Vivid Imagination

“Imagination is the soil that brings dreams to life.”

When most people think of imagination, they think of fantasy. Things that are unachievable or only exist in one’s mind.

But when I think of imagination, I think of dreams that haven’t happened yet.

Your imagination is the breeding ground for anything that happens in your life. If you keep your imagination tied down and only let it wander to the limits of reality, your life will reflect that and you will only do things that have been done before.

Something happens as you get older. Nobody explicitly says it, but for some reason you start believing that your imagination should be bound. You believe that there is no doing the unbelievable, the extraordinary, the unimaginable. You restrict your mind from exploring any dreams that aren’t within reach.

WHY DO YOU GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS?

You give up on your dreams, not because you are told to, but because you see people repeatedly give up on their dreams. Adults tend to ditch the innocent dreams they had as a child because they just don’t see them as realistic anymore. They feel like they have lived so long and only gotten the same result so why would that change?

The reason it won’t:

THEY DON’T VIVIDLY BELIEVE.

Weak dreams never get acted upon. The more vivid and clear your imagination is, the more likely it is to become reality.

When I was playing baseball I would practice envisioning. I would play certain songs to put myself in a positive mindset and imagine myself pitching the best game possible. Before every game, this was my routine. Turn on the same three songs, sit with my eyes closed, and imagine a full 9-inning game of pitching. I would see the entire thing happen in first person. I would imagine it so clearly that it felt real.

The realer I was able to make it, the better I would pitch in the game.

But then my pitching fell off, it fell off quick. I was no longer able to throw strikes, I couldn’t hit my spots, and I lost all confidence on the mound. Why?

Because I couldn’t make it real in my mind anymore.

I was fighting an internal battle where my mind was telling me what I imagined couldn’t happen. I no longer believed in what I was imagining, and it was apparent.

These restricting beliefs continued to pull me down. I let the cloud of negativity and doubt seep into my mind and never quite recovered.

It took years of mental training to get myself to believe that what I saw in my mind could in fact happen.

I knew I had to be diligent with what thoughts I put in my head. Many people have talked about the importance of forming the exact image of what success looks like to you. How does it feel? What does it look like? How does it taste? What do you hear? What does it smell like?

Each part of the dream should be thought out. Why?

THE CLEARER THE DREAM, THE MORE LIKELY IT IS TO HAPPEN.

If you can create the exact feeling in your mind of what success is like, you know exactly what you need to do to get that feeling.

It is a familiar feeling if you can create it in your head. You wouldn’t be able to create it if you hadn’t felt it before.

You know what success feels like, now imagine yourself feeling like that all the time.

Don’t ever lose track of what you want.

Make your dreams clearer in your mind and continue to chase them.

You may not know what you want, but you do know what you don’t want.

Vividly imagine the life that you want and continue to develop a clearer image of it each day.

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Thank you for reading!

My goal is to inspire self-improvement in others through my personal stories and experiences.

This is The Exploration.