Manifestation Demystified: The Truth About Why Vision Boards May Not Work
6 Secrets to Manifesting with Vision Boards that Actually Work
Have you ever wanted to find an easier way to bring your desires into manifestation, but weren’t quite sure how to do it? Perhaps you’ve made countless vision boards, or repeatedly set intentions, only to fall short every time. Confused and befuddled, you're likely discouraged by the fact that it feels like there’s this big secret that you’re not privy.
On all accounts, you’ve persistently done the work, but despite your best intentions, you’ve yet to experience any tangible results. Or just maybe you’re completely at your witts end.
Next thing you know you’re likely ready to abandon all efforts to get it right. Searching for some semblance of clarity, you’ve likely resolved yourself to the notion that just maybe this practice isn’t for you.
Luckily, there is good news.
Contrary to popular belief, manifestation as well as every other supportive practice is accessible to all who seek it. This post will explore six secrets to manifesting with vision boards that actually work.
Vision Boarding Sessions: A Likely Practice to Manifestation
As a collective, we all have a prevailing desire to experience love, joy, and live life more abundantly. Only sometimes despite our best intentions, life tends to derail our most concerted efforts. Interestingly, there have been and continues to be many accessible tools and practices for manifestation at our disposal. In recent years, it has become a household name as it has evolved into one of the most widely embraced and accepted practices. Regardless of religious affiliation, personal values, beliefs, or the like, practically everyone is open and willing to give it a try. However, only having an open willingness to engage in the practice is merely just the beginning.
In anticipation of the dawn of each incoming new year, individuals often come together in the community to commune, share, vision, and curate boards that visually embody the highest and best for their lives. Interestingly, vision boards have been and continues to be one of the most widely accepted and used practices. In essence, vision board sessions hold space for individuals to gain clarity on their desires.
After which you often end up with a meticulously curated piece of art that captures the essence of what you seek to materialize. In every aspect, visioning sessions are an enlivening practice that allows you to dream, share, and hold each other accountable for your intentions. However, the outcome does always pan out the way you anticipated.
Vision Boarding: The Truth About Why You May Have Trouble Manifesting
Ask just about anyone how to tap into manifestation using a vision board, and most will profess its accessibility and ease of use. At its best, it’s a fun experience that brings individuals together in community. However in most instances that is where the communal effort begins and ends. In other words, grand opening and closing. Simply setting your intentions by meticulously curating an artistic collage of images that captures your deepest desires, is but an initial starting point. Beyond desire, lies the many complexities of life that can threaten, and often succeed to derail your best intentions.
At its best, vision board sessions are a community practice that provides space for you to feel held and supported. Only in most circles, this practice is often a one-off. In other words, it’s likely a practice that’s a one and done, meaning it’s most often something that’s done and forgotten, only to be revisited at your convenience. In this day and age, with all of our many obligations, and responsibilities, and distractions, time is often something that is in short supply.
Outwardly the road to the manifestation appears as if it literally couldn’t get any easier. Similar to most things that appear too good to be true, there’s definitely more to this practice than meets the eye. Merely stating your desired intention and meticulously curating a vision board that reflects a mental picture of your imagined reality, is but the first step in a process that requires you to put the work on a daily basis. Likewise, many often struggle to actualize their desires in spite of having a vision board, often leaving many to wonder where things went awry.
Like the masses, I too am no stranger to unmanifest desires. A number of years ago, when I was first introduced to manifestation, it was beyond anything that I had ever experienced. Initially, I longed to learn as much as I possibly could, as I proceeded to dive headfirst to completely immerse myself into the practice. After all, it merged a few of some of my favorite things, photography, creativity, and artistic expression. What was there not to love. I was all in. For weeks I collected every piece of imagery, and magazine, that embodied exactly what I was seeking to bring to fruition.
To my delight, it came out better than I could’ve imagined. Visually it was the epitome of the very things I desired. In every sense of the word, the finished product was a piece of art that literally brought me joy every time I laid my eyes upon it. I proudly displayed it near my bed, where I could easily behold its beauty from the moment I opened my eyes. For the first couple of weeks, it was a no-brainer, as a quick gaze was enough to elicit a feeling of enthusiasm at the mere promise of actualizing my desires. In the weeks to months that followed, I increasingly began to lose focus. Suddenly what took a matter of seconds to reignite the vision, had now evolved into just a pretty collage of magazine clippings.
Somewhere along the way, I became dissuaded by the mere idocinsrities and complexities, of life that often made my intentions seem a little far-fetched and inaccessible. The next thing you know, my efforts had completely fallen by the waist side, as my intentions were now a distant memory of desires that were now too far out of reach to even seem possible. I was at a complete loss, as I believed I did everything I was supposed to do.
Only here I was, right back in the same place where I started. I tried to make sense of it to no avail. Determined and persistent, I was not going to give up that easily. For the next few years, I yet again went through the motions repeating the process without success. Interestingly, I knew there had to be a better way.
The Power of Assumption holds the key to Manifestation
“Assume you are what you want to be. Walk in the assumption and it will harden into fact.”
—Neville Goddard
Beyond anything, you could willfully intend, hope for, or desire, manifestation materializes through the power of assuming the feeling of the desire fulfilled. Everything happens to you as you believe. Therefore, if you walk in the assumption that you already possess the very qualities that you are seeking to bring to fruition, it supports you to co-create with the universe to materialize it into fact. In order to truly change your outer world, you must first change your consciousness. As within so without.
Meaning change doesn’t emanate from our outer to the inner world. Much like relationships with friends, family, co-workers, and associates, change cannot be initiated from an external source. No matter how much we may try to persuade ourselves to believe that we can change anyone outside of ourselves, the fact remains that it absolutely cannot be done until an individual makes a conscious decision to affect change.
The first essential step to change is having an unwavering intense desire to be transformed. After which, you must tap into the very feeling of having the desire fulfilled. In other words, access your imagination to tap into the feeling of your future dream being a present fact. Release all attachments to the notion that you can simply tap into your imagination at your leisure. True change lies at the intersection of persistent effort and consistency. Meaning you can’t just set your vision and intention and forget it. You must deliberately carve out time to sit in the silence to envision yourself living in your desired state. Tap into how it looks, feels, and smells. What impact does it have on your day to day life? How does it require you to make space to allow for you to thrive in this new reality. In fact, the more you tap into this practice the faster you co-create with the universe to make your dominant feeling a reality.
In the case of vision boards, use a visual representation as a tool to support you to access the feeling of the desire fulfilled. Essentially by having it close at hand it provides you with a visual that aids you to leverage your imagination. Regardless of whether you opt to use your imagination or a vision board, the process remains the same, tap into the feeling of the fulfilled desire as often as possible.
Six Secrets to Manifest with Vision Boards that Actually Work
1. Journey Within
We are all an individualized expression of the Divine. Meaning everything we could ever, wish, hope for, or desire, is already within. Being that we are already loaded and encoded with everything we could possibly need to thrive in this life, we simply need to take the time to pause to withdraw our attention away from distractions, and journey within to remember who we really are.
Going within reconnects us with Source. Herein lies endless opportunities to glean insights, revelations, and epiphanies that reconnect us with our purpose.
2. Journaling
Every time you intentionally designate time to consistently drop into mediation practice, it reconnects you with Source giving you access to receive downloads, and insights that hold the key to your growth and evolution. After which it’s important to access your preferred modality to document your experience. Be it writing, voice recording, or any other preferred medium, use the best option that offers you comfort and ease.
3. Get Clear on Your Desires
Designate time to review your downloads, and insights, to gain clarity on what you truly want. Take time to go deeper, and explore the realms of your desires to clearly discern your deepest intentions. Go beyond the superficial layers of materialism and down into the underlying desires that connect with your purpose.
As a starting point, consider exploring and journaling the very people, experiences, events, practices, and acts of service that bring you joy. Often this holds the key to the very desires that lie beneath the realms of what society says is possible. Give yourself permission to disconnect from any limitations that restrict you from walking in your desired assumption.
4. Tap into Your Imagination
Our imaginations are one of the most powerful faculties that we have to transform our reality. As young children, we are encouraged to access and leverage our imaginations to explore our deepest desires. However, somewhere along the way, we reach an age where accessing the imaginal realm is discouraged.
Give yourself permission to explore playing with your imagination, by assuming and embodying the feeling of already living in the reality you seek. Like most things, manifestation practice requires effort and consistency. In fact, the more you practice living in the feeling the faster you co-create with the universe for it to come into fruition.
5. The Feeling is the Secret
Intellectual learning often requires us to memorize and recite key concepts and facts to get the gist of it. However, manifestation taps into a completely different realm, which leverages the quantum field. Holding the frequency of our desires fulfilled creates a frequency that matches the very feeling we’d experience if it were actually true. Therefore, supporting us to co-create with the universe to usher it into fruition.
6. Consistency is key
There is no such thing as too much when it comes to manifestation. Whether you create a vision board or repetitively assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled, the process is all the same. Repetition, repetition, repetition. The more you rest in the feeling of your desired reality the soon it materializes.