How And Why To Make A Vision Board – Inspiring Women

Posted on June 5, 2012 by maritas

Date: Friday, May 24, 2013

Do you feel stuck in your life and you don’t know what to do next?

So many women in their later years experience this painful state, I know what it feels like, I’ve been there. But transitions like this are great opportunities to grow and the perfect time to make a vision board. Learn how to set intentions for your life, to be playful, to add adventure and magic to your life and to be happy.

You will find simple tips on how and why to make Vision Boards. The process is not only fun and wildly creative but also a very empowering tool and life changing. The interview will answer a lot of questions you might have in regards to Vision boards, or check out the short video below to learn some basics and get inspired to make one your self. If you rather read click here to get my e book: Transform your life with Vision Boards, if you have more questions let me know, I will answer!

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Empower Yourself – Establish A Meditation Practice

Posted on May 22, 2013 by maritas

Establish a meditation practice, it will change your life

peace monkJust to mention this: I had a hard time myself to get my practice going; I found it extremely difficult to sit down and just watch my breathing. But I was desperate, so I just kept sitting down until my mind stopped chattering and there was peace for 10 minutes. It has changed my life, gave me more peace, kindness and awareness. Meditation is one of the best things you can do to help get into the creative zone. It will reduce stress, improve your overall health and well being and improve communication.

Yes and it’s free, all you need is a quiet place, to close your eyes, focus on your breathing and that’s it.

What does it do?

Meditation is taking you to a space of non-doing. Just allowing and nonresistance will give you a chance to feel your own energy field, to stop the stream of thoughts and to just do nothing. The moment of not thinking will give you time to recover from constant “thinking strain” and resistance. Meditation is also a great tool to get you unstuck.

When you don’t have resistance, you can attract the good things into your life, because there is nothing to repel them. (Thinking can be a very strong energy and as long as we are involved in it, we might not be able to let in intuition.)

Magical, yes it is and simple, but sometimes we don’t want to do the simple and obvious things because we get too intellectual about it and our mind takes us out.

 

Have you heard yourself say?

  • It’s too easy, this cannot work,
  • How can sitting somewhere with my eyes closed make my life better
  • This is stupid
  • I don’t have time.
  • I cannot do it
  • It’s too hard

Now the good news is: you do not have to listen to this voice and you do not have to sit and meditate for hours, or even ½ an hour. If you start with 3 minutes a day, this will be a good start. Probably it will feel so good, to take some time out that you will want to make it longer. But this is up to you.

So try it out have fun, get a guided meditation CD if you like and start changing your life! I would suggest to do a meditation before you make a vision board, or any other creative activity, it will help you to get into your right brain, the creative part of your brain. Don’t waste any more time: empower your life, create your life and  start now. Below a 3 minute meditation for busy people.

3 minute guided meditation with Deepak Chopra

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Keep a Journal to remind you of your dreams

Posted on May 15, 2013 by maritas

journalKeeping a journal is a very simple way to focus on  dreams, ideas and goals you want to manifest in your life. It’s also a great method to let go of things that don’t serve you anymore for example, it’s one of the most important tools in “The Artist Way program,”called the morning pages.

You write 3 pages in long hand writing and you do it like a meditation, without thinking about it. The purpose is to let go of emotions and thoughts that are cluttering your mind and to make room for new thoughts and ideas. Writing the morning pages is to get us to the other side, the other side of fear, of our negativity and our moods. It also helps to get you unstuck.

Journaling  gets us beyond our judgemental mind, where we find a quiet center, discover our creativity and get in touch with our intuitions and possibilities. It’s a wonderful easy meditation in journaling and takes only about 10 -15 minutes

Our logical part of the brain is our survival brain, it’s purpose is to keep us safe. Anything new or beyond our comfort zone, like playing a new game, taking a new class, being creative, is a red flag for the logical brain, that’s why it reacts with fear!

So if we like to play, do new things and challenge ourselves, we need to get over this discomfort and do it anyway. Write in your journal to keep yourself accountable and to create the life you want, it’s one of the most important practices you can do, so make it a daily habit.

Make it fun and decorate it! Find some great images in magazines, paste them onto the cover and finish with inspiring, meaningful affirmations, make it fun, make it happy!

Instructions about:” how to make a vision board” watch the videos below.

Vision Board Samples

Vision Board Meditation

How To Make a Vision Board-Find The Images

How To Make a Vision Board-Layout Of The Images

How to Make a Vision Board- Glue The Images To The Board

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How To Make A Vision Board Even More Effective With Feng Shui

Posted on April 29, 2013 by maritas

Vision boards are very effective tools to help you focus and to achieve your life dreams. You can make them even more effective by adding a pinch of Feng Shui to it. I am not a Feng Shui expert,  but my friend taught me this very simple strategy. All you need to do is divide the poster board into five different sections. Continue reading →

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How to Let Go: The 4 People You Must Forgive Article By Brian Tracy

Posted on April 24, 2013 by maritas

I just and read this article by Brian Tracy, he is one of my favorite teachers on productivity, confidence and success coaching. Forgiveness and letting go is a big part of achieving our life goals and dreams. We need to let go off the old stuff and make room for the new. I hope you get something out of it!

let goThere are four people you need to forgive if you are serious about changing your life and learning how to live in the now.

The first are your parents, living or dead. You must absolutely forgive them for every mistake they ever made in bringing you up. At the very least, you should be grateful to them for giving you life. They got you here. If you are happy to be alive, you can forgive them for everything else. Never complain about them again. Continue reading →

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Making A Vision Board With Friends Is A lot Of Fun

Posted on April 19, 2013 by maritas

women connectingWe all need more fun in life, would you agree?  I found one way to do just that: I get together with friends or neighbors and we make vision boards together.

It’s a great way to get to know another human being, to be creative, to be open to changes in life and to share life with it’s challenges. Life is a lot better when we connect with people, so get out and make an effort to have fun with someone new. Continue reading →

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How To Bring The Spirit Of Play Into Your Life

Posted on April 16, 2013 by maritas

think positiveHave you noticed that when you have fun at work or play, life is lot more enjoyable?

Wouldn’t it be great to bring fun to all the chores we have to do, the work we have to do, the jobs we have to go to and be a lot happier as a result?

The problem is that most of us from the industrial generation did not learn to have fun at work or in life, we learned that everything needs to be worked at and making money, or working was a chore not fun. Life was supposed to be hard and that reflected in everything I did. Continue reading →

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Law Of Attraction “The Secret Law Of Life”

Posted on April 12, 2013 by maritas

vibrateMost of us know that the law of attraction states that like energy attracts like energy. What this means in our lives is that the thoughts we think, the actions we perform, the feelings we feel, the words we say all have a certain energy or vibrate at a certain frequency. So whatever frequency our thoughts etc are that’s exactly the same frequency we attract.

It’s like a radio receiver, which only receives a channel when it’s tuned to the right frequency. You think about 50000 thoughts a day and most of them are not conscious to you, they just run like a background program. It’s not only your thoughts, it’s other people’s thoughts too. Yes it’s like living in a soup of thoughts and it can get messy:-)

Depending on how you were brought up, how confident you are, how creative you are, how courageous you are, how aware you are, you might have a hard time to be in charge of your feelings, thoughts and actions. You might have reacted to the same situations and people for decades. One thing that is very important about the law of attraction is that you must be aware of all this, if you want to attract your dreams and desire.

One great method to let go of old patterns is the Sedona Method. You can do it yourself by going to the website, getting the book, or the audio. It’s pretty much just asking  series of questions and being willing to let this stuff go, but the results are profound.

Well it’s worth the trouble, but you might need some help. You might find it very helpful and meditative to make a vision board. Which is a collection of very inspiring images and words or phrases. The main purpose is to help you visualize and focus on what you love and desire, to help you achieve you life dreams. It’s a simple map to create your life. The more you focus the better it gets. This is how you can create your life.

Try it out  and let me know how it goes.

More instructions about:” how to make a vision board” watch the videos below.

Vision Board Samples

Vision Board Meditation

How To Make a Vision Board-Find The Images

How To Make a Vision Board-Layout Of The Images

How to Make a Vision Board- Glue The Images To The Board

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How To Make A Vision Box

Posted on April 9, 2013 by maritas

miraclesWhile reading the book by Esther and Jerry Hicks : “Ask and it is given,” I came across this idea. “The Vision Box”, which is  a very simple version of a vision board. Good for people who find it too difficult or don’t have the time, to actually make a vision board.

I like to make things, so I decorated the box. You do not have to do this, you can buy  a nice box,  it will work the same. The only thing you have to do is to add the magic words to the lid, I have them listed below. The easiest will be to write them onto the box with a marker  or you type them with large letters and print them out, or you use decorative stick on letters. Continue reading →

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How Do Women Accept Aging And Turning Gray?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by maritas

Hi Marita here,

don't look backI am 57 years old and I have had blond hair for all these years, ( artificially helped for the last 8 years). For a few years now I have contemplated accepting my gray hair but my hairdresser talked me out of it, (this might have been self serving, ha ha)

But now the idea is finally coming into the “acting stage,” how exciting!  I will not dye my hair anymore and I have no idea what’s emerging. No clue what I will look like with gray hair and the transition will not be fun until it’s grown out and final. Moving through another time of transformation and the chance to create a new life.

To make it easier and more fun I decided to bring more color into my life with lipstick, headbands and colorful clothing. I bought a great juicy, pink-fuchsia lipstick, which will look great with gray hair. I sure don’t want to look like an old women, I want to look hip and and happy.

  • What does it mean to turn gray?
  • To get all these little dark spots on my skin?
  • To watch skin turn blotchy and loose elasticity?

It’s not easy to accept aging, but my philosophy is: I want to accept and welcome the changes because resistance is always painful. All this is part of going with the flow and loving myself the way I am with all the changes included. The more I fight reality, the unhappier I will be.

It’s empowering for women to accept reality, it does not mean you have to, but it’s a good idea to contemplate the concept. The Buddhist way “to be present” and to accept reality is an big part of being happy. What is also important is to eat good food, to sleep enough, to exercise and to do things that make your heart sing. Happy people are always attractive.

What are your thoughts?

accepting turning gray

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The Ultimate Creativity-Create Your Life

Posted on April 1, 2013 by maritas

AngelThe concept: that I can create, or let’s say co-create my life used to scare the hell out of me.

Why? I think the responsibility was more than I could take, it was easier to blame all the misfortunes and problems on the world and personal circumstances.

It took me a while to accept this, learn about how universal concepts work and how the thought mechanism works. To accept the fact that we as individuals have a lot of power and to be willing to use this power in a positive way.

But one has to be ready, it’s big. Especially if you come from a dysfunctional family background, where you might have taken on the role of the victim,  or the caretaker. I did this,  and it took me a long time and lots of healing to open up to a different possibility.

But it sure was worth the ride to go through the dark night of the soul and emerge to live an empowered, creative  life. A life of fun and magic with nobody to blame anymore, what a relief! So I invite you to explore this possibility and get in touch with your own power. If you want to explore more check out my new free guide on the sidebar of my website: “10 Quick And Easy Ways To Empower Your Life In 30 Minutes Or Less.”

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