As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words….
We have taken beautiful photographs of the sun in places in the U.S. and beyond and have gathered 17 of them here for your enjoyment. These photographs were taken after being awe-struck in each particular place. We hope the pictures provide 1000 awe-inspiring words to brighten your day and those you share it with.
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Photo Copyright Elliot Lozano 'Expansive Coast' Newport Beach, California USA Photo Copyright Terrah Lozano 'Sandia Silhouette' Sandia Mountains, NM USA Photo Copyright Elliot Lozano 'Surreal' Pacific Beach, CA USA
In this article which is organized in three parts, I discuss the steps in creating a vision binder, intention list, and a regular manifestation practice to create the life you want.
Part 1: The process of creating the Vision Binder.
One of the greatest things you can do to imagine and create your ideal life is to create a vision board (or actually a vision binder as I will discuss!).
A vision board is essentially a canvas of images that remind you of the life you want for yourself. We first learned about this from watching The Secret and hearing John Assaraf talk about the importance of visualization.
Many great teachers explain how to do this. They tell you to create a large board you can look at and meditate to often that contains visual images of ideas and/or objects you want or desire in your life.
This all makes sense in theory but for us there were a couple logistical problems.
Problem #1
You are supposed to keep your desires to yourself or, at most, to yourself and your close partner/husband/friend. If you show your visions to others your ego becomes involved and that is exactly what you want to avoid. Having your ego involved means your goals are no longer about what you truly want; it becomes what you want to show other people you are or have.
For us, this meant that anytime we had people over (which we like to do often) we had to take our vision boards off the wall. To make matters worse we had two cork boards each, so four total (we have a big vision, lol). This was very cumbersome and you feel that you are blocking your visions by turning them backwards to hide them from others (and yourself).
This could be different if you have an extremely private bedroom in which there is no way anyone other than yourself and your partner would walk into your bedroom.
However, there are still exceptions to when people would still have to enter your bedroom such as maintenance people or friends/relatives that like tours of your home.
Problem #2
Once vision boards are filled they are filled and you are out of space, unless of course you add another board.
I am grateful for everything that has come into my life during these 27 years on this earth. Everything that has happened to me has shaped me into the person I have become and am becoming.
I am grateful to my wife, family, friends, and experiences.
And, most of all, I am grateful to becoming more aware of embracing uncertainty in life to be able to live my life as completely as I can. As Jack Canfield said in The Secret, “Imagine yourself driving from LA to NY at night. How would you do it? You would have your lights on and the road would be unfolding 200 yards at a time.”
Photo Copyright Terrah Lozano, 'Road to Jeri' Jericoacoara, Brazil
Embracing Uncertainty
Let’s think about this. You only see a small portion of the road for every 200 yards. You can’t see the entire way. So, at each 200 yards, you have to re-assess the situation. You have to see if there is ice up ahead, roadblocks, traffic stops, is your exit coming soon? Sometimes we all plan this down to the smallest detail. But sometimes it’s more enjoyable to just embrace uncertainty and allow things to pop up in life.
If you had asked me a few months back if I was going to be a writer/blogger, I wouldn’t have known. I honestly didn’t know a whole lot about blogging and becoming a writer was something I saw in the far future.
The path that led us to this juncture in our lives, to this blog and many other things, came from embarking on a spiritual quest and following our intuition.
A Story:
A few months ago my wife Terrah and I decided to make some changes in our lives and moved apartments. Shortly after our move was completed, Terrah got sick (which is unusual for her) and this slowed us down from working on what we had pre-determined were our plans. When she got sick, we took the signal to mean that the universe, God, Budda, Allah, Rah, Krishna, Higher Power (whatever you call it) had grander plans than we did for our lives.
The universe led us to the next feeling that acting on our original plans didn’t feel right with our Being, our gut, or our instincts (whatever you want to call it). So, I felt the need to read more about intention and manifesting in our lives.
This signal led me to finding and subsequently reading Wayne Dyer’s The Power of Intention. Subsequently finding this book after feeling this intuition could merely be called a coincidence. I don’t believe it was a coincidence because I believe everything happens for a reason. (And if you are reading this now and something pops out at you, will you take it as a coincidence and brush it off like Scrooge and say, “Bah Hum Bug”? or will you embrace your intuition and act?)
Anyhow, long story short, by embracing uncertainty and intuition and ACTING upon those feelings, the path of reading Power of Intention took me to discovering blogging. A series of seeming coincidences collided to produce the manifestation of my passions through writing and helping people.
, “Imagine yourself driving from LA to NY at night. How would you do it? You would have your lights on and the road would be unfolding 200 yards at a time.”
. Subsequently finding this book after feeling this intuition could merely be called a coincidence. I don’t believe it was a coincidence because I believe everything happens for a reason. (And if you are reading this now and something pops out at you, will you take it as a coincidence and brush it off like Scrooge and say, “Bah Hum Bug”? or will you embrace your intuition and act?)