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A Beauty Shop and the Law of Attraction

A place of beauty
by Mark Wigmore

Jacqueline Brisdon is writing a thank-you note to her long-time staff member, Yukiko. They are celebrating three years together in a curious but wonderful workspace: a 700-square-foot addition off Brisdon’s North Vancouver home, called Serenity Studios.

Brisdon is has been an aesthetician for nearly three decades. Beauty by Jacqueline boasts over 400 clients, and a regular and varied staff who offer manis and pedis, guided meditation and massage or even Botox and cosmetic tattooing.

“It’s a lot of fun, it’s actually not work. I wake up every day looking forward to seeing what my day will bring,” the cheerful and charismatic Brisdon explains from her home office. “I don’t even advertise – it’s all word of mouth. Most of my clients now … it’s almost like girlfriends.”

Her life, family and vocation have come together as one, mainly due to the business being on her home premises. “I can choose my hours, my days, I can move things around when I need to,” she says. “I can put my family first and then my work. There’s a ton of flexibility.”

Nearly a decade ago, in cramped quarters, Brisdon wanted a place to call her own. “I was sharing a one-bathroom home that was 1,200 square feet with four other people and at that time had 160 clients,” she explains. “There were people pulling up in Jaguars and Mercedes, so obviously I was doing something right.”

Brisdon credits much of her success to a “mastermind” group of women who help each other with ideas, positive thinking and visualization techniques, based on the Law of Attraction (the central principle of the philosophy of The Secret). With experience all over the West Coast and a stint in Hawaii, learning and training in the ways of beauty, Brisdon had a vision for her new life and home. She had even included the workspace on her “vision board,” (a collage of images used by Law of Attraction proponents as a visualization tool to attract their wants and needs to them).

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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.

Step 5

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

Dreams come true, here’s proof

I don’t believe in New Years Resolutions, I believe in Write-Off Day (December 31st). Write Off Day is a day that serves like the red-line at the end of the quarter in most businesses, where you write off the losses. I wake up December 31st and make a list of all the things I regret, dislike or didn’t love about the year before, then right as the clock strikes midnight, I burn the list. This allows me to start fresh on January 1st, with no expectations, only hopes. I definitely don’t set resolutions that are sure to set me up for failure.

In January 2009 I started a new tradition. I created my first dream board (some people call them vision boards).

Oprah has been promoting the dream board (and the concept of The Secret) for years on her show. A good friend of mine, Lorraine Salgueiro, of Bliss Yoga in Encinitas, was my 2009 dream board coach. Lorraine’s coined phrase is, “Have faith in destiny, the Universe always lines up.” And she is one of those people that just seem to have everything fall into place, always.

The dream board came about by accident. One night she had me over for margarita’s and showed me her dream board. Not only was it filled with beautiful pictures and images of dreams she had for herself, but it made her smile. I saw hope in her eyes, and belief written across her face. She started to pull out old dream boards from years past, and she’d point and say, “This house was on my dream board, I bought it that very year,” or “this was my dream for my yoga studio, it looks just like Bliss doesn’t it?”

I was sold. I left her house and went to Barnes & Noble and bought a ton of magazines. Then I ran to Target and bought a poster board, then I showed back up at her doorstep the next night with a bottle of wine. “Teach me,” I asked her.

We corked the bottle and spent the next few hours tearing up pictures in the magazines, I had far more dreams than the board would hold. She coached me to “be specific,” indicating that the very dreams I would wish for, would in fact manifest themselves.

I narrowed down my pictures and pasted up my dream board. I went home and put it on the bedroom wall so it would be the first thing I would see every day when I woke up. Suffice to say, my dream board images followed me around, while shocking at first I began to laugh as things just seemed to creep up (like a couple kissing on the edge of the ocean with a golf course behind them).

Manifestation, or the concept of “The Secret” says, we create what is in front of us. The belief is that each of us has control over our destiny. If we are having a bad day we have the sole ability to change our attitudes, and not be burdened with the weight of stress and depression.

An example in The Secret book is that If we wish for a good parking space, and truly believe we will get a good parking space, and even go as far as to visualize ourselves pulling into that space, a spot will present itself.

After I created my dream board, I spent the rest of the month reading about the “law of attraction,” “the secret,” and “creating destiny” and realized from example after example, that yes, in fact I am in control of my future. I’d always been the type of person who lived in optimism, but that’s when I began focusing on creating what I wanted. I was careful to send only positive energy and thoughts out to the “Universe” Lorraine always spoke about.

I started to realize that everything I put out, I got back, even the negative…even the bad. Some people call this concept karma.

As the end of 2009 approached, I spoke to my boss at the Examiner about doing a San Diego Top 10 news recap for the year. But something in me ached to share my own personal reflection of 2009…

We create our dreams.

The following is a slide show, beginning with my dream board (created in January) followed by real-life photos taken mostly by accident during the course of 2009. Seeing is believing, dream boards work, and all my dreams came true.

One thing is certain; I will be very careful, and very specific with my dream board in 2010, because I’m incredibly powerful at manifesting what I want. One thing I realized was that as a single girl in the beginning of the year, I had chosen a lot of pictures that represented love, and women in relationships in love. I also realized that every “guy” I put on my dream board, had dark hair and light eyes, no wonder I didn’t wind up with that blonde haired blue eyed boy. Be careful what you wish for – it just may come true.

Lorraine is holding a “building dreams” workshop at Bliss Yoga the first week in January; contact her at 760-632-8330 or blissyogaworld.com to see your dreams to reality in 2010.

For More Info: info@michaelarenee.com Michaela Renee is also the author of Teetering on Disaster

2009 Dream Board “came True” - The best video clips are right here

You are the creative principle

by Donna DeVane

The law of attraction is a popular term used to describe something far deeper than what appears on the surface. If you scratch beyond surface of the teachings of law of attraction you will find what’s really being discussed is the creative principle, that energy and power which is used to draw into physical experience. Shamans and spiritual healers have known for centuries that our lives are the results of all the thoughts and feelings combined with experiences over the lifetime of each unique human being.

The holy books teach us that we’re all created in the image and likeness of GOD. Most people truly do not understand a statement. Being created in the image and likeness of GOD means you’re being endowed with the same creative power to call into being simply by putting your focus on what you would like to experience combined with passion. This is not a state that you have to work towards, it is who and what you are. It is your natural state to be a powerful creator. You do it automatically and have been doing it since birth.

Who you are right now is the result of all feelings and experiences you’ve had in your life. If you continue to think as you have to this point, then you will continue to create very similar experience for yourself. You believe yourself and your life to be a certain way therefore it is.

Let’s take the word belief and describe what it really means. To believe something is to firmly hold onto an idea or experience as something unwavering and real. Whatever it is that you choose to believe you will hold onto with all the strength available to you rather than letting go and thinking anything different.

Where you stand in believing is the point from where you create everything you experience. It is a circle of power you’ve drawn around yourself , and the energy with which new creating is formed based on those very beliefs. Beliefs are very strongly held thoughts , habits of thinking and expecting based on years of experience,it is both a physical and mental exercise. One set of beliefs is no less a real than another set of beliefs. This planet is filled with millions of people each holding a slightly different belief. Each person interacts with their beliefs from their personal experience with them. In this regard all beliefs are personal.

Your personal beliefs are the vantage point from which you create and attract new or similar experiences to interact with. Most people are so steeped in their personal belief about how life is that they put their life on automatic and experiences play over and over again as though they had no control of what is happening to them. As a powerful creator whatever you are holding in your heart, by way of a strong and passionate feeling you will continue to draw to yourself repeatedly. Only by letting go of the present thoughts that you are giving all your attention to and allowing new thoughts and feelings to replace, will you attract anything different into your life. If you will understand that your belief system; the series of things that you hold tightly as true or ground zero within your creative process;are the creative factor, you can then begin releasing expectations which do not serve you.

Most people do not see themselves as a powerful creative energy force, rather they see themselves as victims of life , victim of circumstance. The vision that you hold of yourself is the place from which you will continue to create. The circumstances you now find yourself in are a perfect reflection of how you truly do believe yourself to be. It can be no other way, what is outside of you is a perfect reflection of who you believe yourself to be and what you to believe life to be. The law of attraction or creative principle, can do nothing but to create in your image. Just as you were created in the image and likeness of the creator, as a creator you can only create in the image and likeness of yourself. Changing your self image into the person you wish to experience yourself to be is the secret to changing your life.

There are many tools that you can use to change your belief of who you are. These include meditation, vision boards, affirmations, scripting, as well as energy work with a spiritual healer. Through sitting quietly and allowing your imagination to take you into the place that you wish to experience you can begin shifting your belief of who you are. Start daily with only five to fifteen minutes a day and quietly focus on seeing yourself interacting as a person you desire to be. Use a vision board to help remind you throughout the day. A cork board on which you place pictures of things you would like to experience as well as statements that remind you of your goals will be beneficial as well.

Create I AM statements that reflects what you wish to experience. examples of these can be found here.

Scripting is the process of writing your life as though it is presently happening exactly the way you wish to experience it. Begin keeping a journal and add to it each day experiences would like to have as though you were presently having them. This process will elevate your vibration and keep your feelings in line with what you wish to experience.

Energy work with a spiritual healer can help you bring into alignment the present in the past. Oftentimes understanding the link between your past and present day will help you to release that energy connection. Very often people have such deep emotional connections to their past that they are not aware of just how powerful these attachments are in preventing them to consistently make different choices for their lives. An energy healer will be able to guide you through a cleansing process and a realignment of your chakras.

Changing who you see yourself to be and altering your beliefs about life is a process. Altering the habits with which you have unconsciously been creating your life will take consistent action on your part. Although it may feel difficult and challenging at times if you will maintain a burning desire to experience life differently you will stay the course and change will be inevitable. You are the power to create what ever you wish to experience, you have only to decide who you are and what you want to interact with. Once this decision is clear in your mind as outlined above through consistent practice, your reward will be brand new experiences.

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Jack Canfield’s Daily Disciplines for Effortless Success

Jack Canfield one of the speakers on the secret is sharing his top 6 Daily Disciplines for Effortless Success. He suggests that you must first write down and talk about what you do want, not what you don’t want, be as specific as possible and once you have clarified what you want, do the following each and every day.

Here’s his top 6 daily rituals:

1. Morning Intention, Visualization and Releasing: When you wake up in the morning, take a few minutes to focus your mind on your desires, goals and intentions. Close your eyes and visualize your desires and goals as already being achieved.
2. Use External Images to Keep you Focused on Your Desires and Goals: To keep yourself focused on what you want to manifest, surrounding yourself with visual images of the things and experiences you want to create in your life. You can use a vision board or book to keep your pictures. Add words to create a bigger impact. While looking at the words and pictures, say to yourself “This is mine now! This is who I am!”
3. Think a Better Feeling Thought: Notice the times you have emotional responses throughout the day which are not aligned with your desired manifestations. You must remember that it is your feelings that are manifesting your current circumstances. By changing your frequency through your thoughts, you are changing your vibrations. You must become a vibrational match for all the experiences you want to attract in your life.Focus on thoughts that cause you to feel joy. i.e. friends, pets, vacation spots, family as well as the actions you do when with them.
4. Have an Attitude of Gratitude It is critical to take time each and every day to focus on what you are grateful for! This can be done either in the morning after your visualization or in the evening before bed. Focus on all of the things in your life - most of which you know you take for granted that you are grateful for i.e. your health, your children, your job, the nice weather, electricity, running water, a nice stereo system, your flower garden, your pets, your friends. You will always have things to be grateful for and the more you focus on what you are grateful for the more you will attract things to be grateful for. This is a good time to have a gratitude journal.
5. Take Action Canfield says that there are two type of actions: obvious and inspired. Obvious actions are things like if you want a new car, you’ll test drive the ones you like then choose the care you want while saving money for the car. The other is inspired actions, where when you begin your obvious actions, the universe will start responding by sending people, resources and opportunities you need to manifest your desired result. You are going to find that you have inspired ideas; you must act on them. You must follow those gentle proddings from the universe. Often these intuitive impulses will have no seeming connection to achieving your goal, but if you follow them, they will lead you down a path of wonderful fulfillment. Canfield also says that if you are experiencing joy while doing your action, then you are on the correct path for your internal guidance system is like a car’s GPS system.
6. Acknowledge That it’s Working When you start noticing things changing for the better, acknowledge that your manifestation is happening. Enjoy it. “When you find the perfect parking space, acknowledge it. When you get the table you want in the restaurant, acknowledge it. When you receive unexpected income, acknowledge it. When you meet someone who can help you achieve your goal, acknowledge that Law of Attraction is working. The more you acknowledge that it’s working, the more it will work. It’s that simple.”“If you are attracting things into your life that you don’t want, remember that the Law of Attraction is still working. Instead of thinking or saying, “It’s not working,” ask your self, “What am I focusing on, thinking about, talking about, feeling or doing that is bringing this into my life?””It’s easy to know what thought you are focusing on because they are being produced in your life. Change those result by changing your frequency or vibration, thoughts and feelings.

   “When you make a commitment to take these actions each day, you’ll start to move forward, with confidence, in the direction of your dreams. Believe that they are not only possible, but that they are already in progress.”

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Thank you Mr. Canfield

Focus On Prosperity To Attract Prosperity

If you want to become financially independent, you must begin to focus on yourself already possessing the lifestyle you wish to have. You can begin to picture yourself living in the house you would like to live, driving the kind of car you want to have, and yourself operating the kind of business you want to have. Whatever you do, you must begin to learn how to focus on prosperity. By taking your energy and placing it on what you wish to experience, you are bringing that experience closer to you.

It does take a little more energy to focus on what you wish to experience rather than what you do not wish to experience. However the reward you will receive once you learn how to do it will pay off huge. It will become easier once it becomes a new habit for you.

Most people put all their energy on things they do not wish to experience. They want to produce more money for their household, however they constantly worry about not having enough to pay their bills or not being able to save enough for their children’s education.

If you want to produce more money, you must focus on prosperity. You must be able to take you mind off of the things you are worried about, and begin to place it on the things you want to experience. This is where your faith to succeed in reaching your goals comes into place.

You must believe as you continue to focus on prosperity, money will begin to become attracted to you. Business opportunities and other ways to make money will begin to present themselves to you.

However if you just continue to focus on prosperity and let fear hold you back from taking action on opportunities that present themselves you will never succeed and reach any of your goals. Along with the belief and learning how on prosperity you must develop the courage to act as well. Without action of some kind, you can never experience true success.

As you focus on prosperity one of the biggest secrets to obtaining what you desire is to make life more enjoyable and fun. YOu should immediately create a vision board and put pictures of all your and desires. As you look at the pictures and begin to envision yourself living the lifestyle it will help you feel as if you already possess those things. Your feelings and the visions will help the law of attraction bring those goals to you.

As you begin to do this on a daily basis, whether you realize it or not you are spending your time utilizing the law of to focus on prosperity. You are visualizing and picturing how your life will look like when you possess all the things you desire. The law of attraction then will help you achieve all that you desire whether negative or positive.

If you wish to create prosperity in your life, learn to use your energy to begin to focus on prosperity. As you continue to do this you will be amazed at what you can begin to create in your life.

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