The Universe Is Now Taking Orders

Sometime last year I had experienced a bit of a rough patch. I was overcome by a depression ~ the likes of which I had not experienced before.

I lost interest in the things I liked to do.

Two months easily flew by without me even wanting to check my email, or chat with friends on an Internet group that I belonged to. I did not even want to go near a phone. (I never really liked the phone all that much anyway.)

Well, my on-line friends took notice.

And before long, they had gathered a bunch of "cheer-me-up" goodies and shipped them off to me.

One of the things in that box of cheer was an altered art journal, created by Took, this blog's number one fan and commentator.

Because this was a lovely journal, a thoughtful gift, AND a Took original, I wanted this book to serve a special purpose.

Months later this "special purpose" revealed itself to me.

This book was going to serve as a repository for my visions ~ the dreams I wish to manifest in my life ~ and as an aid to help me maintain my focus on these dreams.

The first several pages had images of the things I wish to manifest ~ wealth, a best seller, a successful business, and the transformation of my house into a fantasy dream home.

(Somehow, when I up-loaded this image, the blues and the yellows got switched. That's supposed to be a blue sky and yellow sunflowers. Go figure.)

This was going to be fun, because it meant that I was going to play around with editing and altering images on the computer.

So, gracing page one was a $1,000,000 check made out to me from the Bank of the Universe.

The next page had me practically buried in a pile of Benjamins.

Page 3 showed my N.Y. Times best seller, Wealth Happens.

On the next page was the entrance for my proposed business, Pixelektra Studio.

And the 5th page featured my fantasy dream home.

Yes, this is my actual home. And with a little bit of digital magic, I turned it into a place of my dreams. (Hey! I even "fixed" the roof!)

Accompanying these images were my words, gushing with gratitude, and thanking God for these many blessings.

Not one to stop there, I began making a list of all the other things for which I am grateful, such as my family ~ the two-legged, the four-legged, and even the no-legged, my strength and intelligence, my creativity, Winter's passing and Spring's arrival, etc.

Waiting to be started is a section devoted to things that can shift my mood from a negative to a positive state.

I still haven't worked on that section because I had not had the time.

But that is just as well; for while waiting for an occasion to work on that section, I had the insight and inspiration to include images in that section.

Scanner and computer, here I come!

I am a visually-oriented person. And what better way to focus my thinking and shift my mood than through images?

Focusing on the positive and on the pleasure my dreams bring me is a much better thing than to focus on the negative appearances that are presently in my line of sight.

Life is supposed to be fun.