I Created an Awesome Vacation!

So, we were overdue for a family vacation, but every time my husband mentioned it, I kind of put it off. I was not looking forward to traveling with two little ones again, on airplanes while they fussed and required constant attention, and the planes would be delayed and miss their connections, and the flight crew would be totally rude and uncaring. This has all happened before. One of my worst trips ever we slept in the Denver airport overnight on the floor with an infant and newly pregnant with another. I can't even begin to tell you just how miserable that trip was and how terrible people were to us. Anyway....

We booked a trip to Orlando, FL to visit family and to do the Disney and Universal thing. Sounds fun, but I just kept thinking about how much work it was going to be. But I had to go.

So what I decided to do was write out our trip as though it already happened and tell about just how perfect our vacation was. Here is what I scribbled down in a notebook one night before bed:

"We just returned this evening from a totally awesome vacation to FL. I am so happy and grateful that our trip to FL went spectacularly well! All of our flights both to and from FL were on time. We were treated very nicely by the flight staff. The flights were all smooth and comfortable. The kids were in good moods, happy and kept themselves entertained on the flights. I even got a chance to relax and rest on the flights. We got our luggage quickly and in perfect shape. When we got to FL, we got our rental car quickly and drove to our hotel. The hotel was wonderful! The rooms were clean and beautiful. The staff was wonderful and very responsive. The pool was great! The water was perfect. The weather was also perfect the whole time we were in FL! And even more wonderful was that everyone was in perfect health the entire trip. Everyone felt strong, healthy and full of energy! We visited Magic Kingdom and had a beautiful day. The lines were short and we got to see everything we wanted to, including Minnie Mouse. We also had a perfect day at Universal Orlando with my parents. We got to see all the attractions we wanted and the lines were quite short! We also spent part of a day at the water park. We all had so much fun! The weather was perfect and there were a lot of fun things we got to do together there. We also had a nice day visiting with all the family for Henry's birthday. The food was geat and everyone enjoyed themselves. We had a wonderful trip!"

That pretty much sums up how our trip really happened! Oh, there were a couple little bumps in the road, but nothing that ruined our trip. There actually was bad weather on one day, but we worked around it and we still managed to do everything we wanted to do while we were there. All our flights were on time, and the kids were great travelers. I even got an entire row to myself on one of the flights! And I did get a little reading done as well. How nice! Despite the fact that it was spring break, and we ended up going to Magic Kingdom the day after the bad rain storms along with everyone else and it was totally packed, most of the lines were reasonably short for the attractions we wanted to see. Go figure! They were even shorter at Universal the following day. Everyone stayed healthy and we all had a great time. Oh, and usually the night before we leave for a vacation I don't sleep well, and then in the morning I usually have an upset stomach. But this time, I slept well, felt rested and felt full of energy!

I truly believe that by writing this out and reading it several times before our trip and visualizing in my head the perfect trip that it helped me to manifest it. I'm sure that if I focused on everything going wrong, it very easily would have.

So next time you're dreading doing something, write out a script of exactly how you'd like it to go as though it already happened. Read it over many times. See if you don't manifest an experience more like what you desire than what you've gotten in the past.

What Have You Manifested?

The Universal Laws work all the time, whether we're conscious of them or not. We may attract good things or bad things (in our opinion) and not understand why these things are coming into our lives. So, since the universal laws, and the law of attraction have been working for all of my life, I thought I'd take a look back and see exactly what I've manifested!

I'd like to share with you two major things I manifested into my life, before I even knew about the Universal Laws and the Law of Attraction.

The first BIG thing I manifested was my move from to CA. When I was 16, I visited CA and thought it was amazing and wonderful and felt that I HAD to move here. When I was in college I bought one of those large panoramic posters of the city of San Francisco and had it laminated. I hung it prominently over my bed where I saw it several times a day. When I graduated college the poster came with me and it hung over my bed there as well where I saw it every morning when I woke up and every night as I went to bed. At some point, I decided to answer some job ads out in California. I got a call to come out for an interview in the SF Bay area. I flew out, did the interview, went back to my hotel and got a call later the same day offering me the job! I accepted it, flew home, packed up my car with my belongings and moved out here! That was 14 years ago! Yes, it took several years to actually manifest that dream, but I did it, and without really doing anything specific to make it happen. Things take more time when we're not consciously focusing on manifesting them.

The second BIG thing I manifested that I hadn't even realized at the time was my husband. How? I was a single girl in my 30's and ready to settle down but things just weren't falling into place. I read the book "Finding True Love" by Daphne Rose Kingma and one of the exercises in it was to write a list to the Universe about what exactly I wanted in the perfect mate. I did that exercise (7-20-1998), wrote it all down, and put it aside. It wasn't until somewhat recently (several years later) that I found that notebook with the list written down inside it. I was amazed when I read how it described my husband's qualities exactly! Well, OK, he has a beard and I hadn't specified that I wanted someone with no facial hair, but it wasn't a deal breaker and I'm rather fond of it now. What matters is that the Universe delivered a person with the qualities that I DID specifiy. I find it truly amazing! I met my husband almost exactly one year after I wrote that list. At the end of the list I wrote down the note "Your soul knows the timing. True love WILL show up, when the time is right." It took a year for him to come into my life, but I got exactly what I wanted and when I was ready for him.

Now, as I said in the beginning, we have actually attracted EVERYTHING into our lifes that we're currently experiencing. But if you're like me, most of it was unconscious. I've attracted some good things and I've attracted some less than desirable things. But now that I'm armed with the knowledge about how the law of attraction works I can be an active participant in my manifesting. I know that this is not something that we become experts at overnight, but I'm excited about the prospect of being a part of manifesting my dream life!

What have YOU manifested? What WILL you manifest?

Mind Movies - Visualization Tool

I have so much to catch you up on to bring you up to date. I couldn't sleep last night thinking about everything I want to share.

For starters, I wanted to let you know that I am in the process of trying out Mind Movies. These are short movies you make yourself that include positive affirmations, photos and music and it all comes together in a very powerful visualization tool. That vision board hanging on my wall in my bedroom doesn't move me nearly as much as these movies do!

So, I went to their website the other day and downloaded six free videos to watch on my computer. The topics of these mind movies are: Friends & Family, Health, Money, Spirituality, Perfect Man, Perfect Woman. Watching these videos just make you feel happy and excited that these things are really a part of your life. They are way more moving than any vision board or affirmations by themselves. You can take a look for yourself by going to Mind Movies.

Another video of interest from the Mind Movies people is an interview with Frank Kern. Their video hit home with me when they talked about how sometimes it seems strange to post vision boards around the house or at work, or to repeat affirmations out loud. It just doesn't feel cool. But... making your own Mind Movie... now that's cool! It's like making your own little music video that inspires you, personally. And it sticks in your head even when you're not watching it. If you have a few minutes you might want to watch this very casual video that talks about how Law of Attraction happened to these guys without even realizing it until after it happened. (That has happened to me too, but that's another post.) The video with Frank Kern can be seen here. You can also access the six free mind movies from this link as well.

My computer time is somewhat limited with the kids and other responsibilities, so I stayed up late last night to work on my Mind Movie. I hope to have it finished in the next day to post and share with all of you.

So far, it's been super easy to put it together, minus one little glitch. My computer doesn't have Power Point on it. The instructions for making your Mind Movie uses Power Point for the affirmations. However, they also offer a work around using the rest of the software. I decided though to take the advice of someone and downloaded Open Office which is free office software and they have an application that works just like Power Point. Being the novice at downloading and setting things up, that took me a little longer than anticipated. I know now it was just my lack of experience and it should have been really simple. But it works great! So now I can complete my Mind Movie just as they instruct even without Power Point!

Back to finding those perfect photo images for my Mind Movie. I'll keep you posted! And again, if you want to check out what a Mind Movie is or what one looks like, check out this link here.