​For those of you who know me personally or follow me on social media, then you’ve likely heard me say:

The Power to Create Starts in Your Mind.

In this post, I’m going to build off of the last email: The Vibration of Manifestation and we’re going to look at the neuroscience of manifestation — how holding an inner vision in your mind literally changes your brain so that you can experience it in reality.

Before I dive in, I’m pretty excited to let you know that I’ve started creating videos for each frequency first email that goes out. So if you prefer, you can also watch the video!

The Power to Create Starts in Your Mind (which goes a little more in-depth).

Everything that comes into creation was once a thought in someone’s mind…

So why not get into the driver’s seat and actively focus on what you want the creation of your life to become? This is what it means to walk the visionary path.

When you learn how to embody the visionary archetype and you hold an inner vision of a reality you’re calling towards yourself, and you feel the frequency of it, which means you resonate at the frequency of the emotions this inner vision stirs within you — joy, excitement, inspiration, passion, love, freedom — then you’re setting a powerful intention for this vision to manifest in your life.

This is because when you combine an inner vision with a strong elevated emotion you’re literally resonating at a specific frequency and we know that frequency carries information. (Just like the radio stationI mention in the last email)

From a neuroscience perspective, we know that the information this signal carries, actually starts to restructure your brain creating and forming new synaptic connections.

The latest research in neuroscience is discovering that how you experience the reality you call your life, is much more like a simulation that gets projected — and it’s projected based on the neural connections you have in your brain. Think of these neural networks as like 3D bluep​rints that project out to make up your 3D reality.

So when you learn a new concept, the neurons in your brain start to fire and wire in a new way, creating new neural connections — just like Hebb’s law states what fires together wires together.

These conceptual frameworks solidify into beliefs and become the foundation for perception. If you don’t have a concept for something, you won’t perceive it “out there” in reality.

This also means that something can exist but if you’re not able to perceive it, and you’re not putting your attention on it, then it just won’t exist for you — it might exist for someone else, but it won’t for you.

Become the Visionary of Your Life

So when you go within, and you overcome what you perceive as your current reality and you repeatedly hold an inner vision of what’s possible in your life, a possibility that you’re ready to be living right now, then you’re literally priming your brain to project that simulation into reality, and therefore experience it.

You can think of this as the neuroscience of manifestation. And I like to think of it as an incredibly fun game I get to play with life. And the more I hold bigger and bigger visions of what’s possible, and continue to watch the divine orchestration that allows this vision to come to fruition in my life, the more I blow past the boundaries of what I previously thought was possible, which in turn lays down more neural connections in my mind priming my brain to perceive and therefore experience more and more possibility.

And when you feel your heart is in deep alignment with this inner vision, I absolutely believe that the entire Universe conspires to support this vision coming to fruition.

The work that I’ve been doing with sacred plant medicines over the past 20 years has taught me how to attune my awareness to energy and has shown me how the frequency I resonate at carries information. And whether I’m studying science or ancient wisdom, all signs point in the same direction:

The Power to Create Starts In Your Mind

Music to Move You

I LOVE sharing my favorite inspirational music with you guys. This week, I’m thrilled to be sharing music from an incredible women who I’m honored to call a dear friend. Tara is a visionary in her own right and her music has held me through some deep processes I’ve gone through in my life.

I love her song Rainbow Light off of her True Beauty album on Bandcamp. She also just came out with a brand new release last week called Intend & Surrender. I highly recommend giving her powerful music a listen!

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With the frequency of love…from my heart to yours,

Live Free, Laura D

​I’ve been fascinated with the biology of manifestation my entire life; understanding the actual science behind holding an inner vision with a strong intention and watching it transmute into reality. To me, this is the essence of what it means to be a visionary.

For the past 15 years, and especially right now as I’m writing my visionary training program, I’m super immersed in many different fields of study from neuroscience, neurobiology, quantum physics, Eastern philosophy, and spiritual teachings… and I’m always and continuously amazed that they all point to the same core understanding of life:

that at the most fundamental level of reality, everything is energy, vibration and frequency.

What’s even more fascinating to me is that this is exactly what sacred plant medicines have also taught me; they’ve directly shown me that when I combine the power of focused intention by holding a vision in my mind, and tune my vibrational frequency to become a resonant match with what it is I most deeply desire, this is the quickest way to literally shape the energy field and mold it into something I can experience in reality; it’s the vibration of manifestation.

You Are a Vibrational Being

Where science and spirituality overlap truly paints a beautiful picture of self-empowered creation. You are a vibrational being, right down to you cellular make up, and this vibration is first and foremost directly affected by the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel. This vibration literally creates an electromagnetic frequency that radiates out from your being into the Universe. And as we already know, all vibrational frequency carries information.

So think of your body as being like a transmission radio station sending out and receiving information at the vibrational frequency that you’ve tuned your dial to (depending on how you feel), and you have the power to tune into whatever station you want. It’s quite remarkable, really.

The Outside-In Approach

So many people wait until they receive what they want in order to be happy. They think: once I get the job, make more money, find my partner, then I will feel happier, more whole, more fulfilled, more complete. What a passive way to live! And why give away your power like that?

But Here’s The Key…

Think about it: why do any of us want to manifest anything at all in the first place? Why do we want to build our dream home, launch the new online brand, take the vacation, get the better job? Because of how it will make us FEEL, right? So isn’t it strange why anyone would wait to feel what they really want to feel in life when we ALL possess the power to shift our emotions right in this moment to embody that exact feeling?

Most people are just out of practice, that’s all.

A Quick Practice

Take a moment to close your eyes and think about someone you love. It could be your beloved, a pet, your mother. Pick something easy. It only takes a moment to feel love and gratitude for someone or something. But the training is to sustain these feelings for longer (and not immediately fall back into the vibrational frequency of the stress of everyday living)…and to get better at feeling the specific feelings you want to feel.

Try the same thing now by intentionally conjuring up the feeling of wealth and abundance. Then try it with the feeling of freedom, now try it with inspiration; how does it feel when you feel really inspired by something?

(Just as a side note: the moment you feel abundant is the moment you stop trying to create from a place of lack or separation…and instead create more of what you ​already feel – a much easier way to create…)

Now couple this practice with a specific vision you’re holding in your mind.

Get clear: What are you calling into your life right now?

Then close your eyes and focus the vision in your mind and feel exactly how it feels to have that experience. Feel the excitement of it. Feel the joy of it.

These elevated emotions are powerful energetic signals — however you want to slice it, whether it’s from a spiritual perspective or a scientific perspective — they are signals to your body, to your cells and your genes and DNA, to your brain and to your mind, and to the field of energy around you and beyond; feeling good right now is the quickest way to living a healthier, happier, more fulfilled and creative life.

And that’s the key to calling in exactly the life you want to be living and anchoring all of your biggest visions, dreams and aspirations from the quantum or spirit realm right here into your physical 3D reality.

All manifesting really is, is playing with energy, vibration and frequencies, and using your focused intentions (inner visions) along with the frequencies in your body (how you feel) to get into a resonant match with what it is you want to create, call in, and experience.

Waiting for life to give you what you desire first, before you feel the joy of it, is absolutely the slowest way to create what you want.

The visionary approach — the Frequency First approach– is training yourself to feel those feelings of joy, happiness, excitement and gratitude right now, regardless of what your life looks like. And of course this requires dedication and practice; it requires overcoming the circumstances in your external environment and staying committed to how you ​really ​want to feel regardless of what’s happening around you and who might be trying to rain on your parade.

But if you choose to practice this inside-out approach to living, where you truly know that the power to create starts first and foremost with the inner visions you hold in your mind, led by the frequency of the feelings in your heart, you’ll start to witness the playfulness of the Universe at work in your life: more magic, more miracles, more synchronicity and divine alignments. Trust me, it’s MUCH more fun…

This is the co-creative dance we all get to play with the Universe, but only if you so choose.

Music to Move you

And of course, one of my all time favorite ways to raise my vibrational frequency is to move my body to some of my favorite inspirational songs!

I have a 2 for you this week.

Next up is a major favorite of mine at the moment. It’s a Spanish song called TRIBU by this amazing medicine sister named Giselle World (on bandcamp). It’s got an amazing beat and it really just makes me want to move and shake it and dance! This song has been on my new workout jams playlist and I just LOVE it when it comes on.

And this last song for today is more on the spiritually uplifting medicine music side of things. If you don’t know Murray Kyle, who is not only an incredible musician but also a very special human being, one of the most kind-hearted people I know, then definitely check him out on Spotify. I had a deep inner journey last weekend and this song Arrow to the Sun just touched my heart so deeply. (I also had the honor of listening to him play this live at our retreat center, what a special moment of my life!)

Feel free to share your comments down below 😉

With love from my vibrational heart to yours…

Live Free, Laura D

It’s a noble cause: to truly want to aspire to create greatness with your life. To step outside of the bounds of what you believe is possible and play big at the game of life.

But for those of you who are aspiring for greatness, then you might also be very familiar with this personality characteristic that tends to go hand in hand with this pursuit of…happiness, fulfillment, success and accomplishment…

This is the tendency to take things waaaayyyyy too fucking seriously.

I witness this tendency in so many people I coach, friends who are also aspiring for greatness, and of course, I see it in myself.

We’re taught to take life seriously…

We take what we’re going to order for breakfast seriously, how many likes we get on facebook seriously, we take our spiritual paths very seriously, we take healing ourselves seriously, we take arguments seriously, we take global warming seriously (ok, we probably should take that seriously….) decorating our homes seriously, we take our workouts seriously…we take what other people think about us wayyyy too seriously which can be just downright debilitating to living our own truth in our lives. ​

And we take our lives as a whole so freaking seriously!

And of course, there’s the paradox: our lives absolutely matter, and what we do with our life is incredibly important; one life has the capacity to influence huge change within a culture and across the world (think Nelson Mandela or Oprah Winfrey for example) Plus, of course our lives matter when you think about the fact that we were conceived inside another human body and we are literally walking, talking living miracles…(although we tend to rarely relate to life that way…) but when you zoom out and take a super broad perspective, we’re literally 9 billion people hurtling through space on this planet, who have such tiny unimportant lives that last the blink of an eye in the truly grand scheme of things.

So how about a little balance, huh?

Of course we matter, but we tend to have this debilitating tunnel vision, hyper-focusing on the importance of everything, and because we take everything so seriously, we lose sleep worrying about…a meeting the next day, who will feed the cat while we’re gone, how many people will sign up for our next launch, how many views we’ll get on our next youtube video, you get the point.

And all of this leads to stressing over every single outcome. And stress just so happens to be the antithesis of easily manifesting whatever you truly want in your life.

Stress keeps us in this narrow focus feedback loop where we’re stuck in this one tiny box within the big picture of what’s really possible in our lives. By opening our awareness and thinking bigger and feeling bigger than that old pattern of stress, worry and seriousness, we can remember to look up and see that we live in an infinite field of true Divinity and pure possibility.

We care SO darn much that we can actually squeeze the living crap out of what we care about until it’s dead….of mice and men anyone? This hyper focusing on the importance of everything we want to create with our lives actually contracts our being, which ironically becomes just an obstacle to more ease-fully achieving what we want in life. If we could drop the seriousness we could relax into the flow of life; relish in the flow, and actually take time to enjoy our lives. Because it’s really all about the journey and who we become along the way, rather than that end destination anyways.

And THE most ironic part about it all? Everything we take so seriously is just an illusion to begin with…

So why not make feeling good your highest priority?

Can you notice the places in your life that you might take a smidge too seriously? What’s keeping you up at night? What are you stressed about? Shake yourself out of that chronic feedback loop. Zoom out and take a bigger picture perspective. Do you think in a year from now, you’ll remember what you were so stressed out about today?

When I think back at different times of my life, like University for example, I think I could have had a radically different experience, primarily: much more enjoyable, if I would have taken it 90% less seriously. The amount of pressure I put on myself to succeed was actually more debilitating than it was conducive to me succeeding.

I’ve come a long way since those days, mostly thanks to some of the profound journeys I’ve had with powerful sacred plant medicines that have truly allowed me to see the bigger picture of life, and yet I still catch myself falling into that “serious” trap.

If you want to truly be a visionary and walk this path of using your life to create more beauty in this world and anchor some big visions into reality — which I believe is a very noble cause — I think it’s essential to balance out our pursuits with this sense of holding our inner visions and aspirations more lightly.

Relax into the process more, play with it more, have more fun manifesting what you want to create, because I know for me, there’s absolutely nothing more exciting than holding an inner vision of possibility in my mind and watching it unfold in this physical reality. It’s true alchemy at its best, and I’m in sheer awe of the magic every single time.

The trick is to step out of your own way so you can expand into the open channel of inspiration and creation…the moment you take it all too seriously is the moment you trip over your own shoe and miss getting in the channel all together.

It’s a delicate balance; caring and sort of not caring at the same time; we zoom into the importance of our lives and then zoom right back out into the sheer unimportance of it all.

I’m not saying don’t give a fuck, I’m just saying, maybe give a little less of a fuck…and see how that feels.You just might like it!

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Music to Move You

Shake off the seriousness and move your body to this upbeat fun song by KR3TURE called Flying….Dancing and moving is such a great way to bring more fun and joy into your life, shaking off negative energy and just feeling free…free to create, free to be you, free to live the life you envision for yourself. You deserve it.

Here’s one more song that always puts me in a great free-flowing mood…called Follow the Sun by Xavier Rudd

Enjoy the music, and keep dancing in this ceremony of life with me.

From my rebellious open heart to yours,

Live Free, Laura D

​A very strong underlying current that runs through our western culture is the underlying belief of not being good enough — a feeling of unworthiness.

The email I sent 2 weeks ago called: “What’s Blocking Your Channel of Abundance Part 1” was the prequel to this email. If you haven’t read it, definitely go give it a read. This email speaks about clearing your abundance channel and looking at your limiting beliefs around receiving abundance in your life.

And as I mentioned in that email, a lot of these limiting story-lines we tell ourselves are like programs that run deep within our subconscious, so it’s not like these feelings of not being good enough or feeling unworthy are at the surface of our daily thoughts, but they tend to muddle things up under the surface.

For some, this feeling of unworthiness is much more subtle than for others, but when we peel back the layers, this feeling seems to be right there at the rock-bottom core of it all, for so many of us. This core feeling spawns limiting beliefs that we then buy into and that run the show in our lives, and most of the time it’s hard to see that this is what’s really happening.

This especially pertains to our beliefs around how worthy we feel or how deserving we feel to receive; receive abundance, goodness, miraculous good fortune, love, connection, nurturance…pretty much anything and everything in our lives.

Imagine how the Universe must feel after countless miracles unfolded to birth you into reality, for you to stare back up at the source of creation feeling unworthy.

Feeling unworthy is not a resonant vibrational match with feeling abundant. It sits at odds with an openness towards receiving (abundance, love, connection…you name it) in your life.​

I mean, when you think about it, you’re a walking, talking living miracle. The miraculous aligned to bring you here, and it was the source of all of creation that you were birthed from. You are a part of this miraculous creation and you are not separate from it — ever. And you can learn how to attune your resonant vibration with this Source of creation (which will open the channel for countless miracles to unfold in your life, by owning your worth.

This separation we feel is ok; it’s part of the process. It’s this appearance of separation that offers us the journey back home to our wholeness. It’s like the crack where the light gets in for us to remember who we truly are and what we are truly capable of.

I wonder how different your life would look if you truly knew and embodied how powerful you really are?

When we start asking ourselves the questions:

• How do I find deeper healing?
• How do I heal the wounds of unworthiness?
• How do I learn to embody my wholeness and live my life from that place?

That’s when the answers start to come. Starting to ask these questions and setting intentions for our own healing is the very first place we embark on the road back to wholeness.

Working with Sacred Plant Medicines

One of the most significant tools for healing in my own life are sacred plant medicines. For almost a decade now, my primary plant teacher has been ayahuasca and has taught me a significant amount, not only around what it means to be a visionary and to create my reality with my mind and heart, but offers a path towards healing some of these core wounds of unworthiness.

I also promised you in the last email that I would share a story about how I manifested $125,000 overnight, which speaks to healing my own core wounding around unworthiness.

Five years ago my husband and I bought raw land on the big island of Hawai’i with a vision to build a retreat center. After we bought the land, we had almost no money. We towed a VW van onto the land and lived in it with no electricity, no internet, no running water. Noah went through some legal stuff that drained our bank account, and we were struggling. I didn’t lose hope and I connected with the inner vision of the retreat center we intended to build every single day. And then I came to a point where I knew I needed to pray for a miracle.

At this point I was working with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca for many years and believed in the power of prayer (if the word praying doesn’t resonate, and I’m not using it in the religious context, just swap it out for intention). I sat with ayahuasca in ceremony, and for the first time I experienced this incredibly distinct and full-on opening of the channel between me and Source, and I whispered my prayers into the Source of all of creation, for a miracle to unfold in our lives.

In that moment, I knew that I tapped into a realm beyond space and time and planted a seed in the fertile ground where miracles are birthed from. I felt it in the core of my being. It was a distinct vibrational frequency.

A few nights later I sat with this plant medicine again, and I noticed an energy blockage in what I refer to as my abundance channel.

I saw, with complete clarity, how deep under the surface I had been living my life from a place of feeling unworthy. That I hadn’t felt good enough to receive. That I had to struggle in order to receive anything of value in my life. I prayed for my healing and I asked for this energy to be cleared and these limiting beliefs to be re-structured into new, supportive beliefs.

And then the strangest thing happened. I noticed this dense mass of energy blocking the free-flowing movement of abundance into my life, and I literally grabbed it and moved it out of the way, clearing the channel. The next day a miracle happened and someone contacted me to buy my first online brand that had just been sitting there untouched for years. By the end of the week I had $128,000 in my bank account and we were able to build our dream that touched the lives of countless people. So much profound healing has transpired on that land for so many people as a result of me owning my worthiness to receive.

That was my first experience of tapping into the Source of creation and was one of the most mystical moments I’ve ever experienced in my life. Since then I’ve been walking the path of the miraculous, learning how to tap into visionary states (both with and without plant medicines) to anchor my visions into reality. The visionary practices that birthed as a result of that moment are truly my secret sauce to creating, and I’m thrilled to be creating my first advanced training program teaching other people how to do the same.

All is possible. Most of the time, we simply need to just step out of our own way.

What would it feel like to know you are worthy to receive all the goodness that’s already flowing into your life? Feel that feeling. Truly feel it in your heart, and let that frequency guide your way. This is the frequency first approach to living a like beyond your wildest dreams.

Let your mantra this week be: “I Am Worthy of Receiving”

Music to Move You

This week’s feature song is by Fia titled I AM. The songs we choose to listen to in our day to day lives are another powerful tool for re-writing the subconscious programs of not good enough. I invite you to choose the media you expose yourself to wisely. Music has the capacity to penetrate our subconscious minds.

If you’re interested in the other music I’ve shared, or want to read past emails you can check out my Frequency First Archives here.

Feel free to leave your comments down below!

From my heart to yours,

Live Free, Laura D

When I was leading my “Manifest Your Dreams” retreats in Hawaii, I would lead people through one of my favorite visionary abundance practices. Essentially, after an initial mediation, I’d walk people through a guided visionary experience (like a visualization but much more experiential) of receiving large amounts of abundance.

First, this practice allows you to train your body to become a vibrational match to receiving abundance, and at the same time, uncover and notice the energy blockages that prevent this receiving, so you can remove and clear them.

What I noticed was when we’d start off with smaller amounts of abundance, most people could feel comfortable with that, and allow an inner opening to receive, but as we started aligning with much greater abundance, people started hitting all sorts of walls.

This is what I call our personal boundary of belief, and by exploring this boundary, you’re then able to do the inner work to consciously expand the self-imposed limitations of what you believe is possible.

This practice also helps you to start recognizing the difference between your conscious and subconscious mind. On a conscious level, you might think: “of course I want to win the lottery or align with my dream job that makes me 7-figures a year while I laugh with giddy joy all day long….”

But on a subconscious level, there are all sorts of underlying limiting beliefs (especially around money, abundance and receiving) that most people lug around with them. These beliefs are like little dead weights that hold you down and hold you back from aligning with what your conscious mind wants…Like seriously you guys, who doesn’t want to hit that gorgeous almighty easy button in life? Well, most of the time your subconscious mind doesn’t.

Back to the visionary abundance practice…

When people really peeled back the layers, the main energetic blocks that people expressed were almost always the same. One woman commented that through this meditation, she noticed that receiving “too much” made her feel uncomfortable. Another woman cried; she felt unworthy she said. One guy noticed a distinct belief pop up that if he didn’t work hard for it, it shouldn’t be his. Another woman commented… “bad, bad bad.” To others it felt amazing but they still noticed where their limitations were.

Many noticed what felt like tangible boundaries around what they believed was possible, and everyone’s boundary of belief is different. Some people feel comfortable with the notion of making $15,000 a day, a bare minimum of what their time is worth, while others can’t even imagine this possibility.

And the key is: if you can’t imagine it, it’s way more unlikely to even be a possibility…

We drop in to align with a vibrational frequency of receiving but then like clockwork, we cue in limiting beliefs to center stage to take the spotlight and steal the show.

Like I’ve mentioned in past emails (specifically “Tapping Into Miracles“), beliefs are like hidden contracts that we subconsciously enter into. It’s an agreement that you make with the Universe, and the Universe will always hold up its end of the bargain.

What are some of the beliefs you hold around money?

If you’re sitting there reading this and thinking: “I’ve got a great relationship with money, I don’t worry about it, I got plenty of it and obviously, there’s plenty more where that came from. On top of it, I genuinely enjoy how I make it and/or receive it”…then by all means, carry on the good work, and…maybe you should write a book?

But if the above description doesn’t especially land true for you in your heart, (and my best guess is that would be 99.999% of humanity) then just sayin’… there might be something here you want to dig deeper into and look at within yourself.

What was the most common thing you heard your parents saying around money? That it doesn’t grow on trees? That if you work your little tush off your entire life, then maybe, just maybe you’ll be lucky enough to have some of it? Work hard and struggle for it, that’s the memo that most of us get. Heck, I even know people who have a ton of resentment towards “rich people”, they think rich people are “bad” and then wonder why money doesn’t flow in their direction!

Then of course, there’s that commonly held belief by many people within “spiritual” communities that making money isn’t very, well…Spiritual. Which is theme that inspired me to write this email. I was recently invited to speak on a panel at Lucidity Festival in Santa Barbara this April on this very topic. This belief was even embedded right into the panel description and inherently implied when described as the “divide” between spiritual pursuit and financial stability. Didn’t you get that memo? That in order to be spiritual, you need to renounce material possessions! Making money, or even wanting to make money is inherently bad, bad, bad….

All I’m staying is that whatever belief you buy into will be your reality.

So think about it: what beliefs are you ready to ditch and leave behind in the mud? Reach higher…or more like, resonate higher.

Just like everything else, money is just energy; it has a vibrational frequency and is just one of many forms of abundance.

Start Feeling Abundant Now

If you want to feel more abundance in your life, start feeling more abundant. What does it feel like when you close your eyes and feel the feeling of being super abundant? Notice all the ways in which you already are abundant and start there as the opening to connecting with this feeling state.

I invite you to experiment with dropping any limiting storylines around money and abundance. Explore what it would feel like if the opposite were true. (And maybe even get all “Byron Katie” on the situation and when you notice a shitty limiting belief pop up, ask yourself: “Is this absolutely true?” — a favorite practice of mine that nips all BS right in the bud.)

Feel the feeling of abundance right here and right now. And if you’re struggling with this, that’s a great opportunity to witness what’s coming up that’s blocking the way so you can clear it.

This is what it means to create a new future reality for yourself (aka manifestation…) by taking a “frequency first” approach.

The ironic thing is you don’t need to “try” to make money, all you have to do is align with the vibrational frequency of feeling good, open your channel to receive it, keep living your life in a good way, and money will find you. Actually, the less you try, push and struggle to make it, the more easily it will flow in for you.

(If this above statement is triggering for you, then you, especially you, might want to explore why that is…why try to defend your limitations?)

Own Your Worth

What I’ve discovered through many years of working with sacred plant medicines (ayahuasca in particular) is that at the core of most limiting beliefs is a lack of self-worth.

Feeling unworthy is not a resonant vibrational match with feeling abundant and feeling supported by the Universe.

Sacred plant medicines have a distinct way of helping us heal this wound of unworthiness within us and help us re-write the hidden contracts we enter into with the Universe through uncovering the true nature of reality, and supporting us in adopting new, more supportive beliefs.

In my next Frequency First email, I’ll tell you about a distinct plant medicine journey I had that opened up such an incredible channel of abundance in my life that I had $125,000 miraculously land in my bank account within 7 days of this powerful energetic clearing of my abundance channel to receiving.

Music to Move You

Want a quick and easy way to start resonating at a higher more harmonious and coherent frequency? My good friend Mary Isis just came out with an epic new song called Are You Listening featuring Riconekt that has definitely got me moving and raising my vibrational frequency. I love listening to my high vibin’ inspirational music with a positive message every single day, and I love sharing it with you here too.

As always, I love to hear from you. Feel free to comment down below and share how these bi-monthly Frequency First “Spirit Downloads” are impacting your life.

Until next time,

From my heart to yours,

Live Free, Laura D

One of the key themes that’s been surfacing this past year for me has been this concept of freedom through non-attachment, although in all fairness, I’ve mostly been consumed with, and predominantly experiencing the flip side:

suffering through attachment.

As most of you know, when the volcano erupted 8 months ago, it changed the course of our lives forever. It felt like the preverbal rug being pulled out from under me, and I had no choice but to face some of the deepest attachments I’ve ever experienced in my life: the attachment to our beloved land and retreat center that my husband and I built from scratch.

Thankfully our land was spared from the lava, and after quite a traumatic evacuation, we’ve decided to sell.

Despite it being the right decision for us, it’s been an intensely painful process of learning to let go. It’s also been one of the most powerful teachers at the same time, as I’ve been faced with looking deeply at what it means to be attached to something.

I’ve noticed attachments to not only people like my husband and the concept of our marriage, (as we’ve also been in the process of consciously opening our marriage to other people this year…whew!) and places such as our land, and to the obvious valued possessions, but peeling back the layers I’ve noticed attachment to self concepts and self identity, ideas I hold, stories I tell myself…

Heck, going through my bin of clothes yesterday, I’ve noticed attachment to a pair of jeans I’ve had since the 9th grade that I never even wear anymore! (But my mind interjects: What if I do want to wear them again someday?!)

Like, seriously? I thought I was more evolved than that! This shit is deeeeep…and that’s just a pair of jeans….

After many months of grieving the letting go of our land, when I woke up two days ago on my 35th birthday, I felt the energetic shift; I finally and miraculously touched the other side of attachment; which has now become so obvious to me: FREEDOM.

The teaching is that when we let go of our attachment we have the opportunity to experience freedom.

Talk about liberation!

In one sense it feels like these potent life lessons have been thrust upon me through all the divine curveballs life has thrown at me, and yet, I also know these challenges have been exactly the most perfect answers to my deepest prayers.

The prayer I hold for my life is to be FREE and I’ve been deeply exploring what that really means to me.

I feel like our attachments become like weights that hold us down energetically. These tendrils come out of our being with little suction cups that cling to our attachments and we have to invest mental and physical energy to hold onto them, which slowly and subtly drains our life-force.

I think that when we accumulate the density of stuff and things, and then create the mental density of clinging and being afraid to let them go, we create these subtle energy blockages that prevent the full capacity of energy to flow into and through our lives.

Direct Downloads From Ayahuasca

Over the past ten years of working with sacred plant medicines, I keep receiving this same message around lightening my physical and energetic load. As we transition into these times of increasing vibrational frequencies, the less stuff we have weighing us down, the more we can liberate ourselves to move freely, think freely, love freely, and be free.

This sense of attachment through the density of accumulation is just another way we humans love to cling to this solid sense of reality.

And the nuggets of insight that have come to me through all of this is noticing that the more I release attachments for things to be fixed and solid — a certain way of being, the more room there is for me to tap into magic and make room for miracles to unfold. Now that’s the dimension of light-realms I want to live in.

I’ve come to see that attachment really can equal suffering, and the more we can release and let go of these attachments, both big and small, the more we liberate ourselves from the eventual suffering that comes with the moment these things will surely come to pass, as all things eventually do in life, including…us.

Don’t Get Me Wrong…

I’m not saying don’t buy things, or don’t invest in land or invest in your dreams, or hold your loved ones near and dear to your heart…quite the opposite. Do all these things, as I will surely continue to do. But consider how you relate to them.

Hold all of your possessions lightly, and honor your connections of love enough to not possess them at all.

In these times of such rapid change, it might do all of us good to really look at where we’re holding on, and where we might want to start loosening our grip to let go.

Because a clenched fist doesn’t have the capacity to be open to receive.

When we hold on too tightly and we try to keep things a certain way, we’re not able to allow that open flexibility needed to adapt to the changing tides we’re now experiencing more rapidly than ever before.

So this is the process I’m in right now: Project Downsize

As we let go of our retreat center and all the responsibility that went with it, we’re moving into our 40-foot long bus converted into a tiny home, and giving away the majority of our possessions.

I’m feeling this energetic load being lifted from my being and I’m discovering that there’s freedom and liberation through simplicity.

I’m emptying my vessel and freeing my energy to vision into new creations; to tap into new possibilities, as I close this most epic chapter of my life and lay it to rest, I open my hands now to receive the goodness that’s coming next.

So as this has been my inner inquiry, now I’m asking you the same thing:

1. What are you ready to release and let go of to lighten your energetic load this year?
2. Where can you notice your own attachments and how can you reclaim your personal freedom through the process of letting go?

Music to Move You

There’s a few songs I want to share with you this week. Usually I just share one, but there’s a couple of mantra songs you might enjoy on the theme of releasing and letting go.

The first one is by Alexa Sunshine Rose, (she’s got other wonderful healing medicine music as well). This song is a beautiful mantra of releasing control:

I Release Control By Alexa Sunshine Rose

The next beautiful mantra is called I Release by Beautiful Chorus. (Their other album called Hymns of Spirit is also a wonderful listen.)

And the last song I want to share is a song I’ve loved singing in ceremony for many years now, and I found this version of it by Kirtan Soul Revival called I release and I let go – which is a little more upbeat than the first two mantra-type songs I linked to.

Live Free

So as I learn to more fully embody my “Live Free Laura D” tag, and I continue to explore all the dimensions of what it means to “live free”, I leave you with this photo of me in our cute little tiny home bus here on the Big Island of Hawaii.

There’s freedom in simplicity…

From my heart to yours, Live Free, Laura D

How was your holidays? Let me guess….busy?

I can’t even count how many times I heard people express how crazy busy the holiday season has been for them. Being chronically busy has become the “normal” state of mind for most people these days. And it’s becoming more apparent that we live in a culture where people feel pushed to their max to keep up, do more, stay more connected, and accomplish more.

When I took a quick look on social media this past week, I saw tons of people talking about “goal setting” for 2019.

Sure, it’s great to set goals, but personally, I think the last thing we all need is another fucking to-do list! We get so caught up with doing that we tend to forget that the primary driver behind all that we want to accomplish in life is a feeling state.

So instead of asking you what you want to accomplish this year, I want to ask you:

1. WHO do you want to BE this year?
2. How do you want this next year to FEEL?

Hit The Easy Button This Year

Asking yourself who you want to be this year rather than what you want to accomplish is the easiest way to hit the easy button in your life, come back to your center, and lead from a place of self-empowerment. The wisdom gained from coming back to your center is the easiest way to un-busy yourself, because this is the place you have the most perspective in your life.

When you focus on what you want to accomplish — on doing — you’re leading from a place of force, which takes effort. When you focus on who we want to be and how you want to feel in your life, you have an opportunity to lead from a place of power which embodies a certain quality of effortlessness; of strength.

It’s the epitome of trying, pushing and striving to “accomplish” something versus allowing, attuning and aligning with a feeling state of how you want to live your life; aligning with a state of being and just being that person, rather than trying to be that person. 

It’s the difference between upstream effort that feels like an exhausting struggle versus downstream effort, where you’re paying more attention to synchronicities, where the right people seem to magically show up, or the right information you need falls in your lap at exactly the right moment in time.

The irony is that when you lead from your desired feeling state, you’ll actually accomplish much more with your year.

So let me ask you one more time. Close your eyes and tune in with your heart. How do you want this year to feel?

I know for me personally, my answer is not: busy. That’s the last thing I’m going for this year. When we’re chronically busy, there’s no room for magic to happen or miracles to unfold; we’re too darn busy to notice!

I’m also consciously choosing to pay particular attention to my stress level this year, because stress is the antithesis of creation, and certainly doesn’t foster an open channel of inspiration. And I’m doing this by focusing on what I do want to feel this year. I’ve written these words down on several cards as visual reminders of the feeling state I want to re-pattern my body into experiencing more frequently.

This year I want to feel:

• Aligned
  On purpose
  Powerful
  Creative
  Easeful and in the flow
  Connected

This year, I want to Resonate at the Frequency of Greatness. How about you?

The Key to Manifesting All That You Desire This Year

This frequency first approach is the key to becoming the Visionary of your life. Hold a clear inner vision in your minds eye of what you want to see show up in your life and couple that vision with your desired feeling state.

It’s so simple, and I’ve witnessed countless miracles unfold in my own life as a result of this visionary practice. All it requires is putting aside a little time to incorporate this into your daily practice. Adopting these daily practices and not just thinking about them, but actually doing them is what it means to embody the visionary archetype.

I’m holding a vision of my dream home in my minds eye and I love visiting this place in my visionary states. I go to this place every morning and the feeling it gives me fuels and inspires the rest of my day to connect with and create magic.

What inner vision are you holding for yourself for this year?

Music to Move You

I absolutely love this entire album called Love is King Love is Queen by Avasa & Matty Love. The song I’m recommending today is called Listen from this album. When you take the time to go within and listen to what your heart is whispering to you, and start attuning your awareness to these more subtle feeling states, you step out of the ordinary, and start living the extraordinary.

May the inner vision you hold come to fruition this year and bring your more joy and happiness than you ever could have possibly imagined. May you align with so much goodness this year and manifest all that your heart desires.

You are worthy to receive it.

From my heart to yours,

Live Free, Laura D

Change is in the air, can you sense it?

In addition to the feeling of change that a new year brings, it seems like many people are experiencing deep transition in their lives right now. Transition within relationships, career choices, living situations…you name it. And this level of transition can feel ungrounding, disorienting and even chaotic at times.

I know how hard it is to fully lean in and emotionally embrace the level of drastic and rapid changes we are witnessing on the planet right now.

But it’s important to remember what’s catalyzing this change. The underlying current of these potent transitions are being fueled by an awakening of consciousness on this planet.

Breakdowns Lead to Breakthroughs

What we’re witnessing is that the old paradigm, of what life is “supposed” to be like, is no longer working for a lot of people. We’re witnessing that tipping point, or perhaps the breaking point for many people, which is actually the catalyst of change that many of us need right now to reach higher in our lives.

This is a Time for Letting Go

With the New Year upon us, now is the time for letting go of what no longer serves us. And in this process of letting go, we’re stepping out of our old routines, old ways of perceiving reality, old ways of believing, and we’re letting go to what we used to call “normal”.

When you hold an inner vision of what you want your life to look like, to be like and most importantly to feel like, and you decide to break with your past to align with the future you truly want to be living, things can feel chaotic at first. It might even feel like your life is “falling apart”, and in some sense it is.

Things can feel “shaken up” in your life simply because you’ve let go of an old routine and an old way of being. But it’s in this very moment where you have an opportunity to re-align with a life that’s a better or higher vibrational match to what you truly want. It’s in this moment of “chaos” that the magic happens.

I love how Joe Dispenza speaks to this in his book Becoming Supernatural:

“By the way, if you do this work well and manage to call your energy back to you, it will most likely be uncomfortable at first, even a little chaotic. Get ready because certain areas of your life may fall apart.

But don’t worry. That’s supposed to happen because you’re breaking the energetic bonds between yourself and your same past reality. Anything that is no longer in a vibrational match between you and your future is going to fall away. Let it. Don’t try to put your old life back together because you’re going to be way too busy with the new destiny your calling to yourself.”

Even though you might consciously be calling a new reality to you, it’s so easy to fear the change of the unknown and have that knee-jerk reaction to run right back to the old way of being, which can feel more safe and grounded.

These moments of transition can feel dark, which is why this deep transformational metamorphosis is often referred to as the Dark Nights of the Soul. But again, they are that catalyst of change and they always birth something more miraculous than you can possibly imagine.

Don’t lose sight in the darkness. Have faith that this is exactly the process you need to go through to get to the other side where you can become a vibrational match with the life you want to be living. Don’t be afraid of the “chaos”, because that is actually the realm of pure, infinite possibility, where you have the power to create whatever reality you choose.

My Own Process of Letting Go

On Friday morning, Noah cradled me in his arms, tears streaming down my face as I signed the last of the documents for the sale of our beloved land Sacred Source Springs.

They’re not tears of sadness, just tears of sheer awe; awe of the magnitude of the true nature of impermanence.

Life is just so incredibly bitter sweet, isn’t it?

This experience from lava-evacuation to the sale of our land has taught me that when something is no longer a vibrational match in my life, it will fall by the wayside. And although this might feel so painful in moments, what is allows is for is an opening: an opening into the magic and mystery of the great unknown for more miracles to unfold and for a higher vibrational alignment to manifest in my life.

May we learn to see the hope in our future rather than the grief of loss, because nothing is ever really lost, only transformed into something new.

What Are You Ready to Let Go Of?

So I’m curious to know: what are you ready to let go of as you embark into the unknown of 2019? What do you absolutely know is no longer serving you? What’s no longer a vibrational match? Maybe it’s a belief, a habit, a relationship, a job or a way of communicating?

If you listen closely, you’ll hear the whispers within the shadows of your heart encouraging you to follow the frequency of joy, inspiration, love and happiness in your life.

What direction is this frequency guiding you in?

May you learn to navigate these changing of the tides with as much strength, grace, ease and compassion as possible.

Be gentle on yourself.

Music to Move You

I absolutely LOVE this song by Satsang featuring Tubby Love called “Be Love” – Enjoy!

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I’m deeply grateful that you keep tuning in with me every other week.

Take care of yourself and those you love…

And may these times of rapid transition be as gentle on your heart, body and mind as possible.

May every inner vision you hold in your life come to fruition and bless your life and the lives around you with so much goodness.

Live Free, Laura D

Laura Dawn. Resonate at the Frequency of Greatness

When Einstein said “Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one” that guy was seriously not joking!

Look outside, it all looks pretty darn convincing doesn’t it?

But it seems like this sense of “solidness” that we perceive is an illusionary facade, although, like Einstein said, it’s quite the persistent one! But that’s what makes the latest research in quantum mechanics just so freaking fascinating. The latest science this field is discovering that: 

1. The true nature of reality at its essence is that everything is energy, and this energy carries vibration and frequency. And when we peer into things that appear solid, we discover that they are anything but solid and in fact, much more “space” (like 99.9999% more space!) than physical matter.
2. The world doesn’t exist “out there” independent of you; your reality is solely created based on your observation of it, and your observation of reality is an extension of your beliefs, which constructs a perceptual lens through which you view the world.

So it’s interesting to contemplate that about 70% of the beliefs people hold about what’s possible in their lives are self-limiting rather than self supporting beliefs. 

The beliefs we hold are like self-imposed boundaries we put on our lives, just like the fake boundary that Truman lived within in the famous movie The Truman Show. 

And these beliefs remain like hidden contracts that you hold with the Universe about the truth of reality. As the famous quote says “As you think so shall you be”, and what we now know is that reality is much more like a simulated projection of your deeply held beliefs, which creates the foundation for how you perceive and therefore experience everything that unfolds in your life. 

Change One Single Belief and an Entire New World of Opportunity Can Open Up For You.

This new information is just the catalyst for transformation humanity needs, because it confirms yet again that the power to create your reality starts in your mind: You hold the key. 

But as Einstein also said, we can’t solve our problems on the same level of thinking that created them. So it requires you to raise your level of conscious awareness and start to become aware of how you perceive reality. 

Your perceptions are like colored sunglasses you’ve been wearing your entire life, and you’ve become so used to wearing them you’ve forgotten that they’re even there. This is a reminder to take them off for a second, maybe even clean them, or heck, even swap them out for an upgraded pair of lenses that actually support rather than limit your life. 

Most of us have been given the perceptual lens based on the old paradigm which is a fear-based model of reality that promotes disconnection and chaotic, stressful living where we’ve become hyper-focused and fixated on that .00001% of “matter“; the world of objects and things (when the true nature of reality is not actually solid at all). This perpetuates the illusion of separation, which is the source of so much suffering on this planet. This old paradigm prevents you from tapping into your highest potential because it’s built on the foundation of limitation, disconnection and separation. 

But there’s a new paradigm or perceptual lens that more and more people are waking up to and willing to try on, but it requires taking a quantum leap in consciousness because it runs counter to so much of what we’ve been taught. (And adopting 1 single new belief is all it takes to take this quantum leap…)

Magic Eye Moment

There are alternative dimensions of reality that already exist, and they are literally right in front of you, but like most people, you just likely haven’t been taught how to perceive it. 

Remember those 3-D “Magic Eye” paintings called stereographs that were all the rage? 

I remember the first time I looked at one. It looked like disconnected scrambled bits of data. Everyone was in awe of this new reality, but I just couldn’t see it. I didn’t get it. There was a reality that was literally jumping out at me but I couldn’t see it because it required a new way of looking —a new way of perceiving — and my mind wasn’t trained that way…yet. 

Someone was there, describing how to see it, pointing to it but they couldn’t make me see it. I was the only one that could do that. But because there were other people around me seeing it and talking about it, I believed it was possible, and that I could see it too. 

And all it takes is believing in order for a new reality to emerge. 

Then all of a sudden, it clicked. As soon as I changed my focus, something that was previously non-existent to me, popped into existence. It was there all along, I just didn’t know how to look for it yet.

Sensory Information Overload

Your brain is exposed to Billions of bits of information in any given moment. But your mind only processes a tiny fraction of it, and what you choose to pay attention to is determined by your perceptual lens. So if you don’t have a concept of something, it could be staring you right in the face and you wouldn’t notice it because it’s just not in your perceptual field of awareness. 

So of all the infinite possibility you’re exposed to, you’re likely only focusing on 1 tiny dot, and that dot doesn’t usually paint a very accurate (or happy) picture of reality. It’s like living within this narrow view of reality that keeps you stuck in the same disempowering loops every single day.

You can train your mind to pay more attention to these “hidden” realms. Well, they’re not exactly hidden, they’re just likely outside of your perceptual field of awareness, but these realms are actually 99.9999% of reality, we’ve just been taught to pay attention to that more “solid” .0001%. You can start tuning into these other dimensions just by starting to believe in them, which is easier than ever with science now backing up what the mystics have been saying for millennia: 

That these hidden dimensions are the realms of infinite possibility. 

And the more you place your attention on possibility the more doors of opportunity will continue to effortlessly open for you, not by “doing” or pushing anything to happen, but simply with the power of your conscious awareness. 

Here are a few words that I invite you to tune into, that point to and resonate within these hidden dimensions.

• Magic
• Miracles
• Synchronicity
• Unlimited
• Freedom
• Expansion
• Possibility
• Worthiness
• Healing
• Wholeness
• Abundance
• Allowing

The more you focus on magic and miracles, the more your mind will literally start looking for them, and since they already exist all around you (think: a seed can grow into something as wonderfully miraculous as a peach, the beating of your heart, or the fact that you’re a consciously aware human being!), place your awareness on magic and more magic and miracles will start to unfold in your life. 

And I absolutely know this to be true. Just with my experience with the magic eye paintings, it’s been the exact same process with the wisdom of sacred plant medicines directly teaching me how to tune into these different dimensions of infinite possibility that already exist, allowing me to experience the realms of the quantum field. One of the first times I tapped in, I manifested $125,000 overnight when we were in a sink or swim moment with our retreat center project and prayed for a miracle to help us build our dream. 

These are the dimensions I’ve been studying and paying attention to for many years now, and why I’m dedicating my life to teaching other people how to tap into these alternative, miraculous dimensions of reality as well. 

So ask yourself: 

1. What would my life look like and feel like if I placed my awareness on possibility? 
   
2. What would my life be like if I not only knew but fully owned how powerful I really am? 
   
3. What new beliefs can I adopt, and what new thoughts can I think that would support me to create the life I want?
4. What would I believe and think if I knew these beliefs directly created my reality? 
   
5. What kind of reality (a reality of possibility or limitation?) do I want to be living and creating in?

Why not try on a new perceptual lens of reality? Because when you change the way you look at things, all of a sudden, the things you look at will also change. Just like magic. 

And why not pay attention to a reality that supports you rocking your life like the kickass manifesting badass you already are?

You are powerful. Own it. Be it. Embody it.

Music To Move You

I love this song of self-empowerment by Mother Medicine featuring Shylah Ray Sunshine called Existence. Click here to listen to it on Spotify.

Move your body, feel your heart, raise your vibrational frequency and dance with me in this ceremony of life. 

Until next time, shine baby shine. 

Live Free, Laura D

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When we hear people talk about “Stepping into Divine Alignment” in life, it’s easy to conjure up this image that aligning with your deepest soul’s purpose is going to be some kind of graceful unfolding. It just sounds so elegant, doesn’t it?

But in my experience, in real life, stepping into divine alignment can actually be pretty messy business at times. And because it sounds so spiritually graceful, it sets us up for feeling bad and being hard on ourselves when in reality, this isn’t always the case.

When embarking on the courageous path of following your Spirit’s calling, it’s not always easy to just hit the nail on the head the first time around.

Nope…