When You Wish Upon A Star - 3 Tricks to Solidify Your Heart’s Desire ♡
If we look at why someone begins therapy, we know one thing for sure- things are not working. The more we focus on what is not working, think and talk about it, the more we perpetuate this cycle. The key is to break free from this cycle and start to imagine, dream and visualize what we want.
Let's remember our brain is a brilliant computer. So this is actually about reprogramming our brain to start to think differently. What we are conscious of becomes our reality. If we anticipate an outcome, it's more likely to occur because our thoughts precede our behaviors.
When we visualize what we want, we naturally attract more of this and start to repel what it is we don't want. This is based on the Law of Attraction and it is actually rooted in the science of how our brains are programmed to work.
Clients begin therapy to focus on solving, healing and fixing their challenges. This can be mood issues, relationships, lifestyle, job, social and any thing under the sun. Underneath these presenting problems, the client, with the help of a trained professional, can begin to unearth what has led to these dilemmas and begin the process of change and the creation of their path to a happy, healthy, well-lived life.
I would like to highlight 3 techniques that will solidify what it is that you really want so that you can set your path towards your heart's desire. These techniques are timeless, and they will work. People of any and all ages can do these exercises. We parents can teach them to our children, as well.
Remember, the brain registers what we imagine as actual reality. Therefore, when we tune into and visualize our heart’s desire, the brain feels this as if it were, in fact, true. Hence, you are what you think.
A recent Psychology Today study concluded that the brain patterns activated when a weightlifter lifts heavy weights are also similarly activated when the lifter just imagined (visualized) lifting weights. Established research has concluded the connection between imagining and feeling.
Presented here are 3 techniques that focus on how you want to feel and experience (live) your life, not just on the things you want. The more you focus on how you want to feel, the more you will attract this into your life to become a reality.
The three techniques are: 1. Personal Mission Statement 2. Vision Board(s) and 3. Scripting. You can choose to do all three or simply start with one.
It is ideal to start with the Personal Mission Statement as a framework - so let's start with this. This Personal Mission Statement will be an important first step and foundation to create your vision board followed by scripting.
Personal Mission Statement
Without creating a goal or framework for how you want to live your life, we are at the whim of having life happen to us. A Personal Mission Statement can be done at any time, at any age. It can also be rewritten and tweaked, as needed, to reflect your own evolvement.
A Personal Mission Statement is a tool for making difficult decisions, a framework for how you want to live your life and express your life’s purpose. A statement to those around you about the kind of person you are. A declaration that motivates and inspires you to stay on course. A statement of your values and life priorities.
The author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey, says your mission statement is about “defining personal, moral and ethical guidelines within which you can most happily express and fulfill yourself.”
The Mission Statement incorporates the following:
Examination of the lives of others whom you admire.
Determination of your ideal self.
Consideration of your legacy - what would you want others to remember about you?
Determination of or the purpose of your life.
Clarification of your gifts and talents that are most important to you and you enjoy.
Definition of your goals.
Write your Mission Statement on paper to make it real, sign it as well. Your Personal Mission Statement becomes your own personal constitution - a beacon and guide to major as well as every day decisions.
Now, I have two Personal Mission Statements. One is serious, focused, detailed and lengthy. Then, I have this “lighter and humorous one” which says it all in one sentence: “I want to be the kind of person my dog already thinks I am”.
Creating A Vision Board
The vision board solidifies with imagery your life goals. Vision boards can be created around your relationships, your work, your personal life, and can reflect/encompass all these areas. We are putting thought and energy into things we want to experience. This can represent self-care, travel, career success, peace, fulfilling relationships, talents, passionate love and friendship.
Reflect and meditate with the intention of identifying your heart’s desire. Gather images that reflect this from various sources to cut out- quotes, photographs, symbols and anything that resonates with what you desire in that area of your life.
Use large white poster board and affix all the images. Keep the board in a place you see everyday so that you are constantly reminded of what you deeply desire. Take a screenshot of your vision board and have on your phone and/or on your computer screen.
The key to making a vision board work for you is to be able to see it every day so that it becomes embedded in your consciousness.
Focused vision boards can also be created around specific areas such as your family (goals for that year, trips, etc…), your partnerships/marriage and/or your career.
Scripting Your Life Chapter
The last technique which compliments the Life Mission Statement and Vision Board is called Scripting.
Scripting is a powerful technique to manifest your heart's desire by writing about your future. You are writing about anything you want to manifest whether it is a personal goal, a new or improved relationship, a new home, etc... You write a story/chapter, if you will, about the things or outcome as if it has already happened. Remember, the goal for all these techniques is to focus on how you would truly feel if this desire you are scripting were actually true.
Scripting is a technique you can use for any future event or how you want a scenario to feel like, large or small. Some examples include: a work presentation, a conversation, drive to work, activity with your family to larger ideals and events such as a move, new job, new lifestyle or managing a health crisis. You are writing a story on how you want these events to unfold and feel.
Scripting Tips:
Set your mind on a clear intention for what you desire and write about this in great detail as if it were a chapter in a book.
Determine why do you want this?
Determine how would this make you feel if it actually became a reality?
Make it feel attainable. (The more you believe it can happen, the faster it will come to you.) If you feel resistance, make your script more general.
These three techniques: Personal Mission Statement, Vision Board and Scripting are timeless. Although The Law of Attraction is fairly trendy, I have actually been practicing these techniques for over 30 years. Personally, I have experienced success and so have my clients. Do not be too hard on yourself to force the process or flow. It's important to be in touch with any resistance. Always remember to quiet your mind, look within and feel what it would be like if you had the life you've desired, deserved and always wanted.
I wish you a wonderful journey of self discovery and am available for professional consultation. For my contact information, please visit my website at elizabethgreenberg.com
Always remember to Dream Big.