Crafting Your Canvas: The Power of Joy, Desire, and Manifestation

Have you ever paused to wonder how your life might transform if you aligned every choice with your deepest joys and desires? I've traveled that road, turning my life into a canvas of delight and authenticity. In a heartfelt conversation, I open up about my own pivotal shifts that steered me towards a life of joy. Picture your 'perfect day'—no limits, just the unbridled canvas of your imagination. I guide you through this powerful visualization, encouraging you to dream without boundaries, and share how these visions can shape the reality you live in. This isn't just about daydreaming; it's about constructing a life that's in harmony with your truest self, and I'm here to show you how.

Then, we'll explore the art of manifestation. Let's talk big dreams and the year ahead—how it can radically change when you align with your soul's purpose. With each story and insight shared, we're sculpting a blueprint for a life filled with purpose, joy, and a profound sense of gratitude. Together, we'll walk the path of potential, lighting the way for your aspirations to become your reality. Subscribe and join our vibrant community where your insights fuel our collective journey. As we wrap up this episode, I leave you with a vision of your life, abundant with blessings, love, and the glow of your innermost dreams.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Hi loves, welcome to the Journey to the Soul podcast. I am your host, jacinda Villa, a spiritual life coach and holistic health coach. Every week, we will be diving deep into all things purpose, wellness, spirituality and creating the life that you dream of. This space is meant to be safe and transformative for you to dive into the deepest parts of yourself. We will share what I have learned from my journey along this path years of research and mentors along the way. Having spent many years living life out of alignment and afraid to go after my dreams, I know first hand what it means to take the first step down, living a life authentic to you. We are on this road of self discovery together. It is time for you to live the life you imagined. Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of Journey to the Soul. I am so excited to have you all here with me today. May you be having a wonderful day wherever you are on this earth, and may you enjoy the beauty of what it is to be alive today. On today's episode, we are going to talk about something that I love building a life that you love. Creating a life that you are absolutely over the moon about and can't wait to wake up to every day For this episode. I would love if you grab a pen and a paper and really allow yourself to dream and let your mind wander and just envision and let it take you where it wants to take you Light a candle or some incense, grab a cup of tea or coffee and just ready to get comfortable and allow yourself to just dream.

Speaker 1: 2:19

When we are living a life that is not in alignment for us, it is often comes down to us valuing the wrong things. This is something that most people experience at some point in their lives. It's a very strong call from the universe, because the universe wants to give you what you want, but there is so much fear surrounding taking a different path that does feel more like our path. There is so much fear with changing what's comfortable and changing what we are familiar with, and we can be working through a goal or towards something in our life and we've just had our head down and putting in all the energy and one day we could wake up and realize that this life that you created for yourself is really not the life that you wanted. Maybe it sounded cool when you started, but this isn't really what you thought it was going to be. And that happens to a lot of us, because being in that experience, once we are actually in that experience, is completely different. And when we are not in alignment, when we do not feel like life is juicy and fun and joyful and light, it is simply because we are valuing the wrong things. We have slowly put energy towards the things that are not meant for us, and sometimes that could happen without us even realizing it. Sometimes it could happen slowly over time and we're like oh, I am not where I thought I was going to be, this doesn't feel the way that I thought it was going to feel, and that happens. But for many people it can take time, it could take years before they realize that they are not in alignment.

Speaker 1: 4:48

And alignment is something that is your internal compass for life. This is something that, when you begin to realize how profoundly important it is for us in order to create a life that we love and that we dream of, it simply is our internal compass. If we are not in alignment, then we are not walking the path that our soul was intended to walk down. When we first begin to realize this concept of alignment into our life, it may not come immediately. It may take time. It may take many things happening before you realize that you are not in alignment, and waking up from that or coming to that realization can happen in so many different ways. It could be something happening in your life, it could be being let go of a job that you loved. It could be moving to a different country or a different state. The universe tends to shake it up for us when we are not on the path that is intended for us, and a lot of the times, these signs that the universe sends us may be small synchronicities that we may disregard initially, but over time, it may be something more and more profound.

Speaker 1: 6:29

So an exercise that I did many years ago, not really thinking too much of it, was something called the perfect day exercise, and this is actually something that my fiancee introduced me to, and this is something that I would love for you to do now, while you're listening, and it's quite simple, but it's simply you visualizing and envisioning what your perfect day looks like. What does it look like, what does it feel like, and really tuning into that. So give yourself space and time to journal about these things. You can pull out your journal, your pen and really give yourself space where, if money, resources, time, nothing was restricted, how would you go about your day? What would you focus on? What would you put more energy into? That maybe you are not at this moment in your life. Where would you stop putting energy towards? And you can get as detailed as you'd like for this, and it's okay. If you don't feel like you have great clarity as you initially do this exercise, you can always come back to it. You can always add to it. You could do it a year from now again and gain even more clarity on certain things, or even change what you had initially written.

Speaker 1: 8:14

Nothing is set in stone. Essentially, this is just meant to give you the space to really dream and envision what you would love life to look like for you, and this could look like you waking up with no alarm and just enjoying your morning, with no stress or concept about time, moving through life in an intentional and leisurely way. This could be you waking up in a different part of the world and looking out your window and just seeing a completely different city, waking up in a different corner of the universe and feeling an overwhelming sense of gratitude because you get to travel and experience life in a certain way. This could be you having time to put towards your hobbies and interests and curiosities. Maybe you're taking dance classes or focusing on your physical health and put some time towards yoga. It could be anything that you want it to be. This could be you being a mom and just letting that be the highlight and the light of your day. You having a family and being able to nurture them and love them the way that you feel called to.

Speaker 1: 9:55

You could also see this in a more micro level and think about, if you're working, how much time a day you're putting towards work or soul work is what I like to call it. Work, that is, you sharing your light with the world. Maybe it's eight hours a day, maybe it's four, maybe it's two. Nothing is off limits here. Maybe you are a manifesting generator in human design, like me, and have multiple interests and multiple things, multiple passions that you want to put your energy towards every single day. Maybe that's spending more time with friends and family and just letting yourself envision your perfect day, down to the minute, the hour, everything. Compare that with where you are now and really notice where you would like to change things in your life, and you can always pause this podcast as you are writing and dreaming and visualizing and tuning in and feeling, so you can really give yourself the space that you need in order to dream and envision this life.

Speaker 1: 11:22

The next thing that we are going to look at is our values, and our values are really our pillars of how we want to live life, what we want to put energy towards in our life. If we are living a life that is not in alignment with us, then it is probably because we are putting value towards things that we do not really value. So we need to redefine our values and choosing values that are in alignment for you, and there are so many things that we could value, but these pillars are really going to be the thing that take premises over all of this. What is the most important for you? What does your soul really yearn for? I will give you an example. I will share my values with you. I value freedom, love, peace, abundance, joy and beauty, and they are in no particular order, but I have really four that I tune into, but those other two are very strongly there and I would encourage you to lean more towards four, leaning more towards okay, these are things that I really want in my life. This is how I want to experience life. This is what I want to experience more of in life, and I will give you a list of values, and I will also include a list in the show notes that you can refer to.

Speaker 1: 13:21

But some values could be pleasure, respect, security, success, wealth, wisdom, peace, kindness, harmony, happiness, creativity, compassion, adventure, boldness. Let these inspire you. Which one really resonated with you as I was speaking them? Which one was like yes, that one, those intuitive hits are there for a reason. One or them, even if maybe those values don't immediately make sense to you. Now that we have a clear understanding of our values, we are really just going to meditate on them. Why don't you look at the values that you wrote down and realize that this is going to be the framework for everything in our life moving forward? That doesn't mean we can't change them. You can always change them.

Speaker 1: 14:48

We go through seasons in our life. Maybe you chose one right now and for the next couple of weeks you tune into it and it doesn't really feel like you thought it would feel, or it's not really what you think is more important. Maybe there's something else that is more important. You could always choose something else. They could change depending on what seasons in life you are in. That is normal. We go through seasons. These are just the things that could be what you are being called to focus on more in this chapter of your life. These values are going to be your anchor moving forward. This is how we move through life, living in alignment. You can always come back to these values and allow them to help you and guide you as you move through life.

Speaker 1: 15:45

If you are meditating on whether or not to do something, whether or not something is meant for you, if it doesn't align with these values, maybe it isn't aligned with you. Perhaps this is not the best thing for you to move forward with. If it doesn't feel aligned to these principles, don't do it. Being true to yourself in this way is a huge act of bravery, because it's how we stay true to ourselves, to what our soul is being called to do in this life. Make these values a priority in your life. Let them be your compass. Write them down somewhere that you see them every day and come back to them. Meditate on them, tune into them every single day. What does it feel like to live with these things as your compass, as your anchor in life.

Speaker 1: 16:54

If you feel like one value is not as strong as the other in your life right now, maybe you desire freedom and there's not very much freedom in your life right now. Maybe between what you aspire to have and what you currently have feels like it is leaps and bounds away. Start in the most microwave possible to add more freedom into your life. If it is love, you can approach it the same way. Go to your life in the most microwave and this is how we begin to create the life that we want in the most small and micro ways.

Speaker 1: 17:44

It is in these small everyday choices that we make to call these things more and more into our life, where, eventually, one year from now, you will notice, my gosh I have more freedom, I have more joy, I have more peace, I experience more of these things in my life than I ever have, and this is all that it comes back to. It is these micro choices, these micro moments in our everyday. So how can you add a little bit more of whatever it is that you are calling into your life, these values that you want to bring into your life more and more, and maybe you can write a few ideas now, right now, of what you can do in your life. The smallest way possible to call more blank into your life. Whatever that is for you, you can fill in the blank with your value, and I encourage you to take the small step to do so, because your life can change in the most profound ways.

Speaker 1: 19:06

And as you embark on this path of living more in alignment, know that building life you love is about creating a life that is completely your own. It's not anyone else's. Your life doesn't need to make sense to anyone. What you dreamed and envisioned in this exercise doesn't need to make sense to anyone else but you, and there is a reason that you have the dreams and aspirations that you do and that you envisioned the life that you did, because those are meant to be yours for a reason, walking this path, there will be other people on their own paths that will value other things, but always come back to what you value. Let these be your anchor for how you move through life and how you make decisions and what you put more energy towards. And even if it feels like you're far away from your perfect day, exercise know that every day that you come back to these values and that you live your day to day In this energy as much as possible. It becomes closer and closer. It comes more into fruition in your life.

Speaker 1: 20:40

I hope this exercise helped you gain some clarity on the life you are wanting to create for yourself. Know that nothing is off limits. In a year, your life can completely change. We all deserve to live in our joy and in our highest iteration of life, whatever that means for us. We all deserve that. We are all worthy of that and that is what the universe wants for us.

Speaker 1: 21:15

If this is what you dreamed, this is what the universe wants to give you, or something better? All right, loves. I hope you enjoyed this exercise and you gained some clarity or some inspiration on where your soul wants to take you. It's so amazing to see and to feel and to tune into what we are capable of in our lives. I can't wait to see you all in the next episode. May you have a blessed day full of love and light. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode and share this message with any friends and family. I'd love to hear your takeaways, so share them with me by leaving a comment below or heading over to my Instagram at just send a, marie. I am sending you all so much love.