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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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.

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Free Workshop! Spiritual Self-Hypnosis – Tap into Your Inner Guidance to Unleash Your Creativity

August 14, 2023 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

When someone asks me how I’ve built so much trust in my creativity (and in myself!), the answer is easy.

I stopped trying to find the right way to “be creative” and started relying on my intuition and my spiritual connection so I can create what I truly want to create.

I believe we all have our own way to experience our spiritual growth and creativity is often a huge part of this journey.

I’m not a magician, yet my clients and I have…

Outlined a new book in less than 2 hours after my last masterclass!
Produced an entire online course (and launched it!) based on spiritual guidance received through self-hypnosis.
Began effortlessly and authentically creating social media content in a way that aligns with their values and passions rather than only feeding the algorithm.

The one thing behind it all: Learning to use self-hypnosis to tap into the power of their subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind makes up about 90% of our mind power and includes our:

Intuition
Creativity
Spiritual Connection
Beliefs
Emotions

Together, these ingredients give us the clarity we need to create what we truly desire in life, not just what we *think* we should create.

If you know you have something special to share with the world but can’t seem to get it from your mind onto paper, then you are going to LOVE this!!

In less than two weeks, I’m sharing the secret key to unlocking your creativity in a live 60-minute workshop, Spiritual Self-Hypnosis: Tap into Your Inner Guidance to Unleash Your Creativity! This workshop is just as good as my paid training…possibly even better! And it’s all happening on Tuesday, August 22nd at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

If you can’t make the date, sign up anyway and I’ll send you the replay.

Here’s what you need to know:

This is a 60-ish minute training to teach you self-hypnosis to tap into your inner guidance, with a focus on creativity.
I will include a quick and simple homework assignment…and everyone who completes it will receive a special gift from me!
It’ll be free for 7 day – both live and the replay, but after those 7 days, it will become part of my paid membership, which I’ll talk more about at the end of the workshop.

If you want to hear more about the membership, sign up for the workshop or click here.

And if you just want some free training on self-hypnosis and all the ways it can help you, that’s cool too! One more time, here’s the registration page → Spiritual Self Hypnosis Registration.

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How Hypnosis and My Intuition Changed My Life and My Business

July 24, 2023July 25, 2023 Melissa Conkling2 Comments

In November 2021, I knew I needed to change things in my life. In fact, I could feel the shift coming, whether I liked it or not. It was, to be completely honest, scary AF. Relationship, Business, Myself. You name it, it was ready for an overhaul.

But sometimes, when things like this all happen at the same time, I get overwhelmed. I freeze and refuse to take action. While it’s not helpful, it’s a fairly common thing…because change can be terrifying.

But that week, I did something different.

For a while, I had been developing my intuition and my connection to my higher self. And not only working on developing it, but I had also been working on taking action on that inner guidance.

One day, during meditation, I received a very simple yet straightforward message:

Listen to your root chakra recording daily.

I had created the recording a few months earlier and listened to it here and there, but far from every day. So, in the practice of action on what my higher self says to me, I decided to give it a whirl.

Each day, I could feel my energy changing. Feeling calmer and more grounded. Feeling more secure and less fearful of the change I knew was taking place.

Day by day, this feeling of safety and self-assurance grew. My intuition and higher self were clearer than ever before. Ideas for my business – and my life in general – were flowing like a waterfall. Until one day, about a week in to listening to that recording daily, I simply knew.

It was time.

And I was ready for it.

Within a day, I had outlined an entirely new hypnosis and coaching program, in an entirely new niche. I began launching it immediately with no hesitation. I ended my long-term relationship that had grown stagnant, unsatisfying, and unhealthy. I began working for a nonprofit that works with trees, which reignited my passion for nature.

So many changes in such a short time.

In the past, this much change would freak my security-seeking Cancer self out big time. This time, it it all came with such ease and just felt right.

I owe it all to these 3 things:

Developing my intuition and connection to my higher self. This is something I talk about over and over again, but that’s because it is so important. If you want to live in alignment, cultivating and acting on your intuition is a must. You can’t just wait for it to show up. Be proactive in strengthening it.
Acting on that guidance. These are two VERY different things. Recognizing your intuition and voice of your higher self is just step one and it’s basically useless until you put it into action. Action becomes easier and easier as you learn to recognize your intuition and see how it is the right next step for you. Sometimes this comes from looking back at where you didn’t listen to in the past. It also comes from learning to embrace the fear of the unknown that so often comes along with it.
The safety and security I received from listening to that root chakra hypnosis recording. Grounding and root chakra work isn’t only important to keep you rooted in your body as you move along on your spiritual growth. It also helps you create a sense of safety and security. It helps you face those fears that have kept you from taking action in the past.

And guess what…my hypnosis recordings played a huge part in all three!

Each of these steps are all incredibly important and they are all very intertwined. It’s a constant evolution with each new step along your path, not a one-and-done kind of lesson. And it definitely is not linear either, like most things spiritual. It’s not as simple as following steps one, two, and three. Most often, it’s helpful to do them simultaneously and repeat as needed.

Having my library of recordings at my fingertips is undoubtedly something I have taken for granted over the past few years.

I know that now.

And that’s why I want to share it with you.

All my hypnosis recordings…and so much more.

Only $27/month.

Click here to get started on your shift today 💜

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3 Ways Spirit May Be Sending You Messages Right Now

July 6, 2023July 6, 2023 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

It probably won’t surprise you too much to learn that I read quite a few books on spirit guides. From well-known mediums like James Van Praagh to relative newcomers such as Yamile Yemoonyah, and all of their different methods, philosophies and experiences fascinate me. But one thing always stands out: for most of them, connecting with their guides came easily. It was either a part of their life for as long as they can remember or it began spontaneously. While honing and understanding their gifts undoubtedly took time and practice, connecting to their guides in the first place always sounds somewhat effortless.

My experience, however, couldn’t be more different. For me, it wasn’t something that just happened as if by magic one night. It wasn’t something I grew up doing (at least not that I was aware of!) And it wasn’t something that came to me as soon as I started trying.

It was something that took a lot of time and effort. It was something that took a lot of trial and error. Above all, it was something that took a lot of patience and persistence. Eventually it paid off…and then some! This is exactly why I know deep down that we can all connect with our guides on our own, without the use of other intuitives or mediums. It’s also why I believe most people are already receiving messages from their guides, but they just don’t realize it yet.

Here are a few tips on how your guides may be sending you signs and what to look for as you begin your spirit guide journey.

#1 – Recurring Visions, Sound or Other Sensations

For at least a year before I first officially met my first guide, I’d been having glimpses of the same scene during my meditations and intuitive listening practice…a cabin somewhere in the mountains. I could see the gravel path leading up to its front porch and smell the smoke coming from its chimney. I could even feel the brisk mountain air. And it made absolutely no sense. Growing up in Connecticut, I spent a lot of time in the White Mountains of New Hampshire growing up…and I knew it wasn’t there. It was some place new and unfamiliar. I had no idea what to think about these visions and could have easily dismissed it.

Instead, I always noted it down in my journal. When I met my guide Frank, a rancher from Wyoming, the first thing he said to me was that he had been trying to reach me for a while. I immediately knew these visions were messages from him and that this was Frank’s cabin. In fact, in the meditation I used that very first time, it guided me to envision a house somewhere…and that cabin is what I visualized. So I first met Frank in his cabin!!

So don’t dismiss those seemingly imaginary visions you may be receiving!

#2 – New & Sudden Callings of the Heart

Callings of the heart don’t need to be huge or romantic gestures. They can be as simply as an unrelenting urge to do something new or that you haven’t done in decades. And so often, these little acts lead us to where we are meant to be next. And they are often planted in our mind by our guides.

The more I began connecting with my higher self, developing my intuition, and attempting to connect with my spirit guides, the more I kept having one thought come up over and over and over again: Get out in nature and be near the water. It seemed to make no sense. And even though I live fairly close to the water, it also seemed irresponsible to focus on that rather than my business. But it came up so often, that I had to follow this nudge.

It wasn’t long before I realized that when I am near the water or out in the woods, my intuition and connection to spirit is by far the strongest. To this day, my most profound connections with my spirit guides have been when I’m out on my morning walks by the water. I now how no doubt that this was a message from my guides to get into an environment where my intuitive abilities are heightened.

Resist the urge to ignore these callings or to put them off for a “better” time – they may be signs from your guides that are leading you to the perfect next step in your journey.

#3 – Sudden Knowings

This is definitely one of the strangest, yet most awesome things about connecting with spirit guides. So often, it is as though I suddenly know something I never knew before. It happens a lot. Whether it is recognizing a link between two things that I never saw before, like when I realized how our mind connects with the spiritual realm, or when I’m suddenly able to map out my next book in under an hour, it is clear to me that this knowledge is coming from something bigger than just me. At first, I chalked it up to the idea of “spiritual downloads” people often talk about.

Now, I know it is slightly different than some random idea filtering through my mind unexpectedly. As I’ve learned to trust these knowing and the messages from my guides, I can now ask for specific guidance and know that I will receive the perfect information for whatever project I’m working on at any given time. One guide shared the outline for my entire spirit guide course one afternoon in December. Another gave me the format for the Channeled Writing workshop I ran for my coach a couple weeks ago. And time after time, they guide me on what to share on social media and in my blog on any given day. The information is always clear and concise…and almost always includes concepts I’d never even thought of before!

So when you suddenly know something – and know it’s true deep down – don’t question whether it’s true or not. Instead, trust that it’s a message from your spirit team!

A Final Note – Keep Looking!!

Now, because spirit guides can communicate in so many ways, there are certainly many more things you may have been overlooking…things such as recurring numbers like 11:11 or 3:33, receiving different signs such as seeing dragonflies all over the place suddenly (for me last summer it was deer…I saw them everywhere, very up close and personal!), or recurring dreams. Our guides are persistent, so they will continue to send us there messages until we receive them. They want us to receive them because they are meant to help us fulfill our purpose in life.

So don’t give up and always keep an eye out for what messages you may be missing!

grounding · Hypnosis Programs · Mind-Body-Spirit

Your Body Matters As Much As Your Spirit & Your Mind

July 4, 2023 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

Two years ago, laying on the beach one day, I was suddenly struck with a new Knowing. At the time, I had been focusing my business on Hypnosis for Weight Loss. As my practice grew and my interest in the spiritual side of life expanded, I began bringing more and more spiritual and energetic aspects into my hypnosis program each time I ran it.

That’s when I realized the link between balancing our chakras and reaching our individual ideal size.

I believe each of us had a perfect size where we feel in balance…based on our needs and our life and our body, not based on what society tells us we should look like. Not based on adhering to any rules other than what our body, mind, and spirit knows is best for us.

So, I created an 8-week hypnosis program based on this concept.

But the problem was that I was being pulled in another direction within my business and life. This niche wasn’t allowing me to grow anymore. As my purpose became clearer and I moved into a more spiritual niche, I abandoned this program. And I truthfully haven’t thought much about it in over a year and a half….until a week ago.

Someone I’ve known for a while reached out to ask me about it.

That’s when I realized by hiding this program away, I’ve been doing people a disservice because the body is just as important as our mind and our spirit.

Yes, you are a spirit having a human experience…but that experience is through your body. In fact, while the spirit can live on forever, we can’t live this lifetime without our body. And we all deserve to treat our body well.

So…I’m bringing Empowered Transformation back.

In this self-guided program, I will help you transform your body, mind, and spirit so you can feel like YOU again. 8 weeks of hypnosis that you can listen to whenever you choose and a Facebook community for support.

Ready to learn more? Click here for the details.

intuition · Mind-Body-Spirit · spirit guides · Spiritual Mindset · Spirituality

How the Mind Connects to Spirit

June 15, 2023 Melissa Conkling2 Comments

In a previous post, I discussed the trinity of mind, body, and spirit, and the importance of maintaining a balance between the three, particularly when you embark on a spiritual journey such as this one. Now, it’s time to introduce another trinity within one of these aspects: The Mind.

It might not sound sexy or romantic when we are so drawn to spirit and want to spend all of our time there. However, no matter how spiritual we are, our connection with spirit and our ability to bring that connection into our lives through our physical body is always – and will always be – perceived and understood through our mind…but not in the way you may think.

It is not and cannot be a logical thought process alone. It occurs through three levels of consciousness: the Conscious Mind, the Subconscious Mind, and the Superconscious.

The Conscious Mind

The Conscious Mind is the logical, analytical part of our mind. It is responsible for many of the actions we take throughout the day. It gets us to where we need to be on time. It gets dinner on the table. It figures out a whole lot for us. We cannot live without it in this world. It analyzes our problems and then focuses on fixing them, often fixating on the problems to a fault.

Because we know how helpful it is, we often rely on this aspect of our mind for just about everything. But here’s the catch: the Conscious Mind makes up only between 5-10% of our individual mind power. The Subconscious Mind makes up the other 90-95%.

The Subconscious Mind

The Subconscious Mind controls most of what makes up our human experience. It informs our conscious mind of what to do and what not to do. Its main function is to keep us safe and alive. Our subconscious mind controls our autonomic nervous system, which keeps our body running on autopilot. It keeps our hearts beating and our lungs breathing. Our subconscious mind is also where all of our emotions live . Feelings and emotions often inform our conscious thoughts, but can also exist under the surface and remain unrecognized or unacknowledge on a conscious level often wreaking havoc on our emotions.

The subconscious mind forms our habits and patterns of behavior that we have learned over time to keep us safe. It contains our long-term memory, recording every experience we have ever had in this lifetime, as well as in past lives and between lives. Our imagination and creativity also originate in the subconscious mind, and with it, the ability to create our lives, in both positive and negative ways, based on the stories we make up in our mind and how these stories play out.

Our intuition also originates in our subconscious mind as our inner guidance system that always knows what is best for us. Most importantly, the subconscious mind is a servant. It does whatever we tell it to do…as long as it feels safe to do it.

The Superconscious.

Beyond the subconscious mind is the part of our mind that is not ours alone: the Superconscious. The superconscious is essentially all-that-is, the universe, source. It is where all information and energy and abundance exists. It is where all ideas generate from.

The Superconscious, containing all that is, is also where spirit exists. In the superconscious, we have the ability to connect with our spirit guides and any other wisdom we seek, once we learn how to connect with it.

To summarize, our mind’s connection to the spirit realm looks like this:

Conscious Mind → Subconscious Mind → Superconscious

These three aspects make up our human experience and they all serve us in some way, with the subconscious mind as the central entity. Working with the subconscious mind is the most powerful way to connect with the spirit realm and your spirit guides. Often one of the biggest doubts people express when it comes to spirit guides is the fear that it is all just in their head. It is a valid concern given that it is hard, if not impossible, to ever receive concrete proof of spirit.

Here is the thing: the connection to spirit is in your mind. In all levels of it. In fact, everything we ever experience in our lives is processed through our mind to come into our conscious awareness. Spiritual connection and spirit guides are not any different.

In fact, if the guidance we receive from our guides does not pass from the superconscious through our higher self, into our subconscious, past the gatekeeper, and into our conscious mind, we will never be able to take action on this guidance because it will never enter our conscious awareness.

Rather than fearing that it is only in your mind, I encourage you to embrace that fact that yes, it is in your mind. Simply allow it to exist there along its destined path in your life.