Timeless Wisdom & Personal Mastery
FOUR WAYS TO ACCESS YOUR "DEEP VISION"
[Originally published in the Ivy SeaZine, December 2004]

Creating space for deep visioning is crucial if we don't want to live life on auto-pilot, or if we want to explore new levels of creativity, renewal, vision, and momentum. Albert Einstein reminded us that we can't solve current problems with routine habits and solutions.

As one year ends and another begins, it's the perfect time for accessing the deep vision that can refresh and guide you in the first months of the year. Here are four of several approaches to tapping deep-vision, no matter what the time of year:

Inspired guidance:
Quiet your chattering mind and connect to the source of your higher guidance and wisdom through prayer and meditation. Regardless of your spiritual or philosophical tradition, there is much truth to the advice, "Seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened, ask and you will receive." Watch for internal and external responses to your inquiries made in prayer and meditation — things you notice, conversation snippets you overhear, people or messages that show up, dreams or persistent daydreams, etc. — and keep track of them in a journal (see them as puzzle pieces that, together, create the answer).

Power daydreaming:
Intuition and Spirit can speak to us in several ways, including in and through what we normally call "daydreams" or "waking dreams", or sometimes just a feeling or line of thought that won't go away. By being conscious of these as stages upon which response from Intuition and Spirit can reveal itself, we can take note of what our daydreams might be telling us (and create the space to power-daydream, knowing that it can be an important communication pathway for our connection with greater Wisdom).

Visual exploration:
Whether self-facilitated or guided by a dialogue partner or vision-journey guide, stepping out of your usual way of doing and seeing can yield insights or even quantum leaps in understanding about questions of importance to you. You don't have to consider yourself an artist to explore questions or seek vision through collage, painting, journal illustrating, or other creative and visual exercises. In fact, by doing something you don't often (or ever) do — like painting, or collaging, or journal making — you can move yourself out of your routine thinking and allow new ideas, insights, or levels of creativity emerge.

Vision dialogue:
Arrange a skillfully facilitated conversation with someone who can guide you into a deeper connection with your Wisdom and vision, suggest supportive and revealing exercises, and brainstorm with you how to enact and embody true-vision. With a dialogue partner who can be responsible for deep listening, asking skillful questions, reflecting back themes or insights, you can often come to a new place of understanding or renewed energy for your business, livelihood, or other life priority.

The reality that we experience is a type of dream, according to the wise persons in many cultures, and if we want to change that reality, we must change what we dream. Modern physicists point out the connection between what we think and envision and what we experience. Deep visioning is one approach to dreaming a new dream, and more consciously shaping our experience.

Ivy Sea collaborators can be guides on your journey to deep vision and conscious transformation in your group, livelihood, or conscious enterprise. For more information, learn about us at "About Ivy Sea".

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