Imagination

A word from Rocky Point Academy:

"I read this article, and it relates so beautifully to what we are teaching our clients.

We can use our mental pictures to support ourselves or sabotage ourselves. The images we create will create an emotional response, and that emotional response will affect our attitude, choices, and ultimately our quality of life.

Our imagination is a phenomenally powerful tool, and our clients must understand its role in their learning.

I first discovered how important the imagination was in connection to learning about 20 years ago. Mark, a 12-year-old, came to us for a reading program, and things were progressing slowly compared to a typical client. When he read, he would tire quickly, yawn, slouch, and it was evident that it was very hard work. He often said things like, “reading is hard” or “I am not a good reader.” It was evident that this young man was getting in his own way despite his desire to learn.

We explored the role of how our pictures affect what we think we are capable of. If we tell ourselves, “reading is hard,” our brain will readily reply with, “It is? Okay!” and then it WILL be hard. Once he realized that he was in control and had been subconsciously contributing to the problem, we used several strategies to break this old pattern of behavior, and he took off like a

rocket! Over the remaining three days of his program, he went from a grade two reading level to a grade six reading level! Once he realized his potential, we got to see his potential!

Since working with Mark, I have seen this scenario over and over again. Whether it is children, teens, or adults… to be successful and reach their goals… they need to have two pieces: the ability and the motivation to control the situation. Ability can be taught, and tools can be gained. But motivation comes from within, it comes from our pictures! We need both pieces to experience success.

At Rocky Point Academy we show our clients how to change old paradigms and habits and shift from negative images to positive ones. Decreasing anxiety, fear, stress, and underachievement, while increasing confidence, creativity, innovation, and motivation. To learn more about our programs, visit us: www.rockypointacademy.com

I hope you enjoy the article!

Stacey

Director Rocky Point Academy"

Imagination

Certain words have several connotations. “Imagination” is such a word.

People use this word to convey various ideas; some of them are directly opposed to one another. For example, we may ask a person to ‘use their imagination’ when we think their current viewpoint is too restricted and not equal to the task. Then, we might tell another person that their ideas are ‘pure imagination,’ thereby implying that their concept is unsound.

When we use a word this broadly, it can cease to mean anything at all. However, that’s a big mistake when it comes to a term that’s as consequential as “imagination.” After all, Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

That’s a shocking statement coming from one of the most intelligent people in history.

So, I think it’s worth taking some time to understand what imagination is and what it can do for us when we use it properly.

The Truth Shall Set You Free

Imagination is not just a whimsical activity that we engage in as children. And it’s not something we should shy away from as adults. It is the very gateway to reality. You see, through our imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be. That’s because, even if it’s false, any belief, assumption, or idea that is persisted in or repeated often enough will become fact.

When you let your physical senses control you, you see and focus on what is—a low bank balance, an illness, a business that’s struggling. However, you can see a high bank balance, perfect health, and a thriving business when you engage your imagination. As we awaken to the power of the imaginative life, we discover that to imagine a thing repeatedly makes it so. We also realize our lives’ circumstances are the fruit bearing witness to the use or misuse of the imagination.

Escape the Jail that Ignorance Built

To understand how the imagination works, we must explore the conscious and subconscious mind.

The conscious mind is the part of you that thinks and reasons. It’s also where your free will lies—where you decide what you want to do and what you want to focus on.

Sensory factors are how you correspond with the outside world through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. When you allow external stimuli to direct your thoughts, you focus on your current results or your current reality. On the other hand, your mental faculties, such as your imagination, allow you to direct the energy created from your pictures. By focusing there, you can build any idea or thought you want.

This is important because the thoughts you choose—whether they come from outside or inside—will eventually determine your life results. As you accept and emotionalize an idea, it is impressed upon your subconscious mind. The conscious mind accepts or creates ideas and impresses those ideas on the subconscious mind. The subconscious does not originate ideas. It simply gives form and expression to each idea that is impressed on it.

The subconscious mind is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your thoughts or ideas. It accepts as true every idea that the conscious mind feeds to it. Anything we think, believe, or feel is true, the subconscious can and must produce the exact likeness of that idea in the outer or objective world. Therefore, through our freedom and power to choose and create the ideas we will entertain, we control creation. This is how everything that is manmade is made.

Everything Starts in Your Imagination

Napoleon Hill said, “Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

Unfortunately, most people use their imagination against themselves. They imagine what they don’t want. Begin to use your imagination to your advantage. Use the creative power that to build any image you want, the image of how you really want to live. You do that by blocking out what’s going on now and using your imagination to go into the future and bring it into the present.

Forget about your current circumstances. Instead, think only of what you want. Then, use your imagination to build a beautiful picture in your mind and hold that image there so you can live from that place. That’s what all highly-successful people do. They see where they want to go, and then they act like the person they want to become.

Your imagination is a mental faculty that will take you anywhere you want to go. It will take you to other countries. It will take you to another time and space. And it will take you to the fulfillment of a dream. Think about how you are using your imagination. Make sure you use it to build a better day today, tomorrow, and next week.