Picture This…
Your future is being formed right at this very moment by you. Many people find that hard to believe since from the very moment we were old enough to understand the concept of fate, we were offered a preconceived notion that someone more powerful than we are has control over all of our immediate circumstances.
I would concede that this is true if you are a child whose livelihood is dependent on the adults in your life. It’s perfectly logical that a belief in predetermined fate can develop. I would invite you to step out of the box for a moment and explore the possibility that any individual who may not be able to control the circumstances or characters of her current environment DOES possess complete control over how she responds to them. It is this response to any circumstance that you may find yourself experiencing that I am offering the suggestion that your future, therefore your fate, can be orchestrated by you.
With the latest buzz surrounding the Law of Attraction, there are now thousands of valuable resources available to us in the form of books, online courses, seminars and various media sources that offer instruction in using the Universal Laws to attract our desires and ultimately shape our future. This recent explosion of information is a good thing. It indicates that we are collectively evolving to a higher level of consciousness.
My children would remind me that it is my generation that came forth to initiate this movement toward spiritual awakening, and it is their generation’s desire to assist us in expediting the process. My generation spent most of our lives setting the stage, studying the scripts, experiencing the struggle, and discovering, learning and practicing the various methods available in order to live our dreams. Our kids are natural vision-achievers who seem to experience their desires in real time more often than not. Although I admire their inherent abilities and confident nature, it is often baffling to me that they can do all that so easily and more efficiently than most of us were able to, and yet still not recognize that the cat litter box is burning everyone’s eyeballs in the house and really needs to be cleaned.
One cue that we can take from our kids is utilizing the power of our imagination. Imagination is the bridge between the unconscious mind of the spiritual world and the conscious mind of the physical world. Cultivating our ability to visualize what we wish for is an essential step in achieving our long and short term goals.
If you think that you have no imagination, try to relate to the mental images that you experience while dreaming. The simple fact that you remember all or even some of those pictures when you wake up indicates that you have the capacity to create mental images. Besides, if you’re still reading this post I’m willing to bet that you are not one of those people referred to in psychology as “thickly insulated,” meaning they seldom dream and when they do there is no recollection of it.
I’d like to share a technique with you that might assist in developing your ability to imagine things. Our oldest daughter has been riding horses for the past 12 years. I am a stay-at-home mom with an average middle-class income, so let me assure you right off the bat that excluding the initial financial contributions Mr. Bean and I struggled to provide in getting her started when she was younger, her father and I have had very little to do with the fact that Katarina now owns two thoroughbreds while attending college as a full-time student. She ‘dreamed’ that she would someday own jumpers and now she does. Besides being a resourceful and driven first-born, there was definitely some goal imagery in play. As an aspiring trainer, Kat participates in equestrian events for the specific purpose of building her business by recruiting more students. In order to make the best of her financial investment which includes show fees, proper riding apparel, transportation and other amenities, it helps if the horse and rider are having a ‘good day’ when it’s time to get in the ring. One way to ensure this (besides real world practice) is to ’see’ the performance going well in her head.
Now here’s the part where most people will falter when employing visualization techniques to produce a desired outcome. Even though you may have a clear picture of what you would like to occur in real time, you have to move the image out of your mind by projecting the scene into the real world. In other words, you have to stop trying to cram it all inside your head and make it BIG. Think of the scene actually taking place outside of yourself. This process of projection is one of the key elements in creating the energy necessary to manifest your desired picture on the real-life screen, so to speak. Kat has to stop trying to reduce the show ring, herself, and the poor horse to the size of a thumbnail print inside of her skull and project it onto the wide screen where she’d like it to take place.
If this all sounds a little too mystical for you it’s because that’s exactly what it is. Mystical principles are what witches use to practice visualizing their dreams in order to make them their reality. And that’s why you’re here visiting with me, right?
