Your Life's Vision
As the new year begins, it is always a good idea to take a look
at your life's vision to decide if you are on-track or not. When
I say life's vision I mean the vision your soul has for your
life. If you haven't taken the time to vision, I'll give you a
technique to accomplish it. If you have your vision already use
this technique to re-energizing it.
Let's make a distinction between visioning and visualization,
which I call imagining.
Imagining
This process is to visualize some thing or situation using your
imagination. Perhaps you want a new job. Let's use the desire
for a new job and the process as a demonstration.
1. Sit quietly in a place where it is comfortable. This place
should be relatively dark and quiet so your senses will not
engage in the outer world so easily. Then as you are sitting
take a deep breath and let out all the air. Now breathe normally
and close your eyes. Allow you awareness to focus on your
breath. If your mind is busy thinking of all kinds of things you
may want to chant - use the word "relax". Just repeat it over
and over until your mind is quiet your breathing steady.
2. Next, imagine yourself in this new position/job.
3. Imagine all of the detail in this picture. Look around in
your mind's eye picture and notice the detail. Notice colors,
what if anything is being said what it feels like. If this is a
still picture see if you can turn it into a movie.
4. Once you have this picture and detail the next critical step
is to experience what it feels like when you are working in this
new position. To do this look at the picture/movie and notice
how wonderful or fulfilling it feels. Notice this in your body
right now as if the experience is actually happening. By
combining what you see hear and what you feel in your
imagination, you present to the mind a circumstance-a mold into
which the universe pours reality. Imagining is very important to
the creation process. Being able to imagine what it is you want
to create is a necessary part of conscious creation. You may
want to practice this several times. I sat for two weeks on and
off doing this process until I just couldn't any more. The
results showed up within two weeks.
There are several cautions. If you have doubt about the
circumstance you are imagining you are actually impeding its
creation. The more doubt, the less likely the creation will take
place. The reason why you create what you have always had is you
have faith in what you have already created and believe it to be
your truth. The second caution is not to expect too short a time
frame. It will happen whenever you have fully accepted your
desire as true of your life. The time it takes to clear your
doubts is the amount of time that will pass before you
experience what you wish to create. Practice this process daily
to chip away at your resistance to having what you desire.
Visioning
Unlike imaging, visioning is a function of the intuitive mind.
It allows you to tap into your soul and "see" your future.
Visioning is sitting in the silence of meditation and allowing
yourself (ego) to dissolve into the something beyond the
conscious mind and beyond the Local Story to the Greater Story.
It is from this place that you can "see" your life and how it
unfolds for the highest good. This gives your life a reference
point to determine if you are on-track.
When I first visioned my life, I sat in a quiet place where I
wouldn't be disturbed for at least three hours. This would give
me time to quiet my conscious mind and move into the silence.
Some people take longer and some less time to accomplish this
same thing. When I sat and found the silence I saw parts of a
movie playing. The overall theme was helping people to find
deeper meaning in their lives and to use my intuition to open
people to their vision. If you haven't captured your life's
vision yet, begin by taking this question into meditation: "What
is the highest good that I can allow to come through me?" This
question can open the door as you move into a deeper, more
relaxed meditative state. If the vision doesn't come the first
time you sit - try again. It may take several sittings. Few of
us have cultivated our intuitive powers. Is it any wonder then
why the first time or two or three we come up blank?
Furthermore, your purpose in this life can be more readily
understood when you catch your life's vision. This vision is the
"internal picturing" of your purpose unfolding-the reason why
you exist. When you create a life plan or blueprint for your
life part of the plan must be to vision your life. Take the time
to catch the vision of your life and watch the miracles happen.