Business/Soul Partnership Indicator - tells you exactly what you need to be focusing on. You can do it at the start of each month, or even each week.  Then review Part II and act on the answers.

See Handbook (Actions section) for a copy of the Indicator.

Today is about welcoming a partner into your business,  your soul. When you feel you are co-creating with your soul, then the soul of your business itself gets activated in line with yours and there is a whole two– way flow going on.  What is the soul?  It’s life-force, essence, energy.  We cover this more in another class, but everything has essence, everything has a soul, and so does your business.

So how do you have this partnership? Well, it’s like any other partnership really. Firstly it is based on communication. And that involves both listening and sharing. So when you use the Business/Soul Partnership Indicator, whether you realised it or not, that was your soul speaking to you. (So long as you weren’t censoring!).  Whenever you are quiet and still and hear or sense words, images, or sensations, that is your soul speaking. When you have an inspired idea, it’s coming from your soul.  When you ask for help, or pray, when you receive answers, they are coming from your soul.  So this is a really important relationship, and if you are not already beginning and preferably ending your business day in some quiet time with your soul partner, then I strongly encourage you to do so.

Since I have been doing this consistently over the last year or two, as opposed to sporadically, it has provided a sacred holding space out of which all my actions are taken.  You may be doing all this already with meditation or your own inner practice of some kind. What I’m suggesting is that you do this within the business context as well. If you don’t want to include it in your existing practice, then start your day with 5 minutes at least in your office, or just before you go there.  Bring yourself into a place of stillness and invite your soul to be present during your business day.  Actually the soul is always present, it’s more a matter of putting your ego to one side and remembering to continue to do that, so that you can benefit from your soul’s input!

What does ‘joined up’ or ‘connected’  look like in the human world?

It looks like feeling peaceful no matter what goes on around you; it looks like having an inspired idea in the moment, as mentioned in Peter Caddy’s book ‘In Perfect Timing’ about his experiences at Findhorn;  it looks like silently sitting and hearing the small voice within; it looks like feeling centred.  It’s about trusting that all will work out in the end.

Your challenge in your business (and in life actually) is to have the intention to be in that light filled, soul-filled place of quiet joy before you take action on your business. Now it’s not going to happen all the time, especially to start with. But when you take the time to be in that place, and if you’ve been practicing this you’ll realise it, your experience of your work is different. It’s almost as if it comes from a different place – and of course it does, because you are not alone. Your soul, your business partner, is there with you, guiding your hand, illuminating your voice, flowing through your body.  And you can tell this because you feel good.  You just feel good. Joy doesn’t have to be this incredibly exuberant feeling, it can be a quiet joy too.

Future Business Self visualisation

Getting in touch with your Future Business Self (see Handbook, Actions section for full version), ask these questions (and any others that come to mind):

What limiting beliefs have been getting in your way?

What are the fears that have been running you?

What behaviour patterns have not been serving you?  What have you been doing repetitively that has not been working, what is it time to give up now?

What is it I am doing right, or have been doing right?

Listen to your answers. Your future self knows the questions to ask, and wants to support you now in co-creating your business from a higher place, along with her and your soul.

How resistance (contrast) shows up in actions

“I cannot know that this is not the next step in my liberation” Barbara Swetina, www.sacredsongs.net

What is resistance or contrast? When you are pushing against the flow. Like the difference between going upstream (resistance) and going downstream (in the flow). Resistance or contrast shows up when we have stepped into the flow, and it becomes an obstacle. It’s when you are interfering with things that are really not your job. See my article re Working up to the Line

Typical ‘bad’ habits and likely forms of resistance from which they come (check these out for yourself, your particular habit may come from a different form of resistance, or more than one)

Habit                                                                           Form of Resistance

Procrastination                                                               Lack of time mgt

Feeling overwhelmed

Not doing what you said you would do

within the agreed time limit

Arriving late for meetings and appointments

Thinking you have to do it all, and therefore

rarely if ever delegating

Regularly working late, to the detriment of

home life

Never or rarely having holidays or breaks

Answering the phone during mealtimes/breaks

Not knowing inc/expenditure                                            Lack of financial systems

Lack of regular book-keeping

Answering emails more than 3 times/day                       Lack of admin system

Focusing on activity, not looking at the results

as a measure of success

Untidy office                                                                           Lack of focus

Multi-tasking

Never completing anything

Not asking for help/feedback                                             Lack of focus on big picture

Forgetting someone’s name within                                   or lack of self-worth

minutes of being introduced

Making assumptions about your market                        Lack of strategic thinking

Ineffectual management of staff

Plugging ahead with action before stopping                   Lack of trust

to engage with your inner self first

Whatever you are currently doing more of will define your current level of results. So the more regular inspired action you take regarding marketing, the more results you’ll see.

Jack Canfield in The Success Principles says ‘Good or bad, habits always deliver results’.

So the choice is to develop good habits out of a context of acceptance and co-operation, or bad habits out of a context of resistance and struggle, or pushing against the flow. It’s a no-brainer isn’t it!

3 examples of resistance and how to change it

1. Working IN your business not ON it. NOW – you might not be someone who wants to grow your business particularly. And that’s fine. What’s important here is that this is a matter of conscious choice, and not by default because you don’t really know what’s going on.

Running your own business means, according to Michael Gerber, that you are actually 3 people in one (Technician, Manager and Entrepreneur). Identify who you are being in different aspects of your business, and aim to have a balance.

Entrepreneur = the visionary, the creative, the dreamer, where often other people are just problems that get in the way of his dream.

Manager – pragmatic. Creates systems, order, runs after Entrepreneur cleaning up the mess, but without the E. there would be no mess to clean up!

Technician – the doer. ‘if you want it done right, do it yourself’. Likes to be in control of the work flow. (thinking is unproductive unless its thinking about work that needs to be done). Nothing is more important than the TO DO list. Very often s/e people are great technicians. Typical small bus owner is 10% E, 20% M, and 70% T.

“While the E dreams, the M frets, and T ruminates!” Michael Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited.

“Without balance, without all 3 personalities being given the opp, the freedom and the nourishment they need to grow, your business can’t help but mirror its’ own lopsidedness.”

Most businesspeople are so busy working for their business or in their business that they never find time to work ON their business. Thus they fail to anticipate what might happen or what they might be able to make happen. Really important to schedule one day a quarter or better still, one day a month to look at where you are going. You can know where you are going, and be going in the right direction, but it’s important to keep one eye on the ground as well as one eye ahead of you so that you see what you are stepping in!

Enlarging the Heart of your Business visualization.

Different from your jewel, remember your jewel infiltrates everything you do in your life. This is just about your business and expanding it from the inside out. (see visualization and handout in Handbook)

2. Thinking you haven’t enough time

Why is this resistance? Because if you set up a time mgt system, or a structure for your day, but then still have the sense you are not getting everything done, then the system will not be working for you. People resist completing timesheets because they think it will mean they can’t do what they want to do.

Tip: difference between projects and tasks. A project is selling a new product or service. ‘Let’s offer a two day seminar on Time Management’ – get all excited about it, and then comes the tasks. If you only focus at the level of Project, you will easily get overwhelmed with all that has to be done. But if you take the ‘time’ to list the ‘tasks’ that have to be done, then you’ll easily have a sense of progressive achievement as you complete each task bit by bit.

Tip: Deadlines: Help you to focus, and combined with an attitude that you have enough time, then it becomes easier to complete your tasks. Experiment with these, play around with them and watch your thoughts and feelings.

The best way to experience that you don’t have enough time is to tell yourself you don’t have enough time! YOU WILL NEVER GET IT ALL DONE. It just doesn’t happen. Even if you get to the end of your TO DO list, there will be another one tomorrow. So trying to get it all done simply doesn’t work. What does work?

a) knowing how much your time is worth (work out exactly how to calculate it here)

b) committing yourself to prioritising (Read an inspiring article here about how to do it)

Put the figure of what you are worth up somewhere you can see it often, because if you find yourself doing work that someone else could do that means you are paying a lot of money for that work. You’re probably doing a lot of technical work that you could pay somebody else to do—just as well—for less money. If you discover that your hourly rate is less than you would like, then one of those figures in that calculation has to change.

3. Choosing motivated action over inspired action

Quote: Michael Gerber E-Myth Mastery:

“ Action is more than the physical doing of something. It’s first and foremost the mental doing of something…..if I start moving before I start dreaming, which is what I call thinking without a clear, identifiable purpose, I lose (my idea or inspiration) more often than not”

What is an inspired action? Joe Vitale of www.mrfire.com says ‘any action you take that is based on an inside nudge’.

Inspired action moves you towards what you want, not away from what you don’t want. Hence it often feels easy and effortless. Action taken out of yearning, fear, or worry will always feel more of a struggle.

Motivated action is the kind of action that comes with a sense of ‘pushing’. If you feel that is happening, better to stop pushing. Just like Joe Vitale, let it go, and trust that what you said you wanted will indeed come to you – just not perhaps in the way you thought it would.

But how do you tell the difference between just ‘doing nothing’ and ‘being inspired’? Many people think that the LOA means saying what you want, focusing on it in various ways, repeating mantras or affirmations over and over, and then sitting back with your arms folded while you watch everything you want coming to you. The problem with this is that the nudges you are being given from within are not being noticed, and therefore not being acted upon. And it is these inspirations that are crucial in success. So STOP. BE STILL. LISTEN. AND ONLY THEN ACT. This doesn’t mean that you don’t answer emails when you don’t feel like it. It means that you free yourself from the negative feelings associated with answering emails by stopping. You let yourself be still for a moment. You listen. Then you may find that inner nudge. And so then you act.

How to find yourself feeling inspired to act. Here’s a good article:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/12/how-to-take-action-consistently/

Inspired Actions this week

1. Calculate your hourly rate, pin it up and see how it works for you

2. Stop. Be still. Listen. Act when you feel inspired to act. Commit to doing inspired action tomorrow and see what happens.

3. Take the baby step that you saw from your enlarged heart to bring you nearer your goal

All who are on the RichThinking Way are interested in making a difference, therefore it is important to say what you do in such a way that it will make a difference to those who hear it. Your elevator speech is from the outside only. To find a really authentic and impactful way of speaking about what you do, it’s best to start from the inside and work out.

Your jewel is your passion and your ‘calling’. It’s the qualities that belong to you that shine through all kinds of things in your life not just your business. But it shines or doesn’t in your business too.

Your Jewel is already there – just forgotten. Or ignored, or not really seen properly. Not shining through as much as it could. But very valuable. When selecting one business over another, you are resonating with their jewel, and the qualities their jewel expresses.

You need your jewel as well as giving it. Nourishes you. You drink from it’s source – and then can give. “When you are fully nourished and feel a deep desire to be generous from that place, then people come”.

“The animating life force of the business is not it’s structures, systems or even its marketing. It’s the connection in the heart that shines through these things”. Anon.

DISCOVERING YOUR BUSINESS JEWEL PROCESS

1. Remember a time when you were doing your work with someone or a group when it was going really well. You were enjoying yourself and feeling great. Remember all the details, and let the memory come deeply into your body. Specify what it felt like, physically and emotionally.

Eg: excited; joined up, connected; in the flow; plugged in; flowing; ease; honesty; cheerful

Relive it. Maybe even felt easy. Often the jewel is something not valued by the person who has it. I often get told I’m inspiring. I don’t feel inspiring, So sometimes I try to be inspiring – doesn’t work!

2. Ask your Higher Self (or God as you understand it) to show you what your heart was giving directly to the person(s) you were working with. Really let your heart answer this. Name the feeling or quality you get when your heart is giving to your client(s) or customer(s). Don’t worry if it is just a sensation, or a feeling, that’s fine. Just drink it in; and name the qualities if you can.

Eg : Love, honesty, courage, fun, connection, hope, possibility, inspiration.

3. Ask to be filled with this quality or these qualities. How do you feel?

Feel full of love; calm; joined up; calm excitement; privileged; honest and genuine. Joined up; at peace. V. good and v. strong. Expressing who I really am.

4. When you feel full, ask to be shown what happened for your client(s) when they received this quality from your heart. Imagine that your client is now feeling this quality you have just named, How did it make them feel?

They got inspired to take action in their own lives; felt enthusiastic; brave; supported; loved; tender

5. Allow this process to unfold. Notice what changes happened in their life as a result of this process of working with you. Continue to ask to be shown how your client’s own heart began to unfold.

They began to feel hopeful, a sense of possibility; courage to take action; felt nourished; more buoyant and confident; it watered them so they could grow; helped them to step up and out in the world; grew in joy and happiness about what they were doing

6. With this perception and understanding of what is essentially happening when you are with a client and ‘in the flow’, write here what it is you really do. Use the names of the qualities that you identified happened to your clients in this process.

I help self-employed people feel truly nourished in their business, bringing them confidence, hope and more joy to what they do.

7. Now ground this statement. Eg, if you bring joy to people, what does that do for them? Think of this in terms of a problem and a solution. What is the problem your clients are facing and what solution does your heart and jewel provide? How would you describe the problem and the solution?

Problem: clients feel frustrated with their difficulties in finding clients, making money and having time.

If you want more clients, money or time, I can help you feel properly nourished so you can step out with confidence, hope and joy and find others who want some of what you’ve got!

Tips: Remember you need these jewel qualities as well, If you feel your marketing isn’t happening as well as it could ask to be filled more with the quality which you give.

This is a process, it develops and grows. Keep checking in with it to see what qualities are coming to the fore more and more. As you change, the qualities that sustain you, and therefore sustain others, may change too.

This idea of your unique jewel means you don’t have to concern yourself with competition. Because all you are wanting is other people to recognise your jewel, respond to it, and those will be the right clients for you.

How to move on from there with your elevator speech:

Once you have your jewel, you need your who and your what.

Who = the people you most want to serve (your ideal clients): what group are they in? eg if you are a hairdresser you can be just a hairdresser, or you can specialise in hair colouring for those going grey

Eg: gardener – or a gardener who works in gardens belonging to environmentally conscious people

Eg: masseur – or masseur who specialises in relief from computer shoulders (if you like working in business environment)

Eg: mine are heart-inspired small business owners or self-employed people

What = what you actually do. This is where your jewel comes in. You want to encompass the words of your jewel quality in this bit.

Eg hairdresser — I create hairstyles that make you feel stunning while being looked after

Eg: gardener – I make ordinary gardens feel heavenly to be in

Eg masseur – I bring a breath of fresh air to lessen the stress of your business situation

Me: I help s/e people to grow their business with heart and sou

Then turn it into the solving of their problem. Because people often only can see their problems, so don’t identify with the possible solutions. To serve as many as possible, point out their problems, and then provide the solutions.

Eg hairdresser. I give women who are going grey (who) an experience of being looked after (jewel quality) while colouring and cutting their hair into a stunning style (solves prob)

Eg gardener: I make the gardens of environmentally conscious people (who) feel heavenly (jewel quality) to be in while you’re out working (prob – no time to do garden)

Eg: masseur: I help your tension filled body (prob) become free of pain (solution) by bringing a breath of fresh air into your business situation, (who) so you feel renewed, refreshed and revigorated (jewel qualities)

Inspired action: play with uncovering your business jewel more and more, so that it becomes really familiar to you.

Your attitude and beliefs about money and wealth aren’t just a factor in the amount of money you have — they are the deciding factor. Chris Cardell, marketing guru

5 myths made re pricing

Myth 1: Discounting makes you more attractive – it may do to some people, but take a look at how you decide to choose a service. If you’re looking for an intangible service, which is what we are all providing, what are the most important things for you?

-       Do you want someone who charges what everyone else charges?

-       Do you search for someone on the basis of how much you are willing to pay per hour?

-       Is it how much you can afford to pay, in that you think, I’ll look for someone charging this much or less?

-       Or do you is it that you are willing to pay for the service dependent on the value you will receive?

You usually base your decision on a whole lot of different factors, all concerned with the value to you.  Eg you may only be willing to visit a hairdresser/therapist who is in your home town because of travelling time.  So discounting is not necessarily a good idea.

Instead of discounting, consider offering more for the same price,  something that doesn’t take up any more of your time.  (eg e-book, CD, create a group). Then if someone really can’t afford you, they can have the other things at the lesser price (group, or e-book).

Myth 2: It’s all about the content of your service

Your value to a client is more than just what you know. Although your knowledge is an important component of the overall value you provide, just as important as your knowledge is how you give your service. You could give away all your content, but you can’t give away ‘YOU’. That’s why people will pay – because although there may be other people out there doing apparently the same thing as you, they are not you, and people are paying for YOU, and your particular way of doing things.

Myth 3: Charges should be by the hour

Why? Because everyone else does it?  Consciously choose what you want to do:  eg give packages which specify what you get for a certain price. Advantages of packaging:

a)     People can see exactly what they are getting

b)    the work you do is more than just the time you spend with your client, so you can build this in

c)     Gives the opportunity for different price points.  Eg massage/reflexology/Indian head massage therapist.  Could offer the following packages:

Easy Does It = 4 sessions over 4 weeks; includes ‚  self-massage tips sheet

Go with the Flow = 8 sessions; self-massage tips sheet; 1 s/h techs; 1 1/2 hr reflexology taster w. yr colleague

Going for Gold = 12 sessions; self-massage tips sheet; 3 s/h techs; 1/2 hr reflex taster; 1 extra hrs session of your choice.  Payment in advance – or get most of it upfront, ie pay total within first 2/3 months.

You accommodate people with different budgets and different needs this way.

Also you can bundle together some of your services eg with products, throw in extra ones rather than discounting prices. Really think about this – how can you offer better value for money to your clients without it taking up any more of your time?  Might initially take up time but after that it’s just a benefit.

Myth 4. It’s all about providing the client with a great service.

You can’t serve others well without serving yourself first.  Align yourself first with your thoughts and feelings, get into a feeling-good place, then step into your business vision, and allow the energy of Spirit to help shape your business, to inspire you, to pull your ideal clients towards you.  This way you will be serving without being drained.

“Once you feel taken care of, it’s much easier to turn your full attention to those you serve”

Myth 5: Determine your value and then set your price.

Better to turn this on it’s head – get clear about the money you want to charge, and then provide the value.

Think along the lines of ‘I want to attract the ideal clients, who when they invest with me will be really delighted to make that investment, and they’ll receive the value they get, want to celebrate it and share it with others, and want more!’

It is all about how you are perceived and how you perceive yourself.

When someone objects to your price, what they are really saying is, ‘You haven’t convinced me that I will receive value equal to, or greater than, the amount you are charging.’ So price objections are really VALUE objections, and they can be avoided when you take the time to establish — in advance of revealing your price — the value that your product or service represents to the buyer. You need to establish this value so completely, and demonstrate such a large and compelling return on their investment, that it is practically impossible for the prospect to say no, regardless of price. B. Doyle, www.clientmagnets.com

How to determine your value:

Ex:  Stand in your clients’s shoes.  How important is it to them to have their problem solved, or their needs met? Learn to understand the value you are giving and then be able to speak about it very well.

Home Inspired Action: Think of 3 of the clients you have impacted the most in your business.  Step into their shoes.  Write a testimonial from them to yourself.  Be very specific if you can, and put numbers and figures on it.  For instance, if you treated someone for a bad back, who previously had been unable to work, then if they went back to work, it was your service that at the very least made a huge contribution to their lives.  Or if you helped someone with a fear of flying, and then they were able to make a plane trip to see their long lost relative for the first time in 20 years, then that is specific!

Ex:  Answer the question:  How can I expand the perceived value of my service for my client? Really think about how you can use the points in this class to affect how you price your services, and what you can do to increase the value you are giving.  Brainstorming with friends who also have businesses is a great idea, as its often easier to see solutions for someone else than for your own situation.

Addressing limiting beliefs you have about pricing:

Common beliefs that get in the way of setting your prices at a level that feels good to you and brings in enough revenue.

Beliefs:

1. I love what I’m doing, therefore I shouldn’t be concerned about the money side of things. (Earning a healthy income and providing a valuable service are not mutually exclusive – unless you think they are’.  Most people recognise that you are earning a living and can respect that).

2. My clients can’t afford higher fees  (do you really, truly know that?  Be careful of that assumption)

3.  Too much competition – I have to keep my prices low to get clients at all  or I can’t charge more than others in my field!  That would be competition and I don’t like competition.  (Start to think with an abundance mindset – there is plenty of room for everyone and anyway no-one else offer exactly what you offer.)

4.  I don’t think I’m skilled enough to charge more. (Really?  Will the day ever come when you feel skilled enough?  Start telling the truth – you’re afraid.)

The real value of what you offer is determined by the benefits your client receives from your service – and in some cases, that is so valuable, you can’t put a price on it.  So it becomes important to firstly believe you have a valuable service, and then learn to put that across effectively.

What to do? Work with letting go of these beliefs/feelings and practice enhancing your own self-worth, so that you can easily say I am a really great therapist, and my fees are  x.

NB: YOUR PRICE MUST RESONATE WITH YOU! if there is any energetic mismatch then it will be picked up by your clients. Better to change them in stages, so that as you feel comfortable with each level, you are simply moving more and more congruently towards a price that feels just right.  Then review it every year at least, and put them up by at the very minimum the rate of inflation.  But consider also every year what you can do to increase your value even further.

How to put prices up:

a)     get comfortable with what you want to charge first

b)    give warning to existing clients as to when they will go up

c)     start charging new clients immediately

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NOTES

A. Desire

Imagine:

a) Driving a car — you want to go somewhere. You put your foot on the accelerator, and take your other foot off the brake. And off you go, and reach your destination.

b) you say you want to go somewhere, but your foot is on the brake. You are activating energy that is keeping you stuck where you are. Even though you say you want to go somewhere, your actions (or thoughts or feelings) are opposing that.

c) You say you want to go somewhere, and you put your foot on the accelerator but keep your other foot on the brake at the same time, Or stop and start, stop and start. You don’t get to your destination.

When you say you want something you need to have your foot on the accelerator and take your foot off the brake. This equates to a high level of desire and the least amount of resistance.

Why is it that sometimes it takes ages for the thing you say you want to come? Because the purity of your desiring energy is being tarnished with resistant energy of some kind. Eg you want more time, but you keep saying and feeling that you have no time to do your book-keeping, that’s why you don’t do it. Or you want more money, but like a client of mine the other day who said she wanted more but was frightened of getting it because she thought she would give it away. That’ll keep it from coming to you for sure! Check out the Vibration Meter and Resistance Chart in your handbook.

Use the Whole Goal ex to help you identify resistant energy around something that is not currently happening as quickly as you want. The speed with which your desire happens is down to the amount of desire MINUS the amount of resistance.

What is happening now is a result of how you HAVE been thinking and feeling; hence the importance of changing your thoughts/feelings now, taking care of your future.

Abraham-Hicks: “negative emotion means you have expanded to something you are disallowing with your current negative thought”.

“When you really really want something and you are thinking about your desire and feeling pleasure from the thought, your thought vibration is now in alignment with your desire – and the current from your Source is flowing through you towards your intended desire with no restriction or resistance. We call that allowing. But when you really really want something and are feeling anger, or fear or disappointment, that means you are focused upon the opposite of your desire, and in doing so, you are introducing another non-matching vibration to the mix – and the degree of negative emotion that you are now experiencing indicates the degree of your resistance to the receiving of your desire.” Abraham-Hicks

“I cannot know that this is not the next step in my liberation” Barbara Swetina

www. Sacredsongs.net

B. What do you do if you realise you are feeling bad, and you notice the thoughts you’ve been thinking and are thinking are compounding the bad feeling?

Options are:

a) You don’t even notice and experience events as happening to you (easy to be a victim then)

b) you notice, but criticise yourself for being down the other end of the scale and do nothing about it = feel worse

c) you notice, feel bad, realise you need to change it, but somehow can’t manage to do that; choice to feel bad or good about that

d) you notice, identify the feeling, feel good you’ve noticed the negative emotion as a warning bell, and choose to let go of it

e) you notice, identify the feeling, choose to let go , feel better

d) and e) allow you to move forward. With c) best to do something completely different and come back to it all later on.

How do you do d) and e)? Use Emotional Guidance Scale, choose an exercise to do that is appropriate to your current emotional level and do it!

(See handbook for further discussion of this tool and copy of EGS)

C). Process of deliberate creation

1. Ask,

2. Get answered,

3. Receive.

Preparation for Step 1:

a) Remember to plug in: be willing to recognise Divine Energy. Higher Self, God, something greater than you.

b) Switch on: sacred holding. Putting yourself into a place of feeling good and then a space of sacred holding before you ask.

Need to be in an energetically high place first. Create a sacred space inside yourself and around you to help you feel good, connected, stronger, more open. How do you create a sacred holding space?

- Do something that helps you to feel good (walking in nature, listening to some music, reading an uplifting book, listening to an inspiring call), meditate,

- Use candles, meditation, prayers, imagework, visualisation, Place of Peace. Do Book of Positive Aspects.

- Use sentences/thoughts/words to support you (affirmations)

- Use 100 things I want to be, do, have

‘Doing anything from a sacred place elevates the experience”

Step 1 ASK:

Tuning in (to the frequency you want)

Method for asking:

1) Open yourself to another way (“I am willing to see this another way; I see this situation with eyes of love”)

2) Allow light to shine on your situation

3) Trust that your request will be answered

4) Be open to receive and pay attention to signs etc

5) Specify what you want

6) Use useful sentences coming from a place of intention rather than yearning eg

Know when you are asking you are doing it all the time, the real question is how conscious are you of what and when you are asking, and where are you (ie what energetic state are you in) when you are doing the asking?

‘I have been able to see and visualise God’s abundance in my life. I see it even before it arrives, but the knowing that I can make it arrive stems from my inner conviction that I am already connected to what only seems to be missing. This feeling of connectedness propels me to act in such a way as if what I want, wants me. Thus, when I pray, I never attempt to influence God, or ask for favours, or beg God to do something for me while I wait around and do nothing. Instead I use prayer to open the gates of my soul to this divine presence. I’ve used prayer as a way of residing in that one power and not asking God to do something, but rather to be in God consciousness where thoughts of scarcity simply dissolve ad I feel directed to attract the missing pieces of my life like iron filings to a magnet.”

From Wayne Dyer, There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

Step 2: Answer

Trust you will be answered. This is the letting go bit. If you have issues of trust they will show up in your thoughts, feelings and actions getting in the way of what you say you want. Embrace these by allowing the feelings to be there and then work with tools that allow you to let them go.

Step 3: Receive

Listen/create Listen for guidance about a particular situation; watch out for signs that guide you; allow words or sentences to flow instead of ‘trying’ to make it happen. Let yourself be led. Often happens in a quiet space, but not always. Out walking, or when in connection with God in some way or another. In shower; driving; when you’re doing something else.

Inspired Actions for this week:

1. Do the Book of Positive Aspects

Ex: The Book of Positive Aspects

a) choose a book/journal that you love to write in (Adriana’s)

b) favourite pen (all this for feeling good)

c) start with something you always feel good about (what do I like/love/appreciate? Why? Let it flow

d) Read over and enjoy your own words

e) Repeat until 20 minutes has passed

You are activating a much more positive vibration, that’s the point of this exercise.

Following day, do it again. Even if not for 20 minutes, select one topic at least to find the positive aspects in. The more you find, the more you will find; and the more you will look for more. Circular process. Ultimately your relationship with each subject will become richer and more attractive.

2. Practice using the Emotional Guidance Scale

3. Introduce creating a sacred holding into all your business activities