Conversion of eccentricity into a positive expression:

By exploiting the extreme happy moods of the manic- depressive patient, the counselor can indulge his patient in the creative activity to visualize what he thinks, feels and experiences in the extreme happy moods. For this expression, he should be provided with charts, canvasses, paints and brushes to speak out through this medium of expression. In this way through creative visualization he would be able to express the kind of experience he undergoes during such exciting moods. He might be able to relieve his pent up aggressions of anger, guilt, fear, excitement, anxiety and remorse through mind power .Through these paintings or writings, the outcome of creative visualization; the psychologist or a counselor can also easily come to the stance of what kind of mental trauma the bipolar patient is suffering from. Moreover, once the patient finds this medium as a soothing and comfortable source for mental activity, he might become a great writer, painter or a thinker if his mind power is utilized through creativity. Abraham Lincoln, Vincent Van Gogh and Virginia Woolf, all suffered from unstable and swinging moods but found a mental outlet through creative expression.

Mental illness and music:

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While the manic depressive patient is attacked with the moods of extreme depression, dejection and anger, the counselor should take sessions of letting him indulge in the creative activity of imaginative visualization. For this end, he should first try to calm him down and endorse him to visualize the impressions in his mind at that time. This might be difficult since the patient shifts to the brooding mood during the depressive switch but once the problem is resolved, the attention of the patient may be diverted by letting him listen to the sad music that might match his mood. When the slow music is played in the external environment, it matches with his internal despair and he feels relieved and cathartic. During this period he should be encouraged to visualize and speak out the impressions and images protruding in his mind at the moment. This reporting of visual images experienced by him is extremely helpful for the psychologist in order to trace and then cure the traumatic mind set of the bipolar patient.

This means that madness and creativity is very closely interconnected: sometimes an insane person is the creator of a gigantic piece of art, at others a creative artist reaching the epochs of wisdom becomes incomprehensible to a common man and is tagged as being mad. Who knows this emotional bout might morph into creative streak with help of creative visualization.

A frequently missed – or forgotten – fact is that visualization has to do with vision. This vision has nothing to do with the human eyes, though, which are instruments of seeing. The vision I’m talking about has to do with that intuitive understanding of spiritual truths – what is often referred to as knowing. This is an experiential thing … something you have to really experience to understand and fathom … and, as such, is difficult to put into words.

The One Place

There is a thin veil of space that you enter when doing yoga, meditation, and other similar activities where you momentarily escape the confines of the ego. For most, it is hard to hold on to this place that simultaneously feels familiar and fleeting. But this is a miracle place — The One Place — a spot where visualization and manifestation are not only possible – but probable.

Of course, for those who meditate or do other spiritual activities regularly, you eventually learn that this place is really all that actually exists. It’s a place where power and creativity and imagination dwell; and the place where simple ideas and intention can move into form. The problem is that too many people have lost the belief in their ability to get there and access the power.

Learning to relax

In this space, the substance and truth beneath all form resides and that which seems magical to many (such as manifestation) is completely possible. Outside of the make-believe world of strife and anxiety, that which many embrace as “the here and now”, total peace is not only possible: it is the norm.

Learning to relax into this place of possibility – and to feel safe there – is the true goal of most spirit-based activities. Getting to the point where you can let go of completely – and gladly – the false world you see with your physical eyes is necessary if you want to discover the power-possibilities available to you through vision (spiritual or otherwise).

Just housing this all in religious or spiritual terms implies that only spiritual or religious people can enter this place and benefit from its power. This is not true.

It’s true that the land-beyond-the-ego is a power-filled place – but it is not necessarily a “God place.” In can be, if that is your belief system, but in truth, it’s a place that is achievable to any mortal humans curious enough to go there. This is the place from where all of life and consciousness begins – and ends. The words “God” and “Spirit” are useful to some – but unnecessary to others.

The point is that the basic energy system out of which all of us sprung (known variously as The One, God, Goddess, The Force, etc.) is really just the beginning of all we know – and has no real name. It just is.

When we practice manifestation

When we practice manifestation, we are proving that we know how to access this One Place, usually in some manner that works best for us as individuals – whether we are religious/spiritual or not.

Manifestation proves our ability to accept our true origins from the one powerful Source and to utilize the inherent power that stems from this relationship; the power that is rightfully our own and with which we can turn possibilities into real and useful things and events.

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Cleansing ritual There are two kinds of insomniacs: one who dread night time as they would have to face the same dreadful effort and wait and the other one who just love night time too much to sleep. The first visualization technique is for the latter category. Night is the time of freedom, it definitely brings in the space and freedom which the day lacks but we must keep in mind the fact that night is the time to rest and sooth your nerves and prepare for the coming taxing day. Your first target should be to bar all temptations and filter your external atmosphere from all temptations. You have to perform the ritual of purification and cleanse your surrounding from every impurity. Get rid of your cell phone and TV. You should not let your mind work on anything else except sleep and rest. This physical cleansing is the first step towards peace and this peaceful surrounding will ease the atmosphere for creative visualization.

Once you do away with external diversion…it’s the time to look inside your soul. Another catalyst for insomniacs is the pent up thoughts, emotions and plans. The moment they go to bed every single thought which was hidden somewhere in the backdrop, just pops up and diverts the mind. Then there are plans to make and problems to solve. Now this is the hardest part. This is definitely not the right place and time to sort things out. In fact it will multiply and magnify your problems. So you must banish these thoughts and empty your mind for a nice peaceful sleep. Creative visualization techniques will help you in getting rid of these diversions. The moment these thoughts start you should divert your mind to a completely different plane where you have totally different identity. This new identity will impart new outlook and comforting vibes to your mind.

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Lend some music  Music has always been known for its mood changing properties. It can take you to exalted mood and can depress you as well. So all you have to do is select the right music for your soul which will help in creating the right atmosphere for you. But you will have to make effort to discover your personal favorite for this task.

We hope you will sleep well tonight with the help of our creative visualization techniques.

Let the heart be your guru: Feng shui is all about spiritual orientation of your living place and aligning your home with the natural forces in the right way. What better can guide your soul than your very own heart? “Home is where heart is” and that is quite apt statement for our current topic. Let your mind power be your muse in your home décor endeavors. Let’s try few simple mental exercises of creative visualization.  Colors form the basic ingredient of geomancy. Every color has certain specific symbolic significance but I would like to pitch in something. Every person has personal meaning and interpretation for colors. Red might make the world angry or passionate but it’s my personal favorite for peace and harmony.

Therefore, before reinventing your surrounding you have to revisit the meaning of colors again. Your real relationship with colors is hidden in your closet. The outfits you choose for different occasions are the colors of your heart and soul. Each outfit could be viewed as a room in your house. Your blue night wear could become the color of your bedroom and the purple you chose for part could be the warm color of your living room. Remember feng shui is all about rediscovering the colors of your soul and creating harmony and balance with the ultimate source of consciousness.  Creative visualization could be your best ally in this journey.

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Visualize.  Don’t take your home for granted. The most common mistake is that we unconsciously accept our surrounding as they are and lose the urge to keep it updated. It’s the place where we spend most of our time and it’s the real comfort zone for our soul. It’s almost like a boomerang effect. If we strive to make it better than it will definitely affect our mind, soul and life. The elements of nature like water which we include in our home décor holds a very special position in feng shui but you have to revisit these principles with the help of creative visualization. Don’t go by the books but listen to the whims of your heart and soul. Dreams are the best way of analyzing your choices. You have to find out the element which dominates your dream and translate it into your interior.

Creative visualization would serve as your personal feng shui expert and help you out.

Leap into future: Creative visualization can help you imagine what you aspire to look like at the coming occasion. First you have to make up your mind which mood you want to carry – for this purpose, the selection of colours hold a significant place. Colours posses a unique language and are effective medium in speaking out and expressing your personality. Once you have visualized and decided the suitable colour of your costume, it would be the first step to become the cause of your admiration by all your friends and family members.

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Be Confident: Through creative visualization you have to overcome all those complexes, fears and forebodings that have been lurking in your mind before attending the event. You have to develop a mindset that you are good-looking and attractive enough and would definitely be appraised. Moreover, if you are confident about the selection of your dress, your jewellery and other embellishments, this attitude would lend uniqueness to your personality.

Carry Well: Another important imaginative task that you need to indulge in through mind power is to foresee whether the selected attire for the occasion suits and complements your personality or negates or minus you individuality. The stuff, the cut of your dress would be managed by you properly, is according to your age and occasion, or is gaudy or casual enough to embarrass you. Once you are in no doubt about such queries, you would certainly win the day.

Mask or Make up: Before beginning this act of giving a new look to your face, one has to creatively visualize beforehand what he or she actually wants to portray them. If you want to use the tool of powder to completely present yourself as another individual, the hosts might not allow you to attend the function as you were not the person invited by them. Therefore, through mind power you have to first make up your mind that this make over would not serve the purpose of a mask to totally hide your personality behind the scene by presenting you as another one. On the contrary make up should compliment and highlight yourself instead of burying your original face behind the layers of powder.

Through this four step imaginative act of creative visualization one can prove that behind the good looks there always is a mind that thinks well. A hollow mind that does not estimate his appearance would give the appearance at the occasion like that photo frame which does not have a picture inside it.  The power of your mind would certainly make you look the way you want.

Word Painting: The most troublesome task is to listen to the class lecture that also does not seem to grab your interest. But creative visualization can help you to become the most conscientious student in the class. While attending the lecture, you have to paint a picture of the spoken words in your mind. The minute spoken details can only be imprinted in your mind if they would become the part of that picture that is drawn on the canvass of your mind. Once you are succeeded in this mind power exercise, you have saved the whole lecture in the memory card of your mind. This is a useful way of not only to become an affective listener but to retain that material for a longer time as well.

Advises or vices: It is not only the lectures that are hard to listen, the capsules of advices are also quite bitter to be swallowed. But through mind power, even this boring act can be proved to be interesting. Whether it is your parents, elders or teachers the advices are actually been squeezed after their long experiences and wide knowledge. But only listening would not work out, how to make them practical is the whole problem. For this purpose, you have to indulge in the meditative act of probing into future: how prestigious you would become if these advises would be followed by you in future days. Here what you are doing is; you are drawing a positive image of your own self for the coming days by trying to become the shadow of the adviser. This would enable you to predetermine the image for your future self as well. Here, through becoming a positive listener, you have become a successful practitioner.

Behold the Scold :To listen to this most detestable task is revolting even to a new born child. But you would be surprised that how to listen to the scold can prove to be in your goodwill through creative visualization. Although these accusations might be for your betterment; through mind power you have to imagine that if these words would have been spoken by you, how disgusting you would appear to the listener. Such perception would prevent you to become a better speaker, to use a dignified language if ever you happen to lose your temper.

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Entering into Music:Merely listening to the music is done by everyone but through mind power, you can be trained in the art of experiencing and entering in the music. It leaves a most soothing impact if you simply allow your body, mind and soul to enter in the beats, rhythm and heart touching words of your favourite song. It is a mental exercise that relieves your aggressions and tensions and ultimately circulates comfort from head to toe.

Therefore, listening is not a dumb activity rather can become an interactive act through the art of creative visualization and can give a new bent to your personality.

Be pessimistic: You must were never advised by anyone before to learn the art of hating someone but  after reading this article you would  surely be convinced that how to hate someone can become a favorable act. Let’s together spot out how would it be possible?

If you have lost the love of a person extremely intimate to you, there does not seem any way of getting rid of the anxiety and distress caused by it. But creative visualization can help you come out of such tumultuous mind set. By exploiting this technique if not fully, your half mental stress would surely be eradicated. Just imagine and make a statue of that person in your mind and now begin thinking of the weaknesses and bad qualities of that person that you have been ignoring since you were blind to them before. To acquire this mastery of making a negative picture of that person who had been so dear to you would take weeks, even months. Slowly you would come at the point of accepting that his negative traits dominate the positive ones. But once you have succeeded in achieving such a mental state; through mind power you have to exercise the art of moping out all the positive impressions of that person and throwing them into the graveyard of your sub consciousness. Ultimately you would come to the astonishing results that you have actually started hating that person. Creative visualization would further help you to lapse into future when you might be succeeded in getting out of even these hateful feelings safely and securely. Your mind eventually would be left with having no feelings at all for that person. Look how even if the feelings like hatred would be used for positive purpose, instead of serving as a rival, they would rather act as a consoler.

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Be Optimistic: If you have been a loser in the near past: have lost a job, don’t worry we are the passengers of the same train. Let’s see how we can get rid of such a frustrating experience. Coming out of such a deteriorated situation is not an easy task. It is not only your conscience that makes you dissatisfied rather the thought of facing the ‘other’ is more exasperating. The strategic way to deal with such a problem is to exploit the method of “looking down”.  Indulge yourself in the mind power and meditative process and remember the people around you who are less educated and less successful in various walks of life. Also memorize those prestigious personalities who were failures in the beginning of their career but by retaining their optimistic perspective they are now leading a successful life. Therefore, through creative visualization we can handle this serious affair successfully that might otherwise prove t o be injurious to us.

So what are you waiting for? Mind power will rescue you out of this state.

The mind booming sounds of the road traffic, the constant buzzing of mobile in your pocket, the deafening noise of T.V in your lounge and the chatters and laughter of your friends in your car often overwhelm so much to snatch away the peaceful life. Sometimes in the hustle and bustle, your mind actually blurs and you feel that what you are doing is not actually the desired self that you want to become. Let’s trigger out the power of your mind with the help of creative visualization to get rid of such a macabre mental state.

Natural Refuge It is a kind of truism that external calmness leads to internal peace and comfort. Spending some time in the serenity of lulling nature must be functional in getting rid of boredom and dreariness. The peaceful park in your surrounding area can work out to dredge you out from the stress and lethargy. It would refresh you from the tediousness and weariness by leaving an invigorating impact on your mind. But to achieve such an effect, you have to indulge in an interesting exercise of creative visualization: just close your eyes, feel yourself as if you and nature are the only two entities here, now start breathing in the fresh air and then exhale it slowly. You would gradually feel that the fresh air is not only energizing you physically but your mind and spirit together is refreshing you and the fever and fret, the tediousness would consequently vanish. Creative visualization would certainly align you with nature and absolve you of eternal boredom.

 Quest for Self  To be in the company of nature is the best subversive technique to hear the voice of your conscious and subconscious self that often gets ignored in the busy routine life. The first pre-requisite for this practice, is to be alone and isolated from the company of your friends and family members. This would help you analyze the importance of yourself and also would lend you an opportunity to give a heed to your own wishes and desires that might have been blurred with the wishes of “others”. Spending time in the beauteous nature is actually a unique moment of hearing the voice of your innate nature. This provides a moment of solace that offers you with the opportunity to trace out the pros and cons of the problems hindering in the achievement of your desired ideal self.

The superlative self image is hard to achieve but you must strive to become the nearest of it. For this purpose, start probing into the past, the events and actions that might have thwarted your movement to achieve your goals. Now while sensing the uninterrupted calmness of the surrounding, think which action or person has distracted you in achieving your idealized self. This would determine your future actions. Once you have sorted out the conflict, you are about to resolve it. After getting through this meditative practice, your mind is now clear enough about your aims of future. This would make you more decisive and determined, more confident and less hesitant. Your tensions would eradicate as you know quite well beforehand which action would surely result in your success.

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So the endless boredom might just end with power of your mind and this write up would certainly make you consider it.

Spending the long day in the busy but monotonous routine of homely life is not an easy job for the house wives. Although she is engrossed in the so called simpler tasks of looking after the house and growing up the children but her mind gets more exhausted at times than her body because it is the mind only which is rusting due to the daily drudgery. We must have to discover some effective devices to let our women dredge out from this tiresomeness of mental idleness. Lets see how our inner strength would help us out with help of creative visualization .

Precious Relations: Sometimes you become so much fed up with the tediousness of the homely matters that you begin to lose interest in the household work. This kind of attitude may result in causing unrest and destroying the peacefulness of your life, once your family members get irritated. For getting out of such a traumatic situation, do try the effective technique of indulging in the act of creative visualization. Meditation and mind power would help you enter in the imaginative world. Think for a moment the importance of these relationships for you and what would happen if you would lose your loved ones because of your changed and disinterested attitude. Then lapse into future and picture the coming days. If you would prove to be a good house wife and a loving mother; your all sacrifices would be paid back when your children would achieve their aspired aims.

Importance of the creative mind: Have you ever observed that the working women are more successful in managing the household work than the women who don’t do any job at all. The reason is mind is not separated from body, if she is working creatively during her job she would also work creatively when she would come back. But this argument is not to annoy those husbands who are not interested in letting their wives do the jobs but to prove the impact of creative art on us.

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It is the monotony of daily life that irritates women more. The best way of absolving such dilemma is to practice the art of creative visualization. Mind power can help you in devising the methods of making your life interesting, new and refreshing. Imagine, if you would change the room settings and furniture, would cook new dishes, meet with your old friends and would find time to read that heart touching book that you have long been thinking to go through. This act of creative visualization has refreshed you not only for a couple of minutes but when you would make an effort to act upon your imagined thought, your mind would again be working efficiently. You would be prevented from the mental inertia and lethargy. Now your mind and body are working in the same momentum. This would change your attitude with your husband and children. Moreover, this engagement  into mind power would help you become more loving and caring because the previous feelings of self- pity out of self denial is completely evacuated  because of creative visualization.

It is the ripe time to balance your life with creative visualization.

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Effective Teaching: The teacher, before entering in the classroom already knows the objective or the topic under discussion for the following day. For letting the students indulge in the mind power exercise of creative visualization he has to begin his lecture with the attention-grabbing catchphrase. This catchword should leave a visual impact upon the mind of the listener. For example if the lecture is centered on ‘witchcraft’ or ‘superstitions’, he has first to let them visualize those movies, plays, theatrical performances or personal experiences that are related to the art of witchery. Once he is succeeded in creating an environment for letting them enter in the realm of visual imagination, their response becomes more frequent and rapid. Their confusions are eradicated since the teacher has helped them to create a virtual world on the platform of their mind.

Fruitful Academic skill: Students themselves can also exploit this method since creative visualization is a useful and reliable communicative method and assures the mental understanding of the recipient. We, being students are often confronted with the problem as how to make a more fruitful and effective presentation in front of the class. For this purpose, we ourselves have first to go through the mind booming process of creative visualization. Indulge yourself in meditation as to how these concepts that you have to deliver actually work in society. For example, if you have to make a presentation on “inequality in the social structure”, you have first to visualize the current disparity around you – the distinction in the relationships between the master and the servant, landlords and middleman, employer and employee, husband and wife.

Now with the help of this mind power, you can produce a concrete piece of creative visualization by making several posters of the invigorated visual images that have arrived at the threshold of your mind. The practical implication of that mind power indulgence in the class can be possible through playing slides of the similar images visualized by you through projectors or showing video clips through multimedia or arranging an interesting activity in the class.

In this manner, creative visualization and mind power would not only ramble in the realm of imagination, rather would enter in the concrete world of reality and would play a functional role to improve the academic skills of the listener as well as the presenter. Creative visualization , definitely has the power to improve academic skills.