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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FREE: Mind Magic for Manifestation Masterclass & Hypnosis Session

July 19, 2025 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

To my spiritual entrepreneurs manifesting their purpose-driven business…

Remember, you don’t attract what you want and what you think. You attract what you are on a subconscious level & what your subconscious mind is programmed to receive.

If you’re playing small and know you’re meant for something bigger, it’s time to rewire your mind to feel safe and in alignment with your big dreams.

Take the first step by joining me for my next free training, Mind Magic for Manifestation.

In this masterclass…

✨ You will gain a deeper understanding how your subconscious reprogramming can boost your manifestation skills, so you finally attract your desires.

✨ You will identify what’s separating you from the life you desire so you can call in your desires faster than ever before.

✨ You will experience a short hypnosis session to embody your desires so you can begin to take inspired action towards your goals.

The Details:
Wednesday, July 30 at 3:00 p.m. ET
Live on Zoom

Claim your spot at https://pages.melissaconkling.com/manifestation-masterclass

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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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5 Ways Hypnosis Can Enhance Your Writing

May 9, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

In 2018, when I first began studying hypnosis, I realized quickly that I had already been using hypnosis in a number of ways without realizing it: in my favorite mindfulness technique, how I relaxed my mind before going to bed, and most surprisingly, to help with my writing process.

While this was several years before I called myself a writer, writing was a significant part of my life. I wrote daily in my job in real estate marketing and social media. It was the center of my work with new play development and dramaturgy. It was a huge – and my favorite – part of grad school. And I was a lifelong journaller to boot.

With each of these, I knew I had to be in the right mindset to do my best writing and had specific routines for different writing assignments. I simply never recognized these routines for what they were – hypnosis!

Now that I am aware of this distinction, I can intentionally use hypnosis to enhance my writing and my creative process in a number of ways.

Here are my top five uses of hypnosis for writing.

#1 – Hypnosis can help you reduce overthinking and overanalyzing while writing

When it comes to writing, particularly non-fiction writing, many people rely most heavily on their conscious mind to get it done. After all, it is the “doing” part of our mind so it’s natural to give this job to our conscious, logical mind.

However, creativity and self-expression come from our subconscious mind. That’s why when we use our conscious mind to do our writing, we can get caught up in overthinking, constantly editing our thoughts and ideas, and making the process unnecessarily long and painful. It’s because we’re using the wrong part of our mind.

When we allow our subconscious mind to run the show in our writing process, our ideas and words flow, we trust ourselves more, and our writing becomes faster and easier. In hypnosis, our conscious, logical mind goes to the background and our subconscious mind comes forward and does its magic, which reduces overthinking and increases natural creativity.

Additionally, hypnosis is, by definition, a state of relaxation. When you bring yourself into a slightly hypnotic state when you are writing, your mind relaxes and your inner critic quiets down, allowing you to write without questioning yourself so you can write now and edit later.

#2 – Hypnosis brings you into a flow state

When you are in hypnosis, which is a state of lowered conscious mind activity, you enter a flow state. In this state, you are hyper-focused on the task at hand and free from outside distractions and mental noise.

Bringing myself into a flow state for writing is a routine I began in grad school, without realizing it was self-hypnosis. Whenever I’d have a paper to write, once my research and outlines were done, I’d sit on my couch, press “play” on Gone with the Wind, and before I knew it, my first draft would be written. I don’t particularly like Gone with the Wind, so this routine never made much sense to me. I just knew it worked.

It wasn’t until I began learning about hypnosis that I understood why this worked. In the 7+ minutes of opening credits, the music relaxed me into a hypnotic flow state, so before the movie even began, I was intensely focused on my writing. Furthermore, as the music fades in and out throughout the movie, it renews this state of flow so I could hold my concentration for hours.

Learning to bring yourself into this state through self-hypnosis can transform your writing sessions and maximize your time and effort. And it’s easier to do than you realize. All it takes is a little practice. In fact, I do it almost every time I write, including right now, in only a matter of seconds.

To learn how to activate a flow state through self-hypnosis, join me for this training on June 7th!

#3 – Hypnosis can help you break through writer’s block

While I’m not a huge fan of the term “writer’s block” because it presents itself in so many different ways, at different parts of the writing journey, for very different reasons, it is well-documented that hypnosis is a powerful too for overcoming writer’s block in many of its forms.

Writer’s block can be caused by overthinking and trying to hard. It can be caused by fear and doubt. It can be caused by subconscious blocks you don’t even know you have. It can look like procrastination. It can feel like a total loss for words or ideas. It can even manifest itself by getting sick or extremely busy. Just to name a few!

The amazing news is that hypnosis can help with all of these, since it helps you reprogram your subconscious habits, beliefs, and feelings, which are often the root of these issues.

#4 – Hypnosis can build your confidence

Confidence is a quality most of us could use more of, especially writers. As a writer, you may (or may not) be confident in your writing ability. When you are, you trust your ideas, resist the urge to second guess yourself, and write faster as a result. But confidence for writers goes beyond the act of writing itself.

We are in a time where regardless of what publishing route you choose – traditional, self-publishing, or hybrid – you will be the primary drive of your marketing, promotion, and book sales. Building your confidence in being seen, public speaking, sharing your message, and so much more will increase your ability to sell your book to readers, agents, and publishers.

An added note: building confidence as a writer often goes hand in hand with releasing writer’s block. Our minds are like vacuums. When you release an unwanted feeling, belief, or habit, something will rush in to take its place. Being intentional about calling in positive feelings, beliefs, and habits like confidence, self-trust, and motivation to fill this void is crucial. If you only work on letting go of the negative without intentionally replacing it with a positive, another negative can fill its place.

#5 – Hypnosis can help you gain clarity on what you are writing

Last, but certainly not lease, hypnosis can help you gain clarity and find solutions within your message, your ideas, and how to present them in your writing. Again, this is an area where it is tempting to rely on your conscious mind.

We’re often taught to think through our solutions and options. However, when we let our logical mind team up with our powerful subconscious mind, we often find the best solution in the most unexpected places.

When you learn to use hypnosis to connect with your intuition, higher self, and spirit guides, you connect with a deeper universal intelligence that knows exactly when and how to share your message and tell your story. Asking for writing guidance from these sources of inner and spiritual wisdom can reveal information you’ve forgotten. It can make your writing come across more clearly, it can show you possibilities you hadn’t considered before.

It also makes your writing authentic and aligned with your purpose. After all, when you rely on outside sources and research for your writing, anyone can access the same information. Only YOU can connect with your own inner wisdom to share what your soul knows to be true. Leaving this personal knowledge out is denying your readers the essence of your writing.

To learn more about connecting with spirit for your writing, check out my free pdf on 6 Steps to Spirit Guided Writing.

Hypnosis can assist and enhance your writing and creativity in countless ways, so this is just the tip of the iceberg!

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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 Results are Coming in from Last Week’s Workshop…

August 30, 2023August 29, 2023 Melissa Conkling1 Comment

Dorene joined me Tuesday night for the free workshop on self-hypnosis for creativity. Less than 48 hours later, she posted her experience from the meditation…and that she’s taking action on her ideas already!!

Here’s what she said:

And if people are receiving results like this from the free 60-minute workshop, just imagine what will be unleashed in the 4-week program!!

Want fast results like this? Here’s the recording of the free workshop:

Want even better results? Check out my new program:

Cultivating Creativity: Connecting to Spirit to Unleash Your Creativity

It begins on Tuesday, September 12^th.

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Three Ways Creativity and Spirituality are Intertwined

August 29, 2023March 4, 2024 Melissa Conkling1 Comment

About two years ago, as I began to dive deeper into my spiritual growth than ever before, I discovered that when I allowed myself to get creative and playful with my spiritual practice, my connection grew much stronger. This was when I began communicating with my spirit guides regularly and in a very clear and productive way. I began to trust my intuition more and to actively tune into it more than ever before, rather than just waiting for it to speak up. I also began to feel safe expressing my spiritual side for the first time ever, which allowed me to pivot my business into what it is today.

While I recognized right away that adding creativity into the mix strengthened my spiritual connection, it was a while before I noticed the reverse was also true: As my spirituality deepened, my creativity was ignited as well!

I’ve always been a creative person, so at first it simply felt as though I had a renewed interest in things I had been neglecting for a while, particularly writing. But as time went by and I continued to feed this new creative urge, it continued to grow. Now it has become a fountain of ongoing creative interest, ideas, and action in all aspects of life – in my business, in my writing, and in personal life.

Because of this, it’s as clear as day to me that not only does creativity enhance our spiritual connection, but our spiritual connection also enhances our creativity.

There are three main ways creativity and spirituality are connected.

#1 – The Subconscious Mind Connection

First and foremost, creativity and spirituality are both access from the same part of our mind: our subconscious mind. As mentioned in my previous post about how the mind connects to spirit, the subconscious mind is our bridge to the superconscious, which includes all-that-is, including the spiritual realm and all ideas. For truly inspired creativity, connection to the superconscious is key. This all takes place through accessing our subconscious mind to bring spiritual connection and creative ideas into our conscious awareness.

#2 – An Act of Faith is Required

Next, they both have one big requirement in common: spirituality and creativity both require a leap of faith. When pursuing any creative endeavor, we need to let go of the expectation that it will turn out exactly as we think it will. We need to let go of the pressure we put on our ability to create. And we need to let go of the doubt that holds us back from exploring these ideas in the first place. Just like spirituality! Doubt and expectation of what spirituality “should” be are what often keep us from recognizing our own spiritual experiences. Because they both require faith, it’s also important to throw logic out the window…which is exactly why hypnosis helps with both. In hypnosis, the logical, conscious mind takes a little break from overthinking and allows the subconscious mind to take over, which enhances creativity and our connection to spirit.

#3 – Allowing Flow Instead of Force

And third, both require flow rather than force. It’s as simple as this: when you attempt to force your creativity or your spiritual connection, you are approaching it with your conscious, “doing” mind. You are not connected to the universal source. You are not connected to the superconscious. You are attempting the create the outcome you expect: a good idea or a spiritual experience. And when you go into it with finite expectations, you are blocking the experience you are meant to have and the ideas you are meant to receive. When you access ideas and inspiration from a flow state, you simply become open to the ideas and all you need to do is receive them. Then, once they are received and you acknowledge them consciously, you can explore them further!

By learning to access the power of your subconscious mind, you can learn to enter this flow state easily, connecting you to spirit and creativity deeper and deeper every day. To learn more about this process, check out my new book writing program.