Law Of Attraction Series:
Vision Boards
Vision boards have been advocated in law of attraction circles. However, there is extreme caution to be made here, as they actually decrease manifestation if you are not careful. Below are some understandings to help you:
1. Vision boards, if you are not careful, may lead to fantasising and increases belief in lack
When you look at your vision board, you will see things which you like. Visualising yourself having these things is supposed to change your subconscious mind so that you "attract" that vision into your life.
However, your brain already knows that you don't have the image which is on the vision board. This means that by default, your brain is focused on THE LACK of the vision. You therefore move away from achieving the vision by default when you are focused on it.
The only way to change this is to learn to live in the moment and access the subconscious mind directly. This happens from focusing on your goals and doing physical actions towards them. When you make the physical actions and focus for long periods, you access the latent power of your mind. It is this latent power that is already within you that needs to be released first before any manifestation can happen.
Simply looking at a vision board is potentially very dangerous. Never forget that the brain is not stupid. It knows what is real and what is imaginary. It can tell the difference between something which you are seeing in your mind and something which is a physical thing.
2. Vision boards violate the law of detachment
For your goal to manifest, you must become unaware of it by detaching in accordance with the law of detachment. However, by viewing your goal, you bring up potentially unwanted things:
a) Vision boards make the law of detachment impossible. As soon as you view your vision board, whether consciously or in an unaware manner, you violate the law of detachment and decrease your manifestation. This is because you bring your vision into consciousness, whereas it is only the unconscious mind which performs the manifestation.
b) Bringing the goal into conscious awareness means that any actions which you make towards it are nullified of any manifestation power. This is because the manifestation power lies in the unconscious, and not the conscious.
You will basically end up in a try-hard situation, where the harder you try, the less the results you get.
3. Vision boards are not required to manifest. High levels of concentration and focus are more important
The primary quality to achieve manifestation success is high levels of concentration and focus. When you are able to concentrate for long periods of time, and put full dedication into what you are doing, as you are doing it, you will manifest. A vision board is thus not required at all. It may help you to feel more confident about your goal, but on its own it is not the primary manifestation mover.
Work to improve your concentration and focus as much as possible, and you will find it easier to manifest more of the things you want. The vision board can be ignored for now. It can help you maintain some motivation, but real motivation comes from deep within your subconscious mind.
What To Expect/Conclusion
Vision boards are one of the worst things you can do to help manifest your goal. It is better to be completely oblivious and focus on your natural resources instead, by being focused and highly concentrating in the present moment. You must take the right steps and learn true manifestation if you are to differentiate what is the right way to manifest from what isn't. Only through this will there be a chance of achieving your goals successfully.
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