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Creative visualization is a mental or psychological technique that is used to create a
positive mental picture that will influence and guide your life. In other words, it is a
technique that allows you to accomplish your desires with the use of your imagination.
A famous verse in the Bible goes like this: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” The
concept of creative visualization is very much the same, and as you can see, it is not
necessarily a new concept or a new idea.
So if it isn’t so new, why is there a need to read about creative visualization and know
more about it? Why is it essential to practice it? Can’t we just immerse ourselves in
positive thoughts all the time?
As you may already know, life is not easy. Even at a very young age, people from various
walks of life may experience pain, suffering, sadness, loneliness and failures. These
negative experiences affect a person’s confidence, self-esteem, sense of reassurance and
optimism. A single traumatic experience can lead a person to lose hope, become
mistrustful and insecure. We are surrounded with negative issues every single day. Even
news reports give us more bad and worrisome news than inspiring ones. This is why
subconsciously; our minds are filled with fears and doubts, even when we try to be
optimistic. It is for this reason that creative visualization is essential to instill a sense of
optimism both consciously and subconsciously.
In new thought psychology, creative visualization is largely linked to the law of
attraction, which simply states “like attracts like.” This means that a person who focuses
on positive thoughts are likely to attract positive people, positive experiences and positive
outcomes, pretty much in the same way that a person who dwells on negative thoughts
will attract negative people and negative outcomes.
To help you further understand what creative visualization is all about, here are some
descriptions about this concept:
1. Creative visualization involves positive thinking. Since creative visualization also
uses the tenets of the laws of attraction, you will be trained to keep positive thoughts
and sensations in mind whenever you are engaged in the creative visualization
process.
2. Creative visualization is about confidence. Creative visualization techniques are
geared towards developing your confidence in terms of goal achievement and social
relationship success. It gives you knowledge and assurance of positive outcomes as
a result of thoughts and visualizations that detail how these outcomes are achieved.
3. It gives empowerment. What logically goes with confidence is empowerment.
Creative visualization removes the limits to what you can do and achieve. Since it
helps remove your negative thoughts and ideas, you will be empowered to take
more risks, take more action and make more initiatives. The statement changes
from asking “Can I do it?” to knowing that “I can do it.”
4. It encourages perseverance. Creative visualization encourages perseverance rooted
in self-belief. No matter what life throws at you, you will learn to grasp the truth
that you have the power to shape and change various situations to make them
pleasant and agreeable.
5. It is planning. There is a reason that this process is called creative visualization,
and not just visualization. Creative visualization techniques enable you to plan
scenarios in your mind that will produce your anticipated results. This means you