Creative Visualization: The Basics

Creative Visualization is a mental technique in which you use your imagination to help create what you want in life. It is a process of “tricking” the sub-conscious into believing that you have already achieved whatever goal you are working towards. It is a form of meditation.

Creative Visualization is a mental technique in which you use your imagination to help create what you want in life. It is a process of “tricking” the sub-conscious into believing that you have already achieved whatever goal you are working towards. It is a form of meditation.

The field of intention or the sub-conscious mind is incredibly powerful, it is the link to our creative power, and it does not discriminate from our likes or our dislikes, or from the so-called positive or negative, the good or the bad. It just reflects back to us that which we give it without judgment.  Nor can it distinguish from what is “actually” happening and those things imagined. This is what makes creative visualization so effective.

You should keep a couple things in mind when using creative visualization.

1) Put yourself in the picture.

Don’t be looking at the scene from the outside in.

2) Make it as real as possible.

Use all your imagined senses. Touch, taste, smell and “feel” what it would be like to be attaining the goal. For example: Is your goal to have that dream home?

Then imagine yourself interacting in the house, cooking dinner, entertaining, cleaning it etc. Try to capture what it would be like to have the home.

3) Visualize often

At least twice a day*, taking the time to focus on the images and feelings of the experience.

*The last and most important thing to remember about Creative Visualization that it should not be done day after day for long periods of time. The purpose is for you to introduce a new paradigm into the field of intention. It sends out a message to the field that you already have a thing and simply gives you more of that. But, if you visualize the same intention day after day, then it is the only act of visualizing which the field of intention delivers—instead of the thing itself. So once you have reached a place in which you can see the desire clearly and know it is yours—release it. Let it go and it will come back to you.

Three Stupid-Easy Ways to Start Your Workday Right.

A happy workplace doesn’t just happen all by itself.  You have to work at making it happen, but it doesn’t have to be hard work. Sometimes the smallest of changes can have big results. Here are three stupid-easy things you can do before your workday even starts that can make all the difference.

1)   Take a breath

Sounds simple right? We take our breathing for granted. Our breath is the link to calmness. When you arrive at work (whether that be at a desk, a bench or a counter) allow yourself one minute of silence before starting to work. Don’t turn on your computer, or bring out your equipment. Just sit quietly and relax—for just a minute. Breathe in and breathe out. No matter how tempted, do nothing else for sixty seconds. Try it; you’ll be surprised what a minute can do to set a healthier, more “patient” tone for the day.

2)   Slow Down

Give yourself enough time to have a leisurely commute to work. Try getting up a few minutes early. This will let you slow down a bit—be less rushed. A short walk before going into work can do wonders to relax and calm you. Maybe you might even get up early enough (once and awhile) to watch the sun come up.

A leisurely drive to work can be a time to relax and experience a little peace and calm.  While driving to work, practice driving slower. Allow other cars into traffic; stop at the yellow light instead of rushing through it. Don’t tail-gate. This will help you set the tone for the day ahead. Otherwise you may arrive at work frustrated and angry and hamper your chances of maintaining a happy outlook.  

3)   Appreciate

Take a moment to really appreciate the fact that you are employed. In today’s economy unemployment rates are high. Fostering an attitude of gratitude for everything your job gives you can be highly beneficial. Marcus Aurelius said this:“Take full account of the excellences which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

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