Angela and I are back in action. And guess what?

We’re not alone. We’ve got Richard Branson!! And a crack addict prisoner-turned-Zen life coach… Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu… and a few billionaires and cutting-edge scientists to boot.

That’s why we’ve been a bit quiet lately – we were asked to come in on a global transformation project and it’s kept us very busy! (And stay tuned because in a few days I’ll be interviewing some of these key visionaries LIVE!)

We’re so excited to share all of this with you… and because we’re co-creating this project with its founders, you get to see it all before it’s released to the public.

It’s called Choice Point and right now we’re having a free Private Digital Screening of a powerful new documentary film you won’t want to miss. It’s like The Secret meets What The Bleep?! with a dash of Eat Pray Love.

Though in my opinion it’s better… hehe

Because this film isn’t about new ideas. It’s about a specific global pattern that the world’s most respected visionaries and scientists are forecasting and also aligning with – and it’s their message to you for what’s coming.

And your part to play in all of it.

The film features the world’s most well-known spiritual leaders like The Dalai Lama, scientists and futurists like Barbara Marx Hubbard and Gregg Braden, and conscious billionaires like Richard Branson and Paul Mitchell haircare co-founder John Paul DeJoria. Soon it will be available in stores, however right now you can watch online.

Discover Your Choice Point >>> Watch the Film FREE Now!

What will you learn?

Well imagine learning the exact approach for getting unstuck and creating massive change that Richard Branson used to launch his Virgin empire…

And how a british crack addict used this same approach while in prison to break free of the cycles of crime, drugs and self-loathing.

Because it turns out there’s a scientific reason why those of us with heartfelt passions and powerful gifts will often get stuck or feel unfulfilled. There’s also a key set of principles and systems you can use to get unstuck. And they have to do with that global pattern I told you about earlier…

It’s all explained in the film. And for the next few days only, you can get FREE Viewing Room Access.

Witness the New Path of the Visionaries >>> Watch Now!

Please enjoy, and let us know what you think of it after you watch… (and I can’t wait to tell you what else we’re creating!! But patience, Jaime… patience.) More updates and cool stuff coming soon!

A Festival For Awakening – Touching The Numinous With The Enlightened

Waking Up is Hard to Do

Well, only if you resist And if you’re here, you probably know that the best solution to whatever challenge you’re facing, is a spiritual one.

And you’re not alone.

WakeUp Festival 2012

I’ve just returned from a very special event, and it’s my absolute pleasure to share with you some of the inspirational guidance I received at the inaugural, WakeUp Festival 2012. The event, hosted by SoundsTrue Publishers, was held in the heart of the majestic Rocky Mountains, at Estes Park, Colorado. And for 5 days, 800 fortunate peeps (me included ) were blessed to sit and listen to wisdom from some of today’s Master Teachers, including:

• Caroline Myss
• Jack Kornfield
• Adyashanti
• Gangaji
• Michael Beckwith
• Shiva Rae
• and other masters…

These and many others offered insight & guidance on this unique experience called ‘Awakening,’ which many of us are currently undergoing.

Wisdom Words from Master Teachers

Here are a few of the countless insights & memorable quotes from just 2 of the event’s keynote speakers:

Adyashanti

Adyashanti is a beloved spiritual teacher with an enormous following. In fact, of all the attendees I interviewed during WakeUp 2012, it was he, along with Gangaji (see below) who was most credited with drawing people to the event.

“Adya” as he is affectionately called, is a ‘non-dual’ teacher along the lines of early Zen Masters & the Advaita Vedanta sages. He was the first keynote speaker at the event, and his topic, Spiritual Awakening: A Radical Shift in Identity set the tone for several days of deep transformation.

“The core of Awakening” according to Adyashanti, “is an essential shift in how we see and experience Self … It’s a moment of clarity, and the experiential elimination of identity.”

In other words, it’s the letting go of the ego story experienced by the “small s” self. This letting go happens in moments when (often through meditation, or other ecstatic experiences) you recognize yourself as something much more than the name, body and experience of ‘me’ that you thought you were.

“Awakening has to do with the truth amidst the 100s of veils we can get lost in,” he explains. “It’s a journey of many transformative moments along the way, until we get to a point where we say: ‘I really really want to know what truth is.’ ”

At it’s core, Adyashanti’s message is that our lives are the unfolding of “existence seeking to know itself.” And your personal journey is a part of this. So for you to have a true and lasting “awakening” experience, the 1st thing you’ll want clarity about is: “What is your spiritual journey about for you?”

He also gives us all a precious message of hope during these tumultuous times: “Everything is unimaginably okay!” This, he explains, “is what you know when you take the inner journey of awakening.”

Gangaji

Like Adyashanti, Gangaji is a beloved spiritual teacher who, one could say, has fully awakened to the awareness beyond the story of her small-s-self.

“The truth of who you are is yours already” would be one way to summarize her teachings. It’s a truth, says Gangaji, that’s real regardless of whatever ‘state’ of experience is currently showing up in your life.

“I’m speaking of the silent, awake core,” she says, “the life that is always present.”

This ‘awake core’ can be difficult to understand if you haven’t ever had an experience of it. Most enlightened teachers say they use words to ‘point to’ the experience, because explaining this awareness-beyond-thought is kind of like trying to describe the thrill sensation of a roller coaster ride to someone whose never experienced it. Or trying to evoke the smell of a ripe mango for a person who lives in the desert … or ‘painting’ the color blue for a person whose physical eyes have never seen.

Gangaji invites inquiry into what truly IS … what is beneath your beliefs, your experience, your stories, your pain, your hopes, fears and doubts. She says that when you are willing to undertake this inquiry, you discover that your ‘identity’ as you thought is was “is just a rising and a falling.” It is an insubstantial, temporal thing. What is real is what she guides you with great compassion toward. It is the realization, the knowing that: “that which has lived you so far has always been in charge.”

The Peace of Surrender

The most powerful ‘take-away’ I received from both of these teachers is a sense of surrender and allowing. Because when you surrender your resistance to WHAT IS, when you allow whatever is showing up in your thoughts or experiences to be – simply & solely – the content of the moment (rather than the definition of your life) you find peace in this now moment. A peace that’s never possible when you are attaching to form or outcome or expectation or definitions of any kind.

More to Come!

Stay tuned here at O!Lila for more Wisdom Guidance gleaned at WakeUp 2012. In the mean time, please do share a piece of your awakening story. Are you going through a transformative life experience right now? What helps you move forward, and what vision do you hold for your life. Please let us know in the comments below.

Many blessings,
Dawn

Dawn DelVecchio is a writer, traveler, speaker and coach. She’s been living a life devoted to Spirit and Purpose for more than 28 years. As the author & host DawnDelVecchio.com, and a guest contributor to a number of personal growth blogs, Dawn shares insights, tips and practical tools for you to live a life of greater purpose, happiness and abundance. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Unlocking your Prosperity: 7 Keys to Healing your Money Mindset & Fully Stepping into your Calling.

Sometimes you just have to hit rock bottom.

That’s what I used to believe.

This is Jaime here and I want to tell you the story of how I was personally led into a powerful “reset” experience when Pneumonia knocked me out of work and a perfect storm hit my life.

I’m telling you this story because it is a story you’ve probably lived in your own life. You might be living it right now.

And when these intense transitions hit our life they can do more than rock the boat. They can completely capsize it, and shipwrecked on new and unknown shores… we are forced to rebuild.

I hope this story will amuse and inspire you, and also illuminate the anatomy of transition and how you can engage it to turn that transition or challenge into a complete RESET that locks your life into the direction you want it to go.

Because life is meant to be relished!

The Anatomy of Transition…

The Undeniable Call

When the Challenge or Problem Refuses to Any Longer Be Ignored

For me, that undeniable call was pneumonia.

For you it may be a fight with a loved one or getting fired from a job. At its essence, it is an undeniable expression of a deeper hidden block or issue within that has finally become so potent that it has manifested physically in your environment, relationships or in your own body.

This Undeniable Call does two things:

• It stops us dead in our tracks so we can no longer ignore that something has gone far afield of where we wanted to be
• That aspect of our life will often come to a halt, forcing us to re-evaluate and creating a space or time for us to realign and shift

This is what the pneumonia did for me. It literally forced me into bed for over a month with such an immense physical exhaustion, constant cough, and foggy drugged experience that I couldn’t read, watch anything but mindless TV, work or do anything productive.

I was left alone with nothing but my thoughts.

And I had to acknowledge that I’ve never been so sick in my life and that there might be a deeper core wound or issue that triggered this illness at this particular point in my life.

When I looked up the meaning of Pneumonia in Louise Hayes’ You Can Heal Your Life, it said:

All I could do was nod and quietly cry. It was so true – and how had I not seen it before? How did I not know that I was so deeply in emotional crisis and grief until it had manifested in my body?

I was shocked, but also relieved. I knew in my heart that this was the root cause of my problems and now I had an idea how to approach finding a solution…

The Response

The Choice That Changes Everything FOR GOOD

* Photo by Bass N’Roll

If you’re in a true transition and life reset, you’ll find that the call forced you to take a long hard look at something inside you, and at some point you made a choice.

To fight, to change, to break through, or to perhaps go in a different direction.

What we often don’t realize in those moments is that we bring an immeasurable amount of force and energy to such pivotal choices ~ even when they seem so simple or subtle.

For me, my choice came just as I was recovering from pneumonia. A week after finally feeling almost normal again… and just as I was returning to work… I got a head cold and I was sick again.

I felt pummeled and punished and defeated.

To make matters worse, I’d just transitioned out of all my client projects so I could tackle my company full-time. But after being sick for nearly a month and a half, I wasn’t able to actually work on the business during that time. So there was no new income. And I’d already released the old income.

I had to borrow money from my parents to pay rent that month. At the age of 31. I felt like a failure and disappointment.

Yet as I sat there… crying as I attempted to meditate at my altar… and as I prayed for some sort of comfort or release from this terrible downward spiral… I emptied out all my frustration and sorrow and suddenly I realized:

NONE of my needs were being met.

I didn’t feel any sense of security or certainty in my life or financial situation, I felt unable to contribute and serve the way I desired, I felt stunted in my own growth process by being sick for so long, and I was at the tail end of a 6-year sabbatical from intimacy and love.

THAT was when I finally hit rock bottom.

And THAT was when I gave my response and made my choice.

I decided if life wasn’t going to meet my needs, it was because it was never meant to. I was the only one who could save me. I had to meet my own needs.

Stripped down, bare and literally recognizing that I might have to let go of all my dreams and desires… at that moment all that was left was God. The only thing left that I knew I had was Spirit.

Stepping toward Spirit became my new and only focus. My compass. I had reduced my life and its complexity ~ all my questioning, doubt and desire ~ to that one simple and singular thing.

I’m not saying this is the choice all of us must come to ~ I think our choices in these moments are as unique as we are and the circumstances we’re in. However the simplicity of it… that’s what made it so powerful for me, and so easy to follow… even as my world continued to crash down around me…

Upheaval and Fallout

When Life Must Turn Itself Upside Down in Order to Right Itself

We’re often told that once we hit our breakthrough epiphany, everything magically rights itself and life gets good again. Well in my experience this is both true and NOT true.

It’s true in the sense that such an epiphany is a powerful choice that can move mountains. It literally rends you from the fabric of the life you had and begins the process of delivering you to something new.

However that process must still engage physical reality. It must still manifest along the established lines of creation.

And so when you respond to a crisis or call with a decision to change, to stand up, or to transform… you are establishing the reality that the life you had no longer serves you and that a new life is what you desire.

In other words, you’ve declared that the life you’ve lived up until now was upside down and taking you in the wrong direction. Getting your life right side up again… well that means it’s going to feel like a massive fallout. Your life will seem to get turned upside down as it begins to right itself.

At this point, I believe the most crucial thing to remember is to surrender and allow and to reduce our resistance as much as we can. Fighting the process just stretches it out and we have to remember that what feels like upheaval is simply a setting right what was already wrong.

I think in some ways this is what we’ve seen with our financial systems at the national and global levels.

I also found that each time I remembered my compass and chose Spirit every time I faced a decision (basically moving toward love vs. fear), I found my world resetting itself faster and easier.

An example of this is with money.

My finances were really suffering. I had ideas for how to quickly launch products via O! Lila and some other options for money. But when I felt deeply into the decision, I felt how tense my body was. I could sense the panic inside me to create and market and sell quick quick quick! There was fear behind that. Fear of not having enough money, of having to borrow from my parents again, of losing this business Angela and I have so diligently built.

And so I stepped toward love and made another pivotal choice: I decided to become my own customer. I would create that which I myself deeply needed.

Resolution & Evolution

When You Quantum Leap into a New Version of Yourself and Your Life

 * Photo by David Blackwell

With that final key choice (where I actively lived my earlier decision to always step toward Spirit and love), I finally felt I’d hit solid ground again. Life locked into place and a new perspective was dawning.

You see, my personal RESET that I needed was in Self Love. That was the core wounding that expressed itself in my pneumonia and then my finances.

I had to address some very serious questions: why did I keep refusing to create what I MYSELF deeply needed? Why wasn’t I meeting my own needs?

It took me becoming deathly sick, going broke and even considering therapy before I became vulnerable enough… stripped down enough… honest enough with myself to ask:

“What do I deeply need right now? What is going to feed my soul and save my life?”

Out of that questioning poured forth what is now the Soul Declarations Photobook for the Money Frequency. After that, other materials poured forth along with inspired discussions and serendipitous meetings.

Unlike anything else I’d ever created prior, I was returning to these materials every day – consuming them like a user rather than their creator.

I had truly created what I needed most, and my life transformed as a result. Money was flowing in. People were showing up and offering resources I’d needed but didn’t know how to find. Even my dating life shifted!

Angela, inspired by her own soul stirrings, had also started creating what she most craved.

She shared with me some audio lessons she had just recorded with guest experts on our energetic relationship to wealth, health and other topics. She’d also been exploring brain entrainment and developing new meditation practices.

We were both genuinely and delightfully shocked: something profound had taken shape for us. Somehow we’d both separately gone through our own processes and arrived at the same place. Resolution. And an evolution for our own company. For O! Lila.

Already, in just the past 4 weeks, our entire lives have transformed:

• I brought in a sudden and surprising $17,000
• Angela received surprise commission checks and raises to the tune of about $14,000
• I finally began writing my book and truly finding my voice for what I most deeply desire to deliver to the world (that I’m going to begin live blogging here on O! Lila!)
• We’re moving our headquarters from Austin to California (likely the Bay Area!)
• Eating healthy, exercising and effortlessly losing weight has suddenly become natural and enjoyable where we’ve both struggled for years prior
• My personal life has utterly transformed across all areas and I feel as though I’m quantum leaping forward in healing and transformation
• Life is FUN, playful and vibrant again!!

Easing the Transition

I can say unequivocally that this intense transition experience has been one of the best things that happened to me.

However I’m also learning that these life-changing shifts of mine might be so difficult and scary simply because I always believed they had to be.

The moment I truly began to move into the resolution and evolution that earned me true transformation in my own habits and unconscious behaviors was when I started consuming and utilizing simple tools like the Photobook… along with more complex tools like brain entrainment audios.

I had always been a firm believer in the power of visualization and brain entrainment however I had never experienced the instantaneous and profound total reset experience of combining A Moment of Undeniable TRUTH + these Simple Tools For Transformation.

Those two things together proved utter magic!

And how nice would it be to achieve these same genuine epiphanies and evolutions without requiring a crisis or upheaval every single time?

I’d love for you to take a look at what Angela and I created to support our own transformations. We created what served us most and what truly supported us through our hectic lives and confusing moments. It was a beautiful journey to create and use, and already we’ve been getting wonderful feedback on its results from others who are now using it.

It’s called the Success Reset Package for Removing Your Hidden Barriers to Wealth

Click Here to Learn More.

We started there because of my own financial challenges after pneumonia and also because we know it’s hard to focus on your relationship or inner transformation when bills aren’t getting paid and that basic need for security and safety feels threatened. However you’ll find all areas of your life touched with abundance and vibrance while using this reset package, just like we experienced!

The Success Reset Package itself is brand new… however its components are proven wealth energy tools and expertise that hail from ancient Indian yogic wisdom, neurology and brain science, and more.

You can learn more about our Success Reset Package HERE.

I wish you a beautiful and bountiful transition for your own life!

With love,
Jaime

However there is a particular radiance that is just yours and that is designed to magnetize your giving back to you.

This radiance is made up of 5 types of radiance that you emit constantly and inevitably 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Together, the direction they align in, and the frequency you are emanating at, determines what your radiance magnetizes back to you.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know exactly what these 5 types of radiance are, and how you can utilize them to magnetize the things you desire, like joy, peace, love and abundance?

The 5 Types of Radiance:

1. Emotional Radiance

Love and fear. All emotions radiate in the direction of one or the other. And so when you feel anger, frustration, disappointment and other painful emotions in relation to money and financial situations your emotional radiance points toward fear.

Activating your radiance toward the good stuff in life, and particularly wealth, means that your emotions toward money and finances express joy, excitement, hope, love and gratitude.

This sounds simple yet can be very difficult, since the majority of us tend to have our emotions arise unconsciously. You might not be intentionally selecting your emotions on a daily basis.

How can you align your emotional radiance with love and therefore with abundance and wealth?

Try beginning and ending each day with a ritual that celebrates abundance and emotionally excites or uplifts you. Choose an inspiring and visually powerful video or set of graphics. Add in your own affirmations or declarations of wealth for some added punch!

* Photo by Taro Taylor

2. Perceptual Radiance

Your perceptual radiance is determined by how you habitually perceive the world.

Based on the perceptions you consistently had in the past, your brain has hardwired itself to perceive your current reality in a specific way – and not necessarily an accurate way.

It has also created strong connections: pairing certain events, people and physical sensations… with particular emotional states.

In other words, you are perceiving your present reality as a repetition of your past emotional experiences, even when the actual reality may be different.

On top of that, what you perceive triggers those past emotions all over again!

This leads to a vicious cycle or broken record of the past that is literally hardwired into your brain and biology (remember that your emotions are also chemical and biological).

How to rewire your brain to align your perception with your desires?

There are several ways to accomplish this such as vigilant thinking, affirmations or thought replacement (every time you catch yourself thinking something negative, replace it with a positive thought).

However each of these requires significant willpower, time and effort. Most of us simply don’t have the time or consistent will.

Therefore we’re fans of brain entrainment. Proper entrainment audios will rewire your brain by training it with sound frequencies to the exact frequency of perception you prefer.

You can learn more about how we use brain entrainment to reset your perceptual radiance here.

3. Informational Radiance

Informational radiance is simply the knowledge and factual data you emit via communication and reasoning – with yourself or with others.

The information you learn and commit to (through belief, teaching or demonstrating) is used to validate your perceptions and emotions.

Therefore it is important to ensure that what you learn aligns with what you want to feel and perceive.

You’ll also find that the more knowledge you gain about yourself and the way you operate best to get what you want… the easier it becomes to achieve your goals because you’re working with yourself, rather than against yourself.

Too many people only focus on informational radiance however. We recommend against that. Though this angle is important, by itself it is of little use.

Applied knowledge is the key, which leads us to our next type of radiance…

4. Behavioral Radiance

This is where the rubber meets the road.

Your habitual actions (i.e. behaviors) communicate your inner radiance or frequency to the outside world and, through interaction, call a mirror frequency back to you.

This is how you transform your own radiance (energetic expressions) into a magnetism that draws yourself back to you – along with everything that mirrors you and your expressions.

It’s important however to distinguish between intended action and habitual behaviors.

Most people teach you how to take intended action to manifest your desires. This is an uphill battle.

It is your habitual behavior that needs to be transformed because 5 intended actions cannot hope to compete with your 10,000 habitual words, distractions, procrastinations, physical postures, and habitual choices (such as what to eat or where to spend your time) that you make every single day.

Brain entrainment, mentioned above, assists you in transforming your behavior, however to deeply install these new behaviors you must do them: consistently, daily, joyfully… until they become unconscious and habitual.

We recommend focusing on your behavioral radiance for at least 60 days because it takes 21 days to create a habit and since we’re all human, we might miss a few days here or there.

You can learn more about the specific daily protocol for resetting your behavioral radiance here.

5. Reciprocal Radiance

What we radiate returns to us. Likewise, what others radiate toward us can affect our own frequency.

This is why your outer environment and the people you allow into your space can largely determine your happiness and income levels.

How is this possible? At a scientific level it is because closed systems of energy must maintain equilibrium (based on the laws of thermodynamics).

When you exchange energy with another person (through exchanging ideas, emotions, conversation or physical engagement) you open your system to their system and vice versa. Together you become a new closed system and must eventually reach equilibrium if you continue to share energy and stay in each other’s energy fields (which does not require close physical proximity, but rather emotional proximity).

Therefore when someone projects or radiates towards you, and you engage or receive them in any way that allows “an exchange of energy,” you are naturally triggered to respond with a reciprocal radiation or projection of your own.

Over time, the two of you will reach equilibrium, so consider:

Would you want to move toward equilibrium with someone that will pull your frequency down… or someone who will elevate your frequency higher?

For example, when someone showers you with supportive energy you will naturally feel peace, ease, protectedness and safety. When someone radiates love and joy you will naturally feel more buoyant and carefree or joyous around them.

Reciprocal radiance can also be used to create a safe container for experience. This is the nature of our Success Reset and everything we do at O! Lila.

Our goal is to help you radiate outward so that each of your radiances align in angle toward a single focus, thereby installing a new default state of high frequency ~ such as abundance.

In turn, we radiate that same frequency of energy toward you in reciprocal relationship to strengthen your new frequency and to create a container for your reset experience.

In this way our reciprocal energies “bounce” back and forth and build in intensity as they reinforce each other.

You can learn more about how we orchestrated this reciprocal radiance here!

How to Shine Your Light & Radiate Abundance

Remember: You are already abundant; already perfect and complete and whole.

There is nothing in you that needs to be fixed.

The challenge isn’t so much how to get something new that you need in order to create what you want… but rather how to get rid of the blocks and barriers in your way (and in your own energy field) that are inhibiting your natural ability to create.

In essence: how do you get out of your own way?

Information is helpful, but we prefer tools. Tools that rewire, reframe and inspire our expressions naturally – at the specific frequency we want – toward tangible results.

That’s why we’re so excited about releasing our new Success Reset Package!

Discover how to reset your wealth frequency and remove any hidden barriers to abundance today.

It takes only 20 minutes a day to rewire your physical and energy systems for financial well-being if you use the right tools!

In case you’ve missed this latest social addiction, Pinterest is a social network that allows you to bookmark and share images you come across online (or upload from your computer), like “pins” on a cork board.

But we’re not interested in it for its basic function so much as we are inspired by its potential for manifesting the goals and desires you have on your vision board or on your bucket list!

Honestly… Pinterest may be the most potent visioning and manifestation tool you can use for easily creating a robust vision board AND reinforcing it with some serious manifestation mojo when your friends, followers and fellow pinners put their energy into your dreams alongside you.

Unleashing the Hidden Power of Pinterest?

It’s all in the intimate visual nature of the site.

You see, we as human beings naturally identify visually ~ you see it with art collectors who showcase pieces that express their sense of self and sophistication. You see it with fashionistas who wear their identity on their sleeve. And you see it with the massive instantaneous adoption of Pinterest by internet users worldwide.

Did you know that people spend more time on Pinterest per day than they spend on Facebook and Twitter put together?

The stats don’t lie: there’s something about expressing yourself visually through the pictures you love and the items you want…  and that’s what brings us to the hidden power of Pinterest…

There are 2 Fool-Proof Ways to Skyrocket Your Manifestation Mojo:

{And Pinterest delivers these both at full-throttle!}

1. Visual Stimulation That Elicits a Strong Emotional Response

As you may know, if there’s one part of you most responsible for creating your reality and affecting your experience… it’s your emotions.

Depending on how you feel, you will experience the same events completely differently.

Your emotions are also chemical and, at a deeper level, energetic. They actually manifest your perceived reality more than you may realize.

But all you need to know to make the most of your positive emotions is this: surround yourself with things that make you feel good.

Visual stimulation has a unique way of triggering feel-good emotions {which is why we created our Soul Declarations Photobook for the Money Frequency!}.

So why not create some boards on your Pinterest page that house photos and graphics that simply light you up and spark that giddy I’m-five-years-old-again grin?

But this is the more obvious way Pinterest can help you manifest your dreams. Here’s the kicker though:

Did you know that sharing an intent or visualization with a group of people increases your likelihood of manifesting it by more than 600%? This is based on a recent study in Princeton, NJ and brings us to point #2:

2. Socializing Your Intentions & Visualizations Multiplies Your Manifestations

To truly unleash the power of Pinterest to help you manifest your dreams, you want to mobilize its massive user base toward sharing and supporting your dreams and goals with their energy and shared intent.

Here’s how you do it:

• Create a new board on Pinterest (if you don’t have an account, simply go to www.pinterest.com and request an account. Within a day or so they’ll approve you!)
• Make that board your new Vision Board
• Post photos and graphics that represent your vision for the future
• IMPORTANT: Keep the vision focused and detailed ~ create multiple vision boards for different things if you need, for example create a vision board for your dream home, another for your travel bucket list, another for your dream Self or dream relationship.
• For each graphic you pin, write a little bit about why it’s important to your vision. Intend to infuse every single item you pin with your energy of desire, excitement and gratitude for its coming manifestation.

Now here’s the key to unleashing Pinterest’s power for your vision board and manifesting efforts:

• Gather friends, followers and others to support you in the desire for what you’re pinning to your vision board(s).

You see, as they share (re-pin) your vision board items, or like them, comment on them, etc., they are reinforcing the energy you already put into those expressions of your desire and they are not only adding their own energy to it, but they are extending that energy out across their network and so forth.

This is the true power of social networking at the energetic level. Yes it allows for the rapid spread of ideas and ideals… but also a rapid spread of energy. And energy ~ as the foundational component of all matter, thought and ideas ~ is the real transformer.

You can also kick it up a notch and truly ignite the power of the group…

Create a Community Board on your Pinterest Page that allows others (you choose who has access) to pin images to the board with you. Now you and a select group of friends or followers can come together in similar intent and focused energy to manifest your dreams via a Shared Vision Board.

In fact, we were so excited by this idea, we decided to lead by example! Just last night we launched a Community Vision Board where you can join us in manifesting a shared intent for “Awakening Together.”

Pin your ideas for balanced living where your spiritual journey is honored alongside your daily life. Share images that inspire love, community and people supporting each other in their personal awakenings and spiritual journeys.

Our central belief and intent for this community board is this:

Click HERE to Join Our “Awaken Together” Community Vision Board!

You can gain access to pin to our community vision board in two ways:

1. Follow the board and we’ll add your username to our “allowed pinners” list {If you want to (or have)

2. Send us an email at support@olila.com and ask us to add you. Be sure to give us your pinterest username so we can!

These are the only ways for us to give you access as Pinterest does not allow open boards as of yet. We hope you’ll join us in this joint vision for mutual abundance, love and spiritually guided living!

With love,

Jaime and Angela

P.S. Not on Pinterest yet? Not sure what it’s all about? Well you can google it and find out plenty… and we also have this nifty infographic we found that does a pretty good job of explaining it with pretty pictures.

So here are 7 breathtaking fashion ideas we’ve recently spotted that you can use to express an aspect of your inner truth and spiritual being…

Roberto Cavalli light-pink silk V-neck gown with feather print ($4,175) at Neiman Marcus, Northbrook Court.

Ignite the Phoenix. We love this fiery goddess gown and its subtle (and likely unintended) revelation of the sleeping Droplet of Fire at the core of each of us. Where is your fire burning?

From Gizia Autumn-Winter 2008/2009 collection

Princess of the Peacocks. We are reminded of the irony that we feel most feminine and beautiful when donning the frills of masculine animals. However we feel that Spirit guides us to beauty, in all its forms. TRUE beauty, whether fashion tells us it is so or not. The peacock was a symbol of wisdom and beauty long before a designer deemed it so.

A blossoming 2012 fashion trend… click photo for more shots from this gorgeous oriental shoot.

She carries fragrant blossoms in the folds of her skirt, the garden dances in her fabrics. We like that her outfit is decidedly NOT oriental, yet her surroundings lend a sacred stillness to the subtle quietude of her clothing.

Photo Credit: Patrick Demarchelier German Vogue May 2010, Model Joan Smalls

We are reminded of the wild, untamed woman. Tribal, close to the earth and her earth-given instincts. This woman resides in each of us and roars for expression now and then. Try not to keep her caged.

From Virgins, Saints & Angels Project (click photo to read more)

We call these “Goddess Necklaces.” Jewelry you wear that can transport you to a different aspect of yourself. Perhaps she’s a bit more regal, or she frolics in glitter and faery garlands… perhaps she bedecks herself in silken flowing gowns of white and silver or maybe all she adorns herself with is the necklace itself… Have you touched the Goddess in you lately?

Tunic from www.ToryBurch.com (couldn’t find the link to this exact print, but they have many others currently available)

Most of us won’t be flitting around in goddess dresses and glitter while we’re attempting to walk the dog or earn a paycheck. We loved this design for inspiring a practical fashion aesthetic that is bright and flowing while still elegant and perfect for a normal day out.

And lastly… when you want to go just one step further than clothing as an expression…

Go ahead: BE the garden!

For more Fashions to Feast On, visit our Pinterest Page!

We learn as much from our children as we hope to teach. This video features excerpts from a wonderful poem musing on all the things one might do differently “If i had my child to raise again.”

Here are 5 marvelous tips for creating your own sanctuary right in your own backyard or patio…

Tip 1. Invite all the elements

Draw in the elements with stone, water, plants and lighting ~ all beautifully honored with their own space and purpose in supporting this tranquil space. Notice how the lighting issues from below rather than above… It adds a touch of magic, doesn’t it? Like the beckoning of a secret cave.

Inviting the elements can be simple and cost-effective too. For lighting, you can use simple tealight candles to line a pathway or string garden lights around trees, low plants, or across the soil of your plant beds. For running water, use a few small fountains or build a bird bath. Begin collecting stones during your hikes or travels, or grab a few polished ones from your local Target!

Tip 2. Design Around Your Desires

What kind of experiences do you want to cultivate in your backyard sanctuary? Do you crave stillness and a sacred space to escape to or do you want to create a comforting and inspiring meeting place for chatting with friends and birthing big ideas? Try to think beyond the confines of a backyard as simply a place for BBQs and flowers. Instead, explore how you want to experience nature nearby, on a daily basis, and build around that.

A few examples…

Here a musician designed a gorgeous open air haven for playing her music and pursuing her art. How might you encourage your creations to meander outdoors? If we can coax butterflies and birds and squirrels into our gardens, why not coax your muse?

Ask yourself…

What would inspire you to work outside in the elements more often? What are your objections?

If your backyard is too hot, how could you cool it down or make it more refreshing?

If it’s too cold, how might you create a cozy, heated haven for yourself?

We personally want one of these in our O! Lila headquarters right this minute! What a gorgeous and powerfully inspired way to cultivate connection, social intimacy and playfulness while calling in Spirit for deep grounding and centering around the Fire of Life. One day we’re going to design one of these for ourselves and hold our brilliant summer evening brainstorms here… floating along a sea of jazz, flowing wine and delectable feasts…

Ahhh… but what about fostering romance? Need to breathe a bit of sensuality back into your busy life?

Oh yeah… it’s time to express your inner Fred Flinstone and Bedrock it! Bring the grounding and earth-connectedness of a romantic picnic beneath the stars right into your own backyard with a slab of rock for a patio table. Wine never stood so well.

Tip 3. Indulge in some creative landscaping

You can learn how to do just about anything yourself these days between home improvement DIY sites and YouTube. So why not get your hands good and dirty and experiment with some creative landscaping? All you need are some well-placed rocks or boulders, inspired flower beds and, if you’re really adventurous, some piping for running water!

And if you’re feeling particularly daring… design your own stone labyrinth:

Tip 4. Construct a family altar

This can be a sacred altar or perhaps a testament to what is sacred within your family. For example, we love this inspired and endlessly adorable altar crafted simply from stones upon a tree stump ~ yet issuing forth volumes of love, innocence and adorable joy:

Tip 5. Don’t Overthink it!

Sometimes all you need is just you; couched in a bed of flowers. Let your garden be whatever nourishes you and supports you most. Your backyard is your way of giving Nature’s Gift back to yourself again.