Imagine your way to everything

Visualization – guide and ideas

Irma Lauridsen

Forlaget Vanessa

We are what we think.
All that we are is a result of our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

Buddha

Imagine Your Way to Everything

by Irma Lauridsen

©Forlaget Vanessa

Published by Forlaget Vanessa

2012

Web: www.irmalauridsen.dk

Coverlayout og photo: Egon Rasmussen

ISBN 978-87-988541-9-7

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Visualizations you already know

The effect of colors

My first conscious visualization

Relaxing before visualization

Short visualizations

The sunbeams – warmth and energy

Rose colored light for quiet and healing

Blue light

Soft snowflakes on tired eyes

The block of ice to cool the body

Yellow visualization brings courage

Little red arrows tightening up the skin

The blue laser beam

Tiny blue men with shovels

Cancer and tumors

Don’t feel helpless

Purifying water

Golden cream for comfort

Restlessness and uncertainty

Stress and exam anxiety

The glass bubble can protect you

The bird seeing everything from above

Visualize joy

Find a sweetheart

Sleep well

Children and visualizing

Slim with visualization

Help to quit smoking

Visualize your own medicine

Increased muscle function

Create joy

Your visualization can influence others

Make yourself more beautiful

Cheat the age

Postscript

Preface

Through the brain the mind has an incredibly strong influence on our body’s function and wellbeing. We are not just machines but highly developed beings that through time lost a great deal of the abilities we were originally equipped with. Through the mind we are able to activate our powers of self healing. We are also capable of the opposite when we nurture negative thoughts and imagine the worst. We can bring about joy if we imagine – visualize - something we connect with joy and with feeling good. And we can get depressed if we only think of all the bad things in our life.

There is an increasing indicative that we are able to influence our future with positive thoughts and by speaking out loud and in positive terms what we want to happen. We should hear ourselves say: “tomorrow I will do well at my exam”, or “I will do this drivers test without any mistakes”. And never say:”I hope it will be ok” or “it probably won’t work” because we then visualize that it will go wrong. And it will. Say it out loud and you will believe what you say and confirm it. It will consequently come about the way you intend it to.

We already know a lot about how thoughts are conveyed to the rest of the body. It doesn’t only happen through the nervous system but also through energy circuits like acupuncture meridians and through the thin fluid layers all over the surface of the body’s structures. We humans are electromagnetic beings, every single cell is like a small battery and everything vibrates – cells and organs. We also have electromagnetic radiation and vibrate with each other and with our surroundings, the earth and the Schumann resonances between earth and the outer atmosphere. These resonances or vibrations correspond to the brain’s vibrations and are vital to us.

There are special receiving areas (receptors) in the cells membranes that register electromagnetic waves caused by thoughts and feelings. This partly explains why we, also during illness, are capable of influencing our body’s functions with positive thinking, awareness training and reprogramming of the subconscious.

Visualization is a powerful instrument through which we are able to achieve good things and so this book will be helpful not only to you but also to those who mean a lot to you and for whom you wish a better life. Alone we are weak but together we stand strong and if we all think and act positively, we will be able to visualize and create a better world. In an experiment, 10.000 humans practiced transcendental meditation and visualized peace and non-violence in an American city with heavy crime, and the degree of violence and crime dropped with 80% the following year.

We are also able to influence ourselves and others and to increase the chance of what we want to happen, to really happen...

Carsten Vagn-Hansen - Physician and health adviser

Introduction

This is the book that teaches you to visualize good health, beauty and balance. You can read about where you apply visualization and the book will guide you through various visualizations, most of them very simple.

What is visualization? Visualization comes from the latin word “visus” which means “look” or “sight”. Visualization is a kind of dream state in which you create inner images and make them come alive, using all your senses in this inner landscape. The visualization this book is concerned with is deliberate imagination. With visual imagery you work consciously on bringing energy into the changes you desire to make in your life so they manifest literally.

Your outer physical reality is closely connected to your inner reality. We all have incredible resources within our power of imagination. This is a power ready to come alive and be made use of.

Your willpower is a strongly effective tool. The thoughts influence a lot of the body’s processes, this happens without us noticing. Just for that reason it is of great importance what you think and what pictures you see in your mind’s eye, as these “kick off“ the active productive process in body and mind. You can also influence and enhance this effect through thoughts and inner images

You can visualize the image of yourself to the measure or situation you wish. And this may turn out to become reality as well. You simply have the opportunity to make yourself healthier according to the world you choose to create in your consciousness. Hence, you are able to change your behavioral patterns as well as your physical state of being.

In this way you can learn to be in charge of your own life, subtract and add. You can influence disabilities and ailments positively, at best even remove them and you can work on bringing into your life what it is you desire. This does not always suffice and is not a call to give up medical advice in cases with serious diseases, but is meant as a supplement and to give yourself the opportunity to be pleasantly surprised by the result.

The body has the ability to recover. You can strengthen this ability with visualization which is also effective if you want to get rid of bad habits.

The ability to visualize is already inherent in you; all you need to do is activate the energy so it wakes up and starts to serve you. You do this by being conscious of it, treating it as something natural and simply starting to make use of it.

The concept visualization can cover a lot. This book reaches far beyond what most people believe can be achieved by visualization. It brings many examples of how to create different visualization images and moods and of how they work. However, ultimately this is about what feels right for you personally during your act of visualization. Hence, you should always be guided by your own feeling in your visualization so it matches you precisely. First and foremost: don’t think of visualization as something difficult or artificial. Visualization is easy. You just imagine the result you desire. It’s natural and very simple!

Your thoughts, your ability to imagine, the little “movie sequences” behind your eyes are powerfully instrumental in your life. This is where it all starts. This is your workbench with drawings for everything that later takes place.

Some people say: “It won’t get better.” This will come true because these people see their lives this way. The code to the situation lies in the imagination. And the work is fulfilled according to the code. If we believe that everything in life is difficult, how can we create anything else if we can’t see it in our minds eye? How can we be awake to the opposite if it should suddenly appear? We won’t see it because our inner negative images take up all the space of our consciousness and those are the images we go by.

Today it is acknowledged that a large part of our diseases and disabilities have developed as a result of negative thinking. And many people’s life situations have developed on the basis of this.

In the light of this, the conclusion must be that we may just as well create the opposite. We can clear the effect of negative thoughts when we direct our thinking to be positive and healing. If we change negative thinking, we can also change bad conditions, illnesses and disabilities.

Visualization can bring about greater self esteem, energy, joy and zest for life. Create the images of what you desire. Replace the images you may have carried around, and picked up from other people’s negative attitudes, with positive images of your life.

When you improve your visualizing, you send greater power out to those parts of the body that need it, as well as to other people, and so the relationships to your close surroundings change positively. Once you discover that your own creative power is enormous, you will acquire stronger belief that you can do even more with your thoughts and that the potentials of visualization are limitless.

I have worked with visualization through many years and am continuously surprised by new, puzzling results.

I have helped others visualize. I have given directions and guided visualizations that in a positive way turned out to hit the target.

How about visualizing beautiful skin, a minor facelift, beautiful breasts, a slimmer body, a lovely sweetheart, a steady digestion or steady heart, peace of mind, more self-confidence and self-trust, the ability to give and receive more love, to lessen the burden of grief … ? If you are restless at bedtime, you can use visualization to fall asleep. You can strengthen your organs, your blood circulation and at best you can remove various ailments from your body or lessen them.

How would you fancy being able to visualize getting rid of a serious disease? Many have experienced that this is possible. How about visualizing getting rid of a big, ugly varicose vein? I can’t say if it is possible in every case, but it’s worth trying. I have done it myself, so I know it is possible. You can read about it in this book. I am certain the result of this will bring hope and encourage many to work with visualization.

Of course you need to believe it works. You can’t call forth images in your mind and at the same time think it probably won’t work. And you will be right. You create what you think. The thoughts are the seeds that you allow to grow and unfold.

The main thing is not to give up if the end result takes its time. Sometimes it takes time and repeated visualizations. That is precisely what I experienced when I got rid of the mentioned varicose vein with visualization. It took about six weeks before the final result showed itself. But I soon discovered small improvements that showed me it was moving in the right direction.

The more you use visualization, the stronger it will work. It is easy to fetch from your imaginary medicine cabinet and if there is a need for help your first thought will always be to use visualization. Even children can learn to visualize – for and against all sorts of things. This is amazing teaching that parents can pass on to children and adolescents.

How is it actually done? What if you feel you don’t have a lot of imagination? This is where the book comes in as a support. Of course you should use your own inner images and moods as far as possible in your visualization. However, if you have a bit of a hard time getting started, this book offers directions as to how it can be done. You will be guided through practical steps which you can use for various purposes. You will get an overall idea as to which colors work best in a given situation.

Reading the small sections of the book, you will soon discover that you have a lot of your own ideas. Maybe you just need a small starting signal to get going. This book merely contains suggestions and you can easily change them if something else works better for you.

You will gradually, just by looking through the book, become so adept that you can easily visualize help for whatever you need and wherever you are. Apart from when you drive a car. Here you should never visualize but keep your eyes and thoughts one hundred percent on driving, which is obvious.

The book is meant as a small vitamin pill to encourage you to use your own potentials. Look up the subject you need, read the visualization and then close the book. The directions are meant as an inspiration. There is nothing you must remember. Read, get a feeling of the visualization, close the book and get started.

You may also ask a good friend to read the visualization out loud to you while you sit or lie down, quite relaxed. It’s best to read in a low voice, quietly and gently with many pauses to give you time to see and feel into the suggestions. Do this in total peace and cooperation, focusing on the goal.

It’s impossible to say exactly how visualization will affect you or how long the change will take. For some, great changes will happen fast, with others it may take longer. Above all, the method is cheap and easy. A natural and quite simple force without side effects, always at hand. Enjoy!

Irma Lauridsen

Visualizations you already know

Maybe you think visualization sounds strange and unfamiliar. However, even people who claim they don’t believe in the effect of visualization, experience the effect of their own visualization every day – without knowing it. We actually visualize all the time without giving it a thought.

If you are going on a holiday, for instance, you already visualize what it’s going to be like. You call forth images, even in detail. Perhaps you see yourself in the blue-green waves with sea spray and laughter and play, sun, white beaches and an ice-cream or a drink under the parasol.

When you are asked out, you most likely visualize how it will be and what the place will look like. You see the people you are going to be with and perhaps imagine how they are dressed. You already see what food you will be having or how you will get there and back.

You will experience your body reacting to your visualizations. They raise your mood; you’ll be in high spirits and look forward because you have “seen” images of what it’s going to be like. Perhaps your mouth waters at the prospect of the food you will be eating.

We imagine lovely things happen or that something unpleasant happens. That’s visualizing.

When you want to find your blue trousers, you visualize them and the spot where you might find them. You see the trousers folded. You see the wardrobe where you believe they are. You see yourself moving towards the wardrobe to fetch the trousers. And afterwards you actually do all this. We see lots of inner images every single day which means we are already in sharp practice with our visualizing.

Examples

The thought of a lemon is already an example of how your thoughts and inner images can have a physical effect. Imagine standing with a great big juicy lemon in your hand. You take a knife and cut it in half. Then you bite into the flesh of the lemon and chew it. See it. Feel it.

What is your mouth water doing now? Do you have more mouth water? Was it because you bit into a lemon? Or was it because you thought of doing it?

Many other very common examples show that visualizing has physical effects. A person sitting in a physician’s waiting room often experiences, while waiting, how he’s all of a sudden in splendid health. This comes by just thinking of help now being on its way. In certain cases these thoughts can make him well because he already sees himself healthy! He visualizes this state of being and it manifests physically.

We also know the sayings: “I was so happy, I completely forgot I was ill.” Or: “The thought of it made me sick!” Physical changes caused by thoughts and inner images.

If you are nervous about a job interview, for instance, the thought of this may cause sleeplessness, heart palpitations, shaky hands or red spots on your neck.

If you are in love, you feel on top of the world. You think you can do everything. And you can do everything! Because you believe you can.

You have physical effects, merely through thought.

When you create the image in your mind that you haven’t got what it takes in a given situation, or you create images of fear or excitement, this can have the effect that you need to go to the toilet more often than usually. You have a physical reaction caused by thought alone. What happens when you think of the first date, long before your beloved even touches you. Just by thinking/visualizing …?

Think of the child running with total ease across a tree trunk lying on the ground. The child is completely steady until Mum calls out: “Watch out, you’ll fall!” And the child falls. Until then the child had seen inner images of itself as someone who can easily run across a tree trunk and it went fine until the image was changed by an adult.

Undoubtedly, you have experienced how a challenge can change when solving an everyday task, depending on how you look at it. This is because you already code either easy or difficult into your imagination, which is where it all starts.

If you see a task as difficult, it will be difficult. If, on the other hand, you believe your task will be easily manageable, it will be easy. The reason for this is that your thoughts automatically will look for easy solutions the same way the search robot searches and finds what you are looking for when you search on Google.

A funny example

Visualizing can manifest in very tangible physical ways. A guy with a very sluggish digestion experienced this. One day he went to the chemist to buy a laxative.

However, he never took his first pill because each time he took hold of the pill glass, the miracle happened; he had to go to the toilet. The moment he went towards the cabinet to fetch the pills, he imagined what would happen when he had taken a pill. That alone sufficed to cause such a physical reaction that he never had to take any of the pills.

He didn’t know about visualization before this happened, otherwise he could have saved the money for the laxative. And yet, perhaps he needed something tangible as an intermediary means to achieve the full effect of his visualizing. In any case, the visualization became his imaginary laxative.

There are thousands of these examples. The amazing thing is that we can strengthen the effect significantly through conscious visualization! And that’s what this book is about.

The effect of colors

The use of colors in visualization is extremely effective. Colors are not used in all of this book’s visualizations, it’s not necessary. In many of them, however, the colors are brought in as amplification. Only a few colors are mentioned here.

Each color affects us differently; there is, however, a common denominator in the way that happens. Still, we are individuals and may react differently to colors, depending on our background and personality. In general it is evident that reactions to the same colors share many similarities. The knowledge I have of the colors comes from my experiences with people I’ve guided through visualizations, my own personal experiences and the experiences others have told me about.

In the following, I will speak briefly about the various colors that I apply in some of the guided visualizations. From those descriptions you will probably be able to recognize a lot and choose one of the colors for your own use.

Which color do you need?

Feel which color you are drawn towards. And pay attention to the ones you don’t feel like using. This may change, depending on what takes place in your life. In some cases there may be a certain color you can’t stand having close because you already contain so many of this color’s qualities. Perhaps you badly need the effect of another color.

I needed blue a lot, for peace, more courage and protection. Especially in the beginning of my authorship, when I was practically thrown into lecturing and not prepared for this work the way I am today.

I still smile at the thought of putting on my old blue sweater (I was quite poor then and couldn’t afford a new blue sweater). The color meant something, my blue sweater and my blue jeans. No blue sweater, no lecture. When I wore that, I could do anything. I have no doubt it was because of the blue color.

I still think of color in situations when I’m pushed. The clear need for a certain color then arises and I have to take this seriously.

There are certain colors I can’t possibly carry when attending important meetings or in other situations that demand courage and peace of mind.