“Your Vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakens.”
Carl Jung
This exercise is about locating the place within you where you hold the things that are most dear to you. It is aimed at opening you up to this place and allowing you to tune in to that guidance when you need to make difficult decisions. And also to check that the path you are on is in alignment with what you feel deep within yourself.
The more deeply and realistically you can visualise this exercise the better. So if you can take yourself off to a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed for about half an hour that would be perfect.
First imagine that you have recently been to the doctor to have a complete physical check up so that you can update your life insurance.
The phone rings and it is your doctor’s receptionist telling you that the doctor would like to see you to discuss the results of the tests. You work out an appropriate time with her and soon you are sitting in the waiting room ready to see your doctor. Think at this point about what your doctor’s waiting room looks like. What do you see? How many people are there? What do you hear?
After a short wait your name is called and you are led through to the doctor’s room. The doctor sits down in their chair and invites you to sit also. Visualise what the room looks like, what your doctor looks like, what the room smells like.
The doctor looks you in the eye with a grave expression,
“We’ve got all your results back” they say “but I’m afraid there are some anomalies in your tests and I have some bad news for you. You are going to die in thirty days. There will be no pain or degeneration. In thirty days from now you will simply and peacefully pass away.”
Think now about this news. Look at today’s date – think that on the same date in a month’s time you will be dead.
Now – what are the three to five most important things you would like to do in that time??
Assume here that you can teleport yourself all over the place instantaneously so if you wish to see loved ones who live far away you can do that immediately.
When you have written the three to five things down continue the visualisation.
Now – go back into the vision of being in the doctor’s room. Same scenario except his time the Doctor says to you that you have seven days to live. So, if today is Saturday – next Saturday you will be dead.
What are the three to five things you would most like to do in that time? These may be exactly the same as the first part of the exercise or they may change.
When you have written these down – continue below.
So – back to the vision again, except this time the Doctor says you have one day to live. So this time tomorrow you will be dead.
What are the three to five most important things you wish to do?
Write these down and continue.
Back to the vision again for the last time. This time the Doctor says you have one hour to live.
What are the three most important things you wish to do in that time? And
What are the thoughts that are going through your head?
What are the feelings that you are having?
What is your sense of self?
What are the physical sensations you are having?
When you have written all of these things down tune into them all and determine where in your body is all of this located? Where is the centre of this feeling?
When you have located this spot you have found the place where you hold the things that are most dear to you.
Now imagine a sphere of white light in this place. Imagine this sphere as a portal into which you can place things and get a feeling reaction.
From now on you can use this to make intuitive feeling based decisions about crucial things.
Take the work that you have done on your Vision Statement and Goals - place it within your white light sphere. Now without thinking about it just feel whether or not it feels right or not.
If yes – move into action, if not – rewrite them.
This is the process of opening yourself up to feeling based intuitive guidance. The more you use this method the easier it will become to ‘hear’ what you heart and gut are telling you.