Creating abundance through the use of visualization is worth knowing in your desire for 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 new idea. Another person that brought visualization to the mainstream was Dr. Carl Simonton, an oncologist. His unusual 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 benefits. Many studies have been carried out in a number of sports that give evidence that visualization improves athletic performance.
Today visualization is recognized 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 use visualization in your life? Let me use an example to illustrate. Let’s say you are in a work position that just isn’t giving you fulfillment. There’s nothing blatantly wrong with your position. You just don’t get feelings of accomplishment when you finish your day. Your passion really is in another field but you’ve always been scrared to follow your dream because it’s a common understanding that you can’t earn a living in this field.
One day you decide that life is too short to go on staying in your position feeling unfulfilled. You decide that you’re going to take the risk and follow your passion. Before you do, you can sit down and visualize in detail what that job would look like…where the job would be located, what your daily assignments would be, who you would interact with, who you would report to, etc.
Then you add how you would feel about the job to your visualization. You visualize how you feel about different aspects such as how you calm your anxieties 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 benefits you’re looking for. 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 returns. It’s like placing an ad in a newspaper under the title: Job Wanted. The magical part is that the Universe exists to fulfill your visualization of a new position. How great 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 has merit, what are you to 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 hu-normous. Visualize an improved friendship. 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.