Alida Birch - The Co-Creation Handbook: A Shamanic Guide to Manifesting a Better World and a More Joyful Life

Advance praise for The Co-Creation Handbook

The Co-Creation Handbook is a brilliant book which provides a step by step guide to access your creative potential. Alida Birchs writing is clear and personal. It feels like she is right by your side as you uncover your souls desire and take steps to manifest it.

Sandra Ingerman, MA author of Medicine for the Earth and The Shamans Toolkit

I highly recommend The Co-Creation Handbook! I found it simple and easy to follow. I focused on manifesting clients for my distance healing work. Within a month, I had a full schedule. The Co-Creation work in alignment with the Universal Powers was what brought this abundance into my life.

Rita Baxter, LMT, soul response therapist & shamanic practitioner.

Shamana Massage & Healing

I love this book! Alida Birch has provided the reader with a practical, applicable and clear process for accessing, mobilizing and directing the creative pulse within us. This pulse is a spark of the Divine Flame, our Essential Nature and God-Within and... its destiny is creativity. This book leads us to personal magic, conscious choice and joyous discipline through ancient shamanic wisdom and contemporary practice... a literary marriage destined to bear happiness.

Orion Foxwood, author of The Tree of Enchantment and

The Candle and the Crossroads

You only have to follow this clearly laid out process to call forth your dreams! Three years ago I began working with The Co-Creation Handbook . On a small slip of paper I wrote down: I want to manifest a rock and roll band. At the time I had a guitar and some songs and really not much more in the way of music. The synchronicities that followed were astounding and joyful! Now, three years later I am the lead singer, songwriter and guitar player in a touring rock and roll band called Blue Lotus. Magic happens... This course changed my lifeliterally. Love you Alida! Thank you!

Brandelyn Rose , Blue Lotus

The Co-Creation Handbook is a clear and useful guide for all who wish to take a more active role in co-creating a healthier and happier reality for their daily lives. Drawing on recent consciousness studies and the ancient practices of shamanism, Alida Birch shows us how to envision and manifest a more soul-full and spiritually rewarding life.

Tom Cowan, PhD, author of Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit; and

Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life

Within a month of completing The Co-Creation Handbook , my life shifted. It became clear to me what my passion was and how to fulfill it. Within the first year I developed A Course on Happiness and created my new business, all due to learning how to manifest. Thank you!

Barb Ryan, M.S. , Guidess of Happiness

SpiralingTowardJoy.org

Alida Birch has crafted a remarkable handbook of co-creation of our lives. With its accompanying audio program, this is a most helpful tool, where she gently and compassionately guides the reader, linking the shamanic practice to the manifestation process. With clarity and generosity she plunges in the depth of her own life experience to bring the handbook to life. The Co-Creation Handbook leads the reader through exercises and practices to be the True Nature, Authentic Being that we are. The Co-Creation Handbook is a timely and welcome guide that beautifully invites us to collaborate within ourselves, with the Spirits, and with the Universe, so as to co-create a world that is in harmony with the Divine.

Claude Poncelet, PhD author of The Shaman Within

A few summers ago I was sequestered in a cabin in Michigan, with the opportunity to inescapably relive my childhood experiences, like reruns of Leave it to Beaver gone wrong. My saving grace was The Co-Creation Handbook course. I vigilantly did the morning and evening audio sessions, and I took the long days to face my reality, accept it, and make my choices. It really made all the difference, and I can look back now at that time and call it a gift.This work is our ongoing life challenge. Every day we must step into our vision with full conviction, honor reality as it is, and feel that creative tension. When I dont, I languish. When I do, my whole being moves forward, and I am able to live my life to the fullest. I encourage you to choose to give your full attention to this program. It will serve you in every regard.

Carla Meeske, Shamanic Practitioner & Animal Communicator, author of

The Calico Shaman, Spirithealer.com

Alida Birchs The Co-Creation Handbook is a clear, loving and detailed eight-week program for supporting you to realize your inherent capacity as a Divine Co-Creator. Using the foundation of 100,000 years of shamanic wisdom with clear exercises and supportive audios you will learn how to clarify your vision, identify your stumbling blocks and persistently move forward with a sense of gratitude and happiness. Your magnificent life is waiting for you to participate in its creation. Start now.

Evelyn C. Rysdyk

Author of Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power

Through the practical and easy-to-follow assignments, I was able to come to realize I can manifest what I set my mind/heart to, from the mundane to the seeming impossible. I love to write but found writing impossible during the chaos of my day as caregiver for three individuals. Using these manifestation techniques, I was able to quickly complete a series of writing exercises in a short period of time. What I really like is the confidence gained from being able to manifest what I want in a safe, holistic, and caring way. I continue to use these methods on a daily basis. Thank you, Alida, for your wisdom and professionalism!

Jada Prane, PhD, author, shamanic practitioner and professional caregiver

Rich with creative ideas that support tenacious, yet joyful persistence, this brilliant book and supportive audio program is far more than a handbook: it is a well-thought-out, clearly articulated way of life. It is written for anyone who is serious about personal transformation and co-creation in harmony with the Universal Powers. One doesnt need to believe to obtain the full benefit of this process, one only has to read it, follow the instructions, and enjoy the results.

Nicki Scully, author of Alchemical Healing, a Guide to Spiritual, Physical, and

Transformational Medicine, shamanicjourneys.com

The Co-Creation Handbook

Copyright 2014 Alida Birch

Smashwords Edition

www.alidabirch.com

www.co-creationhandbook.com

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

Cover Illustration: Shelley Masters

Cover Photo credit: Peggy Iileen Johnson

Cover Design: Claire Last

Ebook Formatting: Maureen Cutajar

Luminare Press

467 W 17th Ave

Eugene, OR 97401

www.luminarepress.com

ISBN: 978-1-937303-39-6

LCCN: 2014954269

Dedicated to the hummingbird

who shows me time and time again

how possible the improbable is.

Contents

Introduction

I AM STARTING out this book by telling you what it is not. I know this is unusual but it is essential for you to understand the difference between this and every other manifestation book out there. This is not another one of those over-sensationalized, promise-you-everything-ra-ra-you-can-have-it-all handbooks. Due to the proliferation of books written on manifesting, especially since The Secret , there is now a popular misperception that we can manifest anything we want all we have to do is think about it, have the focused intention and it will be so. And, I might add, there are a lot of disappointed people out there wondering why this didnt work for them. It is obvious to me that there are huge pieces of the puzzle missing and it is these critical pieces I will help you to master.