Hi Everyone,
I'm new to the forums, but absolutely LOVE everything about Vision Boards (I actually just finished creating my first Vision Board iPhone app: Vision Board PRO)!!
I discovered -- from many years of trial and error -- that regardless of the type of Vision Board you choose to work with (poster board, corkboard, software, iPhone app), there's one crucial ingredient that's needed to turn your Vision Board into a POWERFUL ATTRACTION MAGNET.
Now as many of you know the "Law of Attraction" is actually a derivative of the "Law of Vibration" which states that everything in the Universe is energy, and that this energy is never at rest and in a constant state of vibration. Furthermore, the specific rate of vibration of an object attracts to it other energies that are in similar vibration.
As human" beings," our feelings, or emotions, determine our level (speed) of vibration, and thereby determine what we will attract into our lives.
This is why it so important that we control our emotions, and also sheds light as to why some people claim that Affirmations don't work for them.
Affirmations are basically just meaningless words, just as Vision Boards are essentially meaningless words, pictures and images.... These instruments only become meaningful (and powerful) when you are able to elicit emotions, or feelings!
Napoleon Hill, author of the 1937 self-help classic, "Think and Grow Rich" refers to Affirmations as Autosuggestions and summarizes this point brilliantly by saying,
"The mere reading of the words is of NO CONSEQUENCE--UNLESS you mix emotion, or feeling with your words. You will get no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with thoughts, or spoken words which have been well emotionalized with BELIEF."
The real magic of goal setting occurs when you not only get emotional about your goals and dreams, but actually BELIEVE you will achieve them.
A Vision Board is one of your best resources to help make this possible. Always remember, whether working with a Vision Board or Affirmations, that your primary objective is to create a positive emotional feeling of your goals already being achieved. The emotion or feeling must be belief. When you achieve this level of feeling ("Feel Your Goals") --- you turn your Vision Board into a POWERFUL attraction magnet!!!
To Living Our Dreams!
Chuck