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The Absolute Secret to Visualization
By karen | January 29, 2008Many people, as they come to the realization that they are responsible for their own lives and that they can create their best life deliberately, will decide that they want to use one of the most well known and effective techniques for using the power of your mind and energy to create the life you want, that is Visualization.
There are many resources out there that will teach you how visualize effectively. But I am going to give you the absolute “secret” to making your visualization as powerful as it can be. This is the most important thing. It is more important than clarifying what you want. It is more important than the time investment. It is more important than imagining your visualization in full color and details. It is the absolutely the most important thing you need to do if your visualization is going to be effective in assisting you in creating your best life.
Are you ready? Do you believe me that what I’m going to tell you here is the most important thing?
(Okay, enough with the drama, now I’m just being silly!)
But this really is the most important thing.
The most important thing you must do when you visualize is to FEEL GOOD! The purpose of your visualization is not to actually “create” what you want. The purpose of your visualization is to raise your Energy Levels to a point where you are in alignment with what you want. So in order to really do that you must “FEEL GOOD”, the entire time your mind is engaged in the visualization.
I am going to offer some simple examples that may really clarify this concept. Think about this.
You want a really clean house. You really, really love to have a really clean house. You know exactly what you want. So you decide that you will visualize a really clean house to see if you can manifest it. (No, I am not talking about manifesting with “No action”! That is a different part of the story! Stay with me here!)
So, you enter into a daydream/visualization about how you love your house when it is clean. How much you enjoy knowing exactly where everything is and how nice it is when there are not toys all over the living room and all of the clothes are put away and not hanging out in laundry baskets waiting for attention. A place for everything and everything is in its place, your house is immaculate!
So far, so good! Your visualization is doing its job well! Your energy levels are rising up to the alignment that you are looking for!
But as our monkey minds tend to do, all of a sudden it occurs to you that you are the one who will have to clean that house! Oops, there is a little energy adjustment for you, headed the wrong direction but hey, you’re still seeing that clean house aren’t you?
So carry on with the visualization. You’re still feeling it. But all of a sudden your monkey mind reminds you that you have a stack of laundry that is about 3 feet high. Ooooh, another energy dip! And then you remember that pile of mail that you’ll have to go through, “Why did I just pile it there? Couldn’t I just throw it away or file it immediately? Why do I make this harder than it is?”. And your monkey mind just keeps adding more and more that you have to do.
Now your energy levels that were rising high at the beginning of your little visualization exercise are faltering. No, worse… your energy levels have plummeted completely. Now the thought of the clean house fills you with dread.
You may be even worse off than before you started visualizing!
By not paying attention and making sure that you “only” feel good, you have effectively rendered your visualization a complete bust. Not a chance that it will assist you now.
And here are a couple of other quick examples—
Visualizing a lean, fit and muscular physique….feels good….until you let in that thought about how you hate dieting and how exercising is just so damn hard in the winter, and “How on earth did I ever let this happen to me in the first place?”
Or here is an example from a friend I used to know. Every time he thought about making money, he sabotaged himself by thinking that if he made a ton of money he would just have to pay a ton of taxes and he really didn’t want to do that! Now how logical is that kind of thinking? I would think it would be a joy and a pleasure to pay taxes on millions of dollars. In fact, I would love to do just that! I think I will!
But back to the subject at hand, the real secret to effective visualizations is Feeling Good and the real trick to Feeling Good during the visualizations is to stay focused upon and only think about the End Result!
The End Result is all you really want anyway!
Oh and by the way, as for that “action” step that I spoke of earlier. A fun example that you may or may not remember–a couple of years ago, it was reported on the national news that a woman (from Minnesota, maybe?) came home from work, looked at her home and ended up calling the police. Apparently her home had been broken into. They didn’t steal anything. They just gave it a good cleaning.
I wonder if she had been visualizing a clean house?
If you stay focused on the End Result, it may surprise you how it happens!
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This post is included in the Law of Attraction Carnival #29- March 6, 2008. You can check out the carnival at Law of Attraction for Beginners
January 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am
really nice article Karen– feeling good is SO important when visualizing…and its something that is easy to forget. When visualizing becomes a “mundane task”, it prob wont work!
Todd
January 30th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Thanks Todd!
yes, feeling good and making it fun are vitally important!
January 30th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Excellent point, Karen. Without keeping the feeling we want, we’ll set up conflicts that will keep whatever we’re trying to make happen from happening. Focus is everything.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Yes, Focus is everything but focus is not always the easiest thing, that is why we need to be conscious of it!
January 31st, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Great article, thanks for sharing that secret. That’s why we always go off the path, because we start giving thought to the “unwanted” eork and not the end result.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Thank you, Paolo. I am happy that you enjoyed the post and I so appreciate your comment!
February 1st, 2008 at 9:50 am
This reminded me of a time when visualization had a powerful effect for me. I was learning how to do a deep water start without water skis on to my bare feet. I was learning from a friend who was an expert. He went first and showed me how to do it. I remember closing my eyes before I jumped into the water and visualized myself performing the same steps. It took me three tries and I was able to do it.
Now I’m off to visualize a clean house!
February 1st, 2008 at 9:52 am
It can be an enormously powerful tool! (whew, waterskiing barefoot! I’m envious!)
But you have to keep your monkey mind out of it!
February 1st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Great article Karen!
Yes - watch out for that “monkey mind”!! I call mine the “committee members” - They love to offer their opinons — all of them!
Hmmmm - I am praying someone will break into my house and Clean It!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Thanks Ellie, yes those “committee members” will do their best to derail you every time!
I’ve actually fantasized about that kind of break-in at my house too! That would be wonderful…..
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Great article Karen. Really encoraging and very practical advice. I endorse what yuo’re saying entirely. Practice, practice, practice!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Hi Karen,
This is really good stuff. The problem with visualization is that too few people believe that it works and therefore won’t try it. Thanks for spreading the news that anyone can have what they want if they really put in the effort to go along with the visualizing.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
It works! It absolutely works….
and it is fun! Everyone should try it!
February 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Hi Karen,
I just stumbled upon this site tonight and read some
articles of yours and truly enjoyed them. Good advice , thnx for keeping me in the right direction.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Thank you Evan!
Comments like yours really keep me going
I so appreciate you taking the time!
Thank you!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Hi Karen,
What a great article. I love visualizing.
Sometimes in the past I forgot to make it fun and feel good about it. The whole visualization process seemed like work. Other times, I get so into it, that so much time passed, I forgot to get moving to the next event in my life.
I’m now phrasing it as “I love having fun while visualizing!”
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Dean
Yes! I love having fun while visualizing also!
(great affirmation!)
March 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Thanks Karen,
I discovered your site today and am very glad that I did. I try to set aside time every day for visualizing and very often seem to get side tracked while doing so and finish feeling as though I haven’t accomplished what I set out to do. Your article has certainly helped to remind me of what my mind is doing.
Thanks again,
Tbea
March 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Assuming you are visualizing correctly, and all signs (that you can see) are pointing in the direction that getting your desired result is a real possibility, but it has taken some time, and is continuing to take time. How can you avoid doubt from creeping in, or your faith and determination from wavering and eventually thinking “this must not be working for a reason, I might as well stop trying”?
March 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Hey Jen,
We all have doubts that occasionally creep in…
we are all just human after all!
I think that as I said in the post that you visualize as long as it feels good…stay with the good feelings…and when the good feelings go then distract yourself with other thoughts, other things to keep you busy, other things….
July 10th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Great Article!! I was just reading Psycho-Cybernetics, and the power of Imagination as key form to Visual trainings. Imagination is our favorite thing and least thing we do as we get older. Because of those “Monkeys” or as I once heard “Drunk Monkey’s”
James Dean Armstrong
July 12th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Got your newsletter and read the “absolute secret”. Just a little suggestion: do NOT go into the visualization from a negative state of mind; i.e. the house is dirty!! Resistance attracts!! Possibly rest some, listen to your breathing, admire some flowers, …..keep upscaling your feelings and then move into the “clean house” .
thanks, and keep up the great work and contributions!!
July 19th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Hi Karen,
This is the most wonderful article about visualization I’ve ever read… I haven’t read so many though. I too think that FEELING GOOD is the key to once new life - a better life, filled with joy and understanding. And the hard part as you had said is not to allow your dream world to be destroyed by your worries and doubts.
Wish you all the best!
July 19th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Hi James,
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Psycho-cybernetics is a great book! One of the classics. Remember Maxwell Maltz often referred to the “theatre of the Mind” (now that is the place to visualize
thanks for stopping by!
Bruce,
You’re right. It is very important to start at a good place! Thanks for stopping by!
Bob,
you made me laugh with your little qualification there (”haven’t read too many though”. Thank you for the compliments and thank you for stopping by and commenting. I appreciate it!