(Photo Copyright Terrah Lozano ‘Stone Road’ Gocek, Turkey)
In this article which is organized in three parts, I discuss the steps in creating a vision binder, intention list, and a regular manifestation practice to create the life you want.
Part 1: The process of creating the Vision Binder.
One of the greatest things you can do to imagine and create your ideal life is to create a vision board (or actually a vision binder as I will discuss!).
A vision board is essentially a canvas of images that remind you of the life you want for yourself. We first learned about this from watching The Secret and hearing John Assaraf talk about the importance of visualization.
Many great teachers explain how to do this. They tell you to create a large board you can look at and meditate to often that contains visual images of ideas and/or objects you want or desire in your life.
This all makes sense in theory but for us there were a couple logistical problems.
Problem #1
You are supposed to keep your desires to yourself or, at most, to yourself and your close partner/husband/friend. If you show your visions to others your ego becomes involved and that is exactly what you want to avoid. Having your ego involved means your goals are no longer about what you truly want; it becomes what you want to show other people you are or have.
For us, this meant that anytime we had people over (which we like to do often) we had to take our vision boards off the wall. To make matters worse we had two cork boards each, so four total (we have a big vision, lol). This was very cumbersome and you feel that you are blocking your visions by turning them backwards to hide them from others (and yourself).
This could be different if you have an extremely private bedroom in which there is no way anyone other than yourself and your partner would walk into your bedroom.
However, there are still exceptions to when people would still have to enter your bedroom such as maintenance people or friends/relatives that like tours of your home.
Problem #2
Once vision boards are filled they are filled and you are out of space, unless of course you add another board.
, “Imagine yourself driving from LA to NY at night. How would you do it? You would have your lights on and the road would be unfolding 200 yards at a time.”
. Subsequently finding this book after feeling this intuition could merely be called a coincidence. I don’t believe it was a coincidence because I believe everything happens for a reason. (And if you are reading this now and something pops out at you, will you take it as a coincidence and brush it off like Scrooge and say, “Bah Hum Bug”? or will you embrace your intuition and act?)
