This article explains the one thing you need to make creative visualization work for you, the facts you need to know about creative visualization, some simple techniques that I know to really work as well as one powerful creative visualization technique that I know will get results for you as it has for me.

Part 1: How to Make any Creative Visualization Technique Work.

What do you really want out of a creative visualization technique that you had just gotten out of a “Guided Imagery” book (maybe by Shakti Gawain) you borrowed from the library or a “Creative Visualization” e-book you just purchased and downloaded online or a manifesting article you read by Abraham Hicks?

Results. Like anything else, you want results. You need results. Without results, you’d lose faith in the power of creative visualization to manifest what you truly desire in your life.

And faith, belief, conviction is what you need to make any if not all creative visualization techniques to work, no matter what they are.

It is not simply a matter of faith in the technique or belief in the person who taught you the technique. It requires belief in the process of creative visualization itself.

How do you make sure you believe in the power of creative visualization to work for you? How do you install such a belief in your mind, in your heart and in your very soul, so that it would drive you to make anything you do work and get results?

You need to arm yourself with the right mindset about creative visualization. And the right mindset can only come through right information. And hopefully the rest of this article serves to help you achieve that objective.

Part 2: The 7 Truths of Creative Visualization.

As it was said, “The Truth shall set you free”. Hopefully, with these truths in mind, you’ll be armed with a more powerful mindset and gain a more resourceful perspective from which you can go about your creative visualization work more effectively.

Truth # 1: Creative Visualization is simple, but not easy.

A propounder of a creative visualization technique may say that hers is a “Simple 3-Step (5-Step, or 7-Step) Process”, but once you read her book or e-book, and actually get down into it, you’ll find that there are many steps, many factors, many events, processes and things at work, much more than you initially imagined.

This truth encompasses all the other truths below.

Truth # 2: Creative Visualization involves more steps than you imagine.

There may be 3, 5, 7 or even more simple steps in a creative visualization technique, but eventually you will find there are many other sub-steps for each of these 3, 5 or 7 major steps that you have to do.

More of this is explained in truth number 3.

Truth # 3: Creative Visualization involves more factors (internal & external) than you know.

For one, like I said above, effective creative visualization work that actually manifests what you want, requires belief. That is an inner factor. It also requires you to clear away all your subconscious mental blocks that may prevent you from attaining what you desire.

External factors? creative visualization can only work within the confines of what is possible in your ‘reality’. That is, when you use CV to ask for something, you must ask for something realistic. Don’t ask for a billion dollars when you can’t even scratch a cent right now (okay, exaggeration). Start slow. Move progressively.

And it also helps if you do your visualization work in an area where you are not easily disturbed or distracted. Common sense, isn’t it?

If the ones around you (family, friends) are known to be a cynical, skeptical, pessimistic lot, stay away from them for some time before - and after - your visualization sessions. You don’t want their negative vibes to poison your belief in the process.

What I meant was that you don’t want their skeptical remarks, their cynical comments that stem from your willingness to do CV whatsoever to replay in your subconscious mind while you’re doing your sessions. Leave some ‘buffer time’.

Truth # 4: Creative Visualization requires the right amount of belief to work. Not too much (as in obsession, blind faith), nor too little.

Though some claim that their technique requires no belief at all, what they are actually meaning is that their creative visualization technique requires just the right amount of belief for it to work.

Or they can actually mean to give you a placebo. Since you believe them that it requires no belief for their technique to work, you go about it thinking that there is no belief involved in it, then it actually works! Then you start believing in it, only to find that (for many cases, not all) its effectiveness wanes.

It’s like dropping a ball to the ground. You just know if you let go of the ball from the grasp of your fingers, the ball will fall to the ground. You know that gravity is always there. You don’t need to believe in gravity (what, all this while people and things have been floating around the Earth before Newton’s time?).

Also, an over-obsessive belief in it is actually an illusion that stems from your lack of faith in it. Huh? “Too much” belief = lack of belief?

It’s like this - all this while, you’ve been skeptical about creative visualization. Then you’re told that you need some belief for it to work. Since you’re so enthusiastic about making it work, you overcompensate your previous lack of faith and you actually believe - too much - until it kills its effectiveness.

Believing in something is like holding on to an egg (or think of something else fragile, like glass). Hold on to it too lightly, the egg or glass will fall from your clutch and smash into pieces. Hold on to it too tightly, the egg or glass will break in your hands.

So, you need just the right amount of belief for creative visualization to work.

Truth # 5: Creative Visualization is an art as well as an exact science.

All these internal and external factors, sub-steps, and concepts are making the creative visualization seem like an art as well as an exact science.

In fact it is. As you learn more and more techniques you will find that many of its teachers will present to you concepts and philosophies that will make you see more of it as an art.

The methodology of some creative visualization techniques will seem like it comes from some scientific procedure that you have to follow precisely and exactly. This is especially true of NLP-type techniques (one of which I will highlight later).

Truth # 6: You have to let Creative Visualization do its work, and at the same time, you have to work to get what you want to achieve through Creative Visualization.

While you need only the right amount of belief for CV to work for you, you also must put in some effort to attain what you want.

First, you need to trust in the process. Ask for what you want, then let it go. Let go of your ‘How’s and ‘Why’s. Don’t worry about how you’re going to get what you visualized for.

Then, through serendipity (’co’ plus ‘incidence’), when an opportunity presents itself to you where you can get a chance to obtain what you had asked for, go for it! Grab that opportunity, for it will pass like a cloud.

What, you don’t expect for your ‘dream mate’ to drop from the sky right into your lap after you do your creative visualization work, do you?

Truth # 7: The quality and quantity of results you get from your Creative Visualization work is proportionate to the amount of feeling or emotion you put into it.

Emotion is energy. There is a wealth of material out there explaining why emotion is so important in the creative visualization process, and if I want to chip in, I think I’ll have to do it in another page.

Emotion also comes from your belief. Your belief that you’ll get what you want from creative visualization also comes from your emotions. It’s a symbiotic process.

Since your emotions can help you to “believe more”, and since believing is what it takes to make CV work for you, hence, you need to really feel for what you want!

When doing your creative visualization work, really feel the excitement, the joy, the euphoria that comes when you attain your object of desire. Really feel it as if you have it now. Emotions are timeless. They happen NOW, not in the future, not in the past.

You are in control of your emotions. Even if your entire world is dark and looks bleak, you can choose to be happy; only that you may not know of it. What, nobody is going to shoot you if you smile, right?

Creative Visualization Techniques That Really Work.

I know these techniques to work because I, or the people I know, have had direct experiences of results coming out of putting these creative visualization techniques into practice.

“Treasure Map”

Here comes the art part of creative visualization. The treasure map technique simply involves you creating a tangible picture of what you want.

You can either draw it, if you’re good at drawing, or you can cut out pictures from magazines, newspapers, photos and create a collage of what it is you want to manifest.

Make it as vivid, colourful and realistic as possible. Place it somewhere you can see it and meditate on it every day.

I’ve personally experienced tremendous success with this technique.

My first experience with it was during my ‘O’ Level exams, this really big exam in Singapore, where I come from. From my semi-photographic memory of an ‘O’ Level Results slip (which I had gotten from a glance of my friend’s the previous year), I drew an almost exact replica of it, only with my name and the results I wanted on it.

To cut a long story short, it was almost uncanny when I compared the actual results I got with the “treasure map” drawing I made a while ago:

Expected Results:

English: A-TWO

Malay: A-TWO

E-Mathematics: A-TWO

Science (Physics/Chemistry): B-THREE

Geography: B-FOUR

Biology: B-FOUR

Principles of Accounts: F-NINE (I can’t help it, I really hated this subject!)

The Results I Got:

English: A-ONE

Malay: A-ONE

E-Mathematics: A-TWO

Science (Physics/Chemistry): B-THREE

Geography: B-FOUR

Biology: D-SEVEN

Principles of Accounts: D-EIGHT

The lower the number, the better the results. Even though I failed 2 subjects (no regrets, I accept full responsibility for my actions), my overall score is good enough for me to land the diploma course I wanted in a Polytechnic. I am living and breathing proof of that success right now!

Of course, my results are influenced by other factors (including how smart I studied, my mood when I was taking the examinations, distraction while I was doing my visualization work for this, the effectiveness of my prayers), but a 3 out of 7 success rate, or if you want to consider those that exceed expectation, a 6 out of 7 success rate is simply amazing!

I also practised this “treasure map” technique for my results with the “Image Streaming-Creative Visualization Hybrid” technique which I shall describe below.

“Image Streaming-Creative Visualization Hybrid”

As I had said it above, I used this image streaming and creative visualization hybrid technique to along with the treasure map technique to help me manifest the results I wanted. And it did.

How this technique works is that it employs more of your brainpower into your visualization work.

You see, when you create a mental image, you’re using one part of your brain, that is the back part of your brain that deals with visual stimuli and images (the ‘occipital lobe’).

As you combine your mental images with mental impressions of sound, smell, touch and even taste, you’re creating neural connections with the different regions of your brain that deal with these stimuli. The more you practise, the stronger these connections become, the more vivid and real your visualization is, and the more effective you get at it.

But what if you add another dimension to it? One very crucial element of image streaming (the brainchild of Dr Win Wenger of ‘The Einstein Factor’) is to describe out loud to an external listener, whether it is your listening friend or a tape recorder. You MUST describe your mental impressions and images out loud to qualify what you do as image streaming.

When you describe it out loud, you connect with the language regions of your brain, as well as the memory part of your brain, and the “sentence-construction” part of your brain, and many more. This brief explanation of mine is too simplistic to capture the very complex process actually involved.

The methodology of this “Image Streaming-Creative Visualization Hybrid” technique is discussed below.

The Most Powerful Creative Visualization Technique Ever.

I call it the T3000 technique, which stands for “Theta Total Transformation” technique.

There are variations of my self-devised method that go by other names, among others, “Electric Manifesting”.

Here is how it goes -

1. Select what you want. Pick only one goal at a time. Write it down. Start with something relatively easy for you to accomplish or obtain. A good example is the one that I used this with - exam results. It must be something that you have to and can work for, as well as something that is also partly dependent on chance. Be as specific as possible. All the conventional rules of goal setting and/or creative visualization apply here.

2. Imagine an ideal situation in which you’re attaining the goal that you’ve stated. Can you imagine a tangible experience of yourself getting what you desire? If it is something abstract, like a 15% increase in your IQ, try to make it tangible, by imagining an IQ test score, and imagining situations where your heightened IQ is proven, such as being able to answer teacher’s questions or finding quick answers to puzzles, etc. Again, the conventional rules of creative visualization (use all 5 senses, make it as detailed and realistic as possible) apply.

3. Instead of just having a “virtual reality” experience inside your mind, describe out loud your inner perceptions. What do you see, hear, smell, touch or taste? Describe them. In as much detail as possible. At first, it may seem awkward, and you may not be able to find words to describe what you’re perceiving inside, but a little fabrication will help. As it is with any other skill, this image streaming and creative visualization hybrid technique will improve with practice.

4. You must also describe your perceptions out loud to an external listening device; it can be a friend, a tape recorder, or the microphone of your computer (with audio recording software ready or perhaps, a speech to text dictation software).

Here’s how I did it for my ‘O’ Level exam results -

I described, partly from memory, all that I see, hear, smell or touch from the train station to the school hall where I collect my results slip. I described the locations I passed through, the smells, the sounds of passers-by, cars, the people I may encounter, the environment, and finally, when I imagine myself extending my hand to receive the ‘O’ Level results slip from my teacher (whom I described also), I described out loud, and repeated, affirmed, a few times, the specific grades that I wanted.

To help you warm up with this powerful creative visualization technique, here’s one good exercise you can do -

1. Take any object, picture, scene or just about anything that has a considerate amount of detail.

2. Observe it, whatever it is you chose, for 5 - 10 minutes. Really absorb the stimuli through all your 5 senses. Details. Details. It’s all about the details. Notice the colours, the shapes, sizes, any patterns, how the different elements connect, contrast or complement with each other.

3. Look away from that scene for 1 minute. Then go back to look at it. Now press record on your tape recorder or get your listening friend again and, with eyes still open, describe the scene out loud.

4. Close your eyes. Describe the scene again from memory. Don’t worry if you can’t seem to remember everything.

You’ll find that this exercise improves several things at once -

i. Your visual memory. I don’t know if you’ll eventually develop a photographic memory after consistent practice; I haven’t tried it to that extent before.

ii. Your memory in general.

iii. Your linguistic and descriptive skills.

iv. Your visualization ability.

In truth, this is only a glimpse of my actual T3000 technique.

T3000 is a system that involves you in a holistic way. It is not just a creative visualization technique, it is a goal setting and goal GETting technique as well.

It will cover everything from initial conceptualisation of your goal to the inciting “trigger” event (just like in the movies) that then leads you to the course of action that you should take to the actual attainment of your goal and any post-goal matters after that.

However, that is another matter for another time in another post.

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