VISION PAGE
Taken from the Life Enrichment System (LES):
After seeing a vision with the mind’s eye, we bring the vision into reality by creating a vision page. A vision page is at least one image (picture, photograph, drawing, etc.) on a sheet of paper that most accurately matches what the mind’s eye sees. It can be done as a collage with multiple images on a single page. The most important consideration in creating a vision page is that it must convey a message to the brain that resonates a resounding ‘YES!’ This vision page is a physical representation of our internalized vision. It must thoroughly excite us to look at it.
The benefits of having a vision page are well worth the effort and labor necessary to create it. Seeing our vision with our physical eyes creates an alteration in our physiology. This alteration is noted in our attitude and overall rate of vibration. Since our altered resonating frequency better represents our desired future, we begin to behave in ways that actually bring about our vision to us in physical form. Life always obeys the law of resonance. Vibrating frequencies attract and awaken the same frequencies of similar vibrations in their proximity. What that means is if you can see it, you can be it. If you can be it, you can achieve it. If what you see thoroughly feels perfect and is in alignment with living life on higher principles and backed with sound values, that vision sets up a vibration in our energy field that has a high affinity for itself. We actually attract what we physically see. Since the right hemisphere of the mind cannot distinguish between what is real and what is imagined, images that are viewed by our physical eyes are interpreted as real and responded to accordingly.
Beginning today, start looking for images to include in your image page. Collect old magazines from multiple sources. Try borrowing old magazines from recycle depots that will allow you to do so. If you do decide to do this, PLEASE return the magazines back to the recycle place when you are done with them. This is a time consuming project. Gathering magazines are easy. Finding images that represent your ultimate life may be challenging. Be creative! Stay committed. Be certain to put effort in each day.
The vision page must represent who you are when you are at your absolute best and alone. It is important not to include other people in the vision page. To do so, places a burden on them. Living your ultimate life must not be conditional on others showing up for you. Create a vision page that focuses exclusively on who you are when you are at your absolute best. It does not mean that you will be alone. It simply means that your higher levels of functionality are not contingent upon outside forces beyond your control. Each image must have only one individual in it. You may collect many images. An image must embody the qualities that support your vision for your ultimate life. Get your images as quickly as you can and be tenacious about it.
After you have your images, look through them and note which ones excite you most. If none of the images excite you or inspire you, you must find one that does as quickly as possible. This image, when you look at it, must put you in a much higher state of enthusiasm regarding the energy of your future. Have the right image! Once you have it, you can begin writing the vision statements.
A vision statement is a positive description of a desired future condition. It does not contain the objectives or means to achieve it. The vision statement can be seen in the vision page. The vision page supports the vision statement and vice-versa.
Vision statements must use words that elicit images in the mind. “I am walking with confidence.” “I am creating big, wide-eyed smiling faces.” “I am expressing unbounded enthusiasm in life.” The vision statements that use the most senses are the more stronger vision statements.
‘Being statements’ can be dispersed within a vision statement. These are statements that may not necessarily elicit an image in the mind’s eye. “I am trusting in life.” “I am having gratitude for all things.” “I am knowing that I know that I know.” Look at the three examples of being statements just given. Notice how they do not elicit an image. What does it look like to be “trusting in life” or “having gratitude for all things” or “knowing that I know that I know that I know?” Being statements add an important resonance that enrich vision statements. “I am walking in confidence, trusting in life.”
Vision statements must begin with “I am” and have a verb displaying present action. An easy way to create a present verb is to use words that end in “ing”. “I am walking, seeing, creating, trusting, knowing, having, etc.…” You can add punch to your statements by adding adverbs that inspire. “I am ‘joyfully’ walking.” “I am ‘passionately’ creating.” “I am ‘lovingly’ knowing.” An easy way to create an adverb is to use words that end in ‘ly”.
Spend time playing with the idea of writing inspiring vision and being statements from images created with your mind’s eye and write them on paper. A vision statement can include many points or be one succinct sentence. If you choose to use many sentences, remember that each sentence must begin with “I am”. Therefore, in order for it to read properly you may want to consider writing “I am” once at the top of the vision statement and list your sentences below it. It would look like this “I am:” or you can simply have "I am" written on every line with the rest of each sentiment.
When you have your image and your image statement complete, make a layout for the final product and have it framed. This way, you value it and it looks nicer to look at. This entire process was created in 1997 for the first Life Enrichment Seminar (Red Seminar as it was also affectionately known). The benefits or doing a vision page continue to hold up decades later. This is why it was an important inclusion for the list of at-home practices.