VISUALIZE YOUR DESIRES
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board (also called a collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste your images that you love from various media (magazines, internet, etc.).
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live or where you want to holiday, your life changes to match those images and those desires.
For instance, when I wanted to have my own Clinic, I cut out pictures of Clinics, clients, different types of therapies from a magazine and stuck them to my collage. Within 3 years, I had my Clinic and it was exactly what my collage picture had on it.
Vision boards do the same thing as your visualisations do. They add clarity to your desires and feeling to your visions.
There are several methods you can use for creating your Vision Board. I’ve written about each one below. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on the path of creating your life.
Supplies you’ll need for creating your Vision Board:
- Poster board
- Different types of magazines. I always make sure I have plenty of different types of magazines, travel, holiday resorts, homes, body beautiful, spas, money and an assortment of nature
- Glue stick
- Pens
Before you begin:
No matter which method you’re choosing, have a little ritual before you begin your vision board.
Sit quietly and set the intent. With lots of kindness and openness, ask yourself what it is you want. Maybe one word will be the answer. Maybe images will come to mind. Just take a moment to be with that. This process makes it a deeper experience. It gives a chance for your ego to step aside just a little, so that you can be clearer about what you want to create.
Play some soft music to help quieten your mind and relax.
The Five Steps to Creating a Vision Board:
Step 1: Look through your magazines and tear the images out. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that jump out. Have fun with it. Make a big pile of images and phrases and words.
Step 2: Look through the pulled out images and begin to lay your favourites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get a sense of how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board – Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. At my retreats, I’ve seen women come up with wildly creative ways to present a vision board.
Step 3: Glue your images onto the board. Add writing or words if you want. You can paint on it or write words with markers.
Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very centre of the vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the centre of your board.
Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it every day. Every day take a few moments to look at your vision board and really feel as if you are living that life.
Three Types of Vision Boards:
1. I am careful about “What I Want” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- You’re very clear about your desires.
- You want to change your environment or surroundings.
- There is a specific thing you want to manifest in your life. (i.e. a new home, or starting a business.)
How to create this vision board:
With your clear desire in mind, set out looking for the exact pictures which portray your vision. If you want a house by the water, then get out your magazine and start there. If you want to start your own business, find images that capture that idea for you. Follow the five steps to create your vision board.
2. The “Opening and Allowing” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
- You’re not sure what exactly you want
- You’ve been in a period of depression, grief or stuckness
- You have a vision of what you want, but are uncertain about it in some way.
- You know you want change but don’t know how it’s possible.
How to create this vision board:
Look through each magazine. Tear out images that delight you. Don’t ask why. Just keep going through the magazines. If it’s a picture of a teddy bear that makes you smile, then pull it out. If it’s a cottage in a misty countryside, then rip it out. Just have fun and be open to whatever calls to you. Then, as you go through Step 2 above, hold that same openness, but ask yourself what this picture might mean.
What is it telling you about you? Does it mean you want to get a dog or stop hanging out with a particular person who drains you? Most likely you’ll know the answer. If you don’t but you still love the image, then put it on your vision board anyway. It will have an answer for you soon enough.
I’ve worked with some women who had NO idea what their board was about, and it wasn’t until two months later that they understood. The Opening and Allowing Vision Board can be a powerful guide for you. I like it better than the first model because sometimes our egos think it knows what we want, and lots of times those desires aren’t in alignment with who we really are. This goes deeper than just getting what you want. It can speak to you and teach you a little bit about yourself and your passion.
3. The “Theme” Vision Board
Do this vision board if:
– If you are working with one particular area of your life, for instance, work, career or relationship.
How to create this vision board:
The only difference between this vision board and the others is that this one has clear parameters and intent. Before you begin the vision board, take a moment to hold the intent and the theme in mind. When you choose pictures, they will be in alignment with the theme. You can do the Theme Vision Board on smaller pages, like a page in your journal.
Some things to remember about vision boards:
- You can use a combination of all three types of vision boards as you create. Sometimes you might start out doing one kind, and then your intuition takes over and shifts into a whole different mode. That’s called creativity. Just roll with it.
- Your vision board might change as you are making it.
Make The Butterfly Experience® Journal which is something I created and you can find more details about it in my own book The Butterfly Experience-How To Transform Your Life From The Inside Out, available on Amazon and all good book stores.
Another option is to use these same principles in your journal. This is especially effective if you’re going through many transitions in your life.
Vision Boards are an excellent way of allowing you to transfer your desires from your mind to paper and out into the world so the Universe can help you to make your desires come true. The more colourful you make the images, the more the mind will love it. The more you focus on your vision board images and your desires, the more you will start to see them appear in your life. You will begin to believe that they can come true and that is exactly what will happen.
I would love for you to share your experiences and desires at https://www.facebook.com/spiritualsoulsanctuary/.
Happy creating.