Intuitive Flowers: Empowering Your Emotional Goals

By Susan Jane

Imagine ... having an inner voice of wisdom that tells you what to do to achieve all your heart’s desires ... Well that’s exactly what your intuition does. Life has become so full of information that it is often difficult to decide what to take on board, what to let go of and exactly what your intuition sounds or looks like. Intuitive Flowers, is a powerful tool to help you develop and strengthen your intuition so when you receive information, and signs of guidance from that higher level, you know that you can trust it to guide you clearly on your journey. Intuitive Flowers, is a unique tool that helps you develop, trust and utilize your intuition while inspiring you to follow your inner guidance to achieve what you most desire. Flowers reflect our emotional goals in life ... pick profusely

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Jane
• Release date: Nov 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9780994366221

Susan Jane

Susan Jane is a published author, inspiring speaker, life coach, and host of an international podcast The Voice of Intuition. Susan has spent over 40 years encouraging people to connect, develop and trust their intuition to enable them to make confident decisions in line with their true core values.With three young children, Susan set about connecting with her local community. She led a successful project with young families, which culminated in a nomination for Australian Citizen of the Year. However, Susan’s life changed dramatically when her 20-year emotionally abusive marriage ended, and she had to rediscover who she was and what she really wanted.As part of her development, in 2009, Susan returned to university on the Gold Coast to update her qualifications. She studied Public Health Promotion full-time while working three part-time jobs. Unfortunately, six months after graduating, a change of State Government saw the discontinuation of all Health Promotion positions. With no job prospects and feeling extremely out of her depth, Susan again engaged her personal determination. Deep down she knew there was still a lot more she could offer. On a shoestring budget, and with a strong faith in her ability, Susan wrote, published, and marketed her first book. Intuitive Flowers: Empowering your Emotional Goals. An experience that now has her writing three more books of a similar nature targeting personal development.Susan has harnessed her experiences to mentor others; her altruism constantly benefits those around her. She trained young, elite athletes, volunteered with various community groups, created a series of Personal Growth Expos, and launched an international podcast in 2020. Susan’s strength lies within, as she relies strongly on her intuition to guide her toward her goals in life. She has learned to trust this power and teaches others to do the same through the tools she has developed. Her main tool is Flower Readings. Flowers represent your goals in life and they help you understand your life’s purpose and direction. Intuitive Art Reading Events are a blend of Sip & Paint and intuitive reading. At last, you can “see” what your intuition is guiding you towards and how to reach your goal.Nominated Australian Citizen of the Year 1988An awardee of Merit for three categories of the Women in Business Awards 2017.•Gold Coast Woman in Business of the Year Award.•Community Dedication and Social Justice Award.•Creating Change AwardBronze winner for two business categories in Asian Pacific Stevie Awards 2018•Innovative consumer event for 2018•Most innovative communication professional of the year 2018

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Intuitive Flowers: Empowering Your Emotional Goals

Susan Jane

The Intuitist

Intuitive Flowers: Empowering your Emotional Goals

Copyright © 2019 by Susan Jane. The Intuitist

Non-Fiction

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help with in your quest to develop, trust and follow your intuition to achieve your goals in life. In the event that you use any of the information in the book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

ISBN: 978-0-9943662-1-4 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-0-9943662-2-1 (e-Book)

Edited by Beverley Streater

Photos and Illustrations by Susan Jane

This book is dedicated to my loving parents

Iris and Norman

All the positive affirmations in the world cannot compete with the heart-felt advice and inspiring guidance received from your parents.

For this I am forever grateful.

I love you Mum and Dad.

Introduction

‘Intuitive Flowers will motivate you to decide on something that can’t be singled out. It will encourage you to select something that can’t be seen and will inspire you to reach something that cannot be touched.’

Susan Jane

Do you remember the lollies or gum that you could buy that had the lick and stick tattoos in them? With some of them you had to put them on your skin first and then put a damp sponge or cloth over the top, before carefully lifting off the backing paper to see if they worked. When my children were young, they went through a stage of collecting and swapping them amongst themselves. Of course, there were always those certain tattoos that even the kids didn’t want to proudly display, so the next likely candidate for wearing them was me. I always enjoyed school holidays with the kids and this particular year, just before Christmas, we had finished feeding the poddy calves on our 90-acre organic farm and were waiting for an impending storm to pass. Meanwhile, a few more unwanted tattoos found their way on to me, just as a huge clap of thunder jolted me back to reality.

Having experienced many storms along the coast of Queensland, I knew that most of the outside yard remained free of anything loose that could blow away and cause havoc, so I relaxed back into my chair. While the kids were covering me in those crazy tattoos and giggling uncontrollably, I settled back into practising my visualisation technique. I had read about this method of focussing several years prior, in a book called ‘Creative Visualisation’ by the author Shakti Gawain. I had been rehearsing it for about six months. The technique, for me, was to mentally go from room to room in the old farmhouse, picturing how I wanted each room to look. I concentrated on the colours of the walls, the bed linen, extra furnishings, and in some rooms I even pictured new built-in wardrobes. I picked the colours in the kitchen including bench tops, tiles and cupboard doors, right down to the mental images of the new door handles I wanted. I enjoyed mentally shopping for the old farmhouse and although the things I asked for were not elaborate or over the top, they gave me a lovely feel of a home full of light, love and happiness. It gave me a fresh outlook to the future, with my family in lovely new surroundings and took me away from a harshness that was often present in my life during that time.

A perfect storm

This all came to an abrupt end, with the next ten minutes of my life being etched into my mind, as vivid now as it was when it happened. Instantaneously, I was up on my feet ushering the children through the house towards a known safe space. Pushing them through the kitchen, I looked up to see sinister clouds and swirling debris above me, realising that at that moment, I was looking through the empty space that used to be the manhole to the ceiling of the house. The roof had been ripped off in a heartbeat. I rushed the kids into a small area that was surrounded by strong tongue and groove walls, but it had a large glass sliding door. I reefed a mattress off a bed and propped it up against the sliding door, luckily on the lee side of the storm, to protect the children, then raced off to gather the dog, cat and bird. We all sheltered in the same small space as the house shook and the sound of the storm deafened our concerns. I watched the windows bow in the kitchen as they took the full force of the storm and I was witness to the bedroom window being sucked out as one piece of glass, only to shatter as it hit the ground. With a tear-stained face, I madly grabbed the photo albums that held our sacred memories and nestled them amongst my children, who were now full of anguish and fear. My children, my most important treasures, who only minutes prior were excited with laughter and frivolity. How quickly the circumstances had changed, how colossal the turnaround from casually dreaming about what I wanted in life, to instantaneously knowing what was really important. I scrambled around the house unsure of what was going to happen next.

The storm eventually eased and we surveyed the damage. We had lost most of our roof and everything was wet and spoiled, but we were safe and the old farmhouse had stood up to the freak storm. Knowing my neighbour was on her own with her children, I quickly phoned to make sure she was safe, however it appeared that we were the only casualty in the immediate area. It wasn’t long before the Police, State Emergency Service and the local paper arrived, to push my already adrenaline-filled body into overdrive. They reassured us that the house was sound, as they covered the roof with tarps and we phoned the insurance company to assess our situation.

I know why the photographer asked me to stop smiling for the camera, because he wanted his readers to see the results of the terrifying situation we had just experienced, but I struggled. Let’s face it, emotions sell products and the daily paper was just another product to sell; however I had just learnt that the insurance we held was classed as ‘Blue Ribbon’ and that gave us new-for-old replacement. It meant a rebuild internally, as well as a new roof, and the sooner I started picking the paint wall colours, the sooner the work could be completed. Of course, the kitchen cupboards, bench tops and a lot of the appliances would need to be replaced with new ones. I was standing in front of the camera, trying to look devastated, when in fact I was seeing my visualisation come to life right before my very eyes. I almost felt guilty, like I had deliberately caused the storm to hit and the roof to be ripped off, but I hadn’t. Those forces were a lot stronger than mine. Funnily enough, the only thing that was concerning me, while standing in front of the camera and knowing this image could well be on the front cover of the morning paper, was those damn tattoos the kids had put all over me.

My ‘aha’ moment

I had read numerous books about metaphysical things, the power of the mind and all things spiritual, but this was my first true awareness of an experience where I felt I had actually controlled it to a certain extent. This was the first time I had created a physical experience in my future without physically doing anything about it and I knew I was supposed to go through this experience. Although I wasn’t quite expecting it to happen the way it did, it was secured into my ‘knowing’ that we all have the ability to create and thus prophesy our own future if we set our mind to it.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us."

Marianne Williamson

Creating your future can be very daunting and I have to admit it is easier to start with something small, because you don’t know how the results will manifest, but it does gives us the ability to change what we don’t like for something better. The technique of visualisation uses strong focus on a tangible goal or outcome; the more thought that goes into it, the quicker the results. These goals are usually physically orientated, and as you focus on them, you gather more details, structure and limitations. A goal has a cut-off point once you reach it. Then, you move to another goal, which can lead to spending most of your life focussing on goal after goal after goal. This raised many questions for me. Does this mean you are focussing so much on the future that you are not enjoying what you have now? What if you don’t want to have structured goals that finish once they have been achieved? What if you want to achieve a feeling, an emotion or a way of life? Once you have achieved a particular way of life, does that mean it’s over, you’ve reached it, and now you move on to something else? Having goals is great and you’ll see further into the book that I set myself tangible goals. However I want to cover more than just the physical aspects of a goal to take into consideration the emotions or aspirations associated with goals.

Aspirations are similar to goals, yet they are without structure, timelines or boundaries and they represent the emotional characteristics of goals. They incorporate the subjective, feeling or feminine aspects, such as a strong desire, a longing, an aim or an ambition, as opposed to the objective, physical or masculine side of regimented goal setting. Aspirations cannot be measured the same way as goals because they are subjective, which means we measure them according to our individual preferences. If you have a million dollars and you give it to someone, they have a million dollars. That is objective, because if anyone counts a million dollars it is always a million dollars and cannot change. If you are angry about something, and you share that with someone, it doesn’t mean they feel as angry as you are, but they may feel annoyed. This is subjective, because you cannot count or measure feelings and they change from one person to the next. Anger can lighten up to become annoyance, or it can get darker to become rage. Timelines are the same; if you have ten dollars today, it will be ten dollars in five years’ time, but feeling happy can come and go yearly, monthly, daily, even hourly.

My sister’s clarity

Teresa, my sister, was spending quite a lot of time focussed on her goal of painting the outside of her house before the summer heat could restrict her. It was a truly worthy goal that gave her a sense of pride when her family, children and grandchildren came to visit. One day, as she pushed herself even more to accomplish her goal, the ladder she was using slipped and she fell onto a concrete terraced wall, breaking her back. Dragging herself along her steep pathway and up to the front door, she attracted some desperately-needed attention and help was on the way.

Teresa spent a considerable time in hospital before achieving her new goal, to walk out of the hospital unaided. When she finally arrived home, she saw that the home renovations had been completed by her family, friends and the local Scouts. Teresa’s life had changed dramatically and yet on the outside her life wasn’t really any different to what it was before the accident. Apart from a general fear of heights, when you see her now, it is hard to believe what she went through. When I asked her recently what goals she had for the future, she commented that she didn’t have ‘goals’ as such. She aspired to spending more time with her children, her grandchildren, her family and having more time to herself. Teresa now picks better options that match her aspirations (or the feelings she wants to achieve) while reaching a goal.

Teresa certainly got to spend time with her family when she was lying on her back in hospital, but not in the right way for her. She wanted to spend time with them laughing, playing in a positive environment, not under the conditions of ‘will I ever walk again?’ She has now established her aspirations in life and she can set goals, if she wants to, that will give her both the physical and emotional results she desires. Her decisions in life now reflect her aspirations and the setting of smaller goals takes second precedence over them.

I experienced the same understanding after my old farmhouse was rebuilt. The feelings of love, light and happiness did not surface after the physical goals were achieved, and within a few years my marriage was just another divorce statistic. I had the goal, the drive, and the determination to achieve the goal, but it did not reflect my aspirations and therefore it did not bring the emotional results I was hoping for. I thought that my surroundings, my environment would bring my happiness, just like millions of other people who think the latest expensive gadget, the ultimate beauty enhancement or the elusive soul mate will