#465 Curveballs

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Welcome to Flow Dreaming. Hi, everybody. I'm your host for the hour, Summer McStravik, and I'm so glad you're here with me, that you've taken the time, first of all, in your life to give something to yourself, right? To stimulate new thoughts in yourself, to ask yourself questions about what you're capable of, what your mind is capable of, your consciousness, what flow is, what Flow dreaming is a new modality that allows you to intensely connect with your emotional self, your higher self, to connect with the ocean of consciousness that imbues all things, that is all things, and to become a powerful creator in that consciousness, in that realm. If there's anything I've seen over the last several years, especially, and definitely through all of my students in MI school, you guys come from every single walk of life. I mean, everywhere. Some of you are deep into metaphysical thought. Some of you are approaching it for the very first time and thinking, I like what she's saying. This is interesting. I've never heard of this before. All age groups, all demographics, all over the world. Men, women. And what that tells me is that when you Open up to the awareness of flow. It truly is universal. It's a universal kind of guidance system, meaning everybody accesses it, doesn't discriminate. It's for everybody, every religion, every culture, every income group, everything. And for me, that gives me a sort of increased sense of faith and power in it. So today's show is an interesting one. We are going to be talking about curveballs, those things that happen in your life that seemingly come out of nowhere. Those random hits that you receive. And it's a question that a lot of people who are involved with manifesting law of attraction, karma, we ask ourselves, why is this happening to me? Did I create this? If I create everything, did I create this? I sure didn't want to create this. Just kind of flow with me. Over the next hour, I'm going to give you some different perspectives to think about. I can't tell you that I'm right or wrong for your way of thinking. You know, it makes sense to me. It's right for me. I've seen this borne out again and again in my own life and in other people's lives. So just open yourself and explore it with me. It'll help you make sense of a lot of things that previously didn't make any sense to you at all. Before we go any further, I just want to point you over to my website, flow dreaming.com it underwrites the program. That's why I have my little breaks during the show, because of all of the flow dreams that are there for you. And the playlists. It allows me to bring you this podcast free every single week for the last 10 years. 10 years? No kidding. That's. I don't know how many. 50. So weeks a year for 10 years. 500 episodes maybe are out there. You can only find about the last 30 or so on itunes. All the rest are in the premium subscription library now, which is $3 a month. So it's very, very reasonable. I just make it available because this is a way you can teach yourself, learn, grow, if it strikes your fancy. Anyway, so go Visit the website flowdreaming.com Some of the playlists that I'd recommend today are ones that have to do with developing trust, developing your ability to change, getting back into alignment. There's some beautiful meditation playlists that will grow your sense of trust. Universal trust, universal alignment, divine timing. All of these things will be helpful for you if you are facing a big change agent in your life, or as I like to call it, a curveball. So let's look at this idea of curve balls, right? People think often, when they come to manifesting, that they're going to learn to do something that is going to control the rest of their life. They're going to be able to attract this and attract that, and everything is going to be hunky dory. Nothing bad will ever happen to you again because you will be in complete control of everything that goes on in your sphere. This is totally wrong. I know other teachers will be at odds with this and just say, well, you're just not evolved enough to get everything under your control. I don't feel the universe works that way. I don't think the universe is looking for a bunch of controllers, right? And unfortunately, when we're in the midst of crisis, it's often when we are driven to look at different modalities for our thinking, for our healing. And something that gives us control is what we latch onto. Those of us who are naturally controllers, myself included, we come to this because we think we're going to get more control. Flo will show you otherwise. Flo will say, if you want to dance with me, it's truly a dance. You can't control me. You have to be my partner, right? Someone leads and someone follows. When you're dancing the tango, but the following is as critical as the leading. And in flow, it often shifts back and forth. Sometimes I'm leading, sometimes I'm following. I have to be able to listen to the word. The very word flow is opposite the word control. You will enter a world where you will learn to balance these two opposing forces so that they give you a kind of 1:1, 3 effect, so that you will now be able to guide your life and ripple through, move through those curveballs and the things that are not under your control. All right, I'll explain this as we go along. Let's start with this idea of a curveball, a fastball. You see a pitcher on the mound, right? You see the batter. The batter doesn't know what the pitcher is going to throw. Could be anything. The batter, however, is so primed, is so in sync with the moment, with his reflexes, with her ability to connect and know what's coming at them, that they can still hit that ball. This is you when you practice flow dreaming. No matter what comes to you, a softball just lobbed right at you, right? We ask for a lot of those because those are fun. Yes, you can make and create those, but every now and then your life's going to ante it up and say, this is getting boring. This is not what you came here for. You came here for some challenge, for some excitement. You came here to grow, right? We all are constantly saying, I want to grow, I want to evolve. You want to grow and evolve, then you've got to get into some places that are uncomfortable. Those are places that you haven't been before, right? Imagine you're dropped down in the middle of a brand new city and someone gives you a map and you are like, I don't recognize the language. I don't know where the subways are. I don't know how to hail a cab. I don't even know where I am. That's growth. You're about to take in an extraordinary amount of new information about yourself. The way you handle it, about your surroundings, you have added to yourself. Now contrast that to you being at home. You know everything in your house. You know where the TV is, you know where the refrigerator is, you know where your bed is. There's not a lot of growth going on there. So to go back to you being that batter, you are becoming a person who can literally handle anything that's pitched to you. That is what flow will give you. That sense of power and ability and even a sense of excitement. Ooh, this is going to be a good one. Ooh, this one is uncomfortable. Ooh, this is one I haven't been into before. And life is going to give you that, right? Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. So to think that you could flow away every curve ball in your life is not just unrealistic. But I wouldn't want to do that. I wouldn't want it because there's a part of me that keeps saying I want to get beyond some things in myself. I want to be free from fear in my life. I want to have an open heart in my life. I want to express love better. I want to communicate better. I want to be seen. I want to feel that I've really drunk in the juices of everything that was a possibility for me to experience and have to do that. I have to allow in a certain amount of chaos. Chaos. And this is built into every living system. I'm always saying flow is a part of our natural systems. You are in flow, just like everything else is in flow. Every living system has a flow state, as do you. It's mathematical, it's biological. Every living system has a chaos state as well. Those are those random mutations I've been watching. There's a new show called Stanley's Superheroes. Or superhumans. I love it. Love it. These are people who have oftentimes genetic mutations in their body that have caused some very unusual results. Super elasticy skin or the ability to have a thicker skull and withstand head banging blows. All kinds of interesting things. These are mutations that evolve our species. Random interactions. If you are growing as a spiritual being, you are also going to encounter these mutations, these random interactions. These are your curveballs. I was thinking about just for a moment. I just want to ground chaos theory because I don't like to throw around scientific principles without giving you a little understanding of how I'm translating them. Science stays in the realm of science. What I like to do is take the science and say, if I were to apply this to spirit, what would it look like? How would it feel? I looked up the wiki of chaos theory and it comes up as the field of study in mathematics that studies the behavior of dynamical systems. In other words, living systems, systems that have a lot of change, that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Initial conditions, that's you in the moment, creating thought, creating intention. I've often said when you create something, when you manifest something, you are pitching the ball, right? Oh, perfect. Goes back to the initial metaphor. When you're pitching a ball, you are throwing something into existence. It will keep moving along that route until something alters its course and moves it in a new direction. And maybe nothing will alter course. Maybe it'll get stronger and stronger and that thing you're creating will in fact develop for you. Maybe you'll change your mind five days later and say, no, I don't really want that. Boom. And you knock the ball out of its trajectory. So a response that is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect. Going back to the wiki again, you've heard of the butterfly effect, I'm sure. Small differences in initial conditions yield wildly diverging outcomes. Meaning that long term prediction is impossible in general. Right? And haven't I said before? I'm sure you've heard me previous podcasts. This is why intuitives often get things wrong. It's not that their intuitive antenna is bad, they're seeing something that's a high probability. But because there are different conditions, because different things are interacting, that probability is changing. It's escalating. 75%, 85%, 95% or de escalating, oh, 40%, 30%, 20%. This means that when you're using prediction, when you're using your empathic ability to understand, feel, hear, receive information about what's coming up for you, the point of it isn't to tell you in stone this will happen. The point of it is to say, this is where you're going. Do you want to know this? Do you want to do something about this? Right. It's like you're sitting in your car and you look around you and you see where you are and you see where you're going. That's the point of a prediction. The same as staring out your car window as you're driving. You want to know where you're going so you can make good choices. Well, I better turn off because there's a traffic jam ahead of me. Or this is looking straight and beautiful. I am going to go right for my goal. That's the point. So when a curve ball comes in your life. Now let me identify what those are. Specifically. We're talking about accidents, car accidents, tickets, lawsuits, bankruptcies, breakups, divorces, illnesses, deaths, firings. Right. These are often traumatic events. Ultimately, though, behind the trauma, they are agents of intense change. That's all. They are agents of intense change. Your dynamical system has just been interrupted. A mutation has occurred. A twist has been thrown in. A monkey wrench has come into the picture. There is growth here. And that's where we start to ask ourselves, well, why? Especially if I've been in flow and I'm in alignment and I'm doing great and I'm growing. And like you say, Summer, I want to grow from good things happening to me, and good things are happening to me. And then this weird thing popped up. You know, I went to the doctor, had this mole examined, and now it's skin cancer. What happened? Why? So I spent some time thinking about this this morning, and just kind of off the top of my head, I can think of a lot of whys for it, a lot of whys that fit pretty nicely into the concept of flow and what we are as creators. Now, the most obvious answer, the one that's most popular, that's in all the books, is some things are a result of you not paying attention, not listening, Right? This is where things are going bad, bad, bad, bad. In work for a long time. It's getting worse, worse, worse, worse. But you're being stubborn. There's resistance coming at you. The resistance is your flow saying, get out of there, get out of there. We've got something better for you. It's really delaying the timeline for you. We know what your next step is, and you're not walking into it because you're afraid, because you're stubborn, because you won't be wrong. About this, but blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Until it gets to the point where, boom, it's going to happen for you. The change is going to happen. You'll be fired, you'll be laid off. You'll develop that illness that takes you out of the workplace altogether. Your body will say, enough, I need time to heal. Now I'm going to go and get fibromyalgia. I'm going to retreat from the world because you didn't listen. That's very popular, you know, Louise Hay's heal your body, all of those. Why do we get the things that happen to us? But that's not, I think, the only reason. It's not the only reason. It's not just because we're not listening. Sometimes we really are listening. We really are in flow. Sometimes we're just meant to jump to the next track, right? A river jumping its bed. It's time. You have maxed out these conditions. You have maxed out this little world that you're in. You have maxed out this phase in your life. You have been enjoying it, you've been loving it. But there's something in you that's saying it's time for a little injection. We want you to grow. Now let's see what you're going to do with this. And then that curveball gets lobbed at you. Let's see what you're going to do with this. Now why would we do that? Why especially would it be something negative? So called negative that comes in. Well, you know, there are a lot of theories in metaphysics and new age thinking, mind, body, spirit thinking that some things are set up before we get here, you know, before we're born. And some beliefs call it karma. Some say, well, it's because I was meant to meet my soulmate or I was meant to do this or that. I'd like you to step out of time for a second here. Forget all that stuff about before you were born, right? Think of yourself like a kid entering kindergarten. And your parents have said to you from the day you were born, we've already planned your marriage for you. We've already planned your career for you. You can't get out of those. Those are just absolutely necessary. You can't. You can't, you know, choose anything else. Wouldn't that feel kind of weird? As you evolve into your being, as you evolve into where you're going, you make millions of changes and thoughts and decisions and switching of directions. As you build yourself, you build a personality during a life. Is it possible it might Be ill fitting for that thing that's been preselected to actually fit you? Would it be necessary? What if instead, because you're such a powerful creator, every day, every moment, you're being assessed, and I mean assessed in the best possible way, you're being lovingly looked at. And you could say, then the greater part of yourself, your soul, you could say, God, source, spirit is looking at you and saying, what is the next best thing to give her? What is the next thing? What is the change agent she really needs right now? We want her to have a better experience of herself. We have a feeling. We know what her goal is because she has been flow dreaming for this for so long. And we know what will get her there. We know the fast route, we know the slow route, we know the medium route. But most of all, we know what she's feeling, what she's been emoting to her life, to her future, to her family. And we know what will fulfill that. Let's put her in that. Now, see, for me, I much prefer that theory, that feeling, because what it's saying is, I'm still in a position of power. I'm still remaining in a position of power within flow. We are still dancing together in equal agreement. I am creating, flow is responding. So what's coming to me is simply a response, a good and powerful response in total alignment with what I need next. And I'm not one to judge if it's a good thing that showed up on my doorstep, a bad thing that showed up on my doorstep, if it's something that I look at and go, oh, my God, I wouldn't have picked this in a million years. Well, maybe a part of me would have picked it. It's been given to me. Now, some things I think as well, just sort of a variation on this is, you know, I tend to have this theory that God or source energy is constantly enjoying experiencing itself. You know, this is something that my mom, Denis Andrecht, stumbled on this teaching years ago in her God is always happy. By the way, you can look her up@godisalwayshappy.com it makes a lot of sense as evolving beings, as people that are becoming our next self, right? And we're doing it physically every day as our body ages. We're doing it mentally every day as we accrue more information. We're doing it emotionally every day as we learn how to grow and have quote, unquote, wisdom, right? We know wisdom is not the same as knowledge. Knowledge is mental. Wisdom is emotional. The soul, self, the internal self, the great self, is also growing. It has its own wants, needs, and desires that may not always be understood by the rest of us. That great self, for me, is a part of source energy. Every time I expand, every time I move through something, basically God is saying to itself, I had a very interesting experience through you. Thank you. It was so enlightening to me to feel how we moved through this together. Imagine billions of people doing this. Imagine planets of possible life doing this. Imagine how much growth is occurring. If your focus is to grow, doesn't it make sense that if you believe in anything higher, that its purpose is also to grow, or to at least have a greater understanding and increasing understanding of itself through you, through what it has created? If God is the body and you are one cell in it, whatever you experience is taken right in through the whole body. It is part of the whole. And I think some things are brought to you as a fulfillment of that goal as well. Now, the last thing is some things are in your life, curve balls occur because simply other people interacted with you to bring them to you, right? They didn't happen to just you. Other people said, I'll sign on to that. I need this to happen. Are you going to participate? Imagine there's a thousand different little plays going on in your life. You know, like a play. Like you go see one at the theater, and everybody is enlisting you to be certain characters. All right, I'll sign up for that one. I love you, so I'm going to obviously sign up for that one. I don't really have much choice because I've chosen to love you. Therefore, I'm going to go through this with you, honey. And that's another reason that curveballs enter our lives. Especially when you find yourself caretaking someone else. That's your curveball, because someone else said, will you participate in this with me because I love you? And then, of course, there are the biggest curve balls of all, those that are cultural, generational, the genocides, the mass experiences that people are involved with. I've seen some phenomenal teachers get really caught up trying to explain that concept. It's a big one. And I think if you examine all the things I just said, you could also see how generations, groups of people, cultures, especially if taken from that sense of this kind of people want to experience this, or this kind of people want to group, collectively create that. We collectively create a lot of things together. You know, I collectively help the schools in my area by sending my children there. They're getting a collective experience and education. I'm part of the collective of my town or city. We are all collectively experiencing things together. That's all I want to say on that before we all get into big arguments. That conversation always leads to big arguments. I want to keep this drilled down into you right now and the way you deal with it. So when we get back, I'm going to tell you where to go from here. What happens? What do you do when you get a curveball? How do you weather these things, regardless of the reason that they came to you? So stay with me. We have a quick break. When we get back, I'm going to give you the way that I have found works best. I'm also going to take some of your calls and of course we're going to do a lovely and beautiful flow dream. So stay with me.

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And here we are back again with more flow dreaming. So I've given you some ideas now that you can ponder as you're thinking about that big crappy thing that just happened in your life, the whys behind it. I also want to caution you and reassure you. I want to caution you. The times when I have had serious things occur in my life. My biggest illnesses, the times that I have faced death, the times that I have had my heart broken. It often is something you cannot see. The why is something you cannot see. When you're in the midst of it, when you're in the middle of it, it's like being swarmed by bees or butterflies. You can't see out of it. The experience is happening all around you. It's only with the distance that you start to gain understanding, right? And we call that perspective. Everybody knows that. But if you're really aware, you can fit a lot into place as you gain that perspective. Ah, this is what led to that. Ah, this is what happens because of it. Ah, this led me into this new place in my life, in my thinking, in where I live, in my relationship. And if you have done well with the experience, the perspective looking back is always, thank you for that. Thank you for that. I didn't like it at the time, but look what happened as a result. I see now that was the big turn that I needed. I wasn't taking the exit signs. I needed the big turn. I can see that now. Thank you. So don't sweat it if you don't understand where you are. I would say it takes me on average a couple of years to understand the biggest occurrences in my life. And I know the desire is to hop on it right away. Why is this happening? I've got to fix this. I've got to figure out, I've got to know, I've got to understand the metaphysical origins. Just relax into it, right? Relax into the experience. Deal with the experience. Go all into the experience. I know this sounds funny, but this is part of the way I handle these things. Our reaction is often to say, I don't want to deal with this. I don't want to. I want to go through this. I want to get out of this. I want to avoid this. I don't want to think about this. Remember, everything that happens for you in your life is for your growth. It's for your development. It's so you can get to the other side of it and love yourself even more ultimately, or love others even more if that's on your agenda. So if you're discounting this experience, if you're not looking at it, if you're not getting real with it, right? My new phrase, getting real, been coming up over and over in the last couple of weeks. Getting real with it. Getting real means going all in. How do I feel about this? What is it causing to happen in me? What is it creating in me? What do I need to do to fully take this in, understand it? How do I be present with it? When you get present with something, you take ownership of it. It's really important. Hear me. When you get present with something, you take ownership of it. And those of you who've been listening a while know that ownership is a form of personal power. Personal power is the strongest thing you need. How to say it? The strongest thing you need to be a wildly successful manifestor in your life. Power the sense of, I'm not blaming you, it's not your fault, it's not outside me. I have power in this situation. You are a power leak. I have been waiting, sitting on my butt, crying, angry, sending little targeted balls of hatred towards you. Whatever it is, all of that is taking your power away from you. It is utilizing it in hatred, in guilt, in anger, in upset. It's taking your power away. As long as you're still playing with those feelings, you aren't moving to the next point. The next point is I'm going to embrace this, I'm going to receive this, I'm going to move through this. What do I need to do? What do I need to commit to? Can you feel like even through the words, you should be able to feel the difference in the expression, the sensation one is very strong. Now what happens? What you are is what you create. If you are in the midst of something really tragic and terrible and yet inside you, you're creating a sense of I feel love for myself. I feel love for everyone around me. I feel an intense sense of power in everything I do or say. I feel an intense sense of guidance. I know that I'm being directed, that I'm loved, that the very best things are happening to me and for me that I'm in total and utter alignment with my flow. This is the space I'm occupying as I move through this. What do you think is going to happen to you versus that other person who's saying, God damn it, it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my life. Sorry, I swore. I hope there's no kids listening. I can't believe this happened to me. Nothing will be the same. I've lost everything. What do you think that person is going to be creating for themselves? What are they manifesting now? Which person do you want to be? It's a choice. Straight up choice. Nobody is forcing you to be one way or the other. It's all inside you. If you have a beautiful and strong connection to your flow, the choice becomes very easy to make. This is why I tell people, flow, dream every day. Make that connection every day. If you normally pray, add flow dreaming to it. If you normally meditate, add flow dreaming to it. If you don't do anything, then just do flow dreaming. Flow dreaming is so many things at once. It's emotional reconditioning, emotional strength training. It is spiritual connection. It opens every chakra in your body. It opens the pathways to guidance and direction. It stimulates your intuitive and emotional and Empathic skills to be able to receive even more information. I mean, it does so many things. If you're practicing every day on the little things, then when the big things do strike, you say to yourself, hmm, I think I know what to do. I've been practicing it every day on the small things, on the medium things. Why would I behave any differently with these big things? Why would I change now? All right, so I hope this has been inspiring for you. Right. Things happen. They will continue to happen in your life. Unexpected things will continue to happen. In fact, most of us are going to have at least two to three big things happen. Big things that weren't in our plans. And I'm not manifesting that for you by saying it. I'm not creating it for you. What I'm doing is saying, if you walk in with a feeling of acceptance, if a couple of big things happen in my life that I am forced to deal with, divorces, firings, illnesses, deaths, if they happen, who am I going to be in every one of those processes? Am I going to have fear of them occurring? No. No, I'm not. I'm not going to allow something to so throw me off my game that I go into a state of fear and retraction because that's when I need to be showing up the strongest. Right when that batter faces that pitcher who's thrown a no hitter for your last 10 games. Should the batter go into fear and retraction or should the batter go, no, I'm stepping right into this. I've got to be even more in my power right now. You do. Okay, so, boy, look at this. Full calls today and I haven't done my flow dream. Let's do a quick one and then we'll do a quick break and see where, ah, let's just see where we go. Okay. Let's start with Katherine. San Francisco. Hey, Kathryn. Hello, you're on air. How are you?

Great, thank you.

Oh, good.

I love to travel. So it's not really my subject, but when you said about jumping into a spot without knowing where you are or a different language, I actually get very excited about that. So that area, I have easy growth in that area.

Excellent. Now make that in the rest of your life.

Exactly, exactly. I was wondering if you could look at my flow about. I'm trying to be more conscious and into my body about eating habits and hunger and more listening to my body. I think a lot of people eat more with their mind or eat from emotions or habits. And I really just want to let my follow My body's cues of, oh, I'm hungry, I'm not hungry, and be more in the flow of that.

So I found that when you're changing your eating habits. In fact, I've been doing this myself the last few weeks, very consciously being aware of what I'm eating, how often I'm eating, what I'm putting into myself. I find that a lot of our choices are extremely emotionally driven. They're driven because it's convenient, it's easy. We don't want to increase any stress or hardship on ourselves. So we take the fast option instead of the slower option, which is to grab the carbs instead of sit down and make a salad. Our emotional self is also sometimes driving us to try and fulfill other needs. Right. I'm feeling lonely, I'm feeling bored, I'm feeling upset with myself, and I want something to soothe me. So every time you walk into the kitchen, close your eyes and just do a check. Is my stomach hungry? Is my body hungry or is my heart hungry? Is my heart hungry? Am I tired? Am I needing a stimulant? Is that why I'm doing this and heading for the chocolate? If I'm needing a stimulant, what has caused it? Am I stressed out? Just taking those few moments to check in with that emotional self will do wonders. It also helps if you give your emotional self a big why? Why are we doing this? What's the big picture? How strong a motivator do I need? Do I need to get 30 pounds overweight to have that push? Do I need to start getting high blood pressure to have that push? Do I need to start having diabetes pop in to get that push? How far am I willing to let this go before the why comes in and I go, gosh, I really have to. Now get real with yourself. Then the mental self comes in. As your friend, the mental self says, now that you found that, I can help you get going on it. Mental self is really good at establishing things and keeping them going for about five days, Right? It's the length of our willpower. Most of us, we all know what willpower is. It's great for five to 10 days, but willpower always leaves you. It's a short term burst of energy. It's not meant to be sustained. The emotional component is always what sustains you. So prepare. The willpower runs out. What have I created to take its place when that happens, does that help you?

Yeah. Could you look into my habits or history or.

Yeah, let me do a quick peek. All right. Catherine. Catherine. Catherine. Catherine. All right. Looking at your body, do you crave sweet things? Sweet, sweet, sweet.

Recently, which is weird. Yeah, that kind of changed. I haven't been. But this couple months actually, yeah, there's.

A sweet craving going on. Something your body is looking for or needing, I'm feeling. You know, if you go get yourself checked out, I'm not a medical intuitive, but I'd be looking for things like how are my blood sugar levels doing? What is happening that I'm now wanting? Things that are sweeter or doughy or fast acting sugar breakdown. Something like that happening within you, even fruit as a substitute is a fast acting sugar breakdown. Look to that, see if there's any chemical reason that your body might be craving that or wanting that. What I would do is talk to your body and tell it, I love to reward you with sweet and wonderful things. And I'm creating a list of those things that we can indulge in together. I'm not cutting you off from them. I love you and adore you and I want to reward you, but we're going to moderate it. And here's what I'm going to give you. And when you need that sweetness, when you need that reward, I'm also going to check in and ask you, hey, what's up? Why are you feeling the need for this? Is it because someone else in your life didn't tell you that they loved you? Is it because you're feeling like you need to be feel needed and wanted and no one has been showing up for you that way? Right. Then you're going to look into the other things that are also pushing your body. Something to do with being loved and adored. Okay. All right, so look into your relationships and ask yourself if you're getting that. Okay, Kathryn, thanks for your call. Great. Good luck. Be in flow. All right, quick break. We get back and I'll see if I have time for one more call and a nice sweet sweet. Speaking of sweet, Flow Dream.

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Welcome back to the show. I just have to take this call. It sounds so interesting. Alba from St. Louis, welcome. You're on air.

Hi, Summer. I'm Alba. I'm Julie Suratt and Cole Bombinho's friend.

Oh, great. They have so many friends. I'm meeting all of you guys. I love it.

Yeah, Cole and I are together right now actually.

Oh, love you, Cole. Okay, what's up?

Okay. So ever since I was a little kid, I could sense like non physical energy. And then when I was around eight years old, I had a very negative, really scary experience and I kind of.

Just shut everything out.

And recently I've been meditating every day for about 30 to 40 minutes. Can noticing that I'll smell like incense burning in my house. And I'll be like, oh, weird, I didn't think I was burning incense. And I'll wake up and I'll walk around and I'll look for it and there won't be any incense anywhere. Or I'll smell like flowers and I'll look for an open window and nothing.

I know exactly what you're saying. I have found myself doing similar things.

Yeah. And things.

You are not. You are not crazy. You're not crazy. Oh, good. Okay, that's. You're not crazy. This is.

This is actually like, what's up with that? Like I. I have visions now and then. Like they'll happen. I mean, I'm just. I've been so afraid of this always.

Yeah. You're reopening your senses, right? Remember when you were younger, A child, a teenager. You were not as equipped as you are now. And we get it stuck in our heads that what happened to us way back then could still happen now. What if it happens again? You're a very different person. It's like before you knew how to drive a car versus after you've been driving 10 years. We have to catch up in our heads and realize, actually, I'm able to do this now. In fact, it's probably past due for me to have picked up this skill again. Right? Remind yourself this is past due. I'm playing catch up now. This should have happened five years ago. So as far as the smells and the visions and so forth, we process information. We process information from flow through many senses. Right? Our senses are having to receive information that they're not really equipped to receive. That's why most people who are intuitive say it's just a knowing. It's just a knowing. And they can't describe it at all. But if your senses are starting to open up as well, your most active ones for this particular ability will rise up and start catching things. You will smell things. Sometimes you'll hear things. You ever heard somebody say something in a quiet room? And you realize no one is around you? But it was loud. You heard it spoken.

Yeah.

These things will open up. Don't be afraid of them. It's just. Think of it as my body. My biology is trying to process information. This is how it's deciphered it. Smells contain so much data. Everything they say, I mean, they say actually smell is one of the strongest components of memory that one spell can evoke. You know, a huge unlock all the storage of certain memories that otherwise wouldn't be triggered through any other means. So just keep allowing it. I think it's fabulous. I think it's fun. Keep doing it.

It's kind of fun. And I just want to do in the meantime, because mi school doesn't start until, like, next year.

I know. And I can promise you I am not starting it again like I did last year. I started it six months apart. Not. Nope. I am going to have to wait, my lady. But I will love to bring you in, and we will really sculpt that empathic intuition of yours. Okay?

Thank you.

All right, Take care. Bye. That was such a fun call. So true, right? When you start opening your intuition that way, working with flow that way, all kinds of interesting and fun little side benefits. I think of them as side benefits, side effects, you know, being able to see the future, being able to, you know, smell things, hear things. It's just. It's sort of like, you know, how education is recognized. You can be a visual learner, you can be an auditory learner. They always ask you, now, are you kinesthetic? How do you like to receive information? Think of it like that. With Flow 2, your body, what's your preferred means of processing? And it may not be the same as when you're taking in mental information. This is a different kind of intel. Okay, let's move into flow together. We have about four or five minutes. So it will be a short experience, but it'll give you a taste of what it's like. Now, flow is not meditation. Flow dreaming is not self hypnosis. It is an active emotional technique. The doorway in is through guided daydreaming. Lucid daydreaming. Right. Just like lucid dreaming. You've heard of. Well, lucid daydreaming instead of daydreaming and not Being aware that you're there, you are actively creating something. You are creating a bridge into this state of flow and flow itself. Well, you really need to hear a longer explanation if this is new to you. So do go to the website, download the. It's a free gift bag I've created of audios that you start practicing with. Cost you nothing. I just want you to learn this and benefit from it. If you like the program again, I mentioned those playlists on Universal Guidance and connection. Universal Alignment, Trust Flowing through Change. All of these are spot on for today. Okay, eyes closed. We like to relax our body in the beginning because your body holds tension and you need to address it. You need to give it some attention. You want it to let go, release. Release the stomach. Breathing deeply. Calming. Dropping the shoulders. Loosening the jaw. And now you want to ask your mind, your mental self, to also get aboard and open up a beautiful image to you. A vision, a daydream. Allow it to have something to do as it opens up. This image right now of a bright sunny hillside. And it's covered with little green grasses and there's daisies poking up. And you just want to run and dance on these little hills. The kind of hills that you used to roll down when you were kid. You're on one of these right now and it's so beautiful. It's sun dappled. The sky is blue. There are little clouds in it. It feels great. It is the most beautiful warm spring morning morning you have ever encountered in your life. And yet it's more than that. There's something else here. There's a humming, there's a beauty. There's a sense of richness, of experience, of awareness. It's like these grasses, these hills, the sun, the sky is alive. It's aware. It's listening to you. It's responding to you. It's part of you. As you put your hands and. And you feel the silky softness, you realize it's all part of me. This is all part of me. Everything that happens in my life is part of me. It's not outside me. It's part of me. I am part of all of these things, good things and bad things, big things and little things. They're all just variations on me. Every experience comes from me, is received by, by me, is guided by me, is in power with me and through me. Nothing happens to me that is outside of my power. I have power in every situation, in everything I encounter. My power is my reaction. My power is how I receive it. My power is how I take it in. My power is how I choose to create with it. And I will create with everything that happens to me. And I will create at the best and the biggest of my ability. At the top of my awareness, I will stretch to the point I need to stretch to to be in this power. And that's my emotion and that's my flow. And that's my biggest, biggest self making that commitment, feeling that drinking in that awareness, that knowledge as I watch it now come into me like a beautiful blossom closing for the night, coming back into my heart, coming back through my body as I find myself present again and opening my eyes and I leave you with that feeling. You can stay in it as long as you want, but I will be back with you next week for another episode of Flow Dreaming.

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