Visioning 2017

WHAT IS VISIONING?

• Visioning is a process by which we train ourselves to be able to hear, feel, see, and catch God's plan for our life or for any particular project we're working on.
• It is based on the idea that we're not here to tell God what do or to ask God for things but to absolutely be available for what God is already doing, to open ourselves up to catch what's already happening.

WHY IS VISIONING IMPORTANT?

• “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
• People who have no vision for their life are sleepwalking without a hint as to why they are here or what their purpose is. They are drifting along on the currents of the culture's beliefs of the day, whether those beliefs be good or bad.
• Each of us is a composite spiritual idea containing every idea that infinite Mind has ever thought. When we begin to understand our purpose for being here, which is to be a revealer of love, then we can start to open ourselves up to God's vision for us and to discover our own unique way to deliver that love, our individual mechanism by which we can express that love.
• We're here to love—to perfect, amplify, and express the unconditional divine love of God. That's our purpose.
• God's vision for our life is the means or manner by which we bring forth that love. It's our heart's desire, our own unique way of expressing the love.
• There are many ways in which we express love, but each of us has a primary vision to catch or open up to, and that is the particular delivery system which enables us to serve our purpose of revealing love.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE OPEN TO THE VISION GOD HAS FOR OUR LIFE?

• We become inspired by the ideas held in the mind of God, and they begin to live and express through us.
• We begin to be able to articulate them and to live and embody and reveal them.
• God's will is for the greater expression of life, of beauty, of everything that God is. Our heart's desire is generally about expressing ourselves, allowing our latent talents, gifts, and abilities to become actualized.
• When we express God's vision for our life, we feel fulfilled.

WHAT ARE THE STAGES OF VISIONING?

1. Visioning always begins with a deep sense that we're surrounded by unconditional love
2. We enter into the conscious awareness that we live, move, and have our being in this love
3. We open ourselves up to what that love feels like
4. We ask, “How does God see Itself as my life?”
5. We wait to inwardly hear, see, and catch what comes to us, what it looks like, what it feels and sounds like
6. We pay close attention to any symbols or metaphors that appear (All of this is done without judgment or analysis)
7. We throw ourselves open to whatever comes up
8. We notice what begins to flow through so we can articulate it, write it down, express it, dialogue about it, and be aware of how it feels (not just emotionally but spiritually)
9. We begin to articulate God's vision for our life
10. We ask the question: “What is it that I have to embody or become in order for this vision to manifest?”
11. We write it down and dialogue about it
12. We begin to get a picture of how we need to develop and grow and unfold, of how we must change
13. We pray affirmatively, not about how to accomplish the vision, but rather about the ways in which we need to grow
14. We ask: “What qualities do I need to embody, what things do I need to know, what do I need to change in my life, and how do I need to unfold spiritually in order to bring forth the vision?”
15. We pray for willingness and the ability to be a vehicle or delivery system for the vision

CAN VISIONING AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD?

• When even one individual is true to his or her vision, it assists in liberating everyone.
• When even one individual neutralizes or shifts ideas of separation and lack and limitation he or she creates a spiritual vortex that allows others to be pulled into that same vibration.
• Whoever touches that spiritual realm has a tendency to lift everyone else up.
• Whoever has the ability and the willingness to become very still and catch a vision will create an opening for others.
• Visioning allows us to realize we're at one with God, at one with the love that is everywhere.
• There are only divine ideas in the universe, whole, perfect, complete ideas.
• All we have to do is be receptive to these ideas, and then to expand our willingness to be at one with them, releasing anything within us that prevents them from expressing through us.
• The visioning process allows God to reveal Itself through us in infinite ways.

No matter what the visioning process focuses on, spiritual transformation of the individual using it is the ultimate result. It's always to shift our perception of reality. And this process goes on forever. We never reach a place where the process is complete, because God's idea is infinite and it's always expressing. We just become bigger and bigger places for it to express through. New ideas proliferate, and change is always going on. The visioning process keeps us all flexible and ready for change.

The way to our true path and to the successful expression of who we are is through the use of our own spiritual sight, or inner vision. The dynamic power of visioning as a way of discovering direction and clarity regarding life goals or a current project comes from its reliance upon the inner knower, the deep self within each of us, always available and ever responsive when we call upon it.

Each of us has the greatest gift imaginable—life—but all too often we can't imagine what to do with it. We feel adrift and lost, yet long desperately for meaning. We want to make our life count and to express the gifts of Spirit we know we are here to bring forth. But we search in vain to discover just what these unique gifts of ours are and how we might express them. We search in vain because we look outside ourselves. Perhaps we follow someone's well-intended suggestion or a popular trend of the times. However, that kind of reactive approach to seeking the right and best way to use the gift of life itself leaves us feeling frustrated, confused, and more lost than ever.