Agents Of Possibility

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined -Henry David Thoreau

We create our lives, with every thought every minute of every day. You can manifest your dreams in your life through meditation, daily affirmations, personal intentions, and vision boards among other things.

A very powerful way to use visualization and the power of intention to manifest the home of your dreams is by creating a Vision Board. It is one of the most powerful ways to put the law of Attraction to work for you.  A Vision Board is a collage of pictures of the goals and dreams you want to attract in your life.

If you want a specific kind of house, make sure it is exactly the type, model and color you desire. Make sure the essence of what you are wanting is placed on your vision board. For example you may want wide open space, lots of light, or a red kitchen. You would then place these key elements on your vision board.

How to Get Started

A very basic and fun way of creating a Vision Board is by gathering scissors, glue and tons of magazines. Go through the magazines and search for images of your home, or search for the right images on the internet. Cut out the images and glue them on a piece of cardboard or pin them on a cork board or wall. For more power, add affirmations such as “I love living in my new home” or “I spend lots of quality time with my family”. This reinforces what you desire.

Hang your vision board in a spot where you will see it on a very regular basis, such as at your desk or in the kitchen. Look at it daily, and really FEEL as if you are already living in your home on your Vision Board. Look at your Board as often as possible with focused intent. You will be surprised to see the things on your Vision Board show up in your life –sooner or later- providing you keep putting your intention on them and stay positive.

By looking at your Vision Board on a consistent (daily) basis, you will manifest the life you truly desire!

The Details

Most often, a Vision Board is created on a 20” x 30”-ish foam core or cardboard.  Vision Boards can be created on journals, computers, or even in a sacred drawer or box.  On a board, the images are glued down or pinned down.  You can have  lots of space around each image; the images can overlap each other, or every distance in between.  Sometimes the space between the images is referred to as Breathing Space. If the images are too close together for you, your day-to-day experience might start feeling chaotic or you might literally find yourself “out of breath.” If the images are too far away from each other, then your goals may not manifest quickly enough, finding yourself “waiting with baited breath” for manifestations to occur. Pay attention to your own design, and honor the balance that feels right for you. If necessary, changes can always be made later in the year.

Some start a new board each year and store them year after year. Others archive a photo of each year’s board for their album. Others add new layers each year to the same board, being careful to keep exposed those images and items with which they still resonate.

There are many ways to gather images for your Board.  Some create specific folders, each with its own theme, and they enjoy filling them up year round. When they find a great image they put it into its respective folder–Abundance/Prosperity, Love, Happiness, Career, etc.   Others know exactly what they want and go to great lengths for a specific image that conveys just the right feeling and goal. I choose images that pull me, inspire me, elicit a feeling so powerful that I hear myself say, “I want that!” And although I don’t always know how it’s going to manifest during the year, I always enjoy the divine unfolding.

Focus on What you Want

We’re tapping into the Law of Attraction to align our conscious and unconscious, so be mindful of what you’re choosing and why. There’s no right or wrong, as long as you know the reason why and it feels good. With that in mind, please watch the words you choose to put on your Board.

“I want to get out of debt” is a commonly heard goal. Although we know that we don’t want to be in debt any longer, with this phrase we’re actually still focusing on the debt. Instead, consider: 1. How to get out of debt: Do you need an image that represents a gifted financial planner? Or, that money management class schedule finds itself on your Board? Perhaps a book that will help you restructure your finances? 2 . You may also want to visualize what you’ll do once you’re out of debt: Take a trip? Reward yourself in someway? Throw a party with your best friends? Dance on the beach at sunset? Bring THAT feeling or that specific image into your Vision Board. 3. Once you’ve decided on a payment plan, include those numbers and your final payment date, even if it’s a few years, or Boards, away. 4. Choose words and phrases along the lines of “freedom,” “there’s more than enough $$,” or “always on time.”

Find a Way to Say Yes

The dreams generated by a Vision Board can be big, so make sure that you can say a Big, Beautiful, Confident Yes to everything on your Board. If every dream and goal that we had came true this year, then next year would be pretty boring. In other words, you may need to plant the seeds for the future.

Let’s say you have a dream to be the CEO, but deep inside yourself you’re really thinking, “That will never happen, I’m just a secretary.” So, what can you say “Yes” to? Can you say Yes to Shift Supervisor? Yes to Personal Assistant to the CEO? Then next year’s Vision Board includes the next Big Yes and in a few years, you are the CEO! The same process might apply to “My Vision is to get married/find my soul mate/live happily ever after.” Although I have met a few people who, within a year, really did meet and marry their soul mate, this is not the typical life experience. Instead, you may choose to start with images that represent your ideal partners’ values and characteristics, images of how and where you meet, what happens on your first date, passions that you share, and more of those juicy, falling-in-love details. What is it about marrying your soul mate that you can say Yes to today? Vision Boards are as much about the Journey as they are about the end of the year review.

Be Specific

If you’re including yourself in your Board, you may choose actual photos of yourself, images of people who look like you, or you can literally replace their face with yours.

More examples: If your Vision includes “health,” be sure to select images that signify either physical health, mental health, heart health, endurance, strength, nutrition, etc. If you’re looking for an abundance of clients, create an image that represents your ideal client, or add images of those perfect clients you already have. If you’re envisioning travel, where are you going, when are you going and how are you getting there?

Be as specific as you can, focusing on that which you precisely want.

Activate your Board

Please choose mindfully where you place your Vision Board. They are living things, full of your dreams, thoughts and associations. Keep it active by displaying it where you’ll see it everyday. You may consider framing it at the foot of your bed, so that it wakes you up and tucks you in every day. Perhaps it’s next to the front door, so that you and all your guests can enjoy it, talk about it, share it.

Keep it active on a daily basis by embellishing a nearby tabletop or shelf with flowers, fruit and plants, or add to it with the movie ticket stubs, fortune cookie fortunes, receipts and thank you cards accumulated during your year. At the very least, take a good look at it a couple times a year, allowing yourself to discover what’s already come true and which powerful Visions continue to unfold. What’s most important is that it remains active in your conscious and unconscious experiences, how ever that’s most appropriate for you and your lifestyle.

At the end of the year, review, circle or check off the images that manifested, so that over time, you have an ongoing record of your dreams fulfilled!

Vision board information sourced from Liv Kellgren of consciousenvironments.com