See What You Want,
Get What You See
AFFIRMATIONS
for
Meditation and Reflection
Each night before retiring I am confidently reading my list of goals out loud and creating images of the completed goals in my mind.
By adding sounds, smells, and feelings to my internal pictures, I am multiplying the benefits many times over.
I am heightening the impact of my affirmations by focusing and clearly visualizing them.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
Visualization is the technique of closing your eyes and picturing yourself enjoying life as if your goals had already been achieved—in rich, vivid, colorful detail. It’s seeing in your mind’s eye the places you would be, the sounds you would hear, the emotions you’d be feeling, and the actions you would be taking.
Visualization is one of the most effective tools you can use to reach your goals because it accelerates your success immensely.
When meditating on your affirmations, repeat them aloud and visualize them in vivid Technicolor so they produce clear images in your mind. Be very specific on the details so that your affirmations release the creative powers that fuel success.
Each night before retiring I am confidently reading my list of goals out loud and creating images of the completed goals in my mind.
Before Chicken Soup for the Soul ever hit #1, Mark Victor Hansen and I created a mock-up of the New York Times Bestsellers List with the book’s cover in the #1 spot. Within 15 months, that dream became a reality!
Make the most out of visualizing your affirmations by applying these same principles:
Most of us don’t see things in bright three-dimensional images when we close our eyes; actually, we don’t really see an image as much as we think it. To help you truly see and focus on your goals, find pictures of your dream vacation, you at your perfect weight, a black Tesla P100D, and then glue them to a small poster board. Then display it where you can see it every day. You can also write your personal affirmations on index cards using color felt markers, then draw illustrations of your dream house or perfect job.
By adding sounds, smells, and feelings to my internal pictures, I am multiplying the benefits many times over.
Your brain operates very differently from your physical body. To your brain, there is no difference between visualizing something and actually doing it. Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, body builder, film producer, and former governor of California, once said, “Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.” I’d say that strategy worked pretty well for him.
You may not be aware of it, but when you visualize your goals as having already been achieved, your subconscious mind will find a way to turn your current situation into the new vision that you have been feeding it. If you feed your mind pictures of a beautiful home, a loving relationship, and an exciting career, it will work on achieving those things. On the other hand, if you are constantly feeding it negative pictures, like a stressful job, an impossible feat, or a failing relationship—guess what?—it will work to achieve those, too.
Set aside time each and every day to visualize every one of your goals as already complete. This is one of the most vital things you can do to make your dreams come true. Some psychologists say that an hour of visualization is equal to seven hours of physical effort. That’s a pretty big claim, but still, imagine what would happen to your life if you did that every day!
I am heightening the impact of my affirmations by focusing and clearly visualizing them.