Imagination Techniques - Part 2

(Continued from Imagination Techniques Part 1)

Many people are so accustomed and conditioned to the stepping stone approach in life that when they try to visualize their ultimate circumstance in life, they will, in turn, begin to picture the steps that will “lead” them there. They will picture the “map”. Fine. These people want to see the steps. The steps can be their ultimate circumstance in a very big way.

Success as the Journey

There are a couple of sayings that are very appropriate. One is that, “Success is not a destination…it is a journey”. The journey is what many people want. They feel that if they ever reach the “ultimate destination” that the game (life) is almost, or close to being, over. This is all a matter of perspectives because there can be many destinations. Your ultimate set of circumstances in this lifetime can be just the beginning of a journey in which you experience all that you have always wanted and then say, “now what?”

Outcome thinking can be carried to further and further extremes. This exercise can have many ramifications if you joyfully play with it and mentally “live in” these ultimate circumstances after you have created them. If you find out other things about yourself as you try to imagine the ultimate situation that you desire, like for instance that you can not envision one, then, envision a lesser set of circumstances that you think would please you tomorrow morning. Live in those circumstances, in your mind, and see what you do there. See if this mental experience will lead you on to other outcomes or desires.

Kick-starting the Imagination Process

If you use the three wishes technique and take your first wish and say “o.k., I know, only, what I immediately want and that is it”. Fine. Take it and live in it, in your mind. Each time you envision the completion of “living in” the circumstance; say to yourself…”now what”.

Using your imagination in this way is not some silly waste of time. It is cosmic classroom experience and the course is “Basic You 101″. Each and every time you use your imagination to visualize what you truly want, you start the manifestation process for yourself. Certainly there are other factors involved before the actualized version “occurs” for you, but even though you may not be immediately consciously aware of it, the wheels are in motion.

Deep down inside, you may already desire this imagined circumstance to actualize itself and become manifested. If you happen to honestly and faithfully expect the experience to come into your daily life, you could just be, very pleasantly “surprised”. This time the surprise would be that you did it, you made it happen. Circumstances have a way of building or snowballing into actual existence but they can also occur “all at once” in a full blown non-stepping stone fashion.

No Time for Fantasies You Say?

At whatever age or stage of life you may be in, you may be saying (to your-self)… “what good will it do me, to sit and imagine what I ultimately want in life… I have to pay the bills, I need money…I have immediate problems that must be attended to…I don’t have time to sit around and daydream about what I want in life…I need immediate action on immediate pressing issues, right this minute…I have no time for fantasies.”

One of the biggest reasons that so many people don’t get what they want in life is that they don’t take the time to sit down and figure out (imagine) what they really do want. It is not an exercise in futility;
it is an exercise in direction.

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