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Visioning Resource Page
 (Updated 03/25//08)
 
 
 
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I'm passionate about visioning! I created this page as a resource of information and tools to help people understand what visioning is and how to use it. It is is a work in progress. I'll be updating this page regularly until it grows enough content for a book. So you'll be getting a sneak preview as this project unfolds!
 
 
The F.A.Q.s of Visioning
by Rai Jordan-Toole, RScP
 
Here are a few of the most common questions I am asked about visioning:
  
NEW! What exactly is visioning? Visioning is a meditative process by which we nurture an idea or intention that we would like to realize or more fully express. It is an opening to God's plan, the highest possibility for our lives. Through visioning we create a space of deep listening and receptivity, and we become available to catch the divine idea or intention seeking to be expressed. The purpose of visioning is to become, in consciousness, the very thing we would like to be, do or have. Ernest Holmes states that we are, 'to do the thing, to be the thing itself'. We nurture 'thing itself' in consciousness, and in the words of Ray Charles, we 'let it do what it do'.
 
What happens in a visioning? We begin with a period of silent meditation and prayer. I will talk just a bit about power of visioning. With this wisdom as our foundation, I facilitate the visioning process followed by time to capture and share what was is experienced in the visioning. Often, the sharing of what was realized and received in the visioning is as powerful as the visioning itself! I have witnessed countless individuals, groups and organizations actualize the divine purpose for their lives and their life's work through this sacred process.
 
What I can expect from visioning? With visioning, I've come to expect the unexpected. In working with others as well as in my own life, I've watched closed doors open. I've experienced resources show up at the right and perfect time. And I've watched people who were frozen by fear become pillars of faith from witnessing this divine plan unfold in their lives. This is what I love most about visioning ---the awareness that it is all about personal transformation. The Divine vision for your life and for anything you would like to create or have already exists. It has always existed, awaiting your willingness to accept the assignment to grow and bring it forth into manifestation. 
 
 
More Q & A in the coming weeks...
 
Visioning Articles & Resources
  • UCSL Visioning Manual A good resource for the fundamentals of visioning produced by United Centers For Spiritual Living.
  • OneLife Institute Newsletter - Dec 05 I wrote an article about visioning in this issue (see page 4). This is a great organization doing great work in the community and in the world. Check out the article and find out more about OneLife Institute.
  • Start Your Day With Intention While not about visioning, this article I wrote a few years ago for one of my clients provides useful information about starting your day in a powerful way.
Vision Quotes
I'll share my favorite quotes about vision, visioning and living by vision here.
 
 
"A vision isn't something that you decide or create, or even visualize. It is the Divine idea for your Life that you receive, become and unfold." - Rai Jordan-Toole, RScP
 
 
"I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision." - Henry David Thoreau
 
 

"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-- perhaps everything." - Carl Jung

 
 
"We must become the change we want to see in the world". - Mahatma Gandhi
 
 

"The best vision is insight." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Your limitations are not holding you, you are holding your them." - Dr. Roger Teel

 
"When even one individual is true to his or her vision, it assists in liberating everyone. When even one individual neutralizes or requalifies the thought forms of separation and lack and limitation that run rampant in the human experience, he or she creates a spiritual vortex that allows others to be pulled into the same vibration." - Rev Dr Michael Beckwith

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
 
"Your vision will be come clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens." - Carl Jung
 
 
"A vision is a dream with wings." - Rai Jordan-Toole, RScP
 
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