None of these things are really a concern though as it really is something that is available and useful to all and is neither esoteric nor airy fairy but powerful and potent.

There are no mantras needed or special uniforms or incense that are compulsory. Creative visualization practice only needs you and somewhere quiet for you to relax in for anything from 5 minutes to half an hour.

So how do we practice the basics you may ask? Ok.

All you need to do to get going is as I said above find somewhere you can relax without being disturbed.

Lie down flat and support you neck with a slim pillow. Aim to keep the spine fairly straight.

Close your eyes.

Let go of any tension you feel. Do this systematically starting at the bottom of you body – with your feet – and move up just tell yourself and your muscles to release and relax.

After a few minutes you should be more relaxed than when you started.

Creative visualization can now begin as your brain wave patterns will be descending into a state of gentle focus and concentration that is effortless. You will also be opening up the pathways and communication with your unconscious mind which is the seat of all inspiration and ideas.

Once relaxed it is time to visualize anything you want to happen in your life but do it in a positive way. This time is for positive reinforcement and not ‘worry’. Visualize your goals, your hopes and dreams.

That’s all there is to it.

Relaxation
Practising the art of relaxation affords us a natural method to control and eliminate stress. By learning to completely relax our bodies and minds we allow room for more constructive, harmonious thoughts to be deliberately ‘planted’ into our subconscious mind. This can be the powerful basis of all our self improvement strategies.

Meditation
This allows us to focus our consciousness to a single thought, object or idea. This in turn has tremendous benefits which affect all aspects of our every day life such as the ability to think more and more clearly, greater decision making ability and becoming aware of our own intuition.

Visualization
With visualization we can sense an image in our mind’s eye, a picture of our future goals and the ambitions that we desire to appear in our lives. By always keeping in mind the images of our goals, the possibilty of reaching them becomes more and more believable.

Affirmation or Auto-suggestion
The interior dialogue that goes on inside our heads has a profound impact upon our state of mind and our ability to achieve the success we desire. Replacing any habitual and ongoing negative self-talk is essential if we are to create a happier and more successful future life. Any positive ‘suggestions’ we can make to ourselves, can have a dramatic influence upon our subconscious mind and therefore our ‘reality’ for ‘as we think, so shall we be’.

Inspired Action
Taking action follows the changes that we make on the inside. It is not as difficult as you might think once you have realised the direction you want to go in. No-one should feel afraid of taking action. Inspired action is not like work or a chore it is exciting, thrilling and an expression of our greatest self. You too will be able to take action in the most effective way and at the perfect time by putting these tools into practice and making them a part of your life from now on.

These strategies can help to create acceptance of who we are because they help to bring about rapid change in how we feel about ourselves and are the foundation of a powerful, positive mental attitude. Once we have created a positive mental attitude it is far easier to then begin taking the right kinds of actions in our daily lives that help us to move forward toward our most cherished goals.

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Use creative visualization if you need to bring more money into your life! Use it if you would like to generate new income? Or do you just want to have some extra dollars at the end of the month.

Here is a short term exercise which I have used many times myself when I‘ve needed a boost to my mental attitude about all things ‘money.’ Oh, and it’s great for bringing heaps of cash too!

Practise this creative visualization if you want an extra amount of money in your life!

Ideally, twice or several times a day spend 20-30 minutes with this. As with most relaxation/imagery techniques follow these fundamental steps first:

• Find a comfortable space
• Make sure you won’t be disturbed; turn off your cell phone off, pc etc. The thought of being disturbed will keep a slight tension in our mind which we can do without.
• Relax yourself physically in all parts of your body and your mind will follow
• Breathe deeply and calmly to gradually let go of the ‘mind chatter’, thoughts about the day’s events, tonight’s dinner and so on.
• Focus on your breathing…slowly, in and out.

When you are calm and fully relaxed proceed to the creative visualization:

1. Imagine yourself in a familiar setting – your bedroom, lounge or someplace where you already spend a lot of time. We are not creating a new space; we are attracting wealth to where we are right now!
2. See a warm, golden light pervading all space – it is a light of abundance and plenty.
3. See the money you desire in all its forms, gold coins, cheques made payable to you, only the highest bank notes in your currency.
4. The money is infinite, never ending. It doesn’t stop appearing and falling around you. Move around in your imagination and see that wherever you go there is an abundance of riches on the ground, in the sky and so on.
5. See everyone else around you benefiting from this abundance too. See them filling bags of the stuff, happy as can be.
6. Enjoy the feeling of having more than enough and of knowing that you can access this abundance at any time as easily as breathing.
7. Continue in the visualization for 15-20 minutes.

As with all visualisations, the pictures get us to a place emotionally where we can feel and know the truth of what we are seeing. After indulging in these mental images you should begin to feel the reality of the situation! Your level of concentration will generate corresponding positive emotion which you will find uplifting, powerful and freeing. The images of the abundance of riches will start to reprogram your subconscious to accept the idea of massive wealth in your life.

I always recommend around twenty minutes for an exercise like this but sometimes the feelings inside you can be so strong and exciting that it is easy to continue to remain in a relaxed state and revel in the pure feelings of ‘knowing’ abundance. By all means do this but only if it is not a strain mentally. Do it only if it remains comfortable. Powerful visualisation and imagery techniques can induce headaches and tension if you over do it or push too hard.

“If you wish to bring about the realization of any desire, form a mental picture of success in your mind, by consciously visualizing your desire; in this way you will be compelling success, you will be externalizing it in your life by scientific methods.” Charles F. Haanel.

Remember these points when working with attitudes about wealth

• For our purposes, we can think of the universe as infinite and abundant.
• We are taking nothing away from anyone else as there is enough for all.
• We are not limited to poverty or lack.
• We never run out of opportunities for advancement and improvement. There is nothing that can act to take that away from us.

Read more on creative visualization.

Quote from:

Haanel, C.F. (1987) The Master Key, R&W Heap Publishing, England.

* Find a comfortable space
* Make sure you will not be disturbed; or minimise any possible distractions as much as you can.
* Relax yourself thoroughly – body and mind
* Breathe deeply and calmly to gradually let go of your everyday ‘surface’ thoughts and needless ‘mind chatter.’

Know the basics of using mental imagery? Practise this creative visualization exercise regularly to see more wealth and success appear in your life!

Each day spend 30 minutes seeing yourself as the wealthy, joyous person you want to be. Follow these steps first:

• Find a comfortable space
• Make sure you will not be disturbed; or minimise any possible distractions as much as you can.
• Relax yourself thoroughly – body and mind
• Breathe deeply and calmly to gradually let go of your everyday ‘surface’ thoughts and needless ‘mind chatter.’

When you are calm and fully relaxed proceed to the creative phase:

1. Imagine yourself in a perfect setting – your ideal home or location spot. Make it real and detailed as you desire it to be.
2. See yourself surrounded by everything you could desire – wonderful foods, fresh water, clothing, harmonious people and your perfect partner. Make it just as you wish it to be.
3. Know that you feel good here. You are free from any worries or issues. You are happy and full of joy. Everyone is at peace and content within themselves and they want only the best for you.
4. Imagine a golden light covering everything, within everything and everyone. The light is pure abundance, love and joy.
5. Feel the abundance, love and joy from the light pervading every cell of your body and mind.
6. Know that everything you desire is here for you when you need it – money, love, harmony –nothing can disturb your joyous state.
7. Remain in this wonderful state for as long as you can without strain but no longer than twenty minutes. At this point gently let go of the images and let them fade.
8. Open your eyes and end the session.

The more real you can make these thoughts and images and the more you can powerfully feel them the quicker you will see results from this very effective creative visualization technique.

Have you heard of Creative Visualization? Did you know that it is a power with which you can draw into your life pretty much anything you can imagine. A power that can help turn your life around 180 degrees: from poverty to wealth, from failure to success, from loneliness to love and friendship and from disease to harmony, peace and wellness. Everybody has access to it and everyone can use it.

Creative Visualisation is one of the primary tools we can use for attaining our life’s ambitions. It can be the key for motivating our inner drives and firing up our energies in order to focus our mind to achieve those deeply held desires.  Creative Visualisation works powerfully because the subconscious mind easily understands pictures. It gets ‘it’ quickly and definitely. The life we can create for ourselves is limited only by our imagination.

Impressing the image of our ‘desires’ upon our subconscious on a regular basis is like painting a target for a missile. Our mind will move us ever closer to our goals as long as we keep that target – our pictured desires – in clear focus through regular guidance via our visualisation sessions. Maxwell Maltz in his classic book ‘Psycho-Cybernetics’ says of the creative imagination that it “sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on” (Maltz, 1960, p.28).

Unfortunately the thought of using our creative imagination can be off putting too many people who have convinced themselves that it is hard to do, a bit crazy or somehow beyond their capabilities! Of course, that isn’t true in most cases and it should be, like the best things, a very simple technique to put into practice in our lives.

What should I visualise? What are the benefits? Well here are some of them:

• Helps you clarify your intentions and clearly define your goals in life
• Supports and maintains your motivation and ambition
• Aids concentration and focus
• Affects your attitude and daily life in a positive, powerful way

So you can see it should be worth it! This is how we do it. We fill our minds with positive powerful, success images as often as we can and allow them to take root in the fertile soil of our subconscious. They will in turn appear as the events and circumstances of our lives in the most wonderful ways! The subconscious mind “works accurately to externalise the suggestion which is most greatly impressed upon it” (Bristol, 1969, p.85).

How do you visualize for success then? Try these six steps:

1. Decide on the desire or goal you want to achieve or whatever successful outcome you would like to see happen in your life.
2. Get yourself into a relaxed state of mind and body in order to more freely access your creative imagination.
3. Breathe deeply and evenly for a few moments as your breathing helps control your mental state and level of concentration. Focus on your ‘in’ and ‘out’ breaths.
4. Imagine or form a mental picture of the end result you desire and the complete attainment of your goal. For instance, if it is a new job that you’re after then see yourself in the position you want. Picture the office, the type of work it is, your colleagues or boss telling you how valuable you are!
5. As you visualize, feel the emotions that you would have with the goal achieved. This is very important and you should feel positive, excited, happy and so on. If you are not in this state when you are visualizing your goals but feel more neutral or negative then just relax and try at a different time. You might want to re-examine the goal to see if it is really what you want. Sometimes when we picture something we want or think we want, our minds often ‘spontaneously’ generate negative images and thoughts; this indicates the presence of resistance to the idea or resistance to change.
6. Continue in a relaxed state for about ten to fifteen minutes. Do not mentally strain during the process. If your mind wanders, just gently re-focus on your image and goal.

Shakti Gawain, in her book ‘Creative Visualization’ describes it as “using your imagination to create what you want in your life,” and that it is the “basic creative energy of the Universe” (Gawain, 1990, p.13).

Here are some more tips if you are just starting out with the technique:

• When you practice there may be a single image or you may have several which you move between, backwards and forwards and that’s fine.
• Make the image as detailed as possible with regards your actions. For instance if you want to be a writer, try and see the computer, the pen, the paper, your desk, the light coming in, finishing the last page of your book etc.
• Feel the emotion. The pictures are ways to get us to an emotional ‘place’ and then that emotion of excitement, joy, pleasure, anticipation etc fills the picture with power which impresses the subconscious mind more deeply.
• You can visualize a series of still pictures or a movie sequence, whatever works for you.
• If you can’t see clear pictures that’s ok too; many people see more symbolic or ‘impressionistic’ images. In this way, visualisation is like art, it’s subjective and many people interpret what they see in their own way. The effect is the same as long as the emotion is there.
• Practice several times a week or everyday if you can. Every skill improves with practice and visualization is no different.

You can visualize success, wealth, power, harmony, love, friendship; whatever you can imagine for yourself can be achieved. Take a look at this article, “creative-visualization-for-money“. Mastering visualization should be one of our priorities; the rewards are endless and it leads to a lifetime of personal power and satisfaction.

References:

Gawain, S. (1990) Creative Visualization, New World Library, San Rafael, California.

Bristol, C. (1969) The Magic of Believing, Simon & Schuster, New York.

Maltz, M. (1960) Psycho-Cybernetics, Prentice-Hall, New York.