Today I went to visit some old folks today and was reminded how important vision is. I don't mean whether your long-sighted or short-sighted, whether you can read or see the lamp post across the road. I mean the kind of vision that happens inside your mind.
These folks are the grandparents of my friend and it was my first time meeting them. One of theme became blind in the space of 2 years. I never met my own grandparents and quite frankly never had grandparents or those of similar age around me growing up. Exposure to mature-aged adults or 'wise thinking' only came about as a result of my entrepreneurial endeavours, and while I became wildly obsessed with mindset and visualisation, the more the commonly known understanding of vision was barely a thought.
For the last, I'd say 5 years now, I have been passionately researching, learning, and reflecting on ideas to do with the psychology of mind - I'd been practising meditation, diving into mindset courses, quantum jumping, human design, enneagram, neuro-linguistic programming, manifestation and more. Today I recognised one powerful aspect of all this work - that even if I were to lose my eyesight, I'd always have the ability to see. And, so do you.
A healthy mindset is access to your best form of living.
I don't think most people look at mindset this way - that it is quite literally access to another universe of which you can exist in whatever form you'd like, however successful you'd like, and how capable you'd like to feel. It is the field of imagination, capability and creativity that can come through you and express itself through your physical body.
I'll give you a quick example - think of the last time you were doing something to challenge yourself. Whether it was getting a high score in a game, finishing a race first, or baking a cake. You might have visualised or had an image of the end result. Either way you had a vision of what you were determined to achieve. Your physical presence then becomes all about this thing - playing the game, running the race or baking the cake - until you'd surpassed the image-ined scenario you had in your head.
You are a visual person. Some people will say that they are not, or that they are not great at imagination (something I used to say). I once had a coaching session with someone who said he sucked at vision, as if it is a skill to pick up and hone. In some ways it is, but I also personally believe that everyone is visionary - there is just a way that is individual to you to access it effortlessly.
(With this person we actually played around with an 8-step question exercise which activated his visionary senses and by the end of the session he had creative juices going on for his book-writing endeavour)
You have used vision to achieve successes in your life, big and small, probably without your knowing. Can you imagine what you could achieve if you used vision intentionally? As a tool to achieve so much more than your simple or short-term desires?
When you combine VISION with a healthy MINDSET, you can achieve wonderful things.
An underrated aspect of being human
I believe vision and mindset are two underrated aspects of being human that are yet to be taught or fully utilised in common education systems, and the workspace.
I don't think I credit enough the work of mindset since I am in it and around it all day long. Even when I've taken time away from coaching and the personal development world for a year now, I can't 'undo' my awareness that my thinking is playing a role in whatever I am experiencing.
Mindset has been the way in to some of the most challenging times in my life. But it has also been my way out and toward great pleasures in life. After coming out the other side of dark times more times than I'd like to say, I started to appreciate that mindset is something to master.
If used unconsciously, you can end up with poor choices, frustration, and rather unhappy relationships. But if we practice our minds, guide it, and tame it, we can ensure experiences of peace, joy, and calm for the rest of our lives.
