Sunday, October 7, 2012

See it, Believe it, Find it - Vision Boards


Photo by Loredana Bejerita


Today I decided to make a new vision board, so was flipping through one of the old magazines from the stack given to me to use for art projects. Halfway into it, I came across an article on “the right way to use a vision board.”

I love synchronicity.

The author, Martha Beck, talks about how she was illustrating a children’s book and the animals she was drawing wound up appearing in her life as she envisioned them. She explains that she was looking at a picture of parrots indigenous to her home city, wishing she could see them. Just after she thought it, three parrots appeared outside her screen door.

Her story reminded me of this summer when I was sitting at the Apple store, waiting for my kids to finish their Apple Camp class. I had just been envisioning owning a Mac, thinking how nice it would be to have one for a change. (We have an older desktop PC). Just after I thought it, a store clerk came up behind me with a woman who was asking where she could give away the Mac she was replacing. I asked her if I heard her right, if she really wanted to give away her computer. She looked at me and said, “Yes, do you want it?”

I love synchronicity.

This isn’t the first time I’ve had thoughts turn into reality almost immediately.

But when I first started studying “Law of Attraction” and the philosophy that goes with it, I was not a believer. I decided to test it out, so I envisioned a Model T. I wanted to see one driving down the street; it had been a long time since I’d seen one, so I thought it was a good experiment. I started spending a few minutes a day seeing the Model T in my mind. It took finding a toy version first. Finally after a few days though, I did see one driving down the street.

Beck’s article goes on to say that, when creating the vision board, rip out pictures that trigger a physical reaction rather than ones that register in your head.

This rings true for me. I think it took longer for me to see the Model T because my head was involved in the process more than my heart was. Every time I’ve noticed things almost instantly appearing in my life, my head stayed out of the vision.

I still have a lot of thought monitoring to do. It’s also hard when environmental factors affect emotions.  It takes practice. I’m still learning.

Now where was I?

Oh yeah, it’s time to envision myself putting together a board. One that makes me feel excited when I look at it.

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6 comments:

  1. Really? Wow! How very, very nice. I remember I made a vission board after watching The Secret, but nothing really came of it. It's those pesky thoughts that need monitoring; just too undisciplined to bother. :)

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    1. The process is more of an art project to me, so it turns out to be fun. The manifestations are a bonus. :-)

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  2. Of course, I always view it flipped from what most folks do. Instead of thinking that my thoughts cause something in the universe, I think that I'm tuning my inner radio to what the Universe is sending out. If that makes sense.

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    1. Totally makes sense. Whatever works best for you.
      I don't think everything in life is necessarily a direct manifestation of one person/one mind. Families who live together have differing wants and thoughts which plays a big part in what comes to be. Also, I believe some things are destiny.

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  3. For a long period of time, I was only attracted to words when I looked through magazines...probably wasn't looking at the best magazines for me. So I cut out tons of words. I did finally place them on a collage piece I'd done. Liked the collage better without all the words. After reading this, I want to find that collage and see if anything has manifested.

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    1. That's always fun! I made a board in January of this year and then forgot about it. I didn't look at it for months.
      When one of our cars died and we bought a replacement, I realized our "new" can looked just like the one I had placed on the board.

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