Last week I suggested that you refrain from acting hastily whenever someone encourages you to "push through" a problem—to "force your way forward," so to speak.  Although the accomplishment of a goal or dream may require a great deal of patience on your part, the divine flow will never ask you to "force" anything. Nor, usually, will it require you to endure extreme conditions of any kind. Generally speaking, the path of the flow is always one of grace and ease, even when it takes an unexpected turn.

Like most weeks, I received a lot of nice responses to my message. But this time, I noticed that most of the readers who wrote to me had gotten more out of my message than was actually spelled out in "black and white."  They read between the lines, and saw the bigger message that was implied.

Today, I want to go ahead and say what was left unsaid. And that is simply this:  No matter what anyone encourages you to do, and no matter how much you respect their advice, opinions, or suggestions, it is up to you to decide what is best for you. Read the rest of this entry »

As most of you are well aware, this year I started offering Divine Flow Retreats here in Sedona.

The very first activity I offer in these retreats is a guided meditation on a Red Rock formation called Bell Rock. Many people believe that Bell Rock has amazing healing and energizing properties, and it is one of the most popular places here.

If you have spent any time in Sedona yourself, you probably know that it is not extraordinarily difficult to reach the higher parts of Bell Rock. However, without knowing the best way to ascend, you can easily run into a dozen dead ends, and repeatedly encounter crevices that cannot be crossed.

To make it easier for hikers to reach the higher vistas, the National Forest Service has placed piles of rocks called "cairns" to guide the way. When you travel from cairn to cairn, you are able to climb up Bell Rock in the most efficient and unobstructed way possible.

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In my message a couple of weeks ago, I told a story that perfectly illustrated the point I wanted to make that day—the point that the divine flow is not always about you.

As I wrote, "Sometimes you are being divinely guided to say something or do something that will help someone else fulfill his or her dream . . . not necessarily yours. You may be guided to simply help another person live life more abundantly. Or, you may be guided to help another person live, period." (To review the entire message, click here.)

After reading that story, Chris of Payson, Arizona, wrote to me and told me about his own experience with this particular aspect of the divine flow.  And today I would like to share his example with you.
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Last week I ended my message with this statement: "If you are feeling divinely inspired to take a certain action, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with accomplishing a particular goal that you have in mind . . . do it anyway!"

The context for that statement was the idea that your next divinely guided step may not appear to be related to any specific desire that you have, but in a way that you simply cannot see, it is. And it will help you fulfill that desire in a remarkable effortless manner.

Today I want to give you another good reason to "do it anyway." That reason is based on the fact that we accomplish very little in life all by ourselves. In almost every case, what you want to manifest in your life will require — to one degree or another — the assistance and cooperation of others. Read the rest of this entry »

In one part of my workshop, I talk about the "divine signs" that guide us in life. I really enjoy this section because sometimes these divine signs are literal signs — actual words that have been printed or painted on a surface somewhere. And these literal signs are so succinct and so direct, they are often as amusing as they are amazing.

One of the ways I was guided to the publisher of my book was through a billboard that was posted on the sign of the highway. That was not only a literal sign, but it was a very large one! And after I published my book, I saw another sign that encouraged me to focus on sharing my message, instead of dwelling on selling books. It was a poster on the side of a bus that simply read, "SPREAD THE WORD."
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Can our mind really display extra-sensory abilities beyond the five senses? One expert set out to define and prove the validity of such psychic powers as precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, out-of-body experiences, and telepathy.

Neuroscientist Diane Hennacy Powell, a former Harvard Medical School professor, attempts to logically answer long-standing questions about the possibilities of psychic phenomena, and the relationship between our brain and consciousness, in her book, The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena. Extra-sensory abilities can be explained, she says, by applying the theories of Einstein and quantum physics. She also provides empirical data developed over the past few decades from several well-designed and rigorously supervised experiments that reinforce the existence of such phenomena.
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It's a demonstration of unconscious brain power: A new neuroscience study shows that people can make decisions based on input that is invisible to the conscious mind. Researchers say the findings aren't evidence of the efficacy of subliminal messages, which have mostly been discredited. But there has been a more subtle phenomenon, billed as the foundation of intuition, where seasoned poker players may play more successfully because they can pick up subtle signals in the body language of their opponents – without consciously realising it – to work out if they are bluffing [Telegraph].
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Researchers from the University of Leeds report that intuition is a real psychological process that lies just beyond our conscious awareness.

Gerald Hodgkinson, the lead author of the report that appears in the British Journal of Psychology, says it isn't just a random response. Recent research over the past few years has led the scientists to conclude that intuition is a result of the way the brain processes information when faced with serious time pressures, information overload, situations where they lack all the information to make an informed decision, and potentially hazardous situations where an individual does not have the luxury to be able to deliberate and collect all the facts.
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Have you ever had an extremely strong feeling that you needed to take immediate action on some kind of opportunity?

Sure you have. We all have. And you probably assumed that this urgent, demanding feeling was your intuition speaking — that it was the divine flow telling you the next right step to take.
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