What is the hidden secret in scrapbooking?
Scrapbooking can be used to create and attract what you really desire in life. Since the Law of Attraction states that a person attracts the events, experiences, and situations in life that his or her attention is focused on, scrapbooking acts as a catalyst and launches focused thought in the direction of desired dreams. Scrapbooking can be a powerful tool to help you focus your thoughts on creating new life stories -- stories filled with words and images that clearly depict how you truly desire to live and experience life. When you express your dreams and visions as scrapbooking stories, deep emotions are evoked which strongly imprint the subconscious and begin to attract to you what you really desire. Whether you want to cultivate a certain mind set, or attract something specific, such as a new car, with an accelerated speed, scrapbooking with strong intent will help you create the life you truly want to live.
How is scrapbooking a powerful tool to create life changes?
To use scrapbooking as a way to document new ways of thinking and find new words and images to describe your life according to the way you actually want to live it, acts as a powerful magnet in attracting new life experiences. When a person comes to a pivotal point in life when they want to truly transform and change a specific aspect of their life, they may have heard many times before that holding positive thoughts and stating positive affirmations will help to achieve desired results. Indeed this works after a prolonged period of disciplined effort in the form of constant observation of oneís own thoughts. Stopping negative or counterproductive thoughts in their tracks and then refocusing them into positively formed affirmations will eventually allow your new way of thinking to become the dominate thought. The good news is that your new way of thinking eventually becomes the habit or dominating thought which will bring the desired transformation that you have been seeking.
Scrapbooking positively formed thoughts with focused intention, instantly rewrites and deeply imbeds the new way of thinking as the dominate thought. This means that you can instantly begin to experience the benefit or essence of your new way of thinking. Scrapbooking makes it EASY and FUN to completely transform any area of your life!
The Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM ultimately serves to assist you in rewriting and recreating new pathways in the brain for future thoughts to easily travel. This means that you can deliberately and consciously launch intended thought into the direction that you desire. The benefit is that you will begin to experience a sustainable and positive mindset in a short period of time. Scrapbooking to create transformation in your life is EASY and the results are FAST!
Why is it SO EASY to experience life transformations by Scrapbooking?
Scrapbooking applies your new way of thinking through a deeply focused act of physical movement. A fun and creative process, scrapbooking literally grounds and anchors thoughts and ideas, which have a tendency to be fleeting, into physical shape and form. Since scrapbooking is a way to tell life stories by documenting them, scrapbooking can also be used as a catalyst for creating and effortlessly launching new stories of your life by deliberately choosing the most positive and best feeling thoughts, words and images and then focusing them through the scrapbooking process.
How does Scrapbooking help in becoming clear about your purpose?
When you act on an idea or thought that you intend to manifest in your life by scrapbooking it, you create a greater possibility that it will become a reality, than if you donít scrapbook or act on your desired thoughts. As your goals and ideas begin to take shape on paper, scrapbooking makes your dreams appear more real and believable. The process of scrapbooking can help to grow and expand your visions and dreams. This produces clarity as to what you really want in life. By the time you finish your project, you will feel more positive in your ability to make your dream a reality. Ultimately, you will find that you are inspired into action.
Having your intended thought in the form of a completed scrapbook project continues to visually reaffirm and remind you of the desired result that you are intending to manifest. Your completed project further acts as a stimulus to engage your imagination and thoughts to keep on visualizing your fulfilled desire. Each time you reaffirm your vision by deliberately pondering it, you allow yourself to become clearer in your vision of it. The clearer you become in your vision, the stronger your belief becomes in the expectation that you can achieve it. As you continue to reaffirm your vision, you allow yourself to remain in a state of positive expectancy. A state of positive expectancy is what pushes you to look for positive signs that your reality is changing and that your desired intention is on its way to being a realized fact!
What is the Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM?
The Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM is a fun and easy to use, step-by step process. The process begins with first identifying a desire. Once identified, the desire is moved through a series of scrapbooking steps to ensure that your subconscious mind is deeply imprinted with the thoughts, words, and images you are attracted to. This process arouses corresponding emotions that allow you to live out the essence of what you desire and strongly activates the Law of Attraction. As this powerful process launches your new thoughts in the direction of your dreams, you will learn to remain in a state of positive expectancy and watch your desires come to life. The Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM contains all the necessary ingredients to help get you what you truly want in life! Creativity, wisdom, love, and fun! As a result you will discover a renewed hope and joyful zest for living!
How did you come up with Intentional Scrapbooking?
When I discovered my passion for scrapbooking, I felt deeply fulfilled. I found that I would carve time out of my day to scrapbook. It was the quiet time I needed to relax and gather my thoughts. I approached every scrapbook project with a determined state of focus and imagination, so that my finished project would reflect the story that I was intending to convey.
Being an experienced hypnotherapist, I quickly came to realize that the mental state I was entering was the same deeply relaxed and focused state of hypnosis. Scrapbooking had replaced my former meditation practice, and was now my meditation. Other states of comparable hypnosis are when someone is deeply focused on reading their book or watching a television program. This person feels relaxed and is aware of her environment, but is so focused in what he or she is doing that they are unaware of the passage of time. They may not even hear a person come into the room and ask them a question.
From my studies as a hypnotherapist and of the inner workings of our consciousness, I am familiar with the extreme suggestibility of the subconscious mind. So I began to deliberately move through the scrapbooking process in a constant state of heightened awareness, and began to use scrapbooking as a way to direct conscious thought and visualizations into my projects.
As I began to focus positive thought into every project, I realized that I was cultivating certain heightened mindsets of appreciation and love. Scrapbooking quickly became a transformational and catalytic process to change my points of view around certain topics and areas in my life that I had wanted to change for some time. This kind of scrapbooking was working and with a powerfully accelerated success. I was successfully applying scrapbooking to create and attract specific and definite outcomes in my life.
In February 2008 after the birth of my third daughter, I wanted to outline and document the process so that my daughters would have this powerful information available to them at an early stage in life. As the method and the book were birthed into BEING, I knew I had to make it accessible for anyone who is interested in transforming their life.
Why is Intentional Scrapbooking important?
Intentional Scrapbooking is important because this activity helps you to become consciously aware of the words and thoughts you choose to create the story of your life. The inner world of your mind and how you choose to perceive the world is what makes you unique. You live according to the thoughts and words that you choose to shape and mold your life. What you focus on and entertain attracts equivalent experiences in your physical environment.
Thoughts and emotions are the most powerful creative force in this universe. Since scrapbooking in its traditional definition is to document past events and memorabilia or used as an outlet to convey and express emotions, I believe scrapbooking draws many people to its craft because it is such a wonderful creative release and expression. Remembering, pondering, retelling, and documenting past fond and loving memories is to relive them. Scrapbooking in this sense allows for an escape from the daily pressures of life. Placing our attention on past memories and current emotions will attract more of the same experiences in life.
When I became aware that scrapbooking can attract similar experiences in this way, I wondered about scrapbooking to attract new experiences into my life. Once I start creating new stories with deliberately chosen words, images, and symbols through scrapbooking, I began to experience physical transformation in all aspects of my life.
Intentional scrapbooking is important because it brings awareness to the nature of the thoughts and words used to describe your life experience. Once you understand that your outer world reflects your inner state of mind, you can successfully apply scrapbooking to creating successful transformation in all areas of your life. Before you know it you will be creating the future of your dreams!
How can Intentional Scrapbooking help someone who doesnít scrapbook?
The essence of this method is to help create a visual of the new life story you are trying to create. Intentional Scrapbooking helps you to choose the most positive supporting thoughts, words and images to give direction to the subconscious mind. It also raises your emotional state into one of positive expectation.
It is important to remember that all ideas and concepts are first thoughts formed in the mind. You must shape and form all thoughts and ideas together in the eye of your imagination, before you can present it physically on paper. With that being said, anyone who does not scrapbook can piece all these elements together in their mind with great success. For me, I have found scrapbooking to be such a successful tool for anchoring ideas, imagery and concepts in such a grounding and solid way that the speed with which the results manifest are simply astounding!
Bringing your broad ideas down through a funnel of your creative mind into physical form onto a scrapbooking project takes the most focused effort that you could give it. The benefit of intense and prolonged focused thought equates result! Scrapbook with focused intention and you will experience for yourself how powerful and quick your desires begin to manifest!
Scrapbooking allows your dreams to form right before your eyes! This process allows you to really feel the sensations of what it is like to live out experiences in your life as to how you truly desire them to be! As you begin to experience the reality of your desires, you clearly imprint the experience of it onto your subconscious mind and transformation occurs. It is an extremely joyous sensation when you deliberately set out to create something and then it begins to take shape and form in your life!
Can these methods be applied to other arts and crafts?
Yes. Any art or craft that engages the creative imagination and takes a prolonged amount of focus can be used as an outlet to channel powerful thoughts and emotions.
Why is scrapbooking so popular?
I believe scrapbooking is so popular because it is a creative release and at the same time continues to attract similar experiences in which fond and loving memories were created. You also relive the experience as you scrapbook it so it can be an escape from the pressures of daily life.
Can anyone learn your method, even if they have never done scrapbooking?
Yes, I explain it in detail in my new book and I demonstrate every step of the process in my informational DVD. The Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM is an easy and fun to use step-by step process. Anyone can easily use the techniques.
How quickly can I manifest changes into my life?
You can begin right NOW with the thoughts you choose to hold in this very moment.
What kinds of things can I create using your Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM?
You can use the Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM to transform the way you think and feel in any area of your life. On a tangible level, you can attract material possessions such as a dream car or home. With the unlimited potential of your creative mind combined with the endless possibilities of scrapbooking any intention can become a realized fact!
What is Creating Intentions?
Creating Intentions is a company created by Elizabeth Pagayonan, based on the belief that there is a creative energy that flows through everything in this physical reality. As human beings, we are more than what we physically perceive ourselves to be. Looking past the reality of the physical body and how it operates, we are faced with the consciousness of our mind and its inner workings. Creative energy flows through us in the form of thought. By thinking positive and joyful thoughts, we can attract and create a life filled with experiences that are of our deepest desires.
Creating Intentions is all about creating and attracting what you really want in life by deliberately scrapbooking future outcomes!
How can the Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM benefit me?
Many people can benefit from this process because they will start to become aware of the creative power behind their thoughts. To understand how consciousness operates is to awaken to new possibilities in living your life. As you come to understand the many facets and levels of consciousness, you will discover a renewed hope for living according to what you are passionate about. This will inspire you to create a life aligned with what you truly desire.
Is it like creating a vision board?
Intentional Scrapbooking is similar to creating a vision board, but our process allows you to harness the power of your ability to focus on a singular intent. Vision boards are more broad in their perspective. A powerful tool, vision boards encompass an overall life vision in which images and words are pulled from stock images or magazines. The singular intent harnessed during the Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM helps to positively transmute the egoís ability to focus on a narrowly defined thought. To use the ego's ability to focus on a singular thought is to use it according to its highest potential which is to create and attract what you really want in life. Focusing with intensity on a singular intent will allow fulfilled desires to manifest with greater speed and accuracy.
What is the starting point? How do I begin to transform and incite change in my life?
The starting point is to first pay attention to the nature of your thoughts. Observe them. Notice how certain thoughts trigger certain emotional and physiological responses in your body. Do you entertain thoughts that are more positive and optimistic, or do you hold thoughts that are more negative and self-defeating? Every thought you hold contains information about what it is you truly want in life. You can begin to transform your life by first practicing awareness of your thoughts.
How are do you use crystals in scrapbooking?
Crystals can lend their earthly beauty to any scrapbooking project as an embellishment. Since crystals have been used since ancient times as a tool for raising consciousness and have the ability to make technology in this world possible, they have the potential to enhance our positive intentions and thoughts that we put into our scrapbooking projects.
As the last step in my Intentional Scrapbooking projects, I will add a crystal, called an embellishment, and activate and program it to continue to transmit my focused intent while I go about my day.
ABOUT LIZ
What do you do?
As the president and founder of Creating Intentions, I help people to create and attract what they truly desire in life through creative conscious scrapbooking. As a conscious scrapbooking expert, I help people to focus on changing the way they think about changing their lives through a process I developed called the Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM. Because of this method my students understand the potential of their thoughts and discover a renewed hope and joy for living.
How did you get started in scrapbooking?
I was introduced to scrapbooking after my first daughter was born in 2003. I had left my hypnotherapy practice to become a full time mother, so the creative outlet of scrapbooking became a consuming passion. My mom had given me a scrapbook as an early teen but I did not yet possess a creative vision of what to do with it. It was not until my step-mom sent me a completed scrapbook that she had made of all the pictures I had sent her of my daughter about eight months after she was born that I was forever hooked!
Tell us a little about yourself.
I love color, crystals and nature! I feel that nature expresses the most vibrant and richest color in this world. Nature is my teacher, and like nature, I strive to align with the highest potential according to my true purpose in every moment. I purposely color and create my world through conscious thinking and deliberate intention. I would not have it any other way. Through many years of experience with my hypnotherapy clients, I have witnessed transformation in their lives by helping them to realize the benefit of thinking positively and with awareness. When I took some time off from my practice to start a family, I discovered my love of scrapbooking. Quite naturally I combined scrapbooking and hypnotherapy into a fabulous method that started to produce for me astounding results with accelerated speed. I was creating experiences in my life more efficiently and effectively than ever before when I combined my hypnotherapy techniques with scrapbooking!
The birth of my three daughters has inspired me to become a walking example of the potential of our creative abilities. The creation of this company was birthed out of my deepest desire to light a path for their existence in this world. What was born was something I had to share with as many people as possible. I realized that I could empower others to awaken to the endless possibilities of their creative potential. In doing so, I know deep in my soul that I can help to positively impact lives and the overall well being on this planet one person at a time. For that I am truly grateful. I appreciate the opportunity to share with anyone who is ready to listen all the deep insight and knowledge I have gained over the years.
What was your "Aha" moment?
One day I was creating a scrapbooking layout of my daughter that I was pouring all this loving positive energy into. I immediately became aware of how I was activating and cultivating a certain state of mind through my intense focus and appreciation. I realized that scrapbooking had become my preferred method of meditation. It was providing me an outlet to focus my goals, hopes, and dreams. I likened that state I was in to the relaxed state of hypnosis and realized in that moment that I could take my self-help techniques to a new level by applying them to scrapbooking. Since scrapbooking had become a meditative practice for me, I knew that I could use it as a catalyst to create my future. In that moment I had a vision of the purpose of my company. I was immediately inspired and moved into creative action.
BIO:
Elizabeth Pagayonan
Passionate scrapbook artist and certified hypnotherapist, Elizabeth Pagayonan is dedicated to awaken people who love to scrapbook to use scrapbooking as a way to consciously create specific results in any area of their lives. Through her business, Creating Intentions, she is helping scrapbook artists to cultivate an awareness of positive thinking combined with powerful intention through her transformational Intentional Scrapbooking MethodTM, Intentional Scrapbooking KitsTM, teleseminars, and retreats. She has just completed her first book, which is pending publication. Elizabeth Pagayonan can be reached by email at liz@creatingintentions.com.
