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Visualization and intuitive dream boards empower you by showing you your true potential for creating a meaningful, satisfying, and uniquely successful life.
You can keep thinking about your dreams and goals for years and yet struggle to make them happen. Why? Because you’re stuck in your head! You need to internalize your dreams in a way that allows you to really believe you can make them happen.
Be a dream director. Visualization is a powerful success tool that enables you to practice “directing” the life of your dreams. Through visualization, you move out of “left-brain” thinking mode and into your “right-brain” creativity mode. That’s where the magic happens.
Try this: Visualize a specific “scene-of-success” each night before you go to bed for a month and watch what happens. You might visualize an important meeting going well or envision customers finding your website and buying. I did this prior to a big important speaking engagement. I pictured the welcoming applause, the smooth introduction into my presentation, and experienced how comfortable and exhilarated I felt up on stage. The result? A reality exactly as I had “pictured” it in my mind! This is no fluke. Athletes have been using this kind of visual rehearsal-for-success for decades. Visualization enables your mind, body, and emotions to pre-live the experience you desire. And that makes it much easier for you to manifest the outcome into reality.
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Practice intuitive visioning. If you’re anything like me, you love the way your mind works…until it makes you crazy! The truth is that our ego-mind is very good at circular thinking. We start with a fascinating idea or an intriguing concept and end up circling back to our same worries, doubts, and fears. Luckily, there’s a way past conflicting mental messages – through your intuition.
Try this: Create an intuitive dream board. Just pay attention to pictures and words that catch your attention. Don’t worry about why you’re attracted to them. Collect visuals over a period of a few weeks or do it in one sitting. Then create a collage. Don’t try to manipulate where the pictures go; try to sense where they want to be, like pieces to a puzzle. Only a select number of visuals will want to be on any one dream board. Then see what you’ve created. Ask yourself: “What does this visual tell me?” Talk it through with a friend or take notes about any thoughts or insights that arise. If you’re not used to actively listening to your intuition, this may feel uncomfortable at first. Look at your board each day for a month and just wonder with curiosity: “What else can I know?” Inevitably, new insights will come to you that will be helpful to understanding yourself, your life path, and what you can do to move ahead.
About the Author: Melissa Wadsworth is a self-help author, inspirational speaker, and creative personal- growth visionary. She is passionate about helping clients go from Blocked to Brilliant!™ so they can achieve their dreams. sign up for her “What You Notice Matters!™” newsletter at www.melissawadsworth.com.
