Friday, March 30, 2007
Strong Bodies - Strong Minds - Strong Spirits
Great site for keeping in shape. I've always believed that for a woman to succeed in all aspects of her life she needs to have a strong body both physically and emotionally. - Patricia Bacarella
What is a woman's worth?
Check out this interesting article -
What is your resentment number?
http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/jan06-2.htm
What is your resentment number?
http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/jan06-2.htm
Monday, March 26, 2007
How to Create a Treasure Map/Vision Board
What is a Vision Board and or Treasure Map?
A vision board (also called a Treasure Map) a is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve remove or cut out from various magazines. It’s simple.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
Teasure Maps/Vision boards do the same thing as short term and long term goal planning. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions.
There are several methods you can use for creating your treasure map/vision board. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.
Supplies you’ll need for creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:
Poster board and or Brown Paper(Target/Staples sells a really nice matte finish board. We highly recommend it.)
- A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices or your personal collection and you asked your friends or family members). Make sure you find lots of different types. If you limit your options, you’ll lose interest after a while. Recommended magazines bring plenty of...Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Better Homes and Gardens, Architecture Digest, The Economist, Parenting, Money, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Essence, Business Week, etc.
- Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) We recommend Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are our second choice because they don’t last.
Before you begin your vision board:
A little ritual before you begin your vision board. Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come into your head. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can more clearly create your vision.
Put on soft music. Our favorite music for activities like this is music that inspires your soul.
The Five Steps of Creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:
Step 1: Go through your magazines and cut or remove the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that inspire you. Have fun with it. Seperate the pictures images and phrases and words.
Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story.
Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.
Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the treasure map/vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board.
Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often.
Please email us at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com if you have additional questions.
Until, we meet again peace and one love.
Sistars,
Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara D. Cotton
A vision board (also called a Treasure Map) a is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve remove or cut out from various magazines. It’s simple.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
Teasure Maps/Vision boards do the same thing as short term and long term goal planning. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions.
There are several methods you can use for creating your treasure map/vision board. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.
Supplies you’ll need for creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:
Poster board and or Brown Paper(Target/Staples sells a really nice matte finish board. We highly recommend it.)
- A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices or your personal collection and you asked your friends or family members). Make sure you find lots of different types. If you limit your options, you’ll lose interest after a while. Recommended magazines bring plenty of...Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Better Homes and Gardens, Architecture Digest, The Economist, Parenting, Money, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Essence, Business Week, etc.
- Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) We recommend Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are our second choice because they don’t last.
Before you begin your vision board:
A little ritual before you begin your vision board. Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come into your head. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can more clearly create your vision.
Put on soft music. Our favorite music for activities like this is music that inspires your soul.
The Five Steps of Creating a Treasure Map/Vision Board:
Step 1: Go through your magazines and cut or remove the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that inspire you. Have fun with it. Seperate the pictures images and phrases and words.
Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story.
Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.
Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the treasure map/vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board.
Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often.
Please email us at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com if you have additional questions.
Until, we meet again peace and one love.
Sistars,
Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara D. Cotton
Sistars Gathering April 14, 2007 Treasure Mapping
As you know, the clearer the vision we have for ourselves - the clearer our message to the universe. Creating this clarity allows us to move through our limitations much quicker so we can experience more bliss as well as more of what we want to create for ourselves.
We would like to invite you to our next Sistars meeting.
On April 14, 2007 from 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm - We will be creating visual roadmaps of our goals aka Treasure Maps. Please join us for this workshop and dialog on Creating a Vision for Our Lives.
Light refreshments and food will be served. Please feel free to bring something to share. If you decide to bring something to share please select the items in the evite (In the reply menu).
*Also, please bring any magazines you might have as well as any supplies you might like to use and share to create your vision map.
Other Supplies needed: Crayons, Markers, Scissors, Rubber Cement Glue, Poster Boards, or Rolls of Brown Paper.
For directions to Marymount Manhattan College - www.hopstop.com
For additonal information we can be reached at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com
Peace and one love.
Sistars,
Angelette Verdena King and Xiomara D. Cotton
We would like to invite you to our next Sistars meeting.
On April 14, 2007 from 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm - We will be creating visual roadmaps of our goals aka Treasure Maps. Please join us for this workshop and dialog on Creating a Vision for Our Lives.
Light refreshments and food will be served. Please feel free to bring something to share. If you decide to bring something to share please select the items in the evite (In the reply menu).
*Also, please bring any magazines you might have as well as any supplies you might like to use and share to create your vision map.
Other Supplies needed: Crayons, Markers, Scissors, Rubber Cement Glue, Poster Boards, or Rolls of Brown Paper.
For directions to Marymount Manhattan College - www.hopstop.com
For additonal information we can be reached at sistarsnyc@hotmail.com
Peace and one love.
Sistars,
Angelette Verdena King and Xiomara D. Cotton
Monday, March 19, 2007
Thank you
Peace and Grace,
We would like to thank everyone who came out to the first Sistars event of the year. The event was a huge success. Despite the snowy streets the day was beautiful and sunny and the atmosphere filled with light. Those that braved the weather watched "The Secret" and shared ideas about what Sistars could be about. We exchanged the things we were most thankful for and even got some great info on where to go to dance to burn some of the calories we put on after eating those most delicious buffalo wings. (Oh yeah, we plan to go dancing on a regular).
We were reminded that there are many benefits to having a strong network of friends and how being American and a part of this digital age often removes us from opportunities to communicate to each other about things that matter most. We hope to find ways we can work together to support one another in the attainment of our goals or just to enjoy a sunny Saturday at the shopping mall. It really is all about love ultimately and we hope that you will join us at our next Sistars circle gathering to share in some of that.
We will be sending an Evite with details for the next event, which will take place in about 15-30 days or so. Bring a friend, your mom, a sister or a daughter.
Until then,
Sistars
Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara D. Cotton
We would like to thank everyone who came out to the first Sistars event of the year. The event was a huge success. Despite the snowy streets the day was beautiful and sunny and the atmosphere filled with light. Those that braved the weather watched "The Secret" and shared ideas about what Sistars could be about. We exchanged the things we were most thankful for and even got some great info on where to go to dance to burn some of the calories we put on after eating those most delicious buffalo wings. (Oh yeah, we plan to go dancing on a regular).
We were reminded that there are many benefits to having a strong network of friends and how being American and a part of this digital age often removes us from opportunities to communicate to each other about things that matter most. We hope to find ways we can work together to support one another in the attainment of our goals or just to enjoy a sunny Saturday at the shopping mall. It really is all about love ultimately and we hope that you will join us at our next Sistars circle gathering to share in some of that.
We will be sending an Evite with details for the next event, which will take place in about 15-30 days or so. Bring a friend, your mom, a sister or a daughter.
Until then,
Sistars
Angelette Verdena King & Xiomara D. Cotton
Thursday, March 1, 2007
On the count down to our first gathering of the year!
We will be hosting our first Sistars Gathering on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 2:30 pm at Marymount Manhattan College located at 221 East 71st Street. Please RSVP if you are planning to attend the sistar gathering.
Peace and love,
Angelette Verdena King
Peace and love,
Angelette Verdena King
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