Visualization of the future -- useful or evasion technique?

I think the real purpose of this visualization technique is to create a desire within yourself. And this visualization is not meant to be daydreaming, you should set realistic goals.

You said you notice a huge gap between you and your goals. Why don't you just divide your goals into smaller steps? That's the way you go for the big ones.

I myself have made some different experiences with visualization. It helped me to increase my motivation but sometimes I feel that it takes my focus away from the present to the future.
But that's also a general problem I'm facing at the moment. I didn't find the right balance yet. Enjoying life and having success sometimes seem to be two seperated paths.

Dear Iotor,

This is one of my favourite topics and here is my take on what you have said.

Thought is the compelling force which causes the creative power to act.
But you cannot rely on thoughts alone. You have to connect thought with personal action.
By thought you can cause what you want to be impelled towards you but those things cannot come rolling towards you without any action on your part.

Form a clear and distinct mental image of what you want and hold it constantly in your mind. And have complete faith that you will get what you want.

HOWEVER, you have to allow and believe that the creative forces will be set in motion and will work through their regular channels to direct to you what you want.
It is not your job to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do is retain your vision, stick to your purpose and maintain your faith that you WILL receive what you want.

By thought the things you want are brought to you but only by action you can receive it.

Once you have set forth your desires DO NOT try and make plans for them to become real. Leave it up to the formless substance (Universe or whatever you want to call it.)

The way that you can take action is as follows: Be GRATEFUL and ACCEPT where you are right now. If you do not accept your current situation you cannot accept any further progression.
There is never any time but now. If you want to get ready for what you have asked for you have to get ready now. You cannot act where you are not or where you are going to be in the future.

Just concentrate on today. Use your current situation (work and personal) as a means to getting to a better position or situation.

You will see that opportunities will slowly start to come your way and if you can then accept that this is the beginning of your dreams being realized, and express GRATITUDE and hold your faith and purpose, it will cause the Supreme Power to move things toward you and you will be amazed at how quickly things start to materialize.
Please also just bear in mind that things should be obtained through creation and not competition. There is an invisible limitless supply of everything in this world and we do not have to compete with anyone to get what we want. We can create what we want through thought.

This is such a short summary and if I really had to tell you how I have progressed I would write a book. (Which incidentally, I have started).

If you want further reading on this subject for FREE just go to my signature. It is mind blowing stuff.

Kind regards

Fran

I do visualize my dreams in life but I don't overdo it or make so much hope in it without making some actions towards it. I think it will depend on how the person take the visual picture and the reality.

I think visualization can be a very powerful tool but it is when you stop placing action behind creating the vision and when your belief does not equal action does this idea of visualization stop dead and become a useless and trivial practice.

The visualization helps you feel it. Just like when you look in the mirror and its a great hair day and you think you look good, then you go out in public and you feel you are the hottest thing around. You see it, then you feel it.

Just as anything worthwhile such as learning to ride a bike or muscle building, visualization is a good thing, however it takes energy and practice to get into the flow of it before you will stop feeling the frustration and start feeling the benefit and feeling good about it. Visualization is a useful technique to pratice because it helps your energy to start flowing more out of the box of your life that you have created and more into what your possibilities are. If practiced more and more, it starts harnessing the inner abilities and resources you never knew you had. You have to get over the frustration and just do it just as you have to force yourself to keep doing an exercise program before you start feeling the benefits of it. To understand the benefits of visualization, I recommend you watch a video of Tony Robbins coaching John Reese and Frank kern. John Reese and Frank kern are two of the most successful internet marketers and they were asking Tony Robbins why do people buy courses and not do anything with them? Why don't they change their lives? The answer that Tony Robbins gave is the best video I have ever seen in internet marketing and he proved the power of visualization at the end of the video, how even very simple visualization is able to dramatically shift your abilities to perform stuff. Watch this video and you will also learn how simple visualization can be. It doesn't need to be complex at all. This video should be required viewing for all internet marketers and everyone even considering a home business. Interview with Frank Kern and John Reese

Visualisation is an enormously powerful tool with which to bring about necessary behavioural changes that you need to make in order to succeed.

Unfortunately though, visualisation has been treated with a certain amount of scepticism over the years and rightly so if you consider how it has often been taught. For example, one 'self-development' trainer recommended that if your goal was to own a red Porsche before the end of the year you should stick a picture of one on your bathroom mirror and stare at it several times daily while shaving and cleaning your teeth. His 'wisdom' being that if you stare at it enough you have more chance of one appearing in your garage. In reality all that actually happens is that at the end of the year all you have is toothpaste and shaving foam all over the picture and the same old car in the garage.

Visualisation is a behaviour modification tool but no amount of staring into a mirror or at a picture will produce the correct brain state. Your conscious mind, which is your rational, analytical mind is not at rest and it will take over and analyse the situation logically based on past experiences something like this; "I have never owned a smart car before and neither have any of my friends or family so why should I suddenly get one now"? In other words it will settle for negative mediocrity.

Your visualisations need to be firmly embedded into your subconscious mind, which accepts everything that it is fed to it without question and acts on it. In order to do that you need to learn how to switch off your conscious mind by learning deep relaxation techniques.

However before you even start to do that you need to set proper goals for your future. There have been volumes written about goal setting but still most people try to take short cuts and get it all wrong. You need know what you want and where you are going and how you are going to get there.

Once your goals are correctly set then you need to learn how to relax deeply so your subconscious mind will receive your visaulisations without interference from your conscious mind.

The bottom line is, if you haven't got proper goals then you do not have any sort of plan for success and you will never progress and succeed.

And even when you have properly constucted goals you will never achieve them unless you can actually see yourself as having got there.

Sorry to be so blunt about it but there are no short cuts to success.