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SPIRIT THE LAW OF ATTRACTION HOW CREATIVE VISUALIZATION WORKS
Creative visualization has long been used as a personal motivation tool. A salesman may collage his dream vacation and hang it up in his work space. A woman on a diet may imagine herself at her ideal weight. Seeing something in our mind’s eye can inspire us to strive harder to achieve it. The law of attraction, however, takes this principle a step further. It implies that when we take some time to envision our desires we are actually working to manifest them.
The underlying idea is that our thoughts give birth to the reality that we experience. Many old texts have alluded to this idea, and it has seen resurgence in the modern day with all of the law of attraction literature and other media that abounds. Ancient wisdom is being applied to our modern goals of good health, financial security, and romantic fulfillment, to name but a few of the many possible applications.
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If you use creative visualization to help you realize your dreams, it’s crucial that you imagine their manifestation as vividly as possible. This adds emotional weight to your meditations. If you can actually see your desires unfolding then the resulting excitement and joy that you feel will be channeled into the creative act. This is potent energy that can be focused toward attracting what you want from the world. Some teachers of the law of attraction will encourage their students to act as if it were so. Focusing on a negative circumstance in your life will only reinforce it via your attention. Try to relinquish such worries and concentrate only upon your desire.
Then take a single action sometime during the day that is in line with that desire. This is a way of demonstrating your faith in the manifestation work that you are doing. Remember that it is the strength of your own belief that will bring about the results you want. Don’t worry about how anyone else might approach this exercise. What matters is that you follow through with whatever may feel like a demonstration of faith to you.
The law of attraction works because our own thoughts and feelings are taking form in the physical world. Creative visualization is one tool that can enable us to become conscious creators of our own life experience. It allows us to focus upon our intent rather than upon all of the things that could go wrong. We have been creating our own reality all along anyway. Creative visualization is simply one way of doing so purposefully. In the process of doing this meditation we may be confronted with imaginative images that run contrary to what we are trying to create. These fantasies can indicate that we carry beliefs that run the other way. Becoming conscious of such beliefs enables us to perceive them for the stumbling blocks that they are. We can then work through them and let them go, thus stepping forward into a new and more expansive motif for our lives.