What if the magic of the Intuitive Vision Board requires you to stop doing what’s expected of you and start doing what’s best for you instead, will you do it?
For the money
Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love renown, talks about our universal struggle to live authentically, in her next best-selling book Big Magic. How challenging it is for us to find the courage and focus to live the life we’re born to in the limited time we have. We are so easily distracted on route.
It’s disappointing to hear this. However, in a curious way, the Covid endemic has changed the way our lives are structured in situations that were hitherto intransigent. More of us are working from home, for example, as a normal part of the working week.
Like the Berlin Wall, I for one am encouraged by this sudden falling away and opening up. It makes me even more committed to helping people discover how to climb out of their narrow closet and create alternative, more supportive ways of living.
Inside your own face
How many people do you see who are fearless in attending to what they value the most? I encountered a few during my Covid sabbatical in the southwest corner of England, Cornwall. This is not where the wealth lies in the UK. But those born and raised Cornish will do all it takes to remain living on their piece of turf in this beautiful part of the country. Their determination, coupled with need, breeds focus and resourcefulness.
How challenging it is for the rest to do this when outside pressures convince us otherwise and social media derails our time better spent. I’ve wrestled with this in the past. The temptation to stick with the status quo will either overwhelm you, silence you or enable you to grow stronger, more resilient, and determined to do it your way.
There has never been a more important time like the moment to choose to live inside your own face. Now is the time to play the unique and beautiful hand life has dealt you. So much time is wasted in modelling our lives on other peoples’ deemed to be more gorgeous and exciting than our own. The truth of our fulfilment lies within our own blueprint, which holds buckets more fascination and promise.
Most people reading this are wealthier, privileged and suffering far less in comparison to many of our human counterparts. You’d think this would afford us more choice not less. Yet somehow the plethora of choice, the extent of opportunities open to us, confuses and distracts us. We find ourselves backing the wrong horse when we would do better riding our own. And so it is a lifetime can go galloping by all too quickly.
Follow your inner guidance
Tune into what’s calling you – and what your point of focus should be by making an Intuitive Vision Board.
An Intuitive Vision Board is a collage that anyone without an art degree can create. Composed of pictures taken from magazines and arranged on a large piece of mount board, it tells an important story. The magic however lies in the process and how the images are chosen.
Led astray by an over-busy lifestyle and media distractions, it’s too easy to become disconnected from the small voice within (aka your inner guidance). We forget what brings you joy and overlook what truly enriches you. Making an Intuitive Vision Board can pull you up short by showing you what to embrace that stewards your life towards fulfilment. Not by thinking about it but intuiting it.
The magic of the Intuitive Vision Board
Women, in particular, can be pulled in conflicting directions. We often feel we don’t have the right to what we need until we’ve satisfied the needs of those dependent on us. I’m not advocating selfishness as an alternative. I’m advocating getting in touch with your inner guidance to find out what you can do to improve the balance. Where our attention goes defines our life so best we are mindful of this as we forge ahead.
Stay alert to the signs of life that wants to be lived through you. Subtle cues can easily be missed when our days are too busy and full of content. Create the time to retreat inside and pay attention to what wants to happen next, without determining this in advance. Making an Intuitive Vision Board is a full-proof way of highlighting next steps without over-planning.
To cultivate this receptive mode of visioning will require you to slow down and make a shift from beta to alpha brainwave state. Inklings, impressions, hunches hovering below the surface of the everyday mind will then magically appear on your Intuitive Vision Board. Your attention will be redirected and you’ll be stirred into new courses of action. It’s then that you’ll see the magic happen.
Deciding in advance what the big life picture should look like and pursuing it doggedly, is not visioning. At best it’s a creative visualisation. The logical left-brain at work, conjures up a ‘wish list’ of ideas and then seeks images to represent them pictorially.
How do we encourage Big Magic? Elizabeth Gilbert advocates we engage our intuitive right-brain and dialogue with super-conscious intelligence for the deeper guidance and insights we seek.
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