Where are you going this year? Do you have a travel bug? Are you dreaming of exotic faraway places, fun family vacations, or even peaceful retreats? How do you get there? How do you make it happen? Feng Shui affirmations and visualizations can help guide you to the location of your dreams.
We just returned from a wonderful, fun-filled family cruise, and I believe that positive affirmations and enhancements in the Helpful People and Travel area of our home played a large role.
Whether you desire to go on an exotic holiday, a local vacation, or want to ensure that everything goes smoothly during an upcoming trip, Feng Shui can help. Feng Shui is simply about living in harmony with the world around you. When your environment is harmonious, channels are open for good things to come your way. On my walk today I thought of the phrase “What you see is what you get” and remembered that I had told my Feng Shui students “Where the eye goes, the Ch’i flows.” I marveled at the connection.
In Feng Shui there is a belief that seeing things that make you feel calm, or that you regard as beautiful, helps to nourish you. When you create a place where you can see those calming and beautiful things daily, you will create a place where your dreams and goals can be nourished and ultimately manifested.
Feng Shui Vision Boards can help you picture and realize your dreams. They are simply a collection of images, words and objects that represent a physical manifestation of your feelings and thoughts. They are known to produce profound results, both those expected as well as unexpected.
Vision boards work on many levels:
- A Vision Board helps you set and prioritize your goals and intentions.
- The process of creating a vision board helps to solidify these goals in your head and sends them out to the universe.
- Seeing your vision board regularly, with images and words representing your goals, and wishes helps remind you of what you want to do, where you want to be, and what you want to have.
- The vision board helps to ensure that you continue to move towards those things, both consciously and unconsciously.
- Vision boards are fun to make and tap into your creativity.
Most of all – THEY WORK! They have worked for me and for others. I can look back at past vision boards I have created and am excited to compare them against the final results.
How To Create a Travel Vision Board:
A Vision Board is a very personal, individualized representation of your hopes and dreams, so no two are alike.
- Begin with a board (11x14 or 8 ½ by 14 are the most practical sizes, but anything goes). You can also pick up poster boards at your local Dollar Stores.
- You can think of your life traveling to the destination of your dreams. Then close your eyes and visualize exactly what you want to happen and where you want to be. See all the details. Imagine yourself actually there. Imagine the people you are traveling with as part of the vision. What else do you see? Hear? How does your vision make you feel?
- Cut out images from magazines, calendars, maps, postcards, photos that represent these goals. Or search online and download pictures from websites.
- Use a glue stick, glue gun, tacks, white glue, tape etc. to adhere items to the board.
- Add inspirational words that are very specific to your goals. Words are very powerful, they turn ideas into action, and therefore they need to be always kept in the affirmative; positive, uplifting statements only.
- Add specific affirmations that you write yourself, as if the goal has already happened. For example: “I love traveling, I’m having such a fun time in Paris” "I am lying on a sandy beach on a Greek Isle.” “I hiked ten miles today and I’m almost at the top of this lovely mountain.”
Remember, these are guidelines; there is no right or wrong to creating a vision board. It is a personal representation of YOUR travel goals; therefore, it has to speak to YOU.
You’re done! Display your board in a location where you will see it every day. This will keep you grounded; help you grow and remind you of what you are grateful for. It will help you create order out of chaos. Once you have achieved the goals on the board, update it or create a new one. This is not an event – it’s a journey. Enjoy the journey and the unfolding of your life!
Even when I teach Feng Shui classes, I use the Bagua to enhance the classroom to support my travel dreams. Students in my classes notice that I have pictures of France everywhere: the Eiffel Tower in the Helpful People and Travel area; the dark Seine River at night in Career; a Paris flower mart and vineyards in Knowledge and Self-Cultivation and in Health, Family, and Friends; lavender fields in Wealth and Prosperity; and red poppy fields in Fame and Reputation; colorful art in the Children and Creativity. Every Bagua area is represented by my favorite parts of France.
