Happy New Year to all!
Hey, it’s a new year and time to begin with a vision for how you would like to manifest your life this year. I always like to suggest making a list of your goals, visions, and wants by writing them down on paper or electronically. Then add in your accomplishments from last year and what you feel is going to be different about this one…..Think big, think sexy and think “Yeah, I can be, do or have THAT!” What you say to yourself is what you manifest, like it or not.
- Setting positive intentions
- Paying positive attention
- Focusing on what you want…
Those are the three secrets to a happy life. Now, get ready.
One of my favorite ways of visioning is to create a “Dream Board.” How do you make a Dream Board (or Vision Board)? Well, for starters, you get a foam core paper board as your foundation. Those are available from any discount office store. I like to use the triple one: Center for the main ideas, with the right and left for the “extras”. Some years I use the bagua from Feng Shui to indicate the nine various positions in a life or space to create and fill with new energies, such as relationships, health, family, creativity, career, and more. Connect with the spirit and energetics of this process as you proceed. 
Step one: Collect images from newspapers, old photos, magazine clippings, or go to a crafts store and get anything that resonates with your desires, such as the varied array of stickers that are pictures or words, stick-on charms, any imagery, papers, decorative craft items that are used in scrapbooking. These are going to be the “images” that represent your dreams for 2012.
[Of course, there now are websites for visioning, and you are welcome to go virtual. However, I am pushing "old school" with an emphasis of the power of making images of your goals/dreams/wants as real, physical, and touch-able. I just got an iPad for the holidays, and I'm with you if you prefer to do this all on your e-platform. Either way, just do it! ]
Step Two: Cut, select, arrange on the open boards of foam in the placement you desire, such as Career at the top, Relationships on the right side, Sex at the center, Wealth at the bottom, Health on the left side, and Travel sprinkled on the corners. Or, maybe, as one client once did, you want to have a single board to represent each aspect of life that you want to empower and energize. As a gay man, he had 4 separate boards to show the range of his dreams for a mate, by type, age, venues for meeting “Mr. Right”, and images of possible attractiveness to align with his sensibilities. He met someone new within a month of creating the Dream Boards. You can, too!
Step Three: Finally, glue or paste your items onto the board to “seal” your dreams for what you are going to manifest. Then place it in a location in your home or office that you can view daily. You may want to add in affirmations, to power up your intentions, such as “I now have a gorgeous lover in my life”, or “I have the perfect career in my life now”, or “I am a world traveler who is meeting exciting new people every day”. Whatever shakes your booty or rocks your tree, go for it!
Afterthought: I have been making Dream Boards for years now; one of my favorite tasks is to go back and look at past “forecasts of my future” shown on the boards. I am always amazed and moved to see how much I have manifested in my life each year. And I sometime sneak a peak at old Dream Boards to remind myself just how transformational it can be to use the power of setting goals, energizing intentions, paying attention, and keeping a positive focus!
Write me about how this worked for you this year.
With love and light, Dr. Patti
