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Visualization is the ability to use your imagination to picture images of what you would like to manifest. This is a powerful tool when you add to it feelings, intention, and action. Visualization can bring changes into your life sometimes immediately.

This great mind power has been used for centuries because of its success in altering thought processes and causing events to happen. It also has had great success in helping people overcome addiction, reduce their stress level, improve their productivity, and increase their confidence. In fact, visualization is a technique used often by elite athletes such as major league baseball pitchers.

Major league baseball pitchers use visualization techniques to improve their concentration, resulting in better performance. Let’s take an example where a major league baseball pitcher is using visualization techniques the night before a baseball game. That evening the major league baseball pitcher practices visualizing himself standing on the pitcher’s mound with a baseball in his hand. As he continues to visualize, he takes a deep breath in, allowing himself to stay focused and relaxed during the process. He then sees himself throwing the baseball over home plate, resulting in a perfect strike. The pitcher continues visualizing the same scene over and over again in his minds-eye (your minds-eye is the part of your brain that lets you day dream or imagine). Then the day of the game, the same pitcher throws a perfect strike.

But that’s just the beginning of the power behind visualization. The medical community also has had great success with using visualization techniques. For instance, people who were told they will never walk have walked. Why? Because they believed! They visualized themselves walking over and over again; and after months and sometimes years of physical therapy and implementing visualization techniques, they accomplished their vision. Cancer victims such as Lance Armstrong have used positive visualization during cancer treatment and have successfully become cancer free. But it wasn’t only by using visualization techniques that assisted them with becoming cancer free. As Lance’s coach, Chris Carmichael said in a letter, “Lance beat cancer because he had great doctors, a positive attitude, and a lot of luck.” Visualization techniques combined with other healing modalities are a powerful tool.

What do you do if you can’t visualize? Simply, just use your other senses–feel, touch and smell. For instance, if you are looking to take a vacation to Paris, France, feel yourself sitting in a French bistro smelling the aromas of freshly baked pastries. If you still are having trouble using your other senses, then use affirmations and create visuals. Find images of scenes from Paris, France in magazines, newspapers, and brochures. Cut the images out and paste them onto a calendar or a goal notebook. If you don’t have time to create a calendar, then write your affirmations on post-it notes that state exactly what you desire—“It is the year 2015, and I am standing at the foot of the Eifel Tower.” Stick the post-it notes with your affirmations onto your refrigerator, bathroom mirror, car dashboard, and any other place where you will see it at least once a day.

What you’ll find by doing these simple exercises is that within a matter of days to weeks you are a magnet for attracting friends and even strangers who are planning a trip to Europe, have just recently visited Europe, or are a native of Europe. The more positive and focused you are the better you will become with shifting the energy vibe in your environment to an energy vibe that will assist you with achieving your goals. The key in fulfilling your vision is to not give up. Believe that you have the ability to manifest everything and anything you want. Like everything in life, it takes time. The more you practice saying your affirmations, thinking positive thoughts, and writing down your goals the better you’ll become with creating the life you desire.

The power of the mind is just one tool that can help you create and achieve your goals and objectives. In the next three chapters, I will share two powerful everyday tools—color and sound—which if used will not only help you achieve your goals and objectives, but also assist you with increasing your productivity, improving your relationships, and enhancing your self-awareness.