Creative visualization and collaging our visions is nothing new, but thanks to some of the guests on Oprah’s show post-The Secret., Vision Boards have now become very widely known as a tool for manifesting what we intentionally visualize.
Vision Boards are just another way of creating what Shakti Gawain called Treasure Maps in her 1978 book, “Creative Visualization.” Louise Hay of Hay House has long been a strong proponent of this technique, as has been journal expert Kay Adams at the Center for Journal Therapy. I personally have many specific instances of manifesting what I’ve visualized with my Treasure Maps and practicing creative visualization in my quiet times. Up until now, I've created my Treasure Maps for the following year the last week of the current year. They are hung on the first day of the new year.
On my writer’s listserv, Roz of Autumn Cottage suggested that some of us might want to create Vision Boards starting right now—and I was delighted to say yes. This way gives a new twist on an old tool I've really had fun creating and benefited me besides.
If you Google Vision Boards, you will find that numerous life coaches use this technique but I thought Christine Kane’s “how to” on her blog was most beneficial.
But, the sky is the limit. I went to Michaels to explore something beside poster board and ended up buying an Elmer’s project board. I see these in kids' science projects all the time. I’m hanging my Vision Board vertically on the wall I see from my bed. These quotes are on the top:
“Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.”
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.”
Anybody else want to create a Vision Board or Treasure Map or share your experiences of what you’ve manifested through creative visualization?
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