Imagination Creates Reality

When you truly believe you can make it, the laws of the universe react by providing the people, places and things that are necessary for you actualize your dreams. The next step is for you to feel what it feels like to have accomplished your dreams. Whatever your goals and dreams are you must go to the place in your mind where either you have experienced those things in the past or simply imagine what it feels like to have experienced what you seek. Imagination creates reality when you emotionalize your desires and expect the best results. Don’t settle for second best and slip into mediocrity. Take up the challenge of creating the best results in your life. Only YOU can do this. Friends, family, neighbors, co-workers or anyone cannot create your reality. Only you can experience life and reality within your own brain. Take ownership!

In a previous article I explained how your brain only realizes a copy of reality. You have a choice to either react to occurrences in your environment or pro-act, i.e. move in a positive direction as a result of your experience. Reaction comes in many negative forms of instinctual emotion such as anger, fear or sadness. You can also react with joy, faith, or happiness; all positive emotions. If you react negatively, the negativity begins to compound and your emotions begin to layer one on top of another in such a way that you might be angry, but not even know why. If you react positively, you now have a chance to pro-act and use cognitive positive emotions to propel you to a level of greater understanding. One can see the big picture more clearly from a mountain top than one can see while in a valley. Things in life don’t just happen; they are a result of many thoughts and thought forms that result from all of us. For example, the news is flooded with the talk of the Swine Flu. With every news program that relays the story more and more fear gets generated. You have a CHOICE to buy into this fear or not.

Be very careful in how you choose your thoughts, and subsequently, your emotions. Most people don’t think: they emotionally react to people, situations or things. Thinking requires work. It takes brain power. When I encountered logic in college I came to a greater understanding of how to think, and not emotionally react. My professor told me that I would be using a part of my brain that I had never used before. He was right! Logic is only part of the whole picture. It is a method of thinking things through in order to methodically come to an informed conclusion. In a previous article I discussed the Scientific Method, which is based in logic. It relies on what is called the Law of Parsimony, or Occam’s Razor. Always look for the simplest explanation to anything you experience. Don’t compound events and circumstances into something they are not. Look at them for what they are. Observe, study and conclude. Remember, the chair you are sitting in was once a thought in someone’s mind and through their sustained emotion to create it became a reality.

Once you have reached this greater level of understanding it is time for you to emotionalize your thoughts. The root of the word emotion is motion; thoughts moving out of you. Use your thoughts in a progressive and creative way to create the life you desire. Feel the joy of accomplishing your goals. See the end results. Hear the joy and laughter of victory. Smell the flowers and trees. Experience the sensory result in your mind and get excited!!! Excitement activates the Law of Attraction and brings about your desired results quicker and with more abundance. It is the fuel that gets you to your destination. Fill up your tank and take a long drive! Enjoy every step of the journey because that is what makes you even more excited.

There are many laws of the universe that most of us don’t know about, or even understand. It isn’t necessary for you to know why they work; just that they work! Use the intelligence, emotion and body that God has blessed you with to create the dreams you desire the most. YOU CAN DO IT!

For more info: Download my free Wilmington Spirituality Examiner toolbar. “Life is a gift. Be thankful for it and it will be replete with abundance. Encourage others to express creativity, release negativity and embrace pro-activity." Dean A. Banks, MCIWD, DD can be reached at webproducer@hotmail.com or banksnet.com. Download my free eBook on Articles 1-10 here.

The Law of Repulsion

Carl Jung, a famous psychologist and associate of Sigmund Freud once said, “Whatever you resist, persists.” What exactly does that mean? If you give attention to that which you don’t want in your life you are magnetically attracting it and repeatedly experiencing it. If you continue to focus on why you can’t do something, or making excuses ad infinitum as to why you can’t do something, then you are creating a situation where it becomes true by the power of the emotions you attach to the thoughts you DWELL upon. This is the key. If you don’t want a certain situation or circumstance in your life then don’t accept it as true always, accept it as true in the past. That’s why it is happening to you right now.

Right now you can begin to commit your attention to the things you want in your life and energize them with passionate emotion. It’s not just believing in what you want, but daily THINKING about what you want with passion that brings it into your experience. Recently, many of you have heard about “The Secret”, which is the Law of Attraction. You might say, “If there is a Law of Attraction, shouldn’t there be a Law of Repulsion as well?” Shouldn’t you be able to passionately think about what you don’t want in your life and it be driven away from you? It turns out that the Law being referred to acts in the same way. Whatever you give your passionate attention to is what materializes in your life.

In the movie “The Secret”, Mother Theresa is referred to as willing to go to a Peace Rally, but not willing to go to an Anti-War Rally. In her wisdom she knew that whatever you give passionate attention to manifests in your life. Day after day people all over the world give their attention to things and situations they don’t want in their life and accept “what is”, based on their lack of faith in their power to re-create their life the way they want it to be. Over a period of years they acclimate themselves to the way it is and don’t realize that in any given moment they could change their future by dwelling on thoughts of success and prosperity in the desires of their hearts.

Claiming to believe and believing in these principles of change and growth are the first part in changing your life. Many people stop here and lose their belief when their desires aren’t manifested. Belief comes from a place of stillness. It is accepting a thought or a pattern of thought as true. Acting on your beliefs is the second part. Daily creating thoughts about the fulfillment of your desires and emotionally charging those thoughts will manifest your desires.

Make the time daily to relax and meditate at least twice a day. Empty your mind and become still. Accept the belief that you have the power to change your life. After your meditation engage in visualization. See the end results of your desires. Feel the happiness from the experience of accomplishing your desires. Say, “I’ve done it!” I remember this statement everyday and have made the letters of the first word represent the following:

Internalize- read about others accomplishing their desires and make the time to relax and meditate.
Visualize- see the end result of your desires and create a picture in your mind of fulfillment.
Emotionalize- release your passion and feel the joy of accomplishing your desires.

If you can commit yourself to carrying out the above steps, you will begin the process of positive change in your life. You will move up from just meeting your needs, daydreaming about your wants, and not fulfilling your desires to expecting the best results in your life. The Law of Attraction (or Repulsion) will be working in your favor. Attract and expect the best in your life!

For more info: Download my free Wilmington Spirituality Examiner toolbar. “Life is a gift. Be thankful for it and it will be replete with abundance. Encourage others to express creativity, release negativity and embrace pro-activity." Dean A. Banks, MCIWD, DD can be reached at webproducer@hotmail.com or banksnet.com.