Visualization: a Joseph Murphy practice guide

How to practise

Form a specific image, include your own action, and let the image represent a quality such as confidence, peace, or useful progress. Pair inner rehearsal with appropriate real-world action.

Relevant source passages

Source page 61. …power. By following this procedure, your prayers will be answered. The Visualization Technique The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to visualize it, to see it in your mind's eye as vividly as if it were alive. You can see with the naked eye only what already exists in the external world; in a similar way, that which you can visualize in your mind's eye already exists in the invisible realms of your mind. Any picture, which you have in your mind, is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. What you form in your imagination is as real as any part of your body. The idea and the thought are real and will one day appear in your objective world if you are faithful to your mental image. This process of thinking forms impressions in your mind; these impressions in turn become manifested as facts and experiences in your life. The builder visualizes the type of building he wants; he sees it as he desires it to be completed. His imagery and thought processes become a plastic mold from which the building will emerge – a beautiful or an ugly one, a skyscraper or a very low one. His mental imagery is projected and is drawn on paper. Eventually,…

Source page 95. …realization that if he could succeed in conveying an idea to his subconscious mind, the latter would somehow bring it to pass. He began to imagine that he was in his own store. He mentally arranged the bottles, dispensed prescriptions and imagined several clerks in the store waiting on customers. He also visualized a big bank balance. Mentally he worked in that imaginary store. Like a good actor he lived the role. Act as though I am, and I will be. This pharmacist put himself wholeheartedly into the act, living, moving and acting on the assumption that he owned the store. The sequel was interesting. He was discharged from his position. He found new employment with a large chain store, became manager, and later on, district manager. He saved enough money in four years to provide a down payment on a drugstore of his own. He called it his “Dream Pharmacy.” “It was,” he said, “exactly the store I saw in my imagination.” He became a recognized success in his chosen field and was happy doing what he loved to do. Using The Subconscious Mind In Business Some years ago I gave a lecture to a group of businessman on the powers of imagination and the subconscious mind. In this lecture I pointed out how Goethe used his imagination wisely…

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