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Mind Creative Visualization “As A Man Thinketh, So is He” “Open yourself to all possibilities. Because whether you believe something is possible or impossible, either way you’ll be right.”1 Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life. There is nothing at all new, strange, or unusual about creative visualization. You are already using it every day, every minute in fact. It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe, which you use constantly, whether or not you are aware of it. Imagination is the ability to create an idea, a mental picture, or a feeling sense of something. In creative visualization you use your imagination to create a clear image, idea or feeling of something you wish to manifest. Then you continue to focus on the idea, feeling, or picture regularly, giving it positive energy until it becomes objective reality…in other words, until you actually achieve what you have been imagining.3 The Law of Attraction This is the principle that whatever you put out into the universe will be reflected back to you.” “As you sow, so shall you reap.” What this means from a practical standpoint is that we always attract into our lives whatever we think about the most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and/or image most vividly. When we are negative and fearful, insecure or anxious, we often attract the very experiences, situations or people that we are seeking to avoid. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness, we tend to attract and create people, situations, and events that conforms to our positive expectations.4 “If you think about what you don’t want you will get a lot of that.”5 The solution is to put your attention on what you do want. Copyright © 2007 Brigham Young University, Women's Conference. All Rights Reserved. Copies can be made for home or church use..

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