Would you proceed by allowing the framers, electricians, and plumbers do what ever they wanted?

With no plan in mind at the outset there would likely be no coherent usability for the building, even if the entire crew were skilled at their individual jobs. Without a blueprint for the project there is no direction for the construction crew, there is nothing that lets them know how and where to apply their energy.

That same principle holds true no matter what you are creating in your life, be it your career, a new home, or your business. It is the plan, blueprint, or design of anything you are building that actually directs the forces of creation. Your creation begins moving into form when you take your unformed, invisible ideas and create the blueprint or framework of what you are manifesting.

Even with a plan you can still be flexible for changes that may come up along the way when you discover something new or simply feels it needs adjustment for where you are at the time. You may shift or change your plan at anytime. A plan doesn’t create rigidness, it creates structure. It gives shape to your creation. When you know how to work with the critical dynamic interchange between the formless mental realm of Air, and the formed physical realm of Earth, you are better able to effectively create anything. The mental realm of Air actually directs the forces of creation.

Now, there is a subtle difference between forcing and directing a creation. Forcing means you overly impose your will on the creation and directing means you help effectively shape it. An example of this would be forcing the land to suit your building, instead of shaping the building to suit the land.

When you effectively direct your creations, you pay attention to the landscape that is already present (who you are, what your skilled at, what’s next in the expansion of your life or business). From there, you shape your formless ideas, desires, and dreams into form in a way that aligns with who you are and what is important to you and your business from a soul level.

As you come to the close of the growing cycle of one year and prepare to enter the next, have you given yourself the time and support you need to design the next phase of your life and/or business? In the fast-paced world we live in it’s easy to overlook this critical planning phase in the cycle of creation, but without it —your inner construction crew has no idea what to build.

If you need support and assistance shaping your year then please plan to join me for “Create A Dynamic Year 2012” on Jan 8. Invest a day in shaping your next level of expansion for the growing cycle ahead.

If you need assistance growing your business and helping to direct it into a 6-figure success then it’s time to invest in some one-on-one strategic business acceleration designing. Now through Dec 22, I am offering a powerful bonus with the premium level of the Natural Rhythms Business Acceleration Mentorship and Mastermind program. The bonus is the full “Create A Financially Thriving Divine Feminine Business” online training a $597 value.

(Note to current members: You can take advantage of this offer even if you have already had a premium month in the mentorship program.)

You can schedule your two hours of planning anytime between now and March 30, 2012. Scheduling of design time is based on first come first serve basis.

If you need 6-figure business acceleration planning assistance then invest now to save $300 over the 2012 investment which will be increasing on Jan 8th. Remember sign up for the two hours of strategic planning time with me by Dec 22 to get the business boosting bonus $597 program of “Create A Financially Thriving Divine Feminine Business”.

Sending creation support your way, Lisa

PS…The increasing light of the new solar cycle begins with Winter Solstice Dec 21. If you need to design a more effective strategy for growing your personal and professional creations, then set aside time for planning!

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Spirit - Apply Your Power of Choice

When it comes to creating anything, including abundance, Spirit provides the inner guidance and direction to bring your goals, dreams, and desires into reality. Spirit helps you connect to the creative spark of your unique essence urging you to the next level of personal development.

In order to creatively grow, Spirit gives you the gift of choice. With this gift, you have the power to choose your perceptions, how you interact with your feelings, others, your finances, and what actions you are going to take. Then, at any time, you have the power to choose something different.

This sounds like such a simple power, yet it is profound. Choice directs the powers of creation. Each time you choose something — what you will eat, wear, think, do, not do, express, feel, spend, save, or where you will live, work, and play — you design and define yourself and your life. This power of choice gives you the ability to create your life and then change when appropriate.

Even in circumstances when your choices seem very limited, you still have the ability to choose your response to the situation. When you listen, Spirit will help guide you toward your most effective choices.

You can connect with Spirit (just as with the other Elements) by sitting quietly and asking for connection and guidance.  Spirit is waiting for you to just “show up”.  Once you make that choice, Spirit and the elements work with you to create and manifest your desires.

• Air – Get a Clear Vision and Stay Focused
• Earth – Ground Your Plan with Gratitude
• Water – Flow Clear, Clean, & Current Financial Feelings
• Fire – Take Transformative Action
• Spirit – Apply Your Power of Choice

Working with Spirit and the Elements creates magic in any area of your life. Connect today and start creating conscious abundance!

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Expansion Up & Out Requires Deep & Stable Roots

Anytime you want to be more, have more, or do more, in order to expand up and out in your personal or professional life, you have to develop a deeper stronger and more stable root system. Just like a tree, you are an organic living system comprised of the elemental forces of creation (Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit).

Each of the elements impact your organic living system and your ability to expand and bring into form any of your dreams and desires. The more consciously you know how to draw on, access, and work with the elements the more effectively you can strengthen your “inner root system” in order to expand and create.

Strengthening your “inner root system” requires something different with each element. With…

Earth you need to deepen your ability to create structure and form for your expansion and creations. They can only be as solid as your capacity to effectively hold and manage them in the physical earthly realm.
Water requires you to enhance your skill at magnetizing your desires by increasing your emotional maturity and learning to run clear, clean, emotional current.

Air calls for you to learn new mental and technological skills and create a more expansive and compelling vision to help you focus your intentions and actions for better results.

Fire asks you to align your actions, life force energy, and passion to fuel your dreams and desires that are for the highest good of everyone concerned and the planet.

Spirit urges you to express your essence more fully and to explore the creative outlets you feel called to bring into form in your personal and professional life.

Learning more about the elements and the ways they ignite your inner gifts and activate your personal power helps you strengthen your inner root system to expand into all you can be.

At Natural Rhythms our mission is to help you do just that. Assisting you to develop and stabilize your inner capacities what we work toward daily. We have two new classes beginning June 16 & 17 that can help you.

For those of you who want to expand your business our Natural Business Success 4 module teleseminar course begins June 16. And if you want to develop the foundational powers of the elements our NR100 Home Study course begins June 17. If you have time for both they very powerfully work hand in hand to reinforce and develop your capacity to work in alignment with the forces of creation.

There are also two more free events this week Expand Your Essential Creative Potential Webinar Sunday June 6 and on June 9 a free teleseminar on Natural Business Success.

Please contact me if you have any questions about either of these potent ways to strengthen your root system and skills.

Many blessings and much natural success, LIsa

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L to R Leslie Clayton, Judy Keating, Cherie Lyon, Paula York, Jeff Craft, Susan Kersey, Bonnie Salamon, Lynette McCormack, Dr. Tammy Huber-Wilkens, Lisa Michaels

When someone is out in the forest with no compass or map, every direction looks almost the same.  Which way do I walk?  Where do I call for guidance? Is it safer to rest or keep walking?

While many of us have clarity about certain areas of our life, it is not uncommon to have specific situations arise where we feel a little lost or stuck.  And there can be times when we feel no clear sense of direction at all.

The Natural Rhythms coaching sessions provide you with the vision and tools to better understand how you found yourself in your current situation, and more importantly how to clear a pathway to begin confidently moving in a clear direction with clear goals in mind.  The Life Purpose Session helps you better understand how you interact with the world and the energies that naturally expression through you.
The Energy Clearing sessions help remove obstacles so you can see more clearly and confidently flow with life. And the Creation sessions empower you to open to your own innate wisdom and personal power so you can bring your authentic passions and visions into reality.

I cannot say enough positive things about how profoundly the Natural Rhythms work has impacted my personal healing, my clarity of vision, as well as my ability to better understand and accept both myself and the people around me. Stepping out of the forest and into the light of my deeper Spiritual Essence has brought me a freedom, confidence and joy which is difficult to put into words. I am so excited to be able to share these tools with others!  What a great gift!
By NR Creation Coach Jeff Craft

It seems like today’s corporate world is full of more transition and change than ever before. And even when we truly desire a change and long to create something new in our lives and in our work we often feel some kind of inner resistance that makes our next steps seem unclear or even impossible. The power to create the lives we are meant to live, begins within each one of us. In Creation Coaching sessions I am honored to hold a container to help my clients to deeply listen themselves into awareness of inner resistance, outdated patterns or mental models that are holding them back. Awareness opens up the choice to release, to shift and to let go, enabling them to choose to step into creating new possibilities for themselves.
By NR Creation Coach Lynette McCormack

I am one of nine recently certified as a Natural Rhythms™ Creation Coach. Accessing the individuated teachings of Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Spirit is a continuous vocation of mine, and thus an ongoing process.

Each of the elements has opened doors inside me some of which were rusted shut, some had the handle soldered off, others open and shut like a back screen door on a windy day.  Thru these incredible gateways to the core of creation, I have gotten to know myself in all my glory and all my shadow.

The beauty of creation is it is what it is and you are what and where you are right here right now. When you access your own inner nature thru the master teachers of creation, you can release, you can remove blocks, and you can decide how you want to re-create your life thru your own divine power.

If you yearn for a place where you can explore your truth want tools and space to see what your  nature and your unique connection to the elements can  do to bring your life into divine alignment, I invite you to work with one of our Creation Coaches. The sessions offered can make an immediate difference for anyone.  If you are curious follow your own  intuitive call  …  contact a Natural Rhythms Creation Coach™ and see where it leads you.
By NR Creation Coach Judy Keating

Between the Sun and the Rainbow …

Lay the road on which I traveled home, Sunday afternoon March 28, from the 6-day intensive Natural Rhythms 300 training, and Natural Rhythms Creation Coaching training.  The depth of feeling about this experience was defying words, and so I just relished in the feelings, allowed the emotions to flow, thought about all the options now opening to me, and was excited to return home to take the first steps on my new path.

Up ahead the sky was darkening, and suddenly, all the Elements began to do an “as within, so without” dance. Rain began to sprinkle, then became a downpour, and out of nowhere, hail pelted my windshield.  All the while, the sun continued to shimmer in my rearview mirror.

Suddenly, a rainbow appeared ahead, faint at first, then becoming stronger and more vibrant.  It seemed to traverse a sunrise to sunset expanse.  Next, a second rainbow appeared, this one closer to me, going all the way to the ground, with individual raindrops visible within the colors.

Then, it happened.  The rainbow laid itself down on the ground directly in front of my car.  As I approached to meet it, it seemed not to move.  I was driving over the rainbow.  The prisms of color remained suspended, a phenomenon that cannot actually happen, so it is said. But, when you are evoking the Elemental Forces of Creation, what was once not possible comes swiftly into focus, and provides the stepping stones for journeys of unimagined depth, joy, and beauty.
By NR Creation Coach Bonnie Salamon

The Natural Rhythms creative coaching training gave me an additional tool that will enhance my clients experience to the elements in their private sessions.  Thank you Lisa for your lens that bring a richness to aligning with natures magic.
By NR Creation Coach Cherie Lyon

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This can be especially challenging during collective turbulent times of change. When the winds of fear are blowing for the masses it can churn up your emotional water and make it tough to get through. You might even decide you can’t get there at all when the winds of uncertainty are intensely whipping and the water’s really choppy.

However, it is during these times that you most need to keep your focus on effectively creating your life. We just entered a new decade; one where there is a looming date of impending change ~ 2012. While it might all blow over like Y2K, you still need to effectively direct and create your life. Making choices of where you want to be at the end of the next decade.

You need to chart your own course and focus on your destination instead of allowing yourself to toss around undirected in the collective sea of uncertainty. In order to move through these potentially rocky waters you need a plan. You need to increase your ability to listen to the centering guidance found in nature and learn to navigate your ship by the direction of sun, moon, and stars.

And interestingly enough, life creation functions best when your receptive and active energies are in balance and you work effectively with each of the elemental realms.

The receptive phase of creation is the time you spend reflecting, planning, learning, clearing old energies, focusing and directing your energy.

Then, in the active phase your actions are aligned with your inner knowing, guidance, and direction. As you spin your creations out in the world they are targeted with your soul purpose and essence expression.

Once the balanced creational alignment occurs between your inner and outer awareness, the elemental forces can dramatically assist you in bringing your desires into being.

Crafting a new decade through the rocky waters of change requires that you take the time to focus your intention and know where you want to go. Sometimes moving through rough water takes more time and energy than you knew going in but you can arrive safely and soundly with patience and skill development.

This is an important time to be conscious about your creations! Use your creation journal, create a dream board, plan, prepare, and set your intentions for the upcoming growing cycle. Create the vision for where you want to be a year from now.

Remember sometimes your creations take longer to come into form than you think they will initially. They sometimes need more gestational time than you realized or you as part of the creational equation need to learn new skills to bring them into form.

However, if you do your part, maintain your focus, and work with the elemental forces to clear and align your energy, your creations will come into form.

The more your creations are measurable the clearer your intention and the more effectively the forces of creation can align with them. What exactly is a measurable intention?

If you want to bring in a particular amount for the month or year, what is the number? If you want to weigh a certain amount, what is that amount? If you want a certain number of customers, clients, friends, or fans, what is the total? And by what date do you want to see these things come into being? How will you know when your creation is complete?

What can you measure to determine when your creations have come into being? You can always ask for the total to be — less, or more, or sooner, depending on the request. Then do your part and release the rest to the forces of creation. Relax, align, and release attachment, as you take the actions that are yours to take around the creation.

If you want to apply the potentancy of nature’s rhythmic timings to your creations. Then learn to work with the new moons, full moons,and Wheel of the Year.  The Natural Rhythms membership was created with that training in mind. At only $29.97 a year it provides you with great focus for bringing your dreams into being.

Click here for more information about this powerful creational tool http://naturalrhythms.org/2.0/membership/

Happy creating during this powerful window!