While Mother Nature begins to paint her canvas with delicate blossoms, warmer days and a tinge of crisp freshness and new beginnings, you may find that your enegy magically begins to lift as you enter into a new cycle.

Our energy is naturally in rhythm with the waxing and waning of the seasons and now after the cozy-up, hibernating feeling of winter, the beginning of Spring brings with it excitement and energy, a time for reflection and a sense of new life, a FRESH START.

How can you use the natural rythym and energy of spring to enhance your life?

How can you use the natural energy of the Spring season to get your body, mind and spirit back into shape?

Here are 5 tips and tricks from the Fairy Godmother to use this Spring-time energy to its full advantage   (click on each of them for all the info)

Tip 1:   Clean up your Space

Tip 2:  Cut out the “Deadwood”

Tip 3:  Climb into your Body

Tip 4:  Massage your Mind

Tip 5: Connect to Spirit

Yes – you are invited to the Book Launch of  The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What you Want

Date: Wednesday 19 August

Time: 19h00 – until Coaches turn into pumpkins

Venue:  Zenatude, Rivonia Crossing Shopping Centre, Cnr Achter and Witkoppen Roads, Sunninghill, Johannesburg

Anyone may attend

Please RSVP to magicmaker@fairygodmotherinc.com

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In my Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshops (and also in my book) I teach how to create a Future Imagined Memory (FIM) as a key technique to create what you want in your life and manifest your goals.

Briefly, a Future Imagined Memory is a story, in the present tense, of the ‘outcome’ of your dream or goal. This is an imagined and made-up story of a future event with you in it in which your goal has become a reality. This story should be written clearly, describing the experience in detail and, most importantly, in terms of all five of your senses.

After you have created your story, every day for the next 30 days, spend 10 minutes in the morning or 10 minutes in the evening jumping into your Future Imagined Memory. Lie down, get comfortable, close your eyes and relax. Imagine yourself in the scene. While you are doing the exercise, get excited about it: feel the positive feelings, listen to the sounds, enjoy the sensation of having what you want in your life. Do this every day for 30 days and then stop. Thirty days is long enough to turn the Future Imagined Memory into a desire fully felt and understood by the body and the mind.

In the last few months I have received a number of emails from Daring Dreamers with questions about the Future Imagined Memory Technique… so here are 5 additional tips and tricks for you to apply.

Tip 1:  Keep the story exactly the same

Keep the same story for the 30 days; don’t add bits or take bits away.  With the daily repetition the mind will often be tempted to change the story.  It is important to keep the same story so that this becomes ingrained in the mind and to create a vivid future memory.

Tip 2: Make sure it is the outcome not the how

When you develop your FIM story, make sure that the story is an outcome i.e. that you goal or dream is complete. It has happened.  Don’t try to create a story around the process, the ‘how’.  As an example if you have a goal to write a book, don’t imagine sitting behind your computer and typing because that is the process. Rather create your FIM about the book being done eg. being at your book launch, seeing the book in a store or being interviewed on TV about the book.

Tip 3: Sensing rather than vivid

A comment from one of my daring dreamers recently was
“what I find is sometimes I do my FIM it goes really well, most of the time I struggle with hearing, tasting & smelling the others are okay”

In NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) there is a theory that one of our senses is slightly more developed than the others. Your primary senses are visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and normally one of these will be your most prominent sense. You may be a highly visual person. When you close your eyes and imagine your future memory you may be able to ‘see’ all the details reasonably clearly, but the hearing may be a little more difficult. You may be a highly auditory person, which means you are more attuned to sound. When you imagine your future memory you can hear all the sounds clearly but may not be able to conjure up the sense of touch with such clarity. Or you may be a kinaesthetic person, which means emotions and tactile sensations are easy for you to imagine and feel but pictures are a bit hazy and sound not as apparent. Whichever is your primary sense, be aware that it is through this sense that you will primarily experience your Future Imagined Memory. However, focus on the other senses too.

Even though you will be imagining your FIM with your five senses, please note that your FIM will probably not be in Technicolor, Dolby sound with which you experience life.  Doing the FIM is more like sensing things than necessarily seeing, hearing or feeling things in crystal clear clarity.  If it is not sharp and clear don’t worry, just keep doing it.

Tip 4:  Distraction

During the FIM process you may find that your mind begins to wander or gets distracted.  This is very normal.  When you realise that your mind has wandered, gently bring it back to where you were in your story and continue the process.  You may need to do this many times during the process.  Some days you may find you are more distracted than others.

Tip 5: Narrate yourself through the story

For some people it helps to narrate yourself through the story.  You may want to do this silently in your head as you go through the story or a few of my Daring Dreamers like to talk it out loud to themselves, while their eyes are closed and they are imagining it.  An idea is to record yourself narrating your FIM and then listen to the narration every morning – this is particularly useful for two reasons.
1.    The story is always exactly the same as it has been recorded
2.    It is easier to stay focused and not get distracted

Good luck with your FIM and doing it for 30 days – you will be AMAZED at the results.

To practice creating a FIM, here is a Free FIM Download to create 2009 as your best year yet

If you have any further tips or tricks or questions about the Futurre Imagined Memory technique or visualisation, please leave a comment below.

 

Everything in life is a story.

Your mind is forever making up stories; it is a non-stop story-making machine. When you focus or concentrate on a specific thought, your mind links that thought to other thoughts and abracadabra, it creates strings of thoughts that it labels ‘the truth’. Amazingly whatever story we call ‘the truth’ becomes our reality.

Many thoughts that come into your mind are not your thoughts; they are other people’s thoughts. If you are not creating empowering stories and producing a fabulous, fun life – then who is creating those stories for you?

The media?
Your family?
Your friends?
Whose stories are you using to build your own story?

The majority of us revere the media and bow down to its all-knowingness of ‘the truth’. The media is merely a group of people who are good at telling stories, particularly negative stories. Our minds grab at those sensational stories with gusto and gobble them quickly, creating daisy chains of thoughts about death, destruction and disaster.

When your mother says, ‘You won’t be able to study at University because your marks are not good enough,’ this is a story. It is her story, but we take on these comments and thoughts as our stories and look around in our reality for other thoughts we can join like little pearls onto this thought-necklace until we create a band of beliefs tightly around our necks.

Most people, by the time they get into the office in the morning, have consumed thoughts about murder, robbery, corrupt politicians and bad weather from the radio or newspaper and wonder why they are stressed, tense and pessimistic about life or the country they live in. Of course, the story about the future of a country is also a story – it is not ‘the truth’.

If the story you are telling yourself at the moment is not working, the solution is simple. Choose another story!  

You can create yourself in your mind to be anything you want to be. Initially people laughed at me when I said I was a Fairy Godmother (some people still do), but as I have grown my story, more and more people now view it as ‘the truth’.

How do you Choose another Story?

The next Blog Post in 2 days time will be about How to Create Empowering Stories… but in the meantime to decrease the amount of negative stories being planted in your head why not go on a 1 week media diet?

Eg. no reading newspapers, listening to radio, watching television, reading magazines, or surfing internet news websites. 

Stop ALL of your daily consumption of the media.
Stop other people’s stories creating stories in your mind and watch how your life begins to transform…..

For those of you brave enough to take on this Fairy Godmother dare…. Please comment on it below….

Your mind is the most powerful piece of technology that you own and when did you last take it in for a service?   Spring is a great time for massaging the mind which can be done in a number of different ways.

My first recommendation is to learn how to meditate.   Mediation is an incredible tool for going beyond the conditioned, “thinking” mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness.  Getting into a regular mediation practice of as little as ten minutes per day will generate incredible benefits such as to greater focus, creativity or self-awareness, or just simply a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind.

As the days get longer and you feel more energy returning, why not sign up for a course in something new and perhaps creative – like sculpting, playing a musical instrument or learning a new language.  Learning new things, particularly a language or skill, increases the brain’s plasticity and there is growing evidence in Neuroscience that the brain is structurally altered when learning occurs.

This is something I concentrate on and explain in further detail during some of my workshops and talks – why not massage your mind with a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop or by coming to the talk that I am doing at Women 4 Women in October in Cape Town.

Tip 5 – Connect to Spirit