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The Mind-Body Connection: Visualizing Better Health

Here is an article about visualiation, and how it can affect your health.

The Mind-Body Connection: Visualizing Better Health
Use the power of your mind to ease pain and stress
By Polly Campbell

Can the mind-body connection lead to mind-body health? Let’s imagine it’s early, but you’re up and energized by the sun streaming through your window. You move easily. Your joints are supple, limber. You live without pain, stress, stiffness and fatigue.

Yeah, right. For those who experience the grating, aching and stiffness of arthritis, that scenario is hard to imagine – yet your imagination just might be the thing to turn this dream into reality. Creative visualization, experts say, can influence psychological states, perception and even everyday reality, enabling you to create a life with less stress and pain, as well as bring about more of the things you do want: mind-body health, happiness and success.

Sometimes called guided imagery, creative visualization helps you to imagine circumstances in your life unfolding exactly as you want – perfectly. As the scene plays out in your mind and you feel the powerful emotions that come with those positive images, the scenario actually will begin to play out in your life, says Joe Vitale, one of the teachers featured in the best-selling self-empowerment book and DVD The Secret (Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006).

The mind/body connection
Researchers long have believed that thoughts affect physical health. For thousands of years, medicine men, Hindu masters and other ancient civilizations worldwide have used visualization techniques to harness the power of their minds to reap physical manifestations. World-class athletes, such as Tiger Woods, and even NASA astronauts have adopted the practice to achieve peak performance.

Source: www.arthritistoday.org/daily-living/stress/mind-body-connection.php

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Quotes on Imagination and Its Importance

Here are a few quotes on the importance of the imagination. It is the power, that molds and shapes everyone’s life.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis Waitley

The key to life is imagination. If you don’t have that, no mater what you have, it’s meaningless. If you do have imagination… you can make feast of straw.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

Imagination is thebeginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
Louis Aragon

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering

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How to Change Your Life with Creative Visualization

By Remez Sasson

In today’s economic situation everyone needs to try every means to improve his/her financial condition. One of the ways to do so is through creative visualization – using the power of your imagination to attract success.

I have written quite a few articles on this subject, which you can find at this blog and at the main website, and I have also written a book entitled, Visualize and Achieve.

I invite you to read the article Creative Visualization – Part One, which is one of the most read articles on this subject. I have written this article a few years ago, but I have rewritten it yesterday, so even if you have read it, you are invited to read it again.

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Creative Visualization – Part Two

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Wishes Do Come True

When my children were young, I wanted very much to share a vacation abroad with my wife, but it seemed to be a difficult task. Who would take care of my two young children for a whole week?

We decided to visualize and affirm that we have a wonderful vacation abroad together, and that our children are happy and very well taken care of. We had a strong belief that a solution will somehow come up.

Some time later, we met a very good friend, whose kids were about the same age as ours. He said to us:

“I have a proposition for you. My place of work has offered us an attractive vacation abroad, but we have no place where we can leave our children for a week. Would you agree to take care of our children for a week, and then you could travel, and we will take care of yours?”

My wife and I didn’t even have to think for a second about this wonderful proposition, and we immediately agreed.

And so it happened that we were able to go on a lovely vacation to Europe, while our good friends were taking good care of our children.

This experience shows how visualization can produce results in a natural, yet unexpected manner. Visualization, faith and desire, work together to make dreams come true.

- This is an excerpt from the book Visualize and Achieve, the practical guide for utilizing the power of creative visualization and the powers of your mind for improving your life and achieving success.

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Training and Developing Visualization and Imagination

By Remez Sasson

Some people can visualize easily and others find it hard to do, but regular training of the imagination can change this. One can learn to visualize. Imagination can be developed like any other skill, through appropriate exercises.

Don’t worry if you can’t visualize, because even if you can’t, you can still use the law of attraction. If you know clearly what you want, and you have no doubts about it, and your desire is very strong, you can still attract success into your life, even if visualization is difficult for you. Feelings and desire play an important role in manifestation, not only visualization.

Suppose two people wish to manifest a particular event or object in their life, one just visualize, without any emotion or desire, and without really believing that he can manifest his dream. The other person does not visualize, but he focuses his mind on his desire, and believes and feels strongly that he has already manifested it. Who will eventually achieve his desire? The one who feels and believes.

Actually, the combination of visualization, feelings and desire is recommended, and that is why it is worthwhile to train the faculty of imagination. It can be developed gradually, through various exercises. One such exercise is to look at a small object, such as a spoon, match, or even a fruit for a few minutes, then close the eyes and try to see it mentally. If the mental image is blurred, open your eyes, look at the object for a few seconds, and again close your eyes and try to visualize it.

Don’t get discouraged if you don’t see immediate results. Developing the ability to visualize is not different from learning a new language, learning to drive a car or bodybuilding. Training and developing the ability to visualize takes time.

I have included a whole chapter on developing visualization and imagination in my book Visualize and Achieve, with instructions, advice, and exercises.

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