How to get the most out of your intuitive vision board and maintain your connection to it when you return to the hustle and bustle of everyday life
Think like a Greek
Once your Intuitive Vision Board is complete, you’ll want to sit with it from time to time to contemplate its wisdom. However, because the word ‘intuitive’ is in the title, you can only safely review your board when your intuitive head is screwed on!
When you made your Intuitive Vision Board, you were in an open, spacious, silent, non-thinking frame of mind. At your most receptive and intuitive, this allowed your ‘creative muse’ to work alongside you in making the board.
When you revisit your board, it’s important to have parked your busy, rational head beforehand, otherwise its deeper wisdom will elude you.
Your mind needs to be still and unruffled as in meditation – the similar state to that which you were in when you made your vision board. Because the rational mind simply won’t understand the language of intuition conveyed by the images. It needs to be translated.
The ancient Greeks understood this collaboration with their ‘daemon’ (muse) on a work or creative endeavour, which was what enabled them to achieve the highest levels of success and fulfilment. Therefore they consciously cultivated the right environment in which this could happen. Eudaimonia is the word they used to describe this collaboration, which loosely means ‘well-daemoned’.
Ask a friend
To help you make sense of your board you may feel inclined to share it with a friend, a coach, or therapist. However, if they are not versed in the language of the intuition, or attuned to ‘meta-intelligence’, they may attempt to read your vision board with their rational mind uppermost and inadvertently lead you down the wrong path.
This will stop you short of gaining the full wisdom of the board by closing you in on individual images rather than seeing them as part of a complete constellation, each image in significant relationship to the next. Only then can the additional layers of meaning reveal themselves.
A sure sign this is happening is when you are asked a closed question. Or, when your witness launches in and offers you an explanation as to what the images mean, from their own perspective, jumping to conclusions that fail to embrace the wider spectrum of possibility for you.
The perspective of the vision board creator always has primacy over anyone else’s perspective because you were the one who received the intuitive download, directly from source, straight from the muse.
Another person’s account of your board is more likely to be about them and the implications this has for their life, rather than yours.
An intuitive reader on the other hand, won’t decide for you. Instead they’ll be looking to explore with you the
- patterns that are present
- energetic vibration of the board
- repeating motifs
- direction of movement
- relationship between seemingly disparate images
- balance of elements
This is the value of the intuitive review of the vision board I offer to creators to follow up on the workshop.
Lose your mind
Since you’d dropped into a deep state of awareness when you made your board, the ideas contained within it can be likened to unformed plasma; potential that exists as bundles of energy in a non-physical form, yet complete in their entirety. It can be months before this invisible energy manifests and takes form.
It can seem at first as though nothing is happening and, all of a sudden, things start to shift existentially, and new ways of being fall into place. It’s up to you to notice when these intuitive promptings occur and to go with them, otherwise the potential that is available to you will remain unrealised.
The Intuitive Vision Board has a non-linear way of gathering the pieces together and creating a new configuration, for a new now. This is how innovation occurs. This is how breakthroughs happen. You can’t force the pace but allow manifestation to take place in its own time, when the moment is right.
Use will power
“Because you put the pictures on your vision board does it mean subconsciously you wanted these things to happen?”
This is a question I am asked sometimes. Logically, you might expect this to be true – and sometimes it is the case that your board reminds you of dreams you’ve bypassed and aspirations you’ve forgotten about – and it’s reminding you of these.
But this still doesn’t account for the images that don’t fall into these categories and mean nothing to you at all when they first appear on your vision board. Where do they come from and what do they mean?
These images are communications from the unconscious and superconscious levels of being. They are not about things your subconscious once knew and has forgotten but things which you have not considered or experienced before.
Once the unconscious has spoken, by making itself known on your board, you are more likely to be open to – and recognise the opportunities as they arise, which you might have dismissed before. If you hadn’t placed those mysterious images on your board would you have noticed them? Would these events have occurred – and would you have spotted them when they happened? I don’t think so.
Personal story
Once upon a time, as an unsupported single Mum, it was time to look for part-time work. I wasn’t sure where to start or what to look for that would suit me since I hadn’t been employed for 20 years.
By chance I went to a Tango lesson and was paired with a stranger. In the break, I found myself asking him whether he knew anyone that needed an extra hand. He listened to what skills I had to offer and, even though he hadn’t been looking for anyone, offered me a trial in his company of which he was the CEO.
Three years later I was still working for this international organisation called Ocean Float Rooms, who sold floatation rooms around the world. I loved the work and it turned out to be the perfect job for me as I rebuilt my self-esteem and ran it alongside the early years of my Intuitive Vision Board practice.
A few weeks into the job I glanced across at the vision board I’d created a few months earlier when my head was in a confusing muddle.
There, prominently on my board was a woman floating on her back in the middle of a lake, in a state of bliss. Surrounding her were three pictures of the ocean (a far cry from the gentle bays in Devon that I’d grown up in). And there was Daniel Craig emerging from the sea towards me… coming to my rescue!
That the company I was working for turned out to be called Ocean Float Rooms and the owner had the height and muscular body of Daniel Craig I felt was more than a coincidence. That I’d never heard of floatation tanks or floatation rooms before was another curiosity. But I was drawn to the image of the woman floating and I followed the thread of my intuition and never looked back.
You have the power already
The good news is this intuitive ability is latent in everyone. It’s an under-utilised resource few of us realise we have, or know how to access reliably, or use effectively. As with any muscle, the more you employ it the stronger it becomes. The more you come to trust your intuition, the more you can rely on the guidance received.
The Intuitive Vision Board is not a linear roadmap. Rather it’s the route map for an exciting journey you’re about to undertake that’s full of surprises, the consequences of which emerge as the journey progresses.
It is a gentle tool, both empowering and mind-blowing in equal measures. Unexpected magic and miracles do happen when we get out of our own way and receive our steer from a higher order.
Trust, patience and non-interference are the order of the day.
The genius inventor Albert Einstein was a master of abiding by his intuition and is quoted as saying:
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.”
To create a vision board of real merit our intuition needs to be there at the start for divine inspiration. To bring that intuitive vision into existence, we’ll need the rational mind also to create structure and run with it. We need to champion both capabilities to achieve success.
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