What Creative Visualization Is NOT! Before I reveal a couple of techniques that you can use to implement creative visualization in your everyday life allow me to first debunk a few of the common myths associated with it and then give you a bit of the history of creative visualization. First, creative visualization is not simply sitting back daydreaming and expecting money to show up in your mailbox. Secondly, it is not simply writing goals and fantasizing about them until the career you want will simply materialize. I can assure you that if you use that strategy in your career development there will eventually be an angry landlord taping an eviction notice to your door. And thirdly, creative visualization is not about imposing your mystical will upon another to receive the good you believe that you deserve. Force negates so to expect any good to come your way doing that is really futile.
Clear your mind. That's step number one to creative visualization. Most of us have so many thoughts going on in our heads that it's impossible to focus intently. To succeed in any endeavor, you need to be able to focus your mind. Without focus, you cannot perform at your best or properly utilize the valuable technique of creative visualization.
But in order to get there, you have to willingly suspend all other thoughts and concerns. Nothing else exists during your visualization but you and the voice on the visualization CD. Establish the vision. To get what you want, you need to know what it is. Start by writing down all the things you think you want. Don't edit yourself; just get it all down on paper. Keep writing. After a few minutes, you will have a complete list. Now choose one item from that list that's more important right now. You can go for the others later.
Action Will Get You What You Want.Once you finish planning what you need to do, do it. Take the necessary steps to achieve your goal. Step-by-step, little-by-little, achieve what you want. Positive thinking will help get you what you want. If you think positively, you will infuse positivity in all the steps you need to do.Persevere until you reach the goal. There will be many setbacks and many things that will try to stop you in that specific undertaking. However, if you have the ability to push on in spite of all the trials, you will have your dream come true.
Rewrite and refine. Once you've got it down, it's time to shape your description into something closer to exactly what it is you want. This creative visualization technique is like taking a rough idea of what you want to say in a letter-to-the-editor and then converting it into a polished piece that's ready to mail. Refine your goal into a powerful paragraph that describes exactly what it is you want.
Draw it out. Is your goal something that you can picture visually? If so, get a picture of what your goal looks like. If it's a car, get a picture of the exact car, or draw it as best you can. If your goal is to break through your fear and deliver a great speech, picture yourself on stage presenting to an attentive and appreciative audience. It doesn't matter if you're artistically challenged like me -- no one else is going to see your drawing. It's simply another way to convey your deepest desire to the universe.
Make a concrete visualization of that dream house in your mind. If possible, think of it regularly. You can make designs or picture drawings of that goal in mind. You can cut out pictures of it and place them someplace where you can see it each day - on your bedroom wall, on your refrigerator door, in your wallet.
You couldn't even make a cup of coffee without imagining the steps involved in heating the water, adding the coffee grounds to the cup and so on. Not only that, but you wouldn't want the coffee in the first place unless you could imagine the taste and the feeling that seems, in that very moment, would be satisfied only by a cup of coffee! If thirst was the only problem, a glass of water would do much better!
Clear your mind. That's step number one to creative visualization. Most of us have so many thoughts going on in our heads that it's impossible to focus intently. To succeed in any endeavor, you need to be able to focus your mind. Without focus, you cannot perform at your best or properly utilize the valuable technique of creative visualization.
But in order to get there, you have to willingly suspend all other thoughts and concerns. Nothing else exists during your visualization but you and the voice on the visualization CD. Establish the vision. To get what you want, you need to know what it is. Start by writing down all the things you think you want. Don't edit yourself; just get it all down on paper. Keep writing. After a few minutes, you will have a complete list. Now choose one item from that list that's more important right now. You can go for the others later.
Action Will Get You What You Want.Once you finish planning what you need to do, do it. Take the necessary steps to achieve your goal. Step-by-step, little-by-little, achieve what you want. Positive thinking will help get you what you want. If you think positively, you will infuse positivity in all the steps you need to do.Persevere until you reach the goal. There will be many setbacks and many things that will try to stop you in that specific undertaking. However, if you have the ability to push on in spite of all the trials, you will have your dream come true.
Rewrite and refine. Once you've got it down, it's time to shape your description into something closer to exactly what it is you want. This creative visualization technique is like taking a rough idea of what you want to say in a letter-to-the-editor and then converting it into a polished piece that's ready to mail. Refine your goal into a powerful paragraph that describes exactly what it is you want.
Draw it out. Is your goal something that you can picture visually? If so, get a picture of what your goal looks like. If it's a car, get a picture of the exact car, or draw it as best you can. If your goal is to break through your fear and deliver a great speech, picture yourself on stage presenting to an attentive and appreciative audience. It doesn't matter if you're artistically challenged like me -- no one else is going to see your drawing. It's simply another way to convey your deepest desire to the universe.
Make a concrete visualization of that dream house in your mind. If possible, think of it regularly. You can make designs or picture drawings of that goal in mind. You can cut out pictures of it and place them someplace where you can see it each day - on your bedroom wall, on your refrigerator door, in your wallet.
You couldn't even make a cup of coffee without imagining the steps involved in heating the water, adding the coffee grounds to the cup and so on. Not only that, but you wouldn't want the coffee in the first place unless you could imagine the taste and the feeling that seems, in that very moment, would be satisfied only by a cup of coffee! If thirst was the only problem, a glass of water would do much better!
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