“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein
Are you like me and have difficulty with visualization? It’s the one common factor, the central notion if you will, found in all the teachings of the Law of Attraction, yet I cannot seem to accomplish it! My problem is I am too detail oriented, I get bogged down very quickly with minute details of the visualization and I can never fully accomplish the end result.
When I was first introduced to the concept of the Law of Attraction through the movie and book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, I thought “how incredibly simple, thoughts become things!” And so I began imagining my life into reality. For a long time it worked, I cannot begin to tell you how many “things” I have attracted into my life, occasionally in the most astounding way! But I have to admit, that life gets in the way of imagination and attraction. Occasionally things go wrong, news stories are all depressing, social media is full of political and social rants. Filtering these things becomes difficult, and I have become a victim of my thoughts on occasion, by allowing the negativity a door in, and when I try to visualize greater accomplishments I get stymied by the details!
Recently i have begun to make a concerted effort to filter out the negativity somewhat to allow my brain a break and allow my thoughts to become more productive once again. Not surprisingly, while making this change I began to listen to Mike Dooley’s book “Manifesting Change” (as mentioned in an earlier post). He struck a chord with me when he talked about how some people find it hard to focus on the end result when sometimes they are not even clear themselves on what the end result should be, or more critically, as in my case, many times people get caught up in the details and get bogged down before they even begin. Mike has a great suggestion for getting past the “details” – Imagine the Feeling! Ok that I can do!!!
Mike Dooley has his listeners do an exercise where you close your eyes and imagine a time when you received great news, remember that overwhelming feeling of joy? How did you react? For me that is easy – I remember the day I found out I had been promoted to Principal, it was via a telephone message from my Pastor. I remember listening to it and breaking down into tears so much so that I couldn’t even talk! My poor husband thought something was wrong, but I kept waving my hand at him and shaking my head to indicate “no nothing is wrong” but still I was crying uncontrollably! That feeling of accomplishment, that joy was the greatest feeling I have had in a long time….and so I continue to envision that feeling. Not the message that gave me the feeling, just the feeling. The universe will align itself and create ways for me to feel that way again – the end result…and that is all you have to concern yourself with. So far this has helped as I begin to align my thought toward my future goals, I’ve stopped sweating the small things and have begun to focus on end results and the FEELING that goes with it.
Stay tuned, because great things are happening….