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The purpose of Manifesting in Alignment with Soul is to help you to co-create with the universe with more ease and joy. You do not create alone. There is a whole universe out there ready to help and support you on your path. The book focuses on creating Highest Good, which means that sometimes you are not sure what you are creating, or what your true Self wants you to participate in. This becomes clearer as you take the first steps and keep intending Highest Good. There are practical examples and discussions of obstacles on the way; and throughout the book we remind you to be loving and gentle with yourself. You can achieve much more with ease and relaxation than with force and extreme effort although at times and in emergencies that might be necessary. We want you to come more into a flow where creation just happens. Your job is to check your beliefs and make sure that you are not working against yourself or your true Self. Our job is to remind you gently when you have become stuck in a rut or pattern and help you to get out of it. The book contains certain energies and can be picked up at random if you feel you need some help. Our love is with you.

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Anina Davenport grew up in a quiet village near Munich, Germany. In college she studied Business both in Germany and England. After several years in the business world, she met her husband who is American. They moved to Boston where Anina completed a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. After several years of working as a therapist and supervisor, her channeling and energy experiences started full force. Anina was then guided to focus her efforts on writing, channeling and integrating the new energies. At present she lives with her husband and dog in Minnesota. She is the author of Reflections on Ascension. Channeled Teachings of St. Francis. Oughten House Publications and Energetic Empowerment. Channeled Teachings of St. Francis. IUniverse. She has also published various articles in the Sedona Journal of Emergence. Anina can be reached via e-mail at aninadavenport@gmail.com.

This book has helped me to stay in flow in my life. Even in the morning I feel a new flow. I am not a morning person and I don’t jump out of bed with “It’s a wonderful new day” on my lips but this book has helped me to clear out obstacles to flow. If things seem blocked I just affirm “I create in alignment with Soul” or similar statements and things seem to flow. St. Francis has challenged me to keep throwing out old beliefs that do not work any more and when I do that flow does come or maybe it is more that I stop resisting it. Sometimes I just pick the book up and its energy is helpful. My main goal in life has been spiritual growth and I think this book makes that a priority (without neglecting the practical side of daily life).

Clarity- Sensitive Children- Psychic Enmeshment- Taking Action on Impulses from the Soul- Limiting Beliefs- True Feelings- Emmanuel’s Story- Manifesting with Joy- Highest Good- Creating from Neutral

Creating with Ease- Trust- Separating from Others- Creating with Joy- Dealing with Terrorists- Respecting All People- Opening to Receive- Dealing with Abuse- Creativity- Feeling Excitement with Life

Culture and Creativity- Being in Flow and Grounded- Feeling Joy- Calming Down “Mental Waves”- Creating Peace Within- Holding Light- Truth Receptors- Making Choices- Overconfidence and Underconfidence

The Body- Trusting the True Self- Realization- Biology- Illness- Dealing with Heartache- Co-Creating - Conflict in Relationship- Living in Flow

Receiving Energy- Stream of Silence- Electromagnetic Frequencies- Staying Real- Manifesting from Stillness- Clearing Old Energy- The One Self- Emmanuel’s Story- Co-Creation- Releasing Beliefs of Victimhood

Finding Out What You Want- Erwin and Dave’s Story- Releasing Feelings of Powerlessness- Dr. Steven’s Story- Emma’s Story- Making Peace with What Is- Emmanuel’s Story

Power- Intending Highest Good- Allopathic Medicine- Dealing with Anger- De-cording from Fear- Emmanuel’s Story- Standing apart from Drama- Global Pain- Jealousy- Emmanuel’s Story- Flowing Energy- Enlightenment-Relaxation- Attention Deficit Disorder

Creating in Alignment with Soul- Emmanuel’s Story- Creating with a Purpose in Mind- Staying Centered- Emmanuel’s Story- Taking Risk- Changes in Life- Creating in Alignment with Soul- Structure- Surrender

Suffering- Creating from Neutral- Relationships- Catherine’s Story- Detachment- Surrender

Stillness- Change of Perspective- Dissolution of the Personality- “Secrets” of Creating- Emmanuel’s Story- Living in Flow- Emmanuel’s Story- Laws of Manifestation- Emmanuel’s Story

I started channeling Manifesting in Alignment before I published my last book Energetic Empowerment. Saint Francis likes to have me working on several projects for various reasons. For one it is good to take a break from a book at times and secondly it is easier to let go of one when you have another one in the works so to speak. Manifesting in Alignment was not as intense as Energetic Empowerment had been for me. When I was writing on Energetic Empowerment I felt as if I was being worked on energetically very intensely by the guides and I guess my own Self. I did a lot of de-cording and releasing of old energies and felt very relieved when this work was done. Of course the releasing and clearing work is never really done but I felt after I finished the book that I had graduated from some energetic boot camp. It felt good. As I mentioned in my previous book I am a student of the spiritual teacher and avatar Amritananda Mayi or Ammachi as she is usually called. I give information about her in Resources. Her guidance continues in dreams mainly and recently I was asked to release some of my tensions and to trust her and God more. I am ‘working’ on that one with I believe some success meaning I feel more and more relaxed and often things do fall into place and if they don’t they don’t and I can let go and be open for what is next.

Some of my friends have suggested that I call the book ‘Creating in Alignment with Soul’, but I do like the term ‘Manifesting’ because I think it implies that we do not create alone. We have an intent, we clear the way and then we ask for God’s grace and see what happens. I always add now the words ‘Highest Good’ to my requests. “If that is Highest Good I would like for this to happen.” St. Francis likes to use the analogy of the bow and arrow: we aim it to a certain direction. We get centered and clear, we breathe and then we let go. After that we don’t have any more control. We let the arrow fall where it may and then go from there. To me the term manifesting also has a somewhat mysterious quality. We don’t know all the ins and outs of creation but we can still participate and sometimes we get thrown around a bit like a surfer on a stormy sea but I believe that if we trust life we will be alright. If everything was all planned out and we could control everything wouldn’t that be kind of boring? Plus sometimes we can see in hindsight that the universe made much better decisions for us than we would have made even though our will looked better to us at the time. There is a way I believe to be a participant in this great mystery of life without being controlling or overly analytical. I think it has to do with playing the dance as we are shown the steps. Sometimes we have to take a big extra breath because something seems scary but deep within where all knowledge comes from anyway we know that this is what we need to do. This is the next step. St. Francis puts a lot of emphasis on not getting paralyzed or frozen. He tells me that that is the biggest problem in creating: to get stuck. When I do get stuck he always tells me to go for a walk, dance, do yoga, write or do something similar to get the energy unstuck. I also do a general de-cording once a day because at times we feel stuck because we have cords with people who feel stuck. A friend of mine once said that negative ego is really stuck energy. I thought that was an interesting perspective. My next step is to ‘let go and let God’ more and more and to learn to dance this mysterious dance with as little resistance as possible. The universe always presents us many choices and things to do and to enjoy unless we don’t let life in. At times of course we are asked to stop and rest and do nothing. St. Francis talks about that as well.

As in the last book Energetic Empowerment I have changed all the names of people who brought me questions for this book. Some of the questions in this book came up in readings that I did and some questions just appeared out of nowhere. St. Francis again told me that these were from my future readers. I have tried to keep this book without grammatical mistakes but some of the words that St. Francis ‘created’ I have left in such as de-cording, underconfidence and other such words. I sometimes did not edit an awkward sounding phrase if it expressed the meaning of his message better than the edited version. I have also capitalized certain words such as the Self if it refers to the greater Self or the one Self or the words Higher Self or Highest Good. I think it helps to make these words stand out. In fact I often visualize the phrase HIGHEST GOOD in capital letters in my mind. If I am in a difficult situation I take a breath, center and ask for HIGHEST GOOD.

Dear Reader I hope this book will be helpful on your journey to wherever that may be. Please take what feels right and leave the rest. I wish you all the best.

The topic of our new book is Manifesting in Alignment with Soul. What does manifesting in alignment with soul mean? It refers to creating things, thoughts, concepts, situations or circumstances in alignment with your soul, your Higher Self. It is akin to the idea of God’s Will but it speaks to the fact that there is an active component. You see in manifesting there is an active component and a passive component. Every situation needs a perfect balance: a certain amount of passivity and a certain amount of action. Action can be the idea, “I want this,” or “I think this is part of my purpose.” Your soul works through impulses. You suddenly get the impulse to go to a certain bookstore or to drive home on a different route. That is your soul guiding you unless you are driven by fear or resentment or greed or other such impulses. We don’t want to get into judgment here, just observation. So how can you get your impulses most clearly? Well, this has a lot to do with your energy field. You have “antennas” to receive the impulses of your soul and all people have these antennas. The question is: when did you last use them? Do you keep them clear and how many stations do they pick up? There is your soul, your Higher Self, guides such as angels or spiritual teachers and then there is mass consciousness, what your friend is saying, your spouse, old voices from the past that still run like tapes, all that. The clearer you are within yourself the clearer you can pick up messages from your soul and the more efficiently you can manifest in alignment.

So, in our first chapter we will focus on clarity. This will be topic number one: clear receiving and alignment. We will give you tools to discern which message is from your soul and which is from your personality and at times personality can manifest as well and that is all right. What you don’t want to do is manifest other people’s dreams such as for example your mother’s or father’s dreams for you. That is all right if it coincides with your soul’s wishes but if it does not it will set you back on your evolution. That’s just the way it is. Daily there will be other people giving you impulses on what you should do, how you should work, how many cars you should have, what colors to wear for spring. We are joking but mass consciousness will try to influence you. Every day you are bombarded with other people’s ideas of how you should live life. Not just directly through TV, radio, the Internet and in conversations but also telepathically. “I wish Karen would call me,” is a telepathic thought that goes out into the ethers. If Karen is susceptible to that she will call. So the first component in manifesting in alignment with soul is to create clarity for you and a clear communication between yourself and your soul or Higher Self.

Number two: you need to know what you want. Many people don’t know what they want. Someone might think, “Maybe I want to live by the sea but the Black Hills would be nice as well and I also like flat land.” You have to find out what you want. Write down what your ideal place to live would be. Write down the attributes of the partner you want, the kind of children you want, the kind of dog you would like, your ideal job, the friends you want. Write down what you want. Otherwise your soul cannot deliver it to you. Robert wants just whatever. Guess what? That’s what the universe will bring him: whatever.

Many people are afraid of their power. Or even the word personal power. We will talk about power in this book. Once your soul and you are clear on your wants the negotiations can begin. So let us say you want to live by the ocean and you want an average temperature of 70 and 80 degrees. Let us assume that at the same time the various spiritual beings in charge of supporting humanity and mother Earth at this time of change can see that they need a light anchor that brings in Divine-Mother energy in San Diego. In this scenario you are now a candidate and if this move is Highest Good for all involved then you can soon start packing. Now let’s assume you have a spouse who hates the ocean. He refuses to move to San Diego. He wants to stay right here in Boise, Idaho. Well then you have a problem don’t you? You might never make it to San Diego because he will be part of the negotiations on the higher levels and of course in your daily life. So if you are co-creating with another be careful that you don’t cancel each other out. Don’t waste your energies on visualizing living near an ocean if your other half is not inclined to move there. It is good for both of you to work out what you want before you get into trying to manifest something.

Number three: be open to input. Let us give you an example. A friend of ours wanted to create a nicer place to live. She looked at an apartment complex but since she has a low income she thought she could not afford it. Then a woman mentioned that some of the units are set aside for people with low incomes and that our friend would qualify. So if you see obstacles don’t come to quick conclusions. Stay open. “Maybe it could work anyway” is a good concept to consider. If you and your soul want to have or manifest something there is a lot of power. It is the power that can move mountains.

Number four: don’t put limitations on the manifestation. If the perfect man for you comes with black rather than blond hair as you visualized him be a little flexible. It is good to have a bottom line such as, “I only want to date men who treat me with respect,” and it is good to be open to results that are different from what you expected. Be flexible.

Number five: be aware of karma, limiting beliefs, soul lessons and other such topics. There are times when what you have visualized does not come in. Soul does have an override.

Last but not least enjoy your creations. Once you have created something that you love for example the perfect house, be grateful. Say, “Thank you, God for giving me such a wonderful place. I really appreciate this.” Gratitude will help to keep you in flow.

We suggest you try out the tools and ideas given in this book and see what happens. You might be surprised at the new ease that you will find. Try it out.

CHAPTER ONE

To manifest you need clarity. What do you want? Many people do not know what they want in various areas of their lives. The reasons are many but one of the main reasons is cords. In our previous book Energetic Empowerment we showed how to cut cords and become more independent of other people’s input. If you constantly hear your mother’s voice saying you should become a doctor or a banker how can you hear your own? Your soul whispers most of the time so you have to learn how to listen to the quiet voice within. You need to cut down stimulation from outside and negative cords can interfere with your ability to hear your own whispers. We won’t repeat what we wrote in Energetic Empowerment but let us start with an exercise that we had in the last book as well.

Start with protection. Call in your favorite guides and the Archangels and then visualize a golden ball in the middle of your chest. Expand the ball. Make it bigger until it encompasses your whole body. See it in the shape of a golden egg. Set the egg on fire (not literally of course, symbolically). Imagine Divine light burning up any negative energy in your system and any old negative cords. Release them. Free yourself. Then go to the next step. Ground yourself. Feel your feet. Now ask a question such as, “What is my purpose?” Stay with it for a while. See what you are getting. If you don’t get anything then take a pause and then ask again. Or ask another similar question. Then let go. If there was no answer it might take some time. It might come through certain channels such as a book, a friend, a TV program or a dream. Be open. Then close down your visualization by closing down your chakras. Wave your hand in front of your body three times. Go from crown chakra to first chakra. Feel your feet. Come back into regular life. Relax. An answer will come.

You have to work on clarity. There is a lot of manipulation happening on psychic levels and you need to learn to stay in your own energies: stable, grounded and clear. As we said we won’t repeat material from our previous book Energetic Empowerment but if clearing is a big issue you might want to start with releasing old energies in your system that are not you.

Another tool to help you to stay clear is to go step by step; so many of you get overwhelmed by bigger tasks. Write them down. Break them up into little pieces. Decide if there is one thing that you can do right now. Not twenty or thirty, just one. Once that is completed go to number two, then number three and then reevaluate. Maybe number four and five have changed or are not relevant anymore.

Many of you have been overwhelmed as children. A good parent will challenge his child but not overwhelm him. Unfortunately many parents are so overwhelmed themselves that they just dump their feelings of overwhelm and anxiety on their children. Most don’t mean to do so but it happens. Another factor that affects children’s learning is fear. In extreme cases a war can wreak havoc on a child’s nervous system. Terrorism fears even if the child is relatively safe can affect a child. Anything the parents are afraid of can affect the child. Children are like sponges. Their auras are quite vulnerable and need to be protected. Over-stimulation as well as under-stimulation are not good for a child and neither are they good for adults but adults can modulate their exposure to stimulation at least somewhat. What is over-stimulation and what is under-stimulation is very individual. A very sensitive child can more easily get stimulated than a less sensitive child. In fact a less sensitive child might need more stimulation to reach his perfect arousal point. One child needs peace and quiet, another learns better with some locomotion around. It is all individual. Do you have questions?

Questioner: Yes. What is the source of a child’s sensitivity? Or why is one child sensitive and another one is not?

St. Francis: First of all no two people are alike. Everyone is wired differently. Sometimes you meet people that seem to be on your wavelength or you have a feeling of trust and understanding that you usually don’t have with others. You might feel at home with these people. Most likely you are from a similar soul group. There are certain characteristics that do connect you. You are also wired similarly. That is one of the reasons you feel so at ease with the other. Your auras are similar, your soul entities mesh. You feel at home. We don’t want to get too much into energy systems but let us say a couple of things. Energy systems are multi-dimensional. So all the wonderful pictures you see in books about auras and various other energy bodies are good but remember there are many dimensions and your energies are all connected.

The artist child will have a very sensitive nervous system especially relating to sounds. A psychic is also wired for his or her task. A psychic often has very fine-tuned receptacles which make it hard for him to be with too many people in small rooms. His antennas go on overwhelm. Too much information is the message that gets sent back to the brain. There are techniques that can help with this just as a musician can use survival techniques to spend time in a room with unmelodic music, but it is not good for either to spend time in environments that strain their sensitive instruments.

St. Francis: Okay. This is hard to explain without showing you pictures of different systems. You see with certain photography you can now see auras. But there are many much finer parts of your energy system that your technology cannot yet detect. Think about a tree. The tree trunk is like the aura but the branches, the many twigs and leaves are the more refined part of the energy system you cannot see. We can for example see if a person is psychic or artistic or refined or quite practical or talented in engineering, whatever it is. When we say ‘we’ we don’t mean Anina. She can get information from us in readings but she cannot see it.

St. Francis: Her focus has to be inward. It would be confusing if she saw too much. Who would write these books if she was just wandering around looking at auras all day long? We are joking but not completely. Now an artist whose purpose it was to paint auras and the finer elements of energy systems? Yes, for him or her it would serve a purpose. Let us add one more point. Part of this process of enlightenment is for you all to become more inner-directed. Psychic information can actually get in the way. That was part of the reason we wanted all of you to cut negative cords. Psychic enmeshment as we call it can get in the way of your centeredness and groundedness.

St. Francis: Let us give you an example. You have cords with your older brother. You know he is mad at you because you said something he did not like. You feel his anger entering your aura through the cords you have. You also hear some old judgments such as, “my little sister is not smart enough to understand me.” You are in your room trying to meditate. You want to get centered and clear but instead you keep hearing and feeling your brother’s judgments. That is psychic enmeshment. It is not evil or unusual but it keeps you from what you were meant to do here. It keeps you off center. Now let’s assume you cut cords. Your brother is still mad at you but it does not bother you anymore at least not right now. There might be things that need to be resolved with your brother in a conversation or by letter but whatever conflict there is does not keep you awake at night. Do you see the difference?

St. Francis: It can be much more insidious. Let’s say you live in a neighborhood where most people are somewhat depressed. Guess what?

St. Francis: Yes, if you do not work on staying centered and aligned with your soul entity that can easily happen. Cords get thrown around quite easily. It’s not an unusual event. In some places it is like a web that you have to stay out of. Parts of Germany in the 1930’s were like that. Any time group consciousness creates certain mass beliefs such as a certain group of people is better than another group or it is alright to abuse women or other such concepts you have to stay strong not to take on such mass thoughts. Like big black cords they are floating around trying to attach to whoever is willing to carry them.

St. Francis: Correct, but you can stay aligned with your center. Some might call that having integrity or a conscience. We call it alignment. So let us get back to clarity. Once you receive some answers, let us say for example you hear that your purpose is to be a teacher then what do you do? Now you need to act. Let us say you received several messages in meditation or in other ways such as dreams or day dreaming that teaching is your true purpose, the profession where you would be most happy and most successful. We define successful as a kind of work that satisfies your soul and allows you to make an impact on others in a Highest-Good manner. So where do you go from here? Let us say you work in an office and you don’t even have a degree. We suggest you write down on a piece of paper: goal: teacher. Now next get clear what kind of teacher you would like to be. You don’t have to be one hundred percent clear. Chances are you could go various ways. Maybe you like both young children and teenagers. Maybe you would like to teach college. Write down what you want. Let’s say you want to be a college teacher of French and English. Now, don’t feel any pressure with this, just write it down. Think about it on your walks; if there is a college nearby walk there. Imagine yourself as one of the professors. Imagine yourself in the classroom teaching a famous English novel talking about Henry the Eighth.

So, if you don’t have any degrees this is a long-term project, eight years maybe; longer or shorter depending on your stamina and financial resources. But once you start you are on your way and the eight years can be fun. You will learn about something you love. Your mind will be expanded and challenged. You will meet new people, be confronted with new ideas. There will be a flow that will help you achieve your goal. The most important thing now is to practice patience. Many start various goals but they do not pull through because of impatience. The long-term project will be a process with many steps. Which school will you choose? Which subjects? How will you pay for it? Where can you get loans? What other opportunities are there? Maybe you could spend a year in Paris. Think big. Don’t let a lack of resources limit your thinking. Use your common sense. Do not get yourself in humongous debt but don’t limit your thinking. Say, “Universe, I want to spend a year in Paris and I want a way so I can afford it. Help me.” If you truly want something the Universe will help. There is always a way unless it hurts another then it won’t work but everything that is in alignment with Highest Good will work.

It is important to have a plan. Part of the objective of a plan is to take a big goal and put it into manageable steps. The steps can be revised, changed, or even dropped at some point but it is good to have them. They create a structure for you. A mental structure which is one of the starting points of building something. You create from the inside out. Let us repeat this: you work from the inside out so you have to get clear on the inside what you want. That is what some people call creating; we prefer to use the word co-creating. You co-create with the Universe. Are there questions?

Questioner: Yes. I’ve been trying to create money or more money for years. It’s not working.

St. Francis: Do you affirm on a daily basis, “God, I accept your blessings?”

St. Francis: It is not. Money is energy. Some people use money in evil ways; if you use money to buy a gun and shoot someone or bomb another country other than in self-defense that could be considered evil, but not money itself. You need money to pay your rent and to fulfill your purpose. Many of you rent an office, take classes or buy books that help you in your work. Money is one way to enable you to do that.

St. Francis: Because it creates stress not to know where your next meal is going to come from or whether you can pay the rent.

St. Francis: You do with this problem the same that you do with every other problem. You go step by step. You face your fears. You ask God for help. You keep faith. We will help you. That is why we write these books. Don’t worry. There are ways to either move to a better place or if that is your path to become happy where you are and the best way is to do both. Learn to be happy where you are in life and be open to good things entering your life.

Now, there are certain truths: that there is pain in life, there is suffering and some of it you need to just accept as in, “Okay, there are difficulties in life. I am being challenged here to develop my spiritual muscles and to keep faith.” Another genre of suffering comes through your belief system. “I don’t deserve” is a big one here. “I don’t deserve to be treated with respect.” “I don’t deserve to be compensated adequately for my work.” “I don’t deserve to have my own space.” “I don’t deserve a partner who respects me.” The list goes on and on. So where do these beliefs come from? On one level they came from your childhood and certain experiences in your life where others taught you that you are less than them, not that important, not worth an effort on their part to treat you right. On another level it is related to other lives even other dimensions, other probabilities. It does not matter so much where it comes from because the now point is where you can start. Imagine a laser lens that looks at a knot and is able to burn it off. Here in the here and now you can burn off these dysfunctional beliefs.

Questioner: Someone told me I should see these beliefs as children and treat them with love.

St. Francis: Love transforms them as well but let us explain what love is. It is not that sentimental, “Oh, look at those cute beliefs. Look at how they are ruining my life, but I’ll love them anyway.” No, love is not that different from the laser beam we described. Love is ruthless. Love serves truth and truth is love. If you have a flower bed you have to do some weeding. You might do it gently to make sure you get the whole plant but you must be ruthless or soon there won’t be a flower bed, just weeds. If you have roses for example you prune them back. In the same way even good beliefs need to be held in check. You don’t want to turn into a Pollyanna. Now for most of you there is no danger of that but some do go overboard. They have a smile on their face even if they are very sad. Then you have gone overboard. There has to be a balance. That is where feelings come in, true feelings not made-up ones.

St. Francis: Well, think of the salesman or the politician who smiles a lot and projects a happy image to achieve a certain goal such as a sale or a reelection.

St. Francis: Now true feelings come from deep within. Think about water bubbling up from a spring. That is what it is like. True feelings are not forced. Like a spring they bubble up and then they flow out.

St. Francis: It is energy that goes out of you and goes into the room. Now some sensitive people might pick them up or sometimes some not so sensitive people pick them up. You live in a sea of energy. We mention in the book Energetic Empowerment how you can stay clear or as clear as possible from negative emotions. Now positive emotions for example a baby bubbling with joy and excitement in the next room are no problem. Emotions travel and eventually they dissipate. One reason for churches or any other place of worship is to have emotions of joy and love for God and the universe accumulate in one place and uplift everyone. Unfortunately some places of worship have become dry or worse places of hate and judgment. Most people can feel if they come into a house if there has just been a fight among the family members. The negative emotions can be sensed similar to an oncoming summer storm for example.

Now, let us get back to true emotions. True emotions bubble up from deep within you and flow through your system easily even cleansing it if need be. Both sadness and joy can be cleansing. There is something that we call pure sadness that is quite beautiful. It is not manufactured sadness as in, “My life is so miserable. The world hates me.” No, it is sadness from deep within your soul that enables you to cleanse yourself. It comes from deep within. It is real and it leaves. It does not stick around. It is there to come up and leave.

We will talk quite a lot about emotions in this book because emotions are central in the process of creating the life you want. Emotions are one of the tools that can tell you if an impulse or idea comes from your soul, your Higher-Self levels or from your personality or someone else’s ideas about how you should live your life. Emotions don’t lie. Now as we said you can manufacture emotions and even fool yourself with those but true emotions don’t lie.

So let us go back to our friend who wants to become a teacher or professor. Let us call him Emmanuel. So Emmanuel has figured out he wants to teach English and French at college level. He also wants to spend some time in Paris. He has started to contact colleges and schools to find out how to attain the skills he needs. He is getting information about student loans and work-study programs. He is getting excited about his goal. Right now Emmanuel is working in an office selling office supplies to retail stores. He will keep that job for a while because he needs a pay check. Someone told him it is important to not start hating what you do because it gets in the way of creating with joy. Emmanuel does not hate his job. He just finds it boring and tedious. He decides to think about ways how he can make it more interesting. He devises a new way to organize his files. He is friendlier on the phone. He makes sure his work is impeccable. He tries to dissolve personality conflicts he has with others. He uses energetic tools to stay centered at work and not get drawn into drama or office politics. He stays grounded, stable and focused on what he wants to do in his life.

St. Francis: We have given many tools in Energetic Empowerment and there are other books that give tools for centering and grounding. So the next step is time. Have you ever watched animals that go out and hunt food and get water and then they just lie around? It is called downtime. Some of you instead of sitting on a tree looking at the sun sit on an easy chair in front of a big black box called TV but it is a similar concept: downtime. Wait. See what happens. Are the schools Emmanuel contacted going to write back? What is out there that matches his interests? What information is the Higher Self going to bring back? If you do it right which mainly means you ask your Higher Self for help and then listen and watch what happens then coincidences will happen. Emmanuel will go to a party where surprise, surprise there is a guy who teaches at a nearby college. They have an interesting conversation. This guy John has some information that Emmanuel can use. A flier for a workshop ends up in Emmanuel’s mailbox. It is a seminar on Manifesting your Dreams. Other such coincidences start to happen. This is really your soul at work. She is saying “Okay, let’s see maybe this would help. What about this option?”

Emmanuel is smart in that he does not get into a frantic state of mind which says, “I have to create my dreams right now or I’m a loser,” or the opposite side which is, “This is all too much. It will never work.” Instead Emmanuel says to himself on his daily walk with his dog Sparky, “It will all work out eventually. I just have to go step by step, trust the universe and do my part as well.” Emmanuel is quite hopeful things will work out. He is a bit like the turtle in the children’s story about the race between the turtle and the hare. He goes slowly. He conserves his energy. He stays focused and he arrives eventually.

In the Manifesting your Dreams workshop (Emmanuel did follow up on that flier) Emmanuel meets Susan. Susan is quite a flamboyant woman. Susan wants to become a dancer but does not know how to go about it. She has all these ideas but no money and no plan. She talks endlessly about all the things she tried and how nothing worked out. Her energy is quite chaotic. She is a receptionist right now and hates her job. In fact she is afraid she might get fired soon because she has told too many people in her office how much she hates her job.

“How can you be so calm about all this?” she says to Emmanuel when they start talking on their break.

“I am moving in the right direction,” Emmanuel says as he unwraps his lunch.

“But how are you going to pay for college?” Susan asks. “Do you have savings?”

“Pretty good I think and I am planning to spend more time in France. I would like to get to know Paris better.”

“Well,” Emmanuel hesitates for a moment. “It is true. Paris is pretty expensive.”

The class continues. Emmanuel does the exercises kind of half-heartedly. Susan is right about money. He really does not have great savings. Emmanuel feels a bit down. The next day at work he is still down.

“Yes, I’m fine,” Emmanuel responds. He does not want to talk about it. For a week he mopes around. Sparky cannot even get him to play ball in the park. He tries licking his owner’s face. Sometimes that helps.

“So why did you send me to that course?” Emmanuel asks his soul. He always figured there was one and it could hear you. At times he felt he heard back from it,

“Oh, so the exercises got you depressed?” his soul asks somewhat mischievously.

“No,” Emmanuel thought for a moment, “that Susan person got me depressed.”

“Yes, so you expect everyone to cheer you on in your goals?” Emmanuel hears his soul respond.

“No.” Emmanuel got it. He did learn a valuable lesson from all this. Don’t open your dreams to negative people. Now Susan is not a bad person. In fact she had a charming side to her but she is just full of doubt. It obstructs Susan in her own life and influenced Emmanuel because he let her negativity in.

“Well,” Emmanuel responds, “I’m going to be more careful with whom I share my dreams or whatever else is dear to my heart.”

“You’ve just met a dream-trampler,” his soul says. “Dream-tramplers come in all forms. Some are dear, well-meaning people but they are victims of limited thinking. They have to learn to open up and let some fresh air in.”

Later that day he goes to the park with Sparky and throws him balls. He thinks back to the conversation and ponders the insights that his soul has shared with him.

St. Francis: Yes, it can be. If you are planning to put all your life savings into a project that is quite risky a little doubt is not a bad thing. You see you don’t want to fall into either the trap of overconfidence or too little confidence. You want to be in a balance.

St. Francis: Well, there is something called common sense that is quite important. Common sense does not mean you never take a risk or think about everything for years before you make any decision. Common sense means you move ahead in a grounded and centered way. You use your mind and your heart in your decisions. You are balanced.

St. Francis: All the techniques that we teach can help you to become more balanced. Our first book Reflections on Ascension has an exercise where you work with your sub-personalities. Write down what your various sub-personalities want. Now Laura you have a big risk taker in your personality. That is good as long as you keep it in check. It is like having an incredible race horse in your stall. Quite an asset but you have to treat her carefully. She can take off quite easily. Are there other questions?

St. Francis: Emmanuel makes decisions quite deliberately. Now we are not saying everyone should be like Emmanuel. People are different and that is part of the beauty of humankind. There is variety. We don’t want you all to turn into clones but we try to demonstrate certain ways of getting what you want or better said what your soul wants for you.

So let us get back to Emmanuel. He looked at some of the material he got from the course and one exercise in particular attracts him so he plays around with that one in the evenings. It entails writing down all the dreams he has. Not just becoming a college professor but also other dreams such as travel, getting married, having kids or another pet as the case may be for some. Emmanuel has no desire for kids right now but he would like a partner. He tries not to think too much about this topic. In general he is quite self-sufficient and he hears from his brothers and sisters enough about all the problems they have in their marriage. In fact his oldest sister is getting a divorce.

“If you think of it this way you will create it,” he hears a little voice. Oh, good old soul has an opinion on everything.

“Well, you are probably right, Iris.” Emmanuel responds. He recently decided to call his soul Iris. Higher Self, inner Self, higher Consciousness all those words seemed too intangible to him. He wanted a name for his soul and he always loved irises. His mother planted lots of them in her garden, purple and yellow ones.

“I don’t really have any good role-models for relationships,” Emmanuel muses to himself.

“Yes, psychology books. Books that explain what a healthy relationship looks like. It is hard to create from a vacuum.”

“You tell me,” Emmanuel sighs. His parents were never really happy in their marriage. The kids felt it. In fact Emmanuel had vowed early never to get too close to another person.

Later that night Emmanuel walks by a restaurant that plays Spanish music. What was it? Santana maybe? It was wonderful dance music.

“Get that record,” Iris says. “That will loosen you up.” Emmanuel thinks he hears another giggle but he is not sure. “You need to shake off some of that stuckness and seriousness.” Iris continues. “We are creating here. And what are we creating?” Iris asks.

“A job as a professor and what does music have to do with that?” Emmanuel responds feeling a bit belligerently.

“No,” Iris shakes her head, but of course Emmanuel cannot see her. “We are creating joy, joy, joy. Now,” she continues in a more serious tone, “for you the job as a professor of English and French is part of it although…” Iris stops herself.

“Okay. There are other options. Working as a professor is not the only job you can thrive on but for now we decided this is best.”

“Sorry,” Iris lets out a sigh. It was a compassionate but also somewhat amused sigh. Iris is always in a good mood, always ready to laugh. She can see humor in the darkest of circumstances.

“And who the hell is ‘we’?” Emmanuel inquires still feeling overwhelmed. He likes order, one thing to focus on. Now there are all these other options?

Questioner: Why does the exercise Emmanuel does suggest writing down all his dreams? Why not just focus on the professorship?

St. Francis: Because all your dreams are connected. If your dream house is a ranch in New Mexico then a professorship in New England does not fit. It is better to be clear on that.

St. Francis: Well, the first step is to get clear on what you want and you will notice in this process that some things that you thought you wanted you actually don’t really want or need. Then there is the idea of Highest Good. We’ll get to this next.

Let us talk today about joy. Sometimes when you are manifesting you forget joy, inner bliss. You are so focused on the details of your project that you forget why you are manifesting it in the first place: to increase your bliss. In our example Emmanuel wants to go to school and study French and English because he loves languages and he likes to read. He enjoys great literature and can see how he would enjoy teaching it to others. He also wants a career and he wants to make more money and at some point have his own home maybe even a family.

How you create has a lot to do with your focus. You can create something with joy or relative ease (we say relative for there is no perfect ease in this world of duality) or you can work hard on it, suffer and conquer your project so to speak. If your focus is only on your project you can get sucked into monotony, too much hard work and even depression. If you focus on joy and keep in mind your creation you can create with more ease, more fun, more aliveness and fewer struggles. Many of you have been indoctrinated into the belief system that you can only have something if you work really hard for it. Don’t get us wrong. We approve of hard work. At times it is necessary but often it is not. Often less is more. Often intuition, patience, kindness and openness to the gifts of God get you further. One of the keys to manifesting with more ease is to not forget your joy.

In certain management programs the trainers incorporate play time to loosen up the class. These guys are on the right track. The problem is you can’t get executives loosened up in a weekend training program. It has to become a life style, a part of one’s life. Another concept in business that some managers use is the idea of win, win. You win. I win. Or how can we both be happy with this? It’s very useful for marriage too. How can we both get what we want? Now some people were told it was selfish to get what one wants. It’s not selfish it just is. There are also different desires. Some yes, serve no one, not even the person desiring them and others are what we call soul desires. Emmanuel’s wish to become a professor is a soul desire. Iris is going along and as she indicated there are other professions that Emmanuel could thrive on and make a contribution with. Soul is flexible.

So we want you all to lighten up a bit. Get that Spanish music tape or whatever it is that lightens you up. Dance around in your living room. Laugh. Watch some comedy. Roll around on the floor with your pets or your kids. All this will help you create. Are there questions?

Questioner: No, my spiritual teacher told me I have to do it without medication. He told me he once was depressed but got over it and I can too.

St. Francis: Your teacher’s brain chemistry is very different from yours. He does not have the biochemical problems you do. It was relatively easy for him to overcome his depression. We feel you need something physical to help you.

St. Francis: Consult a psychiatrist. We are not saying you should take medication. You choose what you want to do in life. Not us or your spiritual teacher. You are responsible for your own happiness. You can also try herbs first.

Questioner: I come from a strong work ethic. No pain, no gain. Does this work against me?

St. Francis: No, it can work for you. As always we are talking about balance. It is good to be used to work for what you want. The problem comes when you overwork.

St. Francis: Yes, the house is basically clean and you go over every detail again. You lie awake at night wondering if you did everything right at the office. Is the customer going to buy the goods or not? That’s overworking.

St. Francis: Yes. Stress is a great source of illness. Too much stress can damage your physical system. Some stress is good. It gets you out of bed in the morning. Maybe a better word is challenge. But if the challenge turns into overwhelm and too much your system starts to shut down energetically and physically.

Number one: a lot of stress comes from old voices that are overly critical and feel overwhelming. These could be old authority figures for example. De-cord from these old voices and also cut negative cords with people who still think about you in negative ways and have thoughts such as, “Margaret was never very smart, etc.”

Number two: cut any negative cords you still have with anyone. Keep the positive connections. Let go of negativity.

Number three: become your ally. Don’t abandon yourself in the middle of projects. Don’t tell yourself you are too weak, too stupid, too sick or whatever it is you tell yourself to get what you truly desire. If your soul wants you to have something you can get it but you’ll have to cut out what we call negative self-talk. Burn it off with mantras if that works for you. Or write down your objections and then burn the paper or throw it away.

Number four: remember joy. Do something joyful every once in a while whether that is a walk or a good book, a dance class or maybe even a day dream about a very happy time in your life. Activate your joy well. You can tap into it. It is there.

Number five: don’t let yourself get stressed out. People with a terminal disease will often tell others how silly they feel about some of the things that they used to get stressed out about. Develop a perspective about what is important in life. Don’t stress out about the little things and if you talk to a person in the last stages of cancer they will tell you a lot of things are really not that important. You don’t need to get sick to find that out. Read a book by someone who has wisdom. Think about priorities on your walk. Write down what is most important to you. Keep a list. Let go of other details in life.

So we want you to create without stress. In fact we want you to create with joy. This is not just a course on getting results but the title of this book is Manifesting in Alignment with Soul. Joy is part of this.

Whenever you create anything intend Highest Good. Say, “I intend Highest Good.” You don’t need to know what that means. Just intending it will help bring the desired results. There will be things in your creations that you are sure about. For example you might say to yourself, “I want my house to have a view and I want my next boyfriend or girlfriend to treat me with respect.” There will be other aspects where you are unsure. Is this really good for me or do I just think it is? Am I stuck in an old pattern? Am I creating from old conditioning or am I truly co-creating with my soul, with God so to speak? Then keep saying, “I create Highest Good. I intend Highest Good. I surrender to Highest Good.” Do you have questions?

St. Francis: Yes, but I’m sure Martha prefers the phrase “Highest Good” to the words “God’s will.”

Questioner: Yes, I grew up with a punitive God. I don’t need anymore “surrender to God’s will” stuffed down my throat.

St. Francis: Okay, let us continue. Sometimes when you keep intending Highest Good about an issue or relationship or question you have, you create clarity. You wake up one morning and you say, “I get it now. This was not really good for me. That is why it did not happen.” Or conversely you realize that one of your desires is truly a soul desire not just your ego screaming, “I want this.”

Some of you have been given a lot as children. Whatever you wanted you could have it. You just had to put up your hand and Mom or Dad was running to provide for their precious offspring. Some of you just had your hand half up and your parent would give you a “don’t even think about it” look. We are talking in extremes but you get the picture. So, some of you are very hesitant to ask for anything while others don’t quite understand why everyone is not getting up immediately to provide their every need. Both strategies are fraught with danger. The hesitant one might never get what he or she wants while the other expects too much. Jean who was denied much as a child feels guilty about having a good meal (after all so many people in Africa are starving). Meanwhile Matthew does not understand why his girlfriends desert him and cite, “Too much exhaustion and I don’t want to serve other people constantly,” as reasons. However Matthew always finds new girlfriends. In fact Jean might end up as one of Matthew’s girlfriends. Secretly she admires his ability to stand up for himself and ask for what he needs. Maybe she could get some self-worth by serving him or so her ego speculates. We won’t go into this any deeper. You all know what we are talking about. So look at yourself. Are you more of a Jean or a Matthew character? Maybe you have a bit of both? Or there are areas where you struggle. Some people have no problem asking for a raise but feel timid around new people for example. One of the things that can help is to look at who is in your life? If there are a lot of selfish people who you can’t let go of you need to look at your own selfish side. Are you suppressing it? Are you asking too little? Do you feel guilty just to breathe? Do you at times wonder if you take up too much space? You don’t of course but is there an inner voice that tells you that you are too selfish to ask for your basic needs?

So what does all this have to do with creating? Well, you create from your beliefs and emotions. If you believe you don’t deserve respect who do you think will show up in your life? It will be people who will treat you with disrespect. Now there are lots of people in the world who don’t understand respect so just having some in your life does not mean you attracted them. But if they stick to you like glue and you can’t get rid of them there might be a problem. It is up to you to decide what exactly is going on. Sometimes there is karma, sometimes a lesson and changing your beliefs can help in dealing with such situations. You create from your beliefs. If you think you deserve a nice house you are more likely to create it.

Now, one of the important aspects of creating is to let go of guilt. If you create out of guilt your creations will produce more guilt. We want you to come from a place of joy and relaxation and self-acceptance. From that place creation is the clearest and most powerful. So whenever you create from guilt stop and say, “I release all guilt. I accept myself completely.” Now accepting yourself does not mean that you approve of negative behavior. In fact as any therapist can tell you self-love allows you to let go of destructive behavior such as consuming drugs and too much alcohol.

Let us do an exercise for self-acceptance. Start with protection. Imagine the Archangels Ariel, Gabriel, Michael and Raphael in the four corners of your room. Relax. Breathe. See a golden ball in your heart chakra. Let it expand until you stand in a golden egg. Feel calm and protected. Now say, “I intend to accept myself. I intend to create from joy and love and self-acceptance.” Then close the visualization. Relax. Get back to normal. Close down your chakras by bringing down your hand three times from the crown chakra to the solar plexus and first chakra. Relax. Let go.

Intentions are very powerful. Let us repeat this. Intentions are very powerful. You create with intentions so be clear about your intentions. If you create something you do not like look at your intentions. What were they?

Questioner: I wanted to create a bigger practice. I’m a spiritual counselor. I wanted to serve more people and also make more money. I have a lot of expenses.

Questioner: Well, not much so far. There are few people and my office costs are the same. I might have to go back to working in sales. At least I had health insurance there.

Questioner: I work so hard and charge not very much. Some people think I should not charge at all but what am I supposed to live on, air?

St. Francis: No. None of this is about judgment. It is about clarity. What do you want? What are you willing to give? What do you want in return? The clearer you can be the easier it is for the universe to give you what you want. Do you feel guilty about charging?

Questioner: Yes, why is it okay to pay a plumber or doctor but not a healer or spiritual counselor? We all have gifts.

St. Francis: Correct. The gift for plumbing or great architecture or anything else is just as divine as the healing gift.

Questioner: Exactly and just like the plumber I need to eat and feed my kids and just like the doctor I studied a lot to be able to do this.

St. Francis: Write it all down. What you want, what you don’t want. Burn the paper later. Let go of obstructions. See what happens. You see, dear ones, this creating is a process. There are many elements. More questions?

Questioner: Yes. So is the clearing of old beliefs helpful in creating what you want?

St. Francis: Yes, because any belief you have can potentially create. For example you say to yourself, “Oh, I’m so sick today. I’m getting old.” Now don’t get us wrong, people are getting older, people get sick. That’s part of life but the problem is the amplification as in, “I’m sick today and I’m sure this will last a while, I get sick often. See this is my weak immune system.” Now you might have a weak immune system but amplifying this reality does not help. If you catch yourself doing that say, “I let this belief go. I open myself to God’s abundance. I open myself to health and happiness.”

Questioner: I say, “Louise you shouldn’t be sick. You are only thirty-five. You should be further ahead in your job. You should be able to do more, be more.”

Questioner: I feel sick and disgusted with myself. I’m tired so much. What do I do?

St. Francis: First of all it is good to get checked out by a doctor. There are some physical things that can make you tired and medicine or supplements can make a difference. Number two: get a tape with positive visualizations that allow you to see yourself as vital and healthy. Don’t worry if your self-talk continues during the course such as, “Yes, maybe that works for others but not for me.” Or, “Easy for you to say I’m different.” Or, “I’ll never get better.” Just let the tape play and if the negative talk comes up say, “Good it’s coming up. I release it.” See angels with vacuum cleaners sucking up all these negative beliefs that come from your energies. Let them be transformed.

St. Francis: There is still a lot you can do to feel better. Work on your beliefs. Do what you need to do to feel good. Take your medicine, your supplements. See a good naturopath and a healer. Do the exercises. Release fear. Relax. We know you Jennifer don’t believe in miracle cures but don’t forget medical science will soon have many cures that were believed to be impossible just years ago. But are you happy now?

St. Francis: Focus on that and see the illness as a challenge. You are developing many spiritual muscles while you have this illness such as not giving into fear. You could live in fear twenty-four hours a day but you don’t. You don’t let yourself. You pray to Mother Mary instead. You cry and get back up and do what you can. You focus on the positive in your life: your husband, your children, your paintings. Good job. We applaud you.

St. Francis: Yes, look at your life. There is much good; much to be grateful about. You have a loving husband and two beautiful daughters. Also you recently found a new doctor who is more understanding. Your recent research led you to some new supplements that help. You found a new exercise routine. You are studying various spiritual books that give you joy. Don’t just look at the MS. It is only a part of your life.

So success is a life that works. And there can be tragedy in that life. There can be hardship, heartache, problems, difficulties but you are up to it. You face the challenges and sometimes facing the challenges means you rest. It does not always mean work more, do more. It means relax, center, get clear. Go from there.

We want to talk more about Highest Good. Is it really Highest Good for Emmanuel to become a professor of English and French? As we have already indicated it is one Highest Good probability. There are others. Emmanuel would for example make a good gardener. He has skill in working with flowers, designing garden spaces. He loves the outdoors. It would work. There isn’t usually just one choice such as there is not only one soul mate for people. There are many soul mates and many choices when it comes to finding someone to share your life with. The idea that there is only one perfect person out there for you is false. Number one there are many possible mates and number two none of them are going to be perfect but many are going to be good enough so to speak and with many you can create a joyful existence. The idea that there is only one soul mate, one true profession or even one true spiritual teacher creates a lot of stress. This universe is abundant. There are always many options. The only limitations are your belief system. There are many people to love, many children to nurture and all kinds of pets that can serve you well and you can serve. The universe is abundant. Are there any questions?

Questioner: I believe this idea that there is only one soul mate or one profession creates a lot of drama.

St. Francis: It does. What would Romeo and Juliet have been if Juliet had just said, “Oh well, there are probably other good men out there that I can marry?”

St. Francis: We are joking but there is also a point. The universe is abundant. Now we are not denying the depth of feelings you can have with another. The intimacy to use a psychological term, but you can have this same depth with someone else. First of all you need to have it with yourself. You need to love yourself then you can be open to others. The universe is abundant. We want you to repeat this phrase throughout the week. See what happens. The universe is abundant. The universe provides for me. Play with this. Tell us what happens next week.

Questioner: I think it is a good product. I believe in it but I don’t feel passionate about selling it, marketing, etc.; friends tell me that I should be more excited, more passionate.

Questioner: Well, it means excitement and in a certain way overdoing things.

Questioner: Yes, there was always high drama in my house. They were high achievers. Everyone in my family was so driven even my brothers and sisters.

Questioner: Yes. I was so sick so much of the time. I could not stand all the tension and nervousness.

Questioner: Yes, I liked the fact that you brought joy in so early in this process. I want to create with joy not with all this tension.

St. Francis: Understood. Now let us talk about a term that fits here, the concept of neutrality. Last night our instrument had a dream. She was shown a cat whose name was Jessie. She was a little kitten and she was very weak, close to dying. Anina let her crawl into her hands and then she felt energy come from her hands to the cat. She did not do anything. It just happened. The owner was quite upset and a part of Anina felt with her and wanted Jessie to make it but another part was neutral. That part knew it was Jessie’s decision and whatever happened was fine. Jessie would be fine on the other side as well. Well, Jessie decided to give it another go at earth life in this particular body. Anina also told the woman in the dream to not be so emotional around Jessie because this cat was very sensitive and absorbed negative feelings quite easily. Anina told her to go for a walk when she was angry or write out negative feelings in a café. Anina could see that the cat could not stay in the family if people did not stop venting in proximity to this cat. Anina wanted us to tell you the whole dream so that those of you who live with a sensitive animal and not all of them are that sensitive, will consider the impact you have.

Now, let’s get back to neutrality which Anina felt in the dream regarding to whether Jessie lives or dies. It is a sense of “I can be okay either way” and if you take it to the next level it is a sense of “all of us will be okay either way”. The world will go on and energy never dies. Jessie would have changed form. Her energy would not have been destroyed. Energy just changes forms so if you are attached to form which most of you are, there’ll be loss. Many of you have had glimpses of this neutrality in dreams. You might have watched yourself have realizations such as such as, “My boyfriend might not stay but leave but I’ll be fine either way. Donald might leave me. Oh well, that’s okay. Another form will come in or not. I’ll be okay.”

Masters live in that state. They truly do not care what happens and yet they are full of compassion. They empathize with your pain but don’t get caught up in it. “You’ll be fine,” they tell you telepathically or in words. “You’ll be fine. God is great. The universe is abundant.” Some people say they are in that state and in truth they are suppressing their emotions and feigning objectivity and detachment.

So how do you get to neutrality and you all had glimpses but none of you have it all the time. Anina wants to add here that neither does she. She still gets very attached to certain things. Now the most important thing is to be honest. One way to play with this is to be where you are with gusto. If you Jack love your new Jaguar then love it with gusto. Keep your sense of humor about being so attached to a thing with four wheels and new red paint but don’t trample your joy either. So you love your Jaguar; big deal. Some people become really boring in an attempt to be neutral or what their version of non-attachment is. Please don’t become boring. Please don’t suppress all your opinions, your emotions, your idiosyncrasies that make you you. Please be true to yourself. Some people are passionate by nature. They have a lot of fire. They want to run off and change the world not over time but now. They often lack patience and get bored with the step by step processes that it takes to affect real change. As always balance is the key. Yes, you want passion but it needs to be tempered by patience, non-attachment and the ability to live with any outcome. “Let go, let God” is a good affirmation.

In this process of creation you will need to ride the energy. We like to give you the image of the surfer because just like the surfer you have to ride the waves. What are the waves? It is the sea of energy you are in: the energies around you, the energy of the contractor who is involved in building your house, the energy of the client you are serving, the energy of the stars that change daily, the seasons’ energy and so on. You need to respond to these energies and passion can get in the way. There are days where it is better to sit back and rest, recuperate or do some inner work. If you push yourself against the energies disaster can happen.

St. Francis: You will know. You can feel it in your body. Dreams will tell you. There will be signs and if you don’t get it your Higher Self will scream in your ears. Now passion is good when the time is right, when your Higher Self says, “Okay, go,” then you put in the fast gear and zoom along just like a surfer who just got on top of a big wave. You feel the passion, the excitement. The time is right. Now John your family wore itself out.

St. Francis: Exactly. That is not a very efficient use of energy. That is like being in fifth gear no matter what’s going on around you. At some point you will crash. Let us give you some practical help with the book.

St. Francis: Now the book is written. You self-published and there are some practical things you can do?

St. Francis: Yes, all that will get clear. Let us do some visualization to help you get clearer on what is going on. You can all choose a project but we will mention John’s book in the visualization. Substitute this for what you are working on. A new job, a house, a husband (laughter), whatever.

Start with protection. Call in Archangels Ariel, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael. Ask in a guide you trust. Start with the golden ball. Put it in your chest. Expand it. Relax. Feel safe in your bubble. Now ask yourself, “What do I want? What does my soul want? God what is the purpose of this?” See the book in your mind’s eye. Hold the image. Then multiply it and see it all around you. Let it face outward to the world. You have created this. What is its purpose? Be quiet for a while. See what happens. Is the book going out to other people? Is it traveling to other countries? What is its energy? How does it affect other people’s energies? Let it travel to other people and touch them and help them. Are you holding the book back? Notice if this is the case. Notice, but don’t worry about it. Keep multiplying the book. Keep seeing it travel. You need not do anything. It has its own energy. Give it some freedom. Let it do what is joyful. Let it travel. See it go to other countries. See it go into bags and backpacks, into UPS bags or postal packages as gifts or orders. See it travel. See it on a book shelf. See it fall off book shelves into people’s laps or reach out energetically. Again you are not doing any of this. The book is doing it. Yes it is your baby so to speak but set your baby free. Let it hang out with others. See it multiply. See it dance in space. It is so happy and it wants to share its happiness, its energy. There is joy in John’s book.

Questioner: I feel like I need to cut some strings I have with the book. I want to hold it close.

St. Francis: Yes and let it multiply as well. There will always be book energy around you. Such as a child still thinks fondly of his parent if the parent was good to the child even if the child is now fifty-three and lives half way across the world the book will never leave you. Keep multiplying it. Let it go out and create joy. See the words: joy, joy, joy, joy. This book will create joy. Let it. Tell it, “It’s all right. Go out and play.” Just like Martha’s dog gives great joy to others let your book do the same. Share it. Share its energy. Okay, close down the visualization. Relax. So what did you learn, John?

Questioner: I learned I was attached to the book but once I multiplied it I could easily let it go. I never realized the book had a life of its own. I saw it dance and jump around a bit like Martha’s dog actually. I saw it go to other countries. It was quite easy. I saw the purpose of the book is to create joy and I like that idea. I feel more joyful now about selling it. It feels less burdensome.

St. Francis: All right, we will do more on this. This is a good way to teach manifesting with ease.

Today we want to talk more about ease. We got some music today and we want you all to dance a bit before we start this session. Dancing is a great way to shake off old energies and to get into joy and ease and creating with ease that is what we want to talk about next. Part of ease is to be physically at ease. Now if you have pain you need to do certain things including pain killers for some of you and we are talking to the reader here. Some of you have had success with visualizations. Herbs can help so can baths and certain exercises. For some of you the pain does not disappear completely and you need to learn to tune it out. You can focus on a mantra instead or on white light or God, whatever works for you. See God taking on your pain and She will. So we don’t want you to think, “I cannot create with ease because I have pain,” for you can. You just have to work a little harder at it but it is possible. Now, let us move some more. Turn on some music that you like and move your body. Feel the energies in your body moving out. Sometimes there is energy trapped in the body and that can create pain.

Questioner: I had a dream about an old girlfriend last night. There was some old anger that seemed to come up. I affirmed it needed to be released.

St. Francis: Yes and it has been released. This is a good example. Sometimes the trapped energy is related to old feelings. It can also be old physical pain: an old shoulder injury can be felt again for a couple of days as some old energy around this issue is leaving. Dancing or any kind of movement can help release these old energies. So right now move your bodies the way they want to move. For the reader we suggest you try this at home. Play with this. Let your body be moved by your Higher Self. Let it be healed by YOU, the vaster you, the you that you are part of. Feel your Higher Self. Set aside the mind who tells you to move this way or that way. Let your soul move you. Feel your body lengthening, your muscles stretching. Feel the space inside your body. Feel your breath: in and out; in and out. We have put the Archangels in the four corners of the room. Do this now. Archangel Michael, Ariel, Raphael, Gabriel. Bring them in. See smaller angels with them. Let them vacuum up any old energies that get released. Don’t leave them in the room. Let them be transformed. Visualize light coming in. Feel it in your bodies. Relax.

Now think of something you want to manifest. Think of it lightly. Don’t grab onto it like a water craft in a stormy sea that can save your life. Get some ease. Let it come to you. See that desire you have, for example the desire to write a book. See the book. Let it come to you. Is it easy? Is it still far away? Maybe it is not time yet; if it comes easily touch it. You don’t even have to hold it. If it is right for you it won’t go away. It will stay. Louise, see the house you are thinking of buying. Does it feel easy? Is there flow? Is the image staying? Is there a struggle? Notice all that. Stay in joy. Stay in ease. Relax. Close down the visualization.

So the old way of creating was with will power. The new way is different. We don’t want you to give up all your will power but we want you to let go of strain and too much “efforting”. Relax. Let go. Let God.

Questioner: Wasn’t will power necessary in the old times when density was so much stronger? Isn’t it the higher frequencies that are on earth that allow us to create more easily?

St. Francis: Yes and no. Yes, you are right the higher and finer frequencies that have been anchored on earth and in mass consciousness allow you to create with more ease and quicker as well. No, because let’s take the example of Jesus. Here is a very high-frequency person in dense surroundings. Palestine at the time of Jesus was quite dense. So Jesus came in and he did not come alone. There were many high-frequency souls who were part of the plan so to speak and incarnated at the time to help with the raising of frequency. Now when Jesus created he beamed out a high-frequency path to whatever he wanted to affect. He literally energetically surrounded what he wanted to have and infused it with light. Then he let go and most of the time it would then come to him. He did not have to “work at it”. It just happened or so it seemed but it was really an energy play. So our point is while the earth had a much lower density at this time the creation of whatever needs to be manifested can be just as easy if your frequency is high enough and you can draw others or inanimate objects to you. This works also in terms of rain for example. You can draw rain to you. Rain dances do work if they are done with love. You are not forcing nature. You express your love and it gets returned. Some people get so obsessed with techniques they forget the love. Clouds will open and give off their water if you love them enough. You don’t need special mantras. Jesus was trying to teach that as well that it is the love not the metaphysical technique that makes the difference.

So Louise, when you have a picture called the perfect house and beam out a high-frequency path to it, it will come to you. Do that right now. Start with the joy. Feel the joy, the ease, the love you have for God, for Jesus, for your dog. Open your heart. Send out that joy and let it come back to you.

Today we will talk about trust. Part of this whole equation is trust. Trust in yourself. Trust in the universe. Trust that your choices are valid. Trust that you can remedy mistakes. Trust that you can be forgiven and that you can let go of whatever wrongs you feel others have committed. You have to become free, fluid, willing to expand and to let go of old energies that can hold you back. You cannot create if all your energy is consumed in resentment about something that happened long ago. You need to let go of old grievances. Understand that some people don’t have the intelligence or ability to act rationally. Forgive even those that are hard to forgive.

Let us do another visualization. Start with protection and put Archangel Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Ariel in the four corners of your room. Call in Jesus or Mother Mary or Durga or Siva or Buddha. Call in who you trust. Then ask, “What is keeping me from creating? What is keeping me from creating with joy?” See some situation come up. See an old grievance you have. Say, “I let it go.” See it disappear into the light. See it being sucked up by a ball of light. Source is dissolving it. You don’t have to carry it anymore. See Jesus or whoever you choose filling you up with golden light. Let your aura be filled with light. Let your body be filled. Take it in. Relax, let go. Breathe normally. Close down the visualization. Feel your feet. Relax.