Creative Visualization is a simple, deeply relaxing and pleasurable technique used to create or re-programme habits. Creative Visualization is a normal and natural process which everyone uses everyday. It is simply a matter of using thoughts and images to access the sub-conscious or the 'super-conscious' aspect of the mind.

Creative Visualization has been successfully used to:

Accelerate learning, improve memory and motivation Increase relaxation, reduce or eliminate stress Increase psychic sensing Send or receive telepathically Create or change habits Build self-esteem and self-confidence Lose weight and improve body image Reduce or eliminate pain Heal and increase energy Eliminate depression, anxiety and phobias Increase abundance and joy Create or improve relationships And manifest future events

Creative Visualization has been compared to prayer, meditation, positive thinking, hypnosis, faith healing, mind-control, magnetism, and on it goes. It does not matter what you call it if it works. Many theories about Creative Visualization can be found and many explanations are given. Personally, I like things kept simple. I want to know how to do it and I want to decide for myself how successful it is.

I don't want a Guru or any costly or time consuming classes, gadgets or academic tutorials. The purpose of this website is not to explain the science or philosophy of Creative Visualization but to give people an opportunity to learn how to use it.

Your results are the only proof you need to experience its effectiveness.

It is a highly pleasurable process and completely safe. You have nothing to lose, everything to gain and at the end of the day, your success will be your answer.

I know it works. I know that I am a happy, healthy, mentally stable person who enjoys life, loves people and lives well. I want you and the entire world to be able to say the same about your time here on Earth.

If you can eliminate or at least minimise fear, worry, anger, pain or any other harmful habit and replace it with vitality, joy, love, fun, success and self-confidence, then call it what you want but at least try it.

We all use Creative Visualization anyway. It's not some new toy. It's just that we use it unconsciously and usually in a destructive or conflicting way. By learning to use these techniques, you are simply manipulating your thinking habits and re-programming your mind, to consciously decide what thoughts you choose to be controlled by, or rather, who and what you choose to control your life.

We think that we think in words. The brain interprets words by reading them as images. The sub-conscious or unconscious mind records images. Within the images there is an emotional interpretation and a behavioural response.

Thoughts create emotions, emotions create responses, and responses reinforce thoughts.

Our belief system is created and maintained by this simple cycle. The repetition of thought is how habits are formed.

The funny thing is, we all enter conflicting information and create conflicting habits.

You may want to be healthy and happy, but you think about illness and fear. You want to be successful and prosperous, but you think about failure and debt. You love your partner, but you mistrust him/her. You may want to succeed, but you dislike or resent your work. You want to lose weight, but you think about food as a reward or treat.

Well, what do you expect from your behaviour. You're wondering why things get so crazy.

Before you start using Creative Visualization you need to be clear about the information you want to programme, otherwise you will have limited success.

1. Decide what you want. Get clear on all the details and write them down.

Desire... I want to lose weight. I will lose 5kg within 5 weeks, easily and effortlessly. I want to feel proud of myself. I want my health, energy and enjoyment of life to increase. I want to improve my fitness and muscle tone. I want to be complimented by family and friends. I want to look great and dress nicely. I will maintain my ideal weight and never have to think about weight again.

2. Make a list of negative or opposing thoughts that you know you have.

You will need to keep this list and add to it over the next week or two as you discover and catch your destructive thinking habits. I'm fat. I can't lose weight. I love food. I've always had a weight problem, My family is fat. It's a

You will need to be 'The Thought Police' for a few weeks. Catch yourself quickly and instantly refute the statement, or quickly visualize a big red cross over the thought and imagine it melt and dissolve.

3. Relax your body and mind.

Find a comfortable place and give yourself an instruction to tune out any distractions. It's a good idea to stretch first, as we often don't realize we have muscular tension until we stretch and release it. Long, slow, deep breaths not only oxygenate the mind and body, but also help bring our awareness into our body. Being very relaxed helps to access the sub-conscious and calms down the conscious part of the mind. In deep relaxation, your brainwaves change to the Alpha or Theta state and this is where you have the greatest access to the sub-conscious. The goal is to by-pass consciously thinking about or arguing with your new thoughts.

4. Imagine a place, situation or a person that brings a positive emotion.

It could be something like floating on a cloud, standing under a waterfall, sitting on a beach or even sailing on a yacht. You could also visualize yourself speaking with God, an Angel or a Sage. Choose an image that makes you feel safe, loved, joyful or special. By activating a positive emotion, you will be hooking your new behaviour into this feeling and giving it greater power.

When you are feeling really good, add the ability to dissolve fear, insecurity, or any negative aspect you may be dealing with. For example you may see yourself under a waterfall, feeling joy and exhilaration. You then imagine the water washing away your fear and dissolving it. If you initially used the Angel you may have her giving you comfort and strength and expressing love and compassion. You follow this up with her dissolving or healing your insecurities, resentments and self-doubt.

5. Imagine your main goal in as much detail as you can.

If you are working on your health you could imagine a great healer or many healers coming in and healing you. You can imagine toxins, diseases and viruses as little creatures or dark spots being dissolved or blown away. You may prefer to fill your body with white light or focus on a particular body part and instruct it to get stronger or shrink pain until it disappears, whatever feels effective and powerful. For example, kids like Space Invader games to play in their bodies and will fire lasers at little men until they are annihilated. (This is particularly effective for cancer cells.)

You want as much detail as you can imagine, positive and with emotion.

When you feel a healing has taken place, continue to visualize yourself healthy and happy in all areas of your life, see your body become pain free, flexible, vibrant, energised and strong. Visualize yourself in your daily life moving freely and energetically, doing the things you love to do. See your family and friends and the life-force itself, supporting and protecting you. See yourself as emotionally strong and grounded. Further, imagine a protective barrier being activated so that you will repel disease, illness and negativity.

Then let it go.

You must accept that your healing is complete. No matter what it is that you have been working on, you need to think and act like it has already happened. If you keep going over and over the same thing, you will be suggesting to your mind that the problem still exists. You will be undoing your work by reinforcing that there is a problem.

That's how easy Creative Visualization is; you can do it right now. You have been doing this your entire life anyway. This is how you got to be you. This is how your personality, relationships, health, work and your talents became set. This is how your life got to be where it is today. Consider how much of who you are or where you are today, is a result of incorrect information, negative or conflicting beliefs.

Today may be the day that you start your life over, by dismantling what you no longer wish to maintain and re- creating what you do want. One of the most important things I have learned is to finish every session with;

This or something better is now manifesting for the highest possible good of all concerned. Copyright Sonya Green excerpt from www.reinventingmyself.com/vis.html

About the Author

Sonya Green: Australian writer and personal development course facilitator. webmaster of www.reinventingmyself.com and meditation script writer and producer.