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Destined to succeed |
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Full of energy |
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Filled with creative ideas |
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Courageous |
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Hold onto these images and feelings: They represent an exciting step toward creating inner confidence. The more you become familiar with your positive images, the more they will come to you naturally. This is just an early step toward replacing old negative thoughts with new healthy ones. Paying attention to your beliefs and to the way your inner dialogue supports them is another step along the way to creating what you want in your life. |
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So, now that you know what your current beliefs are, are you ready to decide how you'd like to change the ones that need changing? |
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Mapping Your Way to Guidance and Growth |
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We've talked a lot in this chapter about using your beliefs to create what you want in your life. What do you wantreally wantfor yourself and your future? If you're like most people, that isn't an easy question for you to answer. |
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In this exercise, you're going to create your own treasure mapone that can lead you to the greatest treasure you've ever dreamed of: your innermost dreams and desires for your life. We're asking you to work with symbols. Symbolic images are one of the primary ways that your intuition speaks to you. |
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This treasure map, or dream collage, is a visual representation of your hopes and dreams. Remember that book by Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Random House, 1988)? Well, this exercise will remind you of that! Get a large piece of poster board or foam core, a pair of scissors, some glue, a bunch of old magazines, and a few new ones. Go through your magazines and cut out words and pictures that inspire you. Pay attention to what excites you. |
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If you've always wanted to travel, for instance, cut out a picture representing your dream destination and paste it on your board. Same goes for a picture that represents an exciting career, or a perfect body, or a great relationship. Cut out and paste any photograph, drawing, or other visual representation of your goal or goals. Once you're done cutting and pasting, put your collage in a place where you'll see it frequently. |
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Creating and displaying your treasure map brings your secret dreams and desires, aims and ambitions, out into the open. As your eye catches it from time to time, you'll be reminded of that side of yourself that isn't always doing the expected, rational thing. With time, the strongest parts of that ''secret" side will start to jump out at you. They'll remind you not only that they're there, but also that they're ready for you to start making them real in your everyday life. And you can turn to your intuition for help on how to create that reality. |
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