VISUALISATION AND IMAGINATION- A BREATHER

A Great man has said, spend some time with yourself every day listening to the inner voices and those sublime promptings in the form of writings, speeches, incidents, persons, relationships or experiences, which have made profound impact upon you. Gradually allow the analytical capacity within, to synthesise itself into a meaningful and tangible course of action and living for yourself. Consistency and clarity, which would naturally result, could set the process for the next logical step of living out a truly fulfilling life.

People are often confused between visualisation and imagination. Imagination and visualisation are not the same, they are 2 different things or states of mind. Visualisation is creating your own future. It is about creating that which is possible, not merely thinking about, but also starting to work for it, towards it.

To visualise, you need to have a systematic method, a solid process to follow. What does this mean ? Look at it this way. If you can visualise yourself 10 kms ahead of the path in which you are travelling, it is absolutely certain that you can reach there. This is what many sports persons use these days to achieve the near impossible. They keep visualising step by step what they need to do sitting in a chair, and later they replicate in the field.

On the other hand, if you imagine, you are floating in the sky or flying, its just a dream. Imagining that, which can not happen, just fantasising, is no way going to help you. It is merely dreaming about your future. Just dreaming and fantasising is no way going to make your wishes a reality in future.

Visualisation is reproducing the reality of the future now and here, without self-contradiction. In the last phase of his life, a great Master was asked by doctors to eat only a certain type of rice and grains. His cook was bored out of her wits. She told the Master. " It is boring to cook the same food. Are you not bored by eating the same food ? "

Master replied: " No. I dont eat the same food everyday. How can i eat the same food everyday ? Once i eat, it is over. Every meal i feel, i know, is new meal. What i see in front of me something different each time ".

Visualising creatively, seeing the same thing differently each time can enrich your life. Every moment is a new moment. This is the way a child sees the world around her. She is fascinated by the wonders of nature that we adults take for granted. A child just visualises her experience, whereas an adult verbalises the experience and misses the miracle, that is nature. To make up for this loss, an adult needs to fantasise.

We have many kind of choices in our lives. One of these choices is about how to live. We can choose to live in dreams or in reality. There is only one choice for this. You can decide to live in now and here in reality, or nowhere in dreaming.

In my case, i really dont know whether i am visualising or imagining, something may happen in future. I think, it is certainly more of an imagination of an corrupt free society and country. Big changes rarely happen, however hard, you may try. But accidents do happen, like the latest one, of financial meldown all over the world. I wish, this kind of accident happens in India too, which can change the face of corrupt polity in our country.
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