Imagination is not just a daydream; it is the power of a mind that creates your whole reality. Neville Goddard was one of the best teachers of metaphysics, who taught that all that you go through starts as a picture in your mind. Any success, breakthrough or transformation first comes to your imagination before it manifests itself in your life. This paper discusses the ways in which the thoughts you have inside your head (however impossible they may seem) can turn into the life you will one day lead, and how preserving your imagination is the initial step to bringing your future into life.
The Power of Imagination: The Importance of Your Ideas
How many times have you thought of a great idea and when you gave it to a friend or a family member he or she stifled it? Probably every single time. But the real question is why?
Because they don’t see it. They can’t see it. Your imagination is in your mind and the only one who can access your imagination is you. This is the purpose of imagination.
They Can’t See What You See
Your imagination contains notions that no other man comprehends. That is why people refuse to accept your ideas; people were not presented with them. They were given to you. To have a clearer picture, consider what became of one of the most successful imagination believers.
The Story of a Boy Who Stuttered is an autobiographical work by Peter Singer. This man had to endure every type of difficulty. He came from rock bottom. He had a severe stuttering problem as a teenage boy in school. He was unable to speak outside his house and he struggled for years.
One day the following assignment was given to the class:
Write down what you want to be
There were shared responses—all answered the same way: doctor, lawyer, dentist, football player, and basketball player.
But this boy wrote:
“I want to be on TV.”
The instructor was moving around the classroom reading out all the aims. She kept this last, summoned him to the fore, and instead of glorifying him, she demeaned him.
She asked:
Why have you written this on your paper?
• Who here ever was on TV in this school?
• Who on TV has ever been a person in your family?
• Who has ever been on TV in this neighborhood?
• “You can’t even speak. How do you ever think someone like you will ever be on TV?
He remained there stammering, powerless to reply. However, he responded to her many years later.
The Imagination Revolting That Would Not Die
He never gave up on his dream and after dropping out of school, being homeless, losing it twice, working at a coffee shop, and sleeping on the streets, he never gave up.
He did not question his fantasy.
He grasped onto that scrap of paper that contained what he had written as a child and thought that his imagination would come true.
And what happened?
Each Christmas he would appear on the flat-screen television of that teacher. She could not even turn on her television without watching the boy she used to mock shining on national television.
He presented her with what God had done to him. She was not able to see his vision as God had put it in his imagination but not in hers. That man was Steve Harvey.
The Non-Negotiable Lesson
What you believe in is what your life is like. The image in your mind turns into your truth. And your imagination is not a fiction—but it is your future self that lives another life. It is a limitless white paper on which you paint whatever you want to achieve, dream, and destiny and then, one day, bring it to life by printing it.
Logic can carry you some places. There is no place beyond imagination. Even reality is already formed imagination. Your life is created by your own imagination. Take five minutes daily and envision the desired life.
Feel it.
See it.
Live it in your mind
Your mind will begin to drag you into that life in bits, even without you knowing the fact, because your mind is concentrated on nothing but that.
Lose yourself in your vision:
• What do you want to have?
• Who do you want to become?
• Where do you want to be?
• How do you want to live?
• With whom do you wish to share your life?
Suppose it were like a child, pure, free, with no doubt and no questioning. And when they hear what you are thinking and criticize you, keep in mind: They can’t see what you see. It is in your minds and not theirs. Protect your imagination. Hold on to your vision. God does not present you with ideas in order to desert you. Go home. Sit quietly. Pray God open your mind and show the way. Then follow that vision with all your heart. Good things will start occurring Imagination is the foreshadowing of your future.
Albert Einstein said:
“Imagination is everything. It is a preview of the future attractions of life.
Imagine your desire. You will be forced to take actions that you have never anticipated. You will be a winner of wins you used to dream about. You will let go of who you are—to be what you are supposed to be.
Conclusion
The place of your dreams is not only your fantasy, but it is also the pattern of your destiny. Do not allow anybody to ruin what was placed in your vision alone to see. Protect it. Believe in it. And see how your life is elevated to the image you see in your mind.