I had never been a fan of mindset activities or aligning to values and accepting the mental head space was never considered seriously until my 30s. Call me a pessimist, but I considered myself a realist; if it was not tangible it didn’t really exist.
Some days I wonder whether we all go through this journey where we only accept the external world as the only thing that exists – after all, it is the only thing that we share in our life and existence.
Do you relate to this? And if so, then I challenge you to humour yourself and give those mindful activities a go; But also put the effort in! After all, what is the worse to happen out of it?
Now I don’t claim to be a psychology expert, though the dream is to one day study it, but I have felt that by putting the ideas down onto paper I am using more parts of my mind. The part that controls the hand; the part that controls my eyes; the part that reads; If I say it aloud then it’s the part that processes those shapes, we call letters into words and the part of my brain that controls my voice. I am exposing more parts of myself to the idea rather than the frontal lobe.
Or what about vision boards? Perhaps instead of thinking of them as a pretty collage of things that you wish for, start applying the same thought from above – consider it a method of repetitive exposure to the things that you desire. When we do that and we are driving the images and emotions deep into our subconscious and that is where the magic happens.
It is said that the subconscious is constantly looking for patterns and opportunities, so we are showing our minds what patterns and emotions to look for or work towards.
You might find that activities like mapping out your goals, relationships and emotions might not be an epiphany at the first go, but like everything it comes with practice – when building the vision for the amazing things we want to achieve – It just takes time and repetition.
The Take away
If you haven’t already tried any of my templates or activities, then it is worth having a look around… after all, what’s the worse that can happen? Activity List