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Visualization is a skill that is often used in manifesting work and allows you to picture the things that you want in life. The better you can visualize your goals, the better the manifestation process is going to work. When you visualize, you are tricking the mind into thinking things are real. The emotions and feelings that you think up while visualizing are so close to reality that the mind believes they are real.
If you can picture yourself sitting on a tropical island, sipping a drink out of coconut, the water lapping at your feet, the sun on your skin, and the squishing sand under your toes, it can change how you feel. How does this make you feel? Our minds are so powerful that just that moment in time, while you are visualizing, you get completely transported there and you can actually feel these emotions and things.
Visualization works because the brain doesn’t see the difference between your thoughts about action and actually taking action. To be successful when you visualize your goals, you have to make more of an effort to practice and develop your visualization. You can’t simply sit around and fantasize about your perfect life or anything else you want to manifest. It is better to start visualizing the small things that you need in your daily life than trying to start out with huge dreams and wind up getting disappointed.
A creative visualization is a great tool that helps you manifest your goals and helps attract the things you want in your life. Creative visualizations can help you get a better understanding of what you want out of life and to create the life you’ve always wanted. Let’s talk about what creative visualization is and the way it works.
What is Creative Visualization?
“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.” – Unknown
This is a kind of mindfulness exercise that could be used to bring you success in every area of your life. This is the process of putting together visual images about the things you want to bring into your life. You will begin to feel the emotions that are associated with these images. Basically, creative visualization is where you imagine the things you want and then experience the feeling or emotions you would have if you actually had them.
This helps you put your desires and goals into the Universe and you will begin feeling motivated to reach them. This is similar to dream or vision boards that we talked about earlier but the images are in your mind.
Creative Visualization could be very powerful because you are using your mind’s eye to make extremely detailed pictures about what you would like to manifest. This helps you feel more motivated and positive to reach your goals. After you have visualized, you will feel inspired and you will be ready to take action to reach your goals.
Get as creative as you can with your visualizations. Even if you aren’t a very creative person, it might surprise you to find how great it feels when you make something that shows your dreams. This can be done by making graphics on the computer, writing, drawing, or painting. Some find this way of visualization better because they have a better outlet for their dreams and goals. You can hang this anywhere you can see it. Creating your own art makes it more unique and personal for you.
The Power of the Mind
If you are always repeating specific thoughts to yourself, your mind automatically accepts these thoughts and this can cause a change to your mindset. When you change your mindset, it can change your habits, feelings, and behaviors. This is why creative visualizations are so effective.
The mind is powerful and the images it can create can determine some strong emotions and feelings that you might experience when you think about them. This is why you have to be completely clear about the things you want to visualize and the reasons behind them. Creative visualization can help you manifest and achieve the outcomes that you want. These thoughts will be repeated constantly through your mind which can change your mindset and your behavior, in ways that will manifest your goals.
Creative visualization could be used as a therapeutic application. This is when visual imagery is used to recreate and replace things that cause you stress or upset you. This is done with a therapist, or as a part of a group. Creative visualization can help increase mental and physical relaxation while decreasing stress.
Benefits of Creative Visualization
Now you know about the basics of visualization, let’s look at the benefits. Here are six benefits that you can get from creative visualization:
- Improved Relationships
Creative visualization can help you improve your relationships. This could be either your partner or friends. While you visualize, you are getting more confident in your abilities and yourself, it can improve your relationships and social life while your overall well-being is being improved.
- Gives Inspiration
Visualizations could give you a huge dose of inspiration, too. Once you visualize your dreams and goals, you will become inspired to make sure they come true. This inspiration could spur you to take the needed action toward your goals.
When you can see your goals in a visualization it will inspire you to make sure you see it in your reality, too.
- Brings Joy
Although your visualization might not be true at this very moment, just thinking about it will bring joy into your life. This happens because your mind isn’t going to know the difference between the actual thing and the visualization.
This basically means that you will experience excitement and joy that you would feel as if it were actually real, this only makes your visualizations stronger.
- Self-Confidence
When you use creative visualizations, you are picturing yourself experiencing positive situations and reaching success. This means your self-confidence will increase since you will be beginning to believe in yourself and this will help your visualization come true faster.
The more you can visualize yourself doing these amazing things, the more confident you will become.
- Increase Focus
Similar to meditation, you can increase your concentration and focus by just sitting down and visualizing. Once you do some creative visualization, you will forget about your troubles and any worries that you may have about your future. This allows you to just concentrate and focus on your visualization.
When you take the time to just sit still, be silent, and relax while visualizing, it can help you feel more positive about yourself and lessens your stress. Visualization is a type of relaxation that is similar to meditation. Since you will be visualizing positive situations, it can help you quiet your mind and help you feel relaxed. (Excerpt is from “The Magic of Manifesting Money” by Maria Sunni).
