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

by Carolyn Elliott

Unleash your inner genius and take your life by storm with this supportive guide to fearlessly cultivating your imagination and sustaining your creativity 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.

Genres: Self Help, Spirituality, Psychology, Witchcraft

209 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Me · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like many a book in the "self help" genre, or maybe in the "spiritual" realm of books that attempt to wake up, if you will, the reader, this here book starts out interesting then...then... Sigh

Why is it that these books have to go into the quasi religious Hocus pocus? I know we are dreamers. I know that we have immense creative powers/potential that could be harassed, built, realized, but are buried under a whole mess of negative beliefs...why can't books like this talk about the practical?

Would that be too boring?

Do people really need a fantasy life, a religion, a delusion, to keep their lives going?

Apparently.

[Castille · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Carolyn Elliott's style of writing. She's quirky and out there-- sometimes even to the point that she loses me with her witchiness-- but I love it. I'd recommend this book to people who have already done a considerable amount of work and research into positive manifestations, affirmations, and spirituality or astrology (or any of the other pseudo-sciences bahaha). It was the perfect thing for me to read at the time because I was open to it, but it's not as easily accessible to the masses because it requires a willingness to forego skepticism and embrace the intangible.

[Izzy Janx · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am a practicing witch and I have to say I was severely disappointed with the content of this book. It kind of treats your blockages and trauma flippantly like you’re just gossiping over coffee instead of trying to heal actual harm within yourself.

Upon some further research it turns out Elliott runs some abusive cult type activities with her “Sleepover Mystery School” and it wouldn’t surprise me from what I’ve come to know about this author. People have had to sue her to get their money back from this program when they found out they were not allowed to express any concerns or disapproval at the weird torture-based healing she was offering.

She has been known to yell at people in comments and private messages when they challenge her on the things she says that are tone deaf, racist, and generally insensitive.

Now on to this specific book. I bought it before I knew what I now know about this author. This book was a lot of words that didn’t say anything. This could have been an email. I don’t need to be told to get out of my own way because it’s good for me. No Sh*t Sherlock. Why do you think I’m reading a magic self help book?

I used to be a fan of Carolyn Elliott’s ideas, but then I realized the things she says are actually mostly hot air with no substance.

There were some exercises that might be helpful to someone but I didn’t find much value in them.

When she mentioned being a poetry professor I died inside knowing every student was like “oh no” when she started talking about expression of the soul and being a pregnant virgin with god’s gift within.

The book talked about a bunch of yoga stuff and a bunch of anecdotes about how people’s lives are better because they “woke up”. What if the person isn’t a yoga witch? This terminology means nothing to me.

She goes “I used to do hard drugs, some people cope differently by drinking or cutting themselves”
Just casually throwing that in there like yeah everything changed because I’m living my genius. It’s easy! Just find your genius like I told you to. Ugh.

In this case it seems that genius is just coming up with vapid sounding prose and then conning people into paying you 1500 dollars to talk to you.

I dunno it’s another white privileged cult lady telling people how to work through challenges she’s never faced (such as being a POC or LGBTQIA). A lot of this advice just rings hollow for me. I don’t recommend it. I don’t recommend her stuff in general. It comes from a place of cruelty it seems.

[Elaina Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elliott's work asked me to look at the 'shadow' side of my desires. This book empowered me to embrace my genius. It helped me identify the self-talk I was using to judge myself. I realized those parts I was judging were often holding my greatest creative power.

[Nicole Francesca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elliot is an amazing writer and creative. I've read a lot of books like this, and have never seen work so purely written from the soul - and all the activities are things I've never seen before! That's amazing in itself, and speaks to her creative prowess. Loved it.

[Shantala Actress · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the greatest manifestation books I've come across...truly a Gem