THE MIGHT OF IMAGINATION
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge." -- Albert Einstein.
Imagination is a creative power that is necessary for inventing an instrument, designing a dress or a building, painting a picture or writing a book. The creative power of imagination has an important role in the achievement of success in any field. What we imagine with faith and feelings comes into being. It is the power beyond creative visualization, positive thinking and affirmations.
The real key to turning imagination into reality is acting as if the imagined scene were real and already accomplished. Instead of pretending it is a scene from the future, imagine it as though you are truly experiencing it in the present. It is a real event in the now. The great masters of antiquity have told use through the ages that whatever you believe you become. If you believe and imagine in the now that you are whatever you wish to be then reality must conform.
Imagination
is the ability to form a mental image of something that is not perceived
through the senses. It is the ability of the mind to build mental scenes,
objects or events that do not exist, are not present or have happened in the
past. Memory is actually a manifestation of imagination. Everyone possesses
some imagination ability. In some it may be highly developed and in others it
may manifest in a weaker form. It manifests in various degrees in various
people.
Imagination
has a great role and value in each one's life. It is much more than just idle
daydreaming. We all use it, whether consciously or unconsciously, in most of
our daily affairs. We use our imagination whenever we plan a party, a trip, our
work or a meeting. We use it when we describe an event, explain how to arrive
to a certain street, write, tell a story or cook a cake.
Imagination is a creative power that is necessary for inventing an instrument, designing a dress or a building, painting a picture or writing a book. The creative power of imagination has an important role in the achievement of success in any field. What we imagine with faith and feelings comes into being. It is the power beyond creative visualization, positive thinking and affirmations.
The
power of imagination is the ultimate creative power. One dramatic example of
the power of vivid imagination is that of Air Force Colonel George Hall. He was
a POW locked in the dark box of a North Vietnamese prison for seven grueling
years. Every day Hall played a full game of golf in his imagination. One week
after he was released from his POW camp he entered the Greater New Orleans Open
and shot a 76.
Another
incredible account is that of Vera Fryling, M.D. A Jewish teenager on the run
from the Gestapo, she lived undercover in Berlin during the Holocaust. During
this time she imagined that she was a doctor, a psychiatrist in a free land.
Overcoming the Nazis, Soviet army and a bout with cancer, Fryling ended up on
the faculty of the San Francisco Medical School. “Imagination,” she says, “can
help one transcend the insults life has dealt us.
The real key to turning imagination into reality is acting as if the imagined scene were real and already accomplished. Instead of pretending it is a scene from the future, imagine it as though you are truly experiencing it in the present. It is a real event in the now. The great masters of antiquity have told use through the ages that whatever you believe you become. If you believe and imagine in the now that you are whatever you wish to be then reality must conform.
The
problem most of us have is that we look at our lives through eyes of lack,
seeing only what we don’t have and dwell on that. That is also active
imagination. You are imagining and actively pushing this lack into your future
by dwelling on it as real in the now.
As an
exercise take anything about your life you would like to change or enhance. Sit
back, relax, close your eyes and fantasize what you would really like to occur
in your life. Don’t put any limitations on it, and don’t shroud it with doubt.
Remember, there is no one who is going to judge this fantasy and no one who is
going to prevent it from happening. Only you have the power to deter it’s
realization. If it is healing your body then imagine yourself as you have felt
in your healthiest hour. Become that again and relive it as a real occurrence
in the now. Believe that you can regain your health, and this method will
facilitate the healing. More and more enlightened physicians, among them Deepak
Chopra, are expressing this. You have the power to do anything you want if you
first imagine it in your mind’s eye.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger, five time Mr. Universe, four-time Mr. Olympia states about his
training, “ As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do
something, you can....I visualized myself being there already - having achieved
the goal already. It’s mind over matter.”
The
epitome of using visualization to create and invent was Nikola Tesla. At an
early age Tesla trained his powers of visualization. In his autobiography “My
Inventions”, he describes, “Every night (and sometimes during the day), when
alone, I would start out on my journeys - see new places, cities and countries
- live there, meet people and make friendships and acquaintances and, however
unbelievable, it is a fact that they were just as dear to me as those in actual
life and not a bit less intense in their manifestations.
“This I
did constantly until I was about seventeen when my thoughts turned seriously to
invention. Then I observed to my delight that I could visualize with the
greatest facility. I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture
them all as real in my mind.”
Tesla
was a prolific and unparalleled genius, giving us AC electricity, the electric
car as well as many other devices, some which have not seen the light of day
because they would revolutionize man’s approach to energy.
In the
1980 Olympics the Russians used this technique. They split their athletes into
four groups: Groups A through D. Group A used 100% traditional physical
practice; Group B 75% physical 25% mental; Group C, 50% physical - 50% mental
and Group D was 75% mental and 25% physical practice. After the Moscow Olympics
and the Lake Placid Olympics these world class athletes scores were tallied and
those in Group D had won the most medals.
This
knowledge that the power to imagine is more powerful than physical practice is
being used from medicine to the arts. Many famous musicians practice as often
in their mind as they do with their instrument, Pablo Casals, world greatest
cellist, being one of them.
This
power cannot be underestimated. You can prove it to yourself by taking one
thing that is very important to you and imagining it as real in your life. You
have nothing to lose by applying this technique, and everything to gain. Your
creative abilities will blossom and flourish the more you apply it to your
life. Don’t take anyone else’s word for it, and play with the concept until it
works for you.
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