Vision Boards

Following on from last week’s post on Vision, this week Vision Boards get my attention. A few weeks ago, Mum and I had a fun Saturday morning when we made our vision boards. Using Christine Kane’s guidelines, I decided to create an “Opening and Allowing” vision board. This type of vision board is great for people who are not sure what they want, and who are curious to see what appears.

The idea is to get a bunch of magazines and flick through them quickly and tear out any images that speak to you, those that catch your eye, or as Christine Kane puts it, delights you. No thinking involved, just doing. We also decided to put a 20-minute time limit on our tearing-out activity.

It was surprising how fast the twenty minutes passed and I felt that I hadn’t torn out many images when the buzzer went. With what I had, I then made another selection, and where I felt necessary I cropped them. I took a piece of paper (A3 landscape) and arranged my final images on there.

The images I chose were unexpected, and not what I thought I would go for. When you go through and tear out the images quickly, you don’t give your ego/rational brain time to think about or dwell on each image, analysing it, deciding whether you like it or not – instead you use your intuition.

I was baffled by what I chose. I didn’t know how it applied to me, how it all made sense. I was glad to talk to Mum about my vision board so I could get her input. Most of my images were symbolic, yet some were literal too.

I have now hung my vision board up in my bedroom so I can look at it each day. I am still not sure what it all means but I trust I’ll figure it out one day. In the meantime, I have made a second vision board that is specific: images of things/experiences I know I want. I have written a sentence below each image, in present tense, as if I already have those things/experiences. These things/experiences can be anything ranging from having a dog to going on a holiday to having a house to finding inner peace. It’s whatever you want to attract in your life.  

I like vision boards, because for me they are a great visual reminder of what it is that I want. It helps me to stick to my path. They guide me and help me to do one thing each day to get closer to achieving my vision. A vision board makes my wishes feel more real, they are no longer in my head. In a sense, I’ve committed them to paper. They are now ‘out there’ and it’s time for me to take action.

I’ll keep you posted on my progress!