Imagination

Imagination is your greatest gift from the Universe. Do not be afraid to use it to manifest your inner desires of good.

Imagine yourself as being completely all right at this time. Imagine yourself as Whole, Complete, and Perfect. That is, with nothing to change, nothing to improve.

Purge all thoughts of inadequacies and limitations.

Vanquish any thought about yourself as a mere outsider always looking in.  Imagine your own circle filled with supportive and kindred spirits.  

Imagine your heart as being open again, your life as if it were starting over in the most important ways.

It is said that if you can imagine the ideal condition for yourself and loved ones, then you have just created tomorrow.

In The New York Times article that features Phyllis Diller who recently passed away, it mentions the late comedienne's inroad into show business:

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She started to move toward a career in show business without realizing it. She was poor and unhappy, and she would meet other poor and unhappy women at the Laundromat and regale them with accounts of her home life. She also tried to inject humor into the advertising and publicity copy she wrote. Word spread about Phyllis Diller, and soon she was being asked to give presentations at parties and P.T.A. meetings.  

Her husband thought she should be paid to make people laugh. She lacked the confidence to do it until she read a self-help book, “The Magic of Believing” by Claude M. Bristol. Inspired by its message of empowerment, she began to write her own comedy routines, hired a drama coach to give her more stage presence, and took whatever paid or unpaid performing jobs she could get: at hospitals, women’s clubs, church halls.  

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And the rest was history as they say.  Phyllis Diller, with her new-found set of beliefs drawn from the book “The Magic of Believing” had, in essence, paved her own way towards fame and fortune and thus, opening the door for other female comedians, such as Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Sandra Bernhard and numerous others.

The book's strongest message: that virtually anything can be yours, and you can be anything, if you are able to develop a 'knowing' about it that you don't ever need to question. 

On Alexander the Great and Napoleon, the author asserts, "They became supermen because they had supernormal beliefs. Your belief about yourself and your place in the world is arguably the major determinant of success."

Moreover, "If you can understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious minds," Bristol says, "you will get to the core of belief power. The subconscious constantly works to express our deepest beliefs and desires. It is a faithful servant which renews, guides and inspires, but to get the most from it requires greater respect for and faith in what it can do. Because the subconscious operates in terms of imagery, it is vital that we feed it mental pictures of what we desire. It can then go to work in 'living up to' the image placed before it, by giving us intuitions about what to do, where to go, who to meet."

Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

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Suggested read:  

On Wings of Sound

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