Why Clarity is the Missing Link Between Your Purpose and Prosperity

October 20, 2025 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

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

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

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

What Happens When You Don’t Have Clarity

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

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

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

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

The Power of Soul-Aligned Clarity

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

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

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

How to Begin Finding Clarity

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

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

Practice #1: Intuitive Journaling

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

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

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

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

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

Practice #2: Exploring Your Passions and Gifts

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

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

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

Practice #3 – Crafting Your Vision

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

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

From Clarity to Cashflow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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3 Reasons You Aren’t Manifesting the Money You Want

February 23, 2025 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

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

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

#1 – You’re Not Saying You Want It

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making your first million because it sounds good.

I wanna be a billionaire so effing bad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Click here for details and to claim your spot.

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The Lion’s Gate Portal opens soon 🦁

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How to Build Confidence as a Writer

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

How to Build Your Confidence as a Writer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 7, 2024 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Creative Alchemist’s Manifestation Method is Now Available!

December 27, 2023 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

The Creative Alchemist’s Manifestation Method is more than another journal. It is more than a fancy notebook. It is more than a workbook. It is a simple, yet powerful daily tool to help you create the life of your dreams. It is a process for attracting all that you desire. The concepts and practices used in this journaling method are not new, but the interweaving of them is my own creation.

After years of studying and practicing the Law of Attraction, I got fed up with the overcomplication of a law that is always at work. With so many “secrets” out there, I was overwhelmed. So, I compiled a list of exercises that resonated with me the most. After trial and error, this list turned into a quick 10–15-minute daily practice. Something easily repeatable that hits all the right spots.

A few weeks into this new method of manifesting, I started to manifest my desires faster than I’ve ever experienced. Unexpected money and new clients appeared out of the woodwork, a new relationship began sooner than I let myself hope for, and I received an invitation to co-author my first book! It was so powerful; I knew I had to share it with you!

The Creative Alchemist’s Manifestation Method is now available on Amazon! Get your copy at https://amzn.to/48zHODY 💜

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My Latest Creation is on Its Way!!

December 5, 2023December 5, 2023 Melissa ConklingLeave a comment

When your intuition calls, do you answer?

It’s been a while since I posted here…but not because I’ve entirely disappeared. Rather, I’ve been busy on a different creative project!!

One of the amazing, yet unpredictable, things about connecting with spiritual guidance and intuition is when it moves you in a new direction. For the first half of the year, I focused strongly on connecting with my guides and learning how to use this guidance in all aspects of my life, but most significantly, within my writing and creativity.

In September, not long after I ran the Self-Hypnosis Masterclass on Creativity, I was called to dedicate my time to a new creative project. It’s something that I had on a back burner for a bit, but by the end of September, this idea became rather impatient and insisted that now is its time.

So I’ve been busy writing…the book came together rather easily. And then finally, on Friday afternoon, I sent my book to my copy editor 🤩

This is the final piece of a project that began on a whim.It’s based on idea for a new morning routine that turned into a powerful manifestation ritual. After keeping it to myself for over a year, earlier this fall I had the idea:

Turn this ritual into a journal!! It’s part book, explaining the ritual, part journal to put the ritual into practice.

Now I’m one step closer to publishing my very first solo book, and I am so excited to be so close to finishing this project and sharing it with you!

And the process has been eye-opening in so many ways. It’s helping me become better at guiding others through my process. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that the leap from creation mode to completion mode is often the biggest test of all.

It’s when doubt and fear rages the loudest. It’s when we are tempted to stay in creation mode for longer than we need to because it’s fun and it feels good.

But we can’t keep creating one thing forever. Eventually, we have to take the next step and finish the damn thing. And then, we have to share it with the world. That’s the part where our creativity makes its impact. That’s the part when our creativity reaches its full potential.

This project’s potential would never be realized if I wrote it and kept it in my google docs to never see the light of day.

So I took that next step. I finished my edts and sent it off to my copy editor. And I know it will be published sooner than I ever realize, because this idea won’t let me hide it away anymore. It’s as though it has its own spirit and soul and personality.

I cannot wait for you to meet it!

Comment below if you want to know when it’s available!!

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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.