#536 Unexpected Happy Surprises

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.

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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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Hi, it's Summer. Happy to be here with you as always, especially because today is about happy, happy surprises. Happy surprises. Wouldn't you like one? God, we all want a happy surprise. And playing with this idea when we are talking about flow and life and personal growth and manifesting all the things we go over in this show, really Happy Surprises helps you understand that you are not in control of everything. And that's a good thing. You don't want to be in control of everything. It also helps you understand the amount of lack thinking that might be elbowing its way into your mind, into your heart, into your emotional expectations and your preaction. So asking for this and having this topic today really is like a left right jab. We get a lot of stuff done this one very simple concept. So let's jump into it and I will also give you some pointers as we go along for really good playlists that you might want to use to to kind of further what this feels like. Well, you know what? I'll just do it now. One of my favorite MP3s, my favorite flow dreams in the shop for this is the yellow brick road of yeses. It is just fantastic. It just opens up everything as well as super lucky. I put both of those in my essentials playlists and the essentials playlists, basically they're libraries of Flow dreams that I feel you can't do without. So check out the Essentials playlist. Look for those audios in particular, Yellow Brick, Road of Yeses and Super Lucky. If you like what we're doing today, you're gonna like those. All right. So what does it mean to ask the universe to ask the world for a happy and delightful surprise? Well, there's the surface request. Okay. Life, future, God, source, give me something awesome. What does it mean, though?

Like, let's unpack that.

Whenever I'm asking that, I'm always noticing that it's because there's something in my life, an energy, a feel where I'm like, gosh, I just. I feel like I need a little boost. I need a little bright spot. I need a little. I need to know that I'm being heard, attended to, Right? So a bit of that is in me at least, coming from a place of give me a little proof, Give me a little brightness. Give me there's something I'm lacking or missing. That's usually when we ask for that. Sometimes we'll ask for that when things are already going swimmingly, but usually not because they're already going swimmingly. So when you're in the state where maybe you just, like, you know, if I could just have things turn around, something just totally awesome drop in my lap. I really need it because I'm tired or I'm burned out or I've really spent a lot of, you know, emotional energy on something this year. I need to be refilled. I need something, and I don't maybe know exactly what I need. That's the other kind of implicit feeling in this request. I need something, but I don't know exactly what I need. And I've grown wise enough to know that I don't always know what I need. Sometimes it's better to step back and say source or God or flow or whatever. Give me what I need now the most. I trust. I trust. I am co creating meaning. I'm creating a lot of the time. But I know you're creating too. I am curious what you're creating, what you want to create for me or with me. I have a feeling that that's part of my happy surprise, my delight that's coming in. So you're acknowledging a bunch of different stuff right off the top when you say this. You're acknowledging that maybe you need a boost of some type of. Okay. And sometimes we fail to acknowledge that. We're like, oh, everything is fine and shiny, but really, I don't know, we need something. You're also acknowledging that you don't know what that thing is. You are willing and open and able to release control. It's a lot different than saying, I want a raise or I want to be number one in that beauty contest or I, you know, I want my. I don't know. I'm just picking up random things that, you know, you could ask for. Does anybody enter beauty contest anymore? I don't know. Instead, you're saying, there are so many beautiful variables out there, so many potentialities, so many possibilities that I trust my flow to arrange and provide and shove in my face the very best one. One or something that I couldn't even think up myself. If I thought it up myself, it would probably be under par. It would be. Not Actually being under par is a good thing, right? It would be underwhelming because my expectations are limited by what I see now in front of me, right? The present pieces on the game board. And if I'm already seeing those present pieces, I've already decided they're not going to give me the happy surprise.

So, Flo, why don't you give it to me instead?

I'm totally open, totally willing. Now, where does lack thinking pop up? Because I mentioned that, right? There's something else that often comes up when we ask for a happy and beautiful surprise. What we're asking the universe to do is serve us something that's so delightful, so good for us that we ourselves can't think up on our own. We are now trusting the universe to do so, Trusting our higher selves, trusting our guidance, trusting our God. Whatever it is we're trusting, we're offering our belief to it. Now, when we do something like that, it's like extending a hand out and hoping the other person will shake it. This is when your lack can come up. Because I don't know if I'll get it. I don't know if I've worked hard enough for it. I don't know if I deserve it. Maybe someone else deserves it more than I do. Maybe it won't happen. Maybe it won't be good enough. Maybe it won't be what I need. I know, I know.

I'm making it sound really terrible, huh?

But that's what lack thinking does. It comes up and creeps up in a million different ways. Especially if you're caught up in this continuing situation in your life where you're feeling like the thing that you want to have the happy surprise in is constantly not working for you. Now your happy surprise is having to sort of go head to head with this other feeling that's already taken hold. It's been there a while. It's like, you know, getting someone out of your house that you wish you had never invited over. So you have to look at that lack thinking and say, I'm going to let you go too. If I'm asking for a happy and delightful surprise, I know I'll be receiving. Could be humongous, giant, huge. It could be something simple, soft and small. But it's going to touch my heart, it's going to put a twinkle in my eyes, it's going to gift me something. Or I say, I, oh God, that was such a good thing. Such a good thing. And you know, when that happens, you start building even more trust in your life. More trust. Every time there is a payoff. Every time you take a risk in your heart, in your energy, in your expectation and there's a payoff. You have now deepened your ability to trust and risk the next time. So asking for a happy surprise, gosh, it should be something we do quite frequently, very frequently, all the time. And right there when I said that, some of you were cheering. Yeah, damn right. And others of you are thinking, well, you can't, you shouldn't overuse it, you shouldn't abuse it, you shouldn't have. No, I don't think you could get them all the time. Ah, that was a lack thought. Why not? Something wrong with it? You being selfish. You being, you taking too much from the universe. The universe who just keeps trying to give you more and more in life, that keeps trying to give you more and more. Play with that. What if you asked for a happy surprise every single day and what if one came most of the time? Do you deserve that? Do you think that's possible? Could that happen? Do you think it happens to other people? Do other people have more happy coincidental events in their lives than you? Play with that. Go into that question. So when we get back from our break, we are going to go into a little flow dream where we ask for and we create and we pre feel and pre act around this idea that something beautiful is ready to drop into my life and I am ready to receive it. And it's in place and it's in motion and I'm experiencing it now, so stay with me. We'll be right back after this.

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Welcome back. We're going to do some Flow Dreaming now. As I say, every episode. I'm sorry if you've heard it a hundred times, but there are always new people. Speaking of, actually, I have a little surprise I forgot to mention in the beginning of the show. I have a new second app in the app shop if you are an iPhone or an iPad user. Yes, the Android version is coming soon. They experienced a delay, but the iPhone iPad app is up. So now when you go and go to the app Store, type in the word flow dreaming and you're going to find both Flow Dreaming for meditation and manifesting, as well as Flow Dreaming Radio, one of the apps. They're both free, by the way. One of them lets you listen to this show on the go anywhere you are.

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Of flowdreaming.com so you can listen to samples of just more than 100 different flow dreams. You can organize your own flow dreaming collection. Meaning yes, you can listen to all your flow dreams on your phone now. They're right there on your phone for you. There's also this cool little thing called Oracle which is kind of like if you've ever used an Oracle card deck or a tarot deck on a mobile device. It replicates the old fashioned sense of tossing the cards and picking random ones. Well, you play with the Oracle recommends and it will take you to a flow dream that I hope will be a perfect fit for you with whatever you're going through. We kind of leave leave it to the energies to decide. So go check those out and if you really like them, leave me a review. Give it some stars. It's brand new, it's just come out. So go get them. Okay. We have some beautiful asking to do, some beautiful co creating to do together right now as we ask ourselves our future, our flow, understanding this principle that you're doing half the work and non physical is doing half the work. Physical, half the work, non physical, half the work. So we are putting out the request, the telegram is going into the ethers for something beautiful and unexpected and delightful because you deserve it and it's overdue. So eyes closed, prepare to release and.

Let go into a daydream.

You're going to go into a flow state. Notice I'm breathing deeply.

I want you to breathe deeply all the way in and out. Your shoulders can drop, you can wiggle your jaw.

And I want you to experience what it's like to just let go. Just like when you're daydreaming on your.

Way home from work.

Daydreaming in the shower, daydreaming as you do your dishes. Things float up in your mind.

Ideas, thoughts, desires, scenarios. Now you're going to go and imagine.

Imagine. Imagine that you are standing someplace peaceful, beautiful.

A park or forest, a meadow, big beautiful grounds outside, a gorgeous home, the.

Ocean shore, someplace beautiful. Someplace that's energetically beautiful and physically beautiful. You stand there and in your hand you're holding a dozen, two dozen golden balloons. Beautiful, light, blowing a little with the breeze. Look at that. They're in your hand. How did you get them? They were gifted to you, weren't they? Someone had to hand them to you.

They had to come from someplace. Maybe even the heavens drifted them down to you. But they came to you and you receive them.

You receive the gifts, you receive the party, you receive the delight, you receive the joy. Turn in a slow circle with them. Feel how beautiful and buoyant and strong, these golden balloons are. Every one is filled with magic, filled with potential. Each one of them is filled with a gift for you, A happy surprise inside each one of them. These balloons don't burst. They don't pop. When you're ready for the surprise, they just open up in a shower of twinkling light. And there it is. There it is. Something is in your life right now. Delightful. Happy. Oh, you say for me? Oh. Oh. You bring up that feeling that you're so surprised. For me. Really? Mine? Gosh. Go on, get that feeling inside of you. Yes, it's for you. Yes, it's for you. It's for you. This is yours. How delightful. How exciting. You want to clap your hands. You want to jump up and down like a little kid. You want to turn in excited circles and shout your hands up and tell everyone, look, look. Look at this. Look, look. Remember that feeling. That's what you have right now. Because life has just gifted you something. Why wouldn't it gift you something? Of course it would. It's gifting things to people all the time. What if everyone else has already gotten their gift but you? What if. If you truly were last in line, wouldn't you say, it's my turn now? You look around you. There is nobody else. It's not meant for anyone. No one else behind you. You're it.

Your turn. Something beautiful.

Something right. Something that turns the corner for you. Something that opens the new door for you. Something that fills you and satisfies you. Something that opens up love in your heart. Something that makes you feel extraordinary and happy about yourself. Something that says, you did a good job, an extraordinary job.

Something delightful.

It's yours.

Hug it in.

Hug it into you. Watch as each one of these balloons just opens up and all that beautiful glitter comes down, all that magic light. This is your future. This is your now. You're surrounded by it. Everywhere you walk, life is looking at you. Flow is looking at you and saying, that person deserves something that person has requested something that person expects. Something to tickle them, delight them. What can we give? Oh, my gosh, we have thousands of things to pick from. Which one shall we give? How about 2? How about 3? How about 10? And you notice how today and tomorrow and the next day, you're beginning to be filled up with these little delights, like fancy chocolates arriving at your door. Every day, every day here is something else, something new. And you say to yourself, this has been one of the best weeks I've ever had. This has been one of the Most extraordinary weeks I've ever had. Thank you, Flo. Thank you, thank you. And you hold that feeling even now as you find yourself returning. Your daydream is ending. Here you are grounded back in yourself.

Back in your body, and you open your eyes.

We went a little bit longer on that one, but I just felt like we all needed it so much. Don't you think you need it? I think it's a good timing for.

That one right now.

So look forward to what you just requested. Remember, when you're communicating to Flow like this, it's not falling on deaf ears. Everything that you feel is being created. It's taking up space, it's taking up energy, it's taking up intention. The world must react to it. It must respond to it, right? Like moving a bunch of toys floating in the bathtub. You move the one toy, all the other toys have to float in a new position. You just moved the toy. You created something. Everything has to circle you now. Figure out what to do with it. I encourage you. Keep feeling this way. Keep this Flow Dream going. Get some of the other ones that I recommended. Get super lucky, get yellow brick, Road of Yeses, get emotional ecstasy and see.

What can happen next.

All right, love you guys. And see you next time for more Flow Dreaming.

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