 Georgia's Tale
“My vision card workshop did not feel remotely positive while it was happening. On the contrary, sitting there cutting and pasting those pictures vividly captured all I didn’t have or all I had lost. What I didn’t have was a job and what I had lost was the man I thought I would marry. I had been out of graduate school for a year where I had spent far too many years as a full-time, unemployed, professional student.
I was jobless. I was scared. I was heartbroken. My money was running out. I left the workshop in tears.
I wanted to put the cards away. I left them out. But each time I looked at them I felt dispirited and hopeless. To be honest, I hated the sight of them.
Yet here I am four months after the workshop. Not only do I have a job. I have my absolute dream job. And I’m in a relationship with an amazingly caring and loving man. One day, a few weeks into my new job, I found myself looking at the cards again where they lay gathering dust in plain sight. Suddenly, I was laughing… Absolutely everything had come true – right down to a job that would take me traveling overseas and use all my heart and all my smarts.
I truly believe that the purpose of the vision cards in my life was to show me what I thought I didn’t deserve but actually did. The cards helped me grieve the old belief that I didn't deserve these things, which was the first step in being ready to receive them and attract them into my life. I'm profoundly grateful to Laurie and Mary for sharing their caring, their energy, their wisdom and the genius of working with vision cards with me.”
| “Olympic athletes use imagery to rehearse winning performances. A study involving college students demonstrated that success rehearsal can be almost as effective as real practice.”*
Making your Vision Cards is only half the fun — the other half is using them on a daily basis to rehearse success with whatever you want to create in your life. And it only takes 30 seconds a day.
CREATE a deck of
powerful personal images — Vision Cards — that embody
your goals, values, hopes and dreams. During a 4-hour session you’ll
develop a
vision of the biggest life possible for you and start creating it right
away.
ENCOURAGED by coaches Laurie
Phillips and Mary Cayan, you’ll use beautiful
stock photography and illustration books to make a deck of cards that
hold the
juicy bigness of what your heart really wants. You’ll be able to use
these
cards as daily inspirers, reminders, goal-setters, meditation aids, even
decision-makers.
NEXT HALF-DAY
WORKSHOP
Sat., October 23, 2010 1:00-5:00pm WORKSHOP
LOCATION: 28 Benhill Road, St. Paul 55105
SKYPE is
available for participants in other parts of the world (20% discount)
COST $99
per person, includes all materials. A $49 deposit is required to hold
your
place in the workshop. You can pay by credit card
at www.visioncards.net/store
Or you can mail a check to 28 Benhill Rd., St. Paul, MN 55105, made
payable to
Laurie Phillips.
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PUERTO
VALLARTA, MEXICO WORKSHOP
Mon-Wed, Nov
14-17, 2010
One of our former
Vision Card workshop attendees, Laura McHugh, used her Vision Cards and
manifested a week at an amazing villa in Mexico for 10 people — at no
cost.
She's generously invited Laurie and Mary to teach a Vision Card workshop
there.
There are 4 spots open for folks who want to experience Vision Card work
in
this lovely setting.
We'll spend 4 mornings making and using Vision Cards, and working through any blocks to success. The afternoons will be your to play on the beach.
Workshop cost: $499
Elegant room at the Villa: free (2 people to a room)
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How to Use Your
Vision Cards
1. Close your eyes
and take a few deep breaths.
2. Choose a Vision Card with
your left hand. Open your eyes and look at it for a moment, then close
your eyes again.
3. Imagine it’s happening right
now. What does this reality feel, look, smell, taste, and sound like?
What kind of setting are you in? Who’s there with you? Feel your body
relax as you drink in this heart’s desire that’s become real.
4. Hold that feeling in your
body for 30 seconds. Open your eyes and remain aware of how good your
body feels. Take it with you throughout the day.
That's it! Just 30 seconds of
effort a day can change your life in the biggest ways imaginable.
Ten Great Reasons
to Use Vision Cards
1. Vision Cards are
like Post-It Notes from your soul. When the world pulls you away from
your own knowing (and it always will), Vision Cards put you back on
track.
2. Using Vision Cards is a tool
to shift your false negative beliefs. Using them enlists the power of
your body (the chemicals in your brain) to change the way you think and
feel. This expands the range of actions, and results, that are possible.
3. Vision Cards are a
declaration. They invent the future and initiate a new world. They put
energy into action, like declaring “I do,” or declaring the end of a
war.
4. This is a way to process
grief. You might have to feel sad about the times you didn’t have
something in order to change a belief about yourself.
5. Using Vision Cards helps you
practice feeling satisfied. How often do you get what you worked so hard
for, then immediately push on to the next goal? Using Vision Cards will
help you slow down and savor the sweetness of life.
6. You’re practicing gratitude
in advance. Every expert source on Happiness says that gratitude is the
number one component of happiness. You’re just using the power of it
before what you want actually happens.
7. You’re strengthening your
imagination muscle, using it in a positive way instead of predicting
gloom and doom. You can even create Vision Cards in your head to use
when you need them on the spot!
8. This is a type of meditation
that helps to center you. The next time your mood is in a downward
spiral, grab a vision card and imagine IT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW — what
does it feel like, look like, sound like, who’s with you, what kind of
setting are you in? Let your body relax and breathe in this wonderful
place.
9. Practice receiving more. As
you contribute more to the world around you (your family, job,
communities) you need to receive more. If you’re training for a
marathon, you need to eat more than if you’re sitting at a computer all
day. Similarly, if you have ambitions for making the world a better
place, you can use vision cards to imagine the support you could use.
Everything from a weekly massage to a million-dollar donor to your
foundation!
10. It’s really fun.
Join us at a workshop to find
out more!
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* “A number of students were tested for accuracy in basketball shooting and divided into three groups. One group was told to come back in twenty days but not to practice. Another group was asked to practice shooting baskets twenty minutes per day. The last group was asked to rehearse in their minds shooting the baskets for twenty minutes per day. They were told to watch the ball go through the hoop and hear the swish of the net. After twenty days, the group that did nothing was retested and showed no improvement. When the success-rehearsal group was retested, the improvement was about the same (23 percent) as for the group that had actually practiced (24 percent)!” Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness, by Edward A. Charlesworth and Ronald G. Nathan. |
