Awaken Your Genius ─ A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

Do you have a nagging suspicion that you're not living up to your creative potential? Do you feel hindered by the deeply embedded programming of social conformity and core limiting beliefs? Most of all, are you ready to shed those shackles and unleash the raging genius deep inside? In Awaken Your Genius, author Carolyn Elliott helps you do just that with a seven-step course that shows you how to live at your fullest creative potential and make manifest your deepest desires and dreams.

In Step 1, Hearing the Heart's Call, you'll learn how to determine your true passions and create a vision for yourself at your most fully realized best. Step 2, Accepting the Call, helps you turn that vision into a commitment. Step 3, Meeting the Guide, opens the door to dialoguing with your inner mentor--the subconscious part of yourself that knows what's missing and how to get it. Step 4, Crossing the Threshold, shows you how to let go of socially programed conformity and venture into your own personal imaginative dreamscape. Step 5, Enduring Trials, gives you tools and tips on navigating the inevitable obstacles that arise when doing this kind of transformational work. Step 6, Becoming Divine, shows you how to tune in to your most expansive, unconditionally loving self, which in turn gives you the power to manifest your dreams and inspire those around you. Step 7, Taming Your Genius, shows you how to negotiate with your newfound genius--a mighty power to be reckoned with--so that it gets sustenance without becoming disruptive. Each step comes with excellent explanations of the powers at work, as well as assignments (called "experiments") and check-ins to make sure you're keeping up with the previous steps.

If you're ready to unleash your inner genius and take your life by storm, Awaken Your Genius will put you on the path, give you the tools you need, and keep you sustained, inspired, and supported along the way. If you're serious about cultivating your most imaginative, fearless, intuitive self, don't miss this book.

CAROLYN ELLIOT, PhD, is an intuitive counselor, a teacher, and a leader and organizer in the Evolver Network. Her doctoral research, which gained national recognition from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, focused on the relationship between creativity and the soul. In addition to maintaining her popular blog Awesome Your Life, Elliott is the author of The Arcana and The Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs. Shivshakti Khattananda. Her poetry, which has appeared in The Oakland Review and Whiskey and Fox, has won the Rose Kurhan Shapiro Prize as well as the All the World for Love Poetry Contest, judged by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.