Kalyn Raphael

By Simon Townsen

About one year ago, I was at a turning point in my life. I had been walking my spiritual path for some time, but there was some sense of dissatisfaction. I wanted more. I wanted more connection. I wanted more abundance. I wanted more freedom. I wanted to be able to express who and what I was more freely.

So I set about changing my life. The first thing I worked on was career. I desperately wanted to find not just a job, but a career, a place where I was motivated, where I was giving the best of my Self to my company, to the people I worked with, to our clients and customers. At the time I was working for Merrill Lynch, and to be honest, I was not happy. So I had begun applying for jobs, and I was grasping at finding new work, more meaningful work.

I sat down with my Life Coach and Personal Guide, Kalyn, and she introduced me to what she called the Golden Flow. She told me to tune into what I desired. As she did I could feel that pull, that strong will to live a deeper more meaningful life, and to have that expressed through my career. She asked me, can you welcome that in? I said, “Yes.” And so I welcomed in all those feelings at deeper and deeper levels.

Then she said to me, “Can you let that flow? Can you let those feelings float downstream.” Instantly, I felt the grasp. I didn’t want to let go of that meaning, that sense of purpose. I wanted to hold on to it. But as I opened to the possibility of letting go of that grasp, for life to be different than what it was, there was this opening, this relief. There was this sense of acceptance of my life as it was. I could see myself still taking actions to get a new job, but it
wasn’t forced. I wasn’t grasping at it. Nor was I repelling my current work. I was allowing it all to be in my life. And I felt so empowered.

I suddenly felt as if I could choose from my Self rather than choosing from my fear, my lack, my grasp, or my repel. Three days later I had the career I desired. That is the magic of life.

I wish I could say that I understood the power of this simple practice right away, but the truth is, I did not. I like to think that I’m a rather bright guy, so doing something so simple seemed too easy. I felt like if things in my life were really going to change, it needed to be complex, there needed to be some deep metaphysical principals behind it (there
are–actually in this process–but knowing or not knowing the principals does not change the process, and does not make it work any better).

However, over the course of the past year, I have worked with this process, and I have seen again and again how powerful a force it can be to change my life. I have developed much more awareness as to where I am at, what I am grasping at, what I am repelling. I have seen
that all these reactions are not who I really am. They are simply an illusion. But I have spent so much of my life believing them, hooked into them, allowing the energy of these negative beliefs to rule my perception of the world, the choices that I take, basically all of my life.

The more I have welcomed, flowed, and allowed my life to be what it is, the more I have come into a place of empowerment, and of joy–a feeling that my life already has the purpose and the meaning that I have been longing for. There is a sense that my life is a mystery and the path is unfolding beneath my feet just as it should. I am where I need to be doing what I need to do. And the more I allow this, the more I flow with this, the more magic I find in each moment. Life loses that sense of struggle, and instead opens up at deeper and
deeper levels of magic and mystery.

I want to thank Kris and Kalyn for bringing this process through. If you have not had the chance, I really do recommend checking out their site:http://golden-flow-system.com/ There’s a bunch of resources to work with.