Vision boards are one of the first thing’s you’re introduced to when you start looking into manifestation, success or any of the build-a-better-life methods. They aren’t often given with many directions, though.
They are indeed great for finding clarity and direction, as both are invaluable in the manifesting process. As well as setting the “mood” for what it is you’re desiring. Hence their other name, “Mood boards”.
Which is great because “mood” is the same as “vibration” and when we’re working with energy and manifesting, that’s exactly what we want to focus on!
Clipping pictures out of a magazine and gluing them onto a poster board is great, but I would like to offer a few more intentions to put behind them.
I’ve been creating vision boards for years and years now and the way I do it has really evolved again and again until I was able to create a fine tuned system. Seen before as a simple craft, it’s now a crucial part of the system I use to progress, manifest and heal!
I now create one every month, with the energy of the new moon, and prompt my Facebook group to do the same. We would love to have you join us over there!
I urge you to take a deeper look into this project and yourself with it. For when done properly, they are quite powerful.
Deciding on Your Method
There are a lot of methods to creating a vision board.
You’ve got the whole magazine clipping thing. I’ve also printed pictures out from my computer and hung them up on bulletin boards. There’s drawing it out in a freestyle type of way and there’s even journaling, which can be a type of visualization practice right along side meditation.
There’s no right or wrong way. Whatever works for you is the best way and I always encourage my clients to try out whatever sparks creativity and inspiration for them.
What I’ve landed on as my best way of practicing this ritual is using Canva.
Especially since I create a new one each month with the beginning of the moon’s cycle, this is the simplest form and doesn’t require materials or even much time. I can simply jump over there, fill out a template that’s already available for use and set it as my computer background.
Here are a couple I’ve made in this way:
As you can see, you can make them as simple or as complex as you like. So don’t feel pressured. Have fun with it. There is no right or wrong way. Some months you’ll want to spend an hour or so on it. Other months you won’t want to do it at all. Allow yourself to slap together whatever on those occasions.
I have moved towards the more complex, though, because they have more intention which means more magick woven into them.
And how do we weave this magick you ask? I’m so happy I stumbled across this.
More Then Goals
Vision boards are most associated with goal setting but you’re cheating yourself if goals are all you focus on here. Since we’re already here thinking about and planning how we want to move forward, we might as well pour some healing, awareness and intentions into it.
Goals are great and clarity is important. We’re essentially creating a whole new reality though, right? One in which you already have that which you desire.
This is a great opportunity to not only decide where you would like to go from here, but to explore what has been holding you back from already being there.
So whereas it’s crucial you know where you want to go, focusing on the energy of it and cutting ties with the blocks holding you back from it is what’s going to get you there. I would even go as far as to say that I would rather you know how you want to feel in this end goal reality rather than knowing what it looks like.
Remember: end goals VS means goals. It’s more often that we desire the feeling we think XYZ is going to bring us rather than simply wanting XYZ itself. Refer here for proper goal setting.
This is an important mindset to remember and maintain. Sustaining the “energy – feeling – emotion” that you’re desiring even when you aren’t actively working towards your “goals” is the best active practice for bringing your new reality to life.
3 Emotions
It’s a “mood” board, right? Mood is a sustained emotion. That’s exactly what we want. A sustained emotion. Preferably a positive one.
So list 3 emotions you want to embody during this time frame. Bring what they feel like into your heart and grow them from there into your surrounding aura.
What comes up when you focus on them? Allow them to pull you towards colors, themes and the like. Relax, create space and allow them to come through.
In contrast, take note of any negative emotions you’ve been having come up lately. What are those about? Can you dissect them all the way to their core? Find the belief they’re tied to that’s being bothersome and rework it into something more helpful.
Becoming aware of our patterns can help us break them and create new, more positive ones. Bet you didn’t come into this thinking we’d be doing shadow work, eh?
3 Gratitudes
You gotta use gratitude to seal in those positive emotions that we want to hang onto. The universe doesn’t give us more things to be thankful for if we’re not actively thankful for what we already have.
No words can explain the depth of importance here. Practice gratitude as often as you can.
When creating my vision boards, I like to specifically focus on being thankful for that which I may have been taking for granted lately. It’s easy to forget about the importance of little things that are so readily available to us on a daily basis.
Feel the emotion behind gratitude. For all intensive purposes, give me:
- 3 things you’re thankful for professionally
- 3 things you’re thankful for personally
- 3 things you’re thankful for about yourself.
You see, if we shoot for the intense side of things, as here : 9 items. Then it’s easier to list just 3 for the big project.
Sometimes it’s hard to find one. And I offer you on days like that:
- Thank you for the breath in my lungs
- Thank you skin for feeling
- and wind for blowing
- Thank you sun for rising and
- body for giving me another day to try
Do your best where you are today. We’ll build on it.
1 Habit
It’s hard to feel progress when you divide your energy too thin. And since habits are often daily practices, adding more than one at a time can become quickly overwhelming.
Be easy on yourself and shoot for a single habit you want to hit MOST days. Because “most” is more realistic than “every” and we don’t want to beat ourselves up if we miss a day or two. Just pick it back up when you can.
3 Affirmations
Affirmations can help us bring ourselves back into alignment with our goals and intentions. Sometimes we forget ourselves as we walk around day to day interacting with the dysfunctional world that’s been created around us.
Formulate your affirmations to help you stay aligned with where you’re headed and to protect yourself from the inner demons that would hold you back.
All in all, creating the space to do your vision board is a great time to do some inner work as well. Afterall, our outside world is a direct reflection of our inside world.
Come hang out with us in the FB group and show us your vision board! We make one every new moon!
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S.S.Blake; Spiritual Life Coach, Yoga + Meditation Teacher and Founder of Earth and Water
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