or Pinterest. I love Pinterest to help me find images that resonate with me. I created a whole vision board using Pinterest. Remember, these images are only a guideline; be open to what the Universe has for you. It is usually bigger and better than you can imagine.
► Place things in your box that fit your desire. If its romance, and you want to be married, put in a costume engagement ring. Include dried flowers, a rose quartz shaped as a heart, images of where you will honeymoon, etc.—whatever it is you want to bring into your life. If it’s a harmonious family relationship with a specific family member, place images that represent the person. Include a white feather or white candle. White represents peace. You can sketch or draw images yourself, or you can find ones that look like the kind of relationship you wish for. Get creative and use your imagination.
► If it’s self-love you want to manifest, find things that are unique and magical to you and put them in your box. Take self-portraits that you love, write a love letter to yourself. Put in your gratitude list of what you really dig about yourself. Place a green candle in your box. Green is a healing color and resonates with Mother Earth, where we all come from.
► After you have filled your box, place it somewhere you can see it every day. It will seep into your subconscious, and you will find the Universe conspires to bring you what you most desire.
► According to the practice of feng shui, where you place your Love Box is important. Your home is laid out as a square, filled with nine boxes. Each room can be similarly compartmentalized. The energy is the strongest in certain areas of your home, so you should place your Love Box in these areas.
►Since romantic energy is strongest in the bedroom, according to feng shui, place your romance Love Box in the far-right corner of your bedroom. From the door, peer in; the far-right corner is your romance corner. You can include a red candle somewhere in that corner for passion or pink for love.
►The center left when you first walk into your home or a specific room is where you place your Love Box for your family; that is where the familial energy is the strongest.
►The top left corner of your home or that same corner in a designated room is where you should place the Love Box you created for yourself. Remember self-worth is the most important thing you must create; everything comes from believing you deserve it.
Your Love Box is private, and you should be able to keep it sequestered from prying eyes if you choose. I prefer to use a box with a lid that shuts. The last thing you need is for a friend or family member to critique the contents of your special Love Box. Sometimes, people with the best intentions can contaminate what we are trying to manifest with their own projections and energy. You don’t want that for your Love Box. Only invite those you trust to come near it. This box is special and magical, and should only have your love, and the support and love of others energizing it. Happy creating!
Below find the Feng Shui Bagua of your home which will help guide you in placing your box.
Front Entrance
Health
“When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind, you’ll go there in the body.”
—Dr. Denis Waitley
How Can We Live in Optimal Health, and How Does That Set the Stage for More Manifestation?
One of the most important parts of our lives that we want to flow smoothly is our state of health. No one wants to be sick. Being ill is the biggest blockage that stops us from living the life we want. Does that mean that we manifested our diseases? That is a very scary question to ask ourselves. No one plans on being sick; no one wants to think they’ve brought disease on themselves. So, I want to say this first, and it is really important to state. Never, ever blame yourself and think you caused your illness. That isn’t how it works. How it does work is, if we are feeling a dis-ease somewhere in our lives, our bodies can take on that energy and disease can manifest, but of course that isn’t always the case. Our bodies are part of our great energetic system and are a wonderful beacon that sends signals if something is off emotionally in our lives.
In Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life, she describes different diseases and where they manifest in the body to show how emotional energy correlates with disease. I highly recommend reading that book. It is fascinating to see how emotional trauma is stored in our bodies—and even more interesting—where the emotions show up as pathology. For example, many women who have developed breast cancer have trauma surrounding motherhood, whether it with their own mothers or with themselves as mothers. Louise has been a tremendous influence in my life and spiritual journey, and I have followed many of her healing exercises to help me heal my own trauma. One of her most powerful exercises is mirror work. Mirror work involves sitting in front of a mirror. She recommends doing this first thing in the morning, before we get ourselves all dolled up, so we can see how we naturally look, without any masks. You then lovingly look into your own eyes, and tell yourself how much you love yourself. Let me tell you, this is very hard at first, but the more you do it, the easier it gets, and something wonderful begins to happen. You begin to believe it, and your body responds in kind. I did this every day for thirty days straight, and I started to notice that I became much kinder to myself whenever I walked past a mirror.
I wrote down about ten affirmations, and each morning, I sat with my coffee in front of my mirror. I had no makeup on, and was still dressed in my pajamas and robe. At first, the only thing I could do was notice all my flaws: I noticed if my eyes were puffy; I criticized my hair and my skin; I scowled if my face looked bloated. I couldn’t help but see every new line that showed up on my face. It was terrible, and I thought, I don’t want to do this, it’s awful. However, I made a commitment to myself, following Louise Hay’s advice, to stick with it, and I did. Something started to shift after about a week. I wasn’t noticing my flaws as much. I started to feel more compassion for my body, and I started to feel more grateful for how amazing my body is. If you think about the perfection of what your body is, and how it functions, it is truly mind-blowing. The fact that our bodies do what they do, to get us through our days, shows how incredible they are. When we criticize ourselves incessantly, our bodies respond to that. Imagine…you have thousands of thoughts going through your brain every day…and if many of them are caustic and self-critical?
Take a minute right now, and think about what you say to yourself when you look in the mirror or see a picture of yourself. I can hear you right now as I am writing this down. You may be saying: I look terrible; I am too fat; I am too skinny; my skin looks horrible; I hate my legs; I look old or tired or like crap. The list of self-insults is endless, and we say these abusive things to our bodies constantly. I still catch myself doing it, but now I consciously remind myself to stop as soon as I have negative thoughts, and I replace them with kind or loving words. I’m not always successful, but I am getting much better. Imagine for a moment what kind of impact constant hyper-critical self-loathing has on our physical well-being. Do you think this makes our bodies want to perform at optimal capacity? Do you think our bodies respond with health when we trash them every day? I can guarantee you the answer is no. That is not what our bodies do. Our bodies believe us, and they start to break down.
Imagine that you spoke to your child or someone you really love the way you talk to yourself and to your body every day—a hundred times a day. What do you think would happen to that person? They would react as though they had been traumatized. But we have no filter about saying these horrible things to ourselves on a daily
