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Most of my life I’ve been journal writing.  I’m not into daily journal writing, but journal writing when the mood hits me.  About five years ago, through the wisdom of one of my favorite feisty women, Sheri Gaynor,  I was introduced to a new tool for manifestation and finding your authentic self.   It  was called Visual Journals.

In the first class Sheri asked us to go through magazines and pick only images that spoke to us personally.  We didn’t need to understand what they were saying, we just needed to select pictures that made us hesitate and ponder.  Then we were asked to tear or rip those images out (no scissors allowed) and glue them onto a piece of paper creating a picture collage.

I noticed right away that I was one of the first women done with my visual journal which actually didn’t surprise me all that much.  I am not one for detail and neatness.  With my extra time, I decided to watch the other women create their picture collage.  I was surprised at how differently we all approached our task.

Some women were methodically and very thoughtfully looking at each page deciding if a picture was worthy to be displayed on their visual journals.  Others were gently tearing each picture so that it appeared that scissors had been used.  Still others were creating these artistic masterpieces that could be taken from our class and displayed in the nearest art gallery.

To say I was a bit apprehensive about my haphazard picture collage is an understatement.  I heard the familiar words whispering through my head, “You can not share your piece, others will laugh.  Why did you think a visual journal class would be for you?  You are someone to observe and enjoy art from afar, not someone to get into the center of it and actually create it.”

Fortunately, I was not the first low self-esteem artist that Sheri had encountered.   She knew my kind well.  So she rang her chimes and gathered us in a circle.  I made no eye contact with her, a trick I learned from elementary school.  Because I was looking at the interesting piece of lint on the floor, I didn’t notice that Sheri had taken out a picture collage book of her own creations.  She proceeded to share with us pieces that looked a lot like mine:  overlapping, corners hanging over, no-awareness-for-negative -space pieces.  I relaxed a little and sat back.  I was a little less apprehensive to share.

Each woman had an opportunity to speak to the class about their picture collage and their authentic self.  I was blown away by their insight. When it was my turn to share, no one laughed, although several cried.  No one made me feel like I didn’t belong there, they actually hugged me when I was done.  Needless to say, I went back eleven more times until the class was over.  I never missed a day.

My visual journal has transformed as I have transformed.  It went from segmented pictures joined together by glue like a caterpillar, to layered images with secrets lying just below the surface like a pupa, to simple, beautiful pieces like an emerging butterfly.  My visual  journals page have filled my life with new awareness and have been a catalyst to many manifested intentions.

My journal writing has taken on a new dimension because I use my picture collages to spur my writing.  This has led to a much deeper dialog with my authentic self.

Each of us has our own way of experiencing this world:  messy and hurried, methodical and thoughtful, straight-edged and meticulous.    Each of us has our own way of manifesting our intentions.  Know that each and every way has its merits.  Sometimes we have to get messy in life, so that we can look forward to cleansing.  Sometimes we have to be thoughtful, so that we can process our needs and desires.  And sometimes we have to have straight edges, so that we can have a direct line to our authentic self.

For more information about the process of creating your own visual journals and picture collage, please visit Sheri’s website.

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Written by Amy Spradlin
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I am officially using the power of intention in this daily journal writing blog to set my intentions in regards to today’s journal writing topics on work.

I just started doing some new work for a friend yesterday and the intentions I set for this work are already in motion as I set them a few days ago. I am just unable now to sit down and get them into our daily journal writing blog and include it in the journal writing topics.

I’ve noticed that the power of intention is even greater when your intentions are truly heartfelt, light and fun.  The intentions I set in regards to doing this work were this:

• To have fun. To be highly productive, inspired and creative and to allow not only what the business needs but more importantly what the end user of the product I am working on needs to flow through me.  I intend to take what I “think” out of the way and allow what I “feel” is for the “highest good” to inspire me.
• I want to be in harmony with all that I interact with and truly intend to only see the best in everyone and inspire the best in everyone because that is truly the truth of us all!
• I love that I am so wholly gifted and that I am able to contribute in SO many ways…and that I am so wholly appreciated in so many ways as well!
• I love that I can do what I love to do in regards to work…its play time for me!

If yesterday is any indication of the power of intention, then I’m all

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on board! I was filled with joy, inspiration and appreciation for being a part of something new and introducing myself into a whole new circle of people (which was my intention the other day in regards to attracting new relationships!). My “channels” of joy are WIDE OPEN! The flood gates are open!

I have another book recommendation for you too! I have had You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay for some time now. I pick it up every now and then for reference. Last night I picked it up and started to read some chapters in the middle of the book and of course I was brought to the topics on this

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very thing (Law of Attraction at work gang, whether you want to believe it or not!).

There is so much I appreciate about what I read and have found it to be extremely helpful!

Thanks for joining me today for The Power of Intention and our daily journal writing blog. Like we say at Seeds of Intentions “Plant Yours Today!”

Written by:
Liz Gracia
Spiritual Healer, Teacher and Guide

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Today’s daily journal writing topics  are on the art of  allowing yourself to express how you feel when you feel it. My intentions are to allow myself to feel and express emotions when they come up, as I now understand the importance of allowing this energy to be presented and allowing it to be expressed and leave you.

Yesterday I intended to write about this topic in this daily journal writing blog but I was in the midst of an “issue ” that threw me into an emotional tail spin… and I have to say that these types of “issues” are now rare for me, so when they pop up they surely awaken me to the fact it is something I need to address and allow to pass through me.

In the past I would repress some “lesser” emotions with the perhaps, misguided belief it wasn’t “spiritual” or “evolved”. Now my understandings and experiences reveal differently.

The Book Oneness

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the book Oneness by Rasha. This book has been my bedside companion for close to a year now. It is a highly evolved and powerful book that expresses the truth of our changing times on this planet, and the truth about our need to allow all that is to express itself fully and completely right now regardless of how negative or destructive it may appear to you. I highly highly highly recommend this book!

There is so much wisdom and truth at a high level in the book Oneness that peace and knowing resonates within me while engaged in reading and fully integrating the messages in this book.  I have been transformed in many ways this year, this book has assisted me greatly in “shifting” into new levels of awareness and certainly new levels of allowing. I am becoming a Master of the law of allowing. I feel it. I see it. I am free-er,  even more positively oriented, happy, inspired  and at ease with life. Again, I highly recommend this book.

Now, in regards to allowing your own emotional expression, it is vital that you do. My experience has been that when I allow key issues that really effect me to be expressed fully, they are released and I am relieved, at peace with the issue, and shifted into another level of awareness. It is of great benefit to allow this to pass through you in this way. Otherwise it will be presented again and again until you surrender to it and express it! I think the word for this is transcendence.  It’ s a beautiful thing!

So two days ago something came up that caused me to feel anger, frustration and resentment. I was SO filled with “piss and vinegar” (so to speak) I couldn’t believe it! I had to call up friends to express how I felt. I was dropping “F#$%” bombs left and right.  I realized I needed to express fully…and I did! I rarely drop “F” bombs by the way!

I also had to do some Quantum Emotional Clearing (which is similar to an Emotional Freedom Tapping Technique). Typically one tapping session is sufficient. I did 3 or 4 with this issue! Hello!?! Apparently it needed to be addressed!

Today I woke up refreshed, clear and new as if the “issue” was gone. Love that! I even got a clairvoyant message (an image I see in my 3rd eye while my eyes are closed)  this morning that said “Thank God – Paatrick”…and yes, my “messenger” spelled the name Patrick this way! I know why I received this message and I know that Patrick helped me see this issue (though he is not aware of it) and I was able to address it and get through it.

So I continue to use the power of intention in this daily journal writing blog. My intention is to master the law of allowing of myself and of course others.  I am setting intentions to recognize emotional issues when they come up, address them and express them as necessary so that I am Free of these feelings again!

Liz Gracia Spiritual Healer, Teacher and Guide

Written by:
Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions

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Ok. So I am committed to setting my own intentions and appreciating the power of intentions every day that I can.  I am committed to daily journal writing in this blog we are creating in order to set my powerful intentions.

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I am also appreciating that I am using the power of intention and my understanding of the Law of Attraction and Power vs. Force to do this. In doing this I intend to be an example to all that are interested in setting intentions as to how one might go about this in a daily journal writing practice.

Today I am using the power of intention to attract a whole new circle of friends and relationships into my life:

I wholly appreciate people who are in harmony with me but also diversely and uniquely different than I. I thoroughly enjoy people that are bright, creative, inspired, gracious, positive, abundant creators. I love their sense of humor and their unique perspective on life! I also love that our conversations and time spent getting to know one another is balanced, genuinely inquisitive,  and lots of fun! I love how at ease we are together and that we ignite a whole new way of being in this world simply from being in each other’s presence.

How’s that for intention!?!

Again, I intend to be a powerful contributor to help others create the life that they want. I am simply presenting a possible example of this to you.

The Power of Intention combined with daily journal writing is a deliberately creative way to begin to take control of your life and create the life you want for yourself!

For more on intention setting, the power of intention, and the Law of Attraction, visit or website: www.SeedsofIntentions.com.

Liz Gracia Contributing Writer

Written by:
Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions
“Plant Yours Today!”

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Seeds of Intentions, welcomes you to
this daily intention setting journal to “Plant Yours Today”!

Seeds of Intentions - "Plant Yours Today"!

Growing Instructions:

1. Plant your seeds (of intentions, or that which you care to create and experience and call forth into your life).

2. Water with intent. (Meaning focus your attention in a heartfelt, light, happy appreciative manner on that which you intend for yourself).

3. Watch for the budding seedlings. (They may show up in many ways in the form of coincidence, synchronicity and manifestation. It’s simply a sign that you are “tuning in” to the frequency of that which you want or intend.)

4. Practice conscious living. Pay attention to where your thoughts are going and how you are feeling or acting.  If you are focused in a positive easy going manner on your intentions, you are a powerful creator. If not, you need to “change your mind” every time your mind leads you in a direction you do not want to go. Negative emotion is a sure sign you’re headed away from what you want on any topic.

Daily journal writing is a powerful way to set the intentions you have for your life, today, this week or this year. The intention of this daily journal writing post is to invite you to come here often to place a daily intention for yourself and to assist you in understanding how it is you get what you get in your life and how you can deliberately create that which you intend and what you truly want.

The other power of intention we are setting  in this community journal is that we are here to help uplift and provide life affirming guidance and direction to our fellow journal writers and “gardeners” (all you seeds of intentions sowers).

Once we all start these powerful intentions in motion, we’re going to

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have to go fill up our Law of Attraction Synchronicity blog with our vast stories of manifestation and  fun and wondrous stories of synchronicity and coincidence.