I received an email from a friend asking what I meant by creative visualization.\u00a0 He’d written that he was disappointed in the response he was getting to some new YouTube presentations, and I asked him what kind of creative visualization he was doing for the project.\u00a0 He replied asking what I meant by creative visualization.\u00a0 I replied to him:<\/p>\n
Creative visualization is simply:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Choosing a thought of something I would like to experience.
\n2.\u00a0 Deliberately thinking that thought until it invokes hopeful emotion in me.
\n3.\u00a0 Bringing this thought and feeling to mind several times a day, with the intent that I will thus attract the envisioned scenario to me.<\/p>\n
HOW DOES A THOUGHT BECOME A THING?
\nIn the Jane Roberts’ books, Seth says \u201cWhen we think a thought, electromagnetic energy units (EEUs) are generated.\u00a0 When we concentrate on an idea or desire, the\u00a0 intensity of the EEUs is so great that a portion of our own consciousness is actually imparted to the form.\u00a0 The greater the intensity of our emotion relative to that thought, the sooner the mass (the physical form corresponding to our thought) enters our experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
I keep an ongoing list of things I want to achieve in my life, and I am always adding to it. Every day, I do a few minutes of creative visualization for every item on my list, imagining it and doing it in my mind with the preferred outcome, so the thought comes easier next time.\u00a0 I have learned that the more familiar I am with thinking a particular thought, the closer I am to achieving it.\u00a0 As Abraham-Hicks<\/a> says, “when it seems like the having of it is the next logical step, it will\u00a0 be”.<\/p>\n Every day, have an intent in mind and energize it with thought several times daily. Create the scenario in your mind of what you would like to experience, then envision fully experiencing it, with full emotion and appreciation during the visualization.\u00a0 Do this several times daily, a few minutes at a time.<\/p>\n Creative visualization is a powerful technology and it is documented in the Dead Sea Scrolls.\u00a0 Gregg Braden in his book The Isaiah Effect, calls it “a lost form of prayer\u201d; a form where you bring to your conscious awareness – with full feeling and emotion – the knowing that what you desire has already been granted.\u00a0 See http:\/\/www.greggbraden.com\/newsletter\/2000.html<\/a><\/p>\n HOW DO YOU FOCUS INTENT? HOW DO I KNOW I\u2019M DOING IT RIGHT? IS ONE TECHNIQUE BETTER THAN ANOTHER? MAKE THIS YEAR YOUR MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR YET SETTING YOUR INTENTION FOR THE NEW YEAR FREE: The Secret To Dollars<\/a> (Yes FREE and no, I don’t even want your email address)<\/p>\n
\nFocused intent?\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 You focus your intent when you are thinking of something you\u2019d like to see happen in the future and going over it in your mind until you are actively imagining it happen.\u00a0 You know you are focused intently when you begin to emotionally feel as if it is taking place.\u00a0 You are focused intently when you begin to have quick glimpses and insights from an observer\u2019s standpoint.\u00a0 Focused intent is the basis for creative visualization as well and we do it all the time whether we think we do or not.<\/p>\n
\nA lot of people think there\u2019s some big involved procedure, some specific correct technique for things like meditation, creative visualization, \u201cseeing\u201d in your mind\u2019s eye or attracting what you want.\u00a0 The truth is, it\u2019s easier than you think.\u00a0 Your intent has the most to do with it.\u00a0 If it is your intent to sit in meditation and gain insight, just bringing those words to mind and saying them to yourself sends out a big signal which the Universe responds to.\u00a0 Just taking the time to sit quietly and bring some thoughts to mind will activate your intuition and call forth creative ideas on all areas of your life.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to sit cross-legged on the floor in front of an altar to meditate or visualize, unless that particularly inspires you to stay focused.\u00a0 It does me.<\/p>\n
\nYou can stand at your driveway while watering the yard at sundown and spend a few moments thinking what the perfect world would be like, what it would feel like.\u00a0 What would the perfect job feel like?\u00a0 Or the perfect relationship?\u00a0 How would it be if the whole family got along great?\u00a0 What kind of things would you do together?\u00a0 How would it feel if you were robustly healthy and woke up each day with lots of vitality, and plenty of money to spend?\u00a0 What activities would you want to do?\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to have a special chair and sit in it 20 minutes twice a day in order to meditate or do a little creative visualization, or \u201cprepaving\u201d as Abraham-Hicks calls it.\u00a0 Just spending a little time sending a few thoughts ahead every day is a powerful technique in itself.\u00a0 A little conscious, focused thought goes a long way in smoothing the ruffles of a busy life, as well.<\/p>\n
\nIf you didn\u2019t reach your highest potential last year, you might want to do things a little differently this year.\u00a0 Spend a little time each day thinking about what you\u2019d like to be doing a few years down the road.\u00a0 Make sure to schedule in plenty of recreation time n the new year, since it\u2019s when we\u2019re relaxed and having fun that we are in a receptive mindset to come up with lots of creative ideas.\u00a0 If you\u2019re feeling overwhelmed and burnt out, if you feel you don\u2019t have 5 minutes in the day free to yourself, that\u2019s a good sign that you need to take a week off.\u00a0 Trust me on this one.\u00a0 If you think you can\u2019t afford to take a week off work without pay, trust me that you will over time earn back much more than that week\u2019s salary just from the relaxation and ideas and insights that can come during that week.<\/p>\n
\nIf you\u2019ve got some intentions for the upcoming year, good for you ~ you\u2019ve already begun to create your own reality.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t come up with any intentions yet, don\u2019t beat yourself up for it.\u00a0 A few intentions might be to read a little inspirational writing of a spiritual nature every day; contemplate what you\u2019d like your next move to be on the career ladder; consider who do you know that has a job you\u2019d like and who has a lifestyle you\u2019d like?\u00a0 What differences do you see between you and them?\u00a0 A good intention might be to add vitality to your body as you get a little older.\u00a0 Find something fun to do that gets you out of breath and has you moving your arms and legs a lot.\u00a0 I know you still have that old frisbee around, so take it out and toss it at sunset every day.\u00a0 Put a basketball hoop up.\u00a0 A good intention might be to eat more live foods, more fresh vegetables.\u00a0 A good intention for the new year might be to set an intention.\u00a0\u00a0 You can start anywhere and anytime.\u00a0 Remember, every new moment begins right now and every thought we think and every word we say helps form our experience and create our reality.<\/p>\n