Category Archives for "Self Mastery"
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How to Create Affirmation Cards On-The-Go
Consider creating a unique deck of positive affirmation cards using your private collection of favorite of positive affirmations, mantras or sayings!
Have you been keeping a list of lovely quotes, romantic sayings or catchy phrases every once in a while which you get from magazines, books or online? Well, instead of simply copying the words down in a book or storing them in a word or excel file, think of making a set of affirmation cards that you can flip easily and carry around!
(Affirmation Cards On-the-Go)
Like the idea of mini collages for affirmation cards on-the-go (see picture example above for end product) ? If so, let’s get crafty with today’s post – creating affirmation cards the fun, cheap and easy way!
Create a Feng Shui Wealth Vision Board
If you have been thinking of creating a wealth vision board, how about incorporating feng shui elements and pictures into it? There are many feng shui symbols for wealth, luck and prosperity. We can see them in huge display at shopping centers and stores this time of the year.
(A feng shui wealth vision board featuring images of a laughing Buddha, the word “fu” for prosperity and koi fish.)
If you don’t already know, Chinese New Year celebrations start this weekend and last for a period of fifteen days. Decorations in red, gold and yellow and sweet delicacies that promise to melt prosperity in your mouth are being sold aplenty!
Cultivate The Power of Imagination
The power of imagination can bring us on exciting adventures, to fantasy playgrounds and rides on rainbows. Mine certainly did, one lazy afternoon while I was at the park. There was a tree that loomed above me (see picture). As I lay on the ground and turned my head upwards, I observed that the air that surrounded the crown of ferns sitting atop the tree carried a mystical charm. The day was hot. My eyes started to feel heavy. I closed my eyes.
“The Silver Shoes,” said the Good Witch, “have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go.”
— Dorothy and the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz.
Planting Seeds of Intent: Creation. Creativity. Gratitude.
The intent or power word that best resonates with me right now is Creation. It represents the birthing of ideas into fruition. It is about the need to be authentic to my inner vision and to trust that the marketplace will support me in my work. In being authentic, it is about claiming ownership what is inherent in me all along – my creative self. Of course, Creation and Creativity springs from Abundance – the power word which drives my overall intent and this blog.
Nature Tapestry Calendar for 2010 available at Affirmation Mart.
30 Power Words To Activate Intention Setting
As I have found, intention setting with simply using power words and phrases can be powerful and effective. This is in contrast to setting new year resolutions. In fact, in recent years, setting new year resolutions is becoming passe amongst spiritually-aware personal development experts. More people are recommending using intentions or themes to guide our directions at the start of a new year.
Difference Between Intention Setting and Making New Year Resolutions
What is the difference, you may ask?
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Goenka Vipassana Meditation: Your Body As An Laboratory
It was difficult to keep still. At times, the pain on my back intensified to an excruciating level. It was as if someone had stuck a dagger into a single blade on the lower right. It would have take a physical movement to help ease the pain. Yet, I was not supposed to move. I had to keep my back straight for at least one hour.
(The campsite on St John’s Island lies beyond the hill)
Any major physical movement would disrupt the practice of focus and concentration acquired through anapana. Breathing in, breathing out, I sat on the meditation cushion. I was only required to observe any physical sensation. So this was how it was like for most of my sittings for a continuous 10 days. I was in confinement for the most part, cut away from almost all forms of external communication with others. I was on a Noble Silence Goenka Vipassana Meditation Retreat from Dec 1 to 12, 2009.
Nature Tapestry November Notes
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(My MacBook Pro in the surrounding Nature Tapestry, Singapore Botanic Gardens)
Nature Tapestry Notes started with a bang in November! The month is now drawing to a close. Here is a brief recap of blog posts:
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10 Tips To Setting Powerful Intentions
There can be several guidelines to be aware of, when you set powerful intentions. When applied cohesively, they can be extremely helpful in bringing your intents to fruition effectively.
You can set a powerful intention or a poor one. Based on my experiences with setting intentions, here is a summary of 10 tips I have picked up that I would like to share with you:
Timeless Unfolding of Truths
In the few weeks and months leading to my last blogging break, I felt that something has already begun to shift inside me. I was gradually questioning the futility of having spiritual experiences without the realization of deeper truths. Let me explain further.
(Where am I on my self growth journey?)
For a time while seeking for answers to “who am I”, I was led into past life experiences, out-of-body experiences and different dimensions. These personal experiences were triggered both on the conscious and the unconscious levels. They helped me discover with some important realizations. One of my most first knowing was that I was a spirit having a human experience and not the other way round.
How To Restore Inner Harmony
What happens when your intuition and logic are at odds with each other?
A state of unrest. Internal conflict.
You feel as if you are in some kind of a crisis, because of the perception that one wrong move in decision making will change the entire course of your life.
You are in pain for days, finding it hard to make a choice. It is hard to keep your mind still, under these circumstances. Your mind is being held captive by an escalation of conflicting thoughts.