all about becoming conscious and aware and taking action.

My new e-book, Master the Art of Taking Action: Getting Started Moving In The Direction Of Your Dreams and Desires, was just released today for the Kindle and the Nook. It’s also available on my website.

Intuition is a spiritual gift, and everybody has it. Some don’t want it when it shows up; others want it really badly and wonder why it seems to elude them. It can open up quickly, come in unexpectedly, especially after a traumatic event or near-death experience. Many will believe that intuition is something that some people have and others don’t or that it is just there for you to use at your will. This is true, and not so true.

Intuition is a gift, and using that gift requires a practice.

I am intuitive and empathic and always have been, though for a very long time I didn’t have a conscious awareness of this. Because of that, I have always been able to create things I wanted, AND I spent a lot of years creating a lot of what I didn’t want, as well.

Things would come to me – feelings, knowings, premonitions – but it was not something I could command, and I often didn’t understand what I was getting. My strongest gifts were those of claircognizance (knowing), clairsentience (feeling), and clairaudience (hearing). Once I began working with energy healing and energy medicine, I saw my intuition begin to come in more powerfully and more consistently, and it was at that point that I decided to develop these skills so that I could truly use them in my work and for my personal benefit. Within a year, my clairvoyance (seeing) had become highly developed. I had transitioned from simply letting the natural gifts I was sometimes aware of show up from time to time and help me out to consciously working with my intuitive abilities and being in control of them and able to use them at will.

This huge change in my work and in my life did not happen overnight, and it did not happen by accident or without effort or intention. I began to develop daily habits that became a part of my spiritual practice. I purposefully integrated my spiritual life with my physical world. As an athlete trains for a sport or an event, I, too, have been in training to strengthen my “intuitive muscles.” Utilizing your intuitive abilities involves very real physiological activity. Your brain and nervous system are fully engaged. All of your senses are activated and heightened. You are working with your physical body, your mental and emotional bodies, and your spiritual body all at once, and so you need a good awareness of your energy field and all its aspects.

You are an energetic being in energetic exchange at all times with yourself, the Universe, and everyone else, and you are governed by Universal Laws.

You can begin wherever you are today and purposefully work with your intuition so that it serves you more powerfully and consistently by developing The 7 Habits of Highly Intuitive People.

The 7 Habits of Highly Intuitive People

• Spend time in your own energy. I was surprised to find that so many students that showed up in my classes and clients that I worked with were amazed and profoundly impacted when I guided them through meditation into experiencing being in their own energy. If you are naturally intuitive and empathic, you may not even realize how much of other peoples’ energy you are carrying around with you and the effect it is having on your health, wellbeing and ability to create a life you love. Spending time in your own energy requires being aware of your energy, checking in with yourself, cleaning and clearing your energy, cutting cords to others you have connected with and who have connected with you, and surrounding yourself with protection, then bringing in Love and Light. This is something you can easily learn to do, if you don’t already know how. If you do know how, then make sure you are doing this on a regular basis. It is especially beneficial to spend time in your own energy just before going to sleep. You can visit my website and purchase a download of my energetic process, Y.O.U. (Your Own Universal) Energy Activation, that brings you into your own energy and allows you to experience this state of being and return there over and over again.
• Notice what you notice. The minute you set the intention to work on your intuition, you will begin to be supported in doing so. Opportunities will present themselves, people will come into your life, books and other resources will call for your attention, workshop invites will show up in your e-mail box, and messages will be showing up for you. This is the time to notice what you notice. You already have these abilities, even if they are currently buried deep inside. It is just that you have not been paying attention to the messages that are already showing up for you, and you may not recognize them in the way they are showing up. I know that I had all kinds of imaginings about what it would be like to be “psychic,” all the while being a psychic myself and not recognizing it. I thought I would see a burning bush and receive a message from it, or an angel would appear to my physical eyes and tell me what I needed to know. All the while, I was receiving information and messages; I didn’t know how to recognize them, and I didn’t know how to understand them. Set your intention for what you want to know or what you want to attract, and then notice what catches your attention. As you develop your intuition and learn to work with energy, you will begin to notice a language specific to you that helps you to interpret what you are getting.
• Understand synchronicity and work with it every day. Once you begin setting intentions and asking for what you want, people and things, all kinds of opportunities, will begin to appear around you, and you will be receiving messages about next steps to take and paths to follow. It is important to understand that synchronicity is showing up for you and to take action when it does. As you send out energetically what you want, and as that intention builds and takes on an energy of its own, the Universe brings all the pieces into play, matching up like vibrations and opening doors for you. In the same way, when you send out that you want to know something or want information about something, the space opens up and the information comes in. In that moment that you receive the intuitive nudge to take the inspired action, everything is lined up. That is the moment to step forward.
• Practice your craft. This is so important. Make time for yourself, and be committed to your ongoing personal and spiritual growth and development. Using your intuition is a WHOLE body and WHOLE life experience. You want to find all the places where there are disconnects and integrate, integrate, integrate. Any time you are going over here to have a spiritual experience or to take time for your spirituality, then coming back here to your “real life,” you will find a dissatisfying and ineffectual experience over time. The gift is there, but it still has to be developed and used… every day. If you are like many of my clients and students, you already have resources right at your fingertips – books, audio recordings, videos, links that other people have sent you. So the question is, what are you utilizing in your life from these resources? Pick one, two, maybe three things from your favorite resources and begin implementing them on a regular basis over a 30-day period, and watch what happens! Then, practice using your intuition to guide you to a great workshop, teacher, coach, mentor, or Meetup Group so you can begin connecting with others to put it into motion.

An important part of the work I do with my clients is to help them master their intuition and manage their energy. These are two very powerful tools to help you in your daily life as well as in building and growing a business.

• Become very aware of your own high and low energy states. Recognize that you have a choice point in every moment. Everything you do is either life-enhancing or life-depleting. Everything you do is either moving you towards or away from a life you love and who you want to be. When you connect with your Higher Self and the Spiritual Realm, you are raising your energetic vibration to receive and interpret the information that is in those energy fields. Working in this higher energy requires a lot of energy on your part. Many students and clients find that when they are first working with their intuition, they feel very hungry and thirsty and tired. Your body is the vessel you use to bring through intuitive information. It is a physical experience. It will begin requiring that you are aware of things that deplete your energy and things that give you an energy boost.

This moves us into the last two habits of highly intuitive people: Spend time in high-energy environments, and Make Self-Care a priority.

• Spend time in high-energy environments. As you become more aware of your own high and low energy states, you will also become aware of toxic environments and toxic relationships that you spend time in. The more of this that is in your life, the more you need to spend time in high-energy environments. Over time, you will discover the things that work best for you to get into a high-energy state and what will keep you there for an extended period of time. This could be listening to or playing music, dancing, walking, meditating, cleaning the clutter, spending time in a sacred space or worshipping. You have a feeling guidance system that is in place to serve you, yet many of us have let it control us. When you pay attention to your feelings, you will also be able to pay attention to your energy state. Every feeling has a vibration that can be measured. Gratitude is one of the best feelings to embody to propel us into a high energy state.  Love will do the same thing. Despair is one of the worst feelings to embody that will propel us into a low-energy state. Fear will do the same thing. When we are in Fear, we are not in Love. Your feelings will always tell you the energy state you are embodying. Carolyn Myss says, “We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into,” and this has been invaluable information for me. Connecting with others of like-mind and like-energy and spending time together is a key component to very quickly opening you up to your intuition. Take an inventory of the tribes you are plugged into, and plug into some new ones.
•  Make Self-Care a priority. The more you work with your intuition and your energy, and the more time you spend in higher energy states, the more important and essential self-care becomes. Begin to explore your habits and patterns, and make changes that will support you and your vessel. Here again, the possibilities are almost endless. Begin with keeping yourself fed and hydrated and rested. In the beginning, as you are increasing your practices in working with your intuition, listen to your body’s requests and take that extra nap or eat that extra meal or snack, and drink plenty of fluids. Incorporate time for yourself into your life. Do things that you love. One great thing you can do for both your physical and emotional body is to take an Epsom salt/apple cider vinegar bath. The Epsom salt works on the physical body, and the apple cider vinegar works on the emotional body. Fill your tub with 1 -2 cups Epsom salt (depending on the size of the tub) and 1 – 2 cups apple cider vinegar. Soak in the tub in very warm water for about 20 minutes, until the water begins to get cool. Then step into the shower and rinse off. This is especially wonderful to do right before bed. Another nice thing to do is to treat yourself to a massage, energy healing, acupuncture, sound healing therapy, aromatherapy, chiropractic, healing circle or other alternative or complementary medicine option.

With all these habits, there is an essential element to keep in mind, and that is staying grounded and grounding your energy, especially after prolonged periods spent in high-energy states. When we do not stay grounded in our physical bodies, we become disconnected. We may experience spiritual bliss, but our physical world will begin to call for our attention, and our physical bodies will begin to react. We are physical beings having this spiritual experience, and, as such, we must honor our bodies and our environments and give them consideration and care. Make sure you are putting your roots deep into the Earth before soaring off into the Cosmos.

I invite you to explore your own unlimited possibilities. I invite you to take inspired action, to explore the mastery of your two greatest and most powerful tools – your energy and your intuition – for transforming your life!

Visit my website and contact me for more information on my programs and sessions, and let’s get started.

You see, I’m working on a Free Webinar that I am going to offer at the end of this month, and I would really love your input. I am listening, and I am having so many people showing up right now asking about help with their Purpose. Some of the things people are asking for help with are: help in my life, direction, getting unstuck, finding my purpose, stepping into my clarity and purpose, ready to move into a clear and powerful space, why am I here?, and waiting for my purpose to be shown to me.

Can you take a few moments right now and tell me what is most pressing for you in regards to your purpose? What are you most wanting to know, and what do you most feel you need help and support with?

You can come to my Facebook page and post your answer.
You can e-mail me at clientcare@michellebarr.com.
You can come to my Blog and comment.

Thank you so much. Tell me in your own words. I want to create this for you.

FREE GIFT FOR YOU!

When something happens to us that throws us off course or doesn’t fit into our plans, we often begin to question.

“Why is this happening to me?”

“What did I do to deserve this?”

“What am I going to do about this?”

The better question to ask would be, “What have I been asking for?”

You see, nothing happens by coincidence. Nothing comes to us without reason. Anything that shows up in our world can only come to us because, in some way, it matches what we are asking for.

We get to ask for whatever we want, and we send that out into the Universe through our feelings and desires. Sometimes, we are using tools that are helping us to consciously create our circumstances, as well. At any time, there exists a continuum, and we are both consciously creating and unconsciously creating.

What we don’t orchestrate is the how of it all, and this is where building trust with the All That Is really serves us. Always, there is a bigger picture. We are a part of it, along with everyone and everything else. We ask for what we want, and then the Universe goes to work to deliver it.

Now, here’s where things get messy. Many times, I have asked for things in my life, and then when they come about, I am surprised. I mean, I would NEVER orchestrate things to happen that way. That’s not the way I envisioned this would go. Yet, as it all unfolds, I do see that what I want is what is coming to me.

A Higher Wisdom is at work here and a Higher Intelligence.

In this same way, I have had times when I have told God exactly what I want and left the how’s completely up to Universal Design. Right now is one of those times. Late last year, I started letting God know what I wanted in my life. I really felt it, and I got specific… in the essence of it. I said, I don’t know how any of this can or will happen. It’s what I want, though. And I went on about my business.

While I was doing what I am here to do, getting up every morning and stepping out into the world, offering what I have, creating value, and being in inspired action, engaged in the cycle of giving and receiving, the Universe began delivering all these incredible things and circumstances to me in ways that I could not have ever dreamed up. I sit here today on the verge of making huge life changes that will bring me immense joy and satisfaction and support the work I am doing in the world and the life I want to live with my husband and my children and my community. And it has been the easiest and most effortless thing to receive. Ever.

I mean, I KNOW this stuff works. I teach it. I coach people through it. It’s a way of living for me now. But still, from time to time, I get surprised by the impeccable way this all works.

The Law of Attraction works. It’s on all the time. You don’t choose to engage with it, do a little manifesting, then turn it off and go back into your toxic relationships, environments, thoughts, habits and patterns.

It all counts. It all matters.

When people come to me in crisis, the first thing I do is have them go back and look at the intentions they have been setting recently and what they have been asking for. Almost immediately, I am able to help them identify patterns and relationships so they see why the things in their life are showing up the way they are. It is always on target.

“Why is this happening to me?” creates a constrictive energy. We turn in on ourselves. We feel victimized. We close ourselves off. We shut down.

“What have I been asking for?” creates an expansive energy that we can work with to move forward. We are not victims. Instead, we are Creators. We are receiving feedback from the Universe, and there is great benefit for us here. What is showing up now is bringing us what we have been asking for. Here is hope. Here is promise. This shift in energy alone lifts us up out of a stagnant space so we can grow.

Many times, what is showing up first is what we need to clear, heal and resolve so that we can receive what we have been asking for.

Try this the next time something shows up that doesn’t feel good to you or seems at first glance to be counterproductive to what you are dreaming about and desiring. Examine where your trust lies, in yourself and in your connection to the All That Is.

Then ask yourself, “What have I been asking for?” Open to the answers. They might surprise you.

You, the possibility seeker, you know what you want, even if it’s not clearly defined yet, even if you are just starting to step into it, just starting to open the door and take a peek at the possibilities for your life that are beginning to call out to you. You may not know what you want yet, but you know you want SOMETHING. Something more? Something different?

You hear that call, you consider the possibility of stepping into your greatness, you begin to embrace your true purpose, and as soon as you really do that, it seems that you encounter obstacles and crisis. They feel like they are getting in your way and blocking your path.

What if I told you that they really are a beautiful sign that you are exactly where you are meant to be, doing exactly what you are meant to be doing? What if I told you they are signaling to you, you’ve got it, you’re so close, keep going?

When you don’t know this, you can get stuck. Just as you are coming into contact with your big dream, have started setting intentions and goals for yourself, and are beginning to really reach toward the good things like freedom, prosperity, abundance, health, wealth, and success, and, ultimately, living an authentic life… you begin to invest the commitment and effort, and then come to a screeching halt in the face of what shows up first. This causes you to lose momentum, wonder if it’s worth it, and fall back into what is comfortable and safe.

Notice, though, that I said, what comes first. It does come first. The stuff. But it’s a necessary and integral part of the process, and once you understand it, you can use it to create magnificent results.

As soon as it happens, all you want to do is get usntuck, recover your momentum, and move powerfully into your greatest vision for your life, right?

I have been there, a possibility seeker, with dreams and desires growing stronger within me, calling me to step out into my greatness and embrace and live my purpose. I sought out teachers and mentors. I trained in many healing modalities. I developed my intuition. I turned my life into an experiment with The Law of Attraction. I studied the business practices of successful purposeful Entrepreneurs. There is a lot of talk out there, an information overload, but who is really putting it into action and getting results? Those who are willing to keep going, to take honest inventory, to do the work, and to move past it.

I want you to know that as you begin to engage in this process in a focused, purposeful, meaningful and conscious way, you will transform your life.

When you do the inner work, you can create shifts that move you out of struggle, out of spinning your wheels, out of falling back into patterns that no longer serve you. You put energy into action, and you get results.

When the resistance shows up, “your stuff,” as I call it – if you struggle with it, you place yourself energetically into a Victim role. “Things happen to me. Things get in my way. They are difficult to overcome. I am trying so hard. I have no control. I guess I’m not meant to do this.” I can talk about this, because I have run every one of these programs. And they all got me nowhere.

When you use this feedback from the Universe and take responsibility for everything that shows up, yes, all of it, suddenly you have tools to work with, and you are in control of your own life. Now you energetically step into the role of Creator. Now you can consciously create a life you love!

It shows up first, this stuff, so that you can get really clear on what is ready to be consciously dealt with, to be healed or cleared, resolved or embraced. It tells you exactly what no longer serves you and shows you what you need to let go of, right here, right now, to step into the intentions you have set for yourself, to be, do and have what you are telling the Universe you want.

When you begin to dream big dreams, to set intentions and goals for yourself, when you begin to strive for prosperity, abundance, health, wealth and success, everything that is not in alignment with that rises up to be healed or transformed. You must heal so that you can soar.

Don’t let this part of the process get you stuck in inaction. This will cause you all kinds of dissatisfaction and unhappiness and eventually turns to anger at yourself or negative self-talk or feelings of wanting to just give up or beating yourself up.

Use this part of the process of manifesting to get unstuck, recover your momentum, and to move powerfully into your greatest vision for your life. Suddenly, your path becomes clearer, your journey easier and more effortless, and most importantly, fulfilling and joyful.

Could there really be a way to experience relief and freedom in your own life that truly works? I say, yes, definitely.

This is the year for you to learn to transform your resistance into powerful tools for transformation and move into allowing and receiving all that you desire and deserve.

I have created tools for you to use. Take a look at my newly-released Resistance Remedies and Energy Activations. Each one is designed to give you a very specific tool you can use over and over again, to tap into answers that are already inside of you, to overcome stumbling blocks. As Your Personal Mastery Coach, I lead you step-by-step through a powerful process to help you move forward. Add these tools to your personal success library. I will be adding more Resistance Remedies and Energy Activations each week.