What role does imagination play in your life? How does it relate to the problems you want to solve?
imag•i•na•tion (n) creative ability to confront and deal with a problem; resourcefulness.
Imagination isn’t structured thoughts or a visual picture of what you want. It is an experience of wandering anywhere your heart and soul choose to go. Imagination is a living relationship with what you want. It’s a new potential for a completely new way of experiencing living life, imagined right here in this present moment.
Here’s what Albert Einstein had to say… “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 will ever be to know and understand.”
To create change in your world, imagination is the most important ingredient. If you are having a difficult day, if you are stuck and don’t know what to do next, if you have depression and darkness, it can be so easy to get sucked down into despair and hopelessness.
Don’t struggle to get out. Take a deep breath and activate your imagination. Imagination is your greatest tool and it’s with you right now. Imagination unlocks the creative energy within that adds spark to your life, along with purpose, new direction, and confidence.
At first you may feel foolish playing with your imagination. However, imagination helps you explore grand potentials of what could be. Imagination lifts you out of the tangled tentacles of worried stressful emotions and elevates you above the despair of dead-end situations into the world of possibility. You begin to take control of your own growth process as you imagine yourself already in a new situation, living the type of positive outcome you want to be living.
Imagination involves being at choice, deciding what a better life would feel like to you, and what that life would look like. For example, if you are depressed, imagine yourself living life full of energy, engaged in creative activities that are enjoyable to you. Imagine what that would feel like, and then what that would look like. If you are experiencing financial poverty, imagine yourself having multiple streams of income, enjoying the positive flow of money. Again, how would the experience of abundant flow feel to you, and then what would it look like? If you are dealing with excess body weight, imagine yourself already living your perfect life. How would you feel in your body? What would your relationship with food feel like? What actions would those feelings allow you to choose?
Not all our imagination outcomes turn into reality. But it is the process of imagination that allows new potentials to form and take shape. Those potentials provide insight that more is possible – there is more to life, and to you, than currently meets the eye. Your imagination is how you say that you, and your dreams, are important.
One of the greatest gifts that you already have is your imagination. It will take you to grand places and it will align your desires with love. Your imagination will allow new potentials to form about how you want to live your days on Earth, about how much joy you want to have, and how much abundance. Each day make the effort to not focus so intently on the lack of what you most want, but on imagining the potential of, “I can have what I want.”
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thankyou for some very helpful info and enjoyable reading,i really liked and understood the parts about activating our imaginations,and helping with depression too.
Hello Michael,
That’s so cool that you “got” the part about activating our imaginations. It’s a simple concept once the light bulb goes off. However, we typically think we have to know all the details well in advance before we can spend time imagining a brighter, lighter future.
Sending you joy and thoughts of a beautiful world!
Annette