Create The World You Want with Kathleen Flanagan

Kathleen Flanagan has been on a spiritual journey for most of her life, and has been a certified aromatherapist and licensed esthetician since the mid-1990s. She developed an all-natural method of stress reduction and mood enhancement after a series of health complications due to medications she had been prescribed. This inspired her to create Awakening Spirit Incorporated, a line of products that help people improve their disposition, relieve stress, increase self-confidence and create conditions to enjoy life through effective relaxation.

Kathleen Flanagan is an expert in sound therapy and has written an award-winning book called Dancing Souls Merging Heaven and Earth Book One. She is committed to helping people on their spiritual journey and believes that spiritual growth is needed to become self-realized. When asked what her expertise can do to accelerate health, Kathleen shared that gratitude was a major factor in changing her emotional wellbeing. She dealt with a difficult grieving process after her mother's death and found solace in expressing gratitude for even the smallest things, such as the blue sky.

Kathleen and I will discuss what it means to be in a dark night of the soul, how to move through it, and how to use it to create the life you want.  The mind tries to keep you safe by keeping you in a familiar situation, but in order to get what you really want you have to focus on what you want and push through the fear.

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Connect with Kathleen on her website at https://www.kathleenmflanagan.com/

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Transcript

Magic Barclay: 0:59

Welcome back to a Magical Life. I'm your host, magic Barclay, and today I am joined by Kathleen Flanagan. Kathleen is an amazing lady, and if you haven't heard episode 1 78 yet, go ahead and do that. But now we're talking about creating the world that you want. Welcome back, Kathleen. Thank you, mark

Kathleen Flanagan: 1:20

Magic. Glad to be here.

Magic Barclay: 1:22

Now, we touched on this a little bit in our last episode. When we were talking off air, you were talking about the dark night of the soul. Can you explain to the listeners what that is and on the flip side, how we can create the world that we want?

Kathleen Flanagan: 1:38

Well, the dark night of the soul is basically. We're going deep inside of ourselves. Things can trigger it. Events can trigger it. I would say covid has probably been a real big thing for a lot of people, that they're actually in a dark night of the soul and don't know that they're in it. And what's happening is that, The light is coming into the dark recesses of ourself, and it's giving us the opportunity to bring light to those areas. So it could be lies that were perpetuated on you. It could have been traumas in your life, it could be abuses, it could be a lot of things that something triggered. Memories, childhood memories that need to be transformed to bring light to it so they quit running your life. And so what I have found when I'm in there, and it's not a fun place to be, it's a very dark place. And the way I like to describe this is in the movie, what Dreams May Come with Robin Williams they lost their kids in an auto accident and his wife committed suicide. And so she was in this very dark place, and Robin Williams wanted to go save her. So even though he was in his own grief, he loved her enough to go into the pits of hell, as I call it, and pull her out, and just let love come in. So when you're in that place, honor that even though it's a hard place to be, you want to love this place because there's a freedom that comes to you that. Way beyond your comprehension because you start seeing your lights coming out more people are seeing you differently. You're seeing the world differently, and it's challenging, but the rewards on the other side are amazing. I mean, you could bring in more wealth, you can bring in more health, you can bring in more love. It is just because you've changed from the start night. So that's where I see the dark night, and when you're there, just honor where it is and just ask. Everything that you need to see because this is a perfect opportunity because you actually feel flattened, like you just don't know what to do. A lot of people don't understand this place, so they're, you're not gonna get it. And having a drink or smoking pot or whatever is not going to make this easier. It's, it could actually prolong it. So just love it and just ask yourself, what is it that I'm supposed to learn here? Because your body will assist you on this. I mean, the thoughts will come in and give you opportunities to come out of it. And once you do, Just how you feel about yourself is probably the main thing that always amazed at the transformation that you make, cuz it's a very transformational experience.

Magic Barclay: 4:12

How can we go to create the world that we want? how can we take the power back, come outta that dark place and really make those shifts for not just a positive life, but an authentic life?

Kathleen Flanagan: 4:25

I always go back to what would you love? What do you want? What do you love? Most people know what they don't want, but they don't know what they want. And when I was asked that question a long time ago, I was, stopped me dead on my tracks because it's like, I don't know what I want. I really, truly don't. I know what I don't want. Well, spirit doesn't respond to negatives because they don't hear the negatives. So if they say, if I don't wanna be broke, well you're gonna be broke because this hearing I'm, I wanna be broke. So when I stop to think about, well, what is it that I want? And then what would I love? And I started dialing in on that and focusing in on changing that because I started noticing things because our paradigms will come up. I promise you, they will come up when you start moving to make a change in your life. our paradigms are gonna come up and they're gonna say, no, you're gonna die. And this is your ego talking to you and you just, You have to love what you wanna do, and it has to be bigger than you. And you have to have help from a higher source, because that's the only way you're gonna make those changes. In your life, and I know this because I've done this, I created a brand new house in 90 days, and I, it just blew me away of what I did, and it was just, I just kept looking and I kept seeing what I wanted and I kept refining and refining and refining. Because when you get very detailed on what you want, and I mean we're talking serious detail to the place that you're sitting there and you're writing to, I wake up at 7:00 AM and you start writing what that new day looks like in your new life, and you do that and read that, you're gonna create that in your life. But that doesn't mean your paradigms aren't gonna come up and they're gonna try to stop you. You have to want this so badly. You're willing to so-called die for it because When I created this house, my paradigms were screaming of, you're gonna be homeless, this is what's gonna happen. and I thought I was having a heart attack, believe it or not, because our paradigms are so strong that they can, they actually affect our central nervous system. And I was like, no, I'm gonna go through it. So when people stop, just shy of their dream, it's because they allow their physical body, if it goes to that point, stop it. And then they don't have what they want. But if you go through when you think you're going to die and you go through that, Oh my God. You will never understand what that feeling is like until you just bust through your stuff. And guess what? That paradigm forever changed. Forever changed. Your perspective changes, your attitude changes, your life changes. You become happier, everything gets easier. Things start flowing because you've released. Major blocks that you've had or that were programmed into you as a child, and as far as I'm concerned, after I did that and went through what I went through, it was like, I'm unstoppable now. Oh yes. Do my paradigm scream. Oh my God, do they scream some days? And it's like, don't care. I'm still going through this because I know I can have what I want. But it's up to you to really push through that and just keep your eye on what you want. Because if you keep an eye on it and you take those baby steps, all that little bit just keeps moving you in that direction because it's going into that subconscious part of your mind, and the divine providence comes in and helps you along the way. And as far as I'm concerned, you gotta get out of your own way. You have to get out of your way. Nobody's gonna do it for you. You can have everything that you see in the Hollywood movie stars or all of that. You can have every bit of it. It's just you're the one that stops yourself. And I, I can speak from my own self. I've, I stepped in my own way for the longest time, and now not anymore. So that that would be, what I would say is just really focus in on what is you want and then really put yourself through the work. Cuz there will be work to do this, but the rewards are way beyond your comprehension, way beyond it. And how you feel about yourself is even probably the most amazing thing is that you're like a whole new person to yourself.

Magic Barclay: 8:50

Now we talked a little bit off air about this and without getting too controversial, there's so much going on in the world at the moment and many people seem to be disconnected from self or even disconnected from their friendship groups, their family. What is a way, Kathleen, that people can kind of bring themselves together and be around the people that are there for them? They would want to be there for, because we've seen, you know, across the world, people scattered and, and cutting people out of their lives. So how can we bring people back together?

Kathleen Flanagan: 9:29

I would say the main thing is, is open your heart and open it to yourself. I noticed that when they were taking this covid, trying to bring it into year two, and I, I just refused, I refused to go down this road. because there was this, I felt like I was fighting my own mental wellness because there was so much darkness and so much heaviness and fear, and as an empath I was feeling it and trying to transmute it as fast as I can and, and I said, I'm not living this way anymore. This is not, this is not my world. It's not going to be my. I, I refuse because if I want a different world, then that means I have to change. And I really had to dial in on my thinking and just get out of what it was that was happening and say, no, I want this for my life. I want this for my world. I wanna be around people. I wanna be around people who love me, who I like, who I like to work with. And by doing that, my life started to change. Drastically because we're social beings no matter what. We are social beings. We are designed to be around people. We need to have our self-care. We need to be with ourselves, but not to the degree that we were for almost two years. That fear has to stop because that's how I feel we're being controlled is by fear, and we have nothing to fear, you know, don't buy into it. Because we're spiritual beings. God created us, and that's how I look at it, is that we are so much more than our physical bodies. We are more than what this world is, and I believe I can have anything I want. And if I believe that, then I better start doing something about it. And we need people to get there. I like being around people. I like being alone, but I also like people because there's something about that. It just makes my heart sing. I feel more complete. I feel more in control. I feel, you know, and you just have to learn to accept people's differences. Just because somebody doesn't think like you do. That doesn't have to be the defining moment in a relat. So during the pandemic, I have friends and I, I mean we were at this point of, they're trying to convince me of what I didn't wanna be convinced of, and I didn't wanna convince them. And I basically told'em, I said, this is how it's gonna play out. I said, if you wanna continue pushing me in this world that you're in, then we will never be friends again. I accept where you're at. You need to accept me if you can't leave. But I gave them the opportunity and our friendship was so much more important that we decided to put whatever our thoughts were for each other aside and refocus. Refocus back in on who we were as people and why we were friends to begin. So we didn't have to have this hate or anger or you don't think like me, so you're a bad person or you come from a different country so you're bad. I mean, we, you don't do that. We're all the same. And I think that was probably the biggest thing was learning to have the boundaries and redefine our relationships. Because it's okay if they wanna think like they think. I don't judge them for it. That's their opinion. It's not mine. And, but that's not how we built our, our friendship to begin with. So why do that now? And I think if we start really listening to other people and listening to what's happening to them in their heart, you're gonna see they're just like you. And I think that's what we need to do, is really listen to the pain that people are in right now, cuz there's a lot of pain out there. And so I, I wanna be a light, I wanna smile at people, look'em in the eye and let'em know it's okay.

Magic Barclay: 13:22

Very well explained. And you know, I've spoken about this before, listeners, that there is no point in cutting yourself off from people that you love and care about because you were told to do so. So please, please remember that those people are in your life for a reason. Now we've kind of spoken about the dark Knight of the soul and the flip side, how to create the world that we want. And I know in our last episode we touched on a couple of essential oils. So this episode for creating the world that you want for moving forward, for reaching that future pace that you've set yourself. What are some essential oils that can go hand in hand?

Kathleen Flanagan: 14:09

Well, I have actually, I have a couple of blends, several blends that are on my website that I created for this, for various things. I mean, if you've got like, like there's a lot of darkness around you. The IM oil is just amazing to lift whatever darkness is off and what I, I have found, I think the precious oils are probably the best oils because they're such a higher frequency. And what we're trying to do is bring our frequency up. So if you're using like the Nas Lang, Lang Rose frankincense is another good one. Me's very grounding. If you're kind of feel it like really lightheaded, myrrh's really good for that. Bergamont could be another really nice oil to use as well for that. So there's a lot of different oils that you can use. And I think a lot of times just if you're, if you wanna make your own, I mean, that's really encouraging because then you're bringing your energy into that oil. But I, my feeling is, is the higher the oils sometimes in the frequency, the more it lifts us up. Because sometimes if we're too heavy and grounded, we need to have something more playful. Your citrus oils are fabulous for being like playful oils, in my opinion. And just

Magic Barclay: 15:25

to note to the listeners when using essential oils, always store them in glass please and keep them out of direct sunlight. This has been a fantastic episode. Now people can find you@kathleenmflanagan.com and what can they find on the website there? Well,

Kathleen Flanagan: 15:45

they'll see that um, my books are out. I got my second book got published, which is called The Dark Night of the Soul, and I have Alyssa Services and I do have, if you want, there's a link that will take you to the Awakening Spirit site if there was essential oils. You were interested cuz we do. I do sell essential oils, so all these, everything is kind of tied in there, but it would be under the services or products that I offer. So you'll be able to find everything there or take you straight into the awakening spirit.com site.

Magic Barclay: 16:15

Brilliant listeners, this was your episode 1 79 In 180, we have Angelica Marie joining us talking about being a self-care success specialist. So for now, thank you so much, Kathleen, for joining us.

Kathleen Flanagan: 16:34

Thank you, magic. I really appreciate being on your show.

Magic Barclay: 16:37

Listeners, thank you for your time. Go forth and create your magical life.