Envisioning Your Lean & Healthy Future

As many of you know I have been using Vision Boards as a personal development tool for myself as well recommending it to you for years.   It is a powerful technique that can help clarify your goals, priorities and dreams and can perhaps reveal a strategy on how to accomplish them. Vision boards are now being used increasingly in corporate and business environments for team building and leadership development as well. This magical tool can help you engage your imagination, creativity and the child within.

By using images and words found in magazines you create a collage-like picture filled with things that appeal to you. You can gain better insight as to what kind of future you’d like to have and what’s important to you.  These images can often inspire certain feelings, giving you the essence of what you want to create – for example, maybe you want more quiet time so you pick a picture of a beach scene, or you want more freedom so you pick a picture of a plane or an eagle in flight.  You can choose whatever you like – what’s important is that it means something to you.

When putting your Vision Board together, try not to analyze or think too much about the images you’ve chosen.  Don’t try to be perfect – just allow your right brain – your creative and imaginative side – to have free rein.  By doing this, you are letting your playful and uncensored self tell you not only your most obvious wishes, in visual form, but perhaps some inner yearnings you didn’t even know you had…

I enjoy incorporating Vision Boards into my sessions.  When helping you with your health and wellness, I often recommend this fun and powerful tool to help you visualize what you want.   I often work with many who want to lose weight, the Vision Board process helps to envision that future self – how you’d like to look and feel.  Even after losing weight, this tool can help identify a new leaner self image versus an older outdated image that is no longer applicable. Even when you are stuck, this process can often provide an authentic solution to a problem.  The psychological healing benefit of the Vision Board process is immense.  It can take you on an inner journey and often gives you a wonderfully creative roadmap.

Vision Boards actually help you access another deeper sense of what’s possible.  Often when you see it and feel it – that “it” can often be created in your life. For example, I had a client who was a film producer. She started working on her Board and saw herself in a suit, executive office and being surrounded by co-workers.  She was surprised these images came to her – as her life as an Independent Film Producer was nothing like this.  It excited her though and 6 months later she found herself working in the financial industry and you guessed it wearing a suit, and all the rest.  So you never know what your Vision Board work will reveal and where it will lead you.

Don’t stop envisioning what you want whether it’s a leaner body, seeing yourself waltzing into that holiday party perhaps – all eyes on you – looking and feeling fantastic.  Go ahead – find the image in that magazine on the coffee table right now– HAVE FUN!

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