Official Treasure Map --2008 - Page 21

[fek&fuzz]

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

The one area of my TM that has had a lot of action is my health. It's amazing, because I had the word "vibrant" in bright orange and that's exactly how I feel! I didn't specifically address weight loss on my TM but I did put several affirmations about loving my healthy body and feeling alive and amazed and beautiful in my body and just the other day I weighed myself and I've lost 16 pounds! I'm down below my pre-pregnancy weight from DD, and I think DS3 as well. I am thinner and healthier than I have been in 3 years, I'm not anemic anymore and I feel alive and wonderful. The other areas that fell in with that was being a patient and happy mom and because I got my anemia under control I actually HAVE that energy I need to be present with my children and play with them and be patient and pleasant.

Also, I put a picture of the yoga pose warrior on my TM, not because I wanted to start doing yoga but because it looked so strong and healthy, and what do you know? I started doing yoga.

I'll have to post pics of my new look. I feel so amazing!

That is great! I put similar affirmations about my body on my TM, and I've lost 7 pounds and a whole bunch of inches and I have not once felt deprived or hungry.

I'm so glad you are feeling better and looking better!

[Oriole]

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

I'll have to post pics of my new look. I feel so amazing!

So happy for you, I thought you had a rough start, and I'm glad to see that things are looking up!

[Oriole]

By the way, if you thought my last TM accomplishment was good.. .try this one..

DP got a job offer last night! Yey for ending 9 months of stressful unemployment and job searches! :

[fek&fuzz]

Originally Posted by Oriole

By the way, if you thought my last TM accomplishment was good.. .try this one..

DP got a job offer last night! Yey for ending 9 months of stressful unemployment and job searches! :

[Oriole]

Originally Posted by fek&fuzz

That is great! I put similar affirmations about my body on my TM, and I've lost 7 pounds and a whole bunch of inches and I have not once felt deprived or hungry.

I'm so glad you are feeling better and looking better!

I don't know how TM does its magic, but it seems to be doing all kinds of wonderful things.

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by fek&fuzz

That is great! I put similar affirmations about my body on my TM, and I've lost 7 pounds and a whole bunch of inches and I have not once felt deprived or hungry.

good for you! i so wish something would move for me on that front. i had it on last year's and on this year's too, and i can't seem to stop sugar-binging and i've gained weight *back*. i'm so freakin fat and i'm not feeling good about it otoh, i have started exercising again. but it hasn't done much cause that's when i gained the weight back

pamela

[BurgundyElephant]

Pamela - it is really hard to have weight issues, I know. It's good that you are exercising again - keep it up. Don't kill yourself on cardio machines - try a personal trainer for one time so you can learn how to use the weight machines and do weights - it will help you tone and you will look thinner faster. Also make sure you are eating healthy foods in smaller quantities, more often. If you want something sweet eat a piece of fruit that will stick in your stomach for a while.

All advice I tell myself every day. We just got back from a vacation and I was stressed beforehand because I felt fat. But then I got there and while I wasn't the thinnest person on the beach I wasn't the fattest either. It was nice to just have a good time and not be stressed about it. Now that I'm back I wish my pants weren't so tight but a couple weeks at the gym will solve that.

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I've been out of the TM loop. I did it last year within the guidelines and got pretty much everything I wanted on it - bunkbeds for the kids, wood puzzles, Dh to have a decent job, etc. I missed the dates for this year by a little bit but went ahead and did a new one. I want to visit Alaska so that is on there, also lots of garden stuff and house inspiration. While I like our little house I know we won't be here for forever.

[hellyaellen]

i got something

its been crazy drama but we are in our own place...its rental which was not exactly in lign with the affirmation but the general idea of getting out of my moms wa sthe main intention ........

i'm also hard at work on something else on my map....i had an image of four old wome running into the ocean, it represents family connections for me and i am woeking on a family board like mdc....

oh and kurt has decided the time may be right for an addition to the family

[Tracy]

Cancer New Moon is here...

It is the first day of Cancer New Moon and this is the time when we look at our Treasure Maps and assess the results. Have you had good movement? Is there an area that appears stuck? Take a little time now to reflect on your map. The next time we will assess our maps is in The Fall during Libra New moon. Let's see what can happen between now and then.

If you want to read more about Cancer New Moon, here is my article. I just put it up.

http://margaretwendt.com/articles.php?id=177#thearticle

[TRIBE]

My map seems like a black pit to everything that go go wrong except one area :/ I don't even think about the map now, it sits atop the computer desk in the kids livingroom and I pass it everyday but dont pay it much attention. This is the same time as last year when everything money wise that could go wrong did go wrong. My spirits are up despite it all. I don't want to get that sinking despair feeling I had last year, not when I am finally out of the weather funk I was in for almost 2 months.

Off to read the article.

[Sisyphus]

So, Tracy, we are supposed to reassess our maps and see what's working and what's not.... and then what? LOL... I'm seriously not be snarky at all... maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet, but I'm unclear on what to do going forward. Do we focus on those areas?? Meditate on our positive vision?

Thanks

[onemoremom]

I just looked at and mulled over my map. It was encouraging to see so much movement in certain areas, and I could see others where shifts are just starting to become visible. That made it easier to look at the parts where I haven't seen anything yet, or where things seem negative and stressful. I was able to remind myself that sometimes upheaval is necessary to make room for the good stuff that is coming.

It was a good time to remind myself of the things I aim for this year, and I felt like spending that time with it re energized it a lot. Since the day I did that I've started seeing lots more movement and progress all over the place. Some has been more pleasant to handle than other parts, but I am able to see that even the more difficult things ARE progress and helping me toward my desires.

[TRIBE]

I think my map is just going to hit the bonfire and free me of all it's energy. At this point I'd rather think negative, maybe that will turn my energy around. But just like this time last year the more positive I am , the more I look at the good and try to turn the sour into sweet it just gets worse. If being positive makes it worse then surely being negative would have the opposite effect. Either way whatever I am doing now is not working.

[fek&fuzz]

Originally Posted by TRIBE

I think my map is just going to hit the bonfire and free me of all it's energy. At this point I'd rather think negative, maybe that will turn my energy around. But just like this time last year the more positive I am , the more I look at the good and try to turn the sour into sweet it just gets worse. If being positive makes it worse then surely being negative would have the opposite effect. Either way whatever I am doing now is not working.

That is so weird. I was just thinking this morning that I wanted to burn my treasure map.

[Devaskyla]

Well, there's been a little bit of positive movement on my map. I put an image of a healthy, sticky girl. I'm now 7 weeks pregnant. The only other times I've gotten this far was with my sons. I had an open door with 'explore the possibilities' about a particular relationship. At the time, the person & I weren't talking and now we are again. I realized the other night that I didn't really specify what I wanted from the relationship on my map, though, so it's not what I had in mind atm.

Nothing else seems to be moving atm, though. I had a lot of stuff about improved finances, getting a house & car, getting out of debt. Really, that was the most important area to me and nothing is happening. It was on my map last year, too. I'm not sure if there's something I should be doing to get it moving. There also isn't any movement in getting fit or healthy, even though I started trying to follow Paul McKenna. I lost 4 pounds the first week, then nothing.

[TRIBE]

Originally Posted by fek&fuzz

That is so weird. I was just thinking this morning that I wanted to burn my treasure map.

Oh yeah? Want to tell your story? Mine has now been named "The series of unfortunate events"

[Sisyphus]

Oh Tribe, I'm sorry, but you made me laugh out loud with that one...

I'm sorry your map feels so stuck. Can you post pics of it? Maybe you could tweak it to make it work better? I know my first year, I used some totally negative affirmations and WOW was that a bad idea LOLOL!!!!

My map isn't really going gangbusters - yet - but I have found my way back to the gym and am loving exercising regularly again and it looks like my dh and I may actually be able to save our marriage (which, unfortunately for me means giving up the most loving relationship of my life.... but I have to trust that the universe knows what it's doing).

I can't complain, though, at the beginning of the year... WOW it was BAD.... I was about to toss my map in the trash. I'm glad I didn't, though.

Hugs to you. ANd post pics so we can trouble shoot

[TRIBE]

I have to find the humor in it all, otherwise I might go mad.

I'll try and get some pics up soon, the mister is home so not much time for anything ut helping him get ready for an underway/deployment

[fek&fuzz]

Originally Posted by TRIBE

Oh yeah? Want to tell your story? Mine has now been named "The series of unfortunate events"

I think my problem is that I named this year "The Year of Intentional Growth and Sublime Joy" and there's a lot of growth going on and it is just sucking big time.

I should have named it "The Year of Blissful Sameness and Sublime Joy."

But, I know that once the dirt comes up there will be some beautiful results from all this growth. :: There really will be, I will look back and say "what a valuable time in my life that was and what a better person I am because of it." Even if I right now I feel like this :::Puke

[turtlewomyn]

Originally Posted by Tracy

It is the first day of Cancer New Moon and this is the time when we look at our Treasure Maps and assess the results. Have you had good movement? Is there an area that appears stuck? Take a little time now to reflect on your map. The next time we will assess our maps is in The Fall during Libra New moon. Let's see what can happen between now and then.

If you want to read more about Cancer New Moon, here is my article. I just put it up.

http://margaretwendt.com/articles.php?id=177#thearticle

Interesting. I put pictures pregnant ladies on my treasure map (along with the word "boy", which would be nice, but we aren't that picky). My baby was conceived July 4th (so still within the Cancer New Moon???)

I also put a picture of our old house with the word SOLD on it. We are in the process of short saleing it and our renter is hoping to put an offer in. Unfortunately the offer is much less than what we owe, but I can't really expect miracles in this current real estate market.