Visualise To Create One's Own Future

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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By Staff

Monday, October 13, 2008, 11:21

People are often confused between visualisation and imagination. Imagination and visualization are not the same; they are two different things or states of mind. Visualisation is creating your own future. It is about creating that which is possible, not merely thinking about, but also starting to work for it, towards it.

To visualise, you need to have a systematic method, a solid process to follow. What does this mean?

Look at it this way. If you can visualise yourself 10 kms ahead of the path in which you are travelling, it is absolutely certain that you can reach there. This is what many sports persons use these days to achieve the near impossible.

They keep visualising step by step what they need to do sitting in a chair, and later they replicate it in the field.

On the other hand, if you imagine that you are floating in the sky or flying, it's just a dream. Imagining that which cannot happen, just fantasising, is in no way going to help you. It is merely dreaming and fantasising about your future.

Just dreaming and fantasising is in no way going to make your wishes a reality in future . I have seen many people fantasising being with celebrities. That is in idle speculation.

Visualisation is reproducing the reality of the future now and here, without self contradiction.

In the last phase of his life, a great master was asked by doctors to eat only a certain type of rice and grains. Everyday he used to have the same type of food. His cook was bored out of her wits. She told the master: "It's boring to cook the same food. Are you not bored by eating the same food?"

Master replied: "No! I don't eat the same food everyday. No! I am not eating the same food everyday . How can I eat the same food everyday? Once I eat, it is over. Every meal I feel I know it is a new meal. What I see in front of me is something different each time!"

Visualising creatively, seeing the same things differently each time can enrich your life. Every moment is a new moment. This is the way a child sees the world around her.

She is fascinated by the wonders of nature that we adults take for granted. A child just visualises her experience, whereas an adult verbalises the experience and misses the miracle that is nature. To make up for this loss, an adult needs to fantasise.

We have many kinds of choices in our lives. One of these choices is about how to live. We can choose to live in dreams or in reality. There is really only one choice for this. You can decide to live in now and here in reality, or nowhere in dreaming.

Listen to Paramahamsa Nithyananda Jain Sutras-Establish Yourself In Satya