Planting the Seeds of Dreams

As we move into the season of Autumn, what comes to mind immediately is the gorgeous hue of ambers as the colors of the leaves change. At this time of year, it is natural to think of harvest, to be reaping what we have sown, enjoying the fruits of our labors. Besides the seeds you physically planted, what else will you harvest this year? What dreams or goals did you "plant" for yourself?

It is crucial that we set intentions for ourselves, both large and small. We are beings of creation by nature, and most of us barely utilize that ability. Ever noticed how much you accomplish when you set out with a "To-Do" list? You’re much more likely to accomplish tasks and sometimes even more, when you have a physical or visual reminder. We have all at some time gone grocery shopping without a list, and forget to get some of the things we truly need, while we often come home with several things that were simply impulse purchases.

Over the last 10 years running ZuZu’s Healing Arts I have led many a workshop on vision/manifestation boards. I continue to incorporate them in my teaching even now for one main reason...they WORK. Whether a simple photograph or entire collage, having that visual reminder to stimulate your creative ability is a powerful tool in manifesting what you want to create. Wayne Dyer says "Use your imagination to create an image, a picture, that will help you focus on the life you want to achieve. As you go to sleep, don’t review bad feelings, fears, worries...instead assume the good feeling of the wish fulfilled. Go to sleep with visions of what you love. Let your dream vision marinate overnight." Let your own vision board do just that - hold that visual image in your mind, let it sink in to your being, until you can close your eyes and call it up into your consciousness at will. Then the image has been "planted" in your vibration, and each time you allow yourself to visualize this reality, you are energetically watering and nuturing the seeds so that they grow.

As I sit down to write this article it is a New Moon, a great time to set intentions to manifest a goal or desire. Each month we get this opportunity to have an extra energetic "push" added to our intentions, but you can start manifesting your future anytime you are inspired. At ZuZu’s we like to do it twice a year as a group - in January and again mid-way through the year to evaluate our progress and original goals. Check our website and join us 1/1/2013 for our 2nd Annual "Women’s Intentional Workshop." I hope I have inspired you to take an active role in manifesting your dreams, as I leave you with this quote: "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."- Henry David Thoreau