visualize: to see or form a mental image of
Let’s talk a bit about visualization…
First, let me start by noting that there is a percentage of the population that cannot visualize in mental images. There’s nothing wrong with this, it’s just the way their brains work. But you can visualize “feeling” the reality of the goal you want to achieve. In fact, I think the emotional aspect of imagining is much more powerful and magnetic than the visual aspect.
Feel the emotions even if you can’t see the images. Your subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between a real act and an imaginary one.
Looking at”
Now, you can make mental pictures or get specific details and create a “dream” board to set your goals in your subconscious mind. These techniques are often recommended as a way to condition the subconscious and do have some benefit. They will encourage you to focus on what you want.
However, I have a very different idea about visualization (which for our purposes will include both imagining and sensing a goal).
Let’s say you close your eyes to see yourself achieving a goal. You see yourself “out there” on the screen of space, watching yourself go through the motions, almost as if you were watching a movie.
Or you make your dream board or treasure map or whatever you want to call it. You are looking at things on this board that you want to own or you have pictures of yourself on this board doing or being what you want. You’re still looking at yourself “out there.”
Again, there may be some benefit to this, especially if visualizing in this way gives you a corresponding feeling of having what you want.
Looking “From”
Now this is the most powerful way to visualize and the fastest way to manifest results.
You visualize from “inside”. You are the actor in the role, seeing the world through your own eyes, looking at the world as if you already are what you want to be or already have what you want. You take on this role and live in this awareness over and over again until it feels natural. As you rehearse this role, your subconscious will accept it and it will become your natural state of being. You will assume the mental and emotional state of the end result and then… at just the right moment you will experience this reality in the outside world. The outside world must become what you have accepted inside.
It’s already mine
So here is the difference. Let’s use “Bev” as an example. Bev wants a new digital camera:
Bev can imagine the camera she wants. She can paste photos, study them in detail, memorize them. And it’s possible that she suddenly sees these cameras everywhere. But will she subconsciously accept that this camera is hers? Maybe.
Or Bev can play the role. Become the actress bringing the camera up to her eyes, feel yourself focusing “hers” her camera on her subject, maybe even feel the light weight of the camera in her case as it balances against her while walking. She can close her eyes and feel her place the camera in her place on the shelf in her house. If Bev weren’t able to create mental images clearly, all she would need to do is create the feeling that she already owned her camera: the feeling of satisfaction of owning the camera. Not desiring or wanting it…because if you already have something, then you wouldn’t be desiring or wanting it, would you?
You are the actor in the role, playing the role of being, doing, having whatever you want, inside out. From within your own consciousness, you already ARE that person, you are already DOING what you want, you already HAVE what you want.
That is true visualization.
© Copyright 2004 Marilyn Jenett
