What is Visualization and How Can You Make It Work For You?

Visualization is essentially the process of guided imagery meditation. It's getting yourself into a deeply-relaxed state and then using your mind to create positive images of something you want to, have, or be. Visualization is conscious creation. It's using the power you were born with to live life on purpose, rather than by default.

Each of us creates our own reality, consciously or unconsciously. Either we choose to focus and thereby move in the direction of our dreams or we accept life as it comes, seemingly unaware of our unlimited capacity to take control and shape the details as we choose.

It's our attitudes and beliefs that shape our experiences and dictate who and what we tend to draw into our lives. Like attracts like. That's the Law of Attraction in action and it's what we purposely engage when we use the power of visualization to imagine something we want.

Conscious creation is empowering. It puts you in charge and control of your life. You're no longer a cork floating aimlessly on the water but a boat of maximum strength, speed and agility, capable of taking you wherever you want to go. Life isn't something that's being done to you by others. With visualization, you see it... imagine it... feel it... and eventually it manifests in your life. The beauty of it is that you get to live life on your own terms.

Visualization is going within. It's relaxing your mind and body and getting clear about what it is you want to manifest. Often that means first getting clear about what it is that you don't want in your life. Do the deep work of reaching a meditative state and imagining what you want as though it was already yours and you'll be amazed at what you can indeed accomplish.

Allow source energy to do its thing. Once you've visualized your goal and accepted it as yours, turn it over to the universe. That's how you tap into universal flow. Create your vision as real in your mind and then release it. By doing so, you're allowing the universe to support you.

Once you've released your visualization, get busy doing what you can do to make it a reality in your physical world. Our culture teaches us that hard work is the key to getting what we want. Taking action is important but so too is relaxing and visualizing. A balance between the two is the ideal way to create a happy and successful life.

Visualization balances the work that needs to be done. It allows you to relax, replenish and re-energize, while keeping the vision alive and well.

The practice of visualization connects you to Source Energy -- your higher power. You simply relax to a deeper and deeper level and then create the vision in your imagination exactly as you want it. While in this meditative state, you will often feel the presence of this universal energy pouring over and through you. That's when you know that you've made the connection.

Once you've imagined it vividly and accepted it as fact, you simply set it free. It's as though the universe is a mail order company and you've just placed your order. You simply turn it over to the universe and then you get busy.

You can use the magic of visualization to imagine your way to whatever you want. Nothing within the realm of human accomplishment is impossible to you. But you have to believe and be willing to act as though whatever you want is on its way.