#532 Potent Moments

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.

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What a gorgeous day it is. I'm looking outside right now and. And my cat has just walked up to the front door and she's meowing and she has a lizard caught between her teeth. She catches them just about every single day. And this poor little guy is missing his tail and he is drooping, but looks like he's going to make it. She's dropping him and he is scattering off to the side. So, yeah, this is what happens. I taped this show Flow Dreaming, from my home office. So you never know what you're going to hear going on around me. Sometimes you'll hear the cat banging the microphone. Sometimes you'll hear the dryer going through the wall or the vacuum or even my kids coming home from school. It's just part of Flow Dreaming, so roll with it. And today we're talking about potent moments. Potent moments. What are those, right? Those points in our lives where everything seems to pivot, everything changes, and we can't always tell when that moment's going to be right. We can't tell in the midst of it. It's something that occurs. And in hindsight, we look back and say, wow, that's when everything changed. That's when the new direction developed. That was that sign from the universe, the hand of God that came down and Right. Think about this in your life right now. I can think of boy 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Really potent moments. And of course, some of them I planned, right? Some of them I wanted to have my kids and I wanted to get married. And I, you know, those were ones that I set down on the agenda. But the day I met my husband, that wasn't under my control. The day that my book proposal was accepted and flow dreaming was birthed, kind of wasn't my control either. Some of you've heard that story, how I was kind of roped into it, I was unsuspecting, I didn't think anything would happen. And then suddenly, ta da. The world is waiting for this. Potent moments, the ones that turn you in a new direction. They're points that we often long for, right? We're waiting for it, we want it.

If it would just happen.

And sometimes those potent moments aren't a specific moment. It's more like a gradual bend, right? A turning, a road that's taking a long wide turn in a direction and we can't ever really pinpoint the moment, but we look back on the curve and we say, yeah, those two years were definitely taking me to where I am now. And if I hadn't done everything over those two years, I wouldn't have what I have right now. So how does this relate to flow? How does this play into flow in your life? What is this concept of flow? Welcome if you're new to flow dreaming, yeah, it is a technique. It is a magical, marvelous, radical technique. I love it. It's not meditation at all. It's emotion based. It's very rich. It's a way of connecting outside of physical to non phys. It's extremely easy to do. It's become part of my daily life. I think it's as rich as prayer or meditation. And yeah, you can do all three together if you want to. So flow dreaming, yes, as a technique, helps you manifest, create, communicate, receive information. However, flow dreaming is also a way of looking at the world. It's a philosophy. It's an understanding of how things work and why they work that way and how to better work them. So you're not just throwing out desires to the wind. Just like I hope that one sticks, I hope that one sticks. When you really start to understand flow dreaming, you see how everything fits together in your life, in all of our individual lives, how and why things line up, right? You guys have heard the word alignment? Alignment. Alignment. Alignment, Right. So how do things line up? What force of nature, of God, of the universe, of mind, creates these beautiful synchronicities, these beautiful alignments creates these moments that force us to grow and bud and bloom into our next incarnation, our next way of being. What is that? You know, if there is a schematic that helps the earth to continually grow and bloom and become more evolved and complex, I mean this in terms of plants and animals and evolution. We look at flow as kind of the non physical form of evolution. Just as we have a physical form of evolution in the cosmos. We look at this non physical form of evolution. What are the rules and the structure involved in that? How can you participate in that? How can you go from being someone who just has things happen to you to someone who says, no, I want to have a say in these things that are happening. I want to be an equal partner. I want to be a co creator, right? You've heard these words over and over, all, all over the place in the world of personal development. But I'm hoping to string them together in a way that makes even more perfect sense. So as I go and I talk about these potent moments, I'm referring to this beautiful non physical structure. I'm referring to you having an awareness of this non physical organizing organizational power and further adding your two cents into it. So let's get back to potent moments, these things that we wish for want. Sometimes we get in very powerless positions around this concept and we just bide our time and we whine and we cry and we say, well, I haven't had a potent moment. Nothing is changing. I'm just waiting and waiting for something to happen to me. When's it gonna happened to me? You know? And you find yourself one day realizing I've just been sitting here on my butt waiting, waiting for something to happen, waiting for that moment, waiting for that sign, waiting for the signal. And you realize, oh, I'm out of power. I wonder how long I've been out of power, sitting here waiting. It's kind of like if you know the spring is coming, so you just sit out of power the entire rest of the year. I know something's gonna happen, so I just can't do anything till it happens. I'm just sitting here out of power until that other thing pushes itself or forces itself into my life. Examine right now, ask yourself, is that where I'm at? Is that where I've been? Have I been waiting for this potent moment, this new twist, this new turn, this change, this new expanse to open up before me? How long do I intend to just sit and wait? What's going on right now that I haven't been gifted this, this Is where things get really interesting, you see, because we tend to think that if whatever's going on in our life isn't something we're totally embracing and loving, then we are in a waiting zone for that to happen to us. And the thing that we're waiting through, the experiences you're currently waiting through are really no good, crappy bad. You just have to get through them. You just pointless, ridiculous, waiting for that great shiny thing, come and save us. Let's play with that. Let's turn that on its head. What if you're already in a perfect moment? What if every moment is a potent moment? What if right now, this thing that you're waiting through, trying to get through, waiting for the next step, the next career to show itself, the perfect person to show up in your life and sweep you off your feet? What if you're actually in a moment right now that the universe has gifted to you that's intrinsically important to you, necessary, vital, even vital for your next step? What if the thing that's occurring in your life right now you could not give up? If you did, you would forfeit all the perfect, potent moments for the rest of your life. Look at that thing that's going on around you. What's happening? It could feel dead as a doornail out there. Why is that quiet so necessary and needed? It could be confusing out there. Why is that confusion so crucial to you? Ask. Right. Why? So here again, to bring it back to a philosophy of flow. There's this idea that whatever we're encountering is perfect, necessary, right? We're either in flow with it, in alignment with it, or we are rejecting it and resisting it. And we resist the things that we don't like. I don't like that relationship. I don't like the fact that so and so is this way. I don't like the fact that my business isn't doing well. I don't like the fact that. Right, you can throw all kinds of things in there, resist. I don't like the fact that it's so quiet and I have no friends and I'm depressed. I'm not saying you have to like this stuff, but what I'm asking you to do right now is open that mind, Let the sun shine in play with these new thoughts. What if you're in a moment right now that's just as important? Maybe it's your preparation. Maybe there is some experience in here that you have to fully digest, take in, digest that you are going to be changed from, molded from. That will give you that next, more to your liking, potent moment. So, for instance, right now, this spring.

I'm experiencing a kind of recharging, right?

A creative recharging. I've been joking around and telling people, well, not even joking so much, but I've been saying, you know what? I feel like I've pressed the reset button. Some of you know, I've had a pretty tough couple of years, having gone through stage two breast cancer over the last 18 months and a bunch of other things. You know, bought a new house, continuing to run a company, got a lot going on. And then about a month or two ago, I went, wow, something has happened and I feel very different. I've pressed the reset, I've pressed the stop button. Not stop forever, not stop for good. I'm just filling my well again, recharging. And I have this feeling inside me that I have to do this. It is absolutely and completely necessary. Which means that right now I don't feel any kind of particular potent moment going on in my life. No big turning point or no big aha like, oh, that's my next step. But I'm also not craving that either because I know that what I'm experiencing right now will lead to whatever comes next. And I'm trusting completely in the moment what I'm feeling now. And that's what I want you to trust. That's what I want you to feel when you walk away from this episode. I want you to look at your life and feel everything going on right.

Now is really critical.

It is necessary for me. I was a co creator in making it. And even if it's something I don't like, I made it so I could learn that I don't need it anymore. Or I made it so I could learn how to be more powerful in this kind of experience. Or I made it so that I would know that I'm done making that. This is the last time I ever want to make that. I've suddenly realized I'm bored with that, right? What is it now? Let's return to the idea of the big, potent, potent, potent moment, right? The game changers. Can you make them come? Can you force them to come? I don't know, right? I mean, I can't say. Certainly can't say I know everything about how life works, but I do know that they do come along and they often come along unpredictably and you often don't recognize them except in hindsight. But I feel that as long as you are being intentional and conscious and aware and co creating as long as you're setting up for yourself a continual map of your desires and your feelings and your emotional endpoints, then flow is going to give you a whole set of things, big and small. It's like the big, big giant gifts and the little tiny gifts, but it's going to keep giving them to you day in and day out to help you continue along this road of your intention. And some of those, the big, big gifts are gonna be like, whoa, that was a potent moment. And some of the little tiny ones you'll barely ignore. I mean, you'll just barely be aware of. And you won't realize, oh, my God, I've had a thousand tiny, potent moments. They just didn't catch my eye. They didn't catch my attention. I'm so used to them. I do know that you will continue to be gifted these. We all will, as long as we're alive. You will have more. I will have more. And while I can't say precisely when they'll occur, I can definitely be telling my flow the kind of emotional content I want these potent moments to create for me in my life. You get it? This is where you're in power. So look at it like this. The universe is in power of deciding when and what specifics, right? Five years from now, the specific big duh duh duh synchronistic fabulous thing will happen. That's the universe's co creator part. Your part is to say, I'm feeling this intense. I'm just gonna make something up. I'm in feeling. I'm feeling intense satisfaction from the fact that I am traveling everywhere and I get to see the world and I feel like I'm being so taken care of and this is just the perfect situation for me. And I just, I get to see and experience so many rich and different people and things and cultures and. Wow, I didn't realize that I love this so much, but I do. I do, I do. I love it. I love it, I love it. All right. That's a goal that I might set for myself. Notice it's not too precise. What I'm saying is I want to have a richer experience of the world, an expanded experience of people's culture of who they are. A form of travel now could be physical travel. Maybe it's travel via meeting people on Skype all over the world. Maybe I'll have a hologram of me, you know, talking on a stage in five years to some person, you know, some group in Spain. Who knows? But I'm setting the idea the Context. I want to feel emotionally enriched and enlarged and through meeting other cultures and being present and understanding the way other people live throughout the world and being part of that, experiencing that. Okay, so I've given my flow this broad level, big kind of emotional fulfillment endgame that I'm after now. Flow is going to pick the kinds of potent moments, the size and the timing to turn me into that, to turn me toward that, to continue to nudge me into it. My job is to say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And how do you say yes to a great big, beautiful, potent moment? It feels really good. Little bit scary, but it feels good. And usually you go in not knowing if they're really going to work out or not, right? You take that job, you don't really know if it's going to work out for you. You move across to that other state, you don't really know if you're gonna like that town or not, but you do it because there is a greater feeling of excitement and good than dread. And no. And that is how you're guiding yourself while the flow in the universe is holding your hand. So I look forward to a potent moment or two in my life that will spin me, turn me slowly, arc me if the potent moment takes a couple years to even fully manifest itself. But it will happen. And I'm, I'm, you know, laying it down there. This podcast has been going continuously since 2005, so I'm 12 years in. For anybody who's very curious, you can see a person grow, mature, change over 12 years. It's sort of a. It's sort of an online diary. It's kind of embarrassing too, sometimes. So I'm assuming that in another five or 10 or 12 years, I'm going to be able to look back to this show, this particular episode, and say, oh yeah, I had a few more potent moments. And here they were. Look at that. Did what I say bear out? Was it true? Is that really how it happened? I do expect it to be so. I really do. And I expect that everything that I'm traveling through, even before I reach the so called big turning points, is necessary. It's a moment in itself that I'm not just waiting through, but I'm actually embracing. Even if I don't understand it, even if it feels like a dead zone, even if it feels like nothing's happening, even if it feels like it's. It's difficult and not nice, I'll say, yeah, that was. I needed that. I needed that so I could accept the Next thing.

Because it's all being.

Guided by my intention, by my emotional end points, by where I'm going, by my heart, by my emotional self opening up and saying, here's how I really want to feel and here are the areas of my life I want to play in to get those feelings. All right, ready, set. All right, universe, go.

And that's where you're at.

So we're gonna close up this little segment and go to a break. And while we do, I want you to be thinking, what happens right now if you start embracing, wherever you're at, whatever you're experiencing right now, you recognize, hey, this is part of the interim between potent moments. Or maybe you're even in a potent moment and you recognize it and see it and you want to fully drink it up. I want to refer you to a playlist on my website. Flow dreaming.com playlist is a series of MP3s, audios, flow dreams that I've recorded that all speak to a certain energy, a certain situation, a certain goal or end point. And the one I want to refer to you is called the Get Unstuck playlist. Get Unstuck. And I think it's really important for today for our subject, our topic, because it contains some flow dreams, action action. Crystal clarity and effortless decisions. Those three. Because sometimes, like I was saying, when you're in that place where maybe it's not a potent moment and you're just sitting around waiting out of power for something big to happen to you, the Get Unstuck playlist is designed to help you move and embrace exactly what you've.

Got right now and get back into your power, get back into you.

Being a co creator, helping 5050 guide life.

So it inspires you to take action.

To get clear and to make decisions.

Without worrying about them.

Because that's another thing with potent moments. It's not like if you make one decision or that decision or bad decisions and so on or no decisions at all, it's going to speed things up. You've got to keep making decisions, keep giving your flow something to work with. All right, so check that out. The Get Unstuck playlist. And that's the other thing you can do at break. Now we really are going and when we get back, we're going to do some flow dreaming together. So stay with me right after this.

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All right.

Hey, we're gonna do some flow dreaming now.

So the playlist I just referred to is a recorded audio, one you can tote around with you on your phone or wherever you like to listen. And what we're gonna do right now.

Is a live version, right?

We're gonna do some flow dream, a flow dream where you experience it with me. It's going to be briefer and it's not quite as, you know, well produced. It's not. It's not as gorgeous as the ones you can get on the website, but I do these because I like to train you, teach you, just give you a chance. Just get into alignment. Get into flow. You know, every time you listen to an episode, you should be getting into alignment, making it so that what you're learning isn't just, you know, new, new content being dumped in your head every episode or being entertained. Certain but you're actually experiencing, you are practicing, you are altering your energy as you listen. So it's kind of like having a really healthy meal, right? One, it's pleasurable, but two, it's actually feeding your body. You're doing something good for yourself.

So go ahead and follow along with me.

Remember, this is not meditation and it's not self hypnosis or affirmations. It is an emotionally potent practice where you expand your awareness into flow state, into non physical state. And that is where you start to program, create and feel what you want your life to be. Okay? You feel it now. It's not something that's into the future. You're feeling it now.

And then you're going to allow your.

Flow to organize things, put your future together and deliver to you something that matches this kind of blueprint that you're creating. Right? Eyes closed and let's just go into flow for a few minutes.

Let's just feel that state of alignment.

I take a deep breath and release.

It, relaxing my body.

Releasing and relaxing. Sigh, make noise, Let your body get into it. Let yourself drift, let yourself go. Let yourself notice.

The time is ticking by. Your heart is beating, beat, beat, beat like seconds of the a clock.

Every beat, every sound, every tick and.

Talk is moving you into a little.

More of your future.

It's expanding, it's extending your timeline. Your timeline of existence, your timeline of being.

And if you look at this timeline that unrolls from you in your imagination like a big measuring tape and rolling out there into your future, some spots above it are glowing like bright golden beautiful orbs of light. Suns floating above.

Turning points, potent points, decisions.

Moves, new people. Turning points. You see those and you recognize those.

Ah, yeah. That's when the ground shifted. That's when I moved into a whole new era. Or moved out of an era that I was right, ready to end. Big changes yet.

Look at that.

Can you see?

Can you feel dotted all through that.

Little moments, all of them tracking you toward the bigger ones. All of them essential, all of them necessary. Do you see those?

No. Look at them. Maybe you're in one right now. It's a perfect moment, what you're experiencing. Look around you, whatever it is. Lots of action or no action, lots of activity or no activity, challenge or ease.

Here you go. It's a moment.

It's required, it's perfect. How is it moving you into that next beautiful thing, that bigger track that you've given to flow? And what is that? What is that bigger feeling you've given to flow? What is that big, big feeling about your life. Ah, my life was well lived. Ah, my life is beautiful. My life nurtures me and feeds me. My life gives me riches. My life allows me to give to the world. What are the parameters you've put on your life? What have you said about it? What does life have to follow? What did you dictate down that your.

Flow has to do for you now?

Line up for you?

Go ahead and feel that. Feel it now. When you're done, you should have realized your heart just bloomed there for a moment, really reached out and connected. Connected with your future and all your moments, even the potent ones. And on that note, it's time to close up this episode and leave you.

Lingering on those feelings.

You're exactly where you need to be, doing what you need to be doing.

Yes, there will be some bends in the road or some sharp right hand turns. You're ready for them. There's no rush.

You'll get them when you need them.

So let go and be at peace and be in flow. All right, I love you guys and I'll see you again next week, same time, same place for more Flow Dreaming.

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I'm going to give a shout out.

To my mom's podcast. It's called the Dear Venus show and she's an amazing intuitive and a medium and super, super funny. Search the words Dear Venus in your podcast directory or online and that way you can find her.