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Law of Attraction Radar Screen

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One of the key concepts that I learned in the last couple of years from my Law of Attraction training is the concept of the “Radar Screen”.

A “Radar Screen” in terms of Law of Attraction teachings is a metaphorical concept to help us understand how the Universe manifests things in our lives.

Let me explain the basics.

Imagine a radar screen like this:

Imagine that EVERYTHING in your conscious awareness, like all the things that you can see in your life and hear and touch and experience with your senses is represented by the round radar screen in this picture.

All of the ideas and know-how and beliefs and experiences that you’ve already had in your life are also all part of this round, green radar screen.

Now, what’s important to realize about your Radar Screen is that what you are consciously aware of, the things that are on your radar screen, is NOT the entire Universe.

Meaning, the Universe is actually MUCH bigger than your Radar Screen.

See, what the Universe sees on it’s Radar Screen is infinitely bigger than what you see because the Universe’s Radar Screen extends out in every direction to infinity.

So the first thing we need to realize is that what we see on OUR Radar Screen is less than 1% of what the Universe sees on its Radar Screen.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that your Radar Screen is more like this:

Even in this picture the size of your Radar Screen is way too big.

I just had to keep it at least visible so that it would show up in the picture, but just imagine that the green screen is your Radar Screen and all the blue space around it is the Universe’s Radar Screen and it extends out to infinity in every direction.

How The Things We Manifest Show Up on The Radar Screen

We are creative beings.

We create everything that we experience in our reality.

However, not everything that we have created is currently on our Radar Screen.

For example, let’s say that you create the desire to manifest a new car in your life and you apply the Law of Attraction techniques that you have learned over the years.

What actually happens is that the means and the process of you getting that car that you want instantly appears on the Universe’s Radar Screen.

In fact every real desire that you have already exists on the Universe’s Radar Screen as soon as you desire it.

You couldn’t desire something if it didn’t already appear on the Universe’s Radar Screen somewhere.

So let’s say that you create a strong desire for a new car.  Here is how it would appear on the Universe’s Radar Screen:

New Car on Radar Screen

Notice how the car already exists on the Universe’s Radar Screen – BUT – it is NOT yet visible on YOUR Radar Screen?

In fact, if we zoomed in and were to look at nothing but YOUR Radar Screen, we would simply see this:

The car is NOT visible yet on YOUR Radar Screen.

What does this mean?

What this means is that the MEANS, and the RESOURCES and the PEOPLE and IDEAS and EVENTS necessary for the manifestation of the car in your life are NOT yet 100% known to you.

You might know a few of the details with a little bit of clarity, but the “HOW” of how you’re going to actually manifest the new car that you want might still be pretty fuzzy.

In fact you might have absolutely no idea how the heck you’re going to manifest a new car.

Maybe you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck and you have no room in your budget for a new car payment and you have no idea how you’d go about making more money.

You might have no reasonable / logical reason to believe that you’ll be able to manifest the new car that you want any time soon because you can’t see it on YOUR Radar Screen.

However, because YOU desire it, the Universe already has it on the Universal Radar Screen.

It already knows exactly the means, resources, people, ideas and events that are necessary to bring about the manifestation of that car in your life.

The plan is already set in place and the car is on it’s way TO YOU.

You just don’t know it yet, because you can’t see it on YOUR Radar Screen.

The thing is that IF you stick to that desire, and you focus your energy on it and you continue to desire it, the Universe will start sending you little intuitive hints about the direction that you need to go in, in order to bring about the manifestation of that car in your life.

For example, it might introduce you to a new opportunity to make some extra money working from home – outside of your regular day job.

Or maybe it will bring about some new information and ideas in the form of blog posts like this one, or eBooks, or videos or training courses that can help you out.

Or maybe it will place people into your life path that will help manifest that new car that you desire.

Or maybe new ideas will pop into your head which will help with the manifestation.

The Universe is always speaking to you, if you learn to tune in and to listen to it and to align yourself vibrationally with your thoughts, emotions and inspired actions to help you manifest what you want.

As you tune in and take inspired action, when necessary, on the things that show up in your life, the car that you want starts to move closer and closer to your radar screen.

Within a certain period of time, it might appear very close to your Radar Screen like this:

When you get to this stage, you still may not know all the details of how exactly you’re going to manifest the car in your life, BUT a LOT of the details have already been filled in.

For example you might know exactly which car you want, where you’re going to buy it, how you’re going to pay for the monthly payments and the insurance, who you’re going to buy it from and all the other details associated with getting the car except for maybe one detail – such as how you’re going to come up with a $5,000 down payment you need or how you’re going to approved for credit.

The exact “HOW” of how you’re going to get the car is about 95% figured out at this point, but it’s not quite there yet.

ONCE those details get figured out and you know EXACTLY how you’re going to do it, then the car appears on YOUR Radar Screen like this:

See, once the car appears on your Radar Screen, and you know exactly how you’re going to manifest it, it’s really easy to BELIEVE that you’re going to get it.

Pretty much every detail is already figured out at this point, but you don’t quite yet have the car, maybe because you’re waiting for some payments to go through, or for a bonus commission you earned to come in, or for the car to become available for sale, or some other thing that you’re waiting for.

And then of course once you actually do manifest the car you wanted, it just appears right smack in the middle of your Radar Screen and in your mind you KNOW that you’ve already “Got it”.

The car is sitting in your drive-way and you OWN it.  It’s yours.

This process of creating a desire, having it pop-up on the Universal Radar Screen first, and then the Universe hatching a plan for your desire to manifest in your life and then you participating in the process of manifesting that desire in your life by pulling it into your life and your Radar Screen is how the Law of Attraction works.

Having FAITH in the Law of Attraction and the Universe is the awakening to the truth that 99% of everything “Out There” exists OUTSIDE of OUR Radar Screen.

It’s the realization that just because we can’t SEE it right away, right now, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.

For example, if you create a desire to want a certain type of new car right now, do you realize that THAT car most likely already exists RIGHT NOW!

It’s already out there…maybe it’s in some factory being manufactured right now!

Maybe it’s on a boat, sailing towards you.

Maybe it’s being delivered to a car dealership 50 miles form your house, for when you’re ready.

Just because YOU can’t see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

ALL of your true desires already exist on the Universal Radar Screen.

We just have to stick with those desires long enough for them to move close enough to use to appear on OUR Radar Screens.

Then it’s EASY to believe that we’re going to get what we want.

How to “SEE” Past Your Own Radar Screen

Is there a way that we can expand the size of Our Radar Screens?

Yes.

There are a few different ways to do this.

Firstly, one of the easiest ways to expand your VISION past YOUR Radar Screen is to get around someone with a bigger vision than you.

For example, often times I  have had conversation with my mentors where I told them about a desire that I had, but which was off MY Radar Screen and I had no idea how it’s going to come about…

… and because THEIR vision in that particular area of life was greater than mine, they were actually able to see my desired outcome on their Radar Screen!

They could tell me exactly what I need to do and who I need to become in order to manifest that which I wanted.

So getting around other more successful people than you is one of the best ways to expand your vision.

That is why I am such big advocate for having mentors and getting around successful people.

Secondly, there’s another way to expand your own “Radar Screen Vision”…

… to do that you have to turn off the part of your mind that only believes in what it SEES and what is already there.

That part of your mind can only SEE that which is already ON your Radar Screen.

To “SEE” things that are NOT on your Radar Screen, you have to tune into your intuition / your gut feeling.

Using the same example of trying to manifest a new car, if you THINK ABOUT the new car that you want and by thinking about it you get a BAD feeling in your gut… like you feel frustrated and annoyed and angry and not “good” when you hold that image of the car in your mind, that means that you’re currently not in vibrational alignment with getting that car.

It means that the car is on the Universal Radar Screen but it’s NOT moving towards you.

It’s basically just sitting there, outside your reach, and the frustrating energy that you feel is your intuition SEEING the car far away from you – STUCK!

What this means is that it is an indicator that SOMETHING has to change in your life.

Meaning YOU have to make a DECISION to change something in your life.

Maybe you need to change some of your beliefs, or you need to change who you are hanging out with or listening to, or maybe you need to change your routine a bit, or learn something new, or try something different, or change the way that you think.

SOMETHING is out of alignment and it’s keeping that car STUCK away from you, and that is what your intuition is “Seeing” even thought you don’t yet see it with your own eyes.

If, however, you bring the image and concept of the car into your mind and you feel GOOD about it, even though you can’t yet see it on YOUR Radar Screen, it means that the car is moving TOWARDS you on the Universal Radar Screen.

The faster it’s coming towards you the better you’ll feel about it intuitively.

That’s the beauty of our intuition!  It has a sense of VISION that is MUCH larger than what our eyes and ears and our 5 senses can sense.

Mistakes to Avoid

Here are some common mistakes most people make when it comes to manifesting things and their Radar Screen.

Usually, people who are not really into the Law of Attraction or any kind of “Spiritual” concepts like it, are only able to see that which is on their Radar Screen and that’s it.

They tend to avoid creating ANY desires in their life if they can’t see that desire on their Radar Screen right away.

For example if they think about wanting a new car, if they can’t instantly see EXACTLY HOW they’re going to manifest it with every single detail fully figured out, they don’t even TRY having that desire.

To them, creating any kind of desire that doesn’t instantly show up on their Radar Screen is “Unrealistic Thinking”.

As a result they always play small in their lives and are usually afraid to take any kinds of risks.

They’ll usually never even attempt to dream big and they mostly just live lives that are very routine based with very little change or growth.

They don’t realize that they can have so much more in their lives if they just awakened to the fact that you can manifest things in your life even if you don’t yet know exactly HOW all the details are going to work out.

On the other end of that spectrum, a lot of people who would call themselves “spiritual” and into things like the “Law of Attraction”, often make a different kind of mistake.

They create a desire for something that they want, and when they don’t immediately see it on their Radar Screen, one of two things happens:

#1 – They Feel Good

If they create a desire for something, and it appears outside of their Radar Screen, and they can’t SEE it with their eyes, they tune into their intuition and they FEEL it with their Intuition.

*IF* they’re vibrationally aligned with that thing, and they’re taking the necessary inspired actions towards manifesting that thing, they will FEEL GOOD, because their Intuition is sensing that their desire is getting closer.

In which case they’ll usually continue on until they manifest that desire.

But the second thing that can happen is…

#2 – They Don’t Feel Good

When they create a desire and they don’t instantly feel good when they think about it, it means that the desire has already manifested itself on the Universal Radar Screen – BUT – it’s currently STUCK.

This means that something has to change in that person’s life.

Either they have to change their beliefs, or their thinking, or their energy or vibration or their actions or SOMETHING to get into better alignment with that thing.

In other words, they have to GROW!

However, instead of embracing this indicator from their Intuition and understanding it as “Oh, I have this desire for a new car, but when I think about it I don’t feel good, and I don’t feel excited and instead I feel frustrated and annoyed that I don’t yet have it…which means that I must CHANGE SOMETHING in my life to get in better alignment…..”

they instead usually think to themselves…

“Oh, when I think about wanting this car, I don’t instantly feel good about it… so I’ll just pretend like I don’t really want it… pfft… who the heck needs a new car anyways…. I never wanted it in the first place.”

In other words, they LIE to themselves.

Instead of GROWTH they embrace STAGNATION.

Instead of embracing TRUTH in their desires, they choose to LIE to themselves, because they don’t want to feel frustration or annoyance.

And in the short term, they can go back to feeling better by pretending that they don’t want that new car or whatever their desire was…

…and they can avoid the GROWTH that they are really seeking…

… but in the long term, this leads to depression.

These are the two most common mistakes that people make.

They either don’t create desires which don’t immediately fall within their Radar Screen because they aren’t tuned into their own Intuition and they don’t have any faith in anything outside of their logical thinking, OR if they are Intuitively tuned in and they create a desire that doesn’t feel very good to think about – instead of seeing that as a signal for growth, they see it as a signal to give up.

The Universe doesn’t want you to GIVE UP on your Dreams and your Desires.

It wants to help you get everything that you ever dreamed of….

… and it will put together a plan to help you make those dreams a reality…

… but if you’re STUCK in your ways, and you’re not willing to grow and change and become the person you need to become to manifest those Dreams, then you will Intuitively feel frustrated and or “stuck”.

This is NOT a signal form the Universe to give up!  It’s a signal to GROW!

And as you start to grow, that Intuitive feeling will turn to excitement and anticipation as you FEEL your desire moving closer and closer to your Radar Screen and finally into your life.

Command, Don’t Control

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Something that I’ve been really learning in many different areas of my life recently is the interplay between the concepts of COMMAND and CONTROL.

Most people, especially poor and middle class people are OBSESSED with CONTROL.

They try to control EVERYTHING they possibly can in their lives to the last detail.

The typical belief of a poor or middle-class blue-collar worker is:

“If you want something done right, you’ve gotta do it yourself.”

People say that all the time, and I used to say it as well.

However, the challenge with this way of thinking is that it implies that there is only ONE way to do something right – your way.

In reality there are MANY different ways that something can be done, and yes sometimes the way you do something might be a slightly better way of doing something – BUT – is the other way of doing it really that much worse?

And what’s the tradeoff?

Living YOUR Mission In Life

The most important thing we should really be focusing on in life is connecting to OUR mission and living OUR mission here on Earth.

We all have strengths and weaknesses and to be successful in life we have to put a laser focus on our STRENGTHS and let go of control over everything else.

Living our mission in life means learning to take COMMAND of our lives in two ways:

  1. Learning to COMMAND YOURSELF
  2. Learning to COMMAND OTHERS

The most important first step that we must take is to learn how to take command over ourselves.

Self leadership is always the first step.

You can’t command and lead anyone else if you can’t even command yourself.

Our life is a life-long journey over learning how to become the “commander” in our lives.

Being in “command” of our lives means taking 100% responsibility for EVERYTHING that happens in our lives.

No matter what the situation is that shows up in your life, you have to take 100% responsibility for how you RESPOND to the situation.

Responsibility literally means RESPONSE + ABILITY.

Life may throw things at you from time to time that seem to come out of left field, but YOU always have the ability to choose how you respond to these things.

When you learn to COMMAND things in your life, by taking 100% responsibility, you become much more powerful.

The other part of learning to command things in your life is the ability to know which things in your life YOU want to be in full control over (usually your strengths), and which things to delegate to others.

Learning to COMMAND others involves learning to let go of the CONTROL that you would have over how something is done if YOU were the one doing it.

Command vs Control

Learning to be a good leader / commander of people in your life, involves learning certain skills.

One of those skills is developing the understanding that when you delegate something to someone, there’s always a balancing act of asking the person to do something – to produce a certain result – versus telling the person HOW to do something.

Being a good commander / leader of people involves spending more of your time and energy being very clear on WHAT you want done, and what result you want achieved, and LETTING GO of the CONTROL of how they accomplish that thing.

As long as the person produces the result that you desire, you have to be okay with letting them do that thing however they thought was the best way to do it.

The best leaders in the world surround themselves with people that they TRUST to produce the results that they want, and they are constantly challenging themselves to release more and more control over HOW things are done, in order to be able to have more COMMAND over more things in their lives.

When you release control over things that don’t really matter in your life – things that you shouldn’t be trying to control – it frees you up to have more focus on the things that really DO matter to you.

Otherwise, you can spend your entire life trying to do everything yourself, because you have this limiting belief that if YOU don’t do it your way, maintaining an iron grip of total control over it, then someone else will do it the “wrong” way.

Learning to Trust The Universe

Another side to the COMMAND vs CONTROL concept is learning to relinquish more CONTROL over to the Universe or God or whatever you believe in.

Often times we ask the Universe for something, issuing a COMMAND like “I want to make $5,000/m more than I do now”, but when the Universe starts to bring us opportunities to do just that, we start arguing with what shows up.

Meaning, we have some idea of how WE THINK that extra income might show up in our lives, but when the Universe manifests some other opportunity or way for it to show up, we ignore it or we fight against it.

We have to learn how to relinquish more control over the HOW that the Universe uses to accomplish what we want.

The “HOW” doesn’t really matter.

The Universe will often have a plan that is a hundred times better than whatever our mind can conceive, but we lack the necessary trust to keep going long enough to see that plan come to fruition.

Give the Universe a COMMAND… that is what your role in your life is – being the Supreme Commander in Charge of YOUR Life.

Your role is NOT being the supreme CONTROLLER of everything in your life!

You can’t control everything anyways – so it’s a futile thing to try to chase anyways.

Relieving Stress

The next time you’re stressed out about something, just ask yourself “Am I trying to CONTROL the situation too much?  Do I need to gain more clarity over what I WANT?  Do I need to become better at communicating with myself and others so that I can COMMAND myself and COMMAND others to do give me the results I want?”

Often times you’ll notice that stress comes from trying to CONTROL something you don’t really have control over anyways.

Take a few moments to relax and think to yourself “More COMMAND, Less CONTROL.”

Try to gain more clarity over exactly what you want, and work on your ability to COMMAND others to give you want you want, without trying to CONTROL every little detail of how they accomplish it.

You’ll be amazed how much stress you can release, just by letting go of some of the control you’re clinging onto.

🙂

This One Universal Law Will Help You Make Money Online

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Many people dream about making money online as Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs.

They invest time and money into tools, training courses, and systems for making money online, which is a great place to start, but most people forget about one other thing that they can do to significantly increase their chances of making money online.

This one other thing that many people forget about is the process of engaging the Spiritual Law of “Giving and Receiving”.

I’ll be totally honest…

…when I first heard of this concept of “Give and You Shall Receive”, I thought it was a ‘marketing tactic’ employed by the Church to guilt people into donating 10% of their income to the Church.

I mean LOGICALLY speaking, if you want more of something, how can you GIVE it away when you don’t have it yet?

Meaning for example if I want more money, how do I give away more money, when I haven’t gotten more money yet?

This concept seemed paradoxical to me. 🙂

And to be honest, at first I kind of just dismissed it as hogwash.

But then a few of my mentors introduced me to a totally different way of looking at the concept that changed everything for me.

Give and You Shall Receive WAY MORE

The big mental shift that changed everything for me was the realization that when you GIVE something away, it doesn’t just come back to you in equal proportion.

When you GIVE something away, the Universe will flow it back to you in much greater quantities.

THAT is how the paradox is solved.

Although there’s no real way to measure it exactly (that I’ve found anyway), I usually like to think that whatever I give away will flow back to me at least TEN FOLD.

Sometimes it can be as much as one hundred fold, or one thousand fold, or even one million fold.

But thinking in terms of TEN fold is a safe and conservative way to look at it.

See, when I realized that the Universe will flow whatever you give away back to you by a factor of 10 TIMES, I started looking at this spiritual law totally differently.

And there was one other concept that fits in with this as well, which is that…

You Can Give and Receive Different Things

You don’t have to give away the same thing as you intend to receive.

Meaning, let’s say that you’re completely financially broke right now, without even a penny to your name.

And let’s say that you want to give away some money.

You can’t really “give away” any money if you don’t have it in the first place, right?

But what you CAN do is you can GIVE AWAY something else that you DO have, that is of “USE VALUE” to someone else.

Meaning for example, you could GIVE away value to someone in another form, such as helping someone with something.

The thing that you want to GET (ie. money) doesn’t have to be the same thing that you GIVE AWAY.

An awesome example of this is Blogging.

Whenever I write a Blog post, I’m essentially GIVING AWAY value to people who read my Blog posts.

Whenever I market and promote my Blog posts, I multiply the number of people my Blog posts reach and thus also multiply the amount of value I’m giving away.

So for example, let’s say that THIS Blog post provides the equivalent of $0.10 worth of value to each person who reads it.

Now, let’s say that I get 1,000 people to read this Blog post… well, that means that I’ve essentially given away the equivalent of $100 worth of value to the world by writing this post.

See what I mean?

And if we apply the TEN FOLD rule to this, that means that the Universe will “reward” me with at least $1,000 worth of “value” back in my life for doing this.

Now, does that mean that tomorrow I’m going to wake up and see $1,000 magically appear in front of me?

Well, no, probably not, but I do KNOW that if I in fact give away $100 worth of “Use Value” by writing a Blog post then I *WILL* receive $1,000 worth of value back from the Universe or more!

I’ve tested this in my life many times and it always seems to work out.

Whenever I go out there and just focus on giving away value to people, I find that the Universe showers me with ten times that value right back.

This is one of the biggest reasons I absolutely LOVE Blogging as a method of making money online, because it’s one of the least expensive ways of launching an online business and it gives people an opportunity to give away the one resource they usually have an overabundance of – WISDOM and ADVICE.

Meaning, most people who start an online business don’t have a lot of extra TIME or MONEY, but they DO have a lot of unique experience and wisdom from their lives.

By embracing Blogging as a business model for making money online, they can transform that WISDOM and ADVICE they’ve accumulated up in their minds over the years by SHARING it with others.

And by giving away this value from their life experience and their passions in life they could activate this Universal Law of GIVING and RECEIVING to get what they want – which is to make money online.

I have tested and proven to myself many times that this concept of giving and receiving tenfold in return works.

But, there is one mistake that most people make which will not activate this law in your life.

Avoid This Mistake

The one mistake that people can make here is not understanding the difference between “Actual Use Value” and “What You Think is the Use Value”.

The Universe will flow back to you ten fold or more of what you give away to the world in ACTUAL USE VALUE, not just in value you THINK you’re giving away.

Meaning, for example, if I write a garbage blog post, that I slap together without putting any real effort into it, then that blog post might only provide $0.01 in value to the world, or even less.

Also, if I don’t learn how to properly market my blog and my blog posts, so that they are seen by thousands of people, then the value doesn’t get multiplied a lot.

Meaning, there’s a big difference between a blog post with let’s say $0.50 worth of “use value” that is seen by 1,000 people, versus a crappy blog post with $0.01 of “use value” that is only seen by 5 people.

In the first case $0.50 x 1,000 people = $500 worth of actual use value, which means the Universe will flow back to you $5,000 worth of value.

In the second case $0.01 x 5 people = $0.05 worth of actual use value, which means the Universe will flow back to you $0.50 worth of value.

See the difference?

You have to create value in the world that people actually find useful…not just slap stuff together… but also, you have to learn how to MARKET and DISTRIBUTE that value to as many people as possible, because that is the multiplication factor that will change everything.

Often times I’ll see people starting a Blog, and they’ll write 5 AMAZING blog posts that could easily be worth $10 in “Use Value” to people, but then they don’t take the time to learn how to market or distribute those blog posts to people, so their audience is ZERO people.

Well, if your audience is ZERO people, then any value you provide times ZERO is still going to be ZERO.

This is why it’s important to learn both ( 1 ) How to create VALUABLE content that actually provides VALUE to people, and ( 2 ) How to properly MARKET, DISTRIBUTE and MONETIZE your Blog so that you activate and multiply the effects of the Law of Giving and Receiving.

This is why I’m so excited to be a part of Empower Network, because that is exactly what we teach people to do.

We teach people how to create valuable Blog content, we teach people how to actually market their Blogs so that they have an audience, and then finally we teach them how to monetize those Blogs.

How to Create a Vision Board as a Non-Visual Person

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Ask a visual person how to create a vision / dream board, and they’ll say “Oh it’s easy!”

They’ll run out, get some poster paper, some magazines, a pair of scissors, and a glue stick and go to town on the project.

An hour later they’ll have this crazy looking collage of pictures, all cut out and sliced together, with action words like “Awesome” and “Yaay!” intermixed between the pictures.

Ask a non-visual person, whose primary modality in life is either auditory or kinesthetic to tackle the same project and it’s a totally different story.

An hour later you’ll find them both still sitting there, having flipped through 50 magazines and finding NOTHING that inspires them.

This doesn’t mean auditory or kinesthetic people don’t have dreams, or that they can’t create a “vision” board, but they just have to approach the task from a different perspective.

Auditory and kinesthetic people are different from visual people.

If you’re kinesthetic, you have to approach it from a kinesthetic perspective.

If you’re auditory, you have to approach it from an auditory perspective.

Vision Boards for Auditory People

Since I’m predominantly an auditory person, I’m going to share an idea I had this morning for a “vision” board for me.

One year ago I put up a cork board in my room that’s about 5 feet wide by 4 feet tall.

It’s big enough to fit PLENTY of pictures as a “vision”board.

One year later, it’s still pretty much empty.

A visual person would already have that thing FULL of pictures!

But as an auditory person, pictures don’t really excite me that much, so no wonder I haven’t been really that excited about populating it.

So this morning I had an idea.

Instead of trying to force myself to cut pictures out of magazines, or to scour the Internet for pictures to print out, instead I’m creating a “vision board” with just three simple tools.

  1. A cork board
  2. Index cards
  3. Push pins

Using these tools I can simply write down what things I want, or I can write down little sayings of things that either I will say or someone else will say to me once I manifest the thing that I want to manifest.

Let’s use an example to illustrate what I mean.

Example #1 – A New Car

Let’s say I wanted to manifest a new car.

A visual person would just cut out pictures of the car they want and plaster that all over their vision board.

As an auditory person, here’s what I’m doing instead.

I take a simple 5″x3″ index card and I write something like “Woa!  Nice Car!  I love how it sounds!” on it.  Then, I take that index card and I pin it up on my cork board.

Then I take another index card and I write something like “Holy crap, the stereo in this car is awesome and I love how I can play songs straight from my cell using Bluetooth.”

Or I can write down an exact description of the car I want, such as for example if I wanted a silver 2015 Mercedes SLK I would write down “2015 Silver Mercedes SLK” and maybe put a few more details into the description.

Then I just take that index card and add it to my dream / vision board.

Now, to a visual person, just having a plain old cork-board with a bunch of index cards pinned up would probably look BORING, but to a non-visual person it makes no difference.

Example #2 – Weight Loss

Here’s another example.

Let’s say you wanted to lose some weight and to put that on your vision board.

A visual person would probably cut out pictures of a hot looking body, or maybe put up pics of themselves when they were more fit.

So what would I put up instead, as an auditory person?

Well, I could either simply write down specific goals like “Cool, I hit my goal of 225lbs” or “Cool, I hit my goal of 200lbs” or “Cool, I’ve lost 35lbs already” or whatever I would usually SAY to myself when I reach a weight loss goal.

Or it could be what I HEAR myself saying to myself inside my head.

OR I can write down things that I will hear people saying to me when I reach my goals like “Wow!  You look great.  Have you lost weight?”

These are all just simple statements I would write down on a simple 5″x3″ index card and pin up on a “Vision” / Dream Board.

Vision Board for Auditory PeopleVision Boards for Kinesthetic People

I’m not a predominantly kinesthetic person so I don’t know exactly what would be the ideal things a kinesthetic person would write on their index cards.

However, I do know that kinesthetic people are more or less the exact opposite of a visual person, so they don’t really care what something looks like so much, and so I bet it’s not an exciting thing for them to cut out pictures and put them up on a vision board.

I would think that kinesthetic people would most likely benefit from writing out the description of the feeling they would feel having the thing that they want to have.

So maybe on the index cards they would write something like “I feel so much better in my clothes” if their goal was to lose some weight.

Or they might write down “I love how these heated seats keep my butt warm even with the windows open” if they were trying to manifest a new car.

If you’re a predominantly kinesthetic person, you probably know much better than I do what makes you tick, so write down whatever excites you on those index cards.

Another thing you could do is if for example the new car you want will have leather seats, you could get a small piece of leather from somewhere that’s similar to the leather that car seats are made of and cut that out and pin it to the board so that you can touch it and feel it with your hands.

Or maybe you could get one of those “New Car Scent” thingies and pin it up so that you can smell your new car.  🙂

I’m sure you know better than I do what excites you, so use your imagination.

My point is simply this…

Vision Boards are NOT Just For Visual People

Most people who love using vision boards are, more often than not, visual people.

Visual people usually love to use them, and so, more often than not, they try to teach other people how to make them.

The challenge is that because they are visual people they only know how to appeal to other visual people, and that’s usually why you don’t see many auditory or kinesthetic people making vision boards.

It’s not because vision boards are not useful – they are an extremely powerful tool – it’s just that you have to approach making them from YOUR modality, not someone else’s.

I personally started making mine today just by using simple 5″ x 3″ index cards and by writing down what I will either say to myself or what I’ll hear others say to me when I manifest the goals I’m going after.

Play around with some ideas of what might work for you and your primary modality.

Remember thought that even thought most people are predominantly more biased towards ONE modality, everyone does use all of the modalities, so even if you’re not a visual person it doesn’t hurt to throw some pictures up there if you want, or even if you ARE a visual person, it doesn’t hurt to throw some auditory or kinesthetic statements up there as well.

How to Literally Add and Remove Gray Matter From Your Brain With This Simple Exercise

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There’s an exercise that I’ve been doing for about 19 years now, and more actively in the last 10 years or so that a recent Harvard study has shown to correlate with an INCREASE and DECREASE in brain gray matter in certain areas of the brain.

Participants in this study performed a simple exercise for an average of just 27 minutes a day for a period of 8 weeks.

At the end of the study the participants reported reductions in stress, and their responses to a mindfulness questionnaire indicated significant improvements compared to pre-participation responses.

Skeptics may argue, however, that such indicators are somewhat subjective so the Harvard research team went a step further and took pre and post MR images of the participant’s brains so that they could scientifically and objectively analyze if there was any changes to the actual brain.

What they discovered was rather amazing.

Participants who performed this exercise showed increased gray-matter density in the hippocampus, the area of the brain known to be important for learning and memory and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection.

Furthermore, participants who performed this exercise showed decreased gray-matter density in the amygdala, which is the part of the brain that plays an important role in anxiety and stress.

Let me rephrase this in a different way, because sometimes when researchers start throwing weird names like hippocampus and amygdala around, our minds literally shut off and stop listening because we don’t understand the jargon used.

Here’s the much more simplified version of what this study shows in plain English…

Basically… there’s a simple exercise you can do, that can LITERALLY get your body to strengthen the parts of your brain you want to have more “brains” in, like the part of the brain that helps you LEARN and REMEMBER STUFF…. while simultaneously decreasing the strength of the part of your brain that makes you feel ANXIOUS and STRESSED OUT.

Think of it like going to the gym and lifting weights to strengthen your muscles, except with this exercise you strengthen your BRAIN not your muscles.

Have you ever seen that movie called Limitless?

In the movie, the protagonist gets his hands on a new drug that changes his brain and allows him to LEARN FASTER, REMEMBER BETTER and it gives him MORE CONFIDENCE (ie. less stress and anxiety).

Remember that?

Do you remember how awesome that dude become after taking that drug?

He went from being broke, depressed and miserable to being rich, confident and fulfilled.

Now… as far as we know, there’s no such drug out there.  (Although I’m sure someone is working on it. :) )

But follow along for a second here…

… because what I’m trying to explain to you is that you don’t need a drug.

Harvard has proven that we already have the ability to RESHAPE our brains and make them able to learn things faster and to remember better, while simultaneously removing stress and anxiety so that we are more confident.

What Harvard won’t tell us – however – is what this secret exercise is!

I’m just kidding… they reveal the exercise.

It’s something so simple, and so easy, and so common that the majority of people will completely ignore it.

Skeptics may even make fun of you for thinking that this exercise actually does something.

But science doesn’t lie.

The exercise that Harvard got those participants to do was meditation.

Yup… meditation.

Crazy, eh?

I have an incredibly good memory when it comes to remembering things and I’m one of the fastest learners I know.

I’ve also been doing meditation at least a few times a week for 19 years, and almost on a daily basis for the last 10 years.

I journal, and I meditate all the time.

Do you?

Would you like to learn how I do my meditations?

Comment below and let me know.

(Source: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/ )