Make your dreams come true with a Vision Board

An important aspect of European Ayurveda® is mental clarity and focus, as it can help you lead a fulfilling life. Besides a healthy body is a calm, focused mind the most important foundation for holistic well-being. As in all other areas of life, it is important in Ayurveda that your visions are in harmony with your inner nature. A Vision Board reminds you every day of your personal wishes and encourages you not to stray from the path.

What is a Vision Board?

A Vision Board is a creative collage that can consist of images, texts, and symbols and represents your goals and dreams. It is a representation of your wishes and ambitions. By making your goals visually available at all times, the board helps you strengthen your focus and reminds you daily of your dreams.

How to create your Vision Board

• Self-reflection: Take enough time to consider which goals and dreams you want to realize. What is really important to you – and which goals are you pursuing only because it is expected of you? Look deep into your inner self and note what your heartfelt wishes are. Structure them into professional, personal, spiritual, and health goals.

• Determine the format: Depending on your habits, you can create your Vision Board digitally or analog. If you choose the digital version, you can collect your sources of inspiration with various tools (e.g., Trello, Pinterest). Choose a program you are already familiar with and enjoy using. If your decision falls on an analog Vision Board, you should first think about where you want to place it later. Depending on that, you can use a pinboard, a magnet board or, for example, a poster on a wall in your apartment for your Vision Board.

• Collect materials: Search for photos, texts, colors, and symbols that represent your goals in an analog way. Perhaps you already have some materials that inspire you at home? A great source for cutouts is magazines, postcards, photos, letters, etc. If you work digitally, save inspiring content, videos, or blog articles in the tool of your choice.

• Design your board: Arrange the selected materials creatively and intuitively. Listen to yourself and work on your board until it feels right.

• Place the board in a visible spot: Hang your Vision Board in a place where you can see it every day. Look at it regularly and let the images and affirmations impact you. If certain details or even entire areas are no longer appropriate for you or you have achieved this goal, change your Vision Board! Digitally, you can, for example, set the board as the start page of your computer and be reminded of your visions every day.

• Make your dreams become reality: Your Vision Board should give you confidence and determination and by no means put you under pressure. However, it can give you the boost you need to overcome obstacles and keep going.

The idea of the Vision Board goes back to the "Law of Attraction." This states that positive thoughts and visualizations lead to reality shaping accordingly. By visually representing your goals and believing in them, you attract positive energy and manifest your dreams!