Why Clarity is the Missing Link Between Your Purpose and Prosperity

October 20, 2025 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

You started your spiritual business thinking “This is it! I’m finally doing what I’m meant to be doing!”…so why does it still feel like you’re stuck in a fog, searching for the right path for your business?

You are not alone. Many purpose-driven entrepreneurs jump in head first, full of excitement to finally be doing what they love. Not long after, they realize they’re lacking clarity which holds them back from manifesting the prosperity and impact they desire.

Clarity isn’t about your branding. It isn’t about your message. It isn’t about your modality. Real clarity is about aligning your vision for your business on an inner and outer level. In this post, I’ll share what real clarity is, why it matters, how it opens the doors to manifesting the success you deserve…and how to create it.

What Happens When You Don’t Have Clarity

When you don’t have clarity in your business, it leads to confusion. You dive in knowing exactly what you want in your business, but as you move forward, you start to feel scattered, second-guessing yourself and your journey as an entrepreneur. You begin overthinking your offers, your message, and your skills. You rely heavily on other people’s input and adhere strictly to new strategies that promise you success.

This leads you away from your intuition, inner guidance, and your purpose. This, in turn, leads to inconsistent results in your business, which leads to even more frustration and confusion. It’s a vicious cycle that pulls you further and further from the purpose-driven business you envisioned when you began.

Maybe you end up moving forward in your business in a direction that feels ok, but not amazing. Eventually, it ends up feeling like a job instead of the fulfilling business you dreamt of. Maybe you begin to attract clients who aren’t a match for you. Maybe you get stuck in the “hustle” mentality so many entrepreneurs thrive on rather than the flow that actually feels natural for you.

Taking the time to find soul-aligned clarity in your business can make the difference between instant and ongoing success or years of confusion, frustration, and inconsistency. It can take you from bouncing from offer to offer, to finally finding a niche that fits you like a glass slipper.

The Power of Soul-Aligned Clarity

Soul-aligned clarity isn’t about your messaging or your branding. It’s not about having a perfectly-defined client avatar. And it’s definitely not about sacrificing your purpose for income or your income for your purpose. True clarity occurs when your external business – what you are offing to the world – aligns with your soul purpose…and when your subconscious mind believes it’s possible and safe for you to achieve. If any part of this equation is missing, it’ll only be a matter of time until your vision becomes cloudy again.

Once you have clarity, both consciously and subconsciously, it begins to act like a magnet to your desires. Clarity affects your ability to reach your goals just like the settings in your GPS. If your destination is vague and you only enter New York, you may find yourself hundreds of miles from where you want to go. If you enter Manhattan, New York, you may be closer, but still not quite there. But when you enter 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, you end up right at the iconic Empire State Building.

Your vision for your business (or anything in life, for that matter) works the same. The more specific you are about where you want to go and what you want to accomplish, the easier it will be to get there.

How to Begin Finding Clarity

Now let’s get to the important question: How do you find this clarity?

Clarity is not something you’re born with. It’s not something that only arrives as if you get struck by a magical bolt of clarity (though that can happen, and does, when you learn to trust your intuition more…but that’s a blog for another day!) Clarity is something you can create with a little effort upfront, through some good old soul searching and intuitive journaling.

Practice #1: Intuitive Journaling

Begin by allowing your breath to slow down and relaxing your mind for a few moments. When you feel called, write at the top of the page in your journal: What do I feel called to create?

Allow the words to flow out onto the page. Resist the urge to edit or censor yourself. If an idea pops into your mind, write it down. It may not make sense right now, but it may later. Write for as long as you feel called to write. Your intuition will tell you when you’re done. You may write a simple, concise answer in 30 seconds, or you may write for several minutes. Trust the process.

Repeat this process with the question: What kinds of transformations light me up? These can be your own transformations or transformations you see in others. Again, trust your intuition on this. If it comes to mind, write it down.

For a quick guided meditation and music to help you with intuitive journaling, click here.

Intuitive journaling invites you to explore these important questions in a way that allows your intuition to lead instead of logic or your ego. Most business coaches overlook these questions, instead encouraging you to focus entirely on a niche that they deem profitable or that your audience is already looking for. While this advice is great if you started your business just to make money, for purpose-driven entrepreneurs like you and me, following this advice can set your business back years. For people like us, feeling strongly about the transformations our clients experience drives us often as much or more than the money. It keeps us showing up on social media and for our email list to expand our business even further. It gives us fulfillment. It reminds us that we’re making an impact on the world, not only our bank account.

Practice #2: Exploring Your Passions and Gifts

The next step in gaining clarity for your purpose-driven business is to look at your passions and gifts. Very often, we put our passions on the back burner waiting until we have time to pursue them. Our gifts, on the other hand, can go totally unnoticed because they are skills that are so natural for us that we don’t understand that not everyone can do what we can do. While every passion and gift doesn’t necessarily need to be part of your business, infusing some aspects of them in your business will make it more fun and easier for you, which will keep you committed in the long run.

To explore your passions and gifts, in your journal, brainstorm all of the tasks or hobbies or other interests you have that you enjoy. Again, if it comes to mind, right it down. When you’ve written them all down, look back and circle which of these you can totally lose yourself in for hours. For me, it’s writing, reading, and being creative. This isn’t just about what you are good at. It’s about what you love to do. For example, I’m really good at math. I took calculus in college for fun, and got an A, but the idea of a career that revolves around math bores me to tears just thinking about it. And you didn’t start your business to be bored to tears or to do something you don’t really enjoy, right? So look at what you really love to do.

A great way to get some outside perspective on this if you’re feeling stuck is to ask a few people who know you really well what you’ve been doing when you appear happiest. I asked my mom and my sister this question separately, and they both gave the same answer: when making stuff (sewing, crafts, baking, writing, etc.) and when dancing. Admittedly, I don’t dance nearly enough anymore and have never felt called to bring this into my business, but I do make stuff in and out of my business all the time and I love it. I can get lost for hours creating graphics and landing pages and writing content, just as much as I can with writing for pleasure.

Practice #3 – Crafting Your Vision

Now that you have more clarity on what you feel called to create and the transformations you love to see, write a quick paragraph describing your vision for your life and business three years from now. Incorporate as many senses as you can. Get as specific as you can. But remember, some of these details may change as you grow and evolve, and that’s totally ok. This vision will help you begin to embody this future version of you now so you can manifest it faster and easier.

Revisit this vision often. Read it. Visualize it as though it’s happening now. When you gain more clarity on any details, add them in. If something no longer feels aligned for you, remove it. This is your vision and you can edit it as you feel called. That said, if you find you are constantly changing directions, this may be a sign of subconscious resistance.

From Clarity to Cashflow

Once you’re clear on where you want to go, it’s time to get your subconscious mind on board for the journey. Your subconscious programming is essentially your current “default” settings. Your beliefs, feelings, habits, and your ability to visualize, which are all rooted in your subconscious mind, are responsible for where you are now and maintaining your current status quo. More often than not, these beliefs, feelings, and habits are not aligned with your new vision for your life and business, which causes some bumps, roadblocks, and unanticipated detours.

Hypnosis can help you to reprogram your subconscious mind so it aligns with your new destination, which allows you to achieve your goals faster and easier. Hypnosis can also help you get past any overthinking that may be obscuring your clarity in the first place.

While having 100% clarity is ideal, it usually doesn’t happen right away or all at once. That does not mean you can’t get started. More clarity will reveal itself along each step of your journey, so it’s important to take the first step. You now have a better idea of what direction you are heading, and you can always make adjustments as you go. Waiting for perfect clarity is a sneaky way your ego gets you to stay right where you are now – in your comfort zone. So take the first step and watch as more clarity comes forward. Each time it does, your trust in yourself, your intuition, and your purpose will grow.

As your self-trust and intuition grow and your clarity increases, your vision for your business will become more and more detailed. You’ll be able to envision yourself achieving your goals, working with your ideal clients, and making an impact on the world. When you embody this energy, you’ll become a magnet to clients and opportunities, and the prosperity and fulfillment that come along with them.

Want to go further? Join me for my upcoming training, Create Clarity + Cashflow: A Free 3-Day Challenge for Spiritual Entrepreneurs to Take Your Business from Stuck to Soul-Aligned Success. It all takes place October 27-29th. Click here to reserve your spot in this free training.

About the Author:Melissa Conkling is a certified hypnotist, NLP practitioner, and manifestation coach who is passionate about making an impact through soul-inspired manifestation. She helps entrepreneurs manifest a purpose-driven business by aligning their conscious intentions with their subconscious desires through a blend of hypnosis and coaching. Click here to join her Facebook group of over 2,500 spiritual entrepreneurs.

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3 Reasons You Aren’t Manifesting the Money You Want

February 23, 2025 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

You have been doing your affirmations. You’ve been rewriting your desire statement. Your envisioning yourself, living your life when it happens. But no matter what you do, you can’t seem to manifest the money you desire.

If you have been doing all of the manifestation practices you’ve come across in an attempt to manifest more money, yet not receiving it, it likely comes down to one of these three reasons:

#1 – You’re Not Saying You Want It

In the manifestation world, there is a word that has become, in my opinion, misused to the detriment of far too many people. That word is abundance.

Everyone is out there saying they want to manifest abundance. They want to live in abundance. They are surrounded by abundance. They are envisioning their life of abundance.

But here’s the catch. Abundance is a quantity. It is not money. You can have an abundance of money. You can also have an abundance of french fries. You can have an abundance of stress. So if you are not saying, you desire money and sugarcoating it under the word abundance it’s time to stop.

Besides the fact that abundance isn’t what you really want, your fear of using the word money as though it’s a bad word is a reflection of how you honestly feel about money.

So if you want to manifest more money into your life, claim it own it and let go of any guilt or shame you have around receiving it and holding onto it.

Money does not make you good or bad. Your personality, your values and all of the things that make you you will not change with money unless you allow them to.

#2 – You Don’t Know What The Money You Want Is For

When it comes to manifesting money, so many people are choosing vague numbers that they are trying to manifest without putting any real thought into how much money is required to live their ideal life.

Entrepreneurs chasing 10 K months because someone else told them they should.

Making your first million because it sounds good.

I wanna be a billionaire so effing bad.

But do you know what you would actually do with $10,000 a month? Or with your first million? What about 1 billion?

In order to manifest money, you must know what that money will afford you. Money is simply an exchange for what you truly desire. So you must be clear on what that underlying desire that the money is for really is.

So often, I see my clients say they just want to feel safe and secure, knowing that their bills are paid and that they can afford to do what they want when they want to do it.

But when they added up, their bills only come to $4000 a month, and they don’t really know what they do with the other $6000 they think they need with that $10,000 month.

If you don’t know what you would do with $10,000, you certainly don’t know what you would do with $1 million.

That’s why it’s so hard to manifest… and that’s also why you need to practice thinking bigger with your spending.

(Psst. This is something we start working on on Day 1 of Manifestation Madness)

#3 – You Won’t Allow Yourself To Receive It

This loops back to that misused word of abundance. If you feel shame, guilt, icky, greedy, selfish, not worthy, not ready, or anything else about money, you will not allow yourself to receive it.

This is becoming increasingly difficult in today’s political environment, where we are seeing rich people acting terribly, reinforcing the stereotype that rich people are bad.

And if we believe deep down in our hearts, and in our subconscious mind that rich people are bad, and we don’t want to become bad, we will not allow ourselves to receive money.

If we believe other people need money more than us and it’s selfish for us to accept more than we need, we won’t allow ourselves to receive it.

If you believe that you need to have a masters degree in order to make a certain salary, you will never receive the job offer with the salary you desire as long as you only have a bachelors.

The good news is, you can let go of these limiting beliefs and reframe your thoughts and beliefs about money.

And even aside from money, so many people, especially women are simply bad at receiving in general. We don’t receive favors we don’t receive help. We don’t receive compliments. Half the time, we are even holding our breath, unable to receive something as simple as oxygen into our lungs.

If any of this resonates with you, stop right now and just allow yourself to receive a breath. Allow yourself to receive that compliment without feeling the immediate need to reciprocate. Just allow yourself to receive. The more you practice receiving the little things, the easier it becomes to receive the big things like money.

If you are ready to change, these three reasons join me in Manifestation Madness beginning Saturday, March 1.

Click here for details and to claim your spot.

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Mastering Manifestation: Unleashing the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

August 28, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

I was introduced to manifestation and the law of attraction in the mid-2000’s, when, like millions of others around the globe, I saw the book and movie “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Also, like millions of others, I was in awe at the possibilities this theory opened up for me, yet I was still a bit skeptical. But I couldn’t help but wonder, if it worked for all these people, would it work for me too? When I set my mind to anything, I nearly always excel at it, so I assumed this would be the same. So, I began my quest to master the art of manifestation. I went about it in the same why I would with any other skill or interest: by learning as much as possible and perfecting all of the necessarily practices and methods in order to manifest my desires.

What I soon discovered was a seemingly endless supply of theories, universal laws, techniques, and practices, all claiming to be the one necessary step that would make all the difference. Over the years, I’ve read countless books on manifestation. I’ve taken months-long courses. For months, I spent an hour each day listening to recordings that promised to rewire my mind to manifest with ease. And I couldn’t tell you how many 7-, 14-, and 30-day manifestations challenges I’ve done over the years, all in an effort to become a master at manifestation. More often than not, after each new discovery, I would be raving about how amazing it is and how quickly I was manifesting my desires. I would revel in the excitement of finally figuring it all out as my desires came to me with ease. Yet just as quickly, this new-found power would fizzle out and I’d be disappointed yet again, wondering what I had done wrong.

Then, shortly after my 40th birthday, I experienced a distinct shift. Only days after becoming an affiliate with a direct sales company, I saw a team member share about an upcoming training on hypnotic marketing. Instantly intrigued, I signed up without an inkling of the journey this quick three-day training would ignite. As I learned about hypnosis and how the subconscious mind works, I began to see how our subconscious thoughts and beliefs affect what happens in our lives. I wondered what role it played in our ability (or inability in many cases) to manifest our desires. I made the decision to learn as much as I could about hypnosis and to become a certified hypnotist some day.

Not long after, I participated in my first group hypnosis session for manifestation and my suspicions were confirmed: Manifestation depends greatly on the subconscious mind. Throughout my training as a hypnotist, I learned how hypnosis can help you overcome limiting beliefs and build more confidence. I learned how it can help you maintain a more positive mindset, release self-sabotaging patterns, and let go of subconscious blocks that are holding you back from manifesting all you desire in life. I learned how hypnosis can help you visualize the life of your dreams so you can make it a reality. Yet no one was explaining how or why this worked and I felt intuitively that a piece of the puzzle was missing.

Even with hypnosis to help me with the manifestation itself, I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to manifest in my life. As a direct sales affiliate, our team leaders and mentors told us what the next milestones were, so I set my financial goals based on reaching these thresholds instead of determining what would afford me the lifestyle I want. I was trying to manifest a perfect wedding and marriage with a partner who was unemployed, unmotivated, and who I was not attracted to. I was imagining myself working for a certain company, but without a clear idea of what I would do there. While I now had the tool of hypnosis, I was still striving to manifest my desires with my ego and conscious mind and aiming to achieve goals that were never mine to begin with. I was still trying to “do” manifestation perfectly and master all the practices and techniques I was told would help. I was still constantly looking for signs and messages to validate or confirm that I was on the right path, even when I knew deep down that I wasn’t. So, my manifestations were always short-lived.

While hypnosis is a powerful tool to help you manifest, it cannot help you until you are clear on what you want to manifest and why. And it can’t help you until you choose a new way to manifest. A way that is remarkably different from the standard methods of setting and achieving goals. A way that allows you to thrive instead of strive. A way that aligns with your soul instead of your ego. A way that relies on the power of your subconscious mind instead of your conscious mind.

You may have already noticed some areas where you are trying to force your manifestation. Here is a quick assessment to see if you are relying too heavily on your conscious mind to attract your desires.

Take this 5-question self-assessment to see if you are stuck in conscious-mind manifestation:

Are your goals 100% your own and aligned with what you truly desire in your life right now?
Are you relying heavily on affirmations – especially those created by someone other than you – and using affirmations that don’t feel true to you yet?
Do you find yourself constantly trying to push yourself to make your desires come to fruition faster, thinking up ways to achieve them, and trying new manifestation techniques, rather than allowing yourself to go with the flow and receive?
Are you overthinking your manifestation methods and always trying to do everything absolutely perfectly?
Do you find yourself constantly looking for signs over and over again to confirm or validate your desires?

If you answered yet to any of these questions, you are likely still caught in your head – at least a little bit – when it comes to manifestation. It’s time to begin using the power of your subconscious mind for manifestation instead.

To learn more about using the power of your subconscious mind for manifestation, join me for my free masterclass on Friday, September 6th. Click here to learn more and sign up.

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Unlock Your Manifestation Potential with Hypnosis

August 19, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

In my book, I share how there are really only two requirements for manifestation to occur: Clarity of your desire and maintaining an energy that matches that desire. However, achieving both of these is often not quite as simple, which is why manifesting often feels like an uphill battle.

This is especially true if you are not using the power of your subconscious mind to help you with your manifesting.

Before any of us begins to intentionally manifest anything in our lives, we have likely spent years in default-mode manifestation. This default mode exists on a subconscious level, and is often influenced mainly by our fears, societal expectations, and limiting beliefs about what is possible for us. That is why we end up stuck in the same pattern year after year.

Even when you decide to intentionally manifest something new, these patterns remain embedded in our subconscious mind until it is reprogrammed for new beliefs, new thoughts and feelings, and new behaviors that will lead us to creating the life of our dreams.

This is where hypnosis comes in.

Hypnosis works on a subconscious level to quickly to release old programming in our subconscious mind and replace it with new, positive programming instead. This can be immensely helpful for manifestations in several ways.

Here are the 3 main ways I use hypnosis for manifestation.

1. Releasing fear and limiting beliefs that are keeping you stuff

In order to move out of your comfort zone and into the life of your wildest dreams, you need to let go of fear, limiting beliefs, and other subconscious blocks that have been holding you back. Fear is a natural human reaction. It was designed to keep us safe from predators.

However, our bodies and our minds still have the same fear-based reaction to non-lethal threats – like taking a vacation alone – as we did to being approached by a sabertooth tiger. Likewise, our minds keep us in the same routine we are used to because we know we can survive it. Anything new is perceived as dangerous. So the subconscious mind holds onto fears, beliefs, and coping mechanisms that keeps us in this pattern of safety and security.

Through hypnosis, we can retrain our mind to let go of these fear-based patterns and create a new sense of safety and security in our desired life vision instead.

2. Gaining clarity on spiritually aligned desires

Humans are herd animals. Again, with the survival mode of our distant ancestors, we have carried on as a species by sticking together and doing the same thing. However, in today’s modern society, we have so many more choices for our life than our ancestors did, yet we still shy away from them because we’re afraid of standing out. This often shows up as following along with the traditional path in our society and what others expect of us. How often have you set a goal for yourself based on what someone else thought was best for you?

But here’s the thing. When you release your fears and limiting beliefs, you also get to reevaluate your desires to be sure they are in line with what you truly want. If your goals are not what you want out of life – at least not now – your subconscious mind will either self-sabotage you, or your intuition and higher self will constantly nudge you in a new direction making you feel unsatisfied or unsure of your goal.

Through hypnosis, you can gain access to your spiritual connection, guides, higher self, and intuition to gain clarity on your goals and your soul purpose to be sure you are manifesting what is really in alignment for you.

3. Building confidence and self-worth so you can receive your desires

Last, but certainly not least, if you are going to manifest your desires, you need to have the confidence to pursue them and the self-worth to receive them. Receiving is one of the most powerful acts in manifesting and it is also the most overlooked. In our society, we are trained that we need to work hard to earn something or that we have to take what we’ve been given.

The act of receiving is much more gentle and it is not what we are accustomed to. Because of this, many of us have a difficult time receiving our desires no matter how much we want them. We feel as though we haven’t worked hard enough for them or feel like we aren’t good enough. The list could go on, but women in particular have a resistance to receiving which blocks manifestation.

Hypnosis can open you up to receiving by building your confidence and increasing your sense of self-worth so you can receive your desires with ease.

To learn more about how hypnosis and the power of your subconscious mind can supercharge your manifesting abilities, join me for my free masterclass, Mind Magic for Manifestation, on Friday, September 6th. Claim your spot here.

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Hypnosis for Manifestation: Why I use hypnosis more than traditional manifesting techniques

August 15, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

Why do I rely on hypnosis for manifestation more than traditional techniques like affirmations, vision boards, or the 3-6-9 method?

I’ll be honest. These techniques can be very effective, and I use some of them daily. However, on their own, these practices barely scratch the surface of what is possible for manifestation because they are only truly effective when they are paired with subconscious mind work, like hypnosis.

Now, let me share why each of these techniques falls short, and how to bring your subconscious mind into them to increase their power.

#1 – Affirmations

Affirmations are great for shifting your mindset, reminding you of your goals, and refocusing your train of thought. Too often, however, affirmations trigger red flags in your mind and actually when you know what you are saying is not true. They can actually backfire in the long run.

Now, when you use affirmations within self-hypnosis, you are sneaking past the gatekeeper that’s calling “bullshit” so you can reprogram your subconscious mind to belief what you are saying. When used consciously, affirmations rely on repetition to retrain the subconscious, which is a much slower way to do this than hypnosis.

#2 – Vision Boards

Vision boards are actually one of my favorite things and my accomplishment record with desires placed on my vision board is incredibly high. But if you’re simply pasting photos onto a board because they seem nice and you’d like to have that, and that’s it, you mostly likely won’t have the success I’ve had.

Instead, really tune into what you desire, why, and how you’ll feel when you receive it. Choose a photo, create an image in Canva, or find a particular phrase that fully embodies, and as you create your vision board, imagine these feelings filling your body. These feelings and your ability to evoke them come from your subconscious mind, so pairing this with hypnosis is even more powerful.

Then, revisit this several times a week. You may not have time to go through every image but tune into the items calling you on any particular day and recall those feelings you brought to mind when you created it.

#3 – The 3-6-9 Method

Now let’s talk about the very popular 3-6-9 method. This method, like affirmations alone, focus on retraining the subconscious mind through repeatedly writing out your desires several times a day, and also recalling the feelings these desires bring up. Yes, it can be effective. But again, however, this method may not get through the gatekeeper of your mind if you are doing this exercise consciously. Instead, practice this while in a state of light hypnosis and watch your manifesting powers skyrocket!

The Missing Piece

There is one really important aspect to consider. None of these techniques can help you with the #1 thing that blocks manifestation:

Fear.

Fear that you’re not good enough.
Fear that you’re not worthy.
Fear of standing out and being seen.
Fear of leaving others behind.
Fear of the path less traveled.
Fear of the unknown.
Fear of failure.
Fear of success.
Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear!!

Seriously, I wrote at least 5 more down but had to draw the line somewhere.

Here’s the amazing news:

Hypnosis can help you let go of these fears, limiting beliefs, and subconscious block by finally getting to the cause of the fear, releasing it, and then replacing it with more beneficial thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, like confidence, empowerment, and self-trust.

Manifesting with hypnosis isn’t just another ritual to do each day. Rather, it’s a highly effective way to clear your path to manifestation of subconscious obstacles so you can create the success you deserve.

Want to learn more about manifesting with the power of your subconscious mind? Join me for a masterclass on Mind Magic for Manifestation. Claim your spot here. It’s free!

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The Lion’s Gate Portal opens soon 🦁

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

The Lion’s Gate Portal is coming up in only a few weeks, and this year it is going to be even more powerful than usual.

The Lion’s Gate Portal occurs every year from late July to mid-August, peaking on August 8th (8/8). It is the time of year when the sun in Leo (thus the lion 🦁) aligns with the star Sirius, Orion’s Belt, and Earth. Both Sirius and the number 8 represent wealth, abundance, and fortune, which is what makes this alignment so powerful.

This year, 2024, is also a Universal Year 8 (2+0+2+4=8), making it even more potent.

The energy of the Lion’s Gate Portal, with its focus on wealth, abundance, and good fortune, is a perfect time for manifestation, so here are a few ways you can harness this energy:

Reflect on your current and upcoming goals to be sure they are in alignment with what you truly desire. Muscle testing is a great way to check that your goals are aligned. If you find they are no longer your desires, let them go. If something feels off about them, either rephrase it or dig into what isn’t quite right about it. If you do not fully want something on a conscious and subconscious level, you will subconsciously self-sabotage yourself, making manifestation difficult if not impossible.

Journal about how you will feel when you receive what you are in the process of manifesting. Ask yourself what these desires will really do for you on a deeper level, because that next layer may be your true desire.

After revealing how receiving your desires will make you feel, take 5 minutes to imagine this feeling filling up your mind and body, to align you with this energy.

Join me for a special Lion’s Gate group hypnosis session to super-charge your manifestation powers on a subconscious level. Click here to register.

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How to Build Confidence as a Writer

May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

How to Build Your Confidence as a Writer

As a writer, confidence is one of the most important traits you can have. Confidence gives writers the ability to feel safe in telling their stories, to trust in their skills and knowledge, and to speak about their writing with the world in order to promote their books.

While some people seem to be born with plenty of confidence, others take some time to develop the self-assurance they need to share their creativity with the world. Regardless of where you fall on this scale, confidence is something you can begin building now.

Here are 7 ways you can build your confidence as a writer:

Self-Hypnosis for Confidence – Hypnosis can reprogram your mind for confidence by retraining the way you speak to and about yourself, by releasing limiting beliefs, and by increasing positive expectations.

Affirmations – Similar to how confidence can be instilled through hypnosis, affirmations retrain your self-talk, keep you focused on your desired outcomes, and they keep you aware of your thoughts so you can see when doubt and fear are speaking louder than confidence and self-assurance.

Reevaluate your idea of what constitutes good writing – Many people believe that because they do not have impeccable grammar or spelling, they cannot be good writers. Fortunately, grammar and spelling can easily be changed, corrected, and improved. What is most important it your ability to tell a compelling story and share your unique message.

Share your writing with others – One of the most effective ways to improve your writing is to get feedback on it. In order to get feedback, you have to be willing to share your writing with others. If you keep it locked away in your google docs without anyone else ever laying eyes on it, you are denying yourself positive feedback and praise as well as constructive criticism that will help you become a better writer.

Develop your intuition – If you want to trust yourself more, which is confidence at its core, developing your intuition is a must. When you strengthen this inner knowing, you learn to rely on your instincts as a writer more than research or outside opinions. This builds confidence in your writing and your message that is more solid because it comes from within.

Work with a writing coach – While developing your intuition builds confidence in your writing from within, working with a writing coach will help you learn the skills you may not have on your own. Will they sit down and teach you proper grammar and spelling? No, they are no elementary school teachers. But they will teach you how to structure your story, how to make your writing more compelling, and how to make it as clear as possible for your readers.

Get yourself published! This may seem like an obvious one. You may be thinking, “don’t you need the confidence so you CAN get published?” and the answer is yes. BUT there are many smaller ways you can get published on your way to publishing your book that will give you a huge confidence boost and some added credibility as a writer. Apply to be a guest blogger with a much larger platform. Submit articles to a publication in your niche. Participate in a collaborative book. When I became published as a contributing author in a collaborative book, it gave me a huge boost in confidence as a writer and in motivation to complete my own book. Now, I’m working on publishing my own collaborative book on the bridge between creativity and spirituality. If you’d like to be a featured author, click here to learn more and apply.

When you build your confidence as a writer, you will finally allow your writing to improve and your career as an author to begin. Confidence allows you to embrace opportunities that arise with enthusiasm and courage. You may even begin to create your own opportunities.

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6 Steps to Spirit Guided Writing

March 20, 2024October 20, 2025 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

Spirit Guided Writing is a unique method of connecting with your higher self, spirit guides, and the Universe to improve your creative process from start to finish. As a spiritual seeker, you may have heard of channeled, intuitive, or automatic writing as a means of connecting with the divine for personal growth.

While Spirit Guided Writing incorporates these techniques, its focus is on your creative journey, from receiving inspiration, through the writing itself, all the way to sharing your message with the world. With your spirit team advising your project, your writing becomes more authentic, fulfilling, and aligned with your purpose.

Spirit Guided Writing builds trust and confidence in your writing, which makes the creative process faster, easier, and more enjoyable. The best part about it is that anyone can learn it by following these six steps.

Watch this quick video for the 6 Steps to Spirit Guided Writing:

To learn more about Spirit Guided Writing, download the guide here.

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3 Reasons Why Your Book Deserves Its Own Vision Board

January 26, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

Every year for the past decade, maybe longer, I’ve created a vision board. Some years this happened on New Years. Some it didn’t happen until spring started to arrive. Both are great times for creating a vision board because they are times of new beginnings and new life.

Each year, almost everything on my vision board came into my life. In Bermuda, while walking along a tiny road, I came over a hill to see a beautiful bay with turquoise water and pink sand and immediately noticed how similar it was to a photo on my vision board. When I rescued my cat, I looked back and realized how much she resembled a kitten on that year’s board. And when I found myself single again, I got very intentional about what I wanted to feel and experience in my next relationship…and that is exactly how my relationship with my boyfriend is now.

But year after year, there was one goal on my vision board that never seemed to come any closer to manifesting: Writing a Book.

Last, when I made my yearly vision board, I switched it up a bit. In previous years, I had maybe a photo or two indicating my desire to “Write a Book.” This time, however, I took it a step further. I incorporated how I wanted my life as a writer to look and feel. I focused on the finished version – a Spiritual Best-Seller – rather than than the process of writing.

When I began work on my book, The Creative Alchemist’s Manifestation Method, I wrote out my goals for the book – what I wanted it to look like, how I wanted readers to react and use the book, when and how I wanted to publish it.

Not too surprisingly, I completed and published the book before the end of the year and it instantly became the #1 New Release in several categories!

If you have a desire to write a book, you owe it to yourself, your audience, and your story to create a vision board specifically for that book.

Here are 3 Reasons Why Your Book Deserves Its Own Vision Board:

Number 1: Your real goal is so much more than to write a book and a vision board for your book allows you to explore this deeper.

So many of us have the dream to write a book some day. But in reality, it isn’t that we want to write a book. What we really want is to publish a book. To share our story. To make an impact on our readers by sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our lives.

When we set our intention to “write a book,” the universe is listening. What it hears, is that you want to write. This can lead to a long, drawn out writing process that seems never-ending…because writing was the goal.

Instead, when you shift the focus to the end goal – publishing your first book, becoming a best-selling author, getting a multi-book deal, you set the intention to not only write your book, but to complete it and share it with the world.

Number 2: A vision board for your book supports your long-term vision as an author

When you commit to becoming a published author, your life can change in many ways. As an entrepreneur, publishing your book gives you more authority in your niche, which can expand your business in a big way.

You may go on to write several books and build a career around your writing.

You may go on to help other writers publish their books as well.

Incorporating these next-level goals into your vision board support your desire because it gets you thinking about not only writing the book, but how your life will be when the book is completed.

And Number 3: A vision board keeps you focused and inspired when you feel unmotivated.

Let’s face it. Motivation comes and goes with anything, writing included. Even if you absolutely love writing and your book flows out of you with ease, eventually, you move on to the next steps. Editing, formatting, proofreading. What I call “the boring part.” And because it isn’t as fun for me as writing, it was the part of publishing my book that slowed me down the most.

Knowing my vision for my book beyond the writing itself kept me focused and brought back my motivation when it began to wane.

A vision board helps you send this message to the universe and is a constant reminder of your intentions.

If you are ready to create a vision board for your book, join me Sunday, January 28th for the hands-on virtual workshop, Vision Board Your Book.

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The Secret to Manifestation is there’s not just one secret!

January 7, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

If you’ve been studying and practicing manifestation for a while, you have probably run into more than one person or group or theory claiming that it is the missing link that will have all your desires streaming to you like a waterfall.

In Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret,” the secret isn’t some magical ingredient for manifestation. It is the fact that manifestation and the law of attraction exist at all! However, simply knowing about it does not necessarily activate it. You still need to do some inner work to get your powers of manifestation flowing.

After years of absorbing as much as I could about the law of attraction, with practices ranging from months-long programs with hours of content each week yet little to put into action to overly simplified methods of writing your desire over and over again, I had the idea to create my own manifestation ritual.

The result was a morning journaling practice that took the overwhelm out of manifesting. As I began piecing it together, I slowly realized that there is a rather simple equation to manifest anything – clarity on your true desires on a subconscious level + energetic vibration that matches those desires = manifesting it into your life.

What is great about this equation is that it can be achieved in a number of ways!

For me, it’s through my morning journaling practice, which I share in The Creative Alchemist’s Manifestation Method.

I invite you to take these practices and make them your own!

To walk you through these practices, I created a 10-Day Manifestation Challenge you can start the moment you are ready to create the life of your dreams.