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In my earlier Creative Visualization posts I described how you should go about creating a positive and inspiring blueprint for your future. Getting your vision to ‘take root’ in your subconscious mind and start attracting the corresponding conditions into your life involves one final step. However, unlike the previous steps, this one should be repeated daily.

Step 4 – Hypnagogic Focusing
As the human body falls asleep, the brain first goes through something called the hypnagogic state. This is a state of awareness which lies between waking and sleeping, and it is during this particular state that the subconscious mind is most impressionable. By regularly focusing on the vision you have created during the hypnagogic state, your subconscious mind will begin adapting to the idea of experiencing this fundamentally positive future. The nature of your day to day thoughts will change – albeit gradually at first – and as a consequence so will the conditions that are attracted into your life.

Of course, such hypnagogic focusing is not the only technique that you can use to harness the power of the Law of Attraction and create good things in your life, but it is extremely effective and can be used in conjunction with most other methods as you see fit.

That said, every night for the next month or so, as you close your eyes to sleep, bring the vision you have created to the forefront of your mind. Don’t force yourself to concentrate or remember every detail, but just enjoy imagining the kind of life you have defined. Allow yourself to fall asleep with this positive scenario in your consciousness, and as you do so, know that you have already begun making it a reality in your life.

Creative Visualization Notes

There are a few other optional ideas you can employ to support the main Creative Visualization process that I have outlined in this short series. If any of them appeal to you, feel free to use them:

- Using full-colour pictures from magazines, catalogues or other sources, create a collage which represents your vision in a graphic way. Simply choose one or two images for each of your fifteen goals and mount them all onto one large notice board or piece of card. Then hang this collage in a place where you will see it on a regular basis, such as in your office or bedroom. A modern alternative is to employ computer software designed specifically for such a purpose, such as Mind Movies, which I personally find to be extremely effective.

- Whenever you think about the future, deliberately think about the new vision of the future that you have created, rather than simply projecting your past experiences.

- If thinking about this positive future feels unrealistic or overly optimistic, remind yourself that this is only because of your past conditioning. The chances are that other people are looking forward to futures that are even more ambitious, so don’t hold yourself back with false limitations. The fact is that we are only ever limited in life by the size of the vision that we hold as our aim, so dream big and aim high!

In my previous article in this Creative Visualization series we began looking at a Creative Visualization process that you can use to create good things in your life. We have already discussed Step 1, so let us now continue…

Step 2 – Design Your Professional Life
Turn your attention to your professional life, which consists of your career and your finances. As you did previously, be sure to put all thought of your past experiences behind you (so as not to limit your thinking) and then identify five things that you would like to have in your future experience. Common goals in this area include:

- Getting a promotion in a current career.
- Starting a new career.
- Starting your own business.
- Gaining recognition from superiors.
- Achieving a certain career or business target (such as “Number One Salesman”).
- Becoming debt-free.
- Achieving a certain level of financial stability.
- To retire at a certain age.
- To enjoy your retirement in a certain way.

Once again, write down your five goals for this area, this time under the heading ‘Professional Life’, and be sure to be as specific as you can be.

Step 3 – Design Your Emotional & Spiritual Life
Many people ignore the important areas of emotions and spirituality when thinking about setting goals for the future, but this part of life is just as important as any other. In fact it can seem even more important, because a negative emotional outlook can tarnish even the most blessed life if you allow it to. So, whilst setting goals for your emotional and spiritual life, give as much attention to the task at hand as you did when working on the previous two steps.

Your emotional and spiritual life consists of how you feel, the attitude you adopt towards life and the spiritual beliefs and/or practices you adopt.  Common goals in this area include the following:

- To be calmer and more at peace, regardless of external circumstances.
- To be joyful and optimistic every day.
- To love yourself and others unconditionally.
- To meditate daily.
- To study spiritual texts or attend lectures regularly.

As before, write down your five goals for this area in specific terms under the heading ‘Emotional & Spiritual Life’.

When you have worked your way through these three steps, you should have a document which encapsulates the kind of experiences you would genuinely like to experience in the future. Your blueprint is complete and you can now begin to use this new vision on a daily basis to begin attracting the kind of conditions and circumstances that you have defined, as you will discover in Creative Visualization Part 4…

As I said in Creative Visualization Part 1, a visualization can be described as a kind of ‘blueprint’ for the future. And as with any other kind of blueprint, creating a brand new one from scratch is not something that can be hurried into or rushed. Instead, you need to take the process seriously, investing as much time and effort into it as you would into the design of a blueprint for a new home.

The process that is taught in this series on Creative Visualization will guide you through the creation of a brand new vision for your future, and then provide you with instructions on how to use that vision effectively in order to start attracting corresponding conditions into your life. Please take this process seriously and design your vision carefully, because it will serve to shape the future you experience in the coming months and years.

My creative visualization process will take you through the various stages that are required to create a brand new vision of your life that you can use as a point of focus when developing and using your powers of creative thought. It involves defining precisely what you would like to experience in the future and writing this down somewhere so that you can use the written record of your vision in your creative thought work over the coming weeks and months. Your vision can be recorded using pen and paper or on a computer screen, but if you use a computer you will need to print the document out for later reference.

Step 1 – Design Your Personal Life
Begin by thinking about your personal life, which consists of your relationships, your health, your home and the way you spend your spare time. Putting your past experiences to one side, and assuming that you could create your personal life in any way you choose, what are the five things that you would like to have in your future experience? To give you some inspiration, here are some common goals in this area:

- To have a certain kind of home in a certain location.
- To improve your current home in some way.
- To have a certain type of car.
- To have a certain type of pet.
- To lose weight.
- To start a new relationship.
- To improve current relationships.
- To learn a new skill, such as language or a musical instrument.

Your own goals in this area may be similar to the ones above or very different. It doesn’t matter. Whatever your five goals are for your personal life, write them down under the heading ‘Personal Life’. Be as specific as possible, writing down your goals in as much detail as possible. For example, if you want to learn to play a musical instrument, which instrument in particular would you like to learn? Or, if you want to improve your existing home in some way, specify the kinds of improvements that you want to make.

Spend some time on Step 1 and we will continue our discussion in Creative Visualization Part 3…

Creative visualization is a Law of Attraction tool that is based on the observation that the conditions of our lives are created moment by moment according to the way we think about the future. If we think about the future in a positive light then we are likely to attract positive experiences. If we think about the future in a negative light then we are likely to attract negative experiences. The problem for most people is that what they think about the future – consciously and subconsciously – is generally determined by their past experiences.

For example, a man who has always had a problem with feeling inferior in the past will normally think about future situations and see himself as feeling inferior in the future also. And, because our thoughts are attractive, inferiority is what he will ultimately experience.

This pattern of the future repeating the past isn’t restricted to internal qualities or attitudes such as inferiority, but applies equally to external conditions such as our finances, our careers, our relationships with others and so on.

Another example: a woman has always worked for around $20,000 per year. When she thinks about working in the future, she will tend to think about working in jobs which pay a similar level financially. Yes, she may allow herself to stretch to thinking about having a job which pays a little more – perhaps $22,000 per year – but she will not think about having a job which pays much more than that. And once again, because her thoughts are attractive, she is likely to experience what she expects.

None of this is to say that individuals don’t hope for better things. The man with feelings of inferiority may hope that he will be confident in the future. And the woman with the $20,000 job may hope to land a $50,000 job in the future. But hope is not a powerful form of thought, because it tends to be fleeting and inconsistent. In both cases, the underlying thoughts of the future bringing ‘more of the same’ will over-ride all fleeting hopes of it bringing anything better.

Of course, the same principle also works in a positive way. If a man has been able to double his income every year for the past five years, he will tend to expect to double his income again in the coming year. And, because his visualization in this case is creative, the chances of him doing so are extremely good.

So we can see that a big problem for most people is the fact that their visualizations (that is, their imagined expectations of the future) are almost wholly based on their past experiences. This means that if their past experiences haven’t been great, under normal circumstances they aren’t likely to experience great things in the future.

But this doesn’t have to be the case. Anyone who discovers the power of creative visualization can change their future in a number of ways, and the purpose of this short series on creative visualization is to explain how you can do just that.