Visualization
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The creation of what we want, or what we don’t want for that matter, begins with how we direct our minds. Everything that we hope to eventually create with our hands, we first have to create with our thoughts.

 

There’s a book called “The Science of Getting Rich” and it was one of the first books I ever came across that went fairly deep into the truth of that concept. The author actually called it one of the fundamental laws of the universe…he called it the “Law of perpetual transmutation.”

 

Now I’d already seen this law in action, so he didn’t have to convince me that it was real or that it actually worked. I didn’t have a name for it…I just considered it the power of intense belief or visualization.  But, if you’re unfamiliar with the concept, the law of perpetual transmutation goes something like this:

 

Just as the law of gravity pulls things toward the earth, the law of transmutation pulls what we create in our minds out of our minds and into existence.  The more clearly we draw the vision, and the more intensely we focus on it, the heavier that vision becomes…the harder it is for it to escape the gravity of transmutation. 

 

Now this sounds a little crazy to some, but if you look through history there’s a lot of evidence to support the existence of this force. How many things that we now take for granted would have seemed completely insane before somebody proved they were possible?

 

Try to imagine if 200 years ago I said: You’re going to go stand in New York, and I’m going to stand in Ohio and using no more volume than a whisper, we’re going to be able to talk to each other in a private conversation just as if we were standing two feet apart. …If I said it with a straight face, you’d probably have thought I needed medication. And the more I explained to you how I was going to magically project my voice through the air into your ear, the more crazy you would have thought I was.

 

…or maybe I’d tell you about how I was going to look through a special device and whatever I saw, I could project that image from Ohio to China so the Chinese could watch along with me. …next thing you know, I’d be talking about a flying machine, right?

 

All through history, even the most ambitious creations of the human mind, once considered completely absurd, have been pulled from the mind of their creator into physical form.  As long as the vision has remained clear in the mind of at least one person, then progress towards the realization of that vision has remained inevitable. This doesn’t mean something can’t be stopped from happening once it takes mental form, it simply means that before it can be stopped, the clarity of the vision and the certainty associated with it has to be forgotten.

 

Now, as I said earlier, I’d already witnessed the effect of this law in my own life. I didn’t come up with something as cool as the telephone or the television but regardless, the impact on my life was huge.

 

Consider the following just a small example of how far a clear vision and a commitment to that vision can take a person.  Rest assured whatever the distance is between where you are now and where you’d eventually like to be, chances are you’re already far ahead of where I was when I first started visualizing a better life for myself.

 

I began my life from what many would consider a disadvantaged position. My father left before I was born, my mother had a drinking problem, I had a lot of bad influences, etc.

 

Now, I don’t want to harp on it too much, but just to give you a little background, I grew up probably a little faster than I should’ve and part of my “growing up too fast” mistakes involved drugs which I began using at the age of 9. And by the time I was 14, I’d become the poster child for everything “bad” a person could choose to do with their life.

 

I was emotionally and spiritually weak. I was unhealthy physically, I was unhealthy intellectually, I certainly was unhealthy morally. I’d learned that lying or stealing to get what you wanted was just fine.  I’d pick fights with people just for fun…no one I actually thought could beat me of course; if I thought they could beat me I’d back down in a second…cowardly to say the least.

 

When it comes right down to it, I had no self-respect and I hadn’t earned any and as a result of all that I started to realize that I hated who I was. But I just kept trying to run from it. I kept trying to make what clearly wasn’t working, work.

 

But the beauty of life is it just won’t let you get away with that. …Sure you can keep doing the exact same thing over and over again, but don’t hold your breath for a different result.

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