The Power of Visualization

Napoleon Hill, best selling author of Think and Grow Rich, once said “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

You can achieve your dreams in life by using visualization. Decide what you want, and think about it all the time. Think only about the good you want in your life. Imagine, pretend, make believe, act as if you have already achieved everything you desire.

Get pictures from the internet of a dream destination you’d like to visit. Go test drive that dream car, and take a picture of it. Go to that open house to see, to feel, and to experience life in that dream home. The feeling of having achieved everything you desire is produced by images, by pretending, by the constant thoughts of what you want. Think about every detail as if you are custom building what you want with all your specifications. Everything around you was once a thought, an image. Someone thought or had an image of building a car. Someone thought of the clothing you are wearing, and someone even thought of you. All of these thoughts became reality.

In the book, The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, they talk about creating a vision board. You can use a bulletin board, three ring binder, poster board, the front of the refrigerator, etc. Simply put up pictures that represent your purpose, your passions, and your dreams. Look at it everyday. Close your eyes and imagine that you’ve already achieved everything on your vision board. Imagine how you would feel and act as if you’ve already achieved them. This intensifies the feeling of having them NOW and brings what you want into your life.

In Jack Canfield’s best selling book, The Success Principles, he talks about how doctors in Texas gave knee surgery to several patients; however, the doctors pretended to give the same surgery to other patients. Two years after the surgery, the patients who underwent the pretend surgery were experiencing the same results as those who had the actual surgery. The brain believed the surgery was done and expected the surgery to correct the knee. So it did.

Always think and dream big. Shoot for the moon! One of the differences between high achievers and everyone else is simply that the high achievers have bigger visions and goals. Bill Gates dreamed of a world where every home would have a computer with an internet connection. Today, millions of people are on the internet everyday. Anything is possible. Dreams do come true. You just have to believe.