Life Visioning

Jupiter-Uranus Conjunct in Taurus - and Manifesting a Vision for a Better World

Today in astrology, the planets Jupiter and Uranus become conjunct in Taurus. When the planet of expansion and Big Ideas snuggles up with Uranus - the planet of disruption, rebellion, and revolution - we can expect BIG CHANGES in the world and in our lives. This celestial union will initiate a new cycle that will shake our world by introducing a shift in perspective and sparking transformation that will force us out of our comfort zones. Major paradigm shift, anyone?

I value living intentionally, so here is my offer to the Universe for BIG CHANGES and a Revolutionary Paradigm Shift from what we are currently experiencing on Earth in this now moment:

I envision a world where there is ENOUGH. There is no longer a driving insatiable need to accumulate. All physical and emotional needs are met and there are sufficient resources for all to meet their basic survival requirements. It is a world where all Beings can live together sustainably and in respect for the kinship between EARTH and ALL her BEINGS. Life force energy is abundantly available to be used for personal development and self-actualization. People are no longer driven by fear, guilt, shame, and a need to overpower or control. They take responsibility for their actions and decisions and act in integrity with respect for themselves and all of life.

In my vision, human dignity is restored and there is no longer a drive to violence, rage, oppression, power over, control, racism, elitism, ostracization, or oppression of differences in gender identity, race, religion, occupation. People are free to express their gifts and talents in contribution to the Greater Good. Female women and children are not sold into slavery, the sex trade, or killed because of their gender. Children grow up safe and secure to explore their world and their own Beingness without fear.

In my vision, the Institutions that were established for the Greater Good such as public schools, governments, and organized religions - but which have become monoliths of an old controlling and repressive global construct - shift to embrace a more global set of core values such as equality, empowerment, tolerance, integrity, and service. There is no war or fighting over boundaries, resources, wealth, or the accumulation of power.

I admit, it is a huge heartfelt call for a better world where people respect ALL BEINGS and honor the world we live in and on. More than what one person can do or manifest alone. I do believe, though, that one person can make a PROFOUND difference in the world - witness the thoughts and actions of Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, and many others.

In this small corner of the world, I foster healing and personal empowerment in heart-centered souls. Together, we will radiate love and compassion into the world and bring change one person at a time.

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When your Soul Leads the Way…

When your Soul Leads the Way…

If you follow spiritual literature, you know that becoming heart-centered and Soul-guided leads to unimaginable fulfillment in life and presents opportunities that your poor mind cannot even remotely fathom, with ease and flow. “YES!” you say - “I WANT THAT SUPREME SUCCESS!”

  GREAT! All you need to do is become heart-centered and Soul-guided. “But what does that even mean? And where do I even start?” you may ask. A very good question.

The four key steps are; radical forgiveness, heal and release your anger, shame, guilt, and fear; restore faith and trust in yourself and the Universe; cultivate self-love. And THEN your heart is open enough to welcome in the vulnerability associated with surrender and acceptance of human imperfection in yourself and others, with love and compassion. Yup, it’s a lot.

  For me, in my journey healing from a lifetime of trauma, it has been a pretty long road. I had to forgive myself, my abusers, everyone who bullied or negated me while it was happening, those who could have supported me but didn’t - the “forgive” list went on and on. Then I had to dive deep to restore the trust in myself and in others that so many years of abuse erased. I had already done a great deal of present lifetime healing of lower density emotions (anger, fear, guilt, shame) but there were still energetic signatures present from past lives and both lineages so I needed to dig in deeper on that step. I spent a year focused on the Trust step and then loving myself - well, that is still a work in progress.

  I thank my Creator that I found my spiritual path and developed such a close connection to my Higher self and my Spirit Team. The love and support that I felt during the years I was doing this work was nothing like I had ever experienced before. And this connection just keeps growing stronger. As it does, the higher heart frequencies of love, compassion, empathy, acceptance, openness become much easier to embody. My self-confidence is unshakeable, and I no longer worry about the future. I am able to maintain an unflappable inner peace, and I am no longer triggered or reactionary to situations or the emotions of others.  I LOVE this State of Being, and choose to live in this level of consciousness at all times. I know that the Universe has “this or something better” in store and I am now in a place where I accept and trust that it will be AH-MAZE-ING.   

  If you would like to come home to your own beautiful heart and need support in any or all of the four key steps above, drop me a note or set up a no-obligation call. I felt very alone in my journey, but you do not need to. Having the right support, knowledge, and tools can help accelerate the journey.  And I am here to tell you, it is BEAUTIFUL on the other side of the darkness.  Won’t you come join me here?

New Beginnings and Living Intentionally in the New Year

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am all about living intentionally so it should come as no surprise that I have established a process I use every year. It is a synthesis of Cynthia Occelli’s Renewal process and John and Missy Butcher’s Lifebook process. Both take a look at the previous year and assess what went well and what remains to have some attention paid to it. Both are a 360 degree look at all aspects of your life but that is where the similarities end.

In any case, I find that taking the time to conduct a retrospective, a clearing and release, and goal or intention-setting for the year gets me clear on not only where I’ve been but also where I want to go. It is not locked in stone but establishes the guardrails that I use throughout the year that keep me On Purpose and in my Flow. It also provides a foundation for celebrating small and large victories and life’s joyful and successful moments.

This practice is particularly powerful for me because it also tells my Inner Critic that I AM COMMITTED TO ME. I MATTER and WHAT I WANT IN LIFE MATTERS. Who wouldn’t want to start their year with such a powerful affirmation? !! And refer back to it often to celebrate your intentions for yourself, your relationships, and your BEINGNESS in the world. This practice turns my Inner Critic into a powerful and more positive ally as I show myself every day that every moment and every step takes me that much closer to my dreams!

I encourage you to also start this kind of a practice. It empowers you to live your best life, is life affirming of your highest goals and intentions, and is much more powerful and effective than a New Year’s Resolution!!

Ask me about my Joyful Transformation Lifebook process by clicking my email link below. I look forward to chatting with you about it soon and am happy to share an ebook on it with you! Get your Joyful Transformation New Year Visioning Bundle here!

How to create an empowering vision board by Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, America’s #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul® and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

 

Vision board ideas and examples are incredibly useful and inspirational when making your own. I’ve designed this post to show you how to make your own vision boards and how to use them to maximize your visualization practice!

Also known as dream boards, these simple devices are one of the most valuable visualization tools available to you. The inspirational collages serve as your image of the future – a tangible example, idea or representation of where you are going. They should represent your dreams, your goals, and your ideal life.

Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind. And when those statements are the affirmations and images of your goals, you are destined to achieve them! – Jack Canfield

By representing your goals with pictures and images you will actually strengthen and stimulate your emotions because your mind responds strongly to visual stimulation…  and your emotions are the vibrational energy that activates the Law of Attraction. The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words,” certainly holds true here.

If you have already defined your dreams, it’s time to illustrate them visually.

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What is a Vision Board?

A vision board is a visualization tool which refers to a board of any sort used to build a collage of words and pictures that represent your goals and dreams. 

They can be bought from a professional supplier or made with cork or poster boards. By placing visual representations of your goals into one space, you can easily visualize them frequently. Remembering to look at them daily and imagine them as if they have already come true is one of the best ways to activate the Law of Attraction.

How Do You Use a Vision Board for Goal-Setting?

The best way to achieve your goals is to keep them top of mind, so you’re always looking for ways to move yourself closer to them – and a vision board is the perfect tool to help you do that.

By putting a vision board somewhere you can see it every day, you will prompt yourself to visualize your ideal life on a regular basis. And that’s important because visualization activates the creative powers of your subconscious mind and programs your brain to notice available resources that were always there but escaped your notice. Through the Law of Attraction, visualization also magnetizes and attracts to you the people, resources, and opportunities you need to achieve your goal.

By adding a visualization practice to your daily routine, you will naturally become more motivated to reach your goals. You’ll start to notice you are unexpectedly doing things that move you closer to your ideal life. Suddenly, you find yourself volunteering to take on more responsibility at work, speaking out at staff meetings, asking more directly for what you want, and taking more risks in your personal and professional life – and experiencing bigger pay-offs. 

It’s pretty cool stuff!

 

How to Create a Vision Board that Depicts the Future You Wish to Create

Find pictures that represent or symbolize the experiences, feelings, and possessions you want to attract into your life, and place them in your board. Have fun with the process! Use photographs, magazine cutouts, pictures from the Internet–whatever inspires you. Be creative. Include not only pictures, but anything that speaks to you.

Consider including a picture of yourself on your board. If you do, choose one that was taken in a happy moment. You will also want to post your affirmations, inspirational words, quotations, and thoughts here. Choose words and images that inspire you and make you feel good.

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You can use your vision board to depict goals and dreams in all areas of your life, or in just one specific area that you are focusing on.  Keep it neat, and be selective about what you place in your vision board. It’s a good idea to avoid creating a cluttered or chaotic board… you don’t want to attract chaos into your life.

Use only the words and images that best represent your purpose, your ideal future, and words that inspire positive emotions in you. There is beauty in simplicity and clarity. Too many images and too much information will be distracting and harder to focus on.

If you are working on visualizing and creating changes in many areas of your life, then you may want to use more than one vision board. You might use one for your personal goals and another for career and financial goals. You might even want to keep your career vision board at the office or on your desk as a means of inspiration and affirmation. Whatever you decide to do, learning how to make a vision board – and using it regularly – is the best way to visualize your ideas and dreams to fruition.

Here’s My Simple 6-Step Process for Making Empowering Vision Boards:

1) Create a list of goals you’d like to achieve in the next year

In order to visualize your goals, first you need to know what they are. Spend some time getting clear on exactly what you want your ideal life to look like, and what you need to accomplish in the next 12 months to launch you closer to your goals.

Chapter 2: “Be Clear Why You’re Here,” and Chapter 3: “Decide What You Want,” in my best-selling book, The Success Principles, can help you with this process.

You can also use this simple 4-step meditation technique to meditate for clarity and intuition.

2) Collect a bundle of old magazines with beautiful pictures

If you’re not a magazine reader or currently don’t have any magazines at home, ask your friends to give you any they no longer want. You should also be able to pick some up for just a dollar or two per magazine at your local thrift store. Or you could check out your local recycling depot. Ours has a “free stuff” corner where you can pick up all the magazines you could ever want at zero cost. Maybe yours does, too?

3) Find pictures that represent your goals and inspire you

Schedule a couple hours one evening or weekend to go through the magazines and cut out pictures that represent your goals and speak to your heart in some meaningful way.  Fun tip: The last time my staff and I made vision boards at my office, we turned up the radio and had a little musical party going on as we cut out our images, which made it a very vibrant, fun setting to visualize our goals!

When looking for images in the magazines, look for those that immediately make you say, “Yes! That is what I want in my life!” They don’t have to be physical objects or literal interpretations of what you want in your life. Instead, focus on how the images make you FEEL.

For example, if you’d like to move to a home with waterfront property, don’t worry if you can’t find a picture of your perfect “dream home.” Perhaps a picture of an idyllic ocean sunset will be enough to inspire you. Or if you’d like to attract a new romantic partner into your life, instead of hunting for a picture of a man or woman who meets your physical ideal, find a picture that represents love to you – an image of two people holding hands, or even a picture of a heart, for example.

4) Make a collage out of your photos

Once you have collected enough photos, it’s time to make your vision board! Go to your local craft or dollar store and buy a large piece of construction or poster paper. A corkboard or large piece of paper would work as well. Then glue, tack, or tape your pictures to the paper or corkboard in an arrangement that is visually pleasing to you.

5) Add motivational “affirmation words” that represent how you want to FEEL

Your vision of your ideal life shouldn’t be focused on “stuff” so much as on how you want to FEEL. For this reason, I like to add words to my vision board that describe how I want to feel on a daily basis – such as: “joyful,” “abundant,” “powerful,” “fearless,” “loved,” “strong,” “healthy,” “loving,” and “financially free.”

Take some time to create a list of words that describe how YOU want to feel. You can either search for these words in your magazines or write them yourself. Then add them to your vision board in a visually attractive way.

6) Take a few moments to contemplate your vision board every day

To get the full benefit from your vision board, it’s important for you to place it somewhere you can see it every day. I recommend you take a few minutes to look over your vision board at least once or twice a day. I like to review my vision board right before I do a guided visualization, so my goals are top of mind as I train my mind to attract what I truly want into my life. I also like to review it every night before I go to sleep, in order to prompt my sub-conscious mind to come up with new ideas while I’m sleeping on how to achieve my goals. That way, I wake up in the morning bursting with motivation to succeed – and am far more likely to notice and act on opportunities that will bring me closer to my goals.

How to Use Your Dream Board

Try keeping your vision board on the nightstand next to your bed. Leave it standing in an open position as often as you are comfortable with, and spend time each morning and evening visualizing, affirming, believing, and internalizing your goals.

The time you spend visualizing in the evening just before bed is especially powerful. The thoughts and images that are present in your mind during the last forty-five minutes before going to sleep are the ones that will replay themselves repeatedly in your subconscious mind through¬out the night, and the thoughts and images that you begin each day with will help you to create a vibrational match for the future you desire.

As some time goes by, and your dreams begin to manifest, look at those images that represent your achievements, and feel gratitude for how well the Law of Attraction is working in your life. Acknowledge that it is working. Don’t remove the pictures or images that represent the goals you’ve already achieved.  Achievement of the goals in your vision board are powerful visual reminders of what you have already consciously and deliberately attracted into your life.

I recommend you write down the date you created your dream board. The universe loves speed, and you will be amazed at just how quickly the Law of Attraction responds to your energy, commitment, and desires. Much like a time capsule, this board will document your personal journey, your dreams, and your achievements for that particular year. It will become a record of your growth, awareness, and expansion that you will want to keep and reflect back upon in years to come.

It’s a good idea to create a new inspiration board each year.  As you continue to grow, evolve and expand, your dreams will too. Your vision board is meant to be kept and cherished. They chronicle not only your dreams, but your growth and achievements.

Final thoughts on using your completed vision board:

  • Look at your dream board often and feel the inspiration it provides.

  • Hold it in your hands and really internalize the future it represents.

  • Read your daily affirmations and inspirational words aloud.

  • See yourself living in that manner.

  • Feel yourself in the future you have designed.

  • Believe it is already yours.

  • Be grateful for the good that is already present in your life.

  • Acknowledge any goals you have already achieved.

  • Acknowledge the changes you have seen and felt.

  • Acknowledge the presence of God in your life.

  • Acknowledge the Law of Attraction at work in your life.

  • Look at it just before going to bed and first thing upon rising.

I hope I’ve inspired you to create your own vision board. Your ability to visualize your dreams will serve as a catalyst in their creation.