An Abstract from Jack Canfield famous book Chicken Soup for the Soul®
Create goal pictures:
To create a photograph or picture of yourself with your goal as if it were already completed is a very powerful visualization technique. Here are a few of the examples;
If one of your goals is to own a new car, take your camera down to your local auto dealer and have a picture taken of yourself sitting behind the wheel of your dream car.
If your goal is to visit Paris, find a picture or poster of the Eiffel Tower and cut out a picture of yourself and place it into the picture.
Create a visual picture and an affirmation for each goal:
Jack recommended that you find or create a picture of every aspect of your dream life. Create a picture or a visual representation for every goal you have — financial, career, recreation, new skills and abilities, things you want to purchase, and so on.
When Jack was writing the very first Chicken Soup for the Soul® book, he took a copy of the New York Times bestseller list, scanned it into computer, and using the same font as the newspaper, typed Chicken Soup for the Soul into the number one position in the “Paperback Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous” category. He printed several copies and hung them up around the office. Less than two years later, his book was the number one book in that category and stayed there for over a year. Now that’s a pretty solid example of a successful visualization technique!
Index cards:
Another visualization technique Jack recommended is Index Cards. Which he practice every day. Jack team has a list of about 30-40 goals they were working on. They wrote each goal on a 3×5 index card and keep those cards near the bed and take them with them when they travel. Each morning and each night they went through the stack of cards, one at a time, read the card, close their eyes, see the completion of that goal in its perfect desired state for about 15 seconds, open their eyes and repeat the process with the next card.
Use affirmations to support your visualization:
An affirmation is a statement that evokes not only a picture but the experience of already having what you want. Here’s an example of an affirmation:
I am happily vacationing 2 months out of the year in a tropical paradise and working just four days a week owning my own business.
Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps us focused on our goal, strengthens our motivation, and programs our subconscious by sending an order to our crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.
Expect results:
Through writing down our goals, using the power of visualization and repeating your daily affirmations, we can achieve amazing results.
Visualization and affirmations allow us to change our beliefs, assumptions, and opinions about the most important person in your life – ME! They allow us to harness the 18 billion brain cells in our brain and get them all working in a singular and purposeful direction.
Our subconscious will become engaged in a process that transforms us forever. The process is invisible and doesn’t take a long time. It just happens over time, as long as we put in the time to visualize and affirm, practice these techniques, surround ourselves with positive people, read uplifting books, and listen to audio programs that flood our mind with positive, life-affirming messages.
Repeat our affirmations every morning and night for a month and they will become an automatic part of our thinking… woven into the very fabric of your being.
Live in the moment:
Although a daily practice of visualization is vital, we don’t need to spend all day thinking about our goals for this technique to work. In fact, spending too much time in visualization can rob you of something essential – living in the moment.
Daily rituals help to establish the right balance between thinking about the future and living in the moment. Start by picking a time during which you’ll review your goals and visualize your success. Ideally, do this twice a day – first thing in the morning and right before you go to bed. The process typically will take 10 minutes or less.
If you meditate, do your visualizations immediately after your meditation. The deepened state reached during meditation heightens the impact of visualization.
For greatest effect, read your goals or affirmations out loud. After each one, close your eyes and create the visual image of the completed goal in your mind.
To multiply the effects, add sound, smells, and tastes. Most importantly, add the emotions and bodily sensations you would be feeling if you had already achieved your goal.
This is a powerful visualization technique:
Research has revealed that images or scenes that are accompanied by intense emotion will stay locked in our memory forever. The more passion, excitement, and energy we gather during visualization, the more powerful the results will be.
Once you have visualized each goal as complete, it’s time to release. Let go of your goals, and spend the rest of your day being in the present moment.
Be present instantly:
An easy way to instantly become present is to focus on your bodily sensations. It’s impossible to focus on our bodies and be in the past or the future at the same time.
For example, focus on your left foot right now. What are you feeling? Pay attention to the sensation for a minute. Then notice what you’re feeling in your right foot, and spend a few moments really feeling the sensation. If you were able to pay attention to your feet, congratulations. You were absolutely present.
If you find your mind drifting to the future throughout the day, you can use one of the more basic visualization techniques. Just let go of any fears or worries that arise. Shift your thoughts to what you want the future to look like when you get there. Then bring your awareness back to the moment.
As the saying goes, “Today is a gift—that’s why it’s called the present.” Use visualization techniques to achieve your goals, but invest the majority of your time enjoying the gift of today.
So, folks have you enjoyed the reading? Please do let me know how you applied this 100% results oriented visualization technique and what are the results?
Best of Luck and Stay Blessed!.