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6 GUIDELINES TO thoughts are now striving to become the things and events of
your life.
GO BIGGER, RUN 3. Imagine every possible detail. When you’re visualizing,

FASTER, LIVE consider and include every conceivable detail. See the
sights, hear the sounds, smell the aromas, feel the textures,
LONGER put in all of these details, and, for extra credit, put in some
extraneous details.
...continued from page 21... All extra details make the image in your mind more real. When
you’re visualizing, clarity is power.
Offensively- Visualize. And don’t just wait for runaway trains 4. Feel and imagine the joy. It’s just one more detail, but
of negative thinking to emerge before you try this out! it’s such an important detail that it gets its own guideline,
and it’s the detail of emotion.
If you understand that your thoughts become the things and
events of your life, how could you not spend just a little bit of Emotion acts like a power booster for all manifestations.
time every single day deliberately thinking thoughts of the life It makes the whole process happen faster. Emotion is what
of your wildest dreams as if you were already living it? you’re really after, right?

To this end, here are six guidelines that may help. They’re not The reason you want more money or more friends or improved
rules. This is all about thoughts becoming things. health is always for the emotion of joy and happiness. So when
you’re visualizing, feel the joy, feel the happiness.
VISUALIZATION GUIDELINES
5. Put yourself in the picture. This is critical but easy to
1. Just do it once a day. That’s it. One time a day, and then overlook. See yourself in the picture. It needs to be YOU
drop it. Get back to the here and now, appreciating who you and YOUR LIFE that’s being played out on the “movie
already are and all you already have. screen” of your mind, not just pretty, detached scenery.
Do not start doing it 27 times a day, thinking that it will be You want to imply ownership. You don’t want to just manifest
27 times more effective than if you did it just once. If you fleeting glimpses of your dream life, you want them to be
visualize 27 times or even 7 times a day, there’s a tendency to permanent.
start comparing where you dream of going to where you are
here and now. 6. Always and only dwell upon the end result. When you’re
visualizing, always and only dwell upon the desired end
And if you’re spending so much time between the two result of your dream coming true, or beyond.
worlds, you may become overwhelmed with the seemingly
great distance you have to travel, become psyched out, Never worry about the “hows.” How your dreams will come
demoralized, maybe even give up. true is beyond your ability to know, yet this doesn’t jeopardize
that you can still know it will.
Don’t risk it! Don’t become overwhelmed. And don’t start
living in the future when your happiness does most certainly When you insist on hows, they become the “cursed hows,”
spring from the here and now. because you’re putting all of your eggs in one basket, stress-
ing yourself out, and eliminating from contention innumerable
Solution: one time a day, and you’re done until tomorrow. other paths that Divine Mind could have used to make your
dream come true.
2. Don’t visualize longer than 5 or 10 minutes. That’s the
max, not the ideal. Three or four minutes a day would be Take these first few steps. To be alive as a conscious creator,
awesome. deliberately living in a paradise cloaked in the illusion of
matter, where going bigger, running faster, and living longer
The reason not to visualize longer than 5 or 10 minutes is depends entirely upon what you choose to think, say, and do.
because no matter who you are, if you try to visualize longer
than 5 or 10 minutes, you are going to start daydreaming. Because, after all, thinking big but acting small, or being ex-
cited but playing it safe, are both the same as thinking small.
Don’t go there. In fact, you might use a countdown timer so
that you aren’t wondering during the exercise how much time I offer these guidelines to reassure and confirm your own suspi-
you have left. cions about life being totally awesome.
Once you visualize for 3 or 4 minutes, you’ve made your mark. I’m simply spreading some really, really good news about Life
You’ve created the impression of what it is you want. Those on Earth.

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