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Create Your 2010 Vision Board

A vision board, also called a dream board, is a collage of words and pictures depicting your dreams and goals usually specific to one aspect of your life. Vision boards have received a lot of acclaim lately because of the world-famous book, “The Secret.” A vision board can set you on a path to achieving dreams and goals that may have previously eluded you. The key to a successful vision board is to post it in a place where you have to look at every day and it can serve as a constant reminder of what you are working toward.

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Take the pictures and words and start laying them out on your poster board or cardboard backing. Discard anything that may no longer fit or does not work. Move things around until they fit well and look right. This is also where you may want to organize your board. For instance, if you are working on your personal goals, you may place images of a house in one corner, money and credit cards in another corner, school or continuing education in another corner and then friends or hobbies in the last corner. Many people organize their boards by themes but there are others who like to place pictures all over the board rather than assigning corners. You may want to consider leaving some space to write words that you were not able to locate in the magazines and leaving a space in the center of the board. Step 3

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Start gluing and taping. Turn over each picture or word and add glue or tape to secure it in place. Once you have finished getting everything into place, you can use a marker to draw words or images that you feel are important to your vision board.

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Place your picture in the middle of the board and make certain that it is a picture where you are smiling and happy. This is because your smiling, happy picture will be in the center of all of your dreams and goals.

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Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it every day. This should be an area in your house where you spend a lot of time or are constantly walking through. Some great locations include the back of your bedroom door, a home office, a refrigerator or a bulletin board. Looking at the board every day will cause you to always be aware of your dreams and goals.

By Stacie Connerty

Freedom of the mind: Magic of belief

Many people live dependant on various beliefs, this is neither good nor bad but is a limitation to a belief. We are all born free. We were made to believe many things owing to what we learned from childhood. We believe in certain things deeply which attracted us. This phenomenon is in general described as the law of attraction. Since what we believe gets attracted, we are tempted to hand over our freedom to a power.

Don’t lose your freedom
If you believe in a God, religion, power or place of worship please continue to do so. Obtain all assistance possible, get help and make life easier. However ensure that you do not hand over your freedom totally. Getting help from a power is one thing, while freedom of your mind is another. You need not let go of the freedom of your mind to get help from a power. You can maintain your freedom and still continue to get assistance from a God, deity, power or place of worship.

Some seeds grow
Seeds fall off a tree and give rise to more trees. Some seeds don’t grow while some grow to become small plants and die soon. Others grow into medium size trees. Occasionally they grow to be large trees that live over a hundred years. Similarly the human mind develops to varying degrees. Occasionally it develops to its full potential. Such minds are breathtaking, joy and bliss overflow and creative potential is abundant.

Limitations dissolve
Initially we discover the existence of freedom of the mind and limitations dissolve. Some people experience this occasionally and accept total responsibility for what happens. Those who are burdened with life’s problems may hand over responsibility to another person or power and would feel comfortable in doing so. A few who discover the wonder of total freedom dedicate their lives to be free. They accept responsibility of life and make use of the creativity that arises. They live illuminative lives.

Dependence disappears
Imagine eating an apple. Would you find the apple in your stomach the day after? If so, it has not digested and its nourishment has not got absorbed in your body. If the apple nourished you, it would remain an apple and would be part of your body. It would be indistinguishable from you. The need to repeat the past arises only when the past has not nourished you. Had it nourished you, you would not need to quote from it as it would have become part of you.

Wisdom flows
Once you realize this dependence ancient knowledge disappears. You appreciate ancient knowledge, allow it to nourish you, however you are careful not to hand over your freedom to ancient knowledge. The need to quote from ancient teachings then disappears and freedom to think dominates. Dependence of another’s teachings for your salvation becomes meaningless and endless knowledge and wisdom flows from your mind.

Boundless blessings!
Dr. Priyanga de Zoysa
Author - Teacher - Life coach
www.PriyangadeZoysa.com

How to Use The Secret in Your Life, Starting Today

If you’ve seen or read The Secret, and feel like those scientists and free thinkers may be on to something, I believe you’re right. I’ve been a fan of the movies The Secret and What The Bleep Do We Know (Down the Rabbit Hole) since they first came out in 2006 and 2004, respectively. After years of studying the concept and digging deeper, I feel I have a deeper understanding of how to successfully incorporate The Secret, or the law of attraction, into your life.

One time, and only once, I went to an online forum that had a section dedicated to The Secret and how to apply the law of attraction in your life. At first I was interested in meeting like-minded people online, but was instead saddened at what I found. 99.9% of the people in the forum were sure the law of attraction was the answer to their life’s prayer, which was to find a way to sit on the couch and wish for money to drop into their mailbox every day. Almost every single user was focused on money, money, and more wealth. Whether or not the secret was truly hidden from lay-people for hundreds of years, thanks to that forum I now understand why it could have been reserved for the intellectually adept - I don’t believe it’s meant or able to work in selfish, greedy, mental environments.

The secret isn’t just about wishing for money folks, so if that’s what you’ve been doing and wonder why you’ve run into failure, all I can say is yer doin’ it wrong [sic]. There is a fundamental difference between greed and wanting good things to come into your life via the law of attraction. That difference is balance combined with a good attitude. The secret must be used in every aspect of the way you think, and it must come in the way of genuine positive thoughts. It’s not easy. Constantly finding the positive in bad situations takes time, patience, and perhaps a certain type of personality or inborn awareness of the world around you. It might not work for everyone, but it is designed to work with anyone.

Read on…

New Book, How to Attract Money Now, is Available for Free

Star of the Movie “The Secret”, Joe Vitale, is Giving Away his Latest Book How to Attract Money Now

Austin, TX (MMD Newswire) December 9, 2009 - - Successful author and star “The Secret” star, Joe Vitale, is offering his new book, How to Attract Money Now, free of charge. The eBook version of How to Attract Money Now is available for free at www.attractmoneynow.com Vitale’s latest book delves deeper into using the law of attraction as introduced in “The Secret” DVD. Vitale shares his new seven step formula to attract money and reveals how to attract money using the law of attraction.

“I was homeless once and know the pain of the struggle, but now I also know the secret for attracting money now. I want everyone to have it. I have mapped out a seven step formula that will work for anyone,” explains Joe Vitale.

How to Attract Money Now includes useful tips on conquering key hidden beliefs that push money away and best-kept secrets of the wealthy for attracting money. Dr. Vitale also explains how rich people think differently regarding money and no fail tips for asking for money.

“I have enjoyed reading and have learned something new and valuable from every one of Joe Vitale’s books. How to Attract Money Now is another solid winner! It is full of profound insights, inspiring stories and practical strategies. I highly recommend it!” Jack Canfield, Co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles.

About the Author:
Dr. Joe Vitale started out with extremely modest means. A series of life changing events turned this homeless man into a bestselling author, well-known marketing expert and multi-millionaire. He is also the president of Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. based in Austin, TX. He has devoted his life to improving other people’s lives and helps them accomplish their dreams.

Dr. Joe Vitale is available for interview and has appeared on Larry King and FOX News.

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Positive Thoughts Give Elite Athletes The Vital Edge

LONDON (Reuters) - Elite professional sport with its unrelenting demands tests the mind and spirit as much as the body.

When the difference between winning and losing can be a fraction of a second or the unexpected bounce of a ball, encouraging positive thoughts and banishing the fear of failure is a consistent theme in the lives of successful athletes.

England cricket captain Andrew Strauss is a recent convert to the power of positive thinking, praising the controversial self-help book “The Secret” after his spell in the international wilderness.

“The theory is what you think about happens,” said Strauss in his own book “Testing Times.” “If you think positive thoughts, then those thoughts will come about.”

“The Secret” by Australian writer Rhonda Byrne, which started life as a film, has been praised as a life-changing text and criticized as pretentious psychobabble.

Whatever the verdict, the lessons Strauss drew in 2008 — positive thoughts, a winning frame of mind, visualizing success — are certainly not new.

Twenty-five years earlier, the same principles resurrected the life and career of New Zealand’s greatest cricketer Richard Hadlee.

At the end of an exhausting year on and off the field, Hadlee was close to a physical and mental breakdown.

“It may sound a little melodramatic, but at this stage I was preoccupied with the thought of death,” he said. “I was convinced I had heart trouble which in turn made me worse.”

WILKINSON RETURNS

Motivation expert Grahame Felton, who ran a three-hour course for the Canterbury team, transformed Hadlee’s life.

Felton talked about visualization, control and belief, explained that fear was negative and emphasized the importance of setting targets.

“It’s not easy to recapture the mood of that session,” Hadlee recalled. “It was intense. Grahame’s message came across to me so forcibly it was like suddenly seeing the light.”

There are, of course, logical difficulties with all these positive thoughts, described in “The Secret” as the “law of attraction.”

Strauss was asked by a skeptical interviewer where the balance of power lay when the opposing bowler pounded in with his mind also packed with positive intent.

“I suppose the law of attraction says that if the bowler believes in himself more than you believe in yourself, then he will come out on top,” Strauss conceded.

“But I have always believed, and I suppose you have got to believe this as a batsman, that if I do everything right, then no bowler will get me out. Ever. In other words, the law of attraction is more on my side than his.”

Statistics are on Strauss’s side. He has had uninterrupted success as a batsman since his return to the England side and led his country to an Ashes win over Australia this year.

The year also marked the return of Jonny Wilkinson to the England rugby side. Wilkinson’s battles against a seemingly endless series of injuries since he drop-kicked the winning goal in the 2003 World Cup final are well documented.

So, too, are his public agonizing over the obsessive search for perfection which has dominated his life.

QUANTUM PHYSICS

“I was born a perfectionist,” Wilkinson said in his book “Tackling Life.” “For as long as I can remember I have fought for an ideal world and my own flawless image within it.

“I have left these beliefs firmly behind. Searching for perfect, lasting results in a world of forever evolving and unforeseeable events had been a very expensive and unforgiving vocation at times.”

Wilkinson, 30, has sought endlessly to find the serenity which has eluded him for most of his sporting career. Last year he embraced quantum physics and Buddhism.

“I do not like religious labels but there is a connection between quantum physics and Buddhism, which I was also getting into,” he said. “Failing at something is one thing but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure.”

London-based sports psychologist Victor Thompson, who specializes in anxiety, stress and confidence, said the further athletes advanced in their sports, the more important positive thinking became.

“You are more likely to get more success because you expect it,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“It’s not necessarily that it’s given you any extra powers, it’s just sort of switching on the bits of you that are more active and positive and doing things in a more helpful way than being more fearful, restrictive, cautious and negative.

“It’s nothing particularly new. It’s just that some people get interested, new books come out and they try to practice some of the principles.

“At higher levels your mental preparation, your mental focus while you’re performing and your recovery after a bad event is all the more important,

“The higher you go, the intensity, the difficulty of the challenge increases quite a lot, especially if you are doing it for money, for sponsorship. There’s a lot more resting on it when you are at a higher level.

“It’s how you approach it, the idea to win is understandable but there is only one winner. You have to be realistic and do your best.”

(Editing by Clare Fallon)

Your heart’s desire

by Karen Linsley

What is your heart’s desire?

The law of attraction says that we can have that which we seek, we need only think positively and it is ours! Well, it’s not quite that simple. Thinking positively helps, of course, but action is involved, as is gratitude and setting the intention. There’s a metaphor that periodically makes the rounds: if you sit in a closet praying for a hot dog, God will not shove it though the key hole for you. You must get out of the closet and go to the store and buy the hotdogs! So, what’s involved?

Self exploration: you must be aware of your wants and your needs, you must be aware of your body’s needs. So if we take the hot dog metaphor as an example, you would be paying attention to your body and acknowledging it when it says, “I’m hungry.” Then you must do a bit more self exploration to find out what you are hungry for.

Intention: once you decide what you want, then you have to figure out how to get it. In the case of a hot dog, you simply need to get yourself to the store and buy them.

Believe it or not, there is no big or small. Getting a hot dog is just as easy as curing cancer or winning the lottery, as far as the Universe is concerned. So where does prayer, affirmations and gratitude come into all of this?

Let’s look at the definition of prayer: if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might remember that around here the classic definition of prayer doesn’t cut it. None of this beseeching to an outside entity! Instead, prayer is more of a knowing, a connection with the Force within, an acknowledging of that which is already true.

Gratitude is a very powerful tool. It changes the very nature of our being, our energy vibrates at a higher level when we are able to acknowedge gratitude in our lives. And with that higer vibration comes more of the same. This is basic law of attraction stuff.

Setting your intention is also powerful. Once you set your intention, then you must be willing to take the action. Do what needs to be done to achieve your heart’s desire. Write down your plan of action, then stick with it.

You can achieve your heart’s desire. It takes a combination of inner work: connecting with the Force within and practicing an attitude of gratitude, then setting your intention and taking action.

Now I’m going to add another element: the state of wanting something simply creates more wanting. We always get what we want. Always. There are never some requests that are granted and some that aren’t. We always get what we want. We are much more powerful than we sometimes acknowledge. So if you are wanting something, guess what? You’ll get more of that which you are thinking about every day. When you say things such as “when I find the perfect relationship I’ll be ok” or “I want a relationship, then I’ll feel ok,” guess what? You are affirming the wanting of a relationship. Instead, know that your relationship with yourself and with whateveryouwanttocallgod is perfect. Know that you are ok, right here and right now. Love yourself, and then the perfect relationship will come to you.

Do not state your affirmations and intentions in the negative. The Universe does not understand that. If you say, I don’t want this sickness anymore, all the Universe knows is that you are reaffirming sickness. Instead, be grateful for the things in your body that work perfectly. Acknowledge the good that is in your life, and create more of that. Soon the illness will be gone.

Working together with the Light within you, yes, you already have your heart’s desire!

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No complaints? No chance

Tomorrow is officially designated as a day for giving thanks. But despite the bipartisan efforts of two U.S. House members from Missouri, today is not officially designated as “Complaint Free Wednesday.” And despite the indisputable power of positive thinking, it would be wishful thinking to expect many Americans — or many human beings of any other nationality — to go an entire day without griping.

Yet Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, with the support of Republican colleague Sam Graves, recently made this upbeat — or is it simply naive? — written case for easing up on the rampant negativity:

“Complaining keeps people stuck on current problems, inhibiting them from thinking constructively to find solutions.”

Huh? Though we hate to complain about Rep. Cleaver’s logic, without complaints, few problems are ever solved — especially by Congress.

Rep. Cleaver hailed his notion of a “complaint free” Thanksgiving eve as a way to spread “the spirit of hope, optimism and positivity.” However, his proposal didn’t generate a positive response from his House colleagues, who last year rejected the same pitch from Rep. Graves.

Hey, if you want to avoid complaints on this or any other day, don’t go into politics.

And though we hate to complain again, while elevating “hope” and “optimism” is a fine goal, “positivity,” while technically a word, sounds as if it shouldn’t be.

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Positive thinking, the key to success

by Kedidimetse Mpolokeng

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman and former Prime Minister once said, “nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

Whatever we do often comes out to be a true reflection of our thoughts. For instance, people who whine and surrender to the belief that they do not have a life or are stuck in an abusive relationship will probably end up right there.

The law of attraction also states that you attract and manifest the things you think about. If you obsess about the problems you have now, you will stay stuck in the problems. But if you concentrate on where you want to go from there, you’ll start to move forward again and attract helpful events, in an ever-increasing measure, that will help you to gain momentum and improve your prospects. It pays to focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.

Those who might have watched a film called The Secret, or even read the book, will agree with me that everything that comes into our lives is attracted to us, through us, by the desirable quality of the images we hold in our minds. This simply means that when you think positive thoughts and focus on them intently, just like a magnet you will attract positive things in your life. You can therefore turn your specific and hopeful wishes for money or great relationships into strong magnetic intentions by focusing your thoughts on these desires and nothing else.

That being said, not everything we think about happens. What you think about most, over and over again, and that’s with the greatest amount of personal energy and attention, will indeed grow, manifest and come into your life. For instance, if you focus primarily on the feeling of happiness, you literally experience an expanse of happiness in the moment and you also attract future moments of happiness too.

We all deserve great things in life and all those can happen through our good intensive thoughts. Focus on what you want; you can do this by just starting with a list of day to day things to do.

Set out good intentions for the day; picture how beautiful, smooth and flowing your day will be. This will then be followed by an easy flow of your thoughts. Do away with the stress and easily get ahead with plenty of enthusiasm and energy. It’s simple, and thinking like this will not hurt you. After all you have nothing to lose at the end of it all, but plenty to gain.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking said, “Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!”

All you need is to picture and see it in your mind, and then definitely you will have it in your life. For your life to change for the better, you need to shift your focus and change the way you think. You can start by imagining yourself enjoying all those you desire as if they are in your possession already. With this being done, you will gradually attract the pictures you hold foremost in your mind.

The secret is to be patient, all the wealthy and successful men we see out there are mostly a product of positive thinking. Most of them never studied nor do they know where school gates are. They dreamt living large and slowly those thoughts became a reality. Little by little, you will become comfortable working with your thoughts; especially when you understand that most thoughts don’t have instant manifesting power. Affirm to yourself that you can have anything you set and focus your mind on.

Keep your mind trained on positive directions. Keep your mind flooded with positive thoughts, and keep giving your desires energy derived from your positive thoughts. Try it and see if it helps!!
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Explore the path to spiritual living

By SUKHABODHANANDA

You have to insulate yourself from the effects of worldly living. The environment has its strong impact. The external world is in a rat race for greed, glamour and respectability. It does not bother about real joy and purity. Naturally, external influence affects an individual. In this rat race even if one wins one continues to be a rat. Glamour gives you an illusory joy but your soul needs to grow.

‘Why does a fish in an ocean try to jump out?’ asked a Zen student.

‘The fish is trying to explore a world beyond the ocean,’ answered the Master.

Consciousness in each one of us is like a fish that wants to explore the unknown, to evolve and grow. If you do not insulate yourself from negative forces, there will be a leakage of energies and that would hamper your growth. So it is necessary not to struggle in life and not allow negativity to control your life. One has to learn to float in life, to let go, let in the essentials and negate unessential feelings.

How can I insulate myself from negative influences?

People live life in fear. It is out of fear that they worship; out of fear they get married; out of fear of insecurity they beget children. Whenever fear emerges, there is a leakage of energy. Fear creates a hurt body and it then tries to survive by quoting philosophy and logic.

We try to protect ourselves from fear through the influences of worldly life…by acquiring more money and more power. But spiritually we can insulate ourselves from fear, only if we have trust.

We were secure in our mother’s womb. At term when we were pushed out into the world, it was as though we were facing death. We experienced tremendous fear.

After being born, is it death or birth that marks our lives?

Trust that when one door closes, another door opens. Such trust insulates us from fear. The spiritual way of seeing is, if there is an impression or a negative impression of fear in the mind, one has to de-identify with it. This detachment or de-identification is the insulation that i am talking of. In yoga, it is called atma smaranam, self-remembrance.

What happens when we insulate ourselves from negative impressions?

Worldly influences do not touch us. Instead, we would be in touch with higher vibrations and open ourselves for higher influences. The higher centres in us are constantly communicating something profound to us, but we close ourselves to them. It is like a cup turned upside down. No amount of rainwater can fill the cup. The moment we are available for higher vibrations, we attract nobler aspects of life. Lower states attract lower aspects of life while the higher states attract higher aspects of life. This is the law of attraction.

Why is devotion necessary?

Devotion activates our higher centres. Devotion purifies our emotions. Devotion allows the finer vibrations to flow into our lives. With devotion, your third eye or intuitive eye opens, and you would see many meaningful coincidences occurring in your life. You will see the mysterious hand of God blessing you.

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