Manifesting Destiny-Part 1 ( Treasure Maps ) The first step in achieving your goals is to visualize them. Treasure maps, also known as vision boards, are tools you can employ toward that end. For the record, I consider myself to be a skeptic. So when I first learned about treasure maps, I was understandably wary. It seemed too good to be true. Want something? A house? A car? A relationship? Put an image of it on a board and youre on your way. For the uninitiated, a treasure map—also known as a vision board—is a panel on which a person arranges pictures and words depicting their goals. Unity has long held that visualizing your goals is the first step to achieving them. Decades ago, Unity minister Stretton Smith incorporated treasure maps in his prosperity teachings. More recently, treasure maps were featured in The Secret as a tool of living according to the laws of attraction. I asked Rev. Paulette Pipe, a Unity minister who leads workshops on treasure maps, about the phenomenon. “A treasure map is a visual prayer,” she says. “The images turn into manifestations, because your thoughts are prayers.” When Pipe decided she wanted to graduate from a university with honors, she created a treasure map. When she wanted to pay off debt, she created a treasure map. When she wanted to go on a 40-day silent retreat, she created a treasure map. When she wanted to go on a fully paid vacation to Bermuda—you guessed it—she created a treasure map. And all have come true. Pipes treasure maps, which she saves for posterity, could be works of art, beautiful as they are. Currently, she has a treasure map with her latest goal displayed on her office wall: to produce a meditation CD. In the center, shes superimposed a photo of herself on a heart, to symbolize that her meditations come from her heart center. And then shes surrounded that with images, which Pipe explains: “Oprahs on here because she has the Midas touch. Louise Hay is here because she runs a publishing house and I want my CD to be published. Images of fruit symbolize that the time is ripe. Light symbolizes the Spirit that comes from within.” “Its not just wishful thinking. Im seeing what my life could look like and feel like.” I had to ask: “What about relationships? Can I manifest … a man?” This is a little bit tricky, Pipe says. You cannot compel another person to action according to your treasure map. “What you can do is make it your goal to be a partner in a relationship,” she offered. This makes sense; you can only set your own goals, after all, and this is what treasure maps are all about. Rev. Phillip Pierson, vice president of education for Unity Institute, says treasure maps can help a person set their intentions. While Pierson doesnt necessarily keep a treasure map, he and his wife, Dorothy, make it part of their daily ritual to make statements defining their goals, and they thank God in advance for fulfilling them. “The principle (of treasure maps) is the same as the spoken word. Its a matter of intention, a matter of focus,” he says. “You see it every day, and it reminds you to give thanks. Theres no magic—its a tool of consciousness. You get what you expect to get.” Now Im ready to manifest my goals. You can find me holed up in my office with tools for success—a board, scissors, glue and a few issues of GQ magazine.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:57:59 +0000
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