Are you a visual or an auditory learner?
Many people have a hard time with visualization because they ‘see’ in words and sounds, and not images.
And whatever your learning style, saying something out loud instantly amplifies and magnifies the impact. Practicing spoken visioning has completely transformed my life.
You can vision-speak to yourself, with a partner or with a group. Each one has its benefits.
Start to practice on your own and then work into practicing with others. You can form an alignment buddy relationship or a visioning group.
And if you join the Master Your Life Academy, I will walk you step by step through all of the modes of visioning, help you develop a habit of living life as a deliberate creator and show you how to work with an alignment buddy to support each other throughout the week!
Now let’s dive in to learn how to talk your way into your vision.
Ways to Practice Spoken Visioning
1. General Rampage of Appreciation
Rampage of appreciation is an Abraham-Hicks term that means speaking phrases that are sequentially feeling more joyous, uplifting and inspiring.
Do this when you are already feeling amazing. This way you are fatiguing your muscles of gratitude to the max and getting stronger in your ability to stay in appreciation for longer periods of time.
Exercise #1:
- When you are feeling good in your life, name the best feeling thought. You can say it out loud to yourself or call a friend (or alignment buddy from your MasterMind group).
- Notice and describe how your body feels.
- Then scan your memory again for an even more satisfying thought. And then another one.
- Keep going up the emotional scale, getting higher and higher, until you can’t think of anything else to say!
- Sample General Rampage: “I love cuddling with my kids… They fill my heart with so much joy… I can hardly breathe when I focus on how much I adore them! They remind me that life is meant to be fun and easy… I love how lost we get in playing together…. I love how exhilarated I feel after laughing with my whole body, completely blessed out in each other’s company! I have so many interactions in my life to feel this flowing, this fun and this life-giving! I love my life! I love myself! Yes, yes, yes!!!!”
Rampaging in appreciation is such an exhilarating experience! It’s like mental kung-fu training to shift your mindset.
2. Specific Rampage of Appreciation
Most people let the circumstances in their life determine how they feel. If someone is nice to them, they feel good. If someone is mean, they feel bad.
Step out of the cycle of being ping-ponged around by things seemingly out of your control – practice setting a deliberate intention on how you want to feel.
Focus on a feeling, such as confidence or abundance, and begin searching for the most potent ways of describing this feeling. In essence, paint a picture of the embodied experience with words.
Exercise #2:
- Choose on what you want to feel. If you are feeling anxious, you want to feel relaxed. If you are feeling lost and scared, you want to feel clear and empowered.
- Once you select a feeling, remember the last time you felt this way.
- Then begin finding words to describe what that feeling felt like in your body, viscerally and energetically.
- Describe what were the best parts of that feeling, and why you want to feel that way again.
- Close your eyes, remember, feel into your body and into the memory.
- The more specific words and expressions you find to describe the feeling, the stronger you will feel the desired core feeling.
- And in 3 minutes, even though NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN YOUR LIFE, you will feel completely different. Now that’s powerful!
It takes some practice to gain fluidity in speaking this way, so don’t worry if at first you notice big pauses in between sentences or if you can’t think of anything to say.
Eventually thoughts and words will flow easily to you, and the experience of stepping into the desired feeling and describing it will feel truly vorgasmic!
3. The Future You
This exercise is simple, but incredibly powerful.
Exercise #3:
- Agree to speak to a partner or group as if it is 1, 3 or 5 years from now.
- Show up at the future version of yourself and think, talk and gesture like the ideal version of you.
- Reflect on the last x years by saying: “Remember when we first started practicing visioning, and now how many truly miraculous things have happened since then….. (go on to list all the amazing things that you’d like to have happen in the next x years).
- Let yourself dream BIG. This is all a game, so why not go fantastical? As long as it feels exhilarating, fun and frisky, dream up anything your little heart desires!
This exercise is easier to do with a partner or in a group where everyone is on the same page (and won’t think you’re crazy!).
This is why my MasterMind Groups are so powerful! And I cannot tell you how fucking amazing (yes, I have to swear, it’s that amazing!) it is to then manifest the things that you were fantasizing about.
I imagined, and verbally fantasized about a home birth with my twins, and manifested a vision-quest-of-a-birth with my kids born 33 hours apart!
That’s when I really knew all these visioning techniques and exercises worked and I had to share them with the world!
Now I’d love to hear from you.
Have you tried any of these forms of spoken visioning?
I can’t wait to hear how you feel after you try some (or all) of these powerful manifestational practices!
P.S. Here is the rest of the Visioning Series:
Visioning Series (Part 1 of 4): Visioning Overview
Well Lana, I think everything is a process. I have gotten to the place where I visualize and I write down the things I want to manifest, but I have to admit–saying them out loud has not happened yet. I love the idea of finding a buddy to do this with. Thanks for the great exercises. I look forward to trying them out!
Finding an alignment buddy (for me it was someone from a MasterMind group) has been a serious game changer for me, Lorna! Let me know what you think of the exercises and don’t be afraid of sharing your ‘sticking points’ when doing them because it does feel a bit funny in the beginning! I am here to support you in any way I can!
I love how you broke this down and gave step-by-step instructions. Thank you! I’ve been using small mantras this week and I’ve been able to manifest some amazing things.
PS – On another note, I just read your birthing story. WOW! You’re super woman!
These exercises are like mantras on crack! You will feel the potency right away and see amazing results so quickly. And thank you for checking out the birth story Melissa, it was quite an incredible experience!
Lana, as always…clear and actionable. I think I manifest so naturally that I don’t even know I’m doing it (unless it’s immediate) until a friend points it out by saying something like…”Don’t you remember when you told me….” When I learned I could manifest the small things, I went onto bigger ones…but it wasn’t until I could truly do it without attachment that I got really good at it.
Just yesterday I had a clear example of this. The night before I went back to my computer after leaving it for just a few moments only to find it was black and sounded 3 beeps over and over. Initially I freaked out because I was in the last tweaks of my product launch. I immediately made an apt. with Apple for the next day because a google search showed that this was a ram issue. When I calmed down I realized that even if my computer was out of commission for a few days, I’d still be fine. Everything was online and those helping me with the launch could easily finish what I couldn’t so I surrendered to it. That night before going to bed I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if it just righted itself and came back on? It was just a playful thought…not out of desperation.
The next day, as I was cleaning the surface dirt on my computer with a paper towel, I accidentally hit the power button and the screen filled with all my stuff! Apple did all the necessary tests and could find nothing wrong!
Silvia, I loved hearing your story because it so clearly shows that everything (including technology) responds to our vibration. Thanks for sharing!
Great post! I am new to visioning, but I really love the idea. I’ve been doing a gratitude practice every night when I get into bed, so I think I’ll try adding some rampaging to it! 🙂
I love falling asleep thinking of all of the wonderful things I appreciate in my life too, Lacy! I usually find that doing rampages of appreciation takes some focus (since I need to pay attention to how each thought feels and continue to find the best-feeling one) so I prefer to practice them in the morning to set the tone for the day. And of course, when we go around the circle in the MasterMind group doing some of these rampages of appreciation, we all get lifted to a whole unprecedented level of vibrating in gratitude!