Dec 03 2008
Law Of Attraction: Part 2: The Vision Board
Part 2: Law Of Attraction: The Vision Board
First off, the whole Law of Attraction principles or concepts are by no means new, and actually date back centuries, yet the ideas seemed to have resurfaced again by several “New Thought” writers during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many books were written by such authors as Genevieve Behrend (Your Invisible Power, 1921), Wallace D. Wattles (The Science of Getting Rich, 1910), Madam Blavatsky (Elena Petrovna Gan, August 12,1831- May 8, 1891)…the list is endless. You also had the more esoteric mystery schools, such as The Rosicrucians, and even the Unity School of Christianity, founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889, which all had their basis on “New Thought” or what would now be termed “New Age” concepts, in other words how powerful the mind can be to manifest whatever it is you want in life.
The concepts of Law of Attraction came and went but were never quite forgotten. They seemed to re-emerge again in popularity during the late 1970s and early 1980s with the popular bestselling books such as Creative Visualization: Us The Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life, by Shakti Gawain, and Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life. Then the ideas seemed to have gone dormant again until of course the popularity of the book and DVD The Secret.
One of the key elements to all the principles of Law of Attraction that have been introduced over the centuries including the ideas brought forth in The Secret is visualization. That is to visualize in the mind’s eye what one wants in life, whether for good health, wealth, a loving relationship, success in business and so forth. Now while some people might be successful in truly seeing images in one’s mind, that is visualizing what we what using only mind power, most of us need a little help in that department, and here is where the Vision Board comes into the picture. In some cases what is now called the Vision Board was once called a Treasure Map.
What is a Vision Board? Simply put, it is a collage of images one cuts out and pastes on a large poster type board. And this can actually be a lot of fun to do. Take a large stack of magazines, and its important to get a nice variety of them, such as home decor, health, fashion and travel. Then, spend time cutting images out of those magazines that appeal to you and are representative of what you want in life. Is it a better, more healthful you? Then cut out an image of a healthy looking person smiling. Do you wish to take a cruise to Europe, then cut out a image of a luxury cruise liner and photos of England, France, Germany, whatever country you would like to visit. Do you dream of one day owning a Jaguar car? Cut an image out of such a car.
Nowadays one doesn’t even need a stack of magazines to help them create a Vision Board. Look around websites and if you see an image you like, save it to your photo library and print it up. Since you are doing this for your own private usage you won’t be infringing on a photographer’s or the magazine’s copyrights. Some of the best websites to hunt around for that dream luxury home is one I frequent, Unique Homes which does publish a magazine but now has images of luxury home for sale on their website. Do you wish and desire a new high tech digital camera? Go to the camera’s website and save the image of that camera you long for. Do you long for better fiances? Cut images of money out and also include that on your vision board.
The whole idea of the Vision Board is obvious. Once you have created it, and I suggest making several, place them where you can readily see them on a daily basis. Look at the images you have cut out, have those images soak in your mind of what you want in life. Place one near your bed, so the moment you wake up you see it. Place a smaller version on your refrigerator, place one near your computer desk, in other words…everywhere!
I’ve actually gone two steps further with the Vision Board concept, not just my poster board type ones. I did a composite of images saved from my computer, did a little tweaking at Photoshop, and created my own virtual Vision Board as my screensaver. So now, every time I turn on my computer, my virtual Vision Board is the first thing I see. The second was to put together a DVD from my iDVD function of my computer, filled it with images, positive words, and even added a soundtrack from a piece of music I love.
Whichever way you decide to create your Vision Board, it will be a great way for you to saturate your mind with the positive things you wish to manifest in life. Now you might be asking yourself? Does this really work? Well, first off, don’t expect whatever it is you desire to manifest presto overnight, it might take time. Am I a millionaire, do I have my luxury home and car? No, not yet, but I’m working on it .
But has it worked for me in other areas? A most affirmative YES.
As a personal note, I’ve only have had my own computer for a little over a year. Prior to that, I had to rely on the free usage of computers at libraries, or on occasion went to a Cyber Café. My earlier Vision Boards included images of a computer system. With the finances I had, there seemed to be no way I could ever acquire a computer system, not even the lowest priced Dell. Yet I kept creating Vision Boards with images of a complete computer system. Well, I can testify that Vision Boards do work. A means opened up to me in a way totally not expected and not only did I get my computer system (an iMac) but a film scanner as well, which I also needed to transform my thousands upon thousands of photographic images that were on either slides or negative and into the digital format.
I shall continue discussing Law of Attraction in further parts, especially touch on the pitfalls many will and might come up against once they decide to give these concepts a try.
