Just 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

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

• Center: picture of you and images representing  health and fitness for you
• Top right: Love and relationship
• Bottom right: mentors and helpful people
• Bottom left: travel, lifestyle, wisdom, knowledge, career
• Top left: money, prosperity

It’s helpful to have a template like this if you want to make a “whole life” vision board.

How to make a Feng Shui inspired vision board:

Supplies

• Poster board 22″by 28″ (optional)
• Scissors
• Magazines
• Glue stick or Yes paste and a brush
• Markers (optional)

Instructions:

• Mark the different sections on your poster board
• Start browsing through the magazines and rip out the pages that represent your dreams and goals. Find images, great words and phrases.
• make 5 different piles for the different sections
• once you have enough images cut them out
• cut out inspiring words

There are several ways to do it!

• Option 1: Which is my favorite is more artistic and takes a bit longer. I use it as a creative meditation, it’s the best option for someone who has patience and loves to be creative. Cut out enough rectangular images to fill the board. Add some images, which are cut out, arrange them to cover all the straight lines. (Watch my video for more instructions.) Finish with words, they can be written with markers, cut out, or you can type them in bold letters, print them and cut them out.
• Option 2: Cut out all the images and arrange them on the board, when you are pleased with your layout, finish with words and phrases. The words and phrases can be written with markers, words you cut out, or you can type them in bold letters, print them and cut them out. (This is very easy, great for beginners.)

I hope this inspired you to make your vision board. When it’s done, hang it where you see it as much as possible and  look at it. When you picked the right images it will evoke a great feeling, it will be a happy feeling, a feeling of: I love this house, I am so happy I am in this relation ship with this wonderful person, I love my work, I live my dream life etc…………….The feelings have to be: happiness, gratefulness, love, which will help you manifest things and situation vibrating at the same frequency, it will activate your subconscious mind to find the people, places, events  and things that vibrate at the same energy.  Don’t try to understand it with your intellect, it’s a universal law, based on quantum physics theories. The Law of Attraction states that “like energy attracts like energy”. Start creating your life now!

More about Feng Shui and Vision Boards

In order to manifest anything you need to focus on the object of your desire as often as possible, at least once a day for a few minutes. You need to feel good when you look at it, normally just looking at your vision board will do the trick. If you don’t, your life will happen by default, which can be ok too, but it can be better, even “fabulously fantasticly” better. Keep your mind out of it, don’t think! It’s about feeling not thinking.

“First you focus on the object of your desire, then the object of your desire will follow you”                          John Kehoe

For 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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There 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.

Many of my seminar participants have phoned or visited their parents and told them that they forgive them for everything. Often this simple act of courage and character has had a profound effect on their relationship with their mother or father. From that day onward, they have become good friends, which lasted the rest of their lives together.

On the other hand, by not forgiving your parents, you remain forever a child. You block your own chance to grow up and become a fully functioning adult. You continue to see yourself as a victim. Even worse, you keep your negative feelings of inferiority and anger alive. If your parents die without your having forgiven them, it can bother you for the rest of your life.

The second person or persons you must forgive are the people from your marriages or relationships that didn’t work out. These intimate relationships can be so intense, and so threatening to your feelings of self-esteem and self-worth, that you can be angry and unforgiving toward those people for years.

But you were at least partially responsible. Have the personal strength and integrity to say, “I am responsible,” and then forgive the other person and let him or her go. Say the words, “I forgive him/her for everything and I wish him/her well.” Each time you repeat this, the negative emotion attached to the memory will diminish. Soon it will be gone forever.

Many of my graduates have found that “the letter” is the key to putting a bad relationship behind them forever. This is a powerful technique that can free you from feelings of anger and resentment almost instantly.

Here is how it works: You to sit down and write the other person a letter of forgiveness. It consists of three parts.

First you say, “I forgive you for everything you ever did that hurt me.”

Second, you write out a description or list of every single thing that you are still mad about. Some people write several pages in this part.

Third, you end the letter with the words, “I wish you well.”

You then take the letter to the mailbox and drop it in. At that moment, you will feel a huge sense of relief, and you will be free at last.

By the way, don’t worry about how the other person might react. That is not your concern. Your goal is to free yourself, to regain your peace of mind, and to get on with the wonderful life that lies ahead of you.

The third person you must forgive is everyone else in your life who has ever hurt you in any way. Let them go. Forgive every boss, business partner, friend, crook or betrayer who has ever caused you grief of any kind. Clean the slate and forgive to forget. Wipe each of their names and images off by saying, “I forgive him/her for everything, and I wish him/her well.” Repeat this statement each time you think of the person or situation until the negative feelings are gone.

The fourth and final person you have to forgive is yourself. You must absolutely forgive yourself for every silly, senseless, wicked, brainless, thoughtless or cruel thing you have ever done or said. Stop carrying these past mistakes around with you. That was then and this is now.

Think of it this way. When you did those things in the past that you still feel badly about, you were not the person you are today. At that time, you were a different person, younger and less experienced. You were not your true self. You were an immature version of the person you have become with experience. Stop beating yourself up for something that occurred in the past that you cannot change.

Just say, “I forgive myself for every mistake I ever made. I am a thoroughly good person and I am going to have a wonderful future.” Whenever you think of that event or situation, just repeat, “I forgive myself completely.” And then get on with your life. Focus on the future rather than the past and don’t look back. Look at where you are going rather than where you have been.

Finally, if you did something that hurt someone, and you still feel badly about it, you can go to that person, or write, and apologize. Tell the person you are sorry for what you did or said. Whatever his or her reaction, positive or negative, it doesn’t matter. The very act of repentance, of expressing regret, will set you free.

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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.

To be isolated is not good for you, it’s depressing. Sometimes when I ask people if they want to join me to make vision boards together they say, oh I’m not creative, I don’t think I can do it. If this is you, please rest assured that you do not need to be creative in order to make a vision board, all you need to do is to be open to have fun and play with magazine clippings, it’s a great play exercise.

Are you ready to have fun, to play, to be happy, to be curious, to be connected? To start the process:

• Make a list of your dreams and goals
• Dare to believe that you can achieve these dreams and goals.

Yes, it requires courage to say: I have a dream, to put the dream on paper and to make a vision board about all the dreams you have. The people, events and things you would like to manifest, the games you want to play, the person you see yourself growing into.

Making a vision board is about taking your destiny into your hands and to deliberately create your life your way. If you want to get somewhere you need to have a map. This is exactly what a vision board is, it’s a map to your dreams.

In order to manifest anything you need to focus on the object of your desire as often as possible, at least once a day for a few minutes. If you don’t, your life will happen be by default, which can be ok too, but it can be better, even fabulously fantastic.

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

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.

I made an experiment a few years back when I hated my work and my 1 hour commute. I knew there was nothing I could do at this time to change my work or to not commute, so  I had the thought: what if I accept this as a fact and try to enjoy it as best I can. Well this was an interesting new approach and worth a try.

I got great audios to listen to, which made the commute pleasurable and every day when I woke up I said to myself “I am so happy I have this business and all these wonderful clients who are happy with my work, I am grateful for my employees, who like me and help me do whatever needs to be done. How lucky that I have this wonderful business.”

It was interesting that as soon as my attitude changed and I stopped complaining about it, I actually started liking my work. This was my first experience how positive thinking can change everything. Of course I attracted more clients too, because I was cheerful, confident and happy. It was the first step of a wonderful transformation.

If you have things in your life that you do not like but cannot change right now, try this approach. Life is a lot more fun when you are content, happy and fulfilled and it feels so much better to be grateful for what you have, than to complain about what you don’t have.

Bring more fun into life and create the life of your dreams by making a vision board. It’s an effective tool to help you visualize your dreams and goals and it will help you manifest those desires into 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

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

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.

For the people who love to decorate things:  Find a shoe or gift box, which can be cardboard, wood or metal.

Supplies :

• Hodgepodge glue, or glue stick
• 1 or more Images
• Gel medium optional
• Scissors

Glue the images to the lid of the box and add the text: Whatever Is Contained In This Box-IS  and finish with a coat or 2 of gel medium (optional). It’s that simple.

Next you gather images from magazines, catalogues, or from online sources, cut them out and drop them in the box. Whenever you drop images or words into the box set the intention by saying: Whatever Is In This Box-IS.

The images represent your dreams and desires. The more images you add to the box the more you will focus your desire. You can do this even when you’re away from your box and you come across something that makes your heart sing, take it home and add it later. The more you are able to focus your desire, the more alive you will feel.   This is the feeling you want to feel as much as possible if you want to create your dream life, it’s the vibration of attracting good into your life, it’s the energy of life. The less doubt you have the better you  will feel and the faster things will manifest, it’s “The law of attraction.”

If you feel resistance coming up, like thinking, oh this cannot work, it’s stupid, too easy and so on. This will prevent it from working, but the good news is that you can practice believing in yourself and the magic of the universe: by doing affirmations, by acknowledging yourself for all the things you can do and so on. The more you do it the better it will get.

Now this is simple enough, so do not let your mind talk you out of it! let me know how it goes.

I 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?

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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