Why you should make it a habit to visualize your ideal future
Visualize a favorable future
It’s easier to focus on what’s wrong in your life than trying to imagine a better future because your problems are real.
Imagining a future you cannot see poses a challenge. However, it is worth spending more time visualizing what you want to experience as I am about to summarize.
Before I go any further, I want to give a warning in case you dismiss this as just another feel-good touchy item. Display no action is useless because both mental preparation and inspired action are necessary to make your desires come true.
Visualization is the fertilized seed in the mind, while action is the flowering plant that blossoms. One needs the other to manifest their goals and dreams.
I’m not articulating something new and apologizing if you came looking for a revelation. In the same way, 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 visualize a favorable future instead of 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 spent enough time or energy to clarify their wishes.
It was Napoleon Hill who wrote in The master key to riches: “Mental attitude is important because it turns the brain into the equivalent of an electromagnet that attracts the counterpart of one’s dominant thoughts, goals, and purposes. It also attracts the counterpart of one’s fears, worries, and doubts.”
People spend more time than necessary looking at what is wrong in their lives instead of imagining what their ideal future could be.
Use Windows Of Opportunity to bathe your mind
The Hebbian Theory describes the mechanism for synaptic plasticity by stating: “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” Brain cells that communicate frequently become stronger 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 is that whatever you give enough attention to gets reinforced in the brain through its cellular network.
Therefore, if you pay attention to what you don’t want in your life, those same cellular structures become stronger and more efficient unless you change your thought patterns.
“Any idea that is held in mind, emphasized, feared, or revered immediately begins to take on the most convenient and appropriate physical form available,” says Napoleon Hill.
I realize that is easier said than done. It has taken me many years of practice and setbacks to consider myself able to direct 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 in the 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 flood 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.
Similarly, if you are stressed, hungry or tired, try not to fight your thoughts as you are unlikely to make it.
“While a certain amount of vision is necessary, on the other hand it must be remembered that we are dealing with a power that is like the soil of the earth, which will produce the plant when we plant the seed. It does not matter if we have never seen a plant before like the one that is going to be done for us. Our thought is the seed and the mind is the soil. 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 early 20th century New Age authors 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 among us know that the imagination is the strongest faculty of the mind.
Albert Einstein spent many hours conceiving intricate mathematical formulas. Author Walter Isaacson writes in Einstein: his life and universe: “How did you get your ideas? “I am artist enough to draw freely in my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination surrounds the world.”
Similarly, 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 so that you focus on the laser.
The British philosophical writer James Allen wrote in as a man thinks: “A man’s mind may be compared to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or left to develop freely; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will produce. If useful seeds are not put into it , then 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 lamenting your current situation in the hope of creating a different outcome.
I like to ride a train that’s headed one way before I realize you want to go the other direction. You notice a train approaching in the distance and decide to get off to catch up with it.
And so it is with visualization. Avoid paying attention to the things you are not satisfied with in your life. Don’t talk or write about it. Instead, focus on what you want to create and spend just five minutes a day visualizing it.
James Allen says: “A particular line of persistent thought, whether good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results upon character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly , nevertheless”. surely, to shape the circumstances of him.”
Many great thinkers used daydreaming to enhance their creative abilities. They sat on their favorite meat and allowed their minds to wander. Some took afternoon naps. In the moments before their nap, they visualized a scene or a problem and fell asleep, waking up later with a solution. I often take regular afternoon naps and have found that my greatest insights come after a twenty minute nap.
What you wish to bring to life must first be visualized and cultivated in the mind until it feels real. For the cynical, this is not positive thinking either, but redirecting the same mental energy you put into your problems towards a better outcome.
Use the power of visualization and emotions to form a mental image of your ideal future.
It is often said that we use ten percent of our minds. 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 intently on what you want to create and play with ideas, perhaps changing them before they manifest into reality.
Take consistent steps to support your visualizations. Remember, visualization and correct action work in harmony with each other. On their own, they are merely a diluted fantasy.
Harness the power of your conscious and subconscious mind and you will undoubtedly create a powerful future worth living for.