Your attitude shapes your life
Visioning draws your unfulfilled needs and desires to conscious awareness. As you thoughtfully write out the details of your vision, you begin to see what you truly want. This vision, then, can become a map to follow for the next phase of your life journey.
You have the right, the power, and the resources to create whatever you want. Whether you exercise that right is your choice. To do so, allow yourself to visualize what you want, uncensored by restrictions and conditioning from your past. For ultimate success, it is essential to believe in your vision and to believe in yourself. As you do, your vision takes on a life of its own and, in turn, can empower you.
To make change, support yourself through a wise use of available resources. You're aware of some, but perhaps not others. Either way, it's important to trust that this support already exists somewhere. Support can be things, money, and people. It's just a matter of knowing what resources you need and finding them or attracting them to you. Similarly, you have internal resources such as wisdom, skills, perseverance, and more. Some you can access, whereas others are hidden beneath your self-limiting perceptions and coping strategies.
In some visions you will consider what stops you from living the way you want. Identifying these barriers and taking steps to address them will transmute negative energy (contraction) into positive energy (expansion) and free up withheld energy. To do so, you will identify the fears, resistance, and self-limiting patterns that inhibit your clarity, decision-making, and creativity, and determine how to change them.
The rewards of visioning are multidimensional
Self-awareness, self-management, enhanced skill, and empowerment - all indispensable components of success. Self-awareness helps you transform limitation. Self-management facilitates your ability to weave your vision into your everyday life. Skill development speaks for itself. And empowerment sets you free to do it all. When you direct yourself toward what you want, small changes begin producing major shifts.
Suggestions
• Do a vision whenever you want to make major life change or when you want to make decisions about smaller changes.
• Find a place where you will be uninterrupted for ample time. But if you are interrupted, be sure to familiarize yourself with your responses when you return to the activity.
• Imagine in broad pictures and relevant details, and think or write in complete sentences. And have fun!
• All visions are written as though you are listening to someone facilitate you. To best serve your current needs, I suggest three options:
1) Use it as a written process, closing your eyes and relaxing so you
can free your feelings and imagination. This way you “think” with
your heart as well as your mind.
2) Ask someone with a soothing voice to read it slowly to you.
3) Make a tape for yourself by slowly reading the process into your
tape recorder. Then relax, listen to it and follow the directions. Put
it on pause when you want time to reflect.
• If your choose a closed-eye process, remember to have paper and pen available for when you are finished.
• At the end of most visions are three self-reflective questions that help you to reflect on your experience, what you learned, what you resisted and what you gained. Taking time to write out your responses to these will help you gain even more from the activity.
• The three categories of activities are for:
1) Individuals
2) Dyad Conversations
3) Groups
• Some of the visions that are written for individuals or dyads can also be facilitated in groups, then followed with group conversation. Likewise, the reflective visions of the dyad and group activities can be used by individuals alone.
• Check back from time to time because more activities will be added.
Take a look at a Visioning Sample
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