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Creating A Personal Vision For Success

Having a vision guides you to your goal.  Your powerful imagination, through visual imagery, can be harnessed to change your mental or physiological state. Visualization can create what you want in your life, as in the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you can envision yourself successful, you're more likely to get it. 

On the other hand, if you always assume you'll be unsuccessful, you probably will! Many elite athletes use visualization just before they perform and swear by its ability to take them over the top to win. The downhill skier, for instance, will envision himself running the course successfully with all its twists, turns, and most difficult maneuvers until his triumph at the finish line.

The mind is a strong tool and can destroy and heal. Research shows cancer often occurs about six to 18 months after the death of a loved one.  Prolonged feelings of helplessness and loss cause distress in the body, dampen the immune system's ability to fight disease and allow diseases from colds to cancer to prosper. 

But just as strongly as the mind can work negatively on the body, it can also work positively. Visualization can aid in healing and has been used successfully with people suffering from terminal illness. Many doctors have reported an increased rate of cancer remission when visualization therapy is used. The patient actually creates the positive image in his mind of the cancer shrinking and this aids in his recovery.

You already use visualization every day, but you're probably not aware of it; daydreams, memories, and inner talk are all forms of visualization. This discussion - and future lessons - are about creating your own positive visions while rejecting the old deep-seated negative, limited, or stressful visions which may automatically pop into your mind and be a cause of mental and physical distress. These old attitudes make your situation worse and can even create negative results. But you can harness the pictures in your head in a more conscious way, change them, and create a better life for yourself.

This doesn't mean simply "willing" yourself to lose weight or feel better, or "positive thinking." Visualization involves the whole mind and body and effects you at a deeper more meaningful level. It involves a process of discovery, of exploring and changing attitudes and coping mechanisms you've had your entire life.  In the process of using visualization to achieve your goals, you may begin to discover how you have been holding yourself back, keeping yourself from achieving complete satisfaction with life through old fears and negative concepts.

In today’s visualization lesson and in future lessons, you'll learn to create what you want in your life: love, fulfillment, harmony, rewarding work, beauty, prosperity, good health, and a thinner, more energetic you; the way you were meant to be, and maybe even the you who you haven't seen in a while! 

Visualization Exercise

To begin, first create the image of how you would like to be: thinner? healthier? sexier? more energetic? more confident? 

 Then visualize yourself doing something you’d enjoy with your new self: walking jauntily through a garden, your favorite street downtown, or through your neighborhood. See yourself energetically walking up a hill or a flight of stairs with a smile on your face, enjoying yourself and the fresh air.

 Use all your senses. What colors are you wearing or experiencing? Are you wearing a navy suit, a red t-shirt with jogging shorts, a black evening dress or tuxedo?...

 What sounds are you hearing? Are cars buzzing by, birds chirping, children playing, or waves crashing against the sand?...

 What are the smells? Do you smell salty air, fumes from automobiles, flowers in the garden?... Be specific; 

 Make your vision as real as possible, as if it is actually happening.