How to Make A Vision Board and Manifest Your Dream Reality
If you’re new here, you’ve maybe missed the ways Mandy uses the power of manifestation and the law of attraction to create a life that she loves while she inspires and empowers others to do the same. When I first met Mandy, her immediate influence introduced me into the world of manifesting and I became a student under her, soaking up all of the wisdom she has acquired over the years of becoming a powerful manifester in her own life. We first began watching Roxy Talks together, one of Mandy’s favorite ways to help program your conscious and subconscious to start thinking abundantly and welcoming goodness into your life while releasing fear. There are many habits, practices, and rituals you can incorporate to push forward your spiritual practice to become a powerful manifestor, but one of our personal favorites is creating a vision board.
Remember a time or two in grade school when you were prompted by your art teacher to make a collage from magazine scraps? Turns out there is an adult version of this activity that not only allows you to exercise some fun creative skills but also has a really powerful, positive affect on your life, your reality, and your future. Insert: VISION BOARDING.
What is a vision board? A vision board is an assortment of images, quotes, and other things that make you happy or help you see your goals in “real life.” This technique can be helpful in several scenarios, whether you’re aiming to lose weight, buy a new home, or get a big promotion at work. You can combine various images with powerful words and phrases to encourage you to stay motivated and think positively. The power of visualization is an effective tool that can help you stay on target and feel encouraged to keep pushing forward regardless of adversity.
How to create a vision board: You can use a piece of poster board or a corkboard to serve as the “foundation” of your vision board. Cut out pictures from magazines, use personal photos, or find images online that you can print out and attach to the board. Next, surround these images with positive wording and quotes that will motivate and encourage you. Your vision board can focus on a single goal, or it can encompass several facets of your life. The key is to only fill it with positive images and words meant to promote a positive mindset.
When you continue to give your attention to the things you want and you have a visualization of them, you attract those things into your life, and what once seemed like an “ideal life” can become your reality with simple. reoccurring shifts in your energy and focus. This relates to the concept of positive affirmations as well.
The Universe responds with both the positive and the negative! If you look for reasons to support why you are having a terrible day, you’ll keep attracting annoyances to prove you right but if you have the courage to actively redirect your focus and your energy, the Universe will have your back and positive momentum will build and follow to help shift your energy and your day.
Bottom line: The more you surround yourself and your mind with the things you want to experience, the more you’ll actually get to experience those things in your life. Remember: Energy goes where attention flows.
Mandy’s Personal Experience:
On the last full moon of 2020, I felt I began envisioning what I wanted for the next year. After four years, I finally felt ready to make room for a life partner. I decided to write down all the things I wanted in a partner: someone who is generous, kind to waiters, and even specific details, like "a New Yorker with a New York accent."
I then hosted a vision board making night with my family. I gathered poster boards, scissors, arts art supplies and lots of magazines. We each made vision boards and it was such a fun way to talk about our goals, dreams and hopes together as a family. It’s also always very therapeutic for many to do things with their hands, consider it an arts and crafts activity. You feel like a child in art class again and it feels good to stop adulting for an hour or so.
On my vision board I had various career goals, health & fitness goals, but I also had an engagement ring (my family thought I was hilarious and low key delusional) and a destination wedding. Spoiler alert: I got both of those things!
Two weeks later, I swiped right on a guy with kind eyes and a big smile. Almost immediately, Brian slid into my messages with a very flirtatious message, "Hi. I like sandwiches. What's your favorite sandwich?” It turns out his answer was a classic pastrami sandwich from the iconic Katz's Delicatessen (of When Harry Met Sally fame).
After a few negative PCR tests and rescheduled dates, we finally met at my apartment (dining restrictions were still in place in New York City). So, I ordered Brian’s favorite sandwich from Katz's. Our second date was the day after our first date. Brian told me, "To come into your apartment and see the exact sandwich I had been craving that I mentioned in our first conversation waiting for me from Katz's Deli—I knew this was it."
That very same week, we introduced one another to our respective family members over FaceTime. A mere six months later, Brian proposed to me surrounded by 40 of our friends on a rooftop in Manhattan on his birthday because, as Harry says in When Harry Met Sally, "…when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
While our happily ever after may sound like a literal rom-com, my road to love wasn't an easy one. But, I learned it’s important to ask the universe what you want and believe that it is on it’s way to you when you’re ready for it. When we got engaged, I immediately wanted to scream about it off of every rooftop. Not to brag, but because I've been right where someone you know, or you yourself, might be right now. Sometimes, love looks like clinging for hope when all hope seems lost, and believing that what's for you will never ever miss you. The stuff that does miss you was never ever meant for you, because something better is ahead.
