Visualizing Your Dream Wedding

You see yourself looking beautiful in a gorgeous gown.  You picture a great venue, delicious food, a fantastic band, the beautiful ambiance, and your happy guests.  You are visualizing your dream wedding.

Much has been said recently about the power of forming mental images of your hopes and dreams or what is called visualization.  Many popular self-help and inspiration books and motivational speakers discuss at length its usefulness and encourage people to use this powerful tool in manifesting their dreams.  And it has helped countless people in achieving their goals.

Why is it that this relatively easy task is so effective?  Firstly, it opens your mind to focus on the positive things you want to happen in your life instead of the doubts and obstacles we generally gravitate towards.  By training ourselves to have a mental picture of how we want things to be, we become more inclined to work towards those goals, rather than get bogged down by things that could get in the way of them.  Second, visualization is the springboard to acting "as if."  Acting "as if" refers to acting as though you already have what you visualize. And no, that doesn't mean if your goal is to become a millionaire you act as if you are one by spending money you don't have.  It means thinking like a millionaire, surrounding yourself with successful people, reading what they read, and doing anything else that would be within your limits of acting as if you were a millionaire.  The imagery and constant focus of your determined goal will keep you focused and motivated to success.

All brides picture their wedding.  No matter what your idea of your dream wedding, you should begin to set out to achieve it by visualizing it .  Picturing your wedding in your mind is a good start, but often it's difficult to hold the image for very long and our minds get distracted.  The best way to visualize is to create something you can look at to hold your mental images for longer, like a vision board.  A vision board can be simple or elaborate, depending on your preference.  Essentially, it is a a board, paper, web page or other medium where you can make your dreams come to life.  Vision boards can include real photos, words, pictures from magazines, or anything else that depicts your dream wedding. In most cases, pictures and images are more powerful than words, but the choice is yours.

Once you create your dream wedding vision board, look at it and visualize it every morning when you wake up and each evening before you go to sleep.  Keeping your dreams alive in your head is key to knowing what you want, staying on track, and eventually realizing the wedding you always wanted.