Why You Should Make Visualizing Your Ideal Future a Habit
Visualize a favorable future
It is easy to focus on what is wrong in your life than to try to consider a better future because your problems are real.
Imagining a future that cannot be seen poses a challenge. However, it is worth spending more time visualizing what you want to experience as I am about to describe.
Before proceeding, I want to issue a word of caution in case you dismiss this as another feel-good picky item. Display without action is useless because mental preparation and inspired action are necessary to bring your desires to life.
Visualization is the fertilized seed in the mind, so action is the flowering plant. One needs the other to manifest their goals and dreams.
I am not articulating something new and I apologize if you came looking for a revelation. Similarly, I cannot assure you that a new idea will change your life. What I can offer is a message that highlights why visualization is a powerful tool to improve your life.
It is important to envision a favorable future rather than focusing on the circumstances that bother you. Many people act impulsively without thinking about what they really want. They constantly think about what they don’t want and get discouraged when it doesn’t show up as expected. This is because they have not put in enough time or energy to clarify their wishes.
It was Napoleon Hill who wrote in The master key to wealth: “Mental attitude is important because it turns the brain into the equivalent of an electromagnet that attracts the counterpart of dominant thoughts, goals and purposes. It also attracts the counterpart of fears, worries and doubts.”
People spend more time than necessary observing what is wrong in their life instead of imagining what your ideal future could be.
Use windows of opportunity to bathe your mind
Hebbian’s theory describes the mechanism of synaptic plasticity by stating: “Neurons that fire together, connect together.” Brain cells that communicate frequently are strengthened through their connection. Messages that travel the same path in the brain often become faster and more efficient.
This is beneficial for a number of reasons, the least of which means that what you pay enough attention to is reinforced in the brain through its cellular network.
So if you pay attention to what you don’t want in your life, those same cellular structures get stronger and more efficient unless you change your thought patterns.
“Any idea that you have in mind, emphasized, feared or revered, immediately begins to be clothed in the most convenient and appropriate physical form that is available,” says Napoleon Hill.
I realize that this is easier said than done. It has taken me many years of practice and inconvenience to consider myself capable of directing my thoughts. However, through diligent practice and regular meditation, I am more aware of my thoughts rather than allowing them to control me.
Certain times of the day, such as early morning and late at night, can be conducive to visualization, as the mind is less agitated at that time. Think of these times as windows of opportunity to bathe your mind with images and ideas to create your ideal future. The right time of day helps to nourish your mind with the right impressions.
Likewise, if you are stressed, hungry, or tired, try not to struggle with your thoughts, as you are unlikely to be successful.
“Although a certain amount of vision is necessary, on the other hand we must remember that we are facing a power that is like the soil of the ground, which will produce the plant when we sow seed. It does not matter if I have never seen a plant like the one before. is going to do for us. Our thought is the seed and the mind is the earth. We are always planting and reaping. All we have to do is plant only what we want to harvest, “wrote the founder of Science of mind Ernest S. Holmes Magazine.
Many New Age authors of the early 1900s spoke of the importance of visualization, including: Ernest Holmes, Napoleon Hill, James Allen, Norman Vincent Peale, Wallace D Wattles, Neville Goddard, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Even the great Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece spoke of training the mind to harness its potential. The most successful of us know that the imagination is the strongest faculty of the mind.
Albert Einstein spent many hours devising complex mathematical formulas. Author Walter Isaacson writes in Einstein: his life and his universe: “How did you get your ideas?” I am an artist enough to draw freely in my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination surrounds the world. “
In a similar vein, it was the great Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci who spent countless hours visualizing his inventions before they came to life. Da Vinci referred to his visualization process as “sapere vedere” which translates as: “knowing how to see”.
Form a mental picture of an ideal future
The power of imagination is a powerful mental ability to create one’s future. However, to take advantage of it, you must put in constant time and effort to develop your mental powers to focus on the laser.
British philosophical writer James Allen wrote in How a man thinks: “The mind of a man can be compared to a garden, which can be cultivated intelligently or allowed to grow in the wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will produce. If no useful seeds are put into it, then there will be An abundance of useless weed seeds will fall there and continue to produce their kind. “
Visualization takes time, patience and diligence and is something that world-renowned creators and thinkers often engage in. They apply a laser-like approach to visualize an idea until it comes to life.
Prayer is a form of visualization, just like your words, so it makes sense to use your creative powers to visualize your future. There is no use bemoaning your current situation in hopes of creating a different outcome.
I liken it to riding a train going in one direction before realizing that you want to go the other direction. You see a train approaching in the distance and decide to disembark to catch it.
And the same goes for visualization. Avoid paying attention to what you are unhappy with in your life. Don’t talk or write about it. Instead, focus on what you want to create by setting aside as little as five minutes a day to view it.
James Allen says: “A particular persistent line of thought, whether good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results in character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly. However, it will surely shape their circumstances. “
Many great thinkers used daydreaming to enhance their creative abilities. They sat in their favorite chair and let their minds wander. Some took afternoon naps. In the moments leading up to nap, they envisioned a scene or problem and fell asleep, waking up later with a solution. I often take regular afternoon naps and have noticed that my greatest knowledge comes after a twenty minute nap.
What you want to bring to life must first be visualized and cultivated in the mind until it feels real. For cynics, this is not positive thinking either, but rather redirecting the same mental energy that you dedicate to your problems towards a better result.
Use the power of visualization and emotions to form a mental picture of your ideal future.
It is often said that we use ten percent of our mind. This is because we have not developed the understanding to create our lives through our thoughts. By harnessing the power of your thoughts, you can train your mind to focus intensely on what you want to create and play with ideas, perhaps changing them before they become reality.
Take consistent actions to support your visualizations. Remember, visualization and correct action work in harmony with each other. By themselves, they are simply a watered-down fantasy.
Harness the power of your conscious and subconscious mind and you will undoubtedly create a powerful future worth living for.