Use Your Imagination

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If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner talking we build our world.

Request for help as you’re drifting off to sleep and upon awakening, be still. Tune in and listen. Recall your dreams. Without mental editing, capture whatever ideas and images arise.

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Closing your eyes can help, as it encourages you to use your mind’s eye instead of your external vision. Let go trying to control what might happen next. The difficulty in approaching the unconscious is that it doesn’t communicate with words. It expresses itself via images, symbols, and feelings. Allowing space to draw sometimes means adopting a new orientation towards your projects, your work, your life, or yourself. Ask yourself how you would approach the problem if it were impossible to fail. Consider if you might try a riskier solution if there were no consequences.

Growing up in the midwest, I was taught to dream about going to college, then law school, then getting married, then having kids, then living happily ever after. Working with a skilled therapist to develop imagery skills is highly worth the investment if your goal is to decrease stress and pain, improve calmness, or simply quiet your mind. Skillful imagery of relaxing subjects, situations, and stories can lower your blood pressure, lower your heart rate, and relax muscle tension without you even thinking about it. Imagination is the way to the state desired, it is the truth of the state desired, and the life of that state desired. Could you realize this fully, then would you know that what you do in your imagination is the only important thing. Within the circle of our imagination the whole drama of life is being enacted over and over again. Through the bold and active use of the imagination we can stretch out our hand and touch a friend ten thousand miles away and bring health and wealth to the parched lips of his being. It is the way to everything in the world. How else could we function beyond our fleshly limitations? But imagination demands of us a fuller living of our dreams in the present. She confessed that she argued mentally with him all day long. When she realized what she had been doing, she agreed to change her inner conversations with her employer. She imagined that he had congratulated her on her fine work, and that she in turn had thanked him for his praise and kindness. To her great delight, she soon discovered that her own attitude was the cause of all that befell her. The behavior of her employer reversed itself. It echoed, as it had always done, her mental conversations with him.This wellspring of the imagination is available to all of us, yet few drink freely from its source. Why? In the Bible you are told that the Word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. One of the best ways to embrace this in a way that engages your erotic fantasy life in is through something called mindful sex.

How about in your professional work? Do you value imagination more than (or as much as) what you know? Use your imagination to create: write, colour/draw, take photos, get imaginative in the kitchen, make a gift for a loved one. The ideal way to use your imagination when imagining your desires for creative visualization is from a first-person perspective. This means to be the version of you in the scene that you're imagining, in the same way that you are you in 3D reality. You do not see your whole body, but rather only your hands and those parts of your body that are visible to your eyes. If experiencing your mental scenes in the first person proves challenging, then go ahead and imagine the scene as if watching yourself having the experience in a movie. In time you can learn to 'project' your consciousness into the scene and be the person in the scene but it is not necessary. Bear in mind when you use your imagination that it is how you feel that counts more than what you see. When What You Imagine Feels Foreign to YouJung saw dreams as the bridge to the unconscious. The unconscious uses the imagery of your dreams to communicate with your conscious mind. Harold doesn’t wallow in misery, asking God why life is so difficult. Nor does he give up and drown.