Vision Mapping for Effortless Lifestyle Balancing

Most of us long for the effortless lifestyle, where we get up in the morning and our life is mapped out and the day just automatically flows with that map being followed. Most of us tend to live the fast paced lifestyle which can resemble a roller coaster ride with many highs and lows throughout the day.

Today we are facing not only the adjusting and re-adjusting of our own personal life, but the energy adjusting of the world which is becoming a global situation of its adjusting and readjusting. We are all facing things that we have never had to experience before, much of our experiences are new and we are learning to function in areas we have no experience in and to do things that don’t come to us naturally.

What exactly would it take for us to live an effortless lifestyle, what would it look like and what would it feel like? These are very good questions and of course there isn’t one exact answer to any of these questions as each of us are unique and have unique situations, but I can give you some general ideas that could generally apply to everyone.

• Create and maintain a daily morning exercise that centers you, could be yoga, gi gong, meditation, vision map video, walking, exercise

• Make a grateful list

• Practice positive talking and conversations, talk only about positive things

• Find time to play every day, this can include something creative, writing, singing, laughing, skipping, playing with the kids, walk on the beach, read a daily joke online; anything that will make you laugh and your heart sing.

• No matter what happens find the good in it as soon as possible

• Create and maintain a daily evening wind down routine prior to bedtime, includes watching your vision map video

Some of these things may seem very simple and insignificant; and others may be really very hard to do, but once you get in the daily habit of practicing them you will find your life has that tone of effortless and you will find much more joy.

There are many emotional hurdles for all of us, it is not the hurdles that bog us down it is how we handle them and move past them. Effortless lifestyle is developing and practicing our inner life and
using quick and easy tools that give us fast results. Most of these tools can be done anywhere and at any time, they are quick, easy and simple.

Whether we realize it or not many of us are addicted to struggling and go from one crisis to another, not even knowing that is what we are doing, it is just so automatic that it feels almost normal. We feel that it is a struggle for happiness, a healthy lifestyle and a being able to find our purpose. So many of us feel we are sort of fighting this battle on all levels, it can be physical, mental, emotional, social and even spiritual. There is that old saying of there has to be more to life than this, and there truly is; all that needs to be done is just some simple and easy exercises that create an effortless lifestyle balance

Stress Reduction with Vision Mapping

Stress seems to be surrounding us from every angle these days and even thinking about and being aware of our stress, seems to stress us out. What is the answer? Well, there are all kinds of tools that we can learn to do to diminish the stress in our life. It is also nice to know that a certain amount of stress is good, it helps us to get and stay motivated and stimulated and it also helps us to face challenges and solve problems and it can help keep us alert.

The trick is not to get over stressed and to have stress work for us, not against us; to do this we need to be in touch with how we feel and if there seems to be tension with the stress. Stress is a natural and important part of our life; however, we need to pay attention to when it becomes a liability instead of an asset.

Usually if you create a daily ritual of stress reduction practices that you start and end your day with, that will take care of moderating how you are feeling and give you control over your overall balance of inner peace. A great tool for this is to watch a motivational video every morning prior to starting your activities of the day and then again right before going to bed. This will set the tone for your day and also for a restful sleep.

While we are talking about going to bed and sleep patterns, this is a perfect time to go over your procedures you do prior to going to sleep, I always suggest that you start monitoring the time just prior to going to bed and create a slow down and calming ritual for bedtime, this will give your body a signal that it is time for bed. Watch and or listen to programs that create a calming effect, so that means no news or action programs; eliminate caffeine about 4 hours prior to bedtime; laugh and avoid challenging conversations prior to bedtime; the main idea is to take actions to make your bedtime one of peace and tranquility. Remember to watch your stress reduction video right before going to bed.

As we know stress is everywhere around us and it is what we do with it that either makes us feel in a better balanced state or makes us feel worse. Another great stress balancer is gratitude and this is something you can practice anywhere, anytime and the results are almost immediate and especially when practiced on a regular basis. We can find almost anything to be grateful for as long as we don’t dwell on what we don’t want, but to pay attention to what we do like.

Shifting into gratitude, your mind, body and spirit move into the state of joy and you feel better. If your situation is very intense, try just laughing, a big belly laugh, you don’t even have to think of anything funny, you just start laughing and you feel the shift right away. Once you feel better, the things that were stressing you out will seem to diminish and then you will be able to deal with them better.
If you find it difficult to remember things you are grateful for, start a gratitude journal and make a list of all the things you are grateful for and then carry it with you so that you will have it handy, you can also put your stress reduction video on your computer and/or handheld devises to watch at a moment’s notice; also get a gratitude stone and keep it in your purse and/or pocket to rub and remind yourself to be grateful.

So when those big stress issues like lose of a job, being laid off from a job, divorce, physical and mental challenges of a family member, floods, tornadoes, wildfires…the list can go on. This is when we need all the tools that we can get to smooth over these rough patches in our life; getting the stress under control so it doesn’t run our life is very important during these times. Stress reduction tools like vision mapping and your gratitude list are very useful and important, so keep them handy and readily available.

Is Stress at Work Only If You Lose Your Job?

Stress isn’t only if you are laid off or are let go, stress is in the work place no matter what. Getting laid off and/or your job being eliminated just adds to the stress of it all; sort of like waiting for the other shoe to drop syndrome.

Stress just seems to be everywhere in the world today, it is just sort of a fact of life. It is a fact that job related stress has increased significantly in the last decade due to the fast changing business and economic cycles with demanding workloads and job insecurity. It is now encouraged to have a backup profession you can go into just in case, which means some other kind of training and schooling; and that has an eliminate of stress involved with it also.

When we talk about work related stress we aren’t talking about the kind that is sort of healthy, like a small about of stress is sometimes to our benefit to help us perform good. We are talking about the kind of stress where the challenges are overwhelming and the work requirements are unrealistic; this type of stress is where it is damaging to the body and emotional state of the employee.

The real true story of this kind of stress is that the employee becomes less productive and then that turns into a vicious cycle of attempting to do a great job and overworking and stressing out and then becoming less productive and then back to stressing about that.

Taking a looking at stress, we can see that not all stress is bad; a good example of this is when you have a new baby, the adjustment to dealing with all the issues of the new baby in the household is stressful and also very exciting and wonderful at the same time. Dealing with stress will fluctuate from person to person; each person handles their life situations differently and the key is to pay attention to your stress levels and find tools to balance them out.

Visualization is a great tool to use for any kind of life situation you want to modify, manifest, or attract; it has been used for years now and even large corporations are starting to include this practice into their business plans and programs. Successful millionaires have used the practice for years and sort of kept it a secret, but now that this secret is out and more and more of us are using this technique to manifest what we want in our life; we are using this tool to our advantage.

To learn how to visualize there are many techniques and tools, I recommend Vision Map Videos as they are simple, easy and very productive; you can also put them on all of your electronic devises and carry them everywhere with you. You can also use meditation and master mind groups to accomplish and maintain your visualizations.

Stress does not need to destroy your life, the key is to recognize it and then find a tool to get balance with it so it isn’t controlling your life; it is about seeing your life the way you want it to look, not seeing it the way it is looking and dwelling on that. Many people call this positive thinking, but I like to call it vision mapping and planning your life visually the way you want it to be.

When you find yourself in events that seem to cause stress in your life like getting laid off from work, traffic congestion, family events that just seem to not stop, fight with the kids, fight with your spouse, and the list can go on and on, stop and take the time to quiet yourself and visualize all of these situations the way you want them to be and keep doing that until you get an essence of relief.

Keeping your stress under control is very important to your physical and mental health, stress can cause all kinds of dis-ease in your body, like high blood pressure, headaches, fatigue, high cholesterol , overweight, depression and many others; so pay attention to your stress levels and keep them in balance and your life will be so much more enjoyable.

Building of Teen Self Esteem Starts at Birth

When does self esteem begin? Many times we think that self esteem begins in our children when they hit their tween years, not realizing that it really begins at birth. It is developed with the influence of parental attitudes and behaviors right from birth and then continuing on into all the childhood developments.

Their self-esteem is first built by having their basic needs met, including the need for love, comfort, and closeness. How children are treated by their parents or primary caregivers sets the stage for how their self-esteem is developed. Young babies and children who feel unloved find it more difficult to develop a sense of self-worth and then carry those feeling on into later childhood and on into their teen years.

Supportive parental behavior, including encouragement and praise for accomplishments, as well as the child's internalization of the parents' own attitudes toward success and failure, are the most powerful factors in the development of self-esteem in early childhood. Stresses at home, such as parents arguing a lot, or not having friends to play with and interact with, can have a negative impact on a child's self-esteem and self-worth even at a very early age.

When children have a good quality of self-esteem they can handle conflicts, peer pressures and making friends, easier. Preschoolers learn self-esteem in stages through developing their senses of trust, independence, and initiative with their parents and siblings and then that moves on into interacting with their friends and other relatives.

Self-esteem comes from different sources for children at different stages of development. Our self esteem is instilled in us during our youth. It is very important to be aware if the under current in the home is critical; as being criticized by parents and family members tends to slowly strip the child of their feelings of self worth.

Self esteem is described as having an inner good feeling of oneself. It is the way you perceive yourself and your self value. When this reflects within the child, it is what they think and feel about themselves and how well they feel that they do things, this is ultimately what is important to them and this is the foundation their self esteem is built upon.

As the children grow and mature and their experiences move outside the immediate home and move on into school, and with their peers, it becomes more important in these areas how they determine their self-esteem. Schools also have a huge influence on self-esteem through the attitudes they foster toward competition and diversity and their recognition of achievement in academics, sports, and the arts. At this stage, social acceptance by a child's peer group plays a major role in developing and maintaining self-esteem.

The physical and emotional changes that take place in adolescence, especially in early adolescence, present new challenges to a child's self-esteem. They are faced with physical and hormonal changes and this the time when teens go through major changes in their lives and their self-esteem can tend to be very fragile. This is the time when teens require and need to have a very supportive family.
Fitting in with their peers becomes more important than ever to teens self-esteem, and, in later adolescence, relationships with the opposite sex or sometimes the same sex can become a major source of confidence or insecurity. Body image is a major component in teenagers' self-esteem, and they are very concerned about how their peers see them. This goes for both boys and girls, body image is very important and teens who have high self-esteem like the way they look and accept themselves the way they are.

Parents can foster self-esteem by expressing affection and support for the child and to start this as previously stated in the early years, will be helping the child set realistic goals for achievement instead of imposing unreachably high standards. Teens that learn to set goals in their lives have higher self-esteem than those who do not. During this time and even before, children and/or teens can be taught visualization. This is an excellent tool to create and develop self esteem in all individuals and a great visualization tool is vision map videos.

Teens can also be encouraged to watch the words they use to describe themselves, such as if they constantly say they are stupid or that they can’t achieve success; they need to understand that is what will happen. So, make it a habit of saying positive things and use this positive posturing to create self esteem to their full advantage. The use of affirmations is also a great way for them to start using affirming language and these are also featured in vision map videos.

Be sure and explain to your teen that nobody is perfect in the eyes of everyone else, so by trying to be perfect you may just be setting yourself up for disappointment and failure. Spend more time focusing on the qualities about them that you like and less on the ones that you dislike. Teach them to believe in themselves completely, and others will also believe and trust in them.

Darlene has researched, practiced and implemented many spiritual and personal growth paths and now offers these attributes to her clients through VISION MAP VIDEOS. Darlene's mission is to teach and encourage individuals how to find and maintain their inner balance for the mind, body, spirit connection; bringing joy and prosperity into their life. Receive her f.ree Attract Property Video at Spirited Boutique

Learn 5 Important Reasons to Use Video Marketing

Effective advertising on the web requires taking advertising out of the so called traditional box and creating something truly effective that can produce results. The new and unique attracts attention and that is what video advertising is all about.

Marketing on the web requires the same strategic thinking as marketing in all of the other arenas of advertising, something to grab the attention of the public. Think the way they advertise on TV….think Super Bowl advertising, only it is for the internet. Effective marketing on the web starts with unique marketing, and video marketing is the new cutting edge way to advertise on the internet.

We want our advertising strategies to be something that is unique, different and very effective. Videos are the very thing that could create this interest in a business, website or email advertising campaign, as they don't require a large budget and they are in a format that can be spread all over the web in creative ways.

1. Social Media Marketing is one of the hottest markets for advertising on the internet today, and it is important to grab the interest of prospective customers through this modality, videos are the way to attract this attention. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Forums, Member Websites, YouTube, are all video friendly and you don’t want to miss out on this advertising opportunity.

2. Contact Prior Customers for Return Business we all know that it is important to keep customers coming back, and sometimes they need a little nudge to keep coming back; videos are a perfect opportunity to send them a notice and reminder, they are fun, non-threatening and can deliver any kind of message you want.

3. Thank Customers for Continued Business this is your perfect opportunity to show your customers how important they are, sending them a personalized video which is entertaining and informative is a perfect way to keep in touch and to let them know how special they are to you and your business.

4. Introduce New Products and/or Services you want to introduce a new product or service and you don’t want it just to be another auto responder email, you can send a video and make it special and personal, they can even have a message of empowerment with affirmations or powerful quotes; also, you can give them an opportunity to a special pricing included in the video.

5. Develop and Improve Traffic to Website/Blog videos can be used to attract more traffic to your website/blog just like writing articles can, you can send them to all your social media sites and use keywords in the titles and tags; you can also use videos for advertising on CraigsList and Backpage which also are Google friendly.

Marketing and advertising on the web offers a worldwide art festival at our fingertips and videos are one of the forms of art that is very appealing to the general public. We are a visual society and love visual action to entertain us and a video is a perfect advertising agent which also satisfies this entertaining part of us.

Vision Map Videos produced by Darlene Siddons http://www.spiritedboutique.com 760-760-8390 visionmapvideo@gmail.com http://visionmapvideo.blogspot.com/

Law of Attraction Manifests Great With Vision Map Videos

Does the law of attraction really work? Does saying affirmations over and over again really work? Are you one of the people that feel like they just can’t get it to work for them? Well, don’t feel alone, there are some things that have been implied but not really explained that can keep your hearts desires not coming in like you want them to.

The first key is that you need to get your sub-conscious and your conscious in alignment, for example, if your conscious mind says “I am manifesting a million dollars” and your sub-conscious mind is saying “ya right”, they aren’t in alignment. This is where you re-write your story and re-program your sub-conscious mind to also be in alignment with manifesting a million dollars.

This will take some practice and you have to pay attention to what those thoughts are in the background, when you find that they are telling an old story and it is a negative one, you write down how you want the new story to be and then just keep repeating it until, the new story takes precedence over the old one. About now you are going, wow, that seems like a lot of work; and yes it is, however, it really works and this is one of the reasons that manifesting hasn’t worked like you want it to.

There is a tool that can assist you to make this shift in your thinking and it is Vision Map Videos, they can be about any subject and they are for your eyes only and they help re-program your subconscious mind into seeing, hearing and believing the way you want your story to read. The video can be put on your computer or any of your electronic devices so you can watch the video wherever you and whenever you need to get back on a positive thought pattern. It is usually suggested that you watch the vision map video daily and it is best to watch it every morning and every evening, you do this on a regular basis for 30 days and you will see definite improvement in your manifesting.

The other thing that you will notice is that when your conscious mind and your sub-conscious mind are working together your stress level will become manageable, your days will be more fun, you will have a feeling of empowerment, you will enjoy life more, you will have more energy and everyone around you will be more enjoyable.

Now that you know the missing secret, get busy and take the time to practice these suggestions and see how quickly you can manifest everything that you truly want and need. If you want to create more customers and improve your income, you can use vision map videos to jump start your abundance and as far as that goes it works in any area of your life. This truly is the key to the law of attraction working.

Advertising With A Vision Map Video vs Vision Boards

We all know what TV ads do and how well they work to sell products, otherwise, the ads on SuperBowl Sunday wouldn’t be able to sell for millions of dollars. So why not apply that same technique to our websites and blogs? It is called video advertising and it attracts customers just like TV ads do and the really great thing is that it is very cost effective.

If you have watched the movie “The Secret”, you will get this next concept right away, we can manifest anything our hearts desire with visualization, so this is how video advertising works, you put a video on your website or blog advertising the message you want your visitors to relate to, it will have images/text/music and be of definite interest to the customers you are attracting. I always suggest you keep it clear without any direct sell and have upbeat music, the direct sell comes at the end in the credits; I also suggest a contact slide in the middle of the video.

Video advertising is so effective because it uses four of your essential senses; sight, sound, emotions, & sensory perception. When you combine all of these together your prospective customer is totally engaged in the advertisement and is also entertained at the same time. Now your next thought could be; that this is very time consuming and it is another learning curve to learn how to do this and you may feel that you aren’t creative enough to pull something like this off; there are services that create these for you and you just give them the information and they make the video for you. Simple, Easy and Time Effective.



Another suggestion I make is to make the video informative enough and enjoyable enough that individuals will want to come back on a regular basis to your website or blog just to watch the video, as it will enhance their life. Matter of fact you can have two, one for motivational and the other for advertising your products or services.

Vision Map Videos are also great for joint ventures, auto responders, email advertising, advertising products on sale or closeout, to keep you motivated throughout the year, to visualize new customers, thank you cards for customers, reminder cards to keep visiting your website or blog, promote new products or services; there are many more ideas, but this gives you an idea how expansive this new technology of video advertising is.

As great as vision boards are they just can’t do the things that vision map videos can, and another great thing about Vision Map Videos is that they can be put on all of your electronic devices and computers so they are very easy to have with you wherever you go and they are for your eyes only. The vision board is usually rather large and is left at home as it is very bulky to carry around and then also it is open for anyone else to look at, it isn’t private and able to be kept personal. Then there is the REAL reason, you can’t use them for any kind of advertising, they are just for your personal use.

Get creative, get into the advanced advertising technology, get website savvy, and step into video advertising for your website or blog; you won’t regret it and you will find that it will definitely attract more customers.