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October 06, 2008
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Watch My Prosperity Mind Movie! |
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The Mind Movies Creation Kit is a software package and tutorials that guide you through creating a completely customized slideshow of words (your personal affirmations) and images to illustrate your goals and desires.
In other words, it’s an animated collage of words and images that you create to specifically reflect your wishes and dreams. Those of you who’ve been reading my books and blog for a while know what a huge fan I am of creating a collage to reflect your feng shui goals. Mind Movies are even better, because by including movement and sound (use any song you like for your soundtrack!) it works on even more levels than a paper collage. And, because it’s in video-clip format on your computer, you can watch it anytime you want.
Is that awesome, or what!?
You have total freedom to create whatever word slides you want, and to include any images you want. Then, you set it to the music of your choice and define how you want each slide to look. You have total control over the transition style between slides, as well as pan, zoom, and rotate functions.
The tutorials are extremely detailed and easy to follow and creating a Mind Movie of your own is incredibly quick and easy (so easy, in fact, that I skipped most of the tutorials and didn't have any problems). You can easily spend several happy hours doing your photo research online and tweaking your pan/zoom/rotate settings for each image; that's the only part that takes any time at all and it’s loads of fun. Putting the pieces together into your customized video-clip is a snap!
Once your Mind Movie is done, watch it several times a day and watch how your overall mood and attitude stay bright and positive.
OUR PROSPERITY MIND MOVIE
Although I highly recommend making a “Feng Shui Mind Movie” that covers your hopes and objectives for all the areas of the ba gua (I’m creating one for myself), you can do whatever you want with the program.
With all the economic doom-and-gloom in the media the past few weeks, my husband and I have found it a little challenging lately to keep our thoughts, attitudes, and expectations about money matters and future income as optimistic as we like them to be. So, we decided to make a short Prosperity Mind Movie that we can watch any time we feel a need to boost our “money vibe.”
We had a blast putting it together, and every time we get another “oh no, the country's heading for a recession” email, or see scary financial headlines in the papers, we click on our Prosperity Mind Movie and in less than two minutes are smiling and feeling great about our financial future.
In fact, ever since we made a first rough-cut of this Mind Movie last week, our online sales -- which had taken a bit of a hit when all the financial “bad news” started dominating the headlines -- bounced right back up and have stayed strong. How great is that!
We’ve posted our Prosperity Mind Movie on our AllAboutProsperity website, so you can watch it here:
To find out more about making a Mind Movie of your own click here, to watch a video interview with program creator Ryan Higgins.
TIP #1: Your Mind Movie will be even more powerful if you include pictures of yourself in it. (Ours does, but not in the version you’re seeing. My husband is a very private person, and wanted to keep the version with our pictures in just for ourselves.)
TIP #2: Pick peppy, happy, upbeat music for your Mind Movie soundtrack. We’ve used one of Jason Castro’s goofier performances from last year’s American Idol competition for our Prosperity Mind Movie, because it makes us smile and feel good every time we hear it. What’s your favorite feel-good song?
And remember that you can make a Mind Movie on any theme you want. Next, we’re going to make one for the house we’d like to buy next year...
Watch my Prosperity Mind Move here:
… then make one of your own!
I hope you have as much fun -- and as much success with -- your Mind Movies as we've had creating ours.Labels: article, Mind Movies, prosperity
posted by Stephanie R. #
10/06/2008 11:13:00 AM
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August 02, 2008
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Keep it Simple with WD-40 Remedies |
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There are many reasons feng shui appeals to so many people. Topping the list, I expect, is our desire to improve some aspect of home or career life that we’ve been struggling with. But another reason feng shui is popular is the fun factor. Feng shui gives us a reason to shop for crystals and wind chimes, recover the couch, paint the bedroom, get new towels for the bath, and put a console table and mirror in the front hall. Even when we don’t go shopping, we enjoy moving our stuff around: let’s put the couch over there, and the TV here, and how ‘bout moving that painting from the dining room into this corner over here? All this rearranging and decorating is even more fun when we feel we’re doing something to nudge our experience in a better direction at the same time.
Sometimes we enjoy the fun factor so much we forget to keep it simple, and we overthink the class of remedies known as "WD-40 cures." (WD-40, for anyone who doesn't know, is an all-purpose lubricant spray useful for around-the-house repair jobs.) Any items on your ‘get to this someday’ list that require the use of a screwdriver, power drill, stepladder, or caulking gun falls into this category of remedies.
When something is broken or only semi-functional, it affects the feng shui of your home. And the feng shui remedy is to fix it. It’s that simple. Basic household repairs may not feel like doing feng shui, but they are. This means that if there’s a loose doorknob in your career area, the remedy is not to cover the door with a collage of your career goals: it’s to fix the doorknob. The cure for a non-working light fixture in your fame area isn’t to load down your coffee table with a dozen red candles to support fire: it’s to repair or replace the light fixture. The cure for a dripping faucet is not to surround the sink with house plants to counteract the extra water chi: it’s to replace the washer (or whatever) so the faucet doesn’t drip any more.
This may seem so obvious that you’re wondering why I’m writing about it. Yet I receive questions like this one more frequently that you’d expect: "My stove is broken and I can’t afford to get it fixed right away. Can you suggest something I could do in the meantime to offset this situation?"
I sympathize with the "can’t afford to get it fixed" issue. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean alternative strategies will handle the problem. For renters, waiting for the landlord to take care of something can be as frustrating as not being in a position to pay for it. I have stove repairs on my mind because we live in a rental house and our landlord recently (finally!) replaced the barely marginally functional stove that we’d been living with -- and resenting -- for over a year. However, whether the issue is that it’s someone else’s responsibility, or insufficient cash flow to take care of it yourself, the bottom line is that the cure for a broken stove is to fix the stove.
Sure, there are lots of other prosperity or cash flow cures/rituals/objects/imagery you might be drawn to. But no matter how many of them you implement, the stove will remain broken. No quantity of other cures will correct that. This doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to make sure the feng shui of the wealth areas of your home is the best it can be under the circumstances, but fixing the stove still deserves a top spot on the feng shui to-do list.
So the next time something in a key area of your home needs a little "elbow grease," get out your tool box -- or call a repair service, or bug your landlord about it -- and get it fixed. Home repairs and maintenance may not be the most interesting or glamorous aspect of feng shui, but they are among the most simple and effective. Don’t overlook them, and don’t make them more complicated than they need to be.Labels: article
posted by Stephanie R. #
8/02/2008 10:04:00 AM
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