Archive for March, 2009

Creating a Clear Path to Your Desires

Monday, March 30th, 2009

by Piper Lauri Salogga

Vision Boarding an empowering and fun Law of Attraction technique.

I love creating a vision board. It’s the perfect way to bring my 40 year-old adult together with my ever present pre-schooler, and Spirit. What a GREAT combination this is — Being present, responsible and freely creative!!

So what is this fun enlightening process? How does it work?

The tools are my favorite magazines; a piece of 12×20 cardboard, or bigger; scissors, glue stick and an open mind.

1) I like to start with a short meditation to clear my mind of the massive to do list and daily stresses. If I can get in the mental pocket, truly this can be just 5 minutes.

2) Sometimes I make a list of all my dreams: “Travel to Brazil and Thailand with my family; write a best selling book; remodel my home, exterior landscape included, etc.” This list helps to prep my mind for my next step.  I also recommend reading my previous blog on the Law of Attraction: 3 Steps to get inside your deep desires and find out how this technique really works.

3) With candles lit and my favorite music in the background to further get me in the mood, and sometimes a yummy glass of wine and munchies to inspire my senses, I start flipping through the pages of my magazines. I rip out any page that “lights me up,” or creates excitement in my mind and body, images and words. I love this feeling of full possibility, no limits, anything can happen! For me, this is the drug of life, feeding me at my core.

4) After I have a plethora of pages in front of me I start cutting. With care, I decide how I want each empowering image to show up in my future life-collage – full page, blocked words or finely cut shapes and details.

5) Then I start gluing. I love this part too. I never know exactly what it’s going to look like when it’s done. This process is full-on creation one image at a time until a masterpiece appears in front of me, my beautiful road map to my dreams come true. Sometimes I elaborate with colored pencil, marker or paint – if I’m really in the artistic mood. There’s no “right way” here. What you are lead to do in the moment is Perfect.

6) When I’m complete with my vision board I usually attach my list of dreams to the back in case I feel like reading it in the future.

7) Then I find the best place to display it so I can regularly remind myself of what I am drawing into my life. Hanging it in a place that feels safe and supported is important – protecting your dreams from criticism is key, they are sacred after all!! You can also refer to the Bagua for key placement in your office or home to further your intentions for your future.

So set a creative date for yourself. Whether it’s in the peace of your own company or with some of your closest friends, don’t delay. The universe is waiting to find out what you want so it can give it to you.

Let me know how it goes. I so love hearing people’s vision boarding stories.

Another great way to use the vision board process is through stream of consciousness coaching. Allowing the images and your subconscious to show you what you need to see, you can get your over-thinking mind out of the way and get straight to the source of what you need to know to move forward in your life. Melissa Wadsworth is an excellent resource for this process: What You Notice Matters .

Law of Attraction: 3 Principles

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

I attended an amazing presentation on Prosperity tonight. The presenter was Melody Larson, author of The Beginner’s Guide to Abundance and Delighting the Soul.

Melody is a beautiful, grounded and very spiritual woman who speaks her passion with a calm, continuous flow of knowledge. Having read copious books from the Dark Ages to the present time about the energy of life, law of attraction, self-healing and personal development, Melody distilled down the law of prosperity into 3 principles:

1) “Deep desire is the Target.” She is talking about DEEP desire, the kind you cannot live without, from the center of your heart. This can get confusing because sometimes the mind/ego will trick you into believing that the nagging sound “I can’t live with out that Mercedes, Gucci bag, gorgeous man, etc.” is the DEEP desire I’m referring to. It is not.

The desire I’m taking about is the kind that you feel in a still moment, a pull to share some knowledge or passion with the world around you, for example, using your unique gift of gab and your love of nature to promote The Audubon Society. There are as many unique DEEP desires as there are people in the world. The most important thing to know is that this desire makes a true, peaceful, and enthusiastic connection with YOUR heart and soul.

2) “It’s God’s job.” She’s talking about whose job it is to bring in the money. We are used to thinking we’re the ones responsible for bringing in the bacon — the harder we work the more money we’ll make. WRONG. This is a farce the industrial world would have us believe so we will all just keep working harder and harder. Money is energy. The minute we get clear about that DEEP Desire and start moving into action in connection with that desire, intuition will steer us in the right direction, and God, or Spirit, or Source will provide. It’s amazing where the money comes from… places we never could have guessed. And that is why it is our job to TRUST God to provide, following our passion and acting from a place of love and service. It’s called a massive leap of faith (not blind, rather with eyes wide open).

3) “Give back to the Source.” Source meaning Spirit or God. As Melody explained, there are many ways to give back to the energy that gives to us, but they fall into two categories in my mind: give generously to another in need – whether with your time or your money, and show your gratitude for all that you are and have – thanking Spirit (that’s what I like to call it) and others for their contribution to your life.

Giving back is so important to the process of opening your heart and creating a positive flow of energy. Remember that saying “We get what we give.” Well if what you want is acknowledgment in the form of praise and money, then you best give it and get that stream aflowin’.

These three principles work together. You need to work them all to experience your own inner connection with money open wide and provide. It’s a personal process, a relationship between you and your Source, and an awareness of your purpose. It requires gratitude for the opportunity to act on your purpose and trust that the process will work its magic if you continue to live in a loving conscious way.

Melody offered so much more in her short presentation to our Seattle Feng Shui Guild meeting, but I think you should just check her out for yourself. She has podcasts and blogcasts and much more on her site. She is going to be teaching a series of workshops called P.A.T.H. http://www.delightingthesoul.com

My my DEEP desire is to be writing and working with all of you. Thank you for being a part of my life!