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Aligning with 'the Wish Fulfilled'
- By Jamie Walters
- Published 01/21/2010
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Jamie Walters
Jamie Walters is an inspired 'creative inquirist', transformation guide, inspiration catalyst, and "prophet of an emerging new economy of intelligent, caring, cutting edge entrepreneurs.
She is the founder of Ivy Sea, Inc., author of Big Vision, Small Business the handbook for conscious SOHO/Solo enterprise published by Berrett-Koehler — and Leading at the Visionary Edge (forthcoming from ICFAI University Press). She is also the creatrix of Ivy Sea Online.
Jamie integrates her professional / business experience with her energy, shamanic, and Indigenous Wisdom training, to help individuals and organizations cultivate vision, intuition, creativity, and other innate and unique gifts, and apply them in the workplace and other areas of life.
This liberation of this innate 'genius' supports skillful communication, transformation, conscious business,and a meaningful, purpose-aligned way of being and working.
Visit Ivy Sea Online.
There is a saying: "Pain pushes, until vision pulls."
A vision reflects our sense of purpose. A clear vision is like our North Star, rich with a sense of who we are, what we're doing, and what we're doing it. It gives us a sense of direction and momentum, and guides inspired, efficient action.
With our intention and attention on that vision, we navigate whatever is before us more easily, supported by the courage vision bestows.
And there are times when we lose sight of our vision -- or an older vision has faded -- and we feel unmoored or untethered. We feel 'in between' a passing cycle and an emerging one.
Many of us -- invidually and organizationally -- have experienced or are experiencing this 'in between' , particularly as we're being invited to find new ways of defining and approaching things.
Is this the case for you in some way, too? An old cycle, with its vision, is completing; a new cycle, with its vision, is just emerging.
This 'in between' place can feel uncomfortable for many of us, because we want to know, we want uncertainty vanquished with a clear sense of where we're headed. We want to feel guided, inspired … we want that sense of strong, powerful momentum that clear vision gives us.
At the same time, these 'in between' places -- the places of uncertainty -- have long been considered powerful spaces of creativity, ripe and rich with possibilities beyond what we've experienced before. The 'in between' is where we can draw on powerful forces of creativity, intuition, and vision.
How do we align ourselves with the fertile potential of the 'in between', of these spaces of uncertainty?
How do we align with 'a vision that pulls us' when we may not yet see the vision in its fully formed potency?
We can open to the emerging vision -- the inklings, feelings, a sense of its qualities, and begin to see some of the vision-puzzle pieces that are surfacing and taking shape.
By opening to these qualities -- a qualitative, felt-vision -- we can more easily align with it, inviting the 'seen vision' to take shape more clearly.
Most of us can easily say what qualities we'd like to experience and express more of - creativity, connection, joy, being of service, appreciation, love and loving. The list can go on. What does yours include?
When we begin to focus on these qualities, and invite their growing in our lives, we can begin to see more clearly a vision for how they might express themselves in the various areas of our lives: our relationships, home, community, wellbeing, work.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, in a recent Hay House talk, emphasized how powerful it can be when we let our desire to be of service shape our vision and our days. He cited the 20th century metaphysician, Neville Goddard, who said, "Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled."
This is often very different from the 'think it' visioning we might be used to.
Where we may have articulated a vision from our thoughts, traditional expectations, and past experiences, we now open to a 'full-sensory' vision, where we feel a thing as already happened, already accomplished. We feel ourselves experiencing more joy, or creativity, or being of joyful service. We feel ourselves already prospering in all areas of our lives. We feel the blessing shining from us.
For those of us who have been well-trained to be 'in our heads', to 'think it through', it can be a practice to open ourselves to full-sensory, fully felt vision, and to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
And practice we can!
There are approaches that help us to open to and cultivate the full-sensory vision until we feel it taking root, and begin to see the fruits of it not only in our experience, but in our very being.
Even as we engage and practice with our full-sensory vision -- we feel more relaxed, more centered, more inspired. We feel more clear, and more easily access intuition and emotional intelligence. We find ourselves more easily able to take inspired action and leave the extraneous behind.
We're able to 'assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled', and begin to notice the power of 'vision pulling' us, and drawing to us opportunities for expressing it.
For vision-related resources, visit Ivy Sea Online.
A vision reflects our sense of purpose. A clear vision is like our North Star, rich with a sense of who we are, what we're doing, and what we're doing it. It gives us a sense of direction and momentum, and guides inspired, efficient action.
With our intention and attention on that vision, we navigate whatever is before us more easily, supported by the courage vision bestows.
And there are times when we lose sight of our vision -- or an older vision has faded -- and we feel unmoored or untethered. We feel 'in between' a passing cycle and an emerging one.
Many of us -- invidually and organizationally -- have experienced or are experiencing this 'in between' , particularly as we're being invited to find new ways of defining and approaching things.
Is this the case for you in some way, too? An old cycle, with its vision, is completing; a new cycle, with its vision, is just emerging.
This 'in between' place can feel uncomfortable for many of us, because we want to know, we want uncertainty vanquished with a clear sense of where we're headed. We want to feel guided, inspired … we want that sense of strong, powerful momentum that clear vision gives us.
At the same time, these 'in between' places -- the places of uncertainty -- have long been considered powerful spaces of creativity, ripe and rich with possibilities beyond what we've experienced before. The 'in between' is where we can draw on powerful forces of creativity, intuition, and vision.
How do we align ourselves with the fertile potential of the 'in between', of these spaces of uncertainty?
How do we align with 'a vision that pulls us' when we may not yet see the vision in its fully formed potency?
We can open to the emerging vision -- the inklings, feelings, a sense of its qualities, and begin to see some of the vision-puzzle pieces that are surfacing and taking shape.
By opening to these qualities -- a qualitative, felt-vision -- we can more easily align with it, inviting the 'seen vision' to take shape more clearly.
Most of us can easily say what qualities we'd like to experience and express more of - creativity, connection, joy, being of service, appreciation, love and loving. The list can go on. What does yours include?
When we begin to focus on these qualities, and invite their growing in our lives, we can begin to see more clearly a vision for how they might express themselves in the various areas of our lives: our relationships, home, community, wellbeing, work.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, in a recent Hay House talk, emphasized how powerful it can be when we let our desire to be of service shape our vision and our days. He cited the 20th century metaphysician, Neville Goddard, who said, "Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled."
This is often very different from the 'think it' visioning we might be used to.
Where we may have articulated a vision from our thoughts, traditional expectations, and past experiences, we now open to a 'full-sensory' vision, where we feel a thing as already happened, already accomplished. We feel ourselves experiencing more joy, or creativity, or being of joyful service. We feel ourselves already prospering in all areas of our lives. We feel the blessing shining from us.
For those of us who have been well-trained to be 'in our heads', to 'think it through', it can be a practice to open ourselves to full-sensory, fully felt vision, and to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
And practice we can!
There are approaches that help us to open to and cultivate the full-sensory vision until we feel it taking root, and begin to see the fruits of it not only in our experience, but in our very being.
Even as we engage and practice with our full-sensory vision -- we feel more relaxed, more centered, more inspired. We feel more clear, and more easily access intuition and emotional intelligence. We find ourselves more easily able to take inspired action and leave the extraneous behind.
We're able to 'assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled', and begin to notice the power of 'vision pulling' us, and drawing to us opportunities for expressing it.
For vision-related resources, visit Ivy Sea Online.