Creative Visualization for Beginners by Richard Webster

Author:Richard Webster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: yoga month, visualization, for beginners, beginners, creative visualization, webster, richard webster, creative, spring0410
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

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chapter ten

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Self-Improvement

To lead a full and worthwhile life, we should constantly be seeking to improve ourselves in as many ways as possible. We can continue our education, take up new interests, develop talents, improve our social skills, improve our memory, and work on becoming the person we desire to be five or ten years from now.

Creative visualization can play a major role in all areas of self-improvement. Realizing your potential and working on a program of self-development is one of the most satisfying aspects of life. It is highly satisfying to know that you are better today than you were yesterday, thanks to your own efforts.

Have you ever met someone who felt that he knew everything, and consequently needed to make no effort to improve himself further? Unfortunately, there are many people like this. Once a person reaches this stage, he is old, no matter what his chronological age might be. Continuing to learn is one of the best ways to remain young and interested in life.

My late friend, Walter, took up printing in his sixties and computing in his seventies. The final twenty years of his life were amongst his happiest as he learned more and more about his new interests. On the day he died he enrolled on a new programming course. Right up to the day he died at the age of 83, he was as enthusiastic as a teenager. He credited his youthfulness to the fact that he was always learning. Walter demonstrated the truth that the more you learn, the more capable you become of further learning.

Everyone has time for self-improvement. A former neighbor of mine taught himself Russian. He had no plans to travel there, but learned the language as an intellectual exercise. He had less free time than most people, but learned the language by playing cassettes in his car, studying for ten or fifteen minutes in the evening, carrying flash cards around with him, and by using every spare moment he could find visualizing himself speaking fluent Russian. Whenever possible, he would close his eyes to make the visualization as vivid as possible, but he even learned to do it with his eyes open. This enabled him to use creative visualization while waiting in line, and even while waiting for traffic lights to turn green.

When I asked him why he was learning something that was unlikely to be useful to him, he replied that it was the intellectual stimulation he enjoyed, and that with motivation he could achieve virtually anything.

Motivation is obviously a key ingredient in creative visualization. You would not create the time to visualize your goals unless you were motivated to achieve them.

You will find that you will achieve your self-improvement goals more quickly and with much less effort when you incorporate creative visualization into the process. I would recommend that you allow enough time to do a complete creative visualization exercise whenever possible. However, there is no reason why you could not seize odd moments during the day for thirty-or sixty-second visualizations instead, or as well.

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