The law of attraction has become THE buzzword in the last several years through the books and trainings of Esther and Jerry Hicks, Mike Dooley’s work, the movie “The Secret” and others. But it has been around a very long time. Charles Haanel wrote his book “The Master Key System” in 1912, and Wallace D. Wattles, wrote his book “The Science of Getting Rich” in 1910. And way before that, most spiritual texts, including the bible, speak of prayer and focusing on what it is you desire, believing that it will manifest. Dream boards are one of the tools of this spiritual law and manifestation tool.
There is a part of the brain called the reticular activating system. This is the part of your brain that affects the sleep/awake cycle, arousal (mental) and also where you place your attention. The brain is bombarded throughout the day with sounds, sights, sensations, smells, etc. and your brain decides what to focus on. Quantum physics has demonstrated that our DNA has various programs imbedded in it and what we focus on will keep being produced in our bodies and lives. We essentially keep those programs turned on, and because our brain likes similarity, our brain will continue to notice those symptoms in our body and situations in our lives. We are thus programming our lives as a computer programmer programs a computer. However, we can also “turn on” other programs in our DNA, by choosing to focus our attention on something different, and then we begin to literally “gather evidence” that matches that choice. Those changes can now show up in our bodies and lives.
Hypnotherapy, NLP, goal setting, EFT (emotional freedom technique), One Commands, visualization, affirmations and other mind/body therapies use this information to shut down the unwanted brain setting that has been focusing on what we don’t want and then re-setting the brain and unconscious to focus on what we desire.
I like dream boards and variations of it, because they place your goals and desires in your view, and pictures help elicit more of an emotional response vs. just the words in a written affirmation or goal. It is recommended that you view your dream boards for several minutes twice a day. I like to use EFT tapping while looking at my dream boards, and you can also use one of the “stress release tools” on my website, to help focus your attention and defuse any subconscious blocks you may have to manifesting your desires. You can find them at www.empowerandbalance.com.
So here’s quick and easy steps for creating your dream boards:
1. Figure out what you want, how you want to feel, what you want to do
and ask yourself “What is important about that?”. Continue to ask
that question to get to the deepest value that you are looking for such
as freedom, joy, relaxation, health, peace, and fulfillment.
2. Find pictures that depict those conditions, situations, relationships, objects, places, feelings and/or type and print out or write words that define and describe them as well. Remember to ad pictures of yourself.
3. Gather poster board, poster paper, cardboard, or whatever base you’d
like to use, a glue stick or poster tape, glitter, stickers, markers, color-
ful wrapping paper, whatever you’d like for decorations. Let yourself
play with the arrangement, paying attention to the emotions you are
feeling as you put this dream board together. You want to create a
dream board that lifts you up, places you IN the picture, as if you are
living it all NOW!!.
4. If you notice limiting thoughts or emotions coming up when you look at
your dream board, you can use One Commands, EFT, the tools on my website or any other mind/body technique to clear and defuse it and align yourself with your dreams!
Most of all have fun, relax and allow your dreams to come to you! If you have any questions or results to share, please contact me! Stay tuned for part two of this article where I’ll talk about some other variations on traditional dream boards! Happy Dreaming!