tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69587031185603824482024-03-13T19:14:41.301-07:00Visioning®Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams!Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-74374564601654282382015-02-23T20:20:00.002-08:002015-02-24T08:06:00.433-08:0010 Minute Visioning Yields Big Results<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the best things about being part
of the Visioning(R) community is that all of the graduates keep in
touch by group emails. Lucia recently shared that when
she wanted to journal while away from her house, all she had
was a magazine and pen. So she wrote directly in the magazine. After
she journaled, she realized that the images that were on page
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First, I used my intuition and chose the magazine I wanted to use before leaving the house. Then, I focused on what I needed to know and quickly flipped through the magazine pages while at Starbucks. Something about the image of an actor tugging at her hair caught my attention. Since I know the actors name, I simply addressed her with my Dominant Hand and let the non-dominant hand respond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was exactly what I needed to hear.
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felt scattered and isolated. I don't have many connections in this new town,
so texting co-worker Elisabeth (who brought her two daughters) was exactly what I needed. While shopping, I
focused on the kids, and only skimmed the racks. Although they only stayed for a short time, their visit gave me energy. After they left, I
continued shopping in the spirit of <i>fun</i>.
While I did end up with several items on my list, fun connection is
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This morning I tried it again. I
selected a magazine based on intuition, not my left-brain. Then I
turned the pages quickly, skimming until I found an image that
grabbed me. I held a general question of "show me what I need
today," which is Monday. The first thing I noticed was an
article that answered a different question, which I pulled out to
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DH: Hey kids, what do you have to say
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NDH: We are your fun reminders. Both of
us like to play, after all! Take us with you. We are your fun
strength. Focus on feeling good.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DH: What map are you looking at?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NDH: The fastest path to fun. It's not
a straight line! It's a breath, each in the present moment. We love
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DH: I do too. Thank you so much! I love
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These answers spoke volumes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I did smile a lot more during work while I kept the over-serious accounting Self focused on the books. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I felt drama-free, yet productive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow, for even more fun, I'll remember to bring my iPod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>blog by Dorothy Segovia, certified Visioning(R) coach and author of My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents. www.writeinside.com</i></span></div>
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<b>Join Lucia at her next workshops: For a detailed description about the 1st workshop visit <a href="http://www.luciac.com/" target="_blank">Lucia's website</a></b> and click on the Calendar.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I prepare to create Visioning®
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(a 4-part collage) came true. What really
struck me were the surprises, so I want to share those with you.
In the "grab what grabs you" phase of shopping through
magazines, I often have something specific in mind. Other times, I
follow my intuition and select images because I want more of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">A cluster of flowers blooming in the
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forward to my iris garden due to bloom in the spring.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">What I </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">didn't</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"> know was that I'd take up water color painting again, after a long hiatus (inspired by seeing a Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit) and that I'd be painting mostly flowers (mixed bouquets as well as iris from my own garden). What a joy that has been!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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is floating in a pool. The words </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Balancing
Act...LIFE...well, well, well... WATER (Don't) think tank </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">appear
next to these images. While creating the collage I was thinking:
"I need to meditate more to balance a lot of left-brain work
I've been doing". (I am a long-time meditater.) I
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continue pool exercise. What I <i>didn't</i> realize was
that my exercise in the pool (which I have all to myself) has
become some of the best meditation I can remember. After I've done
my exercise routine for physical strengthening and flexibility, I
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spontaneous dance in warm water, I often enter a trance state of
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Life of Your Dreams</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, January 25, 10 AM - 5 PM at
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This past weekend I drove to a family
gathering that normally takes 4.5 hours. 6 hours into the drive and still miles away, I was
reaping the benefits of my brief Visioning(R) preparation. Due to the
busy holiday events, I hadn't taken the time to sit down and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During these writing periods I wrote about how busy I was, my concern that I wasn't certain
if I was going to be staying in a hotel or at my family's house, and
if we were exchanging gifts. Thrown into the mix was that my Mom was
still staying in a hospital after-care center. It was not certain if
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because of my journaling,<i> I was able to
release my concerns onto the page.</i> This is an important step and they
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Well, time to go to work. I want to wear a cute outfit."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By focusing on how <u>I wanted to
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"In the material world we are bound by things like gravity, time and space. And it is into this finite cup called "physical reality that we must pour the limitless ocean that is the creative spirit. How can we pour the infinite into the finite? By making one little decision at a time, putting one foot in front of the other. One leads to another and another Before you know it, you've woven a tapestry of preferences and choices....This may sound tedious and restrictive, all these decisions and choices, but it is at the heart of the creative process. Nothing gets into the material world unless we can say yes to this and no to that. Decisions, decisions, decisions." </span><i>Lucia Capacchione, page 85. Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, here is a great article that can
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.soulfulliving.com/essenceofpeace.htm" target="_blank">Soulful Living: The Essence of Peace</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <i>Dorothy Segovia is a writer/blogger and graduate of Lucia's Visioning and Creative Journal Expressive Arts training. <a href="http://www.writeinside.com/" target="_blank">Visit her at www.writeinside.com.</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The thing I appreciate about letting go is that it opens the way to new experiences. I've spent the past few years playing with letting go and know it is safe. That doesn't mean it isn't hard, or that it doesn't take time or care, but it does mean that it is safe to proceed without ________.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This holiday, I'm appreciating that I have let go of my 2nd job at the ranch, automatic Mommy-izing in the face of authority, an Inner Critic who runs amok, and most recently, my denial of perfectionism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is easy to get caught up in the holiday rush and focus on <u>what we do not have</u>: time and other resources being at the top of the list. In fact, I have often found myself making a vision board in a desperate attempt to have, have, have. But the more I focus on <i>what I don't have</i>, the <b>more</b> I don't have it. This can only lead to frustration and hopelessness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have written many blog posts describing <i>why</i> Visioning(R) works. But the only point that I need remember is that Visioning(R) is FUN!!! Collage-making shifts the focus from the mind to the heart. Who hasn't talked a child into cleaning their room or eating their veggies by making it a game? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This season, I appreciate my willingness to let go. The things that I have let go of are markers of how far I have come. They brought me to a great new home in Paso Robles and this lovely week-long pet sit in my old stomping grounds. Hey<i>, I've let go of my fear of giant guinea pigs!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Being named Dorothy, I've heard that phrase so much that I actually say it to myself. But I don't mean the white flag type of surrender. That </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">type means in
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Surrendering to your vision works the
same way, except the obstacle is generally a belief system.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> That is, in order to live the "you"
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I didn't discover my new vision of being "<i>a monetarily successful author</i>," until I was settled into
my new place last month. Week one had me picking up steam launching into the 1st draft of my new book. At the start of week two the landlord told me that renting her studio
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At this posting I have chosen to
complete only two applications: the first is for a house-share in a fun, wine-tasting town and the other, a tiny, one-bedroom house in a rural area. Yesterday I rented a storage
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My mind wants this whole thing to be
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happily, I am not following my mind.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As manifesting Americans, we are taught
that we are masters of our fate.<b> But as we grow into true Visionaries,
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Learn about how <a href="http://www.visioningcoach.org/Visioning_With_Heart.html" target="_blank">Visioning Starts with the Heart on Lucia's website</a>. After you read all about it, check out the 10 Steps of Visioning, buy the book or locate a Visioning(R) Coach in your area.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Blogger Dorothy Segovia is a certified Visioning(R) Coach and author of My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents.<a href="http://writeinside.com/products" target="_blank"> Click here to visit her website. </a> </i></span></div>
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the grounds or into the national park as much as I planned. I could
say the snow deterred me. But is seems as though I wanted to be
deterred. I spent most of most of my time on that blue couch
devouring self-help books about writing and creativity while my
window pane frosted. I remember thinking, 'You're spending money to
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up in my womb of a cabin, in a blanket of quietness, protected by
snow and thick beams of wood. I stopped fighting myself, pushing
myself to walk or write or instantly settle down into my expectation
of tranquility. I read and I cried and I stared at pine trees. It
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heaviness and the larger pattern I'd had in my life of being nice to
myself only when I had succeeded at something." - Tama J.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this scenario we learn that life has it's way with us regardless of where we think we are headed. Tama paid for a retreat to hike and write. Instead she ended up
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visioning(R) is yet another way our
heart's guidance speaks. Let's face it, we're multi-tasking,
multi-planning, goal-getting people and we need <u>help</u> listening. A
vision collage lets our creative, intuitive voice whisper loud and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Intuition speaks to us in dreams mental images, symbols, feelings, extra sensory perception, and artistic expression. Actually, intuition is the prompting from our creative self, speaking through the voice of the creative conscience. Our innate intuitive wisdom points toward what is going to unfold in the future. Visionaries have reported that their collage were uncannily precise. After their dream came true, pictures and phrases that appeared irrational or impossible when they made their collage turned out to have great validity. Composing your Vision collage is a great technique for strengthening your intuition, an ability that we all have, but often disregard."-- Lucia Capacchione, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams. </i></span></span></div>
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this voice, it doesn't seem all that sexy. That is, the action
step is often what we've been avoiding in the first place! Call that
person, <i>now</i>. Make that appointment, <i>today</i>. Did red flag
number two just appear on the steps of your great new place? Better
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I know as a writer it is important to review the daily journaling I've done over the past few months. Doing so helps me know what is important to my life right now. It helps me decide if I want to continue in a particular direction or not. It tells me if there was a resolution to a problem, or if I need to take an action step. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reviewing my collages was an emotional journey through my Visioning(R) life. When I found the image I was looking for, it initially made me sad. I still had images of an office worker receiving recognition from her colleagues, yet that hasn't manifested in my own working life. This led to a review of inner child work 101:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the other hand, reading the heading of my business card on that same collage made me smile. The business card phrase "move right through life's little obstacles" was the idea for the title of my book: My Body, My Car: How to Coach Your Self Through Life's little Accidents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is what Lucia has to say about the business of Visioning(R).</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We can talk about the magnetic power of one's heart's desire, about the nonlinear nature of the pathways of the heart, yet we must be prepared to use the left-brain process of putting one foot in front of the other. There's a place for the slow, decidedly un-magical side of life: filling out forms, scheduling the calendar, and keeping track of things in a personal day planner or computer database. If you can't handle the mundane, the chances of your dealing with the magic of creativity are going to be pretty slim. You may get your dream, but if you aren't grounded in the procedural part of things, you may not have a vessel to contain it. Before the master musician can surrender and let the creative self play its divine music through her, she has studied and practiced for years and years.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, the nine-to-five</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sometimes</span> makes me crazy , but I <span style="color: red;">am</span> able to finance my creative projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>Awaken Your Intuition using Structural Constellations at </i></span><a href="http://luciac.com/index.php/workshops" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucia's next workshop, October 11, Morro Bay, Ca. </span></span></a><br />
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cups are in with the laundry detergent, your library novel got tucked
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boards. Let's face it, when we first enter our new digs, chaos
happens. When it comes to manifesting our desires we are literally
moving our stuck energy out of our bodies and expanding into
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"When we encounter chaos in
the creative process, everything feels topsy-turvy. We're the Hanged
man card in the tarot deck, suspended by our feet. Our linear left
brains are helpless when we face the mystery of creative chaos
head-on. Of course artists understand this subterranean world where
new life takes shape. So do pregnant women, gardeners, shamans, and
all those who have dared to participate in birthing something new.
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why isn't going for another round of rewrites on my musical enough?
Empire? I just want to memorize the song I wrote
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Giving myself time
to be with The Dreamer gives me time to relax into my vision, which
includes the imagery on panel 4, but I'm not there yet. It gives me
time to let my truth take shape, since speaking my truth through
writing IS my dream. Time gives me the freedom to sort through my old
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To practice the art of moving through your own obstacles to your success, visit Lucia's site: <a href="http://www.visioningcoach.org./">www.visioningcoach.org.</a> Here you can purchase her book, find out about certified coaches in your area and read about Lucia's story.</div>
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Dorothy Segovia is a certified Visioning Coach® and author. Visit her at <a href="http://www.writeinside.com./">www.writeinside.com.</a></div>
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Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-67236589596588832822014-06-05T21:25:00.002-07:002014-12-24T10:17:55.073-08:00Trying Not to Try: The Heart of Visioning®<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In an effort to make their collages images come true, many novices
try too hard to bring about their vision. They notice a woman on the
collage is wearing a bright yellow blouse, so they overspend on the
wrong color shirt that's just a little too tight. An impulse buy: all
for the anxiety of forcing their vision, rather than allowing their
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I'm not discounting that your fairy godmother could walk up to you
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"We can
rearrange the outer world forever, but if we haven't rearranged the
furniture in our hearts and minds the experience of fulfillment will
elude us. As we replace outworn beliefs and limiting perceptions with
new pictures and a new scenario, we literally recreate ourselves."</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b> Lucia
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In the same way I practice writing, we must also practice
Visioning®. Embodying our collage images through journal writing, movement and
contemplation brings our vision deep into our heart memory. As we <i>feel
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excessive focus in the modern world on the power of conscious thought
and the benefits of willpower and self-control causes us to overlook
the pervasive importance of what might be called “body thinking”:
tacit, fast, and semiautomatic behavior that flows from the
unconscious with little or no conscious interference. The result is
that we too often devote ourselves to pushing harder or moving faster
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Now I'm planning to take a vacation to explore several
cities where I can see myself living. I bought a travel guide, borrowed
language CDs from the library and filled out my passport application.
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Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-83896029222009689222014-05-04T17:26:00.001-07:002014-12-24T10:15:57.272-08:00Visioning(R) Health Means Reclaiming the Self<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>"Regaining the Self.</i></b>. How we see ourselves (our self-image) is reflected in how we treat ourselves and how we allow others to treat us. Our self-image also shapes our bodies and impacts our sense of health and well-being." Lucia Capacchione, <i>Chapter 13, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I learned this lesson first hand when I set out to write this month's post. I started with a drawing of recurring pain and injury to my right shoulder and most recently, upper right arm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the drawing of my throbbing right arm muscle. The next step in the process is to do a non-dominant hand dialogue with the image. 3 angry pages of non-dominant hand answers yielded the following insight: My Sad Girl was very angry because I had not lived up to my promise of allowing her creative expression. She was mad because I was not finishing my creative writing projects.The reason why is that I had yielded to the messages from my Inner Critic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After I acknowledged and accepted this painful truth, I then made a healing collage. The first step was to depict the Creative Self. This self depicted below is powerful enough to take on the toughest critics, inner <b>and</b> outer. I like how she not only defends her words, but she definitely is protecting her self. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next step was to create the collage using I Know What I Said as the theme.Because of limited space, I used four pieces of 8 1/2 by 11 construction paper. This allows me to create a large collage, yet display only the section that I am working with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The following are the collage pages, or steps of how to reclaim my voice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This day of healing has given me a lot of hope. Prior to this work, I was aware that I was overwhelmed with the outcome of my creative projects, not the process. While it does seem overwhelming to stand up for my truth against my Goliath-size self-talk and ingrained habits, starting over is easy. After all, I start over every day. I am relieved that I do not have to re-do, regret or try to control any of my projects. I simply need to let my voice flow.Also, I am understanding allowing my voice to flow and launching a project as a product are two different things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now it's time for you to trust your voice and honor your self by drawing and visioning your own healing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remember: "It is very important that you follow your body's lead and give it what it needs. As mentioned earlier, the body never lies. It will tell you the truth, but you need to listen and respond accordingly." - page 238, <i>Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Participate in Lucia's upcoming Visioning(R) workshop: <a href="http://luciac.com/index.php/workshops" target="_blank">Giving Birth to a New You</a>, Sunday, May 18th, in Morro Bay, California. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Certified Visioning(R) Coach Dorothy Segovia finished her latest creative project when she scanned her collages, converted the images into jpegs and then wrote this post. Find out more about her work at <a href="http://www.writeinside.com/" target="_blank">www.writeinside.com.</a></i></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-14050475578766837852014-04-07T07:49:00.002-07:002014-12-24T10:14:08.887-08:00Visioning® Retirement<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxs7Fa5i-B0/U0KPul93I_I/AAAAAAAAAMI/ifX4tAw3Iws/s1600/Lucia.1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxs7Fa5i-B0/U0KPul93I_I/AAAAAAAAAMI/ifX4tAw3Iws/s1600/Lucia.1.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Lucia recently gave a presentation on Visioning® Retirement at a <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">retirement community in Daly City, California, called Peninsula del </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Rey. The next day she conducted a Visioning® Retirement workshop. Some <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">of those attending were individuals living in the retirement community <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">where the events were held, located near San Francisco. Others were <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">visitors from the general public who had seen ads and announcements <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">for the event and decided to explore their retirement options. Here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">are Lucia's comments about Visioning® Retirement. </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>NOTE: All images from the workshop.</i></span><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></b></span></i><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In my many years of conducting workshops and lectures, my groups have <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">been comprised of about twenty to thirty percent seniors on average. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Occasionally, as much as half of the group has been seniors. This <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">makes perfect sense. Retirement years lend themselves to self-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">reflection, hobbies, activities like art and writing (especially <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">memoirs family history scrapbooks) and things you want to do in the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">years you have left on the planet. Long before the movie, <u>The Bucket <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u>List</u>, I created a journal exercise called: What Do You Want To Be When <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">You Grow Up? It appears in my first book <u>The Creative Journal: The Art <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u>of Finding Yourself.</u> It was intended for all ages, but I found that <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">seniors really warmed up to this activity. Here's the journal prompt.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1) Make a list of what you wanted to be when you were a kid, no matter <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">how wild or crazy the wish was. Write it down with your non-dominant <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">hand. Did you want to be an astronaut, a movie star, teacher, lawyer, <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">athlete, singer, scientist? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">2) Check the list over to see if you <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">actually did any or all of the things you listed, even if it was done <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">as a hobby. Make a list of the things you actually did using your <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">dominant hand. (For example, I wanted to be a ballerina when I was a <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">kid. Instead, as an adult I took expressive dance classes at age 39 as <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">a result of doing this journal exercise. And I continued studying <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">dance and movement therapy for many years after that. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">3) The last step <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">is to make a list of all the things you want to experience during <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the rest of your life. Write the list with your non-dominant hand in <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">order to access your true heart's desire via your right brain. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">4) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This list will yield a focus phrase for a "Visioning® Retirement" <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">collage, which is the next step. You could use the whole list from <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">step #3 as your focus phrase. In other words, illustrate your "bucket <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">list" with magazine photos and words.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I have observed that many seniors in my groups have not thought much <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">about what they wanted to do in their retirement years. They hadn't <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">really pictured what retirement would look like. They just knew they <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">wouldn't be working at their old jobs. When I introduced Visioning® in <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">my workshops in the early 90s, I heard seniors sharing their collages <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and saying, "This is about what I want now that I am about to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">retire." "This is what retirement looks like for me." "These are the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">things I'd still like to experience in my life." In other words, they <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">were creating a visual version of what we now call a "bucket list." <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Some common themes in Visioning® Retirement collages have been: health <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and vitality, travel and vacations, hobbies (new or continued), time <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">with family and friends, gardening, scaling down and moving into a <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">retirement community, field trips with groups, outings to museums, <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">spending time in nature, etc. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So why not illustrate your "bucket list" and make it come to life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Call it a second </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">childhood, if you will, in the best sense of the term. Retirement can <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">definitely be time for your Inner Child to shine and lighten up your <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">life. Go for the fun!!! </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Happy Visioning®!</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To attend one of Lucia's upcoming workshops or to purchase <u>Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams</u> visit <a href="http://luciac.com/index.php/workshops" target="_blank">luciac.com</a>.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-91986897409940369472014-03-09T18:44:00.000-07:002014-12-24T10:13:25.808-08:00Three Panel Vision Boards: Part Two<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last month we
learned how about a new vision board technique of 3-panel collages.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://visioningcoach.blogspot.com/2014/02/three-panel-vision-solutions.html">(Click
here to catch up on Part One.)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Turns out my
symptoms were telling me that I was worried about time and growing
older. Where I wanted to be was to have downtime to sleep, sleep,
sleep. The Solution image of the two horses symbolized embodied
freedom. Non-dominant hand journaling with the images yielded these
nuggets:
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Left
side, Panel 1: </b></i><i><b>Where I am at:</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Image
of the woman carrying the pot. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“ <span style="font-weight: normal;">I
feel uncomfortable. I'd like to set this pot of stuff down and just
deal with one thing at a time.” </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Right
side, Panel 2: Where I want to be.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Image
of the woman lying down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
feel talented. I can experience my dead past all day long, and have it
direct me home where it continues to dominate in TV watching and
extreme reading and overeating. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Auggghhhh!!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Middle,
Panel 3: the Solution</b></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phrase
Soulbringer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Stand still
with yourself and straddle the duality of being truly alive and
present in this magical and temporary moment.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I worked with the
collage and insights for 2 weeks on my own before taking a Mat Work session
with Lucia. In her handout for
the certified coaching training classes Lucia describes the Mat Work
technique.
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Mat work can be
used in conjunction with Visioning®,
because the method is based on structural constellations. Structural
constellations involves making intuitive selections of mats and
colors, choosing images from collages, identifying issues, places,
people, things and also elements in dreams. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">After
selection the mats are placed in relation to each other in the area
representing the <a href="http://www.familyconstellations.com.au/fc_explained.html">Knowing
Field,</a> the basis of Bert Hellinger's work. This method states
that we draw information not normally accessible to the left brain by
using colored mats. When we place mats in the knowing field, then
stand on them, the mats allow body wisdom to flow through us.” </span></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A synopsis of my mat session with
Lucia</b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucia had me select mats to represent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Myself, the obstacle, the solution I wanted (not
necessarily the solution on the collage), the bridge to the solution, resources, an image from the collage itself.
I chose the larger horse from the middle panel.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I placed the mats in relation to each
other in the knowing field. At Lucia's direction, I stepped onto the
mat that represented myself. (I had placed the obstacle mat first,
then covered it with the mat that represented me.)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/82/23/84/24/0082238424015_500X500.jpg" class="decoded" src="http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/82/23/84/24/0082238424015_500X500.jpg" height="200" width="200" />I realized that when I was standing on
the obstacle, my body was pulled down and it was all I could see. My
head was dangling. My body was all crunched. I couldn't see my
resources, and couldn't see the horse, which symbolized my outcome. I
also couldn't see the bridge to the outcome.
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I slowly moved through the mats at Lucia's
suggestion, breathing and reporting to her how my body felt.
At one point, Lucia began doing voice-dialogue with me as I stood on
each of the different mats.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the bridge mat, my
body felt like crying and allowing myself to be sad. When Lucia
interviewed me in this position, I said that I was sad that I was a
finite human being with limitations. That the world isn't really
magic. That I still had to do the work, which brings manifestation
into reality.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I was interviewed from the
resources mat, I had an impatient, almost eye-rolling energy. I
explained to Lucia that if “Dorothy” would just accept the
obstacle she could move forward with her dreams. The
obstacle itself had led her to her current 12-step support group, but
now Dorothy was worried about <u><i>needing</i></u> a 12-step group. This energy
was big, and kept waving it's arms repeating “enough with the drama
about BEING in a 12-step program.”
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once I removed this obstacle, the mats
re-aligned. I placed the resources mat below my Self mat. In front of
me I placed the horse mat, who was pulling me to the Bridge that was
next to my outcome. Now I felt as if I was being pulled naturally
towards my goal, and could enjoy the ride instead of struggling and fighting for my dream.
</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It has been 2 weeks since my mat
session. I continue to journal with the images as I am guided. At
this writing, many of the images are pointing to insights that were
brought up during my mat session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a Visioning®
coach, the biggest mistake I've seen clients make is not taking the
time to explore and understand their vision boards. They get bored,
or become afraid of what an image may symbolize. They want to get to
the dream without doing the work. If you find this happening, the
added element of mat work allows complete embodiment of the images in a much deeper way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">To
find out how you can get a mat work session, </span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">or to contact Lucia
about her certified training programs visit: <a href="http://www.luciac.com/">www.luciac.com</a>. </span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Lucia often works remotely or can direct you to a facilitator near
you.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Dorothy
Segovia is a certified Visioning coach, musician and author of My
Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself through Life's little Obstacles
workbook and music CD. Read more of her blogs at <a href="http://www.writeinside.com/">www.writeinside.com.</a></span>
</i></span>
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Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-6292277487298163202014-02-05T23:56:00.000-08:002014-12-24T10:09:30.685-08:00Three-panel Vision Solutions<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While Visioning®
a dream is an amazing process, collage also works when
seeking solutions to daily stress. For instance, I work a full-time
job, a part-time job and also care-take the ranch where I live. My
life is completely opposite from my recent two-year stint as a pet-sitter. Needless to say,
I've struggled to maintain balance.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've endured shoulder, arm and hand difficulty as I've acclimated to
computer work most of the week. I've learned to say “no” to many
friend invitations in order to say “yes” to me. I've become bad
at returning calls. While I know it is vital to create a schedule
that includes creative time, I'm struggling
with time management. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now
that my body is used to my work life; thanks to my stand up desk and
willingness to try a variety of keyboard, mouse, and chair
combinations—my stress has taken the form of an eczema breakout.
And it is no big surprise that it's happening on my shoulders and
arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
order to accept and listen to my symptoms, my go to solution is the
three-part collage. </span></div>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img class="irc_mut" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JfkgRybfMq0/UmcJY-O_qOI/AAAAAAAADck/gTvp3Bk0dOE/s1600/Create%2Bvision%2BBoard.jpg" height="394" id="irc_mi" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="394" /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image courtesy of http://youngmommymemoirs.blogspot.com</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's how it works. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take
a large rectangle paper (18 x 24 inch) and fold it into three equal
sections. (Three pages of 8 1/2 x 11 works too.) Lay the paper on the
table in front of you and number them as follows:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
left section is Number 1: where you are now. </span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
right section is Number 2: where you want to be.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
middle section is Number 3: the solution.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take
several minutes to breathe, grab a magazine and go. The key is to
work quickly, only using a few images per section depending on the
amount of time you have. The process is focus on one panel at a time
in number order. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rip
out a few images that grab you, trim and glue (or tape) to the page.
Then work the next panel. In between each section, take a few minutes
to breathe and look at the images, but don't stop to journal.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For
example: I just took a break to complete a collage on 18 x 24 inch
paper in 40 minutes. </span>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Regarding
the eczema question, my surprise about section 1 is that I don't have
a picture of skin anywhere. Instead I have the
truth-telling phrase: </span>
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</span>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I'm
aging and panicking. Where can I find peace?”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gulp.
This really <i>is</i> where my head has been at: I've been feeling my
age in all aspects of my life.</span></div>
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</span>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Panel
2 depicts a sleeping woman and the phrase OWN every Sunday. </span>
</div>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sunday
is my one day off and basically, sleeping on Sunday is exactly where
I have been for the past several months. </span>
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</span>
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</div>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
middle section, representing the middle path between worrying about
aging yet wanting to sleep my time away is an image of
two horses standing in a field with the word Soulbringer across the
photo.</span></div>
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</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So.
Without picking up the pen I've already discovered two things: my
stress has to do with growing older and that my sleep through Sunday
solution is no longer working. I have an inkling about what the horse
images are, but I want to spend time gaining clarity before I
share!!!</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NEXT
MONTH: My favorite techniques for discovering the secrets of my
vision board. </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If
you don't want to wait that long to learn how to work with your own
collage, check out Lucia's book, <i>Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing
the Life of Your Dreams. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">The
chapters are loaded with journaling methods you can use to gain
insights to your vision. </span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To
purchase Lucia's book or information on her 2014 workshops, click
here to go to her <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.luciac.com/index.php/workshops">website</a></u></span></span>.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Dorothy Segovia is a certified Visioning Coach, writer and musician who practices the art of collage in all of her creative projects. To find out more, visit her at www.writeinside.com</i></span>
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</span>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-77465255035581183602014-01-12T22:57:00.004-08:002014-12-24T10:09:03.443-08:00Visioning® Solutions<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is mid-January, do you know where
your goals are? If you are happily moving towards your intention,
then HOORAY, keep going! But if you are like me, you are still
figuring out which one of your many desires to actually commit to
paper.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
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</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
addition, I've often found that setting a goal had the opposite
affect. That is, I give up because my desire seems too big, too far
away or takes too much energy. Esther Hicks, co-author of the
Abraham-Hicks series of lectures and books explains goal-setting this
way,<b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>“There is something in the attitude of trying that makes you
turn and go the other way (against the current that leads to your
dream.) But it is something different if you just let go. You call it
surrender, but we don't mean giving up. You can't give up on your
desires because your dreams are eternal.” </b></span></span><b>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As
a long-time visionary, I know that we set goals because we believe
reaching them will create happiness. But I want peace and joy
regardless of external circumstances. This intention, combined with
Visioning®, will itself lead to my desire.The reason is that Visioning®
is the solution when we are in the middle of a stressful
situation. In chapter 11 of her book, <i>Visioning:
Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams,</i>
Lucia addresses the topic of work and career. She sites specific case
studies of others who solved issues through collage and journaling.
One case addresses dealing with difficult people on the
job—specifically the manager from hell. Having
the manager of hell as a boss doesn't seem like the path to peace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Visioning
is a highly effective method for dealing with such situations from
the inside out. Why? Because it is possible to safely express
emotional buildup through a picture of “what is” and then move on
to visioning “how it could be.” The release of tension through
collage and writing frees up tremendous amounts of creative and
physical energy. Worries and anxiety can be dumped out onto the
paper, clearing the way for the vision of a positive future.” page
175, <i>Visioning: Ten
Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span></span></div>
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2014 is going to be all about applying Visioning® to situations that
keep us stressed out, instead of blissed out. Learn the method
firsthand <b>Sunday,
January 19, 2014 from 10am to 5pm</b>
in San Luis Obispo, CA., by joining Lucia at her Visioning®
workshop. The cost is $100.00 and space is limited. Register by
calling 805 546-1424 or by emailing <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:luciacapa@aol.com">luciacapa@aol.com</a></u></span></span>.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It is not necessary to make a large scale collage. A small 8 1/2 by 11 collage will suffice. Here are a quick review of the steps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Make a wish.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Search for images and words.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Focus on the vision.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Compose the design.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Explore and find order in creative chaos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Create the collage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Articulate the vision.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Reinforce the dream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Embrace the reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. Celebrate the dream come true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So what feeling do you want to create this holiday? Lots of activity with family and friends is one way. Spending some time alone to reflect or taking an evening walk to see the lights is another. Eggnog by the fire listening to music is yet a different choice. By taking time to collage with your Creative Self, you are sure to cut through the plethora of decisions if you let your heart guide you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stress/MH00030" target="_blank">the Mayo clinic has great tips for beating the stress. Not surprisingly, acknowledging your feelings is at the top.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Celebrate, appreciate and create. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Dorothy Segovia is a certified Visioning(R) Coach and author of <u>My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Obstacles</u>. Read more of her writing at www.writeinside.com.</i></span></span><br />
Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-1960773616719134072013-11-03T19:04:00.003-08:002014-12-24T09:55:07.200-08:00Visioning® and Appreciation<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While celebrating a dream or major step
along the way is important, creating appreciation lists on a regular
basis is key to a bliss-filled life. Whenever I get into a funk,
jotting down my blessings can shake me into a better state of mind.
At the very least, it halts a negative cycle. The reason is that I am
focusing on what I have instead of what I do not have. In addition,
the simple action of pen to paper brings body and mind together in
the present moment.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Acknowledging all the support you
received throughout the Visioning® process begins with thanking your
creative self. As the source of your creativity and the sustaining
force that helped you reach for your dream, your creative self
deserves your gratitude and appreciation. This is an opportunity to
express thankfulness from the bottom of your heart and to do it in as
creative a way as possible. Starting with a thank-you letter, you can
go on to conceive a unique and very personal ritual of gratitude to
your creative self.” <i>page 165, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From goalviz.com. The benefits of a Gratitude Journal and How to Use One.</span></td></tr>
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we write a thank-you letter to your creative self. What has it given
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next, she has suggestions for designing
and carrying out a gratitude ritual, also thanking our creative self.
Some ideas include: creating and displaying a prayer or card,
dedicating a special corner in our home to our creative self, and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“With your nondominant hand, allow
your creative self to write a message to you. If you have questions,
write them with your dominant hand and allow the creative self to
respond with your non-dominant hand.” <i>page 166, Visioning: Ten
Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span></div>
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author of <b>My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's
little Accidents,</b> a how-to book with music CD. Visit her at
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Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-42465137607877663072013-10-02T19:07:00.001-07:002014-12-24T09:52:32.965-08:00Visioning Step 10: Celebrate the Dream Come True<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"There's no way to know when it's the right time to do this step. You'll have to decide. It depends upon how your dream unfolds and at what point you feel the need to start celebrating. It may take a few weeks, months or more, depending upon the complexity of your heart's desire. The creative self has its own internal rhythm that gives us what we need when the time is right. Dream your dreams, do your work, but have patience and faith as well. Turn the results over to your creative self and trust the process. And remember that it is a <i>process</i>; there's no end point. Celebration occurs when you feel like acknowledging yourself, your creative self, and others who have helped you in your journey." -- <i>page 161, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are the concepts in the above paragraph that catch my attention: "feel the need to start celebrating," and "celebration occurs when you feel like acknowledging yourself."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I generally thought of celebrating as "the cookies are done, now we can enjoy." But throughout the Visioning(R) process, I have found all sorts of reasons to celebrate. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I dared to name what I want in my life.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I committed my dream to collage.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following the journal steps in each chapter gave me the feeling that I <b>am</b> moving towards my dream. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning my dream over to my creative self allows me to reach my dream in ways I never imagined.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, when a dream manifests I know I'm going to collage another. And another after that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, achieving a goal is fantastic, but celebrating the steps make the journey even sweeter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dorothy Segovia is a certified Visioning(R) Coach who dreams big. She is the author of <i>My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents</i> book with music CD. She can be reached at www.writeinside.com.</span></span>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-50140513273052851982013-09-01T12:19:00.001-07:002014-12-24T09:50:12.576-08:00Visioning Step 9: Embrace the Reality<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Embracing your dream means accepting
all the challenges that come with it. Expecting it to be handed to
you without some inner work in unrealistic. Committing to your dream
is like becoming a parent; you're in it for the long haul, “for
better or for worse.” </i><i><b>page 151, Visioning: Ten Steps to
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vowel to actually move to Ventura, in spite of working a collage with
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oddly enough, here's where a miracle
stepped in. Last April, on the day I was packing to move to a 5-week pet-sit in Morro Bay, I received a call from an
employment agency to interview for full-time work close to Ventura. Miraculously, because I had a feeling this was going to happen, the day before, I
had phoned a colleague about whether to accept an “interview in the
bush within commuting distance from Ventura” rather than the
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for a paid, 5-week gig was more solid than an interview with an agency which would result in an interview for a temporary to staff job. On my Ventura collage, the lower right corner has 4 girls' feet resting on a table. When I walked into the
Morro Bay pet-sit, the painting on the wall depicted 4 womens' feet
resting on beach-towels. In both images the feet had brightly
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>To fully accept that your dream will
come true, you have to see yourself playing the role in your new
visual scenario. What part of you wants to emerge? The artist, the
homebody, the business entrepreneur? Of course, the role is not who
you are, it's a way of experiencing. The role allows you to stretch
and grow and become a fuller human being. </i><i><b>Page 149,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before the Visioning®
method, I was afraid to ask for what I wanted. But now, I have not
only learned how to ask, but I have also let go of the outcome.
Surrendering my dream and giving up are two different things.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I surrendered to the fact that I
actually had no idea how to be a successful business-person. I needed
to continue asking for help: from a support group, a 12-step sponsor
and private sessions with Lucia to release stuck energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Allowing your Vision collage to bear
fruit requires that you embrace both your dream and your present life
with awareness. </i><i><b>Page 147, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing
the Life of Your Dreams.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I just left a 2-day pet-sit at the
home in Morro Bay with the painting of the 4 womens' feet. It's time
to create a new collage that focuses on a stable environment where I
support myself and my creative projects. Will it be in Ventura?
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe...</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dorothy Segovia is a certified
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coach and author of My
Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents,
a how-to book with music CD. Visit her at www.writeinside.com</span></i></div>
Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-55971607048510987752013-08-02T07:55:00.000-07:002014-12-24T09:46:18.898-08:00Visioning Step 8: Reinforcing the Dream<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>This phase of Visioning invites you to simply contemplate your collage. You do this by looking at it as well as picturing it in your mind's eye. This is how you reprogram your mind to believe in the reality of what you truly want. You are undoing the programming we've all received that says: believe only in what you see, feel, hear, taste, and touch in the present moment or what you experienced in the past. </i>page 138, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The key idea in Step 8 is the great undoing. That is, you are taking a stand for your heart's desire that flies in the face of outdated beliefs of where you think you should be in your life. The undoing is releasing self-judgment, outer criticism or comparing yourself to anyone. Colorado life coach Tama Kieves has this to say about the importance of undoing in her July Mojo message newsletter. <i>..A life of vision means you are following what you cannot see– but know. Following your heart is radical. It’s the commitment to follow a juice not of this world. Your life may look like less than you imagined, but do not be deceived. You do not yet know how to imagine. If you want to live a singular life, you cannot compare yourself to other. I suggest you take back your freedom. Take back your focus. Take back where you place your attention... </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinforcing the dream by spending time with the completed collage seems deceptively easy. Yet, this is where many dreams fall by the wayside. Because the work phase of actually creating the collage is done, it is easy to look at the collage for a few days, then jump over to the next collage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But contemplating and burning your dream's images is an act of creation. Activating the feeling of living your dream is serious play. Allowing yourself to become immersed in the collage images sets the stage for the images to come true. By spending time with your dream a minimum of 3x a day, you are telling the powers that be: yes, I'm ready for my dream to become reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>D</i>or<i>othy Segovia is a long-time dreamer, and author of My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents. www.writeinside.com.</i></span> Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-28074565832617150462013-07-01T22:01:00.003-07:002014-12-24T09:43:23.733-08:00Visioning Step 7: Articulate the Vision <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Interpreting the meaning in your collage through journal-writing is a significant part of </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visioning®. Translating pictures into words bridges intuitive and rational thought non-verbal and verbal ways of knowing, right and left sides of the brain, and yields invaluable insight into the creative unconscious. It's a lot like interpreting dreams. Anyone who's ever deciphered the seemingly strange juxtapositions of images and scenarios that visit us in the sleep state knows the power of this non-rational world. So packed full, in fact, that it often requires some practice, skill, and time to “get the message.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Congratulations! You have completed your collage. You are now ready to discover the meaning in the collage words and images. Image writing, Writing by Heart, and Telling My Story journal exercises from <i>Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams </i>are vital keys to unlocking the messages. However, Visioning® can also be used to interpret dreams, as well as process emotional energy This months blog is a a Q & A from CJEA practitioner and author, Claire Perkins, who used Visioning® to articulate her grief after her son Cameron died. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>How did the collage process itself help you to articulate your grief after the loss of your son?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grief, for me, was infinitely larger and more complex than just deep sadness. It was a roller coaster of every emotion on the spectrum: anger, guilt, sadness, rage, depression, fear, love, gratitude, deep peace, laughter, joy, relief. Often it was a combination of many feelings – even conflicting feelings – all at once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While I’ve always journaled, during the journey of grief it was sometimes difficult to find the words to express what I was feeling. I think that’s because emotions live in the right brain and language lives in the left brain, so there can be a disconnect in trying to translate feelings directly into words. But imagery and emotion are right brain neighbors; they are more similar in expression. And images tell a story, and story connects back to language. The images become a bridge from feelings to words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With collage, I could thumb through magazines and find all kinds of imagery that resonated with whatever I was feeling. Creating a collage of my darkest feelings was a cathartic process. It gave me a way to express and move the emotions through and out of my body and energy system. Through collage, my feelings became something tangible that I could then observe more objectively. Collage allowed me to step out of the feelings, if only for a moment, and hold them at arm’s length. From that arms-length visual perspective, journaling became easier and the results were incredibly powerful and transformative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>How did collaging your dreams facilitate your healing?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">About a week before my son died, I had a very powerful dream about a huge wave washing up the streets of a city, terrifying a little boy. The dream really stuck with me and I decided to create a collage of it. The collage contained all kinds of water images, images of children, a surfer, and two different women – one with eyes open and one with eyes closed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After my son died, I dialogued with every image in the collage and received profoundly healing messages from each one. The answers that came were definitely from a higher realm than my waking consciousness. One of the images even spoke as my son, and I knew it was him speaking to me, telling me that he was fine, that he loved me and that I should continue to live my life to the fullest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An in depth description of this process as well as a transcript of the thirteen dialogues that emerged can be found in my book, <i>The Deep Water Leaf Society, Harnessing the Transformative Power of Grief</i>, available at DeepWaterLeafSociety.com, Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Big Wave collage, and the messages I received from its images, continued to speak to me for a very long time and contributed greatly to my healing process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Claire Perkins is an Author, Artist and Evolutionary. She has been a certified CJEA practitioner since 2004. Visit her website, ClairePerkins.com or connect with her at Facebook.com/ClairePerkinsSpiritualEvolution.</i></span>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-55434870848346170662013-06-04T07:42:00.000-07:002014-12-24T09:38:36.725-08:00Visioning Step 6: Create the Collage<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When we reach this step of the collage process, we have learned how to listen to our heart's message, clipped images, sorted them, composed our design and wrestled with the doubting Critic. However, just because we are out of the woods and actually gluing images and words onto our heart-sized paper, we are not necessarily immune to the fear-based rational mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In spite of having created many collages, I never fail to be delighted and surprised at my completed Vision board. The initial composition, images and words set on the page before step 5, the step where I dialogue with the Critic and stand up for my dream, always shifts in this stage—IF I ALLOW IT TO TRANSFORM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“For example Clare was completing a Vision collage and noticed a big empty space under a photo of a bespectacled photographer looking out from behind the lens of his camera. Clare had interpreted the photo as symbolizing her need to focus on her dream. Suddenly her eye glanced over to a discarded ad in her reject word pile. A caption and paragraph jumped out at her and spoke to a far deeper meaning in the picture. It read:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Our eyes are capable of seeing many things in life;</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>what is common and familiar, or what is rare and extraordinary.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i><i>Clare took this to mean that she needed to look at everything in life with new awareness and attentiveness. A camera lens is a mundane and quite literal illustration for the idea of focus. On the other hand, the word “visionary” and its accompanying text allude to another, deeper level of perception.” page 117</i>, <u>Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By allowing Clare to stay in her heart space rather than head space, she was able to notice and retrieve her word caption from the discard pile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As Lucia states in her book, Visioning is a form of active meditation. That is, both practices seek greater connection to our Creative Self. This Visioning principle applies to our daily life as well. Of course we all wake up with a plan of what we need to accomplish, but allowing our heart to gently guide us through our to-do list makes an ordinary day, extraordinary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Dorothy Segovia is an author, songwriter and certified Visioning coach practicing in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. She can be reached via her website at www.writeinside.com. </i></span>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-31512939359155123842013-05-05T13:27:00.000-07:002014-12-24T09:35:14.854-08:00Visioning Step 5: Explore and Find Order in Chaos<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The hardest part about this step is the word explore. The reason is that if I am in chaos, I want out. Now. Even if I claim I'm willing for the chaos to shift into order, I still want it to happen yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's what Lucia has to say about this vital step in the creative process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“In Visioning we are reshaping the images in our heads to catch up with the vision in our hearts. The heart leads, or more accurately, it allows...it wants us to experience the creative self: its ecstatic highs, unfathomable depths, and everything in between.” <b>Visioning Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams. page 104.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i><i>Traveling with Pomegranates</i> co-author Sue Monk Kidd describes her journey with chaos while collaging the outline for her fiction work, <i>The Secret Life of Bee's</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“...It was pretty much an unconscious process. I told myself I was being creative, turning my play instinct loose to roam around and find what fascinated it. Inside, I was thinking: This is nuts. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>I ended up culling the pictures to twenty images and randomly gluing them together. Among them: ...A whirling cloud of bees. A black Madonna wrapped in chains... A banner that reads Walls For Wailing."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kidd goes on to describe her doubt over her idea to write a fiction book. Up until this point, she had only published non-fiction. Kidd also reflects on sharing the collage with her daughter and co-author, Ann Kidd Taylor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“...When the idea came, it felt inspired, but knowing how capable I was of doubt and how cold my feet would get, I wrote a note to myself: 'Sue, this is a really good idea. Before you dismiss it, remember how you felt when it came to you.' </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i><i>If it hadn't been for that note, the idea never would have survived. I still wasn't sure whether it was perfectly ridiculous or ridiculously perfect.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i><i>Ann does not laugh or roll her eyes. 'So where do they go?' (Ann is referencing the plot scenario that Kidd explained while sharing the collage outline.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hum. If exploration through collage was Sue Monk Kidd's process for ordering chaos into <i>The Secret Life of Bee's</i>, then by all means—let the chaos begin.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Guest blogger Dorothy Segovia is an author, songwriter and certified Visioning coach living in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. She can be reached via her website at <a href="http://www.writeinside.com./" target="_blank">www.writeinside.com. </a></span></span></i>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-66576831727748088632013-04-07T13:56:00.000-07:002014-12-24T09:32:43.818-08:00Visioning Step 4: Composing the Design<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I am facilitating a Visioning (R) workshop, this is the step where I end up taking someone's glue away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After all the photos are collected, after the words are in place, now it's time to place the images together on the page. This is designing the composition—and because we are the designers, there is no wrong answer!!! But designing and gluing are two different steps. Here's what Lucia has to say,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>In putting your Vision collage together, you'll let your creative conscience lead the way. You'll mix and match individual elements, fitting pictures with words to find meaning. Like Alice in Wonderland, things will mean what you want them to mean. The significance you assign to the pictures will be personal and specific to your heart's desire. When you have the right match, your heart will say, yes. When the pieces of your dream find each other, you will feel it in your body. - page 91, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ann Beazer explained it like this in the following excerpt from her letter to Lucia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“In the visioning session you led in June 2001 when I first met you-- I recall being so thrilled with my collage - something I had never done before - because it was a pleasure to look at. That was a break through beyond my inhibitions of drawing or painting. I realize that I still feel the same today having made dozens and dozens of collages since. Since the invitation to attend that event was from someone who leads a nutritional organization for women I had assumed our June 2001 evening would be about health; not so for me. The focus phrase of my vision board was My New Future. That evening I immediately decided that I wanted to learn with you - so I took details of your CJEA accreditation and was with you in Cambria in March 2002. The rest is history as they say! I have never looked back. I love teaching Creative Journaling and liberating people from all the rules and releasing them from the boredom of writing all the time.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The wonderful thing about this letter was that Ann actually put Lucia's logo in her collage (image at the top left) <i>before</i> she knew what the Creative Journal logo was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ann Beazer is a Certified Creative Journal facilitator and Visioning (R) coach.in the United Kingdom.</i><i>Her core workshops are Creative Journal, Work with Passion, Visioning and Living Well. Each workshop is supported with complete sets of materials to use during the workshop and afterwards. </i><i>Contact her at ann.beazer@me.com</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Dorothy Segovia is the Visioning Coach blog manager and certified Creative Journal facilitator and Visioning(R) Coach. She specializes in collaging your way through obstacles. Her how-to book with music CD, <u>My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents,</u> is available at </i><a href="http://www.writeinside.com/"><i>www.writeinside.com</i></a><i>.</i></span></span><br />
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<br />Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-33755240623988171212013-03-04T12:06:00.001-08:002014-12-24T09:30:54.884-08:00Visioning Step 3: Focus on the Vision <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So. You're sitting amidst piles of images and words. You've gathered them because your heart has sent you on a quest. You have made a wish, you have a focus phrase, now it's time to focus on the vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"It is said that Michelangelo described sculpting as 'getting rid of everything that wasn't the sculpture.' That's what you are about to do. Step 3 emphasizes the next phase in the creative process: discrimination, elimination, editing, refinement, exclusion." -- page 84, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now it's time to sift and sort. This step is often overwhelming because I want to take everything with me. So I break down the process further with three piles: Yes. No. Maybe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I need to do this because three other words are blocking the way to my collage creation: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discrimination. Elimination. Exclusion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are harsh words. I believe that more of anything is better, especially creative ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This third way of "yes, no, maybe" creates breath and space. It makes way for fun so I can enjoy the process. After all, Visioning(R) is fun!!!! Remember???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gratefully Step 3 applies to the collage<i> after</i> it is created as well:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I can apply the discrimination. elimination. exclusion word revelations to my current vision of moving to Ventura. While my collage has manifested in amazing ways, I'm still....not....quite.....there: renting a room and working. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But phooey creates the opening for the Saboteur to step in and give up on the journey when I may have only 500 yards to drive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Looking at my collage, I focus on the phrase "Today is the day I write my own story." Yes. No. Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, I still want to move to Ventura.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No, I'm not willing to give up on my dream. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe if I send out an email to everyone asking specifically for what I want--my own room in Ventura, even temporarily--so I can practice living my Ventura life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bingo! I am happy to report I am staying for several days in a fabulous guest room in Ventura on a beautiful sunny ranch with two dogs, three cats and four amazing new friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Your heart may show you things your minds is not ready to grasp. Keep your eyes open for new possibilities. If you knew everything there is to know about yourself, you wouldn't be weaving a new dream or following your heart's desire. Your creative self is leading you into new territory. Will you travel there?" </i><i>--page 85, Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>What will you do today to focus on your dream????</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Guest blogger Dorothy Segovia is a certified Vision Coach who knows how to focus on a dream. She is the author of <i>My Body, My Car: How to Coach Yourself Through Life's little Accidents</i>, a book about using Creative Journaling and original songs to move through obstacles. <a href="http://www.writeinside.com/">www.writeinside.com</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6958703118560382448.post-28544290308798867492013-02-05T17:35:00.002-08:002014-12-24T09:28:22.097-08:00Visioning Step 2: Visioning EuphoriaVisioning® Euphoria by guest blogger Kate Dana <br />
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With Lucia Capacchione, PhD, in San Luis Obispo CA, October 2012. </div>
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In October 2012 I attended a one-day workshop with Lucia Capacchione, PhD, best-selling author of 18 books, including VISIONING®: Designing the Life of Your Dreams. Under Lucia’s guidance, several attendees and I followed the 10 steps of Visioning® and ended the day with huge posters of our heart’s desire (“dream goals”). Mine was based on creative work, travel and living in a Spanish-speaking country, all of which I am doing now. Visioning® works. I was convinced when I read Lucia’s book, but meeting her and practicing the method together confirmed me as a believer. If you have a chance to attend one of Lucia’s workshops, I strongly recommend it.<br />
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Starting the 10 Steps to Visioning® on a sunny Saturday in México</div>
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Occasionally, life goals need adjusting. While I still have my original Vision board with me, when I find parts of it feel “stuck,” I create a smaller board to focus in on what needs a boost. Additionally, I have learned if you are not specific enough with your Visioning®, you will get what you ask for, like ordering mayonesa for your elote, when you really wanted crema. It still tastes good, but it’s not exactly what you want. Realizing this, I spent a sunny Saturday afternoon working Lucia’s magic. Just starting the process of Visioning® made me happy: when we stir energy around us – our lives, our desires, etc., – the kinetic energy is almost like a natural euphoria.<br />
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Midway through Visioning® – creative energy feels great</div>
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I have the 10 steps for Visioning® from Lucia’s workshop here with me in México. I follow them one by one, from brainstorming to finding images and text to assembling everything into a collage. One of my favorite of the 10 Steps for Visioning is Step 2: Searching for Images and Words, or the designers research phase, which comes as no surprise since I have graphic design experience. Step 2 begins by gathering pictures, captions, and phrases from magazines, a personal collection of photos or other visual sources. The emphasis is on what experience you wants to create in life rather than just images of things to be acquired. The mantra is: Grab what grabs you. Lucia urges creators to keep an open mind while gathering as many relevant images and words as needed. If other great but unrelated pictures surface, set them aside to be used in other collages. As mentioned in Step 3: Focus on the Vision, some people gather too many images, creating a giant pile that feels overwhelming to sort through. The best solution for this is to ask specifically, “Does this express my innermost wishes, my fondest dreams?” If it doesn’t, there may still be a reason it “grabbed” you; find a large envelope and stash these images or words for a future collage, where they may be relevant.<br />
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Collage detail: “Grabbing what grabs me”</div>
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When gathering words and images, I sometimes feel persuaded to collect positive phrases or motivational quotes, partly because I am fighting off what Lucia calls the “Inner Critic” voice, the doubts we occasionally hear in the back of our minds as we pursue anything. Mentioned in Step 5: Explore and Find Order in Creative Chaos (from the 10 Steps to Visioning®), these doubts can come from ourselves or others around us. I find it most important when this happens to stop and write a “Q and A conversation,” asking myself what I want and why, responding honestly and free of fears. As with most situations in life, if you doubt them, you rob them of opportunity. If you believe, they have a much stronger foundation to stand on, with your focus and faith as support.<br />
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Visioning® to Go, in a vibrant “Méxican pink” envelope</div>
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While Lucia recommends a giant poster, I don’t have the space, so I create a smaller piece that folds in half or thirds, like a card or brochure. I find having my Visioning® collage with me is like carrying a mantra or prayer. This small item keeps me in check. I refer to it when I wake up, throughout the day, and before I go to sleep so the vision is fresh in my mind. Eventually, the desired outcome begins to happen. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly; signs and events reveal that the Visioning® is working: it is real. We all have the power to direct our own life, we just need to say how or what we want, and be specific. <br />
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Visioning® collage: Inspiration. It’s all around us.</div>
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My Visioning® collage turned out great: colorful, organized, and specific to what I am focusing on: all very much to my liking. I can already feel the changes I want happening. Gracias Lucia por tu Visioning® y por su información. Todos somos de gran alcance en su interior.<br />
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<i>Guest blogger Kate Dana is a mixed-media artist and travel writer studying Spanish and teaching English in Jalisco, México. Since 2009 Kate has been studying Spanish, creating art and traveling. She is inspired by the music, food and history of Spanish-speaking countries and has enjoyed visits to Spain, the Dominican Republic and México. Visit <a href="http://www.katedana.com/">www.katedana.com</a> to read about Kate's travel adventures.</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>Kate is also a 2012 graduate of International Teacher Training Organization in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, where she earned a Certification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. For more information visit </i><a href="http://www.katedanateaches.com/"><i>www.katedanateaches.com</i></a>Lucia Capacchione, PhD, ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00734086807265054632noreply@blogger.com0