How to create a spiritual altar in 5 easy steps

This post is all about helping you create a spiritual self care altar in 5 easy steps.

As a mom of a toddler, I don’t really get much time for just myself. If you took a tour around my house, you would definitely see how a little boy runs the show around here. So, for me, self-care is a priority and it is extremely intentional for me because with the little time I do have for it, I romanticize my life to the fullest!

I am a morning person, my morning routine is magical. I love to watch the sun rise and I love to start my day off getting myself in a positive and blissful headspace which requires focus, intention and space. Not only do I do health, beauty and wellness self care…I also make sure that my mindset and my internal, spiritual energy is high vibe. This is a must for me because if I just start my day without it…I am not my best self.

Because us women are typically connected to our environment, I have found that having a spiritual self-care altar is of the utmost importance. When you surround yourself with reminders of what you are creating in life, you are vibrating with that energy. Remember when I wrote about my besties work space altar?

You may be asking, ‘okay, so what is a spiritual self-care altar?’

A spiritual self-care altar is simply a sacred space in your home dedicated to your spiritual practice. It’s a sacred space that you create that makes you feel calm, safe and connected to your higher self. It’s a space that holds spiritual tools like crystals, candles, sage, oracle cards, journals and incense. It can also have things like religious statues, artwork, gifts, flowers, plants, anything that makes you feel grounded and happy.

You may also be asking, ‘so why do I need a spiritual self-care altar?’

To which my answer would be “because you do, okay.” Look, I am a grown woman, a mother, a business owner. I have a full life that requires presence and never ending energy. And as a divine powerful woman, I need a place that replenishes my spirit so I can stay grounded as I make my way through this journey of life.

Inner peace and spiritual self-care will sustain you through anything and everything. It will give you that respite, that place you can go to right inside your home when you just need a minute. Like, when the toddler has a tantrum, something unpleasant or unexpected happens, something stressful hits or when your soul just needs to feel reconnected. Your spiritual sanctuary will heal you.

I share more in this podcast episode…

5 steps to create your sacred space altar:

1.Choose a special spot in your home for your sanctuary.

I chose this sideboard dresser that I have against a wall of windows, where I can watch the sun rise in the morning. The space can be as small or big as you like, it really doesn’t matter.

Choose furniture pieces that uplift and inspire you. Or have a natural element to them ( like wood or rattan ). This is my favorite piece of furniture because it was the first piece of furniture I bought myself in NYC. I remember finding this gym at a magical little thrift shop in Gramercy Park. This dresser is such good luck for me and reminds me that we are limitless. You want to pick a place that lifts your mood, just by looking at it.

RECREATE THIS LOOK:

2. Clear out the space and only allow things you love.

You really want to clear out the space of everything. So, if it’s just a small nightstand, clear out the top and the drawers. Only decorate this area with things that make you feel the highest energy…blissful!

Remember, clutter is overwhelming and will lower your energy but intentionally placing things you love is okay. No matter how much or how little you fill your space it must be filled with things that make you feel connected.

3. Decorate the space to soothe your soul.

I placed my gold buddha right in the center of my altar because this buddha means so much to me (you can read the story behind this buddha in my book, Blissful Living Journal). I surrounded it with crystals, candles, incense, plants, books, my favorite magazine about spirituality, happinez and photos of those I love. I also added artwork made for me by my little one. Anything and everything that brings me gratitude gets to go on my altar.

Natural elements will always bring grounding energy to a space. I like to ensure I have all 5 feng shui elements to my altar. Wood (to bring about growth and grounding), Fire (candles to ignite and activate my intentions), Earth (crystals which connect you to the energy of mother nature), Water (to bring cleansing and movement) & Metal ( the energy of balance and patience).

4. Add items for growth & ritual tools.

Books are always great for learning, growing and exploring new things. I like my spirituality magazines on my altar because I can always pick them up for inspiration. I also keep my oracle cards in the top drawers so I can use them when I need some guidance, especially during my New and Full Moon Rituals (you can see the rituals I do inside my membership) .

Every morning, I light my morning meditation candle and speak an intention into the flame. Then, I grab a journal and begin to write and clear my mind. At night I let my journal sleep on my altar because in my journal I am always scripting out my manifestations. If I am ever having an issue, I can always trust that my words will flow out into my journal and all the things I need to know will come from within me.

5. Visit your altar at least once a day.

I spend time with mine every single morning. It’s how I set up my day. Whether I am lighting candles, watering my plants, rearranging things, bringing in flowers, putting up new items, flipping pages of a book or magazine…I connect with my altar daily.

In the flow of life, this space reminds me that I am connected to everything. My energy of top priority. for me. Making sure I prioritize this time for spiritual self-care is just as important as my skin, my body or my business. This helps me to stay balanced, grounded and blissful💕!

LEARN MORE INSIDE OF MY HIGH VIBE HOME WORKSHOP

I walk you through a process of raising the vibration of your home through decor & design principles as well as energetic alignment so that you can cultivate a lifestyle that feels beyond blissful.

A few things you may want to add to your altar:

Goddess candles 💕 Abalone shell 💕 Floral Sage sticks 💕 Dancing Shiva 💕 Witchy room spray 💕 Florida Water ( you can read more about this here) 💕 Tibetan singing bowl 💕 crystal malas 💕

Sage should always be on hand

Crystal collections set the tone

Spiritual figures, gold buddha head

My collection of Happinez Magazine

LINKS AND RESOURCES:

💕 Pinterest is such a great resource for inspiration: Spiritual Glamour Decor | 5 altars | Altars + Sacred Space |

💕 Altar with pink | A fanciful twist |

💕 5 of my favorite books for spirituality and feng shui

The 8 phases of Manifestation

This post is all about the eight phases of manifestation and how to make the law of attraction & law of assumption work for you.

At this point in my life, I consider myself a pretty powerful manifestor and I love helping everyone learn the art of manifestation as well.

I recently recorded a podcast that discussed a few mindset shifts that you will want to learn in order to prime yourself for powerful manifestations. You see, the thing is, we are manifesting 24/7. Every single one of our thoughts is creating (manifesting) your future reality…at every single moment. You are the operant power!

When you have contradicting thoughts ( like, I want a million dollars yet at the same time you think, people like me have to work so hard to make a million dollars ) there in lies the rub. The duplicity of those beliefs will have you subconsciously not really wanting to work that hard for it. It’s a mindset block and it keeps you stuck. What happens most often is you just continually create the same things over and over and you are left wondering why you’re still in the same place. So, listen to this episode to help you sort this out.

3 mindset shifts you need to manifest : (podcast)

Now, I remember buying the book ‘the secret’ in 2006. Ever since high school, I frequent Barnes and Nobles, in fact, I have been known to spend an entire Saturday afternoon inside the bookstore. It’s one of my favorite places ever. Anyway, I remember seeing the book displayed and I read it in one sitting. I began to put the law of attraction into practice immediately. I used to always talk about “manifesting” but instead of manifesting, I would say “I’m secreting it!”

It was my obsession. So, you could say I have been using manifestation and vision boards for over 15 years. Pretty wild.

I can’t even begin to tell you ALL of the wild, unimaginable, incredible things I have manifested. I should probably write a book about it actually. But, I would like to share with you what I have experienced to be the 8 phases of manifestation and why I love supporting women on their manifestation journey. I even created an entire Manifestation community called the Manifestation Queen Collective.

Download my FREE Manifestation Mindset Makeover workbook here.

The 8 phases of Manifestation & creating the life you want

1. Defining Your Vision.

   This is where Intention & Desire come in. You see something and you feel a longing for it, or a connection to it, you know it is something that you desire to experience. The discovering of the things is really so much fun if you let it be. And during this phase you get to visualize what it would be like to have this experience yourself.

   You want to get very very clear on painting the picture of the experience in your mind because the brain will help to program your physical being to navigate toward the experience. So, you must make sure that you can picture this. A great way to do this is with a vision board.

   I also love to journal out these things in lists. My manifestation power in my birth chart is Virgo, so because of that my most powerful tool for manifestation is making lists. I like to organize what I want by getting specific, down to the details of exactly what it is that I want. (You have your own specific manifesting power too, you will find it in your birth chart…you can book a birth chart reading with me here)

2. Become aware of your roadblocks. aka your limiting beliefs

   My favorite way to do this is to pay attention to when I think of or write down in my journal what it is that I want to manifest and then I observe what thoughts pop up in my mind, that go against me having what I want. I observe. I pay attention. It feels like I am in discovery mode and I am preparing for a court case.

   You’ve got to be willing to do the “shadow work” , the playfulness with yourself and discovering what is underneath the surface. For example, let’s say you want to manifest a romantic partner or soul mate yet you always pick apart other peoples relationships because you don’t think they’re in a good relationship. Your mind is always out to judge and focus on what it fears the most. So, you want to be paying attention to every little thing your mind does.

   The wild part about this phase is that you will never want to stop doing this investigative work. At every new level, there are always new below the surface beliefs that you must be willing to uproot.

3. The healing process.

   During this phase, this is where you can grab our your journal and begin to work on the beliefs you have found above. I have an incredible transformative process on this inside my monthly membership community, the Manifestation Queen membership. This is the time you will want to peel back your inner layers and start discovering where you can choose to believe differently.

   Inner child healing - Reparenting rituals, mindfulness, taking care of yourself, mind, body, soul and home.

   Shadow Work - Start looking at all of the things you are afraid of , begin to look fear right in the face

   Working of Self-Love - you’ve got to drop the focus from the things outside of you, to everything within you.

4. Reprogramming the mind/subconscious mind.

   This is quite possibly one of my favorite phases because this is where you start to actually get things moving. When I started learning to embrace silence, stillness and my spiritual side, I gained access to a whole new level of life. A new way of being. These tools I am about to share are habits that should begin to form your new way of being.

   Meditation - This is so helpful because you will begin to enter the quantum field ( the place where all of your manifestations are actually happening )

   Scripting - Learning how to shift into Main Character Mode and writing the script of your life as if it is happening already.

   Affirmations - You can literally begin to repeat your new beliefs over and over so that they are reprogrammed and locked and loaded inside of your automatic mindset.

5. Raise your energy. aka frequency or vibration

   I teach the EXACT process I use for this in my 21-day course Soul Aligned. This will help you to create a new habit of raising your vibe every single day.

   • Cultivate a strong morning routine and healthy habits

   • Practice living with gratitude as one of your top 5 emotional set points

   • Move your body and open it up as your portal for your manifestations.

   • Practice opening up your chakras for optimal energetic healing

   Beware: I find that this phase for me continually expands. I am always expanding my capacity for things so as you elevate, this will get higher and higher. What worked for me before no longer serves me. I recently cut way back on drinking alcohol because I could tell it was hindering my manifestation ability and my intuition. As you elevate your vibe, you will have to be willing to release people, things and routines that no longer serve you.

6. Take inspired action.

   You must learn to truly know, trust and understand to your intuition and make moves. You have to trust in your creative or inspired ideas and go after them. I find that so many times, people miss the boat. An idea comes up to do something or go somewhere and instead of doing it…they let fear talk them out of it by saying it doesn’t “feel good” or “feel right”.

   Then, they will sit and wonder why the universe hasn’t delivered their manifestation. It’s because they have been “leaning back” and waiting on the sidelines. You have to take aligned action on all of your inspired ideas and allow yourself to fail, fall, look silly, get heartbroken, face rejection, allow people to judge you.

   This is why the “Law of Detachment” is so important in this phase. Being a woman who is in full control of creating her life will take the actions and stay unbothered.

7. Surrender.

   This phase is on the heels of the last one because “letting go” is essential in your manifestation journey. Usually the thing that is holding you back from receiving what you want is because you are holding on to something out of fear. Emotional intelligence comes into play here. Learn the art of his inside of the Manifestation Queen membership.

   Here’s an example: you don’t want to let go of the guy you have “chemistry” with because deep down you are afraid of the rejection/heartbreak you might feel. Fuck that. Detach yourself from those emotions immediately. You must learn to navigate and control your emotional set point. This is KEY for staying aligned to what you want instead of repeating the same old cycles over and over.

   Another example: you stay in a job you can’t stand because it feels secure and you can’t deal with what other people would think of you if you didn’t have your life together. You are emotionally tied up in the thoughts and opinions of others. Fuck that. Detach yourself from the judgements of others immediately.

   There is ALWAYS a creative solution when you TRUST and HAVE FAITH in YOU and your higher power. You have to trust that YOU know what is best for YOU.

   You also have to resist the urge to explain, defend, over communicate your point of view. Surrender into silence is my favorite motto. You can let your life be evidence of what you are creating.

8. Receive it.

   Will you allow yourself to receive the manifestation without sabotaging it? 98% of lottery winner sabotage their wealth due to poor beliefs, the inability to surrender and hanging out in low energy. The above phases will train you into becoming an energetic match to what you want to create in your life. You have got to lean into your new programming and all of the work you have been doing up to this point.

   Want wealth? Become willing to receive it.

   Want love? Learn how to become a match to it.

   Want success? Learn how to know it into existence.

A FEW MY FAVORITE MANIFESTATION BOOKS:

Related Reading: 8 best manifestation books that will change your life.

What are you currently manifesting?

I’d love to know more about it. Come join us inside of the membership and get connected with a community of women who are ready to support you in creating your best life. Join the Manifestation Queen membership here

You may also like:

🖤 A beginners guide to manifesting

🖤 How to build an abundance mindset

🖤 My journaling manifesting ritual

🖤 10 mindset shifts and affirmations for true self worth

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