The Power Of Your Imagination

Great feats have been achieved throughout history, because someone imagined the impossible could be possible. Our imagination is the best motivation tool we have. Only when we create the image of our best life in our mind, can we truly start to believe that it is possible to reach our goals.

You can achieve so much more in life by using your imagination. Imagination is key to achieving the goals you desire. If you cannot imagine yourself being, having, or doing the things you want in life, it will be difficult to stick to whatever it takes to reach your goals.

Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination is limitless and embraces everything… all there ever will be to know and understand. When you use your imagination, you get to write your story any way you want it to be.

As a hypnotherapist, I have my weight loss clients imagine how they will look and feel in the next six months to a year, once they reach their goal weight. It is a powerful technique to make their goals more tangible.

I teach them to use their imagination and all their senses to create an image of themselves in detail, with all their body attributes and what clothes they would want to wear. I encourage them to make this imagined body image life-like, by really imagining how it feels to be in that body and walking around at their ideal body weight.

Use your imagination to visualize what may be, not what is. Then set your goals, take action and make what you imagined a reality ~ Catherine Pulsifer

Next, we  also create a believable affirmation to support their new body image, and they have to say it several times a day. For example: “I am a happy, healthy person in body, mind, and spirit.”

The same formula can work for any change a person desires to make. All inventions, problem-solving, and solutions are first created in the mind. The more the imagination is used, the easier it is to access it.

People that play sports successfully often visualize themselves making a specific move to create a win. For example, a basketball player will imagine making a basket with ease. Then when the actual moment comes in a game, the basket is indeed achieved with ease! There have been studies that prove how the muscles in our body reacts to the imagination. When a person imagines themselves exercising, while not doing any form of exercise at all, the muscles will react as if they are working out.

I grew up watching Walt Disney cartoons. What a wealth of imagination it must have taken to make each one of those characters come to life. It is said that Walt Disney made magic by mixing imagination with drive. He built an empire on the imagination and laid a foundation that endures to this day. The Walt Disney Company, founded in 1923, is the world’s largest entertainment firm. Disney  began his career with no money and no connections. His dreams were often met with naysayers. With imagination and hard work, you can make your dreams come true.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will ~ George Bernard Shaw

Effective ways to help develop your imagination includes daydreaming, meditation and visualization. Also, keep a gratitude journal. When you are practicing gratitude you can imagine even greater things happening, but when you are focused on everything negative in your life, your ability to imagine better things suffers.

Creating a vision board also helps your imagination to create ideas to achieve your goals. Looking at your vision board every day spurs you to make your dreams come true. Reading books may also help you imagine more, by seeing life through the eyes of the main character, or experiencing a place where you may like to travel someday. It stimulates the right side of the brain and jogs the mind to possibilities people, places and things that may enhance your life.

Believe you can. Imagine you can. Then you will.