It seems that the Law Of Attraction actually goes back to ancient times, even long before Christ was born. 5000 year old Eastern Cultures have been practicing the physical energy aspects of what we now know as Quantum Physics, which is what the Law of Attraction is based on, for centuries if not milleniums.
An Interview with US Scientist Greg Braden as he discusses his experiences with contacting practitioners of this secret through his travels to countries in the eastern hemisphere and to the monestaries, he shares some of their practicies, beliefs and knowledge of "The Secret" of how and why it works.
The combination of our specific thought or image from our mind combined with our emotional feelings (love or fear) with the energy of our heart about that image, gives us the options of different quantum possibilities to choose from to create our reality. It is the adding of human emotion to our prayers, meditations, contemplations, affirmations that give it life.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Create Your Vision Board
I ran across this article and thought it was a great getting started point for those who are having trouble getting the LOA to work for them.
George
How to Make a Vision Board
February 1st, 2007 by Christine Kane
One of my most popular past blog posts is Vision Boards: A Quick Story. I wrote it months before the DVD The Secret was released. Then John Assaraf’s story of manifesting his giant mansion by using vision boards (in The Secret) popularized the concept. Many of us, however, have been doing them for years. (I’ve been using them at my women’s retreats for about 5 years now.) And the value of a vision board goes way beyond just mansions and gold watches!
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board (also called a Treasure Map or a Visual Explorer or Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines. It’s simple.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
For instance, before I ever started performing music and I had no idea how I’d ever get a gig, write enough songs, or assemble a press kit, I drew a picture of myself in a bar with people watching me perform (I’m a terrible visual artist, so I actually had to label the people “people!”). And though it wasn’t the only factor in making it happen, I had a calendar full of bar and coffeehouse gigs by the next year.
My drawing was a kind of a vision board. Vision boards do the same thing as my drawing did. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions. For instance, at the time I did my drawing, I knew I wanted to play in bars and coffeehouses. (I have since left the that circuit, and I’m performing in theatres and at conferences. But in my early twenties, I wanted to play in bars and coffeehouses. I was pretty clear about that!) Taking the time to draw it out, even poorly, made it indelible in my mind.
There are several methods you can use for creating your vision board. I’ve written about each one below. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.
Supplies you’ll need for creating a Vision Board:
- Poster board. (Target sells a really nice matte finish board. I highly recommend it.)
- A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices, the YMCA.) Make sure you find lots of different types. If you limit your options, you’ll lose interest after a while. When I facilitate my women’s retreats, I always make sure we have plenty of Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Ode, Parenting, Money, Utne, and an assortment of nature magazines.
- Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) I like using Yes! Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are my second choice because they don’t last.
Before you begin your vision board:
No matter which method you’re choosing, have a little ritual before you begin your vision board. Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come into your head. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can more clearly create your vision.
Put on soft music. My favorite music for activities like this is Anugama Shamanic Dream I and Shamanic Dream II. I love these CD’s for massage or any activity where you want to keep your mind quiet.
The Five Steps of Creating a Vision Board:
Step 1: Go through your magazines and tear the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that strike your fancy. Have fun with it. Make a big pile of images and phrases and words.
Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story. At my retreats, I’ve seen women come up with wildly creative ways to present a vision board.
Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.
Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board.
Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often.
Three Types of Vision Boards:
1 - The “I Know Exactly What I Want” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- You’re very clear about your desires.- You want to change your environment or surroundings.- There is a specific thing you want to manifest in your life. (i.e. a new home, or starting a business.)
How to create this vision board:
With your clear desire in mind, set out looking for the exact pictures which portray your vision. If you want a house by the water, then get out the Dwell magazine and start there. If you want to start your own business, find images that capture that idea for you. If you want to learn guitar, then find that picture. I remember at the last retreat, one woman yelled out, “If anyone finds a picture of a little girl with red hair who looks happy, give it to me!” And someone else yelled out, “I’m looking for a Cadillac!” Pretty soon, a lively trading session began. Following the five steps above, create your vision board out of these images.
2 – The “Opening and Allowing” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- You’re not sure what exactly you want- You’ve been in a period of depression or grief- You have a vision of what you want, but are uncertain about it in some way.- You know you want change but don’t know how it’s possible.
How to create this vision board:
Go through each magazine. Tear out images that delight you. Don’t ask why. Just keep going through the magazines. If it’s a picture of a teddy bear that makes you smile, then pull it out. If it’s a cottage in a misty countryside, then rip it out. Just have fun and be open to whatever calls to you. Then, as you go through Step 2 above, hold that same openness, but ask yourself what this picture might mean. What is it telling you about you? Does it mean you need to take more naps? Does it mean you want to get a dog, or stop hanging out with a particular person who drains you? Most likely you’ll know the answer. If you don’t, but you still love the image, then put it on your vision board anyway. It will have an answer for you soon enough. Some women at my retreats had NO idea what their board was about, and it wasn’t until two months later that they understood. The Opening and Allowing Vision Board can be a powerful guide for you. I like it better than the first model because sometimes our egos think they know what we want, and lots of times those desires aren’t in alignment with who we really are. This goes deeper than just getting what you want. It can speak to you and teach you a little bit about yourself and your passion.
3 – The “Theme” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- It’s your birthday or New Years Eve or some significant event that starts a new cycle.- If you are working with one particular area of your life. For instance, Work & Career.
How to create this vision board:
The only difference between this vision board and the others is that this one has clear parameters and intent. Before you begin the vision board, take a moment to hold the intent and the theme in mind. When you choose pictures, they will be in alignment with the theme. You can do the Theme Vision Board on smaller pages, like a page in your journal.
Some things to remember about vision boards:
- You can use a combination of all three types of vision boards as you create. Sometimes you might start out doing one kind, and then your intuition takes over and shifts into a whole different mode. That’s called creativity. Just roll with it.
- Your vision board might change as you are making it. I was just talking with a friend of mine who said that she had been making a vision board for the new year. The theme was all about what she wanted in this year. Then, as she pulled pictures and began to lay them out, the theme changed into a simpler one about her everyday life and the moments in each day. It surprised and delighted her to experience that evolution. You might find that you have little epiphanies from making a vision board.
Make a Vision Journal
Another option is to use these same principles in a big sketch book. Get a large sketch book and keep an on-going vision journal. This is especially effective if you’re going through many transitions in your life.
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George
How to Make a Vision Board
February 1st, 2007 by Christine Kane
One of my most popular past blog posts is Vision Boards: A Quick Story. I wrote it months before the DVD The Secret was released. Then John Assaraf’s story of manifesting his giant mansion by using vision boards (in The Secret) popularized the concept. Many of us, however, have been doing them for years. (I’ve been using them at my women’s retreats for about 5 years now.) And the value of a vision board goes way beyond just mansions and gold watches!
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board (also called a Treasure Map or a Visual Explorer or Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines. It’s simple.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
For instance, before I ever started performing music and I had no idea how I’d ever get a gig, write enough songs, or assemble a press kit, I drew a picture of myself in a bar with people watching me perform (I’m a terrible visual artist, so I actually had to label the people “people!”). And though it wasn’t the only factor in making it happen, I had a calendar full of bar and coffeehouse gigs by the next year.
My drawing was a kind of a vision board. Vision boards do the same thing as my drawing did. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions. For instance, at the time I did my drawing, I knew I wanted to play in bars and coffeehouses. (I have since left the that circuit, and I’m performing in theatres and at conferences. But in my early twenties, I wanted to play in bars and coffeehouses. I was pretty clear about that!) Taking the time to draw it out, even poorly, made it indelible in my mind.
There are several methods you can use for creating your vision board. I’ve written about each one below. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.
Supplies you’ll need for creating a Vision Board:
- Poster board. (Target sells a really nice matte finish board. I highly recommend it.)
- A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices, the YMCA.) Make sure you find lots of different types. If you limit your options, you’ll lose interest after a while. When I facilitate my women’s retreats, I always make sure we have plenty of Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Ode, Parenting, Money, Utne, and an assortment of nature magazines.
- Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) I like using Yes! Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are my second choice because they don’t last.
Before you begin your vision board:
No matter which method you’re choosing, have a little ritual before you begin your vision board. Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come into your head. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can more clearly create your vision.
Put on soft music. My favorite music for activities like this is Anugama Shamanic Dream I and Shamanic Dream II. I love these CD’s for massage or any activity where you want to keep your mind quiet.
The Five Steps of Creating a Vision Board:
Step 1: Go through your magazines and tear the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that strike your fancy. Have fun with it. Make a big pile of images and phrases and words.
Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story. At my retreats, I’ve seen women come up with wildly creative ways to present a vision board.
Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.
Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board.
Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often.
Three Types of Vision Boards:
1 - The “I Know Exactly What I Want” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- You’re very clear about your desires.- You want to change your environment or surroundings.- There is a specific thing you want to manifest in your life. (i.e. a new home, or starting a business.)
How to create this vision board:
With your clear desire in mind, set out looking for the exact pictures which portray your vision. If you want a house by the water, then get out the Dwell magazine and start there. If you want to start your own business, find images that capture that idea for you. If you want to learn guitar, then find that picture. I remember at the last retreat, one woman yelled out, “If anyone finds a picture of a little girl with red hair who looks happy, give it to me!” And someone else yelled out, “I’m looking for a Cadillac!” Pretty soon, a lively trading session began. Following the five steps above, create your vision board out of these images.
2 – The “Opening and Allowing” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- You’re not sure what exactly you want- You’ve been in a period of depression or grief- You have a vision of what you want, but are uncertain about it in some way.- You know you want change but don’t know how it’s possible.
How to create this vision board:
Go through each magazine. Tear out images that delight you. Don’t ask why. Just keep going through the magazines. If it’s a picture of a teddy bear that makes you smile, then pull it out. If it’s a cottage in a misty countryside, then rip it out. Just have fun and be open to whatever calls to you. Then, as you go through Step 2 above, hold that same openness, but ask yourself what this picture might mean. What is it telling you about you? Does it mean you need to take more naps? Does it mean you want to get a dog, or stop hanging out with a particular person who drains you? Most likely you’ll know the answer. If you don’t, but you still love the image, then put it on your vision board anyway. It will have an answer for you soon enough. Some women at my retreats had NO idea what their board was about, and it wasn’t until two months later that they understood. The Opening and Allowing Vision Board can be a powerful guide for you. I like it better than the first model because sometimes our egos think they know what we want, and lots of times those desires aren’t in alignment with who we really are. This goes deeper than just getting what you want. It can speak to you and teach you a little bit about yourself and your passion.
3 – The “Theme” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- It’s your birthday or New Years Eve or some significant event that starts a new cycle.- If you are working with one particular area of your life. For instance, Work & Career.
How to create this vision board:
The only difference between this vision board and the others is that this one has clear parameters and intent. Before you begin the vision board, take a moment to hold the intent and the theme in mind. When you choose pictures, they will be in alignment with the theme. You can do the Theme Vision Board on smaller pages, like a page in your journal.
Some things to remember about vision boards:
- You can use a combination of all three types of vision boards as you create. Sometimes you might start out doing one kind, and then your intuition takes over and shifts into a whole different mode. That’s called creativity. Just roll with it.
- Your vision board might change as you are making it. I was just talking with a friend of mine who said that she had been making a vision board for the new year. The theme was all about what she wanted in this year. Then, as she pulled pictures and began to lay them out, the theme changed into a simpler one about her everyday life and the moments in each day. It surprised and delighted her to experience that evolution. You might find that you have little epiphanies from making a vision board.
Make a Vision Journal
Another option is to use these same principles in a big sketch book. Get a large sketch book and keep an on-going vision journal. This is especially effective if you’re going through many transitions in your life.
Technorati Tags: vision boards, personal growth, law of attraction, creativity
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Law Of Attraction, Does It Really Work?
There is no question as to whether or not the Law of Attraction works, it is working continuously in all our lives as we speak. However, whether or not it is working in you favor or not, depends on your personal belief's and attitudes. Just as The Law Of Gravity brings a object back to Earth, The Law Of Attraction brings us what our subconscious mind thinks we want based on our beliefs about our world and our attitude and feelings about ourselves. You might say that our outside world is but a reflection of our inner self, a mirror image that brings us back exactly what we project outward to the Universe. So in essence, our world and our circumstances is our own creation according to our beliefs and attitudes.
We are responsible for our own circumstances, and are not victims of our circumstances as the world would have us to believe. The Hawaiian belief of Ho'oponopono takes this one step further to the extent that we are 100% responsible for not only our own circumstances but we are also contributors in some way to the circumstances of those that may cross our path. When we pray, we should pray, not for the other person, but for our own forgiveness in our participation or contribution in whatever small way that our role contributed to their ill circumstances.
The good news here is that if we don't like our circumstances, it doesn't have to permanently be that way. We can change our circumstances and create a new and better world simply by changing our beliefs and attitudes about ourselves. Changing our beliefs comes with first identifying our subconscious beliefs that are not valid and no longer serve us and replacing them with those beliefs that we want to serve us.
Since birth, our minds are being programmed from a number of sources. Predominantly our parents in the beginning. As our world expands and we get older our sibling, peers, and relatives add their input. All this time we are continually absorbing, processing and analyzing all these experiences from which we then make decisions and interpretations that form our opinions and or beliefs about what we have experienced, which then become our reality. Some of these are valid beliefs, but most are not, but are only our perspective of reality as we see it as compared against our previous knowledge or beliefs. After awhile we may have accumulated many invalid beliefs compounded on top of more invalid beliefs, but in our own mind they make up our reality.
As a child, we are masters at rationalizing how, no matter what happens in our world, we must be somehow at fault. Unless given support and positive influence, we are constantly figuring out how we are unworthy and or not good enough, just by the words of an unintentional remarks by a person we might view as authoritative, we take it literally to mean we are either stupid, not worth loving, or worthless.
My father passed on his misbelief's about investing money, he lost some money in the stock market at some point early in his adult life and created a fear of investing which he passed on to me. That was compounded at an early age by the "Parable of The Talents" bible verse where the Master handed out talents to his servants and they were given the task of investing them. Given my inherited fear of investing, I identified with servant with only one talent and at the time thought holding onto my single talent was not a bad idea, at least I would still have it. When it came time to settle accounts, and the servant who had not invested his but buried it was severely reprimanded, called a foolish, wicked and lazy servant and had his talent taken away, my feelings of unworthyness in money matters were validated and I was convinced that I could not be trusted with having any control over money, thus a block to attracting money or abundance was formed.
One of the keys to having the Law Of Attraction work for us in our favor, is the ability to make our conscious thoughts of what we want become part of our subconscious beliefs. The clearing of any mis-belief's about what we want, those beliefs in our subscious that are in direct conflict with our conscious desires, are a necessary part of the process in order to allow the LOA to work in our favor. My fear of investing and resulting fear of handling money was an obstacle I had to identify and release.
We are responsible for our own circumstances, and are not victims of our circumstances as the world would have us to believe. The Hawaiian belief of Ho'oponopono takes this one step further to the extent that we are 100% responsible for not only our own circumstances but we are also contributors in some way to the circumstances of those that may cross our path. When we pray, we should pray, not for the other person, but for our own forgiveness in our participation or contribution in whatever small way that our role contributed to their ill circumstances.
The good news here is that if we don't like our circumstances, it doesn't have to permanently be that way. We can change our circumstances and create a new and better world simply by changing our beliefs and attitudes about ourselves. Changing our beliefs comes with first identifying our subconscious beliefs that are not valid and no longer serve us and replacing them with those beliefs that we want to serve us.
Since birth, our minds are being programmed from a number of sources. Predominantly our parents in the beginning. As our world expands and we get older our sibling, peers, and relatives add their input. All this time we are continually absorbing, processing and analyzing all these experiences from which we then make decisions and interpretations that form our opinions and or beliefs about what we have experienced, which then become our reality. Some of these are valid beliefs, but most are not, but are only our perspective of reality as we see it as compared against our previous knowledge or beliefs. After awhile we may have accumulated many invalid beliefs compounded on top of more invalid beliefs, but in our own mind they make up our reality.
As a child, we are masters at rationalizing how, no matter what happens in our world, we must be somehow at fault. Unless given support and positive influence, we are constantly figuring out how we are unworthy and or not good enough, just by the words of an unintentional remarks by a person we might view as authoritative, we take it literally to mean we are either stupid, not worth loving, or worthless.
My father passed on his misbelief's about investing money, he lost some money in the stock market at some point early in his adult life and created a fear of investing which he passed on to me. That was compounded at an early age by the "Parable of The Talents" bible verse where the Master handed out talents to his servants and they were given the task of investing them. Given my inherited fear of investing, I identified with servant with only one talent and at the time thought holding onto my single talent was not a bad idea, at least I would still have it. When it came time to settle accounts, and the servant who had not invested his but buried it was severely reprimanded, called a foolish, wicked and lazy servant and had his talent taken away, my feelings of unworthyness in money matters were validated and I was convinced that I could not be trusted with having any control over money, thus a block to attracting money or abundance was formed.
One of the keys to having the Law Of Attraction work for us in our favor, is the ability to make our conscious thoughts of what we want become part of our subconscious beliefs. The clearing of any mis-belief's about what we want, those beliefs in our subscious that are in direct conflict with our conscious desires, are a necessary part of the process in order to allow the LOA to work in our favor. My fear of investing and resulting fear of handling money was an obstacle I had to identify and release.
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