Creating abundance through the art of visualization is worth knowing in your pursuit of an abundant life. The movement that brought visualization to public attention was led by Shakti Gawain in her book Creative Visualization published in 1979. At the time it was a new idea.  Additional person that brought visualization to the mainstream was Dr. Carl Simonton, an oncologist. His novel 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 beneficial results. Many studies have been held in a number of sports that give evidence that visualization increases athletic performance.

Today visualization is recognized as self-evident. How did that happen? Quite simply the results that people get are positive. The positive results really shouldn’t be that surprising because the right hemisphere of the brain operates through pictures rather than language. We also know that our brain does not distinguish between real events and imagined ones.

How can you make visualization work in your life? Let me give an example to illustrate. Let’s say you are in a job that just isn’t giving you fulfillment. There’s nothing obviously wrong with the job. You just don’t have feelings of accomplishment when you go home. Your desire really is in another area but you’ve always been afraid to follow your passion because it’s a common belief that you can’tmake enough money in this area.

One evening you decide that life is too short to go on working in your position feeling dissatisfied. You make a decision 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 be like…where the position would be located, what your daily assignments would be, who you would work with, who you would be responsible to, etc.

Then you add your feelings about the position to your visualization. You visualize how you feel about different aspects such as how you calm your anxieties your first day or you could imagine how excited you’ll feel after 6 months or a year.

You might be asking how does all of this work to bring you the end result you’re desiring. Actually, the energy that you put into the visualization has a vibration and it goes out from you and goes into the Universe like a magnet. The energy attracts like energy and comes home. It’s like placing an ad in a newspaper under the title: Job Wanted. The magic 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 expect you to believe me. Why should you? You don’t know who I am. So, if you can’t take my word that this has merit, what are you to do? You experiment. You play with this concept 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 a new outfit. 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 methods for creating abundance and one of them is visualization.

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