I love to have something like this on when I'm working. The music does not interfere with my concentration, it actually helps me slow down.  And looking over and seeing the ocean waves makes me really happy.

I think most of us on the spiritual path always want a closer relationship with our soul self, our divine self. We want to feel its presence. Most of all, I think, we want to have an undeniable communication with our soul self, the kind where we ask for guidance or information or anything else -- and actually feel our soul self respond.

This is connected to intuition. When we ask our soul self for something, we can hear the response directly, or when we have a strong intention about something, our soul self can come through and give us a sense of things.

If you want to cultivate a stronger connection to your soul self, cultivate stronger intuition, an easy way to do that is to regularly make requests from your soul self before you go to bed at night.

I've created My Dream Requests notebook just for that purpose.

You make a request from your soul about anything you want to know or any help you want to receive and then the next day you might wake up with the knowing or receive information sometime later.

The most important part about establishing a strong connection with your soul in this manner is to be consistent.

In other words, you are always looking for that connection and always expecting a response.

This consistency expands your ability to easily feel the presence of your soul self, easily make contact when you need information or help.

When we do this, continual contact our soul self, we become the divine humans that we are. We are no longer just human, we ever-more become divine humans. We do more and more what is our soul truth and less of what only our human personality perceives or wants.

In this way, we are no longer alone on the planet. We have a powerful companion, our soul self. We live from our soul truth. We can be at peace. We are in a position to have the most fulfilling and happiest life possible.

This also assures that we growth through our life challenges in the quickest easiest way -- by receiving help from our soul self. Essentially by asking help from our soul self, we are saying, we are ready to grow, evolve. We are willing to be guided by our highest soul truth. We are willing to change, expand our being, to know a higher truth, be willing to hold more light, become more the divine humans that we really are.

There are many ways and tools to expand our spiritual potential, using My Dream Requests notebook, along with My Manifesting Planner, is one way. It may be a way that works for you.

I created these set of affirmations to remind us all of who we really are. We are an aspect of All That Is. We are powerful creators. We can use our soul power to maintain vibrant health and vitality, move through life's challenge, create our heart's desires, create a beautiful life for ourselves. We can use our dreams to connect with the wisdom of the universe and learn, receive guidance and comfort.

When I create guided meditations, I listen to them many, many times and at the very end, when the meditation is almost done, I listen to it as I normally would any guided meditation.

Listening to Affirmations for Optimal Well-Being, I was frustrated. For me it takes a lot of discipline and determination to have patience, to wait on soul guidance. I have a hard time remembering to ask for help from my divine self and struggle alone until I finally remember.

It's also hard keeping in mind that our life is as it should be, that we are doing what we are supposed to be doing, learning what we are supposed to learn and not to worry so much.

If we only could sit back a little and allow divine guidance to bring what we need to us instead of pushing and forcing and trying -- life would be so much easier and definitely more pleasurable.

Anyway, lots to learn. Definitely listening to Affirmations for Optimal Well-Being often is a good idea as a way to begin to embody the truth of our being, our power and relax more about who we are and what we are doing here on Earth.

If you are a serious seeker, fully committed to your spiritual growth, My Manifesting Planner is for you. How? I will tell you.

I think most of us on the spiritual path struggle to integrate daily life and our personal growth and spiritual convictions.

Most planners allow only for the physical reality - keep track of appointments; write down what has to be done. Some planners include goals, but goals of the ego? How about the soul? How about goals of the soul? How about everyday life challenges - relationship issues; career decisions; health challenges, and other usual life challenges that bug us, that we often ignore, but have to get through one way or another, sooner or later. And the sooner the better because anything unresolved takes away our energy, our joy, creates confusion, makes it difficult to move forward in any area of life. We have to grow through life's challenges, evolve. Yet, planners don't include ways to move through life's challenges.

How about the nature of reality? Where does one include the fundamental laws of the universe in living one's daily life? Keeping in mind universal truths, including the most important ones: That we create with our thoughts; that we are evolving; that we're moving into becoming more and more who in truth we are, divine beings in human form. How does one include that in a planner?

My Manifesting Planner takes all aspects of your being into account. It helps you move and grow through life's challenges; fulfill dreams; keep connected to your soul; keep focused so you do get your earthly things done, the ones that are most important - the ones connected to your soul truth. It keeps you evolving, continually expanding your connection to your soul. The more we become the divine humans that we are, the easier and more fulfilling life becomes.

We are always manifesting. We manifest ourselves by growing through our challenges, becoming new selves. Through our thoughts, where we focus, where we put our attention, we manifest our lives.

We are always manifesting, creating, do we want to do it consciously? Yes, we do. It's a way we can smoothly move through our challenges, fulfill our soul desires and live our purpose. Simply put, we have an opportunity to be happier, more fulfilled and healthier in every way.

So, if you are committed to your spiritual growth, to evolving, to becoming more of who you really are, a divine human, My Manifesting Planner can help you.

In the morning, sit with the planner, check in with yourself. Is anything troubling you? What is it? What do you want instead? Let that be your manifestation, something you want to bring into your life.

If you have a heart's desire, see if you can start planning to fulfill it - feel deeply, is this coming from your soul? Is it a soul truth? That becomes a manifestation project; you can start to identify steps you need to take to fulfill it.

You have on your TO DO list lots of tasks and errands. And also action you want to take for a manifestation project. Which ones are most important. Identify 2-3. Then make sure you get those done that day.

Let My Manifesting Planner keep you in touch with yourself so daily you can move forward to transform life's challenges, fulfill soul desires and successfully navigate earthly life with soul purpose.

To create the covers from my books and guided meditations, I use the Affinity tools: Designer and Photo. To lay out my books and get them ready for publication, I use Publisher.

These are relatively new applications by Serif in the UK. They are inexpensive. Best of all, they are NOT on a subscription basis. Many Adobe users have switched to Affinity.

I love these programs. They are relatively easy to learn and use and very easy to use if you've already used any similar applications.

They all work together. If you're in one application, you can easily open the same project in another application. For example, if you're in Designer creating a cover and have an image that needs adjusting, you simply go to the Designer File Menu and open Photo. You adjust the image in Photo and then go back to Designer to continue your work.

When I started using Affinity products, I was fairly new to these sorts of applications. Then along came Affinity Revolution -- a husband and wife team, teachers, who created tutorials for all three Affinity applications. They are the best tutorials one could hope to have when learning a new program. I highly recommend them. They are inexpensive and ever so pleasant to watch and learn.

So, if you're looking for a great set of creative applications I highly recommend Affinity products and I highly recommend Affinity Revolution tutorials to quickly and painlessly learn how to use them.