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Creative visualization is one of the most popular metaphysical techniques in the world. If you have been reading the articles here at Create Good Things for a while you will certainly be familiar with the concept: If you want to manifest something or some quality in your life, you should sit down on a regular basis and visualize yourself as already having that thing or quality.
Unfortunately, some people find that they can’t seem to make visualization work for them. It doesn’t matter how hard they try, the results just don’t come. It’s as if something is actually preventing the manifestation from taking place.
In most cases, something really is preventing the process, and that ‘something’ is the self-image of the individual.
Your self-image is the mental representation of who you truly believe you are. In most cases it consists of one or a series of mental images which represent, as far as your subconscious mind is concerned, the ‘real you’.
Now here is the vital point: Your subconscious mind will never allow you to experience anything in life which is in conflict with your self-image. No matter how hard you work, visualize, affirm or meditate, your self-image will always dictate what can and what cannot be manifested in your life.
Since this is the case, you should now be able to understand why visualization and other similar metaphysical techniques don’t work for some people. In almost all such instances, the self-image of the individual over-rides all metaphysical efforts in an effort to preserve the ‘status quo’. Let us give you an example of how this often takes place.
Jane, a young lady in her mid-twenties, had learned about creative visualization and decided to begin using it to increase her level of career and financial success. Every day for several months, Jane sat down and visualized the things she wanted in her life – a fine home, a smart automobile, a rewarding career and financial independence.
Now during the course of this visualization programme, several opportunities arose which could have enabled Jane to realise her ambitions. Yet when she came to take advantage of these various opportunities, every one of them vanished. Job offers were withdrawn for no reason, help which she had been offered from friends and acquaintances was not forthcoming and so on.
After several months of such let-downs, Jane lost her faith in visualization altogether. ‘It just doesn’t work,’ she would tell her friends. ‘I’ve tried as hard as I can, but even when things start looking up, something happens to take me right back to square one.’
The problem in this case wasn’t creative visualization at all. As many thousands of people can testify, visualization is one of the most effective metaphysical techniques there is.
So what was the problem?
The problem was that Jane’s self-image was in direct opposition to the things she was visualizing. Far from seeing herself as a person worthy of success, Jane always felt inferior. She viewed successful people as though they were automatically better and more deserving than she was.
In other words, Jane’s visualization efforts failed simply because she was trying to achieve something which would actually jeopardize her own self-image, and because of this her subconscious mind set to work – acting to prevent her visualized goals from ever becoming a reality.
Now the idea of one aspect of an individual working against another aspect of the same individual may sound strange, but in fact it happens all the time.
Consider a person who wants to quit smoking. He tries once, twice, three times, but he always ends up lighting another cigarette.
Or consider the person who wants to succeed financially. He tries once, twice, three times, but he always seems to end up right back where he started.
In both of these situations – and in a very many others – all that is happening is that the subconscious mind works to ensure that the individual fails. Why? Because the man who smokes has a self-image of himself as a smoker, and the man who wants to succeed financially actually has a self-image of failure and poverty. In both cases, the subconscious mind simply must ensure that they do not reach their goals, because if they did their respective self-images would be shattered.
In the world of metaphysics, the self-image can be likened to the ‘homing device’ on a powerful missile. The homing device is pre-programmed with a definite destination. When the missile is launched it always looks to its homing device for directions. Of course, the wind may blow the missile off track on occasion, but in these cases it simply refers once again to its homing device and corrects its own path so that it finally reaches the destination that has been pre-programmed.
If you are not progressing as quickly as you think you ought to be, in whatever area of life, then the chances are that your self-image is pulling you in a different direction.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can deliberately re-programme your subconscious mind with a brand new set of instructions which are automatically geared towards helping you to manifest prosperity, happiness and success in all areas of life, and this is where creating a new self-image comes into play.
After all of this talking about Entering the Zone, the next question which arises is: How do I know when I am in the Zone?
First of all, you should not think that carrying out either method just the once will result in you entering the Zone. It may happen, but it probably won’t. Whichever method you choose to use, you must use it on a regular – preferably daily – basis. By doing this you will be regularly programming your mind to a different wavelength by combining the metaphysical power of breath, creative visualization and rhythm.
After as little as a week of using either method daily, you may get your first experience of the Zone. This first experience may last just a minute or two, but you will know it when it occurs. For now, here are some of the things you can expect to experience:
- A feeling of being ‘in tune’ with everything around you.
- A strong realization that you are a spiritual being with infinite power.
- A feeling of great physical strength or energy.
So much for the intuitive side of the Zone. As for the external effects which being in the Zone will have, these are impossible to define because they will vary according to the individual. They can, however, be described as ‘answers’ to questions and ‘fulfilments’ of desires.
For example, if you desire a new job then you may find that you enter the Zone during your job interview. You may answer each question you are asked perfectly, yet without really thinking. It may feel as if something ‘bigger’ than you is leading you to success. And it is!
Or you may desire a greater level of abundance and enter the Zone when taking part in a competition or lottery. You may know before the competition even takes place that you are a winner. It will seem as if you are destined to be a winner. And you are!
However entering the Zone affects your life, you can be sure that the effects will be nothing but positive. One cannot fail when in the Zone. Everything goes smoothly, automatically and without hitch. When you are in the Zone you will not question your true identity – you will know that you are a being of infinite spiritual power!
The more you continue using either of the two methods we have presented in this series, the more often you will enter the Zone. Even better, the longer your time in the Zone will be. Eventually you will come to the point where you live in the Zone ninety per cent of the time! Of course, we don’t want you to simply take our word for any of this. Rather, we want you to experience the fact yourself. So use one of the methods provided – starting today – and find out what life in the Zone is really like. Then decide to live in that higher state as much as possible and create good things!
A human being can be said to inhabit two universes – the exterior physical universe which is experienced via the physical senses, and the interior universe which is experienced via the mind and imaginative faculties. Understanding that you as an individual inhabit two universes and not just one is important, because trying to bring about change in the physical universe without first bringing about the same change in your interior universe is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Your interior universe is your primary domain as a spiritual being, and it serves as a pattern upon which your external experience is built. Furthermore, if your interior universe and the exterior universe are ever in conflict, it is always the interior state that will win out.
For example, if you are perfectly at home in your interior universe and you enjoy a feeling of calm, tranquillity and being at cause over life, those feelings will be part of your external experience even if the outer environment is full of challenges and deadlines.
Of course, the opposite is also true, and if you lack confidence and peace in your own interior universe then you will lack the experience of confidence and peace externally even if the situations in the environment are conducive to confidence and peace.
When you recognise that your interior universe effectively shapes the experience that you have in the external world, it is immediately apparent that if you want to create good things in your external reality you first need to create good things in your interior universe.
Most popular Law of Attraction techniques such as creative visualization and affirmations work because they gradually bring about positive changes in your interior universe, thereby allowing you to experience similar changes externally. Unfortunately, most popular techniques don’t create change in the interior universe as effectively as they would if interior creation were their primary purpose.
Whilst creative visualization, affirmation and so on are excellent tools, it can often be even more effective to take more direct and deliberate control of your interior universe and focus fully on making it exactly as you would want your external universe to be. By taking that approach you get to experience immediate results in your interior universe and your outer-world experience will quite naturally fall into line in due course.
To start with, you could landscape your interior universe so that you really enjoy spending time there. In a previous article we have discussed how to create an inner temple, and the process here is much the same. The big difference is that instead of creating a single temple you create the entire inner landscape of your interior universe. How large you make this interior universe, and the form it takes, is up to you. The important thing is to make sure that it accurately reflects the kind of experience that you want to have in the exterior universe.
For example, if you want to live in a large house in the countryside and enjoy a high level of financial abundance, glowing health and complete peace of mind, you could create all of that in your interior universe. You could create your ideal home in great detail, create the specific amount of financial abundance that you want, give your interior universe body the health and vitality you want, and so on.
Or maybe you want to experience a greater level of self-confidence in the exterior universe, as well as more peace of mind. In that case you would create more self-confidence and peace of mind for yourself in your interior universe, in whatever way appeals to you.
Whatever your exterior universe goals, creating them first in your interior universe will make it far easier for you to experience them externally. Spend as much time landscaping your interior universe in whatever way you see fit, then get into the habit of enjoying it on a daily basis. You might like to set aside thirty minutes a day to close your eyes and enjoy the reality of your interior universe, or perhaps you would prefer to go there when you close your eyes to sleep at night. Your personal routine is not important – what is important is that you enjoy your interior universe, and create whatever experiences you desire there, on a daily basis.
As far as your interior universe is concerned, you are the sole Creator, and you have free reign to create what you will. You can create a brand new world or a continent almost as easily as you can create a modest garden sanctuary, so allow yourself to be as inventive as you like. Just remember, the experiences that you create in your interior universe serve as a blueprint for the experiences that you will have in the exterior universe, so always be sure to create good things!
The power of the mind is enormous, if not genuinely infinite. For millennia philosophers, spiritual leaders and in recent years even psychologists and scientists have said that the attitude or mind-set of a person can often have a direct effect on what that person experiences. In my opinion this relationship between attitude and winning is so important that I believe everyone who wants to win at life should invest some time in developing their latent Mind Power as fully as possible.
When it comes to Mind Power, there are only two kinds of people: those who use it, and those who abuse it. Those who use it deliberately develop their Mind Power in an effort to gain every possible edge in life. Those who abuse it often do so unconsciously, but nevertheless suffer as a result.
If you want to win at life, you must first of all ensure that you have developed and are using your inner Mind Power to its best effect. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult. It may, however, require that you change some of your core beliefs and attitudes.
To begin with, you should eliminate all negativity from your thinking. This is easier said than done, I know, but it is vital.
In this day and age it is easy to be negative about your life and your circumstances, but unfortunately, being negative never helps to turn your life or circumstances around. In fact, it only makes you feel worse and continue attracting negative circumstances! Being positive, on the other hand, can and does help to change both your life and your circumstances.
It is a fact of life that we all get what we expect. If we expect good things to happen then they invariably do. If we expect bad things to happen then they invariably do. In short, it can therefore be said that we always tend to get what we expect.
If you want to succeed and win at life, you must start expecting to succeed and win at life. It’s no good studying the Law of Attraction or simply going through the motions if you expect to fail deep down, because that hidden expectancy will still cause you to fail and your efforts would be fruitless.
The good news is that there are some very simple Mind Power development exercises which virtually anyone can use to start winning at life on a more consistent basis. There are three exercises in all, and using them daily will result in you developing your Mind Power with ease. All you have to do is carry out the following three exercises in the order given:
Exercise 1 – Affirm Success
Your subconscious mind is like a magical servant because it will do whatever it is told to do. Unfortunately, the conscious mind, which gives this servant its orders, often tells it to fail in life.
Affirmations have been proven by many people to help replace negative commands with positive ones, which obviously lead to more positive results. Our first exercise is therefore designed to bombard your subconscious mind with positive thoughts or affirmations.
Simply take five minutes each day (use a stop-watch if you want to be precise) and read the following affirmations out loud over and over again until the five minutes is up. You might feel a little self-conscious at first, but this is just because you are changing a pattern of negativity. Within a few days of practising the exercise the affirmations will become more and more believable as far as you are concerned and when this happens the positive effect will start to be seen in your external circumstances.
The affirmations to use are as follows:
I am a natural winner.
Whatever I touch becomes successful.
I am automatically guided towards success.
My positive mental attitude helps me to win at life.
Every day something good happens to me.
I am successful, victorious and happy.
Winning is automatic for me.
Exercise 2 – Picture Success
Images have just as much of an effect on our subconscious minds as our words do. It is therefore important to deliberately picture success and all that it means to you for five minutes each day if you want to become a genuinely consistent winner.
Now there are two ways of picturing success – one for those among you who can mentally visualize images (see Creative Visualization) and the other for those who cannot visualize so easily.
For those who can visualize, sit down quietly and imagine yourself living as a consistent winner. How would your life be different? Would you live in a larger home, drive a better car or enjoy more holidays? Whatever success means to you, imagine it now as though it has already happened. Enjoy this visualization completely. Actually work on convincing yourself that you are already enjoying the success you desire. This will ensure that the exercise is as beneficial as possible.
For those who cannot visualize with ease, do not worry. An equally effective way of picturing success is to collect a few pictures which symbolise what success means to you. Clip out a picture of the car you would like to drive, or the kind of house you would like to live in, or the holiday destinations you would like to visit. When you have a suitable collection of pictures, spend five minutes each day enjoying them, and just think how it will feel to have these things in your life.
Exercise 3 – Decide to Succeed
The third exercise calls for you to make a deliberate decision every single day to succeed and win at life. This might sound like a crazy idea, but it isn’t really. This is because when we make deliberate decisions, our subconscious mind automatically starts looking through its memory to find information, ideas and other items of data that will help you to follow through on your decision.
If you deliberately decide each day to win at life, your subconscious mind will immediately start working with you, rather than against you. It will start reminding you of books that you should read, steps that you should take and other things that you should do to help ensure that your goals are achieved as quickly as possible.
Making your daily decision to succeed is not difficult. You just decide! Some people like to profess their daily decision out loud, something like this:
‘Today I am committed to becoming more successful in every area of my life! I deliberately decide right now to focus 100% of my energy and concentration on taking more steps towards total success! Today I will win!’
How you phrase your own decision to succeed and win at life is up to you. Feel free to adopt the statement above, or invent your own. The way you phrase your decision is not important, all that is really important is that you:
a) Make a daily decision to succeed, and;
b) Stick to your decision by doing all you can to succeed today.
Like the previous two exercises, this one isn’t at all difficult, but it is still vitally important.
These three simple Mind Power exercises are simple enough for anyone to follow – even those who have no previous understanding of the Law of Attraction – yet they are still powerful enough to transform your life if you will allow them to. After you have been using them for a while you will feel good as a matter of course. You will habitually expect good things to happen – and they will! You will spend more and more time each day focusing on the things that can help you to succeed and as a result your whole life will become richer and more satisfying. In other words, you will be using the Power of the Mind to win at life!
Would you like to meet your astral lover? An Astral Lover is a being who is summoned (some would say created) on the astral plane solely for the purpose of providing companionship, romance and, if you desire, experiences of a sexual nature.
The technique that will enable you to meet your astral lover and spend time interacting with him or her is as follows:
Begin by preparing yourself physically for your meeting by doing whatever seems appropriate to get yourself in a romantic state of mind. Bathe, wear perfume (or cologne) and dress in whatever makes you feel most comfortable. You should also make the room itself more conducive to romance by dimming the lights and playing gentle music quietly in the background.
When you have done all these physical preparations, sit in a comfortable chair or recline on a couch and close your eyes. Create in your mind an ideal romantic setting. For some this might be a high class restaurant. For others it might be a large suite in a luxurious hotel. Whatever setting you choose, spend some time using your creative visualization skills to imagine it in as much detail as possible, paying equal attention to sights, sounds, aromas, textures and so on.
Now mentally invite your astral lover to come and visit you. Almost immediately someone will arrive. Look at this person, at their hair, eyes, physical body and so on, and you will find that your astral lover is immensely pleasing to you. Then introduce yourself to your astral lover and spend a while getting to know each other.
From here, you should enjoy time with your lover as you see fit. Enjoy a meal, go for a walk, sit and talk over a bottle of wine or engage in whatever other activity you would like to experience. As an adult, you are quite able to decide the kind of relationship you want to establish with your astral lover, so be true to yourself and remember that this technique is for your own personal joy and benefit.
When you wish to bring the exercise to a conclusion, kiss your lover goodbye and leave the setting that you have created. Then focus your attention on your physical body in its current physical location.
Many people feel awkward when using this technique for the first time, but soon the relationship which a person builds with their astral lover becomes almost as meaningful as any they might enjoy with a physical being. Often, the bonds between the individual and the astral lover become so strong that the lover will visit them in their dreams without invitation. When this happens the relationship progresses to an even deeper and more meaningful level.
Note: If you found this Meet Your Astral Lover article useful then you will also enjoy my series on Astral Projection.
Some people in life seem to have incredible charisma. These people are confident, charming, witty and amazingly popular with almost everyone they meet. But charisma isn’t something that some individuals are born with and others aren’t. It is simply the ability to charge the aura of etheric matter that we all have with intensely positive energy. Anyone can learn to do this deliberately. Indeed, people have done so for centuries.
The technique for developing incredible charisma is easy to learn, but extremely powerful. It involves getting yourself into what is known as a ‘peak state’ of emotional and physical intensity. Once established, the positive energy created by this peak state will charge your aura and automatically make you more charismatic for the rest of the day.
To get the most out of this technique (which is, by the way, based on the profound knowledge of the shamans) you should practice it every day without fail. By doing this, your aura will maintain a strong charge of positive energy which radiates charisma day after day.
The very first time you use this technique, you may feel a little self-conscious. This is normal. Within a few days you will notice people responding to you differently, more positively, and this in itself will naturally make you want to use the technique again and again. Before long you will be an awesomely charismatic individual and enjoy immense popularity. At this stage all feelings of self-consciousness will have vanished automatically. The technique for developing incredible charisma is as follows:
Each morning, go to a place where you can enjoy total privacy. Now imagine hearing a regular drumbeat which has a moderate pace. As you listen to this drumbeat in your imagination, begin to dance along to it. Do not worry about how you might look – no-one can see you. Just focus on dancing to the rhythm of the drumbeat within.
Now gradually increase the tempo of the drumbeat you hear, and as you do so, ensure that your dancing pace also increases accordingly. Allow the drumbeat to grow faster and faster, until you begin to feel a noticeable increase in your physical energy.
If you do this correctly, you will notice that your heart rate speeds up and your breathing becomes more intense. At this stage, whilst still dancing, use your creative visualization skills to imagine going through your day as an incredibly charismatic individual. In your mind, see people smiling at you, wanting to be around you – maybe even flirting with you if that is what you want. As you do this, hear the drumbeat grow louder and louder. Right now you should feel the energy coursing through your head and through the rest of your body even more intensely. Enjoy this feeling of energy and vitality. This is the real you. The charismatic you.
When your energy level has increased as much as you think it can, stop the internal drumbeat and stand still for a few seconds. Take a few deep breaths and then continue with the rest of your day. You will now radiate charisma automatically throughout the day, and if you ever feel your charisma weakening, simply hear the drumbeats in your mind to recharge your aura.
The Uni-Pulse technique is one that should be used in solitude at the beginning of each day. Traditionally, exercises such as this one are practised as early as dawn, because it is believed by some that the atmosphere at this time allows the spiritual (or, as we saw in Thoughts Are Attractive, electromagnetic) energy of thought to travel with fewer interruptions from other human beings. Others believe that the early morning hours are more conducive to peace and tranquillity, and are therefore more suitable for quiet, meditative work than the busier later hours.
If you are someone who likes to wake early and greet the day as the sun is rising then please feel free to use this process at dawn whenever the inclination takes you. Otherwise, simply aim to use the process before you set about the business of the day. The quieter it is when this process is used, the more effective you will find it.
The aim of the Uni-Pulse process is to ‘pulse’ an electromagnetic blueprint of your vision out into the universe at large. Some metaphysicians prefer to think in terms of a radio-energy metaphor and refer to this as ‘broadcasting’ a desire, but the overall purpose is the same – to provide a clear and specific ‘request’ to the universe and thereby initiate deliberate creation by thought.
This whole process takes fifteen minutes per sitting, and consists of four key steps:
• Grounding
• Emoting
• Pulsing
• Consolidating
I will now define and describe each step so that you can begin using this technique on a daily basis, starting tomorrow:
Step 1 – Grounding
This process should be done in a place where you can be alone at an early hour, before the rush of the day begins. First, do whatever is necessary for you to feel comfortable before commencing. For example, you may wish to shower, dress and eat a modest breakfast so that you can concentrate your mind on the task at hand without being distracted by physical needs. When you are ready to begin, sit and relax. Feel a sense of poise and calm. Breath smoothly and evenly, and bring to mind the thought that you are a creative being.
Dwell on the notion that you can, by thinking in a certain way, bring about an infinite number of changes in your life and experience. Remind yourself that this is just as natural as learning to walk or talk, so you are not attempting to do anything that you were not intended to do. Rather, by learning to use your thoughts in a deliberately creative way, you are beginning to live in a manner which brings you into closer alignment with the natural laws of the universe. Appreciate this gift that you and all individuals have for a few minutes, then move on to Step 2.
Step 2 – Emoting
Bring to mind the vision that you created when working through the Creative Visualization series. As you do so, allow yourself to develop the emotions that you would have if your vision were already a reality. Feel the way you would feel if your personal life was exactly the way you wanted it; if your professional life was exactly the way you wanted it; and if your emotional and spiritual life was exactly the way you wanted it. Remind yourself that thoughts are creative, and that you can have any future you choose if you use your thoughts creatively. So choose this future by enjoying the emotions associated with already having it. Spend a few minutes making these emotional feelings of ‘having’ as strong as you can, then maintain them as you move on to Step 3.
Step 3 – Pulsing
Your aim in this section of the process is to share your emotional feelings with the universe. Pay attention to your breathing, and with every out-breath, imagine that you are sending out these pleasant feelings in all directions, as if you are ‘pulsing’ information out into the atmosphere. This is the key to the whole process, so keep doing this for at least five minutes, pulsing your positive emotions of ‘having’ your vision out into the universe in all directions. As you do this, smile and enjoy the process. Not only can you enjoy the emotions of having your vision in the moment, but by doing so you can ensure that you will have them again – in an even more tangible way – in the future.
Step 4 – Consolidating
Having spent at least five minutes pulsing out your creative thought energy in all directions, start to bring your attention back to your breathing. Relax in the knowledge that the energy you have just pulsed out into the universe will continue travelling even when you aren’t consciously focusing on it. This means that you can bring your attention back to the business of the day at hand without in any way compromising the creation of your vision for the future.
Take two or three minutes to bring your awareness back to the present moment and your immediate environment by focusing on each in-breath and each out-breath. Become conscious of the way your physical body moves as it breathes.
Finally, take a few moments to pause and appreciate the life that you already have. Life itself is a precious gift, and there are many things in our lives that we often take for granted or even fail to recognise at all. Bringing all the good things that you have in your life to the forefront of your consciousness is an excellent way to begin the day and to ensure that the positive emotional state developed during the Uni-Pulse exercise continues throughout the day.
When you have gone through all of these steps, the Uni-Pulse exercise is complete and you may go about the rest of your day as you please.
The Uni-Pulse process utilises a primarily feminine energy, and should be used every day until the vision you created for yourself in the Creative Visualization series is a reality. It should also be used in conjunction with the Kinetic Dominance technique which I will discuss in my next post.
