[Mari]

Hi,
Last summer my tdoc asked me to make a vision board to help with my fear of sleep.
She wanted me to put pictures having to do with sleep on a cork board so that I could get used to the idea of sleep being a good thing.

I found pictures on the Google Image search of a computer sleeping and a good line drawing of a girl sleeping in a beautiful bedroom. I also typed notes to myself and printed them out that said things like "Sleep is good" and so forth.

I'm wondering if anyone else uses tools like this.

Maybe some mantras or affirmations?

Mari


Here's what wikipedia says about vision boards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_board

Vision Boards, also called Dream Boards, Mind Maps or Goal Maps, are typically a poster board on which people draw, paste or collage images that represent their desires, objectives, dreams and goals, based on the Law of Attraction. According to Oswaldo Koch, author of the book "Vision Boards: The Power of Intent", the purpose behind making a vision board is to intentionally attract the events and circumstances to manifest the things people want to have, who people want to become and the reality people want to co-create.

Here's an electronic version of a Vision board:
http://www.thepowerofthree.net/user-home.htm
http://www.thepowerofthree.net/

[Mrs. Bear]

When I was little, I had a very difficult time sleeping. And alot of the problem was from fear. So I started making up my own fairy tales in my head as I lay there in order to distract myself. I kept them very light and silly and full of beautiful things.

To this day, if I am having trouble falling asleep, and especially if it is because I am having worried thoughts, I will tell myself made up fairy tales. It works for me. But there is a problem with it. I never know how they end.....

[Mari]

Hi,
I like your fairy tales!
This is so much better than thinking about what I need to tell somebody or going over an old story of my life.

Maybe never ending fairy tales are the best kind.

Mari

[bizi]

I went to the power of three site...registered and it looks very interesting.
thanks for sharing the link.

I think I need to work on some goals other than "pay off bills".
bizi

[BJ]

I'm sort of doing something right now Mari but it's not this one. My pdoc wants me to put my desires, my emotions, my feelings, wants and needs in a scrapbook, not words just pictures. I bought a book and made a nice cover and was already to do it. Two weeks have gone by and do you know what's in it? Nothing, not one darn thing. How do you put pictures in a book of something you can't have? How can you put a smell, a touch, or a feeling of warmth in a book? Or a mother's hug. You can't. The anniversary of her death is fast approaching and that's all I can think about. She's going to be so disappointed in me

[bizi]

Dear Girlie,
I am sorry, I know that anniversary dates are hard.

Perhaps you could come up with a better way to express yourself....
it is hard looking at a blank piece of paper.
Maybe you can go thru some magazines and take a pair of scissors and just start cutting out some things that you like...get some of those glue sticks like the ones we used as kids....
maybe you can make a collage...maybe you could then cut out some words or phrases that you like to glue above them.
or you could jsut play with them out in front of you moving them around untill they felt right then glue them on.
YOu get to make up the rules here ...nobody has to see this...
YOu could also jsut take a pen and draw....what I mean is to think of a word and draw how it makes you feel.
I have scribbled alot of emotions on paper...it is jsut one way to get them out.
You can do this....
write your name real big on this first page....taking the first step is the hardest thing to do.
You can do this....
((((HUGS))))
bizi

[Mistyb333]

Yes I use a vision board! When I want to manifest something into my life...I use pictures to help me vision it.
I took a picture of a red VW convertable out of a mag and hung it in my office and looked at it until I actually could feel the wind!
I now have that bug in my garage!
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[Mari]

Welcome Misty!

The red bugs are such cool cars.

Mari

[Looking4hope]

Hi MeBP

Did you like to color when you were a kid? I say that because I did and I also like computers. So one day, I just started playing the the MS Paint program that comes on most computers. I had a lot of fun with it and it was very therapeutic as well. I drew stick people and crude houses and mom standing in the window watching me play with my dog under a tree on a sunny day. Things like that, things that (little me) might want to draw. In fact, I still have them on my computer. I really suprised myself at how much came out during that exercise and no one told me to do it. I just felt like it. And it was a lot of fun. If you have a white board, color on it even if you don't show her. I think you will get a lot of it. Just be a little girl. I think the pictures in magazine would turn me off too. They are too prestaged and let's face it they are other people. No one that you care about, I'm sure.

Mari, sorry your thread got hijacked a little. Somehow, I think that you don't mind.

Good Luck to both of you.

[Mari]

Hi, Looking4hope,

Hey, I'm cool. I just wish that I was as creative as everybody else here.
M.