vision boards

During yesterday's coaching session, Cezarina taught me about vision boards as a tool of intentionality. I already know how powerful intentionality is, plus my creative self has been under-expressed lately, so I was enthusiastic.

A vision board is a piece of paper or cardboard that you collage with images which represent your vision for yourself. These are images of things yet to be, and the creation of the vision board is a statement of intentionality. Afterward, the vision board becomes a powerful reminder, and a visual affirmation. The board can be carried with you (if it is small or fold-able), or placed in an area of your home or office that you will encounter often.

I created my first vision board on the theme of eating and food. A few weeks ago I bought a large amount of fruit and ate several servings every day. I felt great! I now want to convert my diet to a mostly whole / raw food diet. The vision board is now posted on my refrigerator, where I can see it as I make my food selections.

The figure at the top represents physical health, mobility and flexibility, traits that I desire to deepen. The text in the center is Khalil Gibran's chapter On Eating and Drinking from The Prophet. Throughout the midsection of the board are images of the lovely, healthy, mouth-watering foods I want to incorporate into my diet.

At the bottom of the page, something beautiful and profound eveolved without me planning it. Among the magazines I was searching for images, I found a picture of an elderly, wrinkled woman whose keen eyes reveal cleverness and astute awareness. I began looking for more pictures of older women. My sister talked to me last weekend about life as "elder training", with achieving elderhood as the pinnacle of one's life. I want to live to be old enough to be an elder. I want to make healthy choices today both for the present and the future. I wrote these lines toward the bottom of the page (the first appropriated from an awesome Kaiser commercial):

"When I grow up, I want to be an old woman.
When I grow up, I want to be an ELDER.

MOMENT BY MOMENT BY MOMENT BY MOMENT...

ELDER."