By using your imagination you have expanded your brain capacity in terms of how your brain stores information. You have used the left and the right hemisphere of your brain together. One hemisphere is the more logical side the other half is the more artistic side. When both hemispheres work together the brain is able to store the information in its long-term memory. From there it is accessible at any time, even after many years have passed. If you only use one side of your brain the information takes a longer time to get to your long-term memory – usually only effectively by repeating the task. Most of the time the information gets stored only in short-term memory and is no longer available after a day or so.
There are basically only three methods to store information in your long-term memory:
1. Repetition
2. Intensity
3. Using both sides of the brain simultaneously
What Does Imagination have To Do With Manifesting?
If you can imagine it, it will not be difficult to create it. Let's assume you want $20,000 in your bank account by the end of this month. Start using your imagination:
* Visualize your bank statement reading your balance is $20,000
* Visualize making a withdrawal and you are holding $20,000 in your hand
* Visualize how you feel
* Visualize bringing the money home and spreading it all over your table
* Visualize what you can buy with this money
By doing this process you are already training your mind for the event of claiming $20,000. Your mind will start bringing up other pictures and stories when you do this exercise.
For example the following can happen:
* A thought comes up – Ah, how bogus this is!
* A thought comes up – I don't believe this will ever happen!
* A thought comes up – Why not go for $50,000 or $100,000?
* A feeling arises – you feel excited
* A feeling arises – you feel unmotivated
* A pictures arises – you only see $850 in your bank account
* A picture arises – you cannot see a number on your bank statement
These are all uncertainties of the mind that will vanish when you do the exercise several times. Do it often, until you see exactly what you desire as actually happening. Do it until there is no other thought, feeling or picture coming up that is not aligned with your goal.
How to Fire Walk over Chalk
I once participated in a fire walk ritual as part of a weekend self exploration course. The goal for the evening was to walk over a 30-foot long, 190-degree, hot pathway of chalk. I had only to put my hand over the chalk to immediately know “absolutely” that walking on this infernal path would be impossible without instantly and painfully burning my feet.
To prepare for this experience we were told to visualize the walk over the fire and use our imagination to eliminate any obstacles our minds could come up with. Somehow, I ended up visualizing a lava field that I was walking through. It took me four of five virtual walk- throughs until my mind no longer clung to the idea that my feet were burning.
It took me another two or three mental walk-throughs until I felt totally comfortable. In the last visualization I even ended up waking over the fire twice as I could not believe it the first time or two. Guess what happened on that evening? After watching about seven or eight ot