Manifesting your desired future using vivid visualisation

Visualisation is a powerful way of representing thought and enacting invention into reality. In this article I’m going to describe a simple step-by-step process by which you can design a visualisation to assist you in manifesting your goals throughout the next years.

 

Every great inventor and most incredibly successful people will admit to the awesome power of visualisation. It is one of the minds most potent ways of representing thought and reality. By creating a vivid visualisation which is regularly focused upon one will begin to realise in reality the effects of one’s thought.

 

The key being that the visualisation is of sufficient vividity, and is focused upon regularly.

 

 

One should not restrict the term visualisation to mean a purely visual image. When I talk of visualisation I mean imagined sensations, smells, feelings, emotions, lights, pictures, everything – as much sense and vivdity as possible. Trust your intuition, do not place any restrictions on your visualisations.

 

When done in the right way visualisation is also very enjoyable. If it’s not enjoyable, you need to change something about the way you’re doing it.

 

 

Don’t be concerned if you believe your ability to visualise to be insufficient. The very act of performing this exercise will increase your ability to do so – so long as you put a little intention into improving every time the quality of your visualisation.

 

If you would like to perform an exercise on top of this to increase your ability to visualise then you may wish to take up a daily practice of visualising a red triangle with your eyes closed for 5 minutes a day. This is a type of focus meditation. But I wouldn’t get too much into that unless the process appeals to you.

 

 

First you should think about the things you really wish to achieve over the coming year (you can use any time period you wish, a year is probably appropriate for most people).

 

Do not aim low – aim extremely high. Aim ridiculously high, as high as your imagination will allow. If you aim for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. (Confucius )

 

You may wish to consider all the traits you want to develop and improve, or you may wish to think about the skills you want to master.

 

You may be thinking about the success of your business, or maybe you want to relocate somewhere else, maybe you are developing yourself in some way and you want to really change something about yourself in the next year…

 

You get the idea…

 

Begin to think about what your reality will look like if everything goes absolutely perfect for you. Think about how you will look, think about the expression on your face and the way you will be standing or lying or sitting. Think about your surroundings and how they will be making you feel.

 

You will be using this as your template visualisation for some time, so don’t miss out any important details. Get everything in there you possibly can, and bring it into focus as strongly as possible.

 

Your visualisation should be dripping with pleasure. You should be almost salivating from the prospect of its realisation into reality. You should be feeling incredibly driven towards your goals just by going through this process.

 

Keep updating and improving the visualisation until you are satisfied that you have a strong idea of how you want yourself to be in a years time.

 

 

Now you need to create a habit of indulging in your visualisation.

 

You will be doing this three times a day and you’ll be spending at least 5 minutes each time on it, so in total this is going to take 15 minutes out of your days for the foreseeable future. Choose the times when it’ll be best for you to do it.

 

You can do the actual visualisation with eyes closed or eyes open. Personally I choose eyes open because I like to actually see myself in the room doing the things I foresee myself doing and being the way I see myself being – but a lot of people prefer eyes closed because it’s easier for them to visualise vividly.

 

Each time you visualise you want to do so with some creativity. Do not idly bring up the same old image again and again. Instead actively improve your visualisation as you bring it in to focus. Add to its power any improvements which you see fit.

 

When you visualise do not only imagine in third person, also feel yourself within the visualisation. Slide into the image you have made so you're now experinceing everything from a first person perspective. Experience the emotion which you will be feeling achieving all of those desires you have…

 

Indulge in this process three times a day.

 

Now you are creating a habit. As with all habit creation it will require some conscious effort at first. You will need to remember to do your visualisation, and you will need to ensure you set aside the time to do it.

 

Over-time you will begin to find your mind wants to visualise at random times. This is just the habit forming and it should be indulged in as long as you have the time and you control the object of the visualisation to be the one which you desire it to be.

 

All you need to do for your visualisation to be realised into reality is to ensure it is vivid, held within the focus of your mind, and that it is yourself at the focus of your visualisation.

 

Everything else – the action you will take, the changes you will make, the effort you will put it… those things will need to be done of course. But they will happen as a by-product of your intensely potent vivid visualisation which you are indulging in regularly.