Welcome to The Garden, “A Place of wholeness” – this is your wellness spot where you can refresh, reflect and reform.
Why is it important for us to nurture our wellness? Because a healthy mind and a healthy body equals to a healthy life. In The Garden we want to encourage you to live your best life and we recognise that you can only do this when you are well in spirit in body and in mind. That is why we have come up with a wellness column that will be sharing information that will help you live a fulfilled life. Balance is important, and so our topics will range because we want to address all faculties that are related to the human being in his/her fullness.
Remember that a human being is a spirit, who lives in a body and has a mind.
To achieve maximum fulfilment as people we then need to make sure that we attend to every of our being spiritually, physically and mentally. Often times we hear “it starts in the mind” and “victory begins in the mind”. If you want to achieve anything it starts in your mind and so for that very reason we also want to start with the mind this week on The Garden because we recognise that the mind is a very powerful tool and very significant to the manner in which we live our lives and how we perform on a daily basis.
According to scholars, the mind is a set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory. It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity’s thoughts and consciousness. It holds the power of imagination, recognition and appreciation and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions.
We all have a story to tell, our narratives may differ but each of us have a story and we can only tell our stories well when we make use of our imagination. Today I encourage you to tap into your imagination and use it to tell your story daily. Use your imagination in your work, your studies, your marital life, your social life just use your imagination. Too many of us today have no clue just how significant a tool we have in our imagination. Our imagination can help us give birth to ideas, to create and invent and so I think it’s safe to say our greatness relies largely on our capacity to imagine so please go ahead and imagine.
We are still in the first quarter of 2018 so it is not too late to start putting your imagination to use and create your vision chart. Perhaps the idea of holding a paint brush could be intimidating for most of us. While some people can draw a straight line without the aid of a ruler, we must also admit that there is a lot of us who just could not get it right even with a ruler at hand. This should indicate that not all of us are artists, but the good news is that, we do not need the artistic skill to create our vision chart. I think if there is any area where we can all be called artists is in the area of creating our vision chart. Each of us could be the painter of a masterpiece: our vision! As we watch how our concept comes alive.
There is indeed power in vision/sight, there is power in seeing an image or a picture of either an event, a thing or a place. There is something about an experience of an image or picture you cannot otherwise receive from words. Not to say that words are not powerful, to a certain degree words whether written or spoken do carry a significant weight of power as mentioned in last week’s article.
However, an image or picture has certain additional elements which make the level of its power even more intense and therefore creating a lasting imprint in our subconscious. A picture brings alive a scenario.
It has an ability to narrate or tell a story engaging the complete human being; the spirit, body and soul. By looking at a picture, one can see; taste; smell; touch; feel, which enhances and accelerates the speed in which one travels using the imagination. It makes it more “real” for lack of a better expression, more memorable. It is multi-dimensional, richer, which is why vision is so powerful. Having a vision chart is equally as powerful, and while not all of us can draw or design, that should not stop us. The idea is to have the vision chart not necessarily a skill on fine arts and so we can always print out or cut out already existing pictures or images that relate to our vision and paste them on our chart, and then continue to label them or illustrate them as we desire. There is really no right or wrong way. It is your vision chart. You get to decide what goes on it, bearing in mind that the manifestation of it is something you would want to live with. You can also go as far as framing it and putting it up where it will be visible.
Our vision will shape our path for us, it will outline our habits and serve as a guideline for the decisions we make along the way. The earlier we have one, the better but it is never too late to enquire of yourself. Your vision is the throb of your purpose, it fuels you everyday and serves as a skeleton or plan for your character. Without it we have no drive, no accountability towards life. Without a clear vision chart, we have no sense of direction and that is a life crises.
The chances of a recorded vision (vision chart) manifesting into a reality are much higher than those of a vision that is not recorded. This is just one of those mysteries about life that I believe can never be accurately explained. If you are reading my article right now, I encourage you to have a vision, create a vision chart and then run with it.
By Lerato Charlotte Letsoso/GhOne TV | Email: leratokayise@gmail.com
