361: Flowdreaming: The Secret to Letting Go of Stubborn Life Patterns (with Summer McStravick)
Apr 24, 2024
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In this enlightening conversation, Summer McStravick, a personal growth coach and the creator of Flow Dreaming, shares her transformative technique for manifesting desires. She emphasizes the power of emotions over typical visualization methods, encouraging listeners to practice feeling their desired states. Topics include recognizing when to move on from unhealthy life lessons and the impact of 'lack thinking' on emotional well-being. Summer also highlights the importance of shifting from a reactive to a proactive mindset for personal growth.
Flowdreaming emphasizes the importance of engaging with emotions to manifest desires effectively, moving beyond traditional visualizations and affirmations.
Understanding and releasing recurring 'life majors' through emotional shifts can help individuals break free from stubborn life patterns and grow personally.
Deep dives
Understanding Flow Dreaming
Flow dreaming is described as a mind-body-spirit practice that helps individuals manifest their desires and enhance their emotional well-being. Rather than simply dreaming or visualizing, it involves engaging with the energy of what one wants to bring into their life. This process allows practitioners to access different emotional states and use them to attract more positive experiences. By combining imagination and emotional focus, flow dreaming emphasizes proactive engagement with one’s desires instead of passively waiting for life to unfold.
Identifying Life Majors
The concept of a 'life major' refers to recurring patterns or challenges that individuals face, which can feel like a cycle of repetitive experiences. For example, someone might repeatedly find themselves in unhealthy relationships despite the advice of friends. To move beyond these cycles, it is suggested that individuals shift their emotions and energy to graduate beyond these patterns. Instead of trying to escape these life majors, the focus is on understanding the lessons they present and allowing them to release naturally.
Emotional Energy and Manifestation
Flow dreaming operates on the premise that emotions and energy play a critical role in how individuals interact with the world. By regularly practicing flow dreaming, individuals are believed to create new neural pathways that align their emotional states with their desired outcomes. This technique enables them to immerse themselves in the feelings associated with what they wish to achieve or attract, ultimately creating a powerful emotional energetic blueprint. By emphasizing feelings over thoughts, practitioners can build a more positive and aligned relationship with their desires.
Building Trust and Letting Go
Three areas of trust—self, others, and life—are crucial for effective flow dreaming practice and personal growth. Trust in oneself can be eroded by past decisions and failures, leading to a reluctance to engage fully with life. Likewise, trust in others can diminish due to past betrayals, while trust in the universe can wane from repeated disappointments. To successfully create an emotional blueprint and transition into new experiences, individuals must heal these areas of trust and recognize situations where they may be limiting their emotional and spiritual growth.
If you're feeling frustrated and stuck because your visualizations and affirmations aren't leading to the manifestation you desire, then you are not alone! You may already be taking action by repeating positive statements or creating vision boards, only to find that nothing is changing in your life. Instead of experiencing the success and abundance you're seeking, you may be feeling disheartened and doubtful about your ability to manifest your desires.
Flowdreaming, a dynamic technique developed by Summer McStravick, provides a distinct approach to manifesting dreams and desires. Unlike typical manifestation strategies that might involve rituals or repeated intentions, Flow Dreaming stresses the importance of emotions. By harnessing the power of our feelings and the experiences we wish to cultivate, we can communicate more effectively with the universe and manifest our ideal outcomes.
In This Episode, You'll Discover How To...
Master manifesting with the powerful Flowdreaming practice.
Embrace healing and learn valuable lessons from life's struggles
Shift from reacting to responding and take control of your responses.
Rebuild trust in yourself, others, and God/the Universe for a brighter future.
"Practice feeling the way you want to feel so that you can graduate from those life majors you're ready to let go of." - Dr. Jen Riday
Key Moments:
00:04:01 - Understanding Flow Dreaming
00:10:17 - Practicing Flow Dreaming
00:13:54 - Life Majors and Changing Patterns
00:16:19 - Healing and Embracing Life
00:20:05 - Letting Go of Life Majors
00:21:49 - Emotional Blueprint and Nonphysical Action
00:27:23 - Chasing Feelings
00:29:15 - Building Trust in Life
00:30:12 - Creating Debris and Wreckage
00:34:23 - Practicing Feelings on Demand
00:39:16 - Flow Dreaming Practice
"We want to be focused on having the capacity, the energy, and the emotions to graduate from the patterns we're ready to let go of and move on to what we do want." - Summer McStravick
Resources and Next Steps:
Visit flowdreaming.com to access free flow dreams and a free tutorial to start practicing feeling the way you want to feel.
Download the Flowdreaming app to access over 300 flow dreams and get started on your practice of feeling the way you want to feel.
Check out the Flowdreaming podcast and the Flowdreaming book to dive deeper into the concepts and practices of Flowdreaming and learn how to graduate from life majors and move towards what you do want.