subject: Imagining With The Law Of Attraction [print this page] Using visualization to create something isn't the only way to be a deliberate creator. And, for some of us, using visual images comes more easily than for others.We can all learn ways to focus our vision to help us to create.
I am a very visual person. I see images and they are often emblazoned on my mind. This can be a liability for a "deliberate creator" because it means that I can easily vividly focus on what I don't want. If you have a visual learning style, you may want to have a few tools for letting go of the images you don't want to be focusing on and replacing them with the ones you DO want.
In the Abraham-Hicks teachings, they say "Look around less. Imagine more." This is because when we keep looking at "what is", we keep validating the current experience. Fine, when you like what you see, but what about when you are seeking improvement?
I have a very powerful ability to recall visual images. I noticed that the images I hold in my mind are often vivid. How I turn that into an asset in deliberate creating is to use the power of my imagining to create even more vivid images than those I am currently looking at. Here are two ways to do that:
1. Find a memory with a vivid image that matches the way I want to be vibrating. In other words, I align my energy with a mental image that is powerfully positive and uplifting. To strengthen this image, I find the feeling that matches and amplifies the energy of the image. Right in the moment, I step into the emotionally charged vision and live in it. The more I do this, the more real it becomes.
2. When there is no matching memory, I create one, in my imagination, and charge it with emotion. This can take some words to bring it to life. My favorite way is to script a scenario of what experiences I will be having as a result of the change. I write this as if it were a past event. The trick here, for me, is to forget about telling how I got there and go right to what it feels like to have arrived, the gratitude, the "rightness" of it and the ripples of other amazing results that came as a result of the manifestation I started with.
To keep things really simple, when an issue is really "charged", just focus on feeling good!
Here's a story about how to use focusing and the feelings that are generated to lift your vibration, even when you aren't trying to create anything in particular. I focused on something as simple as a message from a friend and expanded it into a vivid emotional image that I can come back to for alignement.
Working in my studio yesterday, I missed a call from my friend, Val, who recently moved to a new town. What is it about having someone dear appreciate me, that feels so good? In her message, my friend said that she missed me and then that she misses the way she feels when she is with me. This is "Abraham speak". Abraham-Hicks teaches that when we miss someone, we are really missing how we feel when we are around them.
We can access this feeling any time, really. So, while my friend is far away, I can think about her and feel how it feels to appreciate who she is and I become instantly aligned with my own inner being. Appreciating others is one way that I take the shortcut to feeling good whenever I want to shift out of negativity. I actually learned this as part of my HeartMath practice and I teach it to everyone who will listen!
So, when I got the call from Valerie, here's what happened for me. I heard her voice, I pictured her in my mind, a smile came across my face as I remembered my appreciation for her. The message was lovely, too, of course, but the reason I could really feel and take in her appreciation was because I was already in the vibrational vicinity of it. Love really does multiply and grow as we let it in. From this vibrational "vantage point", it is easy to move into creating something specific, or I can just bask in the good feeling, knowing that more goodness is being attracted into my experience.
