If you REALLY want to see your New
Years Resolutions come true -
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This is both creative and fun - remember, no special talent is required - if you can use a pair of scissors and turn pages in a magazine and glue - you can do this!
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- BUT... How to I do it?
- How can I take what I'm day dreaming about - and bring it into my physical world?
Visioning simply means... Thinking in Pictures...
Practical Visionaries in any field often say that they think in pictures.
Remember the old saying... One picture is worth 1,000 words?
Visual thinking is second nature for artists, designers, and architects who have developed this innate ability as part of their craft.
Filmmakers and theme park designers create storyboards (cartoon like panels telling the highlights of their story in captioned pictures)
Successful executives, business entrepreneurs, scientists, writers, athletes, and just plain 'folks" use mental imagery every day to "design in the mind" what they want to accomplish in the world
This has been true in the field of competitive sports for many years, in methods such as the inner game of tennis, golf, baseball, basketball and football etc.
What was once considered a highly esoteric pursuit - thinking things into reality - has now become quite common. The fact is, we all do it every day!
You may think you don't know how to visualize, but stop and think for a minute.
If I ask you to imagine a big Red Apple, what do you do? By seeing with your mind's eye, you reproduce a mental image of a big, red apple, don't you? THAT'S why we call it imagination
We use this ability every day, when we remember the route to work or visit a familiar restaurant or imagine a big red apple (as you just did).
Actually we don't see with just our eyes - we see with our brains, too.
Why is visual thinking and graphic representation so important for a Visionary?
One reason is their Suggestive Power
Visualization and other techniques for creating mental pictures are being used in the fields of medicine. Patients of all ages and walks of life have been taught to use their imaginations for:
- managing pain
- dealing with life-threatening or chronic disease. Cancer patients
are guided in mental "Pac-Man" games in which they
visualize the cancer cells being gobbled up
- losing weight (see my book: "Lighten Up Your Body - Lighten Up Your Life")
Visioning is rooted in the idea that you can design your own life, that it is within your own power to:
- take charge of your own imagination
- become a purposeful dreamer
- design the life of your dreams
- Vision your dream into reality
Visioning begins by naming your heart's desire and translating it into pictures and words on paper
It is the same process designers, architects, and engineers use when they get an idea and create sketches, models, and blueprints.
THEY know the alchemy of turning thoughts into things!
There's nothing mysterious about it!
It's the process know as DESIGN. AND you can learn it too, by designing from your heart's desires
So... How can I use this in my life?
Dr. Lucia shows you how to use Visioning in Action in your:
- Work and career - dealing with problems on the job, job changes
and career transitions
- Relationships - finding love in all the right places
- Health & Wellness - the Creative self-diet, self-worth and the
pursuit of happiness
- Find your true home - a home for the heart
Ok, I think I'm getting it... BUT Name me JUST ONE Dreamer that really did all this!!!
How about Walt Disney?...
"If you can dream it, you can
do it" was his maxim. Walt once dreamed of storytelling
in a real 3-dimensional place, a place parents could take their kids and
ALL have a good time.
And out of his
dream
- Disneyland and the Disney empire
was created.
But what are the principles and steps that dreamers and designers, such as Walt Disney, use to bring their dreams into physical reality?
- Visioning follows the same rules that inspire
professional designers and shows
how
YOU can use them in in YOUR
life, everyday
- To DESIGN the Life of Your Dreams.
- Visioning sparks "the designer within
you" and makes real the notion
that
if you can dream it, you can do it.
- The ten steps of Visioning are a road map to the creative process, applied to your
health, relationships, career, home, and all the other areas of your life.
- You will learn how to apply her blueprint
to your life, from making a wish
through
the "creative chaos"
to realizing
your personal goals and dreams.
- With easy-to-follow and playful, activities and time-tested techniques, you will effectively grasp how to take Your Wish, then visualize that wish into your life in a tangible and effective form!
Filled with success stories of her students
who have already used this process... one student
"visioned", then achieved
her dream
ranch...
Now, is the time to add your success story... isn't it???
If you are ready to take your dreams out of your head and see them in physical reality then NOW is the time to do it.
Spark "the designer within you"... Put Walt Disney's notion that "if you can dream it, you can do it" into your life.
Written by Pioneer Art Therapist Dr. Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D, she applies the design principles she acquired from her own mentors:
- Charles Eames - architect, designer, filmmaker - famous for
his high-tech Eames chairs, fanciful films, and interactive exhibits
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Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller - inventor, design scientist, poet,
and philosopher - famous for his design of the geodesic dome homes
- Corita Kent - resident professional artist and educator at
Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood- famous for her design of the US
Postal Stamp "LOVE" under a rainbow of brush strokes
- and her 10+ years working at Walt Disney Imagineering.
About the Author
Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T.
is an Art Therapist Registered
&
Registered
Expressive Arts Therapist, artist,
psychologist,
popular international workshop leader,
author
of 12 books, including her newest release, Living With Feeling - The Art of Emotional Expression
and the best-selling Recovery of Your Inner Child
The originator of the Creative Journal
Method, Dr. Lucia is recognized as a pioneer
in health and healing through creativity, using the Expressive Arts. She is an A.R.T (Art Therapist Registered) R.E.A.T. (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) and
psychologist As a career counselor, she has conducted
job outplacement seminars, talent development,
and corporate consulting for business
and
industry, including such clients as Hallmark, Mattel, and Walt Disney Imagineering.
She lives near Big Sur, California
We also highly recommend these books
Putting Your Talent To Work by Lucia Capacchione
The Power of Your Other Hand - A course in channeling the inner wisdom of the right brain by Lucia Capacchione
The Creative Journal - The Art of Finding Yourself by Lucia Capacchione
Lighten Up Your Body - Lighten Up Your Life by Lucia Capacchione
The Picture of Health - Healing Your Life with Art by Lucia Capacchione
The Well Being Journal - Drawing on Your Inner Power to Heal Yourself by Lucia Capacchione
Recovery of Your Inner Child - A Complete Course in Re-Parenting the Self by Lucia Capacchione
Living With Feeling - The Art of Emotional Expression by Lucia Capacchione, PH.D, A.R.T.
Need some supplies to do the "Dreaming" in the
books ?
Art Supplies - Artist Sets
Art Supplies - Journals - Sketch Pads - Drawing
Paper - Glue Pens
Art Supplies - Markers
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