3. Full Power Imagination

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3. Creating Your Life: Full Power Imagination

This post is going to piss off some people. Too friggin' bad. There are some uncomfortable truths in life, and those truths don't go away just because they don't fit your "model" of how reality works.

Everything that follows is testable by you personally. You can't prove any of them to anyone else, but you can prove them to yourself. Of course, you can mentally dismiss it all and forego personal experimentation, which is likely to happen when demonstration of these truths deeply conflicts with your picture of reality.

But do please consider that if there's even a small possibility that what follows is real and you don't even try, then you'll be missing out on an unlimited treasure that you have daily access to.

I suggest that if you want to experiment with Full Power Imagination, that you give it a full year, with real daily effort. And when you get results, don't allow your mind to make excuses. That's it's job: To protect your precious reality, to warn you away from uncomfortable truths.

Okay, here's the proposition: The image you hold in your mind's eye, with the right attitude and attention, will eventually manifest in "reality."

If you have been following this series from the beginning, in Evil Dictionaries and Money I showed how people work to control your imagination through language.

In The God Game, I posited that the universe (or universes, or however you want to look at it) might very well include everything you can possibly imagine.

In How the Mind Works I demonstrated how your mind limits reality by partitioning it according to what you believe to be true.

In this series Creating Your Life, I take it all the way, even though I know I open the door to certain derision.

Okay, take the time to try one or more of the following experiments. Remember, you're execising a real faculty, a kind of muscle, popularly called the third eye (it's right between and slightly above your eyebrows). You may have to build it up, unless you're already a graphic artist, painter, or illustrator (people who will likely have the most immediate success with these exercises):

• Cloud Vaporizing: On a nice day with a few small cotton-ball clouds in the sky, find a grassy area to lie down on and spend a couple of hours trying this: focus on one little cotton-ball cloud and imagine that just by visualizing it melting away, it will begin to disappear. Look at it and in your mind's eye, picture it dissolving, disappearing, vaporizing. Hold the image gently but firmly. Don't focus on the cloud as much as, in a relaxed manner, overlay a melting image over the cloud until it takes hold.
  
  If it doesn't work right away, don't give up. Try different visualizing techniques, including closing your eyes and watching the cloud particles move away from each other. SEE the connection between your mind and the cloud. (Be sure to try this only on very small clouds to begin with.)
  
  Once the cloud disappears, you might see another one appear nearby. To test whether you are the one actually responsible for any activity, focus on different clouds in a unique order and watch them disappear in that order. Or if one appears when another goes away, focus on the one that appeared and vaporize it. Perhaps you can create a back-and-forth seesaw vaporizing a cloud, watching another form nearby, vaporizing that one, and watching the original return.
  
  Spend enough time, maybe a couple of hours, creating a sequence that could not have possibly happened on it's own. PROVE it to yourself. Don't forget to put FEELING into it. And DON'T tell anyone that you're doing this.

• Newspaper Headlines: This one is easier in one way and harder in another. You must practice it daily, with a kind of disciplined attention and feeling for TRULY seeing it.
  
  Imagine an innocuous newspaper headline, one that by rights you should not see in any newspaper within the next week. By innocuous, I mean one that would not adversely affect people or history. Something short and trivial, like "BRIDE WEARS ARMADILLO HAT."
  
  See it constantly in your mind's eye as a genuine newspaper headline. DON'T tell anyone about it. Know with absolutely certainty that you will see that headline in a newspaper in the next week or so. Exercise your imagination with it, like a muscle. Cultivate your attitude of certainty, focus your attention.

• Conflict Resolution: You have tension with someone, a coworker or friend. The nature of it is such that you cannot talk to them about it. Take an hour and close your eyes and relax. Imagine having a conversation with that person about the subject.
  
  Do whatever it takes to explain, forgive, apologize, whatever, and see that the matter is ENTIRELY resolved with that person. FEEL how the tension is released and how you can now totally LET GO of the entire matter. Visualize the entire process, the details of the entire conversation. RESOLVE IT.
  
  Once you actually feel the release, the resolution on your side, observe how it goes with that person in real life. And DON'T tell them what you've done.

I think you'd admit that if you could do any or all of these exercieses and get results repeatedly, that the implications of the connection between what your mind pictures and what you perceive as reality would open a whole new way of thinking about yourself and the universe.

You'll notice I said not to tell anybody. The simple reason is, you're not the only one with an imagination. Others have it as well. And even if they don't believe there is a direct connection between their mind and reality, that belief in itself WILL affect reality. Skeptics can act like Black Holes, with minds that reach out and CANCEL or at least inhibit the imagination of others. They unknowingly interfere with what you are trying to do. And they will never take responsibility for the fact that they have inhibited your experimentation.

Also, talk to any novelist about why they don't discuss their creations before they manifest. Talking about it RESOLVES it. The talking IS the creation, so one of the best ways to NOT get the results you expect is to TALK about those results before they manifest.

You don't get what you want in life; you get what you picture.

Except for the occasional odd life-changing event, you will likely see that your life onviously tends to manifest what you expect it to. If you think you don't deserve much in life, you won't get it. If you think life is pain, then life is pain. If you believe you can achieve large things in life, you DO achieve large things in life. You may know someone who thinks that they are jinxed, that all kinds of bad things will happen to them, AND THEY DO.

The greatest secret about secrets of the universe is, they're not secret, and never have been.

Know Thyself. Socrates

The kingdom of heaven is within you. Jesus

Humans are gods clothed in rags. They are masters of the universe going around begging for a crust of bread. They are kings and queens prostrated before their own servants. They could be free. All they have to do is walk out of their self-constructed prisons, for none hold them there but themselves.

That last paragraph is paraphrased and not original with me, but you get the idea.

How are you feeling right now? Do you feel anxiety when you read this? Is your brow creased and your neck tight because you feel there's something threatening about what I'm saying?

There is. This is a truth that is simply hard to face. The implications are staggering. If you have a strong picture of an objective universe detached from your mental imaginings, you will definitely experience anxiety reading this post. Why? I discuss that in How the Mind Works.

The fact is, as I have said so often before, more people than you realize know this truth about Full Power Imagination. And they would much rather you not find out about the fact that YOU DON'T NEED THEM. They want to take that very real POWER of YOUR imagination and harness that power to build up THEIR ideas, THEIR constructs, THEIR imaginings.

Reality waits for you to mold it. The limit to that molding resides in the flexibility and truths held in your limiting mind. By holding an image in your mind long enough, with the right attitude and focus of attention, you create the mold that reality, by it's nature, must fill in. And you have the means to PROVE it to yourself. If you take the time and apply yourself diligently.

Imagination supersedes the mind. The mind is merely a tool, a machine to implement the pictures generated by the imagination. Your imagination is NOT a function of the mind. The imagination is independent of it.

The universe is far more interesting and available to you than you have so far realized. And even if you don't realize it, your imagination and mind are still working away, creating your reality, haphazardly or according to someone else's mold, or to old molds given to you as a child, or by religion, or by science, or by politicians, or by yourself.

Nothing is more important than your willingness to claim your right to be your own creator in this world.

Try it. You have nothing to lose but your own limitations.

Next: 4. Creating Your Life: Uncomfortable Truths

*** Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. L. Frank Baum

*** The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake

*** We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury