ANOTHER WAY TO PRAY (part 2)
CREATING A TREASURE MAP/VISION BOARD

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Last newsletter I suggested you create a Living Vision. This week I’m encouraging you to make your vision even MORE powerful.

Over the next few weeks, begin to look in magazines, on line, junk mail, wherever you find them, for images that represent your Living Vision. Cut them out and put them in a pile. Also cut out words or phrases that hold the energy of what you REaLLy want.

The emphasis is on creating your heart’s desire, not picturing stuff to be acquired. During this phase your job is to collect photos and phrases that represent your deepest wants.

The next step is to look through what you have gathered with the intention of keeping only those images and words that truly represent your innermost desires. Those that do not can be put away for another time.

Use your heart’s criteria as you make your selections.

Now you are ready to assemble your collage, which will be your Treasure Map. You will need something to paste your pictures onto. You can select any size poster board you feel comfortable using.

Begin to arrange your images and words on your poster board. Play with this. Make sure it feels right. This is an intuitive process. Allow this process to unfold in it’s own way. Allow your creative self to be in charge. Trust yourself to know when your collage is laid out the way you want.

Next, glue your images and words to the paper the way you have laid them out. Have on your treasure map/vision board the words, “This or Something Greater for the Greatest Good of All Concerned.”

When you are done, step back and look at what you have created. Allow yourself to wonder what you are saying to yourself. You will probably see things that were not visible to you before. What does your treasure map/vision board say? What surprises does it have for you?

Take time to write down your impressions. Let your left brain (verbal) articulate what the right brain (art) has expressed.

Don’t spend any time thinking about the ‘how’ of making this dream a reality. Right now you are allowing yourself to discover your ‘what’.

You have just designed a visual affirmation or prayer describing your heart’s desire. Embrace what you want. Say yes to your desire. Choose to allow yourself to have it. Commit to doing whatever it takes to make what you want happen.

The more you look at your treasure map/vision board the more you reinforce in your imagination what you want. By doing so you trigger your creativity in designing actions that will manifest your vision.

Turn your vision over to the creative power within you, and your partner, The Creative Power. Take the actions your creative self offers you. Trust you will be guided to the actions that will make your dreams a reality.

QUOTE

"Art has many avenues; love is carried through many vessels. Your oceans are your colors, your ship is your brush and your treasures are in your heart." 
  ~ Moncy Barbour ~

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CONTRIBUTION FROM A READER:

I was finishing a book last night, “Left to Tell” by Immaculee Ilibagiza who survived the 1994 Rowandan genocide with much personal loss and suffering and was witness to unfathomable hatred and murder. She attributes her survival to her faith and to the power of prayer. Leslie’s last article  talks about “another way to pray.” Leslie talks about creating a Living Vision and in the book "Left to Tell" Immaculee says this:

“I was living proof of the power of prayer and positive thinking, which really are almost the same thing. God is the source of all positive energy, and prayer is the best way to tap in to his power." This spoke to me in relation to an exchange I had yesterday with Leslie on prayer and channeling your positive energy (no matter what your personal theological beliefs).

Sometimes something just clicks, and suddenly the line Leslie suggests we insert at the end of these statements —This or Something Greater for the Highest Good of All Concerned — has greater meaning for me. This ah-ha has helped me to quell the nagging inner voice that is always telling me how selfish it is to ask for what I want. In this statement I am reminded that a happier, more centered me can contribute much more positively to others.

Also in Immaculee’s story, she uses the technique of visioning what she wants, asking for it specifically, seeing it, imagining if it were real. It’s almost as if she took Leslie’s class. Although the book was quite disturbing for someone who lives in the pretty little suburbs of the Midwest, it was a great read and spoke volumes about faith, but also about making a plan, being resolved to that plan and taking positive action.

Thank you, Leslie, for helping me to open my eyes to the power of my own positive energy, and to the rest of you for your sharing. What a great experience this is.

Lynda Otte

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