Action Thursday - How To Create Your Own Vision Board

Creating your own vision board can be a fun project. My children enjoy cutting out their own pictures and pasting them on their own boards. Plus it's a great fun time for the family as well. So let's get into the materials needs and instruction steps to creating your vision board.

Materials to create your vision board

Bristol board (if you're making a physical vision board)

Images (cut out from magazines, flyers, printed from the internet, your own pictures)

Paper Glue

Scissors

Permanent Marker

Instructions for a physical vision board

Step 1 - Gather all of your material on a table so you have a large enough space to spread out your pictures.

Step 2 - Trim any excess off your images and shape them to your liking.

Step 3 - Place your images on the bristol board where you'd like them to go. Move them around until you're satisfied with where you have them placed before you begin to glue them on.

Step 4 - Glue your images onto the bristol board.

Step 5 - Label the images (optional). For example, under the image of your vacation you can put 'Dream Vacation in the Bahamas'.

Step 6 - Allow the glue time to dry.

Step 7 - Find a prominent place to put your vision board where you can easily visit on a daily basis.

Instructions for a virtual vision board

Step 1 - Gather images from the internet or cut out images from magazines, flyers or your own pictures you scanned and uploaded to your computer.

Step 2 - Crop your images, removing the excess, and save the cropped pictures.

Step 3 - Using Paint or Photoshop program on your computer, place all your images on the blank canvas in the position of your choosing.

Step 4 - Label your images (optional). For example, under the image of your vacation you can put 'Dream Vacation in the Bahamas'.

Step 5 - Flatten your images to the canvas and save as a .jpg file on your computer. 

Step 6 - Save your vision board as a background image on your desk top or as a screen saver.

Step 7 - You can also save your images singly to use as a screen saver. That way you can see the images one at a time as they change.

So now that you've created your vision board, what next?

1. Set aside some time to become silent.

2. Focus and concentrate on your image.

3. Absorb every detail of your image and memorize it.

4. Own it - let be yours.

5. Become one with it - see yourself living your dream life or desire.

6. Use affirmations each day - Thank you that all I desire is coming to me now.

7. Use the formula for success - R=IOT - Repetition = Imprint Over Time - Repeat, repeat, repeat each day until the image becomes clearly imprinted in your conscious, then into your subconscious and into your reality over time.

3 Foundational Steps You Should Have Before You Create Your Own Vision Board

When you decide to create anything, you need to have a foundation before you begin to put the framework together. The same is true before you get into the craft of creating the vision board; there are a few foundational steps you need to take.

Foundational Step #1 - What do you want to manifest?

You must first have a clear idea of what you want to manifest, what you want to change in your life. Clarity on your desires will give you clarity in choosing the best images for your vision board. Are you focusing on one area like your relationship? Or are you focusing on a few areas like health, career, dream home etc.? This step prepares you when you begin to search for the images to portrait your desire.

Foundational Step #2 - Why type of vision board are you going to create?

Are you going to have a physical vision board or a virtual vision board? A physical vision board can be placed anywhere in your house, office, car (depending on the size) etc. A virtual vision board can be on your screen saver or as a background image on your computer. Either way, you'll need to decide which is convenient for you to easily access on a daily basis.

Foundation Step #3 - From where are you going to get your pictures?

You can get pictures from old magazines, flyers, print off images from the internet or even pictures that you have hidden away somewhere in a shoebox. Get creative and pull out all of your images and get them ready as the amount will help you decide how large your physical vision board will be and how many images you're actually going to paste on. 

Take the time to lay the foundation for creating your own vision board and we'll get into the steps needed to actually begin.

4 Elements to Empower Your Vision Board

Vision boards aid in the vivid mental processing of your image you desire to manifest. If you're having trouble using your imagination to visualize the strong mental image which is vital for attracting the desires you want, vision boards are great tools to help strengthen your imaginative powers. 

But how do you actually harness the power of using vision boards? We'll look into the elements that empower your vision board to create the magnet you need to draw into you the things you desire in your life. 

Element # 1 - Emotions

Your emotions add vitality to your desires that you've added to your vision board. You must bring the vision board image home. By that I mean, the images may be on the vision board but now you have to consciously connect with your images and feel the feelings of having your desire as you look at them. You're making the emotional connection within you which creates the energy wave to attract the ideas, people, circumstances and events to bring your desires into reality.

Element #2 - Own the images

If you keep seeing the vision board images as being separate from you, you will continue to attract that separateness into your life. You've got to own it, you've got to see them as yours. One way is to imagine the images inside of you - this is mine. Another way is to see yourself actually doing the activity on your vision board or mentally placing yourself in the location of the images on your vision board.

Element #3 - Become one with your images

With the process of becoming one with your images, you need to bring your mind into accepting that this is your reality. You need to bring your emotions into the mix as well - feel the feelings of having that ideal weight, or on that dream vacation, or having that happy relationship. Hear the sounds and your laughter as you're enjoying your desires. Become so engulfed in your imagination as you concentrate on living the life of your desire - it is happening now, believe it!

Element #4 - Express gratitude

Gratitude always opens the doors for more of what you're grateful for to come to you. It clears the channel to allow more good to come to you. It also puts you in the mind frame of already having received what you believe belongs to you and puts you in the mode of expectation for its arrival. 

In tomorrow's post we'll cover the 3 Foundational Steps You Should Have Before You Create Your Own Vision Board.

Understanding Vision Boards

Whether you call it vision board, dream board, reality board or whatever name you have for it, vision boards have become very popular. But the question is, "Do you know why vision boards are used - what's their purpose, how effective they are and how to make them work for you?"

First of all, let's get into understanding what a vision board is. Basically, a vision board could be a collage of pictures, whether from others or your own, of the lifestyle you wish to create for yourself. It can also be one picture perhaps of a house you wish to purchase or a dream vacation you'd like to take. 

So what you're actually doing is collecting pictures of whatever your desire is and placing them on a surface in a prominent place with the intention that you'd manifest this in your life. 

So why are vision boards used?

The intention is to manifest what you want. But the science behind having a vision board is to imprint the  image into your conscious mind and then into your subconscious mind, which is your internal programming or auto pilot, in order to reprogram your subconscious to yield its power over to you. 

Let's break this down further

Your brain sees in pictures, right? So when you take the time to look at your vision board and really concentrate on every detail of your image, you are engaged in the imprinting process, the repetitive process of reprogramming the subconscious mind to accept this new image of what you desire to manifest in your life. 

You see, your subconscious mind does not discriminate as to what goes into it. It's like the soil of your garden that does not discriminate as to what seeds you the gardener decides to sow into it - that's the job of conscious mind. 

The conscious mind, like the gardener, is the decision maker. So when you decide what images you want to manifest in your reality, the subconscious takes that images and, like the soil, begins to 'grow' it. And as long as you don't interfere with the process by inputting negativity, your image will continue the growth process inside of you until it begins to crystallize in your outer reality, your experience.

Look out tomorrow as we discuss 'The Elements to Empower Your Vision Board'.

Sunday Morning Inspiration - Blessing Prayer

My prayer for you today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0so80q1aTIo&feature=player_embedded

Spiritually Speaking - Laura Lester Fournier and guest Alicia Isaacs

I have some really exciting news to share

with you.

I'll be a guest speaker on Spiritually Speaking

with Laura Lester Fournier.  This show will air

live tomorrow Sunday, November 14th, at

6:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 PM Pacific, 5:00 PM

Central on 1510AM Revolution Boston. 

You could also listen to the live link at:

http://www.dreamvisions7radio.com/hosts.htm  

We'll be sharing some really good nuggets on

motivation and overcoming inferiority complex.

So Tune In and Be Inspired!

Have a blessed evening.

Saturday Tunespiration - Bette Midler - From A Distance

When we stop looking at God as being separate and distant from us but is in us and is a part of us, we begin to look at life differently. We begin to see our oneness and not our separateness. When we understand that everything came out of and originate from God, then we'll realize that all is one and one is all. Then the distance-perspective would remove and we see that all we are is here and now.

Today's tunespiration comes from Bette Midler  From a Distance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSh5wUtXt4&feature=player_embedded

Getting My Body Back Friday - Using Visualization to Overcome Health and Weight Issues

Whether you're dealing with weight issues or illness, correct use of visualization will put you in the mind frame to attract the results you desire.

What then is the correct use of visualization to overcome health or weight issues?

Do the opposite of what you've been doing. How have you been visualizing your body? You might say, "Well, up until now I haven't been visualizing anything?" That may not be entirely true. You just may not have been aware of it. What image have you been seeing in your imagination when you think about your body? As you seeing illness? Are you seeing a healthy weight?

Now you can reverse the process and do it consciously instead of unconsciously as you've been doing before.

Shift your mental image to pictures of health and wholeness, to an image of your ideal weight. And as you add the elements of empowerment of belief, emotional connection, own your image and become one with your image, your body will begin to respond to match the visual image of health and your ideal weight that you've programmed into the subconscious mind.

Like your thoughts, visualization also has a rate of vibration that attracts what is needed for its manifestation in your outer reality. You're doing the work from the inside of you which will produce the results outwardly instead of the other way around - working hard outwardly and against your internal programming. 

Where does change begin? Within. Therefore using visualization to aid in the change process begins with the image you're allowing to become embedded within your subconscious mind which, like your thoughts when nurtured, will continue to grow and expand in your life.

Action Thursday - The Elements to Empower Visualization

Remembrance Day - Remembering those who sacrificed their lives.

Before we go into our post today, we take the time to remember those who sacrificed their lives in order for us to enjoy the freedom we have today. We take a moment to say thank you and express our gratitude. Though they may not be physically here, we send out into the Universe our thanks.

Today's post

As important as visualization is, you can't just think of your mental image and be detached from it and expect it to be effective. You've got to become one with your visualized image and own it.

Let's look at what elements are needed to empower your visualization.

Element #1 - Believe

You must believe that the image you visualize can be yours, that you can have it become your reality. It's the belief in a thing that vitalizes it and makes it become a part of you. To disbelieve in your mental image, your desire, pushes it away from you.

Element #2 - Emotional Connection

Every desire that you have has an emotional connection within you. Our desires, for the most part, arise out of that emotional connection. Therefore, by allowing your emotions to feel the feelings of having your desire as you visualize your image is a very key component of empowering your visualization.

Element #3 - Own it

Whether you use a physical image to help you visualize or you mentally create your image, you must own it. To keep that image and think of it as being separate from you creates the barrier that prevents it from coming to you or materializing in your life. You must see it as being yours, being a part of you.

Element #4 - Become one with it

When you own the image you begin to feel not only that it belongs to you but that you are one with it, it is a part of you, it is who you are. It becomes embedded in your internal programming, your subconscious mind, where it begins to grow and manifest itself within you, inspiring your actions or the actions of others around you which will produce the results you are expecting.

Use the Formula for Success, R = IOT, Repetition = Imprint Over Time. Repeat these steps over and over. Practice so it can be imprinted within you and become automatic.

Why You Should Use Visualization

Visualization does not belong to just a few elite people. It is part of who we are and what we're supposed to do to create the life we desire. It's part of our survival here on planet earth, whether or not we use it in that capacity to enhance our lives.  

Why, then, should you use visualization?

Remember, the brain sees in pictures. Visualization imprints the image on your brain which not only sends this image to your subconscious but also to your body as well. What your mind imagines impacts your belief system, which in turn impacts your emotions and influences your actions. 

Therefore, using visualization to create the lifestyle you desire is so very important. Time spent in quiet contemplation and concentration on your desire emits an energy frequency throughout your entire body connecting with the universal energy of the Spirit to realize your desires. 

Instead of using your precious time and mind space filled with thoughts and images that don't add value to you, make a conscious decision and effort to practice mental shifting onto the images of your desire. This is called the imprinting process as you continually shift your mental images on your goals. 

You may find your mind drifting into the old way of focusing on your unwanted thoughts, but armed with this knowledge and the focused decision to recreate your life, you can begin to implement the new mental action of visualization.

Key: Use visualization to sow new thought images to reprogram your subconscious mind. If you're finding it difficult to imagine what you desire, use images from magazines, books, the internet etc. to help you get some ideas. Study the image. Absorb it in your mind and as you go into your day make mental reference to it. 

Okay, that's it for today. Tomorrow we'll look at The Elements to Empower Visualization.