Discover Your Treasure Within…

As a small business owner, you are your business. The
success of your business is directly tied to your energetic
state of being. This is a key facet of the power of feminine
energy as it relates to your business success.

In today’s business world, this subtle aspect is often
overlooked. The subtle, yet distinct, feminine energy within
your being is like a hidden treasure just waiting to be
discovered and harnessed for powerful new results in business.

Most business development programs focus on the obvious –
the outward, action-oriented, ‘doing’ part of business.

Masculine models of business are rationally based, easy to see
in the physical world and interwoven as core values of our
cultural programming to be ‘normal’ or ‘acceptable’ business.

And all of these things are important – no doubt about it. You
must have tools, take action and have follow-through systems
in the outer world to be successful.

In natural contrast, feminine energy is receptive, internal, not
easily visible and deals primarily with the subconscious aspects
of our inner way of being. It’s an unacknowledged aspect of
the dynamic energy cycle to being successful in life and business.

Learning to access feminine business energy principles is a
subtle process and quite different from what is taught and
perceived about ‘business’ as it has evolved up until now.

As a result, there are few teachers who recognize the inherent
power of the feminine aspect as a significant force in business,
where the ‘being’ state is acknowledged and cultivated as
the foundation for the ‘doing’ and ‘having’ as external results.

There are even fewer who know how to teach these principles
to others.

The Invitation…

My colleague, Morgan Taylor, and I are teaching visionary
entrepreneurs the eight pillars of feminine wisdom principles
as a direct path to realize business success as never before.

This training is called the Astarte Wisdom Series.

Astarte was a primary goddess who embodied feminine energy
and transcended several ancient cultures with different names in
each one. Regardless of the culture, the timeless wisdom remains
for us to access today. (And it’s not about gender…!!!)

The Astarte Wisdom Series provides you with a unique
opportunity in understanding each of the eight pillars of
feminine wisdom in order to incorporate them for what
could be dramatic business results.

www.AstarteBusinessArts.com

The Details…

This tele-series consists of three classes offered on three
consecutive Thursday evenings (U.S. time), beginning
next week on October 20th. And audios will be provided
to registered participants afterward.

Each teleclass is designed to delve more deeply into each
of the eight pillars that are at the heart of the Astarte
Wisdom teachings:

1. Mastering Wisdom

2. The Art of Allowing

3. Creating The Vessel

4. Embodying Power

5. Claiming The Treasure Within

6. Bridge-Weaving

7. Discerning Truth

8. Communicating The Space Between

Not only will you receive practical tools you can use right
away to grow your business with more clarity, there will
be time to answer your specific personal questions.

Insights are one thing, but knowing what to do with them in
your exact situation is the superfuel to new results.

Harness feminine business wisdom for maximized business
results by participating in the Astarte Wisdom TeleSeries.

To learn more and to register for $149, go here now:

www.AstarteBusinessArts.com

Consider this your personal invitation to actively step
into a new paradigm in business.

We look forward to ‘seeing’ you there! :+)

To Accessing Feminine Wisdom For Your Business Success ~

Lynn and Morgan

P.S.: To receive an introductory audio about Astarte Wisdom right
away, go to www.AstarteWisdom.com - that will give you an idea
about what we’ll be exploring in this insightful teleseries.

P.P.S.: This starts next week, so register now while you’re
in the moment…!

www.AstarteBusinessArts.com

Knowing is probably one of the most elusive concepts I teach in working with my clients (and myself!). ;+) It’s kind of ironic, don’t you think? (That ‘knowing’ is so uncertain…)

My theory is that we are socialized out of trusting our own knowingness, and taught to depend on external credibility for alot of things – validation, approval, permission, proof, measurement, and more. It’s natural that something as intangible and, well, ‘woo’ is so difficult to pin down and say it’s a certainty. Even more interesting is that there are still societies living in remote parts of the world that only rely on knowingness to live their lives. Intuition, instinct, trust, faith and perception are the keys to their world. What would it be like if we could do that too, surrounded by all the other gifts of the Western world but not dominated by them?

There are a few things that I have discovered that really help anchor how to know what you know. In random order, here goes:

1) Trust that you are always getting your messages, in right timing, to the degree that you can interpret, take them in and do something with them. (If they’re too far ahead of where you are in the moment, you won’t have a frame of reference for them – but they’ll come back again when you’re ready…)

2) Have faith that you retain the power of free will in acting on what you know. And you can always choose different if your results aren’t what you want / expected.

3) Be responsible and accountable for what you ‘know’ – just as you can’t unring a bell, you now have access to information you didn’t before and that becomes part of the fabric of your life. Denial isn’t really an option.

4) Let your body help by feeling your knowing; give yourself the experience of understanding your physical language of knowing. (Hint: play with that by holding something in your hand and asking if it’s optimal for you – if your body leans in, that’s a yes.)

5) Nobody else can ‘know’ for you better than you can… this is all about internal authority over your domain, regardless of what you see with your eyes (circumstances, relationships, opportunities, resources, environment).

6) Knowing can be contrary to what you expect / want.

7) Your ‘knowing’ will always add to your life experience in the long run, and generally doesn’t hurt someone else. (However, if your ‘knowing’ says it’s time for a relationship to end, that may hurt as this situation gets resolved, but it’s necessary for growth – and usually, for both of you.)

I ‘know’ this has some good information for you – I’d love to hear your thoughts about it! ;+)

Excerpt from Alberto Villoldo’s book “Courageous Dreaming”

Introduction

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
—Buddha

“Whether we realize it or not, we are all dreaming the world into being. What we are engaging in is not the sleeping act we are so familiar with, but rather a type of dreaming we do with our eyes open. When we are unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we are the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we are unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.

The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become a reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state. Physicists understand that in the quantum world nothing is “real” until it is observed. The distinct packets of energy known as “quanta” (which consist of particles of matter as well as light) are neither “here” nor “there”; in a sense, they are everywhere in space/time until you or I decide to take note of them. When we do so, we tease them out of the web of infinite possibilities and collapse them into an event in time and space. These energy quanta like to link up with each other once they have selected a particular form of manifestation. As soon as they manifest, reality becomes fixed: Our reality is “here” instead of possibly everywhere.

But quantum events do not occur in the laboratory only. They also happen inside our brain, on this page, and everywhere around us. Even if they are separated by million miles, or by days or weeks, these quanta of energy remain intimately linked; consequently, if you interact with one, you affect the entire system that this energy is part of. When you access any part of the dream, the great matrix of creation, you can change reality and alter the entire dream, and its effects will ripple to the past and influence the future.

Modern physics is describing what ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as “the Earthkeepers”, say that we are dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we are only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

Like the Australian Aborigines, the Earthkeepers live in an environment where the dreamtime has not been pushed into the domain of sleep like it has for the rest of us. They know that all of creation arises from, and returns to, this creative matrix. The dreamtime infuses all matter and energy, connecting every creature, every rock, every star, and every ray of light or bit of cosmic dust. The power to dream, then, is the power to participate in creation itself. Dreaming reality is not only an ability but a duty, one all humans must perform with grace so that our grandchildren will inherit a world where they can live in peace and abundance.

We have actually already gone into extraordinary detail to dream our universe into being. Immediately after the big bang, 99.99 percent of all matter and antimatter in the cosmos went onto annihilate each other. The stars and galaxies that we see around us today are all that remained, a minute portion of what once was. Had the ratio of matter to space in the universe changed by even one-billionth of a percent, the laws of physics that permit life to emerge would not have been possible. The big bang had to be so perfectly orchestrated and calculated that it produced only one part of matter in 10 to the 50th power of stardust. This is divided by 10 followed by 50 zeroes, no more and no less. That this occurred purely by chance is possible only if we contemplate the existence of a very large number of universes in the cosmos, where an improbable event such as the creation of our own universe would have been plausible!

What is even more baffling is the fine-tuning of the parameters of the universe that occurred on the surface of the earth, which has maintained a perfect temperature balance between the freezing and boiling points of water for more than a billion years. The unlikeliness of these ratios that permit life to appear suggests the presence of an intelligent force, not a creator or a god but a universe power, which the Earthkeepers call “the dreamtime” or “infinity”.

The Earthkeepers I have studied with in the Andes and the Amazon believe that we can only access the power of this force by raising our level of consciousness. When we do, we become aware that we are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It is only when we experience our connection to infinity that we are able to dream powerfully. In fact, it is our sense of separation from infinity that traps us in a nightmare in the first place. If this sounds like circular thinking, you are right. Which came first, the nightmare or the sense of separation from infinity? The answer is that they occur simultaneously.

To end the nightmare—to reclaim your power of dreaming reality and craft something better—you need more than the recognition of how this process works. You need to have visceral understanding of your dreaming power and experience it in every cell of your body. The intellectual comprehension of your ability to create reality mimics but then forestalls the kind of dreaming you are capable of. If you do not get beyond mere intellectual comprehension of this concept, you will end up lowering the bar and creating a far less glorious and beautiful experience of the world than what you are capable of crafting. With a visceral understanding of your power to dream, you realize that you can share this experience of infinity right here, right now, and stop feeling dissociated and disconnected.

It takes courage to taste infinity. According to Greek mythology, the gods swiftly punished any mortal who dared to ascend Mount Olympus and taste divine power. Yet they ultimately rewarded those who had the courage to step into their realm, such as Hercules and Psyche. Similarly, in Judeo-Christian lore, as soon as Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, making human beings more like God, He threw them out of the Garden of Eden, “lest [humankind] put forth [their] hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” (Gen. 3:22). But despite this original sin of humanity, all men and women are promised a chance to dwell in heaven at the end of time.

Once you experience dreaming, you realize that everything in your life is unfolding with perfect synchronicity. Events may not be working out the way you would like them to, but within the greater scheme of things, they are happening in superlative harmony. For example, you miss the train to work on the day that terrorists strike the World Trade Center (which actually happened to a student of mine). Or your child tells you that he has been accepted to the college of his choice the same week you get the promotion you have been hoping for. If the universe seems to be conspiring against you, on the other hand, then you need to change the dream.

With courageous dreaming, you discover that your problems are no longer overwhelming you or defining your life. While the difficulties you face feel very real, you always have the choice to create a heroic account about your relationship to them instead of a disempowering saga of suffering. You will recognize that you can stop being a victim, trying to fix the world all on your own, or feeling vindictive toward those who harmed you. You will see that your life is exactly as it should be right now, and you will be able to let go of all the stories that keep you feeling trapped and unhappy and venting in your therapist’s office. You will begin to practice dreaming the world into being, and everything will change.

The Earthkeepers believe that the world is real, but only because we have dreamed it into being. But dreaming requires an act of courage, for when we lack it, we have to settle for the world that is being created by our culture or by our genes—we feel we have to settle for the nightmare. To dream courageously, we must be willing to use our hearts. Otherwise, our dreams will stall at the level of thinking, planning, and worrying too much. Then our dream will turn into a nightmare or mere fantasy, trapping us or drifting away while we wonder, What happened?

I remember one of my early trips to the Amazon. I was then a young anthropologist investigating the healing practices of the shamans of the rain forest, and I had decided to use myself as a subject. I explained to the jungle medicine man that as a child I had fled my country of birth because of a communist revolution. I had seen bloodshed in the streets and been terrified by gunfire in the night. Since then I had suffered from recurring nightmares in which armed men would force their way into my home and take away my loved ones. At the time I was in my late 20s, yet I had been unable to enter into a lasting relationship for fear that I would lose the person I loved, just like my nightmare.

During one healing ceremony, the shaman explained to me that like everyone, I can either have what I want or the reasons why I cannot. “You are too enamored of your story”, the old man said. “Until you dare to dream a different dream, all you will have is the nightmare”.

That evening I learned how I could craft a different story for myself, one in which I had been tempered by adversity and my experiences had taught me to have compassion for others who were suffering. The first step to dream my new dream was to create a new story in which I was not playing the part of the victim. I then realized that not only was I dreaming my life, but I was also dreaming the entire cosmos into being, just as it was doing with me.

Although the mind resists it, the fact is that like me, you have a choice between having the life you want or the reasons why you cannot. You can luxuriate in joy and peace, or you can continually be burdened by that big black bag full of all the sorrowful incidents and accidents that happened to you in your childhood or last relationship. You can endure your wounds or you can enjoy your glory. You can live the life of a victim, burdened by the traumas of your past, or you can live the life of a hero, but you cannot do both. If you want to feel empowered, you need to make a conscious decision to create a sacred dream and practice courage.

Courageous dreaming happens at a state of perception that the Earthkeepers refer to as the level of hummingbird. The hummingbird is an archetype for the heroic voyager—just like it, you will inevitably take some wrong turns. However, each time you return to the recognition that you are dreaming your reality, you will deepen your understanding of the journey and feel more committed to it. You will be able to embrace the ever-shifting landscape around you with equanimity and a sense of humor and you will even experience grace.”

1. When you don’t know what to do with yourself, someone will always be happy to tell you.

2. Why seek approval from someone who doesn’t even approve of himself?

3. Fawning before an angry person is like asking a rabid wolf for its approval.

4. The more approval you get, the more you have to have.

5. Keeping any person or circumstance in your life that demands you surrender your right to be a whole and happy human being is wrong for everyone involved.

6. When you are standing in a storm, don’t blame the weather.

7. Real strength always follows uncovering one of the roots of weakness.

8. Don’t seek yourself. Dare to be yourself.

9. If you were really doing the right thing with your life, you wouldn’t need anyone to tell you that you were.

10.“Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner.” (Vernon Howard)

“You have been telling people that this is the eleventh hour, now you must go back and tell the people that This is the hour.  And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relationship?
Where is your garden?

It is the time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside of yourself for the leaders.”

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled and said “This could be a good time!”

“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves for the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourself! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

Oraibi Hopi Nation
Arizona
June 8, 2000

As you know, I’m all about any tool that can help you create soul-driven success. And this is a pretty incredible video resource I’ve just discovered… I had to share with you right this minute! :+)

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (an amazing organization, by the by) has started a fabulous series of one-minute videos called One Minute Shifts that are designed to inspire you with unique messages.

There are several videos already released that feature luminaries of our time: Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Lynne McTaggart, Barbara Marx Hubbard and more. These enlightening bite-sized bits can help you shift in a minute by opening you to new wisdom.

Here is a list of just five of their videos:

Deepak Chopra – The Wonder of You

Marianne Williamson – Are You Part of the 11%?

Lynne McTaggart – Can Intention Change the World?

Barbara Marx Hubbard – Supra-Sexual Co-Creation

Swami Beyondananda – Let the Upwising Begin

May your five minutes be evolutionary… (and please pass these on to help spread the soul-driven shift!) ;+)

To Your Soul-Driven Success ~

Lynn

A colleague I just met online has an awesome divination tool… her name is Suzanne Strisower and the tool is an online runes reading. Check it out at www.insightfulrunes.com for a free reading!

“The universe is looking at itself through our eyes, and we give life to everything in the way we view it.” ~ Alan Watts

By definition, energy needs to flow in order to be in its natural dynamic state. I’m not a scientist, but I know that its’ movement is what generates some level of power, even at the smallest increment of its presence. The movement of energy is what makes things go. And it is the force within your own life that makes things happen, which cumulatively becomes your evolution.

As a creature of nature, you are consistently evolving to your next level of being. However, that can take shape in a number of different ways, based on how fast or slow your energy is moving and how willing you are to go where it takes you. If you resist, stop or block the energy flow of your life, you create stagnant pools of stuck energy that become bigger, heavier and/or denser over time. Eventually, those stuck energy places manifest as dysfunctional relationships, unhappy careers or an unhealthy physical body. And these are the clues to how you can support your own evolution… your stuck places are homing beacons to guide you to what needs your energetic attention.

The truly ironic part is that we can always see somebody else’s stuck parts more clearly than our own. There is a reason for this… if we knew the lesson contained in our stuck places designed to teach us what we need, they wouldn’t be stuck, right? We can’t see our own blindspots, because that’s the source of our lesson in working with our own energy! But we can see what the people around us aren’t addressing for two reasons: first, we’re not attached to the outcome and second, it’s not our lesson to learn (or, if it is, we have a jumpstart on it because we can see it!).

Three Things You Can Do Today:

1. Pay attention to the messages. Your energy is always “talking” to you… if you aren’t experiencing the results you want in your life, your evolution is continuing in some area. If your energy is stuck, there’s a message there. If you feel a sting, ping, charge or a desire to avoid a person, situation or opportunity, you are being invited to consider what you need to handle for your next level. AND, by the way, when you decide to go to your next level, anything that stands in the way of you achieving that level will come up for your consideration to be handled. Just making the commitment to move toward your own best evolution will bring up messages – that’s the energetic gift of your spirit.

2. Believe in your own evolution. Know that your spirit is actually trying to bring you magic when it brings those “hurt-y” places to your attention. Understand that you are dynamic and growing and your energy is supporting you in going to new places in your life. Know that there is a better future waiting for you, and it is your responsibility to live it as a physical expression of divine consciousness. After all, that’s your reason for being – to give form to divinity and feed your experience into the greater whole! Your evolution is a microcosm of the vital growth that fuels divine consciousness in every moment. It’s a big deal. ;+)

3. Get out of your own way. Now that you know your energy is working to help you evolve to your next best level, it’s time to get out of your own way to receive your best life experience. You are inherently worthy of the most amazing life, and it’s trying to come to you. By handling your stuck places proactively and consciously, and opening up to receive all the infinite grace that has your name on it, you are no longer standing in your shadow wondering why it’s dark! It is sometimes this action alone that can bring you what you want in your life.

As this year closes out, it’s an ideal time to look at where your energy is trying to evolve you, and where you are effectively blocking your own dynamic being from your best possible expression. If you discover that there is something that you’re not enjoying, or a nudge to try something new (much less anything you’ve been ignoring or neglecting!), it’s your energy talking to you. Pay attention and let the energy flow… and it’s likely your life will too.

I’m so impressed with this project that I have to share… One of my clients has just launched a new venture that allows her natural gift to “dance” with people’s inner essence… check out www.yoursoulmusic.com! If you’d like to listen to my soul music, click here:

“To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to see life from the perspective of wholeness. It is to understand that life is basically one and that we are part of life. While the intellect can only see the details, intuition sees the whole. To see life from the perspective of intuition is like looking at life from the summit of the mountain, whereas seeing life only from the perspective of intellect is like looking at life from the foot of the mountain. Through learning to listen to our intuition, we learn to be in contact with the Whole.” ~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Intuition is that quiet, powerful inner knowing of your truths. Connection is a relationship to a larger whole. By definition, they are the same. That is, intuition is your inner connection to a larger truth, and connection is your intuitive relationship to a bigger picture.

Conversely, when you are not feeling particularly connected, it’s likely you can be easily distracted, un-engaged and even bored with whatever the event, conversation or person you are involved with in the moment. When you are not accessing your intuition, you are likely to experience not only distractions and boredom, but also confusion, a sense of overwhelm and a certain monotony of your own life on a day to day level. If you find yourself in that experience, and you want it to be different, it’s time to view your inner and outer connections.

Universal laws show us that the outer connections are really only a symptom of our inner connections. That is, our world is a reflection of what’s happening inside us. Our satisfaction with our relationships, opportunities, finances, home, etc. have a direct correlation to how we are feeling about them, focusing on them and working with our intuition in creating them.

So the most important inner connection we can have is the one with ourselves through our intuition. Remember, intuition is a quiet inner voice – it won’t shout to be heard, judge your choices or stop your free will in acting in the physical world. Intuition is what’s waiting and always accessible to help you handle your world.

So, how do we know we’re connecting with our intuition? Look around yourself right now. See what’s happening in your world – this may take courage – but really look at what you’ve created in your body, significant other, friends, home, and beyond. If you like what you see, you are working with your intuition. And if not, it’s time to introduce yourself to, and connect with, your inner guide.