- Techniques to instill positive mental images and develop mind power

(Extract from Chapter III)

You have now reached the most exciting stage of Effective Thinking: training your subconscious mind to create the conditions that will allow you to achieve your objectives with less effort and more effectively. You are about to learn the practical applications of Effective Thinking Principles 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 in creating a life full of opportunities, success, and personal satisfaction. Before we apply them, let’s review the Principles briefly.

Principle 1 of Effective Thinking stated that our sole purpose in life is to achieve goals and that we are constantly involved in this task, consciously or subconsciously. Principle 2 extended this concept, stating that nothing is pre-written and that to a significant degree we are responsible for manufacturing our own destiny, which we do from moment to moment in making choices and implementing our decisions; everything we do has an ulterior intention of achieving particular goals. Principle 4 then asserted that we possess an inborn goal-achieving mechanism that operates at subconscious levels, and that everything we do is directed by this inner process to attain the goals we feed through from our thinking. Principle 5 was that we live primarily in a subconscious world and that the mental representations imbedded in this inner world manufacture our beliefs and the means to achieve our goals. Finally, Principle 6 stated that we can modify the contents of our subconscious by thinking and visualizing our goals, mentally creating the ideal world.

All these principles contribute to a powerful psychological technique: the ability to create your own opportunities. The results of the Visualization Technique might be the closest thing to real-life miracles you will ever experience; it allows you to generate opportunities for yourself, simply by creating these occurrences in your own imagination and then reinforcing them in your subconscious mind using visualization. This strategy harnesses the power of the mind, empowering you to create mental images that become reality in front of your eyes.


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The basic rationale of visualization is to create, in your imagination, what you want to see happening in reality, regardless of what reality currently looks like. Your intention is to use mind power to generate the means to change reality to match your visualizations; your visualizations will provide these means effectively, helping you make optimum use of opportunities that fit the images you visualize. What you visualize is already in the process of becoming reality, and you actively contribute to making the relevant opportunities.

If you blindly follow reality, you make progress unnecessarily difficult, because you leave yourself completely at the mercy of circumstances instead of contributing to them with the power of your own imagination. But if you transport yourself into your own future and bring it into the present by imagining it, by creating a mental representation of the ideal world, then you gear your subconscious goal-achievement system to act upon these images and obtain these objectives. In essence, you are creating the opportunity to attain what you visualize.

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