Creating a Vision Board of Your Goals

“Visual Mapping of a Desired Reality as a Series of Goals”

Creating a vision board made out of a collage of pictures that represent goals as a reality you wish to accomplish, is one of the most effective ways to achieve your goals. Many of us have heard that any goal that’s written down has a greater chance of being actualized than one that’s not. And while this is true, the way the mind naturally creates experiences is through imagining them as an internal representation that represent a particular type of experience. Our subconscious mind, which is the part of our mind directly correlated with our material world, doesn’t think in words like our conscious mind does, it thinks in pictures and images which are symbolic and represent an experience of some kind. By creating a pictorial vision that represent goals we want to achieve, we form an internal representation that serves as a metaphorical possibility, which makes it believable, while giving us a mental template for perceiving it outwardly and acting it out. Psychologically speaking, we can only do what we can first imagine. We are only capable of behaviors that we can see ourselves doing. Imagining an idea is a prerequisite for creating it as an outer experience.

When we form a sensory reality of a goal as if it’s real and already happening, we give the subconscious mind (responsible for all behaviors) a program as a form of virtual memory which it uses in place of actual memory and acts to connect us with the elements and building blocks necessary for attaining in everything around us. When we envision a reality, we’re shaping a thematic pattern as a request that says . . . give me more of this. We program our own mind to seek it out by recognizing what’s of the same nature in our environment, forming a connection with it mentally, and using it to create a similar type of experience. It’s not the image itself as an actual reality that forms the mental program, it’s the experience attained through that reality that serves as the program. At the same time, when envisioning a desired reality, we sense ourselves within it, having an experience of it, and we identify with our own experience. This not only hones our vibratory frequency to that reality as a state-of-mind, but also programs the mind to seek it out through a form of resonance. It magnetizes the idea internally as a guidance system that moves us towards its fulfillment, and draws the elements of its fulfillment to us.

Anytime we create an internal reality around an idea, we form a dynamic series of associations to that idea as a variety of possibilities for experiencing it. All ideas, like the mind creating them, are archetypal and thematic in nature and represent an infinite number of possibilities for producing the same type of reality that results in a particular type of experience. The numerous possibilities inherent in an idea allows us to recognize any ideas of a similar nature, though they may appear different than we imagined, which can spawn a series of correlating ideas as coincidences, which, when followed or investigated, form a pathway for achieving our goals. You want to vary how you imagine a goal as a reality to ensure that you don’t get stuck on only one possibility for how it shows up. You want to release any attachments you have to needing it to be something specific, and concentrate instead on the feeling the idea represents, while allowing a chain-of-associated ideas to spontaneously arise out of it as possibilities for the same thing. Any formulated experience is based on the feeling it represents and has to come by way of whatever is available in your immediate environment as a way of manifesting in your everyday life. How it shows up will be based on your circumstances and the elements in near proximity to you that are of the same nature and can be used to co-create the same type of experience. Though it may vary in appearance, the feeling it gives you will be the same. If you get set on it needing to show up or appear in a specific way, you may miss it when it actually comes as a variation.

When setting a goal of any kind, notice the feeling associated with the goal, what the goal represents in terms of the type of experience it will give you, and then allow realities as possibilities to naturally emerge as a free-flowing chain of association that amplifies the feeling by creating more of it. Then, when the feeling is amplified, become aware of how it feels in your body, concentrate on it and seat it. This feeling as a distinct sensation in your body is not only your beacon, but also your homing device. It’s your means of recognizing in your environment what’s of the same nature and acts to stimulate you with that same feeling, which will lend itself naturally to co-create experiences that will express and give you more of that same feeling. The feeling (vibratory frequency) is the common denominator. The inner realities as images that invoke specific feelings are simply potentials of that feeling which will help you recognize the idea in it’s various forms and clothed in many different ways, making it appear different. An internal feeling creates a certain type of experience as a living reality in the external world.

As a general rule, whatever your vision is as a goal of some kind, should never involve other people, or require them to be apart of it in order to manifest it as a reality. The accomplishment of all goals should lie exclusively within your power to create. Because a goal of any kind ultimately represents a desired experience of some sort created through a feeling, if you dream of having a certain type of experience with a specific person, the true reality as an experience may be quite different than you imagined. If they don’t have the same type of goals and desires as you do, they’re not of the same vibration and won’t serve to fulfill your desire. You won’t be able to attract them with your vision, and you’ll have to try and make it work instead. They won’t have a role in acting out the same type of reality with you. Instead, concentrate fully on the feelings of the experience desired, and be as open as possible to whatever form it may come in. Release attachments to needing it to show up in only one form, and be open to completely new and often surprising alternatives.

To form a vision board, create an over-all plan for the coming year, and break that plan down into a series of goals as a step-by-step process necessary to create the over-all goal as a desired reality. Imagine the goals as experiences, and what image symbolizes or represents it, or what words or sayings are associated with it. Find pictures, words, sayings, or objects that symbolize all the goals necessary to create the ultimate outcome, and arrange them in an artistic and pleasing way on a piece of poster board or foam core. Then use it as a visual meditation, by imaging the ideas associated with the pictures, or by forming feelings and visions from the words and sayings. Whatever is on your board acts as the stimulus for a series of realities around the actualization of your goal as if you are experiencing it. As you meditate, form and associate very positive emotions around your vision. Fall in love with it, and make it an enjoyable experience. As you imagine it as real and happening, stimulating very positive emotions in response to it, infuse it with love and a deep sense of gratitude and give thanks to the Universe for making it possible. Make this a regular, if not daily practice.

Dr. Linda Gadbois

Personal Trainer and Coach for Personal Transformation and Self-Mastery