Vision Board Creation

Yesterday I hosted a vision board creation class, and there were a lot of people there that came feeling like they knew exactly what they wanted but had not ideal why the vision board was nit bring it to them. Creating a vision board seems simple enough but it is the power of the intentions that brings the vision to reality. There are three types of vision boards I will share with you, this can be your starting place


Christine Kane explains the 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.
I welcome anyone who has created a vision board to write your own experience in the comments…

It is also nice to have a vision board partner, someone who can hold your vision for you. Make sure they believe.

Many Blessings,
Fran

Loving Actions By P.L. Desy

Continuous effort, not superior strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our true potential. —Winston Churchill

Learning to love is like learning to master an instrument or an art. The following is a list of factors these acts all have in common.

Possibility—This includes having the time to devote to the art, and the physical capacity to do it. One can not very well pick up a violin if one’s hands are broken. Time, more often than not, is something that gets in the way of being able to devote oneself to loving.

Commitment—It is much easier to pronounce “I paint” or “I love you” than it is to actually master painting and to unconditionally love someone. Without the wish, will and dedication to work, it will never happen.

Goals—This includes the ultimate goal of mastering the art as well as all the stepping stones along the way. Staying focused on the present is important, yet without an idea of where one is heading it’s easy to get lost.

Instrument—Just as I can not very well master the guitar on a block of wood, I cannot love without an object for my affections. This doesn’t mean a person has to be in a romantic relationship to practice loving—we can practice loving human kind, friends, family, pets, god, and most importantly, ourselves.

Confidence—This does not mean that if you think you’re the best cellist, then you will be. It refers to accepting where you are in your practice. Expecting to be a master on your first try is unrealistic. Mastering an art takes a lifetime, and surely many mistakes will be made along the way.

Patience—Hand-in-hand with confidence, patience is needed to persevere through the low points. If martial arts were easy, everyone would do it. The same goes for love. Truly opening yourself to another, being vulnerable, and accepting the other unconditionally takes a lot of effort. It is a common misconception that “love should just come naturally.”

Model—If I took a person who has never heard music, gave him a clarinet and said, “play me some jazz,” he would not have the foggiest idea what I was talking about. In love, we model our behavior after those who influence us—whether it be from family, friends, a religious figure, mentor, therapist, or books.

Discipline—Practice makes perfect. Even when you’re tired, or when you’d rather just watch a movie, you’ve got to push through and always remember to keep at it.

Persistence—Working closely with confidence, persistence requires having faith in the process of learning. That even though you don’t get it all now, if you keep at it, eventually you will.

Environment—A safe space to learn, practice, make mistakes and try again is also needed. A ballet dancer needs a studio with a bar, and a lover needs freedom to explore and express his or her feelings.

Reason why you may need a House/ Office Blessing

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We are all energy and everything in our life's is energy .So if things are not quite moving in your life, home or business, you may need an energy shift.  Here are the answers to some common questions and reason you may need to cleanse your home/ office.


What is "Clearing/cleansing"?
It is the act of using various energetic and spiritual means to work with, raise, clear or release energy from a physical place to create an environment that is refreshed, safe and pleasant.

Why do it?
Energy can be felt. It is sometimes referred to as "vibe" or "atmosphere". Cleansing and blessing a physical space can bring it into alignment with the intention you have for it, will make it feel better, be more comfortable, and improve the quality of your life in that space.

It is especially useful if you are buying or selling a home or are starting something new. It doesn't matter whether you personally work with energy consciously or not, the "atmosphere" of a place will be felt regardless.
What you are intending to create and experience can be effected not only by what you are physically doing but by the "flavor" of the surrounding or residing energy.
Blessing and cleansing can also help bring the energy of a place back to it's original essence, letting the land's own natural power flow. Here are some additional reasons:


1) Divorce if you have had an argument or difficult interactions with someone.
2) You have a office and you deal with clients on a daily bases
3) If you want to sell your home, cleansing the space can make it more appealing for prospective buyers.
4) You have children who bring friends over
5) If you want to bring prosperity to yourself for instance, and you have energies surrounding you or your environment that negate what you are doing or create doubts internally, you will in all likelihood be less effective than if your personal and working space is filled with helpful and supporting energy.
6) If someone has passed over in your home and there is an overwhelming presence of someone else.

You should feel complete relaxed and peaceful in your space. Take charge of that energy and make it what you desire it to be.
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Keep your head up

The other day my son and his friend were in the car listening to Andy Grammar"s song " Gotta keep your head up." That song has been repeating over and over in my head and I have since been given the reason why. There are many times in our lives that we go through things that we feel are impossible to get over, we lose a loved one, we divorce, we lost a job. Some of us immediately go into " poor me mode" when what we really need to do is keep our heads up and look to the Source of the universe who supplies all things. In keeping your head up you have no time to look down at what is wrong, but look up and giving thanks for what is right. Before you know it life is better than you ever thought it could be. So as Andy says" You'll be fine, but you gotta keep your head up, yeah, yeah and you can let your hair down.."

The Power is in the Word!

What kind of world do you want to live in? I mean really want to live in?  Well you can just look around and see for yourself, because you are living it! And if you decide that you don’t like what you see, you can change it.  As human beings, we are amazing creations, with enormous creative capacity and potential. Enormous.  When you wake up in the morning, do you feel that? Do you say to yourself, “Good morning world, I am poised to create today!”?
There is an infinite sea of possibility and potential, called Heaven, which is always available and present around us. All we need to do is turn our awareness to it, open the spigot, and use our thoughts and words to transform ‘potential’ to the art form which is our life.

I invite you to listen carefully to yourself and observe how you use your words throughout the day. Are you empowering yourself and expressing Truth? That would sound like speaking and thinking affirmatively: “I am a perfect child of God,” “I bless and take care of my body,” “The Father and I are One” “I see the Christ in him/her,” and avoiding the temptation to use our thoughts and words to ‘be right’ or to make ourselves and others wrong.  Even the small stuff matters. Remember, we shape our world with our thoughts and words. In essence, we are sculptors, and like Michelangelo who brought David into form out of a block of stone, we can bring a beautiful world that works for all into form.

So what is stopping you? Start today to use the power of your word to speak the Truth about yourself and others, and to give life and form to your authentic self.

God, the Angels and the Full Moon.

Take the time today to use the energies of the full moon to let go of things, people and patterns that maybe keeping you from your highest good. Let go of the past ask Arch Angel Michael to cut all cords and be willing to forgive. If you are focusing on weight release ask Arch Angel Raphael to dissolve all unhealthy habits or additions. Arch Angel Ariel is the Angel of manifestation, she teaches you how to balance you life on earth. She also helps with any earthy desires, such as prosperity. If you are not quite sure what you need to release call upon God, give your Angels permission to heal and help you release all things, know that God and his mighty Angels stand by your side always. God is love and you are loved unconditionally. Give things!


Many Blessing,
Fran

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Powerful Miracle Prayers by C. B. Reid

During a recent trip to Los Angeles, I was trying to dream up some Powerful Miracle Prayers to help me figure out what Spirit wanted me to blog about this week when I hit the magazine jackpot in a little bookstore at the very end of a small terminal.

It struck me as an odd place for any store to be because it was so far away from the other retail outlets and in a super small terminal to boot.

Nonetheless, there it was and there “they” were…the answer to my prayers. Actually, “they” turned out to be the answer to several Powerful Miracle Prayers.

Which, of course, explains why there was the odd bookstore in a strange place in a small terminal. I was meant to find those magazines and blog about the articles in them.

The first magazine I couldn’t resist was the March 2009 issue of “Scientific American“. The cover article, “Was Einstein Wrong” resulted in my blog post;

“God Doesn’t Roll the Dice” (Albert Einstein) vs. “Gentlemen, Place Your Bets” (God)”.

The cover article is all about the advancements in quantum physics and mechanics as it pertains to nonlocality; the area of physics dealing with the concept of two objects having a direct influence on one another though they are separated in space with no known mediator of the interaction.

It’s more than theory, really. Scientists know it happens…time and time again in experiments. What they can’t figure out…yet…is how it happens…or why. And, since it hasn’t been proven mathematically…yet…it’s still just theory.

Those of us who “know” the how and why just smile and wait…patiently.

The second magazine I just had to have…again, because of the cover article…was “Time“.

The cover essay?

"The End of Excuses"

The subtitle?

“Why this crisis is good for America”

The author, Kurt Andersen, has done a fine job of explaining and supporting his bold claim of crisis being good for America. A very fine job.

But for me, and what prompted this post, the most important component of the essay boils down to one little paragraph;

“…in the long run, I think we will also see an upside: the meltdown  amounts to a spectacular moment of global consciousness, this generation’s version of the Apollo astronauts’ iconic 1968 photograph of the earth from the moon – an unforgettable reminder that all 6.7 billion of us are in this together, profoundly and inextricably interdependent”. – Kurt Andersen

Words to live by.

I’ve been offering up some Powerful Miracle Prayers and it looks like Spirit is doing its thing…as it always does.

I’ve been asking Spirit to help us find our way, collectively, to peace, harmony and balance and to help me find more effective and farther reaching means to aid others in finding that way.

Those of us who’ve been vocal about such ideology…especially those of us who are professional intuitives…are, often, glossed over as “those woo-woo people”. Hippies who don’t live in reality. And if you were a professional of some kind…say…a doctor,  lawyer or…worse… clergy and started touting the same well, then, you’d lost your mind and/or were a heretic.

But now esteemed and accepted mainstream publications are introducing…not just articles and essays…but cover articles and essays about the very same subject matter. Oh…and esteemed professors and writers…whose material will be accepted because they are mainstream…are writing about the very same ideology we lost minded, hippie, heretic woo-woo folks have been touting for centuries.

And to that I say;

“Thank you Spirit”!

It doesn’t matter how the message gets there or by whom it is delivered. The important thing is that the message gets out, is heard and, then, is acted upon.

See, once every single human soul on this planet understands, accepts and acts on the reality of our being “…profoundly and inextricably interdependent”, we will have arrived at the place where we began. We’ll join Spirit as one global, universal, consciousness, spending eternity in peace, harmony and balance.

Our quest will have come to an end, the ultimate in Powerful Miracle Prayers will have been answered and we will, indeed, have it all.