The path to your dreams can be thought of as a two-step process:
First feel your feelings. Generate that action inside, even if your feelings aren't as positive as you would like them to be.  They are still your feelings, and instead of denying them or stuffing them underground, feel them.  But this time, put your positive desire with those feelings.
Feel your feelings while you imagine what it is you desire, and do this for two minutes each day.  This is your fuel to launch your future.

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller
Feel good first, then the energy pulls in more good feelings like a magnetic attraction that is irresistible.  This raises your frequency, improves your hormonal balance, and your life all around improves and with enough good positive attention - is transformed.

I wrote myself a check for $10 Million and I gave myself 3 years and I dated it for Thanksgiving, 1995. Just before Thanksgiving, 1995 I found out I was going to make $10 Million on Dumb and Dummer. "  Jim Carey






Your Imagination is Your Preview of Life's Coming Attractions - Albert Einstein


Published in the Healthy Times Feb-March, San Diego edition 2014

 THE POWER OF YOUR IMAGINATION –
Six Simple Steps to Your Dreams 

 The character of Dorothy in Wizard of Oz has only one wish – to  find her way home. She is led to the Yellow Brick Road, the gold standard of  paths that can lead you to your own greatest desires by way of your  imagination.  
 
Your imagination is your creative center.   Self-discovery will replace isolation and loneliness; fulfillment fills  in the gap of uncertainty.  When  you are absorbed by your passions, the benefits like success or financial profit  are the icing on an already satisfying cake.  Known as ‘autotelic,’ your main goal is  the experience you get from doing it.

 Our  unconscious doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what is  imagined. Put yourself in your dream and ‘pretend’ it’s true, and your brain  believes it.  Once you discover the  value of your imagination, you are like the prodigal son returning home.  

You  use your imagination anyway, but you might not be attracting what you want.   Events can happen at lightning  speed, so fast you usually don’t connect them to your thoughts, images, and  emotions   Like a child behind  the wheel of a car, you might worry that it’s too much heavy equipment too soon.  The good news is, when you consciously use your imagination with clarity and  intention, you can create the life of your dreams.  

Here  are six simple steps to finding your own Emerald  City:

 1.     First  direct your thoughts in a positive  direction;
 2.    Then  pay attention to your inner speech which follows your thoughts.    Hermes, the Olympian Greek  god of transitions and boundaries, said:   “To change your life, you must change your inner talking, for ‘life’ is  the union of word and mind.”
 3.     "Emotionalize”  - Your imagination will give you supportive pictures to light your way, evoking  the ‘spice’ of emotion as an anchor.
4.  Say  ‘yes’ to your dreams.  ‘No’ doesn’t  move you forward. You might be afraid of making a mistake but remember on your  Yellow Brick Road you can make a mistake, correct it and change direction.  
5.   Repetition  is key:  Focus – on what you want, not on what you don’t want. 
6.   You  build an aptitude for faith, weaving the vessel in which to hold it. Meditate on  the words and images of good things which cause you to feel good inside. You  increase your ability to hold more faith. 

  Notice  you do this anyway.  You have  certain thoughts that have accompanying images which conjure up a particular  feeling – regret, remorse, anger – and then you repeat this sequence by  ruminating on the negativity over and over.  You feel like a victim, your world is  chaotic and the results are uncertainty and a sporadic roller coaster ride with  a few spicy moments thrown in to keep you hanging on before you smash back down  to challenge and struggle.

Live  as though your wish is already fulfilled by making a Vision Board, Treasure Map,  anything that organizes your mental images in a coherent structure is giving  your brain a clear understanding of what is whispered from your heart.  Einstein said, “Imagination is more
important than knowledge.”  Let  your imagination show you the beyond where anything is possible.  It may be a different path, but there is no wrong way home. 
 

 
Linda  Prejean is a Counselor and Life Coach with a Masters Degree in Counseling
Psychology. She has a private practice in Temecula   and San Diego.  The above is
an excerpt from her upcoming book:  
Your Ten Powers to the Path of  Your Dreams