Effective Visualization – How to Use the Subconscious & Law of Attraction to Materialize our Dreams

September 11, 2008

Effective Visualization – How to Use the Subconscious & Law of Attraction to Materialize our Dreams

By Kurt DuNard

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The secret is that you have an amazing power within yourself that can bring about miraculous outcomes. The power that you have has been known to cure incurable diseases, build billion dollar companies, create magnificent symphonies, paint masterpieces and build fantastic loving families. The light switch that turns on this power is called visualization. Anyone that has created anything worthwhile in their lives used visualization whether consciously or unconsciously. The ones that systematically use visualization consciously have created amazing success. We all know who they are. They are Olympic athletes, the super rich, star entertainers, top salespeople, and almost anyone you can think of whom you believe has created an exceptional life. Visualization is such a powerful tool that it pays to practice and increase our visualization skills. Here’s how. Why Visualization Works * It puts the subconscious on notice by saying “Here are my dreams–help me achieve them.” The subconscious then sends creative ideas and amazing inspirations. * There is a place in the brain that is called the Reticulated Activating System (RAS). You might tell your subconscious that you would like a blue Lexus LS 430 and all of a sudden you start seeing these cars everywhere. The RAS has been activated and you are noticing lots of beautiful blue cars. Visualization causes you to notice. Before you were blind and now you notice. * Here is the spooky part. Visualization, like prayer, activates the law of attraction. In totally unexplained, accidental, coincidental ways you attract the right people, the right situations, and the right resources. You are living a charmed life. Most successful people will tell you that they worked hard but they also were very fortunate. You can also be fortunate. * Visualization creates enthusiasm, excitement, and joy because your subconscious starts believing that your dreams are coming true. Enthusiasm, excitement, and joy are the fuel that is needed to emotionally make it OK to take action to achieve our dreams. You believe that success is yours for the taking and so you are enthused and take action. If diamonds are in the road, you must take action to pick them up and you are enthusiastically picking them up. There must be action–pick them up. Start Where You Are Visualization should be a fun relaxing exercise. Visualizing your dreams should never be a chore, a have to, or routine. It should always inspire emotions of happiness and peace. If you think you are new to visualization, you are mistaken. You have visualized all your life, you were just not conscious of your practice. What may be new is that you have decided to become better at the practice and to be a conscious guide to your visualizations. You have decided to consciously tap into your power. You can only succeed. Follow these few simple rules. * Visualize what you want. Make them positive visualizations. * Avoid visualizing disaster or what you don’t want. Avoid negative visualizations. * Visualize living your dreams now in the present tense and how you feel. * Use lots of emotions and all the five senses if you can. It is important that your subconscious believes this is real. * Do balanced visualizations to create a balanced life. Visualize health, prosperity, family, friends, job, spiritual, wisdom, creativity, etc. * Visualize every day in the morning and just before going to bed. The more you visualize, the more you will look forward to it and the more you will notice positive changes in your life as a result. Priming the Visualization Pump The real power to change our lives comes through visualization; however, there are other practices that can help us augment the subconscious other than visualization. These practices can be done through the day or just before a visualization session. * Use pictures to help you visualize Find pictures that make you emotionally excited, that represent goals, and aspirations. They could be the perfect house, you at the perfect weight with your picture Photoshoped onto another body, or it could show laughing friends and children. The pictures are more powerful, when you are in the picture. When you test drive your favorite car, have a picture taken of you with the car and another picture that you have taken from behind the wheel. Have a picture for all your dreams and goals. Make sure your goals are balanced in all areas of your life. Otherwise, you could have a great career with a sadly neglected family. Jack Canfield talks about how he took a $1.00 bill and then wrote six zero’s behind the “1″ to make it a million dollar bill. He then put that “$1,000,000 bill” above his bed so he would see it every morning. That representation of a million dollars soon materialized in Jack’s life. * Written Goals on 3 X 5 Cards Put each goal on one side of the card. You could make it even better if you put a picture on the other side representing the goal. Morning and night, look at each card and visualize how you feel having accomplished this goal in the present moment–not the future. * Convert Your Goals to Affirmations and Memorize Those Affirmations These affirmations are a statement of how you feel having accomplished the goal. It is a verbal visualization. I feel fantastic, full of energy, and always ready for action now that I weigh 150 pounds. Because you repeat these affirmations so frequently, they almost become a mantra that can be used to still the mind during meditation and visualization. To be effective, however, they must be done with thought and never as a thoughtless chant. * Get Ready For Success Because You Know it is Here If you don’t prepare for success, then you don’t believe in success and even if it came you would not be ready. Part of making it happen is to assume all of these ideas work and you must get ready. Buy the new wardrobe for the new job. Learn Italian for your dream vacation to Italy. Move to where you want to live even if everything is not perfect right now. We must have an unwavering faith that everything is going to go our way or maybe even better. That faith is what convinces the law of attraction to go into overdrive. Example of a Simple Visualization Session You get very relaxed and sit down in your favorite chair that you use every morning. It is quiet and you have learned to love this time of day. You get out your power pictures that help your visualize. You go through them and get more and more positive. Then you go through your index cards and look at all your goals. You are starting to get ready for visualization. Now you relax, with both feet flat on the ground and both hands resting lightly on the chair arm or on your legs. You close your eyes and slowly you say your affirmations. Legend has it that Bill Gates, Paul Allen and many Silicone Valley entrepreneurs were influenced by the book The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. Here is a series of affirmations he talks about. I am whole, Perfect, Strong, Powerful, Loving, Harmonious, And Happy. You say your affirmations to yourself at least three times. As other thoughts outside of your visualization invade your mind, you come back to saying your affirmations. Now you are in the right frame of mind for effective visualization. You start imagining your life as you live your dreams in the now. You imagine perfect health and what that means to you. You imagine perfect friendships and how they interact with you in your home. You imagine your career working with the kind of people you love and how every day you are being recognized and appreciated for your excellent work. You imagine going to those wonderful places you have only dreamed of–now you are there. Your clothes, the food you eat, where you live, everything is in living color and you can smell the ocean breeze as you sail in your yacht. Everyday as you do your visualizations, the images, the inspirations and faith will become stronger and stronger. One day you will come to a clear realization that you are living what you lived in your visualization only two years ago. It will be no surprise. Visualize all your goals, dreams and affirmations. Change them when they are no longer exciting. Spend at least fifteen minutes a session.

Top 7 Truths You Must Know About To Make Any Creative Visualization Technique Work. By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim

What do you really want out of a creative visualization (cv) technique that you had just gotten out of a “Guided Imagery” book (maybe by Shakti Gawain) you borrowed from the library or a “Creative Visualization” e-book you just purchased and downloaded online or a manifesting article you read by Abraham Hicks? Results. Like anything else, you want results. You need results. Without results, you’d lose faith in the power of creative visualization to manifest what you truly desire in your life. And faith, belief, conviction is what you need to make any if not all creative visualization techniques to work, no matter what they are. It is not simply a matter of faith in the technique or belief in the person who taught you the technique. It requires belief in the process of creative visualization itself. How do you make sure you believe in the power of creative visualization to work for you? How do you install such a belief in your mind, in your heart and in your very soul, so that it would drive you to make anything you do work and get results? You need to arm yourself with the right mindset about creative visualization. And the right mindset can only come through right information. And hopefully the rest of this article serves to help you achieve that objective. As it was said, “The Truth shall set you free”. Hopefully, with these truths in mind, you’ll be armed with a more powerful mindset and gain a more resourceful perspective from which you can go about your creative visualization work more effectively. Truth # 1: Creative visualization is simple, but not easy. A propounder of a creative visualization technique may say that hers is a “Simple 3-Step (5-Step, or 7-Step) Process”, but once you read her book or e-book, and actually get down into it, you’ll find that there are many steps, many factors, many events, processes and things at work, much more than you initially imagined. This truth encompasses all the other truths below. Truth # 2: Creative visualization involves more steps than you imagine. There may be 3, 5, 7 or even more simple steps in a creative visualization technique, but eventually you will find there are many other sub-steps for each of these 3, 5 or 7 major steps that you have to do. More of this is explained in truth number 3. Truth # 3: Creative visualization involves more factors (internal & external) than you know. For one, like I said above, effective creative visualization work that actually manifests what you want, requires belief. That is an inner factor. It also requires you to clear away all your subconscious mental blocks that may prevent you from attaining what you desire. External factors? creative visualization can only work within the confines of what is possible in your ‘reality’. That is, when you use cv to ask for something, you must ask for something realistic. Don’t ask for a billion dollars when you can’t even scratch a cent right now (okay, exaggeration). Start slow. Move progressively. And it also helps if you do your visualization work in an area where you are not easily disturbed or distracted. Common sense, isn’t it? If the ones around you (family, friends) are known to be a cynical, skeptical, pessimistic lot, stay away from them for some time before – and after – your visualization sessions. You don’t want their negative vibes to poison your belief in the process. What I meant was that you don’t want their skeptical remarks, their cynical comments that stem from your willingness to do cv whatsoever to replay in your subconscious mind while you’re doing your sessions. Leave some ‘buffer time’. Truth # 4: Creative visualization requires the right amount of belief to work. Not too much (as in obsession, blind faith), nor too little. Though some claim that their technique requires no belief at all, what they are actually meaning is that their creative visualization technique requires just the right amount of belief for it to work. Or they can actually mean to give you a placebo. Since you believe them that it requires no belief for their technique to work, you go about it thinking that there is no belief involved in it, then it actually works! Then you start believing in it, only to find that (for many cases, not all) its effectiveness wanes. It’s like dropping a ball to the ground. You just know if you let go of the ball from the grasp of your fingers, the ball will fall to the ground. You know that gravity is always there. You don’t need to believe in gravity (what, all this while people and things have been floating around the earth before Newton’s time?). Also, an over-obsessive belief in it is actually an illusion that stems from your lack of faith in it. Huh? “Too much” belief = lack of belief? It’s like this – all this while, you’ve been skeptical about creative visualization. Then you’re told that you need some belief for it to work. Since you’re so enthusiastic about making it work, you overcompensate your previous lack of faith and you actually believe – too much – until it kills its effectiveness. Believing in something is like holding on to an egg (or think of something else fragile, like glass). Hold on to it too lightly, the egg or glass will fall from your clutch and smash into pieces. Hold on to it too tightly, the egg or glass will break in your hands. So, you need just the right amount of belief for creative visualization to work. Truth # 5: Creative visualization is an art as well as an exact science. All these internal and external factors, sub-steps, and concepts are making the creative visualization seem like an art as well as an exact science. In fact it is. As you learn more and more techniques you will find that many of its teachers will present to you concepts and philosophies that will make you see more of it as an art. The methodology of some creative visualization techniques will seem like it comes from some scientific procedure that you have to follow precisely and exactly. This is especially true of neuro linguistic programming (NLP)type techniques. Truth # 6: You have to let creative visualization do its work, and at the same time, you have to work to get what you want to achieve through creative visualization. While you need only the right amount of belief for cv to work for you, you also must put in some effort to attain what you want. First, you need to trust in the process. Ask for what you want, then let it go. Let go of your ‘how’s and ‘why’s. Don’t worry about how you’re going to get what you visualized for. Then, through serendipity (‘co’ plus ‘incidence’), when an opportunity presents itself to you where you can get a chance to obtain what you had asked for, go for it! Grab that opportunity, for it will pass like a cloud. What, you don’t expect for your ‘dream mate’ to drop from the sky right into your lap after you do your creative visualization work, do you? Truth # 7: The quality and quantity of results you get from your creative visualization work is proportionate to the amount of feeling or emotion you put into it. Emotion is energy. There is a wealth of material out there explaining why emotion is so important in the creative visualization process, and if I want to chip in, I think I’ll have to do it in another page. Emotion also comes from your belief. Your belief that you’ll get what you want from creative visualization also comes from your emotions. It’s a symbiotic process. Since your emotions can help you to “believe more”, and since believing is what it takes to make cv work for you, hence, you need to really feel for what you want! When doing your creative visualization work, really feel the excitement, the joy, the euphoria that comes when you attain your object of desire. Really feel it as if you have it now. Emotions are timeless. They happen NOW, not in the future, not in the past. You are in control of your emotions. Even if your entire world is dark and looks bleak, you can choose to be happy; only that you may not know of it. What, nobody is going to shoot you if you smile, right?

Unleash The Full Power Of Your Brain Using This Visualization Technique. By Jaz Lai.

Visualization is the use of mental imagery to redirect our emotions and manifest these changes into the physical world. The use of visualization in our lives is extremely powerful whether we are striving for physical benefits or towards desired goals and achievements. Focusing on these mental images that we generate can produce both positive and negative changes in our lives, so it is imperative that we are implementing positive visualization in our lives. Your brain is divided into two hemispheres – the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. Now, the left side of our brains is where our sense of logic resides and the right side of our brains is where our creativity resides. Since we are trained from a very young age that things must “make sense” and be logical, we tend to rely on our left brains for day to day survival. This creates an imbalance in our brains and blocks change and renewal in our lives. The use of visualization methods helps us to tap into our right brains and restore and unleash all of the hidden potential hiding there. With that being said, there are not really any visualization secrets that you do not already know. You just need to be open to the concept of visualization itself. You can quickly and easily implement visualization methods into your lifestyle and see positive changes within six weeks or so. There are only a few steps you need get you started with visualization. First, you will need a quiet place to practice your visualization. In order for the process to work, you must have defined your SPECIFIC goals and intentions. When you are beginning, concentrate on your breathing – slowly and deeply. Then simply visualize yourself as having achieved your goal, whether that is better health or a new job. If visualization sounds a bit like meditation, that is because it is. But instead of clearing your mind, you focus on and visualize your goals instead. At first, your mind may be a bit resistant to it, but keep practicing and concentrating on your visualization, and soon you will notice the positive results in your life. Here’s some of the benefits you can achieve with visualization: 1. Putting you in the right frame of mind Sometimes life can be very distracting, especially when we are currently living in an information age. Visualization help you to stay focus at the present moment and put you in the right frame of mind. 2. Achieve positive attitude If you can image yourself having a successful result, you will definitely be much more positive in engaging what you are going to do. This will in turn give you a more positive result. 3. Expanding your ideas As you visualize and move toward your goal, you will be surprised at the many difference ideas that will hit you. And some of these ideas will make a huge difference between achieving a super or mediocre result.

Easy Visualization Exercises You Can Do In Just Minutes. By Art Stanley.

Visualization is big word that describes a simple, yet powerful and effective technique for creating whatever you want. Before we get into specific visualization exercises you can do to get the most out of your sessions, let’s briefly explain the process. When visualizing, the first thing you need to do is relax. Once you’ve reached a deep level of relaxation, you enable yourself to connect with the Universal Mind or Spirit. Don’t let that spook you — it’s an amazing process and once you experience this amazing feeling, you’ll want to revisit it again and again. Once you’re in a deep state of relaxation (whether you’ve felt a connection or not) it’s a matter of monitoring your thoughts. The goal is to free your mind of the mental chatter of multiple thoughts, issues of the day and concerns. Once you’ve reached this blissful state, you simply imagine your goal or dream result. Get a picture in your mind’s eye of you in possession of the desired object or conditions. That’s what visualization is all about. There are a few keys to making the process of visualization work for you. First and foremost, you’ve got to feel what it’s like to have the result you want. Feelings are a key component. Get a deep sense of what it will be like when your goal is manifested. Assume ownership of that goal. Make it yours. As Bob Proctor says, “name it and claim it.” What you’re doing at this point is creating the mold in spirit of what you will soon realize in the physical world. Repeat the process over and over again until what you want is yours. When it comes to specific visualization exercises, step number one is to find a quiet, peaceful place where you can be alone for about 15 minutes or so. Natural settings are great, weather permitting, of course. A forest path, quiet stretch of beach, park bench, or even the bank of a stream have all proven to be excellent natural settings to engage in creative visualization. Now here a few easy visualization exercises to quickly reach a state of relaxation. Simply repeat the word “relax” again and again, slowly, purposefully, feeling more relaxed with each occurrence. Deep breathing is another visualization exercise that will help you relax deeper and deeper. Another technique is to count down from one to ten. As you do so, imagine that you’re descending a staircase and each step down takes you to a deeper level of relaxation. Try it. It works like magic. Once you’ve reached a peaceful, relaxed state of mind, you’ll still find a myriad of random thoughts entering your consciousness. These visualization exercises will help. Strive to offer no thoughts. As you notice your mind thinking about something, simply release the thought. Imagine yourself staring into space. Or imagine a giant white screen in front of you with nothing on it but blank space. Whenever you catch your mind thinking about something, simply return to the blank screen. When you offer no thoughts, you offer no resistance, so you vibration rises automatically. Now take that blank screen and play a movie featuring you in possession of the goal you seek. Make it vibrant, exciting and alive, with you playing the starring role. This is another visualization exercise that works very well. Another similar approach is to imagine that you’re being honoured for your lifetime achievements. As part of the ceremony, there’s a PowerPoint presentation featuring numerous stills of you doing, having, and being all that you’ve imagined. Put yourself in that place and see yourself being congratulated by many people. There’s no doubt that visualization is a powerful, creative tool. If you only take these easy visualization exercises and put them to work on a consistent basis, there is virtually nothing in the world that is beyond your reach. The only question is, will you?

Visualization-An Effective Prosperity Tool. By Amy Wells.

Having more money in our life does not necessarily mean having to work harder. If you observe the world around you, you will notice that some people work hard to make ends meet, while others often have money flowing to them consistently. How much money we allow into our lives is often limited by our beliefs. By using visualization techniques, you can start to change and expand your belief system to create more wealth and prosperity. Visualization is using your thoughts, feelings, and visual images to imagine how your want your life to be. You can be of any religious or spiritual affiliation to access the power of visualization, its available to everyone. By focusing and imagining what you would like to create, you are able to bring the essence of what you want into your life. Effective visualization requires concentration and focus in a relaxed state. You should be in a quiet private place, and if you prepare yourself with relaxation exercises such as stretching, yoga, or meditation, you’ll find it easier to focus and shut out the distractions of the outside world. If you can set aside a regular time and place for your visualization, over time, you will also find it easier to relax and get focused. As a prosperity tool, starting with a clear intent will contribute to the success of your visualization. You should have a clear goal and outcome in mind. Are you looking to pay bills more easily, or increase your savings account, or purchase something special? By focusing on what you want, but not necessarily how to make it happen, you allow room for it to come about in many ways. Start your visualization with one specific outcome in mind and you will increase your success. After you are relaxed, begin to picture the desired outcome in your mind. Place yourself in the picture, and imagine how it would be for you if you had what you wanted. Invest as much positive feeling into your visualization as possible. Your enjoyment and appreciation of what you create is like the gas the gets your visualization going. By amplifying how you would feel when you have what you want, you bring it closer to you. When you leave your state of visualization, you have created a positive touchstone. You should focus on it often throughout your day, but always from a place of positive expectation. It can take on the feeling of a pleasant daydream that you enjoy thinking about. Once you start practicing visualization techniques, you will probably see some changes. Usually, small things will start to happen first, which can propel you to continue to visualize as you wait for the large things you want to manifest. Having more prosperity doesn’t have to be difficult. If you would like to create more wealth and abundance in your life without automatically applying hard work, try using these simple visualization techniques. http://www.realmindpowersecrets.com/?vip=48411

Video of The Week.

Quick & Effective Creative Visualization by Lilou Mace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhLCj1f4fE

Final Thoughts…

It is fair to say that visualization is only the starting point to getting the life that you want, but if you can master it, or find the right tools to help you, you have most certainly taken the first steps to mainfesting your desires. You would have to admit that any journey is made that little bit easier when you have a clear picture of where you are going or someone has been thoughtful enough to give you directions and a map, right? If you are new to visualization and perhaps find it a little bit daunting, try and take small steps to begin with and see if you can affect a minor positive change in your life. Once you become more familiar with the whole thing, you will begin to notice how anything is possible as you start to create your dream life. Just remember to focus your intentions towards you goal with a laser like precision and an unwavering conviction and you will start to achieve miracles.

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