The Power (12 page)

Imagination

“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
TRANSCENDENTALIST AUTHOR

When you imagine anything positive that you want and love, you are harnessing the force of love. When you imagine something positive, something good, and you feel love for it, that is what you are giving – and that is what you will receive. If you can imagine it and feel it, then you can receive it. But what you’re imagining must come from love!

Whatever you’re imagining must not harm another person. Imagining something that brings harm to another person comes not from love but from a lack of love. And with certainty any negativity, even imagined, will turn back with an equal ferocity on the person who sent it! Whatever you give,
you
receive back.

But I want to tell you something fantastic about the force of love and your imagination. The highest and best thing you think is possible is nothing compared to what the force of love can give to you. Love has no limits! If you want to be full of vitality and happiness, with an incredible zest for life, the force of love can give you health and happiness at levels far beyond what you have seen. I am telling you this so that you can start to break the boundaries of your imagination and stop putting limits on your life. Push your imagination to the limits, and imagine the best and highest that you possibly can of whatever it is that you want.

The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing – love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they
feel
the love of what they’re imagining more than other people! People who are struggling are unintentionally using their imagination for what they don’t love and don’t want, and are
feeling
the negativity of what they’re imagining. It’s such a simple thing, but it creates vast differences in people’s lives, and you can see the difference everywhere you look.

“The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.”

Christian D. Larson
(1874-1962)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

History has proven that those who dare to imagine the impossible are the ones who break all human limitations. In every field of human endeavor, whether science, medicine, sports, the arts, or technology, the names of the people who imagined the impossible are engraved in our history. By breaking the limits of their imagination, they changed the world.

Your entire life is what you have imagined it to be. Everything you have or don’t have, every situation and circumstance of your life is what you have imagined it to be. The problem is that many people imagine the worst! They’re turning the most wonderful tool against themselves. Instead of imagining the best, many people are in fear and imagine all the things that can go wrong. And as surely as they keep imagining and feeling those things, they happen. Whatever you give, you receive. Feel and imagine the best and the highest you can in every area of your life, because the best you can imagine is a “piece of cake” for the force of love!

When my family had settled in the United States, we flew our fifteen-year-old dog, Cabbie, to be with us. One night, not long after Cabbie had arrived, he managed to get out of a small gap in the fence. Our home backs onto mountains, so it was far from an ideal situation. In the dark we searched the streets and the trails leading up to the mountains, but our dog was nowhere to be found.

As my daughter and I were searching, negative feelings of anguish began to increase. I knew we had to stop searching and change the way we were feeling inside immediately. The negative feelings were telling us that we were imagining the worst, and we had to change the way we were feeling quickly and imagine the best. At that point, every possible outcome could still happen, and we had to choose the outcome of having Cabbie safely home with us, by imagining and feeling that he was home.

We returned home and we pretended our dog was with us. We put food in his bowl as though he were there. We imagined hearing the bell around Cabbie’s neck as he walked down our hallway. We talked to him and called out his name, as though he were there. My daughter went to bed imagining that her best friend of fifteen years was sleeping next to her bed as he always did.

Early the next morning, we discovered a notice on a tree at the foot of the mountains saying that someone had found a little dog. It was Cabbie. Just as we had imagined, our dog returned home safely to us.

No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!

Whatever You Can Imagine Exists

“Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.”

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
(9th century)
ANCIENT HINDU TEXT

Whatever desire you can imagine – already exists! It doesn’t matter what it is, if you can imagine it, it already exists in creation.

Five thousand years ago, ancient scriptures recorded that all of creation was done and complete, and that anything that could possibly be created already exists. Now, five thousand years later, quantum physics has confirmed that every single possibility of anything and everything actually exists
now.

“The creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was complete.”

Genesis
2:1

What that means for you and your life is that whatever you can imagine for yourself in your life already exists. It’s impossible for you to imagine anything that doesn’t exist. Creation is complete. Every single possibility exists. So when you imagine breaking a world record or traveling to the Far East or being full of health or being a parent, those possibilities of you doing those things exist in creation right now! If they didn’t exist already, you would not be able to imagine them! To bring the things you desire and love from the invisible into your visible life, all you have to do is give love for what you want through your imagination and feelings.