The “Other” Mind Movie…
October 9, 2009 by: JHenry
Brain mapping
Several tuned in IM’ers texted me on something I recently wrote. So, basically what it comes down is this- Amish Shah wrote about the importance of vision boards here. It’s not something that relates to just IM, but any aspect of Life or business.
I’ve got one I made while living in Japan a few years ago next to my bathroom mirror. I see it everyday. Full of pictures and postcards and images and cut out magazine phrases of things that would be great to have and/or experience. A 3 story house sitting on an almost two acres deep in the Virgina woods, but close to D.C.- check. So I put a picture of a mansion in Sedona, AZ over it. A happy family traveling across the U.S. in a monster RV (while working a few hours a day)? Not yet, but working on it… the picture stays up and I’ve added other pictures of RV’s traveling across the U.S.
Get the point? What you want, what you desire, can be expressed physically on this vision board. People were making them, using them, and manifesting what they wanted long before “The Secret” came out in 2007.
Mind Movies are one way of replicating this process. It allows someone to integrate the same feeling of a vision board into a 5 minute span of time. What’s also positive about this is that it allows a person to be more receptive and open to meditating. Why is this good? The intent of any vision board (or mind movie) is to remind yourself of what you want. It’s YOUR visions of YOU in the YOUR future. Its the antidote to all those worries that keep running through your head- but those worries aren’t necessairly negative. They are contrast that allows you to know what it is you want, right? You’ll find that when you start giving your attention, your focus, your energy to things that you do want, the things that you don’t want eventually fade away. You have neither time nor Energy for those things any longer.
You cannot hold a thought of something while simultaneously holding the thought of not having it. Most people find that this is the “hard” part of a vision board. Visualizing something and allowing it into your life is often countered by that internal chatter we all have offering us thoughts of our current version of ‘What Is‘ and the lack of what we want. So, a lot of the times it’s just simply easier to think of nothing (through meditation) than it is on focusing what we want.
Mindmovies gives people the chance to sit and observe for 5 minutes or so while taking in all the positive aspects of things they would like to manifest. When was the last time you were able to concentrate on nothing but positive reinforcement for 5 minutes?
The problem is, a vision board remains mostly passive. Sure, there’s some Energy extended in creating one, but it’s nothing more than cutting a picture out of a magazine when you see something you want or like… or printing out the real estate listing of your dream house…or a picture of you when you were at your most happiest point of life. A vision board remains a passive activity. Something strategically placed in your environment that you look at automatically. It becomes part of your daily routine.
I’ve vistied friends houses who have hung their vision boards in their foyer, in their kitchen, on their patio… and they’re using some powerful Energy in manifesting….because visitors ask them about it- “Hey, what’s that collage on your wall”. When they answer, they are describing and creating a reality they are choosing for themselves. They are not only looking at and seeing their vision board on a daily basis, they are now putting creative Energy to words to describe to others what they are currently allowing into their existence.
A Mindmovie, however, requires some active participation. Your computer has to be on… You have to double click… and you can’t be doing much else or the power of the process just isnt the same. There’s nothing wrong with it, and it still remains an alternative to a vision board. People use both.
Now, what got those IM’ers I mentioned above to text me recently was the fact that there’s something else that can also be used. It’s something I’ve been using for years, and it’s free. The idea is, you make your desktop your vision board. Then fill your image folder with things such as this, that, this other thing, this stuff, even this, and let’s not forget this. It can even be images of places you’d like to visit, like this place, that place, this destination, or even this.
Throughout the day while you toil over CTR stats and Proj. Mgt. headaches, CPA and PPC campaign brainstorming, pre-launch phases of products/services….you’ll be inundated with images of things you’ve told yourself you’d like to manifest….
Try it out. Vision boards, whether physical or digital, are just tools you can use to help you manifest the things you want…
Create, create, create!
J.Henry
