Creating abundance through the art of visualization is worth knowing in your pursuit of an abundant life. The movement that brought visualization to widespread attention was spearheaded by Shakti Gawain in her book Creative Visualization published in 1979. At the time it was a foreign idea. Additional person that worked with visualization was Dr. Carl Simonton, an oncologist. His ground breaking efforts were used in healing work for cancer patients. Instead of the word visualization, he used the word imaging.
In a third field, the field of sports, we see visualization has beneficial results. Many studies have been held in a variety of sports that show evidence that visualization improves athletic performance.
Today visualization is accepted as self-evident. How did that happen? Quite simply the results that people get are positive. The positive outcomes really shouldn’t surprise us because the right hemisphere of the brain functions through images rather than language. We also know that our brain cannot distinguish between real events and imagined ones.
How can you make visualization work in your life? Let me offer an example to explain. Let’s imagine you are in a job that just isn’t giving you fulfillment. There’s nothing blatantly wrong with the job. You just don’t get feelings of accomplishment when you go home. Your dream really is in a different field but you’ve always been afraid to follow your passion because it’s a common belief that you can’t earn enough money in this field.
One morning you decide that life is too short to go on working in your position feeling unfulfilled. You decide that you’re going to take the chance and follow your heart. First, you can sit down and visualize in detail what that posiiton would look like…where the position would physically be, what your daily tasks would be, who you would interact with, who you would be responsible to, etc.
Then you add your feelings about the job to your visualization. You visualize how you feel about different aspects such as how you calm the nervousness your first day or you could picture how excited you’ll feel after 6 months or a year.
Perhaps you ask how all of this works to bring you the end result you’re wanting. Actually, the energy that you put into the visualization has a vibration and it leaves you entering the Universe like a magnet. The energy attracts like energy and comes home. It’s like placing an advertisement in a newspaper under the title: Job Wanted. The magic is that the Universe exists to fulfill your visualization of a new job. How awesome is that?
Now, I do not, let me repeat, I do not desire that you take my word for it. Why should you? You don’t know who I am. So, if you can’t believe me that this works, what can you do? You experiment. You play with this idea and have fun with it. One little tip…begin with a small visualization and work your way up step by step to something larger than life. Visualize a new outfit. Then step it up and visualize a pay raise or a weekend get away. Then go for the big time…a new job, the love of your life, the book you’ve always wanted to write. Remember, there are lots of ways of creating abundance and one of them is visualization.
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