| Visualization or mental picture is the
language of your subconscious mind. If you choose to remember only one thing
out of this book, please remember this:
"Your subconscious mind cannot differentiate
what is real or vividly imagined. Through repetition, the image you
visualize must come to pass."
Let me illustrate this statement with a real
story that I've extracted from the book "The Power Of Your Subconscious
Mind".
A young pharmacist, being inspired by Dr. Joseph Murphy, began to imagine
that she was in her own store, arranging the bottles, dispensing
prescriptions and waiting on customers. Mentally she worked in that
imaginary store.
Several years later, her work took her to a
small town where there was only one drugstore. When she walked into the
store she was surprised that it was exactly the store she had visualized.
More amazingly, the store owner was ready to retire and was willing to let
her own the store while providing her with the financial support she needed.
That's the power of visualization.
Visualization is not just seeing what you
desire in your mind's eye. It is about living in your mind's eye. When I say
living, I mean using your five senses to make the images as real as
possible.
The best time to do visualization is when you
are in alpha because when you are in alpha, you can concentrate on your
inner world and fully immerge yourself in your world of visualization.
As what Jose Silva put it, the difference
between visualizing in beta and alpha is like saying the word swim and
actually swimming. When you visualize in Alpha, you will realize that you
can visualize better and the images that you visualize will be so vivid that
you may end up thinking that the images are real!
The clearer the visualization, the faster it
shows up in reality.
One problem that many people face when
starting to do visualization is that they keep changing what they visualize
before the goal is achieved. This is often due to lack of self-understanding
and poor goal setting technique.
If you are still searching for the right path, you may go into different
opportunities.
For example, you may go into a sales job, and
you started to visualize yourself being the top salesperson in the company.
But before you achieve the goal, you realized that sales is not something
you like. Your goal changed and what you visualized changes as a result.
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