Day 22 – Vision Boards

Good morning everyone,

I have always loved vision boards or what I call treasure maps. I have one right beside me as I do my morning spiritual processes right now! I like leaving spaces between the pictures and words so that Spirit can fill in some of the details and make my preferences bigger and grander in Its own magical ways.

More than once I have manifested exact things that I’ve pasted on my maps, sometimes not even knowing clearly what they were. One of my favorites was going to a cafe in Italy with a romantic date – One year prior I had pasted a photo of that exact cafe on my map and had no idea I would be taking a photo of it in person, next to someone that still makes me smile when I think of him.

It’s lots of fun, let’s all do this!!

I have not done a mind movie and would love to hear of other’s experiences with this…

I love vision boards.

The single most important aspect to making it work, in my opinion is CLARITY!

Make sure you know exactly what you want.

To share a story demonstrating that “It Works!” I have been desiring this gorgeous car called a Dodge Magnum with a Hemi engine. I went to the dealership and got a brochure on the car. I went home and cut out pictures of it and put it on my vision board. I couldn’t decide on the color – silver or midnight blue. So, I put up both color swatches. No manifestation. For months, I had no resistence to it and I acted as if I owned it already but no manifestation.

Just like in a previous challenge, all I would notice would be Dodge Magnums in silver or blue. So, it dawned on me that I needed to be more specific…I chose midnight blue. Within two weeks of making up my mind, heaven and earth moved on my behalf and I got a midnight blue Dodge Magnum with a Hemi engine in spite of all odds stacked against me creditwise.

That’s when I became completely sold on Law of Attraction and Vision Boards.

I have used a vision board for about five years now. Today is when I understand why nothing has manifested yet. I haven’t been very specific. I still hesitate between a Starlet and a RAV4. I know I want a RAV4 but I wouldn’t mind a starlet as a stepping stone to the more expensive RAV4.

As for my dream house, since it’s for the whole family, we have all pasted our dream houses on the same board

Now I know what we have to do to improve our vision board.

Lots of love :-*

I have never used a vision board, but am considering doing so now. I am up to 56 items in my 100 item list so far.

In the past when I had invested myself in getting excited about the things I want, have and be, I have focussed on wanting, having and being. I actually think that the proper way to do this is to create the feeling of these things.
Because the idea of living in the future continuously sets up disappointment with now and disconnection with the present moment.

I believe that working towards my list of 100 things has revealed to me how I have been under valuing how much I deserve to live the way I choose to and there is no noble way of living in poverty or with “the basics.”

It has allowed to be happy with what I have and know that there are plenty of raw materials on this planet to fulfill those that ask. There are enough first class seats for all of us.

I’ve been using vision boards for about 10 years now, and I can say they definately work!

At first, naturally, it was all about things and “stuff”. Not so amazingly, at the end of each year, when I typically redid my board, i would have achieved over half the things on my board.

More recently my boards have developed less about “stuff” and more about my way of life, pictures of beaches, meditation, zen gardens, that kind of thing. I’ve had my vision board “grow” with me, and I’ve been keeping my old ones which I look back at from time to time. This is often quite amazing, for you see the level you “used” to think at, compared to the latest. Funnily enough, my “things” were also smaller and easier, and my board from 3 years ago seems like a bit of a joke now : )

Everyone needs to have a board, even just for the sheer fun of it all, and I make quite a process of it, buying all manner of coloured cardboard sheets at the newsagent and making up a large, colourful, exciting poster.

Oh and Frank, when i first did my 100 thing list, I was amazed that I filled 100 quite easily! My “greed” even amazed me! Now days, I have more like a 20 thing list, and I’ve changed my “needs” into things I “really need” or desire, from the massive number of whim things we often feel we need in today’s consumer society.

I also came back this year and was able to cross a reasonable number of things off last years list : )

Enjoy the process mate!

Hullo All – this is going to be quite a long post, but it feels like today is a turning point and, with your indulgence, I would like to express this part of the journey in black and white and “put it on the record”….

A very loving fellow prosperity experimenter sent me a message of encouragement this morning, saying she loved reading my blog musings, that I was inspiring and that she admired my determination to thrive!

It has been hard for me to accept praise and compliments in the past – I am getting better at it! LOL….

I hope she wont mind my sharing this, but this is what I wrote back to her

- I want to share it with everyone in this experiment as we are all supporting each other with every step we take and every insight we uncover for ourselves. – “And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.” I take that to mean that under the holographic principal, the sum of the whole is contained in each of the parts, so what we do for ourselves and each other is something that impacts all of Creation –

Anyway – this is what I wrote in reply this morning:

“thank you so much for being such a Divinely Inspired messenger! You’re timing is impeccable, and I needed to read/hear those words very much at this moment – am having what ‘feels’ like a very hard time ‘breaking through’….

The Divine part of me knows all of this stuff and is wanting my human self to let go and “get with the programme”, while the fearful ego is refusing to believe and let go of resistance and give up control…. so, its a bit of a back-and-forth tug-of-war that’s stuck in stand-off!

And while I am in that place, the financial situation – which is the barometer for me – remains stuck too and is on the verge of sliding into what feels like an abyss, where all my most basic human fears are lurking!

And of course, I have this skill/pattern of being an expert at getting myself out of the tight corners I have created, so I’m busy creating another tight corner out of which I can get myself – very draining and so unproductive and unnecessary!

Time to give up that belief/pattern, but the ego isnt happy, cos then who will it be? And much easier/less scarey, to be able to handle a life fraught with difficulties (cos thats what it knows and has mastered and connects it to family and past – identity and ’story’) than to live a live of effortless, free, detached, ease, dignity and grace! Such insanity we create for ourselves out of our fear of living our greatness!

Anyway – I wanted to thank you so much for your thoughts/words of acknowledgment and for following your impulse to send them…. such a kind and loving action, from a kind and loving person ”….

And when I was in the shower a little later, (where all of my best inspiration happens), an image came to me. I was hanging, dangling, literally holding on by my fingernails, off the side of a cliff…. and below there was nothing but limitless blackness – it just seemed to go on and on and I didnt know what was at the bottom – rocks, deep water or simply nothingness. And I knew I had to let go – one cant dangle at the top of the cliff forever and there’s no going back (crawling back up and back into territory one has chosen to leave) once one has a certain degree of knowledge – but I was so afraid to let go and yet I was also out of energy and was beginning to lose my grip.

And then, the picture changed and I saw a trampoline stretched across the abyss…. and then the trampoline changed into a golden net, emanating a light so bright and clear and pure that I knew that if I let go, no matter what happens, I will be safe – I will be caught and supported and held in a beauty I have never in this 3D life experienced….

And then I had to take my kindergarten son to school and he’s having a hard time letting me leave when its time and I talked with him in the car about having fear and not letting that stop us from doing the things we need to grow, and about knowing that we are always safe ( a little bit of hypocrisy there – another case of teaching what I need to learn!)…. and in the classroom, I did my best to reassure him and to let him know I loved him and that I trusted he would have a wonderful day and I left him with his fear….

And then I had brunch with a friend who has a plate full of all sorts of fears holding her back from living fully and I listened to her pain again and I offered what I could of my own understanding and experience, and I heard myself describing my own difficulties with trust and letting go and the push-pull between living my Source Self and living in the small world allowed by my fear-ridden ego…. and of the ‘pain’ of walking to the beat of my own drum, of being a goldfish, swimming in the opposite direction to my relatives, a school of grey fish, wanting desperately to live/create my own authentic reality … wanting to be part of the school but knowing from experience that I couldnt, that joining the school would slowly kill the part of me that was unique, different, sacred….

I described an experience I used to have when I was quite young… about 10 or 11….

We had to walk a long way from school to the bus stop. And the walk at the end of the day was down hill all the way. And I remember for a period of about a year, often feeling so full of exhilaration and joy and boundless enthusiasm and excitement that I wanted to do effortless full forward flips all the way down the hill – not sideways cartwheels, but flips, with my feet only touching the ground to launch the next one…. Somewhere within me I knew I couldnt do that physically, but the sheer energy/freedom I was feeling almost made that possible and I so wished I could….

I had a similar, more mature, more ‘knowing’ experience once in meditation, when I first started my ‘conscious’ journey. For a short time, the boundaries of me expanded and dissolved so that I was all that ever was, is now, and ever will be, ‘knowing’ everything, filled with love and awe and exhilaration, and at the same time, all of that was contained within myself….

That state is the place I am wanting to live from, every day. I know its possible – I’ve had it/been it – its the natural state of being of all of us…. I just need to let go, let myself drop off the edge of the cliff….. when will I let myself do that? Today? YES TODAY!

As for my vision board – I’ve been using them for a long time, though I stopped putting specific ‘things’ on the boards, instead I put on representations of states of being – it was about the quality of my life, rather than the quantity of things in my life…. I can see that there is a balance needed there…. I agree there is no glory or “nobility” in living in poverty or with “the basics”…. The Source is expansive and abundant – it doesnt limit itself to basics – so why would I limit myself to poverty or basics? I dont mean that in a greed sense – just in terms of my beliefs – why would I limit myself to poverty?

I decided four years ago that the pattern of abuse in my family was going to stop with me, and it has and my children now are choosing also not to walk down that path, and I’m choosing now that the pattern of poverty, of just getting by, in my family stops with me also….

And, I described on a blog here a while ago how I was wanting/needing to create paid play, and I listed my skills and talked about the Foundation I want to nurture into existence.

And I’ve not been following through energetically in applying for jobs…. either my applications have been lacklustre or I’ve missed application deadlines…. and I’ve been struggling and then giving myself a hard time about my lack of motivation and delivery.

And yesterday I realised that my inner desires were not aligned with my request/intentions.

I dont actually want to work (in a formal sense) right now…. I’m being driven by my belief that I should and that the only way to survive is to work.

What I really want and need is to rest – the journey over the past 18 years has been really intense, particularly the last 9 or so, I’m tired down to my bones and I want to rest and heal/recuperate and just potter for a while – catch my breath, let down, centre, take care of my body and soul, take time to notice and honour the distance I have come….

First I listened to my inner critic that was telling me I am lazy, that I’m avoiding work because of my fear of failure and fear of success – its true those fears exist in me! – that I’m being an arrogant, pretentious prima donna, wanting to be supported in some way other than through my own efforts… who do I think I am, to think I have a right to live free, without working?

And that reminded me of the time I chose to take an overdose, because since I was tiny, my life had been about taking care of and being used by others, regardless of the cost to me, and I then had no-one left to take care of, and I couldnt find a reason to live for myself and it felt wrong to have the gift of life and not use it well, so it was more in integrity to return that energy back to Source….

And I realise that I am allowed to live well without having to ‘work’ for it, and that I am allowed to take time to rest…

So, I call into being and am grateful for the resources that allow me to rest and live well for six months to a year….

that enable me – the golden fish – to rest in a side pool, in the shallows, to just follow my nose and my inner guidance,

that enable me to create the space to parent my son the best way I know how,
to travel,
to see my other children,
to support my friends,
to volunteer where and when I wish,
to indulge my desires,
to experiment and play with the gifts and talents I possess,
to enjoy my home and garden,
to indulge in life-affirming paid play when and where I wish…

that enable me to choose the moment in time when I get back into the rushing flow of the river leading to whatever destination I choose.

And so it is….

Blessings Be
AUM

Namaste
Sahila

Wow Sahila, Thank you so much for sharing. I was so struck by your vision of yourself on that cliff. I so too feel like I am on a cliff. I have been dangling for so long and am so afraid to let go. I cry at the vision of the golden net ready to catch you safely. Today I am going in to start working part-time. I am being pressured by my therapist and husband to start bringing in some income as we have been living on the edge for years now. I don’t want to go to work. I want to go back to school and to be a Nutrition Educator and start my own business. I have so much fear in trusting that I can not work and we will have more than enough. For 5 years we have lived on the brink of just barely getting by. Threre have been times when we would go for weeks with no money for food or gas. I don’t want to live like this anymore! I want my own career and my own business. I don’t want to go back into the work force but I also want enough money to thrive, not just barely survive! So I am struggling with believing the universe brings me money from unexpected places and the more practical thinking that I must work.
So I’m off to my new part-time job that I don’t want to go to. Blessings to you Sahila and everyone.

i am late posting this but a funny thing happened to meon day 24 that i had to go back and post on day 23. I was searching aroung my house for an envelop and behind a stack of papers i found my old vision board. i started to throw it away. Instead I briefly looked at it and continued to search for an evelope. then i went on line to catch up with prosperity blog from day 23 and saw the words vision board. needless to say. i am back on track with visualizing the things that are on my vision board

sahila i love your musings. today i let go of fitting myself into tight corners. tight corners of financial lack, lack of a realationship, and of lack of belief in myself and univversal provider. today i stand in the lines offering prosperity of finances, prosperity of love, prosperity of health , and prosperity of a career that i love. namaste

hey all,

i created a vision notebook after reading sarah ban breathnach’ s book – forget the name of it here — but it is a great book about abundance, and gratitude — i look at the notebook i made every day, and i even created a “life logo” which i designed, and which is pasted on the front —- this idea came from intuition expert sharon franquemont — another great author. it doesn’t matter if it is a simple drawing or a grand computer image — it is your drawing for the meaning of your life, what you want it to be!
sharon franquemont has a book called: ” YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO DO”…. great book by the way, very helpful. the exercises in the book help you to really get in touch with who you are, and the book is SO VERY cool.
so, i look at this notebook full of photos, captions, magazine headlines, quotes, sketches, etc., every morning so i do not lose site of what i want and what i am striving for — and i BELIEVE.

I’ve started a vision board and I’ve seen it work for others so I’m waiting on it to work for me. I need to focus on it daily! I also probably need to get specific.

Thank you Sahila for your long blog – it so beautifully expresses my own struggles, as well as the hope and expectation that I now have, helped and encouraged by this wonderful experiment and its paricipants.

I was so taken with Sahila’s blog, I didn’t comment on vision boards!

I have used vision boards for a few years, never very successfully. I’m starting again, and this time I’m applying the principles of the Progressive Affirmation – i.e. smaller, believable steps to the ultimate vision. Several people have commented on the need for clarity and I’m taking note of that too. I’m also drawing some of my own images, even if they’re a bit rough, as it helps me to get clear on what I want, and it makes the image uniquely mine. I can even add to it as I study it day by day. My vision board feels exciting this time, so I’m expecting some quick and amazing results!

I have had some results from asking over the last few days. I asked for $2000 to clear up some bills and feel free of the anxiety surrounding them. What I have received (so far!) is $1276 PLUS an offer of help in planning the displays for my new shop – from my daughter whom I don’t see very often, but we’re now communicating daily on the displays. The money is a huge relief, but the time spent with my daughter is worth more than any amount of money! I have already received infinitely more than what I asked for – thank you!!!

The vision board I’ve been focusing on this summer is all about a completely new career and where I most want to work, QVC in West Chester, PA (near Philadelphia). I pasted the word “Expectation” at the very top and center like a title. I included a picture of a designer I really want to work with, and her smiling picture also represents the type of friends I would like to make and my relationships with coworkers. I included pictures I found on the internet of different sets because I most want to work in set design and decoration. But I also included pictures that represent how I want to feel. I found a great clip art picture of a woman jumping for joy. I included a cardboard tag from a Life Is Good purchase that says “Do What You Like, Like What You Do.” I included one of my favorite pictures of a stone vessel overflowing with water, representing to me that I am so filled with abundance that I must spill over to others.

Several weeks ago, at the suggestion of a friend from college, I contacted my alma mater’s Director of Alumni Relations, and she responded in under three hours to tell me that the new Director of Annual Giving just came from QVC, having worked there for seven years. So I’ve spoken with this woman on the phone and e-mailed several times, and she is passing along my resume to several contacts, one being in set design. : )

I LOVE reading everyone’s posts. I LOVE reading about the wonderful experiences and manifestations in your lives. Never have I been a part of such amazing support and love among a group of people. Everyone’s joy is also my joy. To see that we can all share so much of ourselves and our lives without judgement, but only with complete and utter happiness for each other and continual support is the greatest gift of all. You all make me cry for creating a place of safety and trust.

So I will share that I went to my part-time job for the training only to find out it is next Wednesday!!!!!!!! What a relief I felt!!! I now have a week to really look inside my soul and find what it is that I want to do. Not what my therapist or husband wants me to do, but what I want and need for me. Thank you Universe!!

I have been keeping my vision board on the kitchen table next to where I sit. I have glue and scissors handy so whenever I’m drawn to something I can put it on my board (actually a large blank book).

I started making a page for my career as a Nutrition Educator/Consultant. I put a picture of myself in the middle. On the page is the name of the college I want to go to along with the programs I want to take and what classes are offered. I included the tutition payment page from the college website along with pictures of $100.00 dollar bills to pay the tuition. Then I cut out two pictures of women who have graduated and started their own nutrition businesses. Added the words “inspired by a vision”

I like the woman jumping for joy that Suzanne put on her board. I’m going to look for some pics that represent how I want to FEEL by going to college and creating my nutrition career.

And Suzanne please tell us when you get that job at QVC!! You go girl!

I have one vision board .
I moved last year and had tucked it away. Recently I found it and looked at it… And to no surprise most of the things, I’ve placed on this board, about a year and a half ago, have come into manifestation without any extra effort on my part.
When I created this board, I simultaneously created a “Creative Workshop”, an exercise from Abraham Hicks. I placed myself into a deep feeling place when I went into my workshop. When I felt aligned with the particular feeling of the end result of what I wanted to create, whether it was an object, a situation or circumstance, I then went to my vision board and placed it there in the form of a symbol, picture or drawing.
I always enjoyed looking at the board after a session like this, because it was like a mini vacation into my creation…Then I let go and repeated the next day, until I moved…
So, what I’ve learned so far is to just be playful and align myself with the “quintessence feeling place” of the end result of what I want to create.
Then, I let go and let it happen.
I also align myself during my day as much I am able to remember to this “quintessence feeling”.
It’s fun and uplifts me every time. I don’t have to leave my glorious powerful NOW in order to experience this! I don’t have to think about the details, because I already placed a clear order of what I want to the universe.
I will try playing now in creating a VISION BOOK. I think this is an excellent Idea because it is so handy.
Happy creation!

g,day guy,s n girls i think the common thread with vision boards is set and forget because most people seamed surprized when they find the old ones have come true, maybe because growing is gradual and you don,t notice when your doing it ALL the time. the next BIGt thing is MINDMOVIES, there commercals for the REAL THING, BLOCKBUSTER MAIN EVENT coming soon to your lounge rooms,,,,,,,,,,,enjoy ,,,who,s the star attraction!!!!,,,,,,,were,s the popcorn, thank,s for an interesting few weeks ozzie, garry

The vision board offers an infinite amount of power. These images from your vision board become ingrained in your non-conscious mind. You begin to attract these things. Creating a vision board can be likened to throwing a stone into a placid pond. The rock hits the water and creates a ripple effect that shoots outward. All it takes is the one stone. Imagine throwing the proverbial stone in the pond of life. The vision boards triggers a reaction. I’d suggest reading John Assaraf’s book “The Answer” to assist you in this journey. http://www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?RTA=web2

I have a vision board I put together several years ago, and I have the car, the office and the equipment that is on the board. I keep it displayed in my office, and occasionally I do a new one that represents the ‘now’ – to see exactly how far I have come, and what yet I have to do…. a reality check every now and then.

So many of the things on the original board have come into being, that I am now in the process of doing a new one….. expanding my dreams!

Love to see all the fantastic things that other people have had happen to them in these blog notes. It’s really encouraging, and I wish for all your dreams to come to fruition!

I love this game – it’s sooo synchronous (is that the right spelling?).

I made a little vision book a while ago and it sits by my bed largely unlooked at, though I love looking at it… I just forget to. Last week I gave a presentation on Visual Tools for Coaches to my peers and I used my lovely book as the opening slide, reminding me how beautiful and wonderful the vision is

So, I shared it last week to a few people and now this post! Here’s a link for those of you who’d like to see it: (plus there are a few other visual tools you might like – they’re so powerful)

http://www.roomontheedge.com/watch/

Now, how much more public or definite or declared to the Universe does it get?

How does it get any better than this?

lots and lots of love and energy to you all
Michelle xx

Good morning all !

I love love Looooove vision boards =) Being a creative and visual person I need to ’see things’ or ’say things’ in order to GET THINGS!!!!My last one was a list. I made it in different fonts, different sizes and colors. I did all of it. So I made a new one, this time thinking beyond what I knew I could do. I’m doing most of it- some is here right now, some is coming. I have it on my computer desktop and my bedroom walls. I encourage other people to Goole search images for vision board and see what other people have created; it’s fascinating!

I have designed 2 boards – one was things that I wanted and experiences. The other is more about the passage of time and has photos of me at 2 years old and then pictures of women at various stages in their life.

I felt the power of creativity when I made the boards. And I feel the power of choosing things, and I like the visual reminder of what I want in my life.

However, if you do not get what you have put on the Vision Board, what does that mean, if anything?
Are things on their way? Are they perhaps not the best experiences for me right now?

There seems to be some very experienced “boarders” here, so would appreciate your insights and experiences.

Hi everyone,
I just love vision boards. I have had a vision board a year ago where I pinned everything I wanted. Travel destinations, clothes, money, all the little things… My travel plans have been supported by the universe and some small things have been manifested as well. For the big stuff I just wasn’t ready I guess at that time. I just bought the Mind Movie tool yesterday and can’t wait to put my mind movies together which is a nice version of a vision board that you can watch everyday and fill it with all your passion and unique desires. Now I am ready for the big stuff!
Everyone who never made a vision board – do it! It is so much fun putting it together and watching it and seeing things manifest.
Have fun!
Cheers, Stef

I know this works: for years my mom had paintings she loved of a particular view in a particular town in Mexico (where she was married and loved very much) hanging in her house in Oregon. She would look at them with love and admiration even on the coldest, hardest days; they are one of her most prized possesions.

Almost 30 years later she sat in her new house in Mexico looking out at that same view, and then glanced at one of the paintings when suddenly it hit her: she was looking at the same view. She had built a house in that same city-same view. To her: coincidence. To me: powerful example of unconscious LOA. To make matters even cooler, at the bottom of her street is the same lion statue that had been outside the house she got married in (a few miles away). Somehow the owner had moved it from the villa to this street years later-It’s as if it was calling her home!

Yes Lisa Rosetti, vision boards do work and sometimes the exact things we place on them manifests, but mostly i think, it is the intentions we put behind them, that manifests.

I’ve also created 2 visions boards: one for things (this i believe is always an ongoing process); the other is for my vision of my better self: the feelings, qualities and emotional growth i want manifest into my life. and these, have always come true for me. and makes me feel much more gratitude because as this ever evolving person i am capable of manifesting so much more than i can even dream to ask for.

i found this quote the other day, and though it very appropriate for all of us for those days we hover on the brink of ‘losing faith in the authenticity of the process’.
“My contribution is that I want it to be clearly understood that outer richness does not destroy your inner spirituality, neither does outer poverty help it.”
Osho

It points back to that thing that money (or stuff) is just another Divine energy.

So, when all we ask for do not manifest (immediately) perhaps it is because we don’t always really believe it possible

anyway, we got an unexpected R6,000 ($800) rebate from the tax man this week – it was quietly paid into our bank account. my husband discovered it last night whilst paying the bills! and, my sister’s husband heard about a work contract yesterday afternoon, after months of waiting for something to come through. So this energy has amazing rippling effects!

Lots of love and light to you all

I am getting more used to vision boards and one thing that I have noticed is sometimes when you put something on a board you may not actually get that but something similar but what does the same job and is more what you need. I put a hot tub on my vision board and a new bathtub… well it looks like a new hot air bathtub is on the horizon which takes care of both visions. How lovely. Bette

Wow, Liz, thank you for sharing this! I have a painting of Grasse and I am surely headed that way:), I KNOW how powerful images are, have had Vision/Dream boards, done collages, pulled reality from them. AND I have not had a Vision Board in a couple of years soooooooooo…I am currently making one. I ask myself exactly what is it I am wanting to see in MY future:)…

Tonya

If you can find a SoulCollage [http://www.soulcollage.com/cards/personalreading.php] workshop near you, I highly recommend it! I went to one in January, made two cards, and carry them in my Inspiration folder which I have in my ‘work bag’ and look at often.

Well, I had to admit that my vision boarding is still in its initial phases, but I can say that just looking at my vision board brings me a sense of relief and joy. And THAT is priceless! I’m also really excited to see how the manifestation of what I’m asking for unfolds!

yes!! i remember when i fist saw the secret dvd and saw john’s story i shook my head in acknowledgment because i had a similar experience to his once – without consciously doing so, in that i did not know that i was creating a “vision board.” meaning, i was just tearing pictures out because i liked what i saw, not because i had an intentoion to manifest any of it – it was just pretty to look it. like art.

i am a very visual person and in love with pretty images and have always, since i was young, torn images out of magazines (my mothers and then my own), that i found beautiful, stimulating or inspiring. when i grew out of my teenage years and was “too old” to tape pictures to my bedroom wall, as teenagers do, i would then just pull them out and keep them in a pile. nothing formal or organized and certainly nothing i would look at regularly or “study” – only when i came across them again in passing.

one year, i was cleaning out some old stuff, just like john, and realized that the car that i owned at that moment was the exact car that was on one of my tear sheets in a pile from a couple of years prior. it was a mercedes E320 and i now had the car.

what was most interesting was that i never remembered pulling pictures of cars. being a true new yorker, we are not necessarily a car culture city and i certainly, at the time that i pulled the image, never even thought of getting a car. i was not a car person and i knew nothing of cars at the time i pulled out the photo of that mercedes. i think i just pulled it out because it looked pretty and, in hindsight, represented abundance and luxury to me. so it was all unconscious creation.

but there i was a couple of years later cleaning out old papers and there was the picture of the mercedes that i now had.

and, all of this manifested without me ever looking or studying the image. so, i think, this is evidence that the universe is simply responding to our vibration. naturally. with no effort on our part. we do what we do naturally (we ask by the pure emotion of desire) and the universe responds immediately – IT”S ON IT’S WAY in the moment that we ask. good or bad – for better or for worse!

we don’t have to ask with our words. we see something, we want it (because we feel good looking/thinking of it/experiencing it), and the universe get’s this at our first feeling/thought. and it comes to us.

so, if i can do that unconsciously – with just tearing out an image and feeling positive about it for even only 3 minutes (if that!), before putting it to the side, i can only imagine what i can do with clear and focused intention. regularly.

i have two vision boards now that i have had for the past couple of years. both still relevant and in alignment with my current desires. over the past week or so i have been looking and FEELING these boards before i spend my check from the universe while playing the prosperity game each day. it really get’s my juices flowing and swooshes me very quickly in the flow of the stream of good feeling.

oh and Michelle Rumney, i love the board. i love the horse and th winding staircase! nice. thanks for sharing!

I have a vision board and have for years, updated it this past spring, but realize it probably needs refreshing. I realized as I grow as a human being and evolve so do my desires, my board still has “stuff” but is also has attributes of health, wellness, personality and spirituality. I have achieved attained many things on my vision board and I leave those things on as my reminder of “evidence” (I can still doubt at times). A great story I have is I wanted my son to get into a local magnet school so we put it on the vision board, I don’t think he wanted to go to the school so the opposing energies kept him at his current school and after he didn’t get in for 1st grade (the second year we tried) he said we should take it down. This past year when I had to apply again I spoke to him about it, showed him the school online and talked about some of the great programs, well he was all for it, we never put it back on the vision board but it seemed to still be there and guess what he is now in that school. I love using the vision board, it helps to reassure and inspire me all at the same time.

VISION BOARD

WHERE DREAMS BECOME SEEN
(beautiful rose painting-[close up}

• By T. CHENUTE

To get what you want, think in the direction of what you want, speak in the direction of what you want, LOOK in the direction of what you want…AND NEVER LOOK BACK! ~ MOSTLY Abraham-Hicks, a bit paraphrased?.

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(Pix of me as Fairy Godmother:) Wind is blowing, vines all around, purple flowers, I have on a tiara and a turquoise low cut flowy gown.)

400 regular Members for LiveSiteNet.com, YES!!!

Me shopping the Thrifts in London.Paris,Milan,Rome.

LIVE FOOD FOR ME!!! 16-24 WEEKS OF PURE LIVE FOODS FOR ME!!! THIS EQUALS REJUVENATION!!! ONE WEEK AT A TIME.

LYING ON THE BEACH IN THE MALDIVES WITH THE MAN I LOVE.

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STROLLING IN PARIS WITH THE MAN I LOVE.

CHOOSING THE COVER OF MY FIRST CD! YES!!!

BIG PARTY WITH MANY OF MY LOVED ONES!!! ABSOLUTELY!!!

SEEING THE FIRST RUN COPY OF MY BOOK THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF PEACE .

MAKING NOTES ON DESIGNING MY FIRST REAL SHOW! HAVE NOT GOTTEN FAR WITH THIS VISION YET, IT IS REASONABLY NEW. I want to create an AWESOME show!

MY BANK ACCOUNTS OVERFLOWING WITH FUNDS! YESYESYES!!!

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…HAPPY!!! AND I ALREADY AM ALONG THIS JOURNEY!!!

I BOW TO YOU, ALL OF YOU!

I AM LOVED!

***Images to be added.***

I wanted to share with you all! I signed up for this game, life got in the way, so I am a little behind, but that is OK! I am on track for me! In perusing the website recently to begin the game once again, I found an old entry of mine! It was dated May, 7, 2007. It expressed how much I look forward to being able to purchase a new home for my family! In our area, a 4 bedroom two bath, is not unheard of to be $800,000 to $900,000. So That is what I requested! The money to purchase a home for $900,000.00! Free and clear!
In November of 2008, A senior friend of mine that I had been a companion then caregiver to for 3 years, purchased a home for us! For $830,000.00 Free and Clear!
My darling friend went back into non-physical April 1, 2009. She helped make a dream of mine a reality and I made her last years and days of life as comfortable as possible! On to my next bit of brilliance!!
How magnificent are we, us creators in human form!

Wow Chanute – those are just fantastic images!!
go girl!! you are indeed loved!!

and thanks suhailah for your comments – so glad you like the pictures – looking forward to seeing some others by sundown what a great experiment this is!

loving it!

I have made a vision board once, one manifestation has happened, the most important one. I’m so happy

I just got a great new job!

Congratulations, David.

I have some vision boards in a couple of different places. I have a scrapbook type thing but I don’t often look at it. I also have a bulletin board where one side I cover with things that make me happy (pics. of my cousin’s/friend’s kids, ticket stubs, cards, etc.) and the other side are pics. of things I am manifesting. I have a hard time getting excited about vision boards, though. I’m not sure why. Does anyone else have this happen? And I do have a cool story about something kind of like a vision board. When I was a senior in high school we had to make a list of 100 things we wanted to do before we died. I went above and beyond and made a list of 200 things, packed it away, and forgot about it until I found it 6-7 years later. It was so cool to go through it and check so many things off I’d forgotten I even wrote on there! I’ve since lost it again but maybe that’s the magic of the list.

I have had vision boards for years. My daughter and I love to make them. It is so much fun. I have had them in places where I could see them often enough. But nothing on them has really manifested over the years except maybe a few words. But I think that most of those things were big enough that it has taken time to be prepared for them. Because now I feel like they are closer than ever. That my resistance to those things is almost completely gone. And I also know that some things are in need of lining up. It is the Universe’s time, not my own. But just in case I am going to do something symbolic. Since I have mostly had the vision boards upstairs in my bedroom where I would see them upon wakening I am going to put them downstairs on the first floor. If feng shui wise the upper floor stands for spirit, I shall put them on the first floor where they can manifest in the present.

I’ve also experienced the power of vision boards, and altars as visual focal points–and I’ve manifested things I’ve put on vision boards, even when I’m not looking at them daily. So I believe in them and encourage others to use them. The process of putting them together is magical and powerful!

I have a great idea! I came up with this about a week ago and for some reason it just occurred to me that this is my replacement vision board (since I haven’t been the biggest fan of the traditional vision boards for whatever reason). I had this realization when I first started this “experiment” that manifesting is like being on a scavenger hunt, that what we’re manifesting is already here, we just need to find it. And often, like scavenger hunts there are clues leading us to our treasures. So since everything we want is already here we just have to be on the lookout for it
and then we’ll find it. It might not be where we were expecting it but it is there somewhere (like scavenger hunts). And by looking at it that way we demonstrate our faith in this (because no one doubts that they can’t find an item on a scavenger hunt; it’s just figuring out where to find it) and thus, speed up the process. So today, when I put it all together, that this scavenger hunt I created in my mind can also be a vision board I made an excel spreadsheet in my favorite font and beautiful colors with three columns: Item, Clues, Location. To start with just fill in everything you want to be, do, and have under the Item column, then as you find clues/guidance list that under the Clues column, and finally when you’ve found it list the end result under the Location column. When I print it I’m going to find a picture that represents each thing and paste them on there. This has gotten me really excited since I love playing games and now I’m on one big, life long scavenger hunt.

Well, this explains why my vision board from the Jan. before last was falling off of the wall today (and it’s been there for a long time!). Guess I’d better run and take a look at what I’ve manifested!!…
I currently have 2 image journals that I fill with photos of beautiful, inspiring women and beautiful things (new kitchen, homes, clothes, etc.) I would love to own. It is a great joy to create them, and a joy to look through them every week or so.
I have had 3 very specific manifestations – but these were not from vision boards – just things floating around in my mind:
On my son’s birthday, I went on a walk and had the impulse to make him a toy canoe out of birch bark. Later that day, a birch bark (painted) canoe was out for sale on the way home from our trip to lunch – I bought it – it was a gift from the universe (and the seller offered to sell it for $50 less than he was asking!)
When we moved into our house, I pictured a long, wooden bookshelf that I wanted to have in the kids’ room. On an impulse, I drove to the end of the road to check out a garage/moving sale. There, waiting for me was the exact bookshelf I had imagined. WOW!
I had been thinking about purchasing a flowing skirt that was very flattering, maybe a wrap around – but didn’t fill in the details mentally (color, etc.), so I was pleasantly surprised when my eye fell on a lovely sand colored cotton skirt with ties on one side that wrap around and hang down in a gorgeous Grecian style. Never seen one like it before, but it’s the most beautiful thing I own
This is sooooo much FUN!

I just read a blog that Sahila wrote last year. She wrote so beautifully and expressed “me” in her writing. I wish she was here this year. I have read some of her other blogs that have also expressed some of my issues – they’ve really gotten me thinking.
Before comments on visualization boards I want to share a realization I had yesterday about some very limited thinking and living, and get some feedback from anyone (help).
After having the “rug pulled out from under me” a year and a half ago; losing my apartment, my car and business, as a senior citizen, with Social Security as my only income, I moved into senior subsidized housing, I applied for food stamps and of course I am on Medicare and Medicaid (I’m SO healthy – Medicare has a great deal with me). I realize that what I’ve done is to put myseslf in a position where I feel “safe”; taken care of; almost like hiding out; not wanting to expose myself to the harshness of making money or compeating with others to “get ahead” – all of the above and more……and yesterday it just hit me like a ton of bricks! I realized what I’d done to myself – painted myself into a poverty consciousness corner and therefore I expect poverty!” (poverty and “lack” have been a family…..tradition). This is why I’m not experiencing prosperity. I have thought myself safe and comfortable but this is what I’ve done and it isn’t what I want. I have always been an outgoing person. I’ve worked since I was 14 and much of my working life I’ve done very creative things that I’ve loved – I’ve always been “out there”. Though I’m 70 I feel my attitude is more like 55. But now I’m hiding out.
I think I need to go back to day one of the Prosperity Experiment and keep going back until I truly “get this”. I know I’m still scared of putting myself out there and having the rug pulled out again (so to speak). I may be a “senior” but I do also believe (on some level) that we can always change our thinking and therefore change our lives and I want to do that! It now seems to me that in the past I have “intellectualized” the process of creating prosperity – but not lived it………..yet. I am happy to have realized what I’ve done here and am so grateful to be participating in the experiment. Now that I realize this position I’ve put myself in – well, maybe it’s opened a door.
As to visualization boards; I love them – I have many and they are all different – lol. Guess I need to focus there too -What do I want?. Back to day one; isn’t that where we were to make a list of what we wanted and why?
Thank you for reading this. I love to read all the blogs.
Love to you all

Hello Lerie,

greetings from Durban, good to see a fellow SA playign the game !

Vision Boards work for me, some things come quickly: I once put a cutting of a car on it and within 6 month I had that car – brand new! Or I placed a pic of a guy with a horse on it and within a couple of weeks I met a man who owned a couple of horses….

Other things have not manifested yet and I have found that (in my case) I must not be too quick with changing the pictures. I normally do a new one at the beginning of each year and that does not seem to work for me….I need to stick with the images even if not manifested yet…

Anybody out there had a similar experience?

Blessings
Sabine

I made a vision board several years ago and posted it inside my armoire, where I’d see it every day when I got dressed. t first I would look at it and smile and make adjustments, if needed. However, gradually it became like wallpaper. I rarely noticed it. Reading what John wrote I realized that what I got was the exact opposite of what John got. My life got smaller and less abundant, certainly in the money area.
Yesterday I began recreating my vision board. What occured to me today is that clearly John had internalized his vision and it remained in his minds eye, even though it was out of sight for several years, while mine gradually became a “reminder” of what I didn’t have and eventually ignored or avoided.
Today, as I add to my vision board, I will say the “Thank you” prayer and think of and see this vision as complete and already here. I will imbue it with love rather than anxiety, gratitude rather than disappointment. It will be a portal to my desires — my abundant life.

Yea Sahila….

Breaking through is a beautiful thing! Thanks for sharing
with us – openly…so we may more clearly recognize our
transitions with more understanding and joy! AND ALIGNING
OURSELVES -ENERGY AND ACTION – WHAT A WONDERFUL DELITE…
Thanks for being part of this growth cycle!

WHEN YOU WRITE ABOUT USING YOUR VISION BOARD TO CREATE:
“representations of states of being about the quality of YOUR
life, rather than the quantity of things IN YOUR life…”. YOU SAID:

“I can see that there is a balance needed there…The Source is expansive and abundant – it doesnt limit itself to basics – so why would I limit myself to poverty or JUST basics?”

While I cannot address that answer for you, I can share my experiences for your observation and amusement.

I’ve been observing an illusion of limited abundance for decades through all of its’ facets. I’ve always focused on giving to others, making it somehow “against my personal religion” to be given to…I believed I never needed to be the recepient, that others had greater needs.

I have not accepted graciously any of the abundance I have been the conduit to pass on to others. I became my own limiter. And I justified it by envisioning myself blessed to be the messenger carrying abundance to others. Silly me…that ends now.

I am worthy of being a destination for abundance, not simply a conduit. I graciously receive and gratefully accept all the abundance coming to me for my highest and best good…

And so it is! Thanks for sharing your growth ya’ll !!

Thank you Melany for voicing Sahila again —
I so resonated with Sahila and also you — the limiting of myself — giving away the abundance that has been given to me. And I see that it is because of not believing that I am worthy and limiting myself —

I too am worthy of being a destination for abundance and ease.. both in abundance !! I shall joyfully receive and accept all the abundance coming to me !!

Thank you all in this game and the Universe

And OH! I too have played with vision boards for years — my first one was Wow ! over 15 years ago..
My most recent one had a camera on it and then at Christmas one of the gifts that I received was that camera…

I have my vision boards posted on my wall here in the computer room so I can see them each time I am in here. The vision boards I made a year ago have not come into physical manifestation, what has been happening for me is the releasing of all the crap that is in the way of those things physically manifesting. I know that I have done much spiritual work this year through therapy, PPP, life coaching, EFT, chakra clearings and more to release all the negative beliefs and patterns that stop those desires from becoming reality. Before I might have been upset that they haven’t manifested but I am at peace knowing that I had much inner work to do first. I know I am on my way.

I have a history of doing vision boards, since I was a kid really not even knowing exactly what I was doing I just like making collages of a combination of the things I was greatful for, with inspiring words of aspiration combined with objects of my desire. Today I do them with a more focused intent and find them most effective when I do them with passion and then forget about them. I think its the non attachment that is the key factor, and if I put it away knowing its already done it comes much quicker than I would ever guess.

I am now seeing wonderful results from this process. I have manifested my new home and new clients. I am seeing some fun results. Now time for manifesting my new office.