Peaceful Practices | Creating a Vision Board

As we enter into the new year, I can’t think of a better time to create a vision board… This exercise is meant to encourage us to slow down and meditate on our lives… What’s working, what’s not, what steps we can take to change that. It’s a powerful practice designed to encourage us to look within and examine our core values, how we want to show up in this world, how we want to feel. Sometimes the answers to these questions can be hard to verbalize and so, through the process of creating art, oftentimes the truth rises to the surface. Whether you’ve engaged in this peaceful practice or not, today, we wanted to walk you through how to create a vision board.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• A quiet, cozy space

• 1 large, heavy-duty piece of paper

• Watercolors, paint brushes, pens, pencils, scissors, tape, etc.

• Magazines, paper, tissue paper, scrapbook paper, etc.

HOW TO CREATE A VISION BOARD:

• JOURNAL & MEDITATE

  • How do I want to feel? Right now. This year.

  • What are my core values?

  • When I think of these core values… are they reflected in how I’m living my life? If not, what changes might I need to make?

  • When I think about how I want to feel and what my core values are, what comes to mind? What colors? Textures? Visuals?

• GATHER YOUR SUPPLIES AND BEGIN PIECEING YOUR VISION TO LIFE.

  • There are no rules. Turn on some music, light some candles, drink your cup of tea, and create.

  • You can start by creating your base layer of colors using watercolors. Then, adding in secondary layers with the paper and magazine clippings. You can write down your core values if you wish, your meditations, etc. This is your vision board made to inspire you!

INTERIOR DESIGN: MAKING ROOM FOR PEACE | PHOTOGRAPHY: WE ARE LUKE & ASHLEY