Last week I went to the eye doctor for my annual eye exam and contact lens fitting. My eyes have not changed in the last three years! Yay! But that’s not what I mean by ‘The importance of vision.’
I’m sure that at least once in your life you were told to close your eyes and imagine….. Remember what that experience felt like? Was it difficult or easy for you? For some people, visualizing is challenging. It’s not the way their mind works. I never had a problem with it. Visualization is a definite asset when it comes to anything competitive. I have heard that if you are about to compete, in anything, first visualize yourself performing perfectly, even winning. The power inherent in visualization is undeniable.
If you are suffering from an illness, close your eyes and visualize that area of your body, or your entire body, in a white or healing green light. Do you remember hearing the story a long time ago about the young boy who had an inoperable brain tumor? Every day he visualized it outside of his body and then he imagined lasers shooting at it until it was reduced to nothing. Guess what? After doing this every day for months, he was told at his next doctor visit that the tumor had disappeared! You can decide for yourself what happened here. I tend to believe that visualization (and of course prayer) took his tumor away.
But what if you have trouble visualizing? Then use your V I S I O N. Look inward and claim that all is well. Imagine that you are healed; imagine that you have won the race; imagine yourself successful. This you accomplish with your inner voice and affirming these things to be true. Try to imagine what it would feel like if they were. Walk around one day imagining that all the good you desire is already yours. Believe it. See what happens.
My caveat – there are no guarantees in life, ever. Know that up front. You may not be successful in curing yourself from a serious illness or winning the Nobel Peace Prize. These are tools for your use. They are not magic tricks.
Having a vision for yourself means an outcome, a goal to be achieved. Successful people do not go through life hoping things will work out. They don’t sit back and wait for the good things in life to come to them. No! They figure out the steps that need to be taken and they start taking them – one step at a time. Looking at the end result and wishing you could be there is fruitless. Seeing how far it is to get there is overwhelming. Just take the first step. That brings you one step closer to your goal, until you take the next step, and so on.
So, we have vision – aka eyesight. We have visualization – closing your eyes and seeing yourself as the winner, the healed, the success at whatever it is you want. Then you have the visionary – someone who can see a better future for himself/herself and goes after it, taking one step at a time.
Whatever works for you: envisioning, visualization, using your inward eyes or your inner voice. Create a “picture” of how you want your life to be. Affirm it with words. Say it aloud. Make the commitment. Find out the necessary steps to get there. And then put one foot in front of the other.
I have gotten through the scariest times in my life by taking baby steps. You have the power within you. You were born with it. Use it to create the life you have always dreamed of. Transformation is the child of vision. Start now!