Affirm & Visualize a Better Future

 

Are you ready to create a vision for a better future? Let’s envision great success and unprecedented joys in 2021!

If you’re wondering how to do this, read on!

In previous blogs, I’ve written about using affirmations and visualization to achieve your desired future, and both of these are powerful processes. But, did you know they are even more powerful when used together?

As a reminder, an affirmation is a positive statement that declares what you desire. Examples include: I appreciate my great health; I’m enjoying my beautiful beach home in the Outer Banks; and I’m gratefully celebrating the birth of my baby girl. 

Affirmations allow us to consciously choose thoughts that will deliver positive future results. These statements plant seeds and direct your subconscious mind to begin working toward achieving your goals.

Tips to make your affirmations more powerful:

• Create affirmations using the present tense (Use “I am enjoying…” and not, “I am going to enjoy…”)
• Affirm in the positive (Use, “I am enjoying great health,” not, “I don’t want to be sick.”)
• Use images to strengthen your affirmations.

Using images (visualization) is also an easy and effective process. You can use guided visualizations to identify and fully imagine what you want or simply close your eyes and think about your goals and desires in minute detail.

Research has shown that using affirmations and visualization together makes them even more powerful. There are many ways you can combine these tools.

 

You can state your affirmation and at the same time visualize it coming to life. For example, if your affirmation is “I appreciate my work promotion,” you would envision how you would feel, who you would be working with, and what kind of work you would be doing. 

Another great way to combine affirmations with visualization is by creating a vision board. When you look at your vision board, your mind naturally starts to imagine the outcomes you desire. You can use a vision board workbook or kit to aid in this process.

My favorite is the Vision Board Workbook (https://bit.ly/2JpqOdi) which provides a tutorial on how to design a vision board, tools to make it easy for you to create one, and a worksheet to identify your deepest desires, which is a critical first step of creating a vision board. There is also a “Tools of the Trade” section with page after page of phrases, affirmations, and pictures you can cut out to design your own unique vision board.

Affirmations and visualization are both powerful processes to help you achieve your goals and desires. Combined, the two processes become super-charged! So what are you waiting for? Create affirmations, visualizations, and a vision board that outlines the future of your dreams!

This blog was written by Sedona Hutton, author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction blended with new age spirituality. 

CLOUD WHISPERS: 2019 IPPY bronze winner for visionary fiction and 2018 Reader’s Favorite finalist for visionary fiction. A novel of family and forgiveness with a strong spiritual message: The daughter she gave away. The family she always wanted. The journey to redefine her fate…. https://amzn.to/2IZ6DRc.

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Recommended Reading & Tools:

 The Vision Board Workbook by Chris Clifford: https://bit.ly/2JpqOdi

 The Success Principles by Jack Canfield: https://amzn.to/39SgKSt

 Disclosure: The above links to recommended books are affiliate links. If you buy the book through these links, I receive a small commission on the sale. I’ve recommended these books because they’ve been meaningful to me personally and not because of the affiliate program. However, from a legal perspective, I need to identify these as affiliate links.

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Transformational New Year’s Practices

As the year draws to an end, people begin pondering New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, most resolutions aren’t successful. According to Business Insider, 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February.

Given the dismal success rate of resolutions, below are three alternative practices designed to transform your life in 2020.

Transformational New Year’s Practices

 

#1 - Define Your Purpose

Forget about losing those last few pounds or taking that long trip. Instead, dig deeper to uncover your true purpose in life. To do this, ask yourself:

·       What are my deepest desires?

·       Why am I here?

·       How can I serve?

You can ask yourself these questions anytime, however, I find an added lift when I do this just before meditation.

Once you understand your true purpose, prioritize your goals in alignment with your purpose. Jack Canfield describes this in his best-selling book, The Success Principles:

“Decide upon your major definitive purpose in life and align all your activities around it.”

Imagine if we did just that! What if we knew our purpose and aligned every goal with that single purpose? This simple, yet profound wisdom offers the key to achieving our deepest desires.

#2 – Let Go!

Now that you know your purpose, what are you doing that sidetracks you and/or takes time away from your purpose? What behaviors, habits, or beliefs do you have that no longer serve you? Examples might include fears, doubts, negativity, judgment, or attachment. This practice is designed to help you let go of anything that no longer serves you in order to focus your mind, body, and spirit on your true purpose.

This simple three-step process will help you start 2020 with a clean slate!

Let Go Process steps:

1.     Identify those emotions, beliefs, or habits you wish to release.

2.     Write them on a rock (one per stone.)

3.     On New Year’s Day, go to a location of your choice, and release your rocks.

Tips:

o   A mountain, field, stream, lake, or the ocean are great locations for releasing your rocks.

o   An alternative is to write your releases on slips of paper and burn them.

#3 – Create A Vision Board

A vision board is a collection of words and images that represent your deepest desires. It taps into the power of visualization and is a great tool to help you manifest your desires. You can create a vision board using these 5 easy steps.

1.     Make a list of your deepest desires.

2.     Select pictures, words, and/or affirmations that represent your desires.

3.     Make a collage of your pictures, words, and affirmations. This can be on a display board, white board, or compiled into a digital image.

4.     Display your vision board in a prominent location. If you created a digital version, use it as the screensaver on your phone, tablet, or laptop.

5.     Look at your board on a regular basis throughout the day. Feel and fully experience the images and words you’ve put on your board, and believe that these desires will manifest in your life!

Use these three practices—Define Your Purpose, Let Go, and Create a Vision Board—to transform 2020 into the life of your dreams!

Wishing you peace, love, joy, and purpose in the New Year!

This blog was written by Sedona Hutton, author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction blended with new age spirituality. 

Nora's Promise, A Racing Hearts in Serenity Romance— Reader's Favorite 2019 Bronze Contemporary Romance winner and 2019 NIEA Bronze winner: She trusts animals more than men. He races through women like checkered flags. Can one orphaned boy bring them both to the finish line? https://amzn.to/2OktquX 

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Cloud Whispers—2019 IPPY Bronze winner for Visionary Fiction. The daughter she gave away. The family she always wanted. The journey to redefine her fate: https://amzn.to/2IZ6DRc

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Recommended Reading:

The Success Principles by Jack Canfield: https://amzn.to/2QlG9vp

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne: https://amzn.to/2GwSGJc

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra: https://amzn.to/2C9BF5k

Disclosure: The above links to recommended books are affiliate links. If you buy the book through these links, I receive a small commission on the sale. I’ve recommended these books because they’ve been meaningful to me personally and not because of the affiliate program. However, from a legal perspective, I need to identify these as affiliate links.

Effortlessly Manifest Your Desires

Vision boards are all the rage these days, and for good reason. If you Google vision board success stories, you’ll generate over 12 million responses!

If you don’t know what a vision board is or how to create one, you may be surprised to learn that it’s a super easy process. To create a vision board, you simply put together a collage of pictures, words, and/or images that represent your deepest desires and display your board someplace where you’ll see it every day. Alternatively, you can create a digital vision board by compiling your pictures, words, or quotes into a collage and making it the screensaver on your phone, tablet, or laptop.

Super simple, right?

“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.” Rosabeth Moss Canter

What powers the wide-spread success people are experiencing with vision boards? Is it intention setting, visualization, or some mystical force that grants wishes like a fairy god-mother?

In my contemporary romance novel, Nora’s Promise, Steph touches on this question:

Nora raised a skeptical brow. “So you put pictures on a board and it all magically comes true?”

“There’s a little magic,” Steph conceded, “but there’s science too. When you look at your pictures each and every day, signals go to your brain outlining your desires. A seed is planted in your subconscious and its reinforced every time you look at your board. Looking at the pictures also puts vibrations of your wishes into the universe so the universe can begin its magic to help you.” Excitement bubbled inside Steph. She hadn’t thought about her vision board in a long time, but there was a reason why she was thinking about it now. It was time for her to put her most intimate desires out there once again. It was time to ask, believe, and receive.

“The best way to achieve your goals is to keep them top of mind, so you’re always looking for ways to move yourself closer to them – and a vision board is the perfect tool to help you do that.” Jack Canfield

Given how easy it is to create a vision board, why not join the movement and begin the process of effortlessly manifesting your deepest desires?

This blog was written by Sedona Hutton, author of women’s fiction and romance novels with spiritual & new age twists.

NORA’S PROMISE, a contemporary romance: She trusts animals more than men. He runs through women like tires. Can one orphaned boy force them to change gears? Purchase link: https://amzn.to/2OktquX

CLOUD WHISPERS, a contemporary novel: The daughter she gave away. The family she always wanted. The journey to redefine her fate. Purchase link: https://goo.gl/N9aC38

To sign up for Sedona’s blog newsletter, tap this link:  https://www.sedonahutton.com/

Recommended Reading:

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra: https://amzn.to/2C9BF5k

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne: https://amzn.to/2GwSGJc

The Success Principles (TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield: https://amzn.to/2Ewfd7q

Disclosure: The above links to recommended books are affiliate links. If you buy the book through these links, I receive a small commission on the sale. I’ve recommended these books because they’ve been meaningful to me personally and not because of the affiliate program. However, from a legal perspective, I need to identify these as affiliate links.