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Once you have a clear affirmation, let the universe figure out the miracles that need to happen in order to bring your goal about. Don't get caught up in the how it will happen part. Your task is to follow the nudges from your intuition that indicate the actions and steps you should take. |
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If you've ever spent an hour watching network TV (and who hasn't?), you know the power of visual imagesand you know that advertisers know it too. The visual impact of images is even more noticeable in magazines, where perfumes and clothes are advertised with huge pictures and fewer and fewer words. So why can't you do your own internal advertising? Sell yourself on the idea of your own potential by painting a picture of it in your mind. |
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When you visualize, you form a mental image of what you want to create in your life. Everyone does this, whether they are conscious of it or not. It is a natural part of the imagination. For example, before going on a vacation, you probably visualize images of what that vacation will be like (which helps get you through that last horrible week at work before you can take off!). Before an engineer builds a bridge, he visualizes what it will look like when it's finished. |
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Before something is created in your material reality, you hold it in your mind. When you make an effort to do this consciously, it's called creative visualization (a topic we touched on in Chapter 7). You can use positive mental images of yourself and your life to create a better self-image and to improve your personal experiences. For example, if you want to lose weight you can hold an image in your mind's eye of how you want to look. You can imagine yourself as the thinner you in your mirror. You might picture your friends responding positively to the ''new you." You can use your mind and ability to visualize and think of creative images of yourself looking and feeling slim, healthy, and full of energy. |
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Imagery is the umbrella term for this ability. When it is focused in a way that helps the mind and body work together to create healing or achieve any desire, it is called guided imagery. Much attention has been paid to guided imagery as a form of healing, or at least slowing, serious illness, because it was originally developed for that purpose. |
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Guided Imagery: The Mind As Healer |
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"Our emotions and words let the body know what we expect of it, and by visualizing certain changes we can help the body bring them about," says best-selling author Bernie Siegel in his book Love, Medicine, and Miracles (Harperperennial Library, 1990). This idea is the basic concept behind guided imagery, which enables you to improve your health, and your life, by imagining it in more positive terms. |
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Research shows that, performed properly, guided imagery can help lower blood pressure; reduce anxiety, depression, and physical pain; bolster the immune system; ease |
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