visualising what you want

Many of us have heard about creative visualisation, but how many of us actually do it?

The answer to that is 100% of us! It is a completely natural way in which our minds work. We think in pictures, sounds and feelings. We create movies or photos; we create representations in our minds, because we must. If we didn't, we wouldn't know that it was our own reflection looking back at us in the mirror, for example.

Did that get you thinking for a moment?

Everytime we think about something, whether we are recalling a memory or entertaining a new idea, we create these representations in our minds. In other words, we are visualising.

The truth is, we are more inclined to imagine and visualise a negative outcome - "Oh, what if everything goes wrong?" - than we are positive ones.

So the real question is, do you consciously and deliberately visualise exactly what you want, in the full knowledge that this helps you to get it? Or do you simply do just the negative ones?

I'm teasing you a little!

Visualising is a powerful way to draw to you what you want. The key is to relax and visualise so that whatever you are visualising already exists. In your mind's eye and in your thoughts, it has already happened. You want to make your visualisation vivid, so that each time you visualise, it feels more real and becomes more real to you, and you achieve more and more clarity.

If you find that visualising what you want brings you seeds of doubt, then work out what they are and what the action steps are that you can take to reduce or eliminate them. For example, in the Get What You Really Want in Just 12 Minutes a Day system (see the Online Shop), we build bridge beliefs, which are daily declarations to shift those seeds of doubt. As you eliminate your doubt, so your visualisations become more real. And as that happens, the closer you get to achieving what it is that you have been visualising.

Remember though, that visualising is all about you - not someone else. For example, visualising won't work if you are picturing someone else changing how they are. But, it will work if you visualise yourself thinking more positively about them and looking out for all their strengths and positive traits. Do you see the difference?

So daydream a little more than you've been doing up until now. Play along the lines of, "Ooh, wouldn't it be nice to...." and you fill in the blanks. Have fun!

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Action Points

1. Visualise deliberately and consciously on a daily basis.

2. Make your visualisations vivid. See what you see, hear what you hear, feel what you feel. Hear the sounds and what other people are saying, what you are saying, taste and smell everything that you can. Truly tune into how you feel.

3. Make it into a movie in your mind, with music playing. Does this intensify the feeling?

4. Make sure that you put yourself into the picture! See yourself in your movie, and make your movie script just how you want it to be.

5. Actually be and feel who that person (you) is in that movie.

6. Tip: Don't visualise for the purpose of getting what you want if this has you getting into that space where you keep looking out for it and wondering why it's not here yet. Instead visualise from the place where you just do it because it feels really good to daydream, and that your dream coming to be, whenever that is, would just be a wonderful bonus. Have it be a "delicious" pasttime!

Quote

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." - Mark Twain

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