As the end of another year approaches, thoughts of the upcoming holidays may be taking up space in your mind. For the 4 Wild Women, we also tend to start focusing on what we want to create for our lives in the coming year. We do that in a variety of ways as outlined in the Toolkit tab on our website.
A popular method of consciously visualizing your best life is to do a vision board. When I ran Thirteen Moons, we held workshops to help women do this. While the process of creating a vision board is fairly straightforward, there is something about co-creating with other like-minded souls that is very inspirational. Often after attending a workshop and learning how it’s done; groups of friends would gather on their own to do their next one.
While we no longer host workshops, many resources exist online to help support you through this process. If you’d prefer to do this exercise with others, you may even find in person workshops in your community that offer that opportunity. Vision boards can be of any size, can include words, images, symbols, can be set out in categories or themes, it’s truly an expression of your dreams in your own creative way. The main goal is that you put it somewhere, so you see it throughout the year and be able to stay connected to the feelings of having achieved your expressed desires or something better.
Before sitting down with the tools to start putting your vision board together, it is advisable to spend some time reflecting on the current/past year. What are you grateful for? What remains to be done? What else do you want in your life? Perhaps do a values exercise to determine what is most important to you. To help you focus your intentions, you may wish to choose a word that you would like to live into in 2024. Do you have specific goals you wish to achieve? Do a brain dump. You might also wish to pick an Oracle card for guidance.
Once you’ve given this some thought (and feeling), decide if you want an actual board (foam core boards are readily available at most discount stores and can be cut to desired size). Or you may wish to incorporate your vision board in your journal, as we do.
Gather your tools – magazines, scissors, glue sticks, push pins. Go through the magazines and rip out anything that appeals to you, you can edit what goes on your vision board later. Perhaps you’re drawn to a beautiful nature scene that can act as a background upon which you paste other images in your travel section. What is your attraction to these images telling you about your heart’s desires?
Set aside time and space to devote to this important exercise – it’s so worth it. Put on some inspiring music, diffuse some essential oils, and get present to powerfully create your vision for 2024. You might be pleasantly surprised by what you manifest for yourself.
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