The Vision Board Hot

Joyce Schwarz' The Vision Board, The Secret to an Extraordinary Life, offers another example of manifesting your dreams. Through collage-type art, affirmations, key words, mantras and "visioning" (inner spiritual practice) as a group activity, the life you desire can be created. Reminders of gratititude and belief in one's own innate power are reinforced in these pages, with individual and group samplings of vision boards.

Reading this book reminded me of a similar project I did 20 years ago during a Life Transition Course. Clipping magazine images, words, deco, then fashioning them into an art form with accompanying list of future specifics, was indeed a powerful way to envision ambitions and longings. Years later when I rediscovered this "collage" I found I had indeed reached my goals. There is energy, creativity and potential for attracting abundance through this medium.

The Vision Board reminds us also to hold gratitude for what we seek (as well as what we have), and to affirm regularly what our artwork reflects in regard to health, relationship, career, success and family. The premise of this how-to publication is honorable and worthy of consideration. However, the layout of the book seems crowded, jumbled --even a little chaotic. In retrospect, perhaps that was the author's intent: to have the book itself appear as a collage, eyes moving from one cut-out, word grouping, quote, illustration or explanation to another.