Have Trouble Visualizing?

Salutations!

I have made a habit, in the past few months, of meditating myself to sleep at night. I also make time to meditate at least once during the day.

I've struggled a bit in the past with my meditations. I'd say that's mostly why I've never done it regularly untill recently. I always thought I was missing the point of visualization during meditation. I would visualize whatever I'd intended to but I could never get the picture as clear in my mind's eye as I thought it should be. I was convinced I was doing it wrong. When I found the ebook, "Creative Visualization", my confidence was boosted. The ebook had step by step, everything I needed to do to properly visualize. This ebook is available for FREE on my website. I would definately recommend this ebook to anyone who has questions or concerns about their visualizations.

Now, I've made a vision board. There's only a few things on it because I wanted to start small. I felt that having a BILLION pictures to look at would complicate LOA for me and just send me chasing my own tail. If you read my most recent posts, you'll see that I've been having great success with my vision board. I look at it first thing in the morning when I open my laptop. Then again everytime I reopen my laptop (being it's set as my desktop). I think about it and picture it in my mind's eye when I run in the morning and the happy thoughts and the exercise combined sends me into what I like to call "My Light Bubble" for the morning.

The Problem....?

WELL.... I manage to visualize what I want, but here's the thing..... When I visualize a picture in my head... the picture tends to fade and be replaced by thoughts. Then my brain runs off at the proverbial mouth and I've lost my visual AND my meditation.

My newest solution.....!

I was trying to visualize in bed last night and I was stuggling a bit. Then I thought of my vision board. What if I picked one thing off my VB and concentrated on only that one thing? So I did. It worked SO well, I was amazed. When I picked out the pics for my VB, they held a specific meaning to me. I didn't have to think about where I wanted to be or a sequence of events or anything that would lead my pesky ol' brain to try to take over. When I conjured up that one specific image from my VB, it already held all the thoughts and feelings and ideas within it. So, I layed there, totally relaxed with my eyes closed and pictured that one little picture and in no time at all I could feel the energy in me building and tingling and my brain never had a single word to say about it.

If any of you out there in cyber world are struggling with your meditation or visualizations, I hope this post has helped you. I implore you to DL the Creative Visualization ebook. It really was a super book. Get going on those Vision Boards! I'm positive you won't regret it!!

Many Many Blessings!!
El Baugher

My Vision Board - July 08 Update

Ok, I took a look at my vision board while writing my last post and was AMAZED at what I saw. It's actually funny that it didn't click until I looked at it. I'll tell you what the pictures represent to me as I see evidence of them manifesting. Here goes...

• The peace sign is for increasing my inner peace.




• The woman with the measuring tape is for increased health and stamina.




• The bowl of veggies is to produce many veggies in my garden.




• The laptop with dollar signs is to increase my household income, from home, online.

The increased inner peace showed up today. Check out my "Knee Jerk Reaction vs Inner Peace" post.

The increased health and stamina showed up YESTERDAY! I jog a mile every morning. Well, I try to. It's hit and miss. Every day for a week, then not at all for 2 weeks. I've gained about 6 pounds since the kids got out of school for the summer. Monday morning, I jogged my mile... but when I was done, I felt like I just had more to give... so I ran another quarter mile!! Then this morning, I weighed myself and am down 2 pounds!! AWSOME!

Many veggies happened today. We have really thick clay in our yard. We've added compost and manure and even SAND to our garden the last 2 years. My plants have been growing... mostly. My tomato plants aren't growing at all. My zucchini is growing and flowering, but no fruit yet. Same with the pumpkins. My green beans are scrawny and not producing much. The snap peas are growing, but no pods. It's rained here so much, I couldn't go weed. If you walk out there when it's damp, you sink right in. So it was all weedy. I go out and look at everything everyday at least once. Today was beautiful, and after meditating at the playground, I was in the mood for some gardening. I went out and found green beans that were almost as big as the 6" tall plant they hung from. IT BLEW ME AWAY! I have pea pods all over the place. Still no zuchs or pumpkins but I'm VERY positive they'll be showing up shortly!! The tomato plants still looked pathetic. I worked until a thunderstorm was rolling in. I came in and washed my hands in the kitchen and there on the window sill was an 8" tall tomato plant sticking out of a glass of water!! Last week I pulled out some little tomato plants that were trying to grow double next to another plant. I didn't want to just throw them in the compost, so I stuck them in a glass of water to deal with at a later date. I forgot all about them. THEY GREW sitting in the kitchen window in water. BETTER, in fact, than the others outside! So I'm going to get my tomatoes after all. I potted 5 tomato plants and put them on the porch.

The increased income has happened today and yesterday. Traffic to all my websites has increased along with ad clicks and donations! Now, I'm not saying OMG and now I'm rich!! But, increase is increase! More is coming. *There is always more than enough!* I think this is my new mantra.

I am so grateful for the many blessings surrounding me and I hope you are too!

Many countless blessings to you,

El Baugher :)

Knee Jerk Reactions VS Inner Peace

I have moments where I'm so completely zen and at one with every energy around me, it amazes me. I do, however, have the "knee jerk" reactions sometimes. They happen FAR less frequently than they used to. One year ago, the knee jerk was the only reaction I had. Now, I try to be more loving and kind, no matter what's happening. We are, after all, connected to everyone and everything around us.

Well! When someone does something that's totally inconsiderate, it bothers me. I'm learning to find peace in these moments.... I'm growing. When someone does something that's totally inconsiderate and then lets you know that they KNOW they're being inconsiderate and that they did it just to be a jerk....?.... That more than bothers me! That makes me so darn mad that I feel like I could just spontaneously burst into flames. I'm learning to find peace in these moments too. I'd have to admit though, that the process has been a little slower in this area. But, hey... ya have to get a grip of the small things first. No mountain climber has ever started with Everest!

So.... here's what happened to me today!

I took my boys to the local elementary school playground this morning. They went off to play (it's SO cool that they're older now!) and I was going to sit in the truck and listen to the book on CD I'd brought along. It was about 10am. The sun was warm and inviting and the birds were chirping and I felt so calm, so instead of doing what I'd planned to do, I grabbed the towel in the back seat (never know when the beach could happen!) and folded it to sit on, and climbed in the bed of the truck. I sat cross legged in the yoga "easy pose" and turned my face into the sun and meditated for about 15 minutes. I felt SO fantastic when we left there! Totally at peace.

We were almost home and we came up to pass the truck stop and a semi pulled out RIGHT in front of me. I was the only vehicle on the road. There was no one else to wait for, but he pulled out from a complete stop and made me stop in the middle of the road and wait for him. This used to wind me up pretty good, but I've been looking at it from a different perspective lately. I figure, it can't be easy to pull 85,000 pounds that's 30 feet long out into traffic, and I keep my peace. Even when there's no one else on the road!! I figure, well, some people just don't realize the impact they have on others, and I keep my peace.

This guy though!! THIS guy pulls out and makes me stop, and I looked up at him as he came around, and he looked me right in the face, grinned, and gave me the finger!!!

I did something I've never done before in my life. I smiled at him... the warmest, friendliest smile I have.. and made the peace sign with my left hand out the window. This was absolutely a divinely inspired action! I've never thought to do ANYTHING like that before, but when I saw him, it just happened! The look on his face made me laugh. I've never been able to react from such a peaceful place before.

AND just a few minutes ago, as I was writing this story, I realized something funny. I made that vision board on Sunday morning and posted a picture of it. The peace sign is for increasing my inner peace! I guess the universe got my request! MAN, I just went and looked at that post from Sunday to paste the link and I'm going to have to end this post and start another LOL!!! See you there!!

My Vision Board - July 08

Hey Everyone!

I hope your weekend was fantastic! Mine was. I thought about a vision board for a couple of days. I even cut a 3 foot piece of brown paper off the roll I have and set it aside with the intention of "getting to it". This morning, while I was drinking my coffee and watching some Abraham-Hicks videos on YouTube it occurred to me.... I want to make a vision board for my desktop! I'm on and off my laptop all day. What could be a better place than on my desktop where I can look at it periodically all day every day?

So, here goes. As promised, below is a picture of my current vision board. I think I'll sit down and revise it at the beginning of every month. I'm also going to use my brown paper to make a material vision board for my gym. Can't think about the things your intending too much now can ya!!

Have a happy Monday! May you receive everything you're attracting!

Peace & Love,

El Baugher :)