I made a Vision Board!

This weekend, with time on my hands between my husbands two gigs on Saturday, I invited my friend around and we set about making a vision board each. Despite all my crazy spiritual adventures, you may be suprised to hear I have never made a vision / dream board before! Well. There is a first time for everything. So we set about cutting up a dozen or so magazines and gluing them all over a bit of card.

This is not as easy as one might first assume. There is something intrinsically powerful about this act. Suddenly I became very picky about images and words that I wanted to use to summon up my perfect future. I am a strong believer in the saying 'be careful what you wish for, it may come true'. And so it was with this in mind that I weilded my scissors with due care and attention and started to craft my collage of desired loveliness.

Making our vision boards was a very relaxing and meditative act. It is rare I sit and focus so intently on my life, and what I want. Perhaps that is wherein lies the power of the Vision Board. Because in this act of concentration I focused my mind entirely, not on what I 'think I might ' want, but on what I actually want. My friend and I spent a good couple of hours creating our boards, and every thing that went on there was mentally screened and assessed by my inner guru. Only when fully approved was the glue brought out and the scrap of paper committed to the board.

Whilst I have never done a board such as this before. I knew from my choices, that they were so completely different to what they would have been several years ago. Many of my desires revolve around the easily acheivable, and the internal things such as emotions. I was pleased to notice that I had no requirement for anything very much material (other than a future little cottage). That way heartbreak lies. Most important for me, it seems, is love, relationships, friends, pets, family, well being and my writing. Nothign else really featured. It seems I want what I more or less already have. So my vision board was like a new and improved version of my current life, though without the sleepiness and occasional stresses - of course! Oh and a few images to represent fabulous holidays thrown in - well you have to don't you!

Creating a Vision board was an enlightenment and an exercise in getting to know me, and what it is I really want! I encourage all you Soulies to get making your one too and maybe blogging about it here! Paper and a pritt stick has never been so powerful!