#520: How to Manifest One Thing This Week

Flow Dreaming. It's a show where we talk about the power of your mind to change your world around you, to literally affect the fabric of your reality. We talk about this feeling of hope and joy and relief. And that is what being aware of your flow does. It gives you a feeling of power again in your lives. And that is what being aware of your flow does. It gives you a feeling of power again in your lives. Breathe. It is the feeling that you bring forward. It is your emotional connection that really sets the tone for what is going to be happening to you and for you. And you know that feeling when you touch it, it just spreads through you. I'm Summer McStravik and welcome to another episode of Flow Dreaming. Hi, it's Summer and a quick request before we jump into the show. If you like this podcast, the number one reason Flow Dream has grown is because of your reviews. People rely on your opinion and frankly, they often misunderstand Flow Dreaming. The only way to correct that is through you leaving a few words about the program. So pop over to itunes or your podcast app and write a review. It means so much to me when you do. Now onto the show. Hi, welcome to Flow dreaming. I'm Summer McStravik and we have an episode coming up for you that will hopefully help you create just one thing. One thing. I'm taking all the big, big concepts about manifesting and consciousness and awareness and all that we usually talk about in this program, distilling it down into one practical exercise. This episode, how to create one thing. All right, so before we get started in that, just want to mention Inflow is coming up. It is my beautiful three day immersion event into Flow Dreaming. Please go to my website, flowdreaming.com, check it out. The other thing is that MI School is enrolling. We are opening up early registration. If you go to the site again, you can find out all about MI School. You can set up a time to talk with me or one of my staff members about what it may do for you. We call these clarity calls and it's where we kind of take a look at your life and talk about what do you want? Sometimes me school fits in perfectly and sometimes it doesn't. That's why we have the calls to make sure that this is something that would work for you. So go ahead and set up a time. And now for the next couple of months, I just can't wait to talk with you. It's very exciting. In fact, about a dozen spots have already filled up in this class. So you want to hop on it. Don't put it off to the last minute. All right, how do we manifest just one thing? All right. Flow dreaming, as many of you guys know, it originated as an amazing technique for manifesting, for creating things. It grew and grew and expanded and I use all kinds of different processes and techniques now, but it really comes down, comes back to the heart of flow dreaming when you get right down to how do I create just one thing? So I'd like you to think right now about one thing you want to make in your life. I would not suggest choosing the biggest, most giant thing, okay? I suggest you pick something that is the small to mid range. Because the objective of today's exercise, today's show, is to help you understand how that small to mid sized thing can come about rather quickly, rather effortlessly, easily. Okay? If you pick something gigantic, something that means I have to move continents and I have to have, you know, $100,000 raised for it. And I have to do all of. If you pick something like that, you're actually picking something that you have to keep choosing toward for days or weeks, months, perhaps even years. And I'd like to see a shorter term horizon here. I'd like you to choose something that you are almost aligned to, very closely aligned to. In fact, you might already be aligned to it. It just hasn't appeared yet. Okay? Do you understand? So here are the kind of ground rules. Make it a small to mid size thing. So for instance, in my case, I might choose something like I'll choose something in my work life as opposed to my personal life. I would choose in the next two to three months. I want to have my webshop completely finished. No more changes, no more work. Out of my hair, out of my hands. So you can tell even from that wish of mine. It's been a challenge the last year working with technology and developers and you know, I keep putting it in flow and putting it in flow and finally it's come together. Now the next few months, I want it completely, I want the bow tied on the present basically right? I want that done. That's a small thing because it's just one little nugget. It's really important to me because it's the way that I deliver flow dreams to all of you, right? You get to find out what's going on in the world of flow dreaming by going to the shop. It's pretty important. It's core, it's got to be there. But I think it's something that will take probably two to three months. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less. And I know that I'm already aligned to it because it's something I'm focused on and working on. Okay, so choose something like that in your life. It could also be personal. You could say, well, I really feel that I will lose ten pounds over the next couple of months. I'm already putting my exercise together. I've been doing it, I'm on the diet now. I just want to see it through. I want to really manifest this thing and have it happen in a beautiful way. Okay, something along those lines. You've already perhaps put a little effort toward it. You got clear on it, you have some focus on it. So we're not just pulling rabbits out of our hat and saying, I want a million dollars in three months. If you haven't put anything toward it, it's not really going to qualify. Okay, so have this idea in your head now. What's the very first thing that I would do from a physical and non physical perspective? Well, many of you know that flow dreaming relies on preaction. This is one of the very first teachings that my MI schoolers receive. The difference between action and preaction. We spend a month actually in each area fully going into it, describing it. Preaction is this understanding that a lot of things take some non physical adjustment. Movement direction and action is the understanding that things take physical, material action. Okay? It's the process of co creation. You are creating it on earth and you are creating it in heaven. You are creating it physically, you are creating it non physically. Now most people, our culture of course teaches us that you only create things physically. You hope and dream and wish and pray. And that's about as far as you ever do anything in the non physical. And that means that most of the time you don't get all your results because it's like you're only playing 50% of your 100% capacity. So I start with this recognition that I've got to take physical action and I've got to take non physical action. If you have a pencil and paper, get them out now. Or if you have an app or something you can just draw and sketch in. And I want you to write on each side of the paper, physical, non physical. And then under physical write action. Under non physical, write pre action. Okay, so let's look at this thing that you're wanting to manifest. This one thing. Let's start with the non physical preaction. So a pre action. For those of you who haven't heard this term before, yes, It's a flow dreaming term, terb. What's that? It's part of our flow dreaming lexicon of language. It kind of evolved from this idea that when people are living, they're often reacting to things that have already occurred. Why? Right. We have reaction, reaction, reaction. Something happens, you react. Something happens, you react. Most of your day is like that, you know, kids, wake up. Mom, I'm hungry. I'm reacting to that. Okay, I'll make you cereal. Mom, I need to get to school. Okay, I'm reacting to that. Let's get your socks on. Get your shoes on, let's get in the car. Most of our day, we are reacting. Now, when you're in reaction mode, you're not exactly being a manifester, right? A manifester is someone who's looking ahead and saying, and then I want this to happen, and then I want that to happen. And then that and that a reactor is looking at what just happened in the past and responding. A manifester is looking at things that have not yet happened in the future and pre sponding, right? Respond, pre spawned, react, preact. So when you're preacting, what you're saying is, I am going to set out a definition in my flow. I'm going to create a new energy template for something that does not yet exist. And I'm not just relying on life to throw together something for me. I'm actually going to create this template. I'm going to create this kind of invisible instruction to the universe that says, here is what I'm after. Now how am I doing this? Preaction and flow dreaming relies on emotion. We describe this emotionally to the flow, to our world, to our higher selves, to the universe, to God, to whatever. You can use whatever language you want, but you have to go through that process of preacting the template. Now what does the preaction feel like? It feels like flow dreaming. Okay, you go and you do a flow dream. So a flow dream, of course, has a couple of parts to it. One, you're going to start by daydreaming and letting yourself just get really imaginative. Imagine, right? Just make it up in your head. Sometimes people think that in a flow dream, you're supposed to get someplace and it's supposed to just blossom and bloom in front of you. Like, oh my God, yes, this is it. It's like, no, not really. You just start daydreaming your way there. The point is you daydream and you imagine until you stop being aware that you're actually trying. Kind of like when you really do get caught up in a daydream, you know, sometimes you start thinking about something, you know you're thinking about it, and 10 minutes later you're like, oh, my God, where was I? Well, you were still thinking about it, but you lost the awareness that you were thinking about it. When you go into flow, it's a similar thing. You're like, I'm getting aligned, I'm getting in flow. I'm feeling this perfect and right and beautiful alignment. Wash over me, Wash over my life. Feeling this gorgeous forward motion. I'm daydreaming. Whatever this would look like, maybe for me this time I'm daydreaming and it's like I'm an ice skater. I don't know how to ice skate, but here I do. And I'm just skating effortlessly forward. As far as I can see. This beautiful light just drawn forward. Gorgeous, gorgeous. Ooh, I am in flow. This feels easy and effortless. Oh, wait, what am I doing here? What am I here for besides just to feel good and to get aligned? Oh, that's right. There's something that I'd like to co create and I want to describe it using my emotion. What does this thing feel like? What would be the emotions that I would receive that I would feel if this thing came to pass? These are known as describing your emotional endpoint. What would it feel like? So now you're taking the thing that you say you want and you're getting into the feelings of what this thing would do for you if you actually had it. Now, this process helps you start to realize that the thing itself you're asking for may or may not be the perfect thing. There actually might be a better way to get you to what you're really after, which are the emotional endpoints. So, for instance, I want this webshop completely finished, done, out of my hair, beautiful, gorgeous, easily managed, easy to navigate, just pristine, complete. What are the feelings? You can almost hear them in the way I described it. The feelings I want are. I want it to be easy. I want people to love it, to have a really wonderful experience. I want to feel that it is. I'm free of this technical stuff. It's off my plate, right? So these are the feelings that I'm really going for. I think that finishing up the website is going to get me to these feelings probably will because they kind of go together. But other things could happen. Maybe the website isn't finished. And yet I still feel this way about it because maybe someone has even better idea for how I should run this website. And I say yes. So I'm not actually done with it yet. I'm suddenly feeling totally at ease and peace with it. There are many ways, another way, in other words, that I can reach this desire, this emotional endpoint, desire. That's really what I'm going for. So when I'm in my flow, I'm starting to focus on those feelings. Ah, man, it's so peaceful and navigable and people love it. I love it. I'm so satisfied. I feel just genuinely happy and satisfied. Like, ah, I can let this go for a while and it will just be wonderful. It will just be a wonderful thing. Growing and growing on its own. Like giving birth to the most perfect baby, just watching it grow. And so I'm such a proud mom. That's how I feel about this. Okay, now this is what I'm preacting into my flow. I'm describing to my future. This is how I want to feel. This is where I want to feel around it. Okay? So the very first thing I do when I'm manifesting my one thing is to come up with essentially a perfect flow dream for it. A perfect flow dream. Now when you flow dream, you can make up your own flow dream. That's what I'm describing to you right now. Making up your own flow dream around your specific thing. I know a lot of you have visited the shop and you've downloaded the flow dreams. Now I have like a hundred or no 200 flow dreams on all different subjects. And I realized that even 200 is not enough, right? Some, some of them will be very close. Like find a great house and make an easy move. You're like, yeah, that's exactly what I want. Summer, you nailed it. Great. You know, use that. That's perfect. It takes a little of the burden off of you of having to think of the right feelings or descriptions and images you can just get into. Like, I'm really just going to follow this script. It feels so perfect and right. But some of you have things that are, that are not in my shop. Like, I need to win this custody battle. I don't have one on that. You'll have to come up with your own flow dream, your own preaction around that. Okay, so that's step one. Come up with your perfect flow dream around it. Now step two, put together a system to practice these feelings. Practice this flow dream. Seems self evident, right? And yet we often don't, we think if I just come up with the knowledge of it, if I just come up with the understanding of it. If I do it once, it's done, right? No, no, no, no. It's not done. You have to think of it like this. Every time you go into your flow, and let's say you spend 10 minutes, 10 minutes really powerfully feeling this desire, feeling these emotional end points, feeling this thing that you're creating. Well, you have just now given 10 minutes of your life to something very potent and very directed. You have another 23 hours and 50 minutes in your day that you are not creating that, that you are creating other things. In some cases that you're creating things that are actually against your desire or choosing you away from your desire. So when you're flow dreaming towards something like this, it needs to be consistent. It needs to be, I'm going to do it morning and I'm going to do it at night. I'm going to do it every day at lunch break. I'm going to do it every day of the week, except on Sunday when I have a break. I'm going to do it every time it pops into my head. I'm going to close my eyes and just get into that state for a little bit. What you're doing at this point is you're actually molding yourself. You're remolding or modifying your inner being, your inner energy. You're creating more of this in flow dreaming. What I've said in the past in other examples is it's like a kid on the beach and you're getting buckets of sand. Well, one bucket of sand is not making your castle. You got to go back and you got to dump another bucket and another bucket and another bucket and another bucket. Every time you get into these emotional states, you are creating an energy that now exists and persists in your life. You are cultivating it, creating it and growing it. Okay, your sandcastle is going to take shape. It's going to get bigger, and pretty soon, if you're really focused on it, it'll take up the whole damn beach, which is what you want. Because when you become that person who is 100% this desire, because you've practiced it so much, you've become it. You've practiced it to the point that you have become it. I am my desire. I'm not me having a desire. I am my desire. I am this beautiful, complete website. There is no distance between me and it. I'm 100% aligned to it. This is not just what's going to happen. It is happening. I am happening with it. There is no other option for this what happens now when your flow and your future hears this from you, right? Your life likes to align to you. It really does. It's forced to align to you. If you are leading the way. You're the head of the Chinese dragon. Life is the tail it's following. Most of us have lived backwards. We were the head following the tail. Life was just leading us around. Now you're learning there's a different way. So that is what I mean by putting together a practice and why you put together that practice. Now what's the other part? Okay, because you're like, this sounds amazing, Summer. I can just think everything into existence, right? Well, that's half of the battle. That's half right. You have another thing that you've got to do. You have now non physically put this thing into motion. A lot of you have done this a lot in your life. It's called wishing and dreaming and hoping and wanting. And you're like, I've wanted this for 15 years. And I say, great. What action have you taken toward it? Well, a few years ago I tried and then I stopped. Why? Why? That's the same thing as giving up on your pre action and not wanting it, not being it. Life requires action, right? That's what the physical world is all about. Life wants to hear you feel it, get direction from you, get the non physical template made. But you have to fill in that non physical template with physical action. It's kind of like a paint by numbers. Remember those old paint by numbers? You know, you paint the blue here and the green there and blue is four and green is three. And pretty soon the picture comes out well, the empty sketch with all the colors printed as numbers in the book. That's you non physically creating it. You now have to take the brush, dip it in the color and paint it on what you have just created. If you never pick up the brush and physically do it, you will only be looking at a sketch and you'll say, why isn't this sketch ever filling in? You have to start taking action. And there's a whole. In fact, I've done podcasts about this before, what it means to take inspired action. But inspired action is the other portion. Inspired action is where you're saying to Flo, I trust you. I trust that now that I've created this direction, I'm actually following through and doing things based on this trust and seeing what happens. Okay? And some of us have trouble there because we are afraid. We don't want to take action unless it's 100% sure. Or we think if I do that it'll be dumb or it won't work or I tried it before and all of our stuff gets thrown up. All of our ceilings, all of our lack thinking comes to bear. We can wish it, want it, hope it all we want. But when we have to go to actually do it, we go, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I gotta wait for something else. For what? Okay, so let's go back to this one thing. Now that you have your perfect flow drain, give me a series of five solid actions you can take toward this one thing this month, in the next 30 days, starting now. Five solid things. Now you know the difference between five easy things that won't yield you much and five things that are like, yeah, this is serious. This is serious. If I do this, I am really telling my flow. I am putting my faith behind this. Okay? I want five things that are medium to serious. Medium to serious. The more serious you are on your actions, the greater the likelihood that this is going to come together for you, right? The more stingy you are with your actions, the more you're saying to Flo, I don't really trust you. I want it, but I don't really trust that this will happen. And that's where things don't happen. That's where things get caught. Trapped in this in between zone of desire and having that desire fulfilled, the stronger and the more clear and the more trustworthy action you take toward it, the more likely your one thing is going to come to pass. Now, if you're someone out there who's saying, great, I'm going to quit my job, that's a strong action. Summer told me to do it. I am not telling you to do that. What I am saying is if it requires you to quit your job so you can get a new one, go for it, right? But you have to also make. Get a new job, be part of the same thing, not just get myself out of everything, right? You have to. You have to go all the way to home plate. All the way to home plate. So those five actions should help you get all the way to home plate. Now, each of those five actions, every time you take it, every time you take one, is going to open up a whole new swatch of new potential things you can do. Okay? So if I take a strong action, da, da, da, da, I do something, let's say I hire a new web developer, okay? Now I have new choices. A whole bunch of new things open up to me. Well, what do I want them to Do. And who's going to be overseeing this project? Is it going to be me? Is it going to be somebody else? Now I have all these new options of choices and actions that I can take. The point is, if I do that five times now, I have five new arenas of choices that I can keep making, actions I can keep taking toward this thing. I have set it fully in motion. Now draw back a minute and look how powerful this combination is. You've got the pre action going on every day. I'm flow dreaming. I'm creating it. I'm creating the sketch, and you've got the action going on every day. Every couple days, I'm taking strong action. I started with five things, but each of those five things made me make five more decisions, and then five more decisions, and pretty soon it's the end of the month, and I've taken 30 strong actions. Now. Do you think that you are guiding your life doing this? You betcha. Your life is not guiding you. You are not just kicking back and just saying, I hope it happens. Let's see what happens. You're actually in a very powerful position right now of talking to flow, communicating to flow, being very present for flow, saying, I am showing up for you, if you will show up for me. Me. Let's do this. Okay, you got it. So that's basically the most extremely simple formula I can distill down for how to get one thing of small to medium importance accomplished for you that will lead you to those emotional endpoints that you're actually looking for. It's a methodology for living, for creating. Right. This is how I create. I create my life this way. I create my company this way. I create my parenting this way. I create my personal life this way. I create my products and books this way. I apply this in every area, in every single thing I do. It's universal. Pretty profound, huh? Okay, so we're gonna go to a quick break. When we get back, I'm gonna walk you through a flow dream now to get this process started. So keep that one thing in your little heart. In fact, you can write it down, if you haven't already. I wanted you to write under both columns what those five actions were, what the pre action is. Write down, of course, the thing itself you're going for. All right? And I will be with you in just a moment. Hey, we're on break for just a minute so I can tell you about something extraordinary that I'm doing for the very first time in a couple of months. I'm hosting a live Event in San Diego, California. It's called Inflow. Get it? Inflow. Inflow. You can play with that. It's a three day immersion into your flow filled life. These are three powerful days with me live. We'll be doing tons of processes to align you fully into your dreams, your manifesting your life and I'm inviting you to come meet me. Come in from wherever you are in the world. Just be there, go into Flow with me. We're so powerful as a group. If you have been listening to this podcast for months or months, maybe even years, you already have a sense of the power of Flow Dreaming. It's powerful, powerful, powerful. It's an amazing way to get your year going right. This is happening in February, it's just past January. You're looking ahead. You're starting to think, what am I going to do this year? Am I actually making those changes I want? Am I feeling aligned or am I feeling in stress? Come to Inflow. Get it worked out. It's happening over Presidents Day weekend here in the US A nice long weekend. If you want to sign up or even just learn more, go to my website, it's flow dreaming.com or get on my mailing list and I'll be sending you information. I encourage you to get your tickets very quickly. They will sell out. I'm convinced of that. There are a limited number of VIP tickets available available, so check it out. I can't wait to see you and, and perhaps even meet you for the very first time. I'll see you all at Inflow. Welcome back. You guys ready to flow dream? Let's get this one big thing in motion, right? One nice, chunky thing. Accomplished, created, launched, made, experienced. Let's do this. Let's prove to yourself that you can do this and you are doing this. And you're doing it well. Ready? Now close your eyes and prepare to flow. Recognize this is not meditation or hypnosis or affirmations. Flow Dreaming is a unique technique and if you would like to learn how to do it, just visit flow dreaming.com and download the free kit. It's an actual introductory tutorial to Flow Dreaming. It's free for the time being and if you haven't done that, then just follow along. Be sure to feel lots of emotion. Lots of emotion. All right, A nice deep breath. Take one in, all the way down to the bottom of your abdomen. Hold it briefly and exhale. Letting your shoulders drop, Letting your jaw relax, letting your brow relax. Gonna release now into flow. Releasing into your flow into your life. You're gonna daydream. Imagine. Let your mind wander. See yourself right now on a sandy beach. A sandy, perhaps tropical beach with warm waves just lapping at your toes. Small, friendly, gentle. And this water is pure energy. And it's so clear. The waves keep coming up and splashing over and over and over. And you realize these waves are never going to end. They'll just keep going over and over. These waves of energy, waves of light, waves of my life. Here I am thinking and feeling about this one thing. I really want. I want to experience it, to be it, to have it, to fix it, to finish it, to create it, to launch it. I let myself dream it and feel this thing right now coming up through me. How would this thing make me feel in it came to pass. And if it came to pass pretty soon, how would it make me feel? How would it make me feel? I let those feelings just wash through me. This is how I'd feel. I feel the pleasure. I feel the joy. I feel the contentment. I feel the sense of relief. I feel the excitement. Oh, I just feel all of that. It would be wonderful. It is wonderful. It is wonderful. And it's happening for me right now. Look out at those waves. Do you see floating amid those waves? It's almost like there are little presents or gifts out there. Little scenes, little vignettes. These are the things that are starting to be put into place in my future that are coming together to help this thing come about. As if my flow were hearing me and saying, well, we need to get this started and that started and this thing over here and that thing over there. And let's get these things in motion. It's like you can feel them little seeds getting planted in that ocean. Little images, pictures, hints, things floating on the water, on the energy. Look, it's happening. The assembly has begun. Flo is listening. Flo is hearing. Flo is saying, all right, let's get this going. Let's. Let's get this thing in motion. Let's help this thing happen. You say? Yeah, I love that. Go on, cheer it, cheer it. Cheer it on. Yes, yes. And then when you're done cheering, look at yourself right there on the sand. Look at that wonderful little mess of sand you've made as you cheered and laughed and said, spun around with joy. What are you gonna do now? Now that Flo is doing this for you, what are you going to do? What's your part? What action are you gonna take? Let the excitement come up inside you. You're right. I have to do something in response. I can't just let Flo do all the work. Gosh, that wouldn't be a good partner. Here's what I've got to do, and I will do. I'm so curious what will happen if I do this. I am absolutely doing this. I am trying this. I feel myself trying this. This is wonderful. This is really wonderful. Hold that feeling. Hold that knowing. Get ready. Because as soon as you exit flow and you open your eyes, you are embarking on that action. You are making it real. You are making it happen. Now, at the count of three, you're gonna return from flow, open your eyes and make this happen. 1, 2, 3. Eyes open, returned from flow. Ready to go rip roaring. All right. I feel really good. How do you guys feel? Right, you feel the adjustment. You made a direction. You made a choice. Now things are going to happen for you. Stuff will occur. You can keep this going if you want to, or you can drop the ball now and forget you ever heard this podcast. It's up to you. I suggest you keep it going. Make it a little test. Prove it to yourself. Show it off. Okay, so this is going to wrap up our episode today. As always, I have loved spending the time with you. Thank you for letting me share with you. I hope to see some of you at Inflow soon or to be talking to you on the phone about me, school, and until next time, kisses and love you all. All right, that wraps up our episode today. But before you go, two things. 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