Have you used your imagination today? If your answer is no, I’m very sorry to hear that. Famed psychologists, from Freud to Assagioli have seen and used the powers of imagination. The New Thought movement focuses on the use of imagination quite a bit. Movies like The Secret and anything talking about the Law of Attraction would be nowhere without the use of imagination.

But is it really all that powerful? Yes it is. Einstein wrote; “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions”. I’m not going to tell you that if you imagine a $1000.00 check coming to you in the mail today that it’s going to happen or if you imagine an elephant appearing in your living room that it will happen – I’ll take bets against that. But I can tell you that studies of prisoners of war have returned home and have witnessed that one of the primary things that kept them alive was their vivid use of imagination. In his best selling book The Psychology of Winning, Denis Waitley relays the story of a Vietnam POW that loved golf. Everyday while imprisoned this soldier imagined playing a perfect game of golf. When he was released his first game was indeed near perfect, and he had been imprisoned for years – never coming even close to a golf course; except in his mind.

If imagination can do anything for you, the most powerful thing it can do (in my opinion) is to help you see a different perspective. Many times we are so caught up in what is happening around us we cannot see around the boulder in our path. But if we use our imaginations, we can see, and the creative juices start flowing and before you know it your perspective has changed, and the pesky boulder is on its way out.

See it … be it.

Love and Bright blessings ~ Richard