"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." -Albert Einstein 

Hello! 

I've been conducting research for another book I'm writing and have come across some very interesting topics and techniques on using our brains. I wanted to share with others and thought an experiment was just the ticket to do that! 

This will officially be week 1. I've been doing this for the past 2 weeks and wow...it really really works! Using our imagination is free (best of all), personal (no one else needs to know anything about it) and it can be ultra vivid and powerful. I'll break down the steps I've used so you can try them out as well. A brief introduction video is above. I'll link another at the bottom, with guided steps for you to practice. Let's see what this experiment yields! 

The first step is to Identify a scenario you want to happen. Pick something small to begin with. For example, you want your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse to bring you food or act nicer towards you. Or, you get a parking spot in the front, you get a text from a friend, you are more confident or less angry. It can be virtually anything.

The second step is to visualize the scenario happening, as if you are IN the particular scene. Don't just view it as a movie, and you're seeing yourself on a screen. Feel yourself in the desired scenario. Be as vivid as you can. Feel the textures and the emotions in that scenario that you'd feel while real. Imagine it a few times a day. I've been trying when I wake, then once mid day then again at night. 

The third step is to say it to yourself as if it's REAL. 'I AM less angry', 'I AM getting dinner this week'. This step is crucial. Imagining a scenario you want will only work if you believe it is true. It will feel weird at first, it did to me. But it got natural the more I did it. This is the step that brings it to fruition from what I've researched. 

The fourth step is to keep doing steps 1-3. Don't doubt, just imagine, affirm it's real and repeat. Pretty simple! 

https://youtu.be/sPVLUHE2bcY

Next weekend/week come back here and let me know by commenting how it went! I'll share my results as well. 

Happy imagining!! ❤️❤️🥼🧪🔬🧠😶‍🌫️

Welcome back! Results one week later contained below. Don't keep reading if you have just started the experiment. 

 I hope you found the imagination experiment to be fun and enlightening! 

Before I tell you my results, I did want to share a story. Looking back, I found that I had unconsciously done this before in my past in various different situations. I wanted something very badly (a job, a promotion, an opportunity) and thought of having it/obtaining it so intensely that it did come true for me. The 'how' or means that it came into fruition was not at all what I'd imagined but in the end, I did receive the promotions, I did receive the assignment I wanted and the opportunity I wanted. It does work! 

Now, on to my scenarios. I picked two. The first one: I wanted my anxiety to diminish. For me, this would be huge. I live with crippling anxiety attacks that happen in situations that seem impossible to have anxiety. So, for the first few days prior to writing this book, I pictured myself without it. Able to do things in a manner I wanted. I focused hard and imagined often. 

The verdict? It worked. 

I still have anxiety. It's not gone, but for the specific few places I had it manifesting, that I pictured in those scenarios as being gone, it is. Still is! I have no doubts I was able to change this for myself. 

The second scenario: a person close to me stops reacting a certain way. This one was harder, as I was trying to alter someone else's reactions. I've always said "you can only change your reactions to others, not change how others act". I tried my best in picturing the person reacting nicer, kinder. It was very difficult though because I am so used to their undesirable way of interacting with me. 

The verdict? It sort of worked! 

At the end of a few days of imagining them reacting the way I wanted, I found they did! It wasn't a constant change though. At least not yet. I'm still needing to do work in this area. 

So, how did it go for you? 

We're you able to keep a vivid scenario imagined? 

Did you do it a few times a day?

Did you have any difficulties?

And lastly, what was your verdict?

I plan to continue this experiment daily, and have a habit now of starting my morning with what I want to imagine and ending with the same. It has definitely given me a more positive outlook on life in general and helped me stay calmer, which, even for a skeptic is not a bad thing at all! 

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