The Perfectly Happy app helps you to achieve it!
What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.
-Buddha.
It is never too late to live the life of our dreams. All we ever need is to believe!
When we believe in ourselves, we are already starting a beautiful thought process that will lead us to great things. Things that we never imagined possible. But on one condition: Our thoughts only get as much power as our FAITH. So, the only way to reap the full benefits is to trust our beliefs one hundred per cent!
Here is a simple exercise: Find a quiet spot, Close your eyes, and think about something you have always dreamed of. It could be finishing a marathon, buying a vacation home overseas, or starting a new career. Or just anything! Go big on your thinking without any limits.
Take a step forward and visualise your future self for a moment. For example: Imagine yourself posing at the marathon’s finish line after all the hard-core training for half a year. Simulate the emotions you may feel at the receiving end of your dream-come-true moment. If you got some chills there, then Congratulations!! You just experienced the power of visualisation!
This article is for all such big dreamers and aspirers of limitless thinking. Only you know the taste of “success” fruit while just beginning to plant the seed because you can already see what others are yet to see! The power of believing!
The Science behind a vision board
The human brain is the most complex system ever discovered in the history of mankind.
Human beings are visual creatures. Our brains are built for visual information. The human brain processes image 60,000 times faster than text. It takes only 13 milliseconds for the brain to process an image. 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual.
The brain is constantly bombarded with billions of bits of information on a day-to-day basis. How does it know which ones to pick for processing and what to ignore?
Let me introduce you to the small part of our brain responsible for the most significant function of deciding upon what our brain should focus on: The Reticular Activating System(RAS).
RAS is a bundle of nerves at our brainstem accountable for filtering out all the unnecessary information and letting in only the critical data from our conscious mind to the subconscious. The good news is that it makes such decisions that validate our beliefs.
In other words, What we think or feel often, will find its way to us because our brain seeks such information in the world around us and brings it our way! This is the science behind the law of attraction.
A common example of the RAS in modern times is how often we notice the same type of car that we drive or someone we know. Because we see and think of that car very often, our brain has decided that car is important to us, so our RAS draws our conscious attention to that car.
The best way to simulate and activate our RAS to work in our favour is to create a vision board. Paint a picture of what we want and start telling ourselves that it is important to us and that we want it. This will enable RAS to look for opportunities to bring you closer to your vision.
All we have to do is: Trick our brains into getting what we want by visualising our thoughts!
Benefits of having a vision board
- A vision board constantly reminds us of our intentions that help shape our thoughts and actions. Every day!
- It acts like a road map that gives us clear directions about where to go when we feel lost or overwhelmed. It helps us overcome the fear of the unknown.
- It is an instant motivation boost we need when life gets in the way. It promotes our focus on the bigger picture!
- It gives us a sense of accomplishment with every step of progress, allowing our self-confidence to soar to new heights!
- It improves our chances of success.
- It helps us to shift our mindset and pushes our desire to succeed deeper than any other tool can do.
- It can help give a whole new meaning and purpose to our goals.
A vision board drives us to commit to our limitless potential and nurture our sense of self-worth.
Steps to create a manual vision board
- The visualisation has to be detailed, specific and emotion-filled [For example: Instead of saying, I want to lose body weight; Make it more specific about what you want to achieve. how much percentage of body fat you are targeting? What would the impact of the outcome be in your life? How would it make you and the people around you feel about it?]
- Collect relevant pictures to support your goal.
- Start making the board, including motivating quotes, inspiring words, and encouraging images.
- Fill the board with positive affirmations, thank you notes, and lots of feelings!
- The final step is to place the vision board where you would see it daily.
Are you ready to head to the stores to grab some sheets, markers, stickers, glue sticks, and highlighters? Oh, don’t forget to take prints of the photos. Also, make a sample copy first to avoid making mistakes.
Hold on before you grab your keys and head out of your home to buy everything. What if I told you, you could create a vision board in less than 5 minutes from the comfort of wherever you are right now?! It is called “Perfectly Happy.”
Perfectly Happy is the new home for your vision boards
https://perfectlyhappy.com/en/get-on-mobile/
Perfectly Happy is a vision board app and a gratitude journal that allows you to create your personalised vision boards in a matter of minutes. The app is available in both iOS and android play stores.
The logo of this app is a happy sunny face that perfectly depicts the purpose of including this app in our daily routine: Focus on the bright side of your life!
The app allows you to create vision boards and affirmations and enables practising gratitude/mood journals.
It also has stunning tutorial videos with empowering messages!
Create your personalised vision board:
- Sign in to the Perfectly Happy app and start the 7-day free trial.
- Let’s start creating the movie.
- Choose a vision category from the following: Recovery, Nutrition & Weight loss, Sleep & Inner Peace, Career, Wealth, Lifestyle & Travel, House, Car & Boat, Family, Friends, Relationships, and Spirituality. Or create a new category.
- Each category has a set of pre-existing images from the app. We also have an option to choose pictures from our device or pick from the web.
- Pick at least ten images. We could create a separate vision board for each class or combine two or more types into one vision board. The choice is ours! I made three vision boards, each for a specific genre!
2. Add an affirmation to every 2nd or 3rd image.
Affirmations ensure we are fully charged and motivated to act on our goals.
Many such beautiful affirmations are available in the app for each category.
There is also an option to create our own. I added an affirmation to all of my ten images because I like it that way! I like the additional feature of being able to drag and drop to change the order of the pictures in the story, giving us more flexibility to make any changes if needed.
3. Choose a gratitude affirmation [Thank you note to the universe when our vision has manifested into reality!]
We can pick from the existing list of affirmations in the app, or we can create our own. In all honesty, the existing ones are too good and well thought out! I am pretty much happy with them!
4. Add some emotional music. This is the best and my favourite part of this app. It adds a whole new dimension to the movies created. We can choose the type of music you want: fast or slow tracks. There is also an option to select tracks from our device as well.
5. Choose a name for the vision board. Let’s go all in and make it look so real!
Drum roll…..Time to Play the story of our future selves!
I love the visual cue at the end of the story mimicking sunshine, making us believe we are already one step closer to our passionate goals!
How often should you watch the vision board in a day? The app suggests we watch the movie at least twice daily: First thing in the morning and before sleep. There is an option to change the frequency and time to play the film at our will.
There are options to edit, copy or share our vision boards!
The importance of Affirmations
The Perfectly Happy app has a predefined set of amazing affirmations that will enhance our self-esteem and push our limits to go the extra mile.
In my movies, I took this a step further. I added affirmations and compliments I have received so far from work and personal life. It adds a personal touch to my vision board, in addition to serving as a reminder of my abilities and strengths.
We can also opt to schedule the frequency of affirmations on our device.
These affirmations can also be included with the images while creating your movie.
The Gratitude & Mood Journal
I love the Perfectly Happy app’s description of this feature: Creating an attitude of gratitude.
As the name implies, this feature aims at capturing thank-you notes and our current state of mind.
The tutorial in the app beautifully explains this feature. In addition, I would like to stress the profound importance of having such an attitude and the incredible difference it can have in our lives.
A grateful heart is the source of pure joy. Only a grateful mind resolves to see beauty in everything!
The power of having such a heart and mind is not only limited to appreciating good things in life. The more we count our blessings, we tend to attract good fortune.
As we saw in the previous chapter, when we consistently practice gratitude journalling, we also teach the RAS in our brains that it’s important to notice things to be grateful about, which will have a positive impact on our mood and mental state.
The mood journal keeps track of our emotions in our current state. It is the best way to reflect upon what influences our moods and understand ourselves at a deeper level.
The making of this story
This story is another testimony to the power of visualisation and attracting what you want.
I have been wanting to create a vision board for a while now. I have mentioned it to my close circle of friends and secretly wished there was an easy way to do it.
One fine day, as I logged in to my email, there was a compelling message awaiting me in my inbox from the founder of the “Perfectly Happy” app requesting a review of their app.
When I downloaded the app and found its purpose, I was enchanted to know that the app was the answer to my seeking.
Ever since I started using the app, it has been more than ten days now. I couldn’t be happier with it.
My wish for you today is: Set yourself free from all boundaries and think beyond limits. It is time to ignite the burning desires in you and start making the movies of your future self using the Perfectly happy app.
It is never too late to start shaping your life through your vision!
© Tamil, 2022
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