Stay Positive

If you believe your subconscious mind is a powerful tool for creating reality out of imagination, you cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought. If you want a positive outcome, then embody optimism.

“Thought can attract to us only that which we first mentally embody,” says Ernest S. Holmes, author of Creative Mind. “We cannot attract to ourselves that which we are not.”

Another important step, which many people ignore, is the move from vision to action. You may practice visualization, but if you aren’t taking action, then it’s like passively watching a movie. You may enjoy the movie, but don’t expect it to continue to play outside the theatre of your head.

Walt Disney was a believer in creative visualization. One day as he sat on a bench at an amusement park, watching his daughters play, he noticed how dirty the park was. He also noticed that the kids’ parents were all anxious to go, even though the kids were having fun. He began to visualize a better amusement park, a clean, safe place that could be enjoyed by children and parents alike. That idea became Disneyland.

Before building the world’s largest theme park, Disney traveled the USA. He visited Thomas Edison’s Workshop, the Wright Brothers’ Bicycle Shop, and the home of dictionary magnate Noah Webster. As he traveled and thought, Disneyland began to take shape in his mind. It then became a reality that has attracted families from around the world. Both kids and parents enjoy it, just as Disney visualized they would. Walt Disney died of throat cancer in 1966, but not before purchasing 28,000 acres of swampland in Florida for what would become his second theme park, Disney World. He never saw Disney World created. But he didn’t have to. He had pictured it in his mind enough times.

Excerpt from 'LifeManual' by Peter H. Thomas. www.lifemanual.com. Copyright 2005, 2006. All rights reserved.

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