One of the best kept secrets on the planet is the power of deliberately using your imagination to preview and pre-create your future. Maybe that’s because too many people equate that with daydreaming.
Daydreaming is more like visual doodling though. It’s just your mind wandering. It’s used as an escape from reality.
But purposeful imagination is used to affect reality. It’s a way to make the reality you desire more likely to happen, and it’s been proven time after time, especially in sports.
If you’re not practicing intentional imagination techniques on a daily basis you’re missing out on some incredible benefits. It’s a big part of how we co-create our experience in this current universe. We are made in the image and likeness of God, and this amazing power of is one of the key ways we express that. We help create things from nothing. Well, from nothing but our thoughts which act as the blueprints anyway.
We are like the soldier on the ground who has to paint an enemy target with a laser beam so a guided missile can zero in on it from above within a matter of inches.
Our job is to paint our patterns with our thoughts, imaginations and feelings, and God makes it happen through the energetic laws of the universe. We also have actions to take along the way, but without the right patterns in place our actions will be wasted. Even working solely in the physical realm this holds true. The thought and idea and vision for something always comes first.
When I was in grade school my dad started building my mother a dream house on a plot of land he owned. He used sub-contractors over time, as he could afford them. It took 7 years to finish, but he saved a ton of money and got exactly what he wanted. This didn’t just happen through random action though. It was his vision, imagination, and action that brought that home into reality.
And that principle is even more potent in the unseen realm. Imagination used rightly boosts performance in anything we do. All too often though we are using fear-based or limited imaginations. And we end up creating what we don’t want, but we don’t realize the part we played in making that happen. We’ve got a lot of power, and not knowing how to use it gets us in big trouble, and it makes us feel like victims. But if we know how to use it we can make miracles and have a pile of fun in the process.
Go Forth and Play to Win, Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street
P.S. Next time I’ll turn you on to another reason we have trouble with imagination.
Remember though, All things are possible to him (and her) who believes.