This week’s question from our portal “Ask Us Anything” comes from Chris:
You mentioned that we should spend time every day visualizing and feeling as if we already have what we want. But when I do that, I feel good in the moment, and then I go back to my regular life and reality hits and I feel terrible again. How do I maintain that feeling throughout the day when reality keeps contradicting it?
You’re letting your current reality determine your emotional state. That’s backwards.
Your emotional state should be determined by the reality you’re creating, not the reality you’re leaving.
Here’s what’s happening: you do your visualization, you feel great, and then you open your eyes and you look at your current circumstances and you go “Oh yeah, that’s not real yet” and you crash.
Stop doing that. Stop using your current circumstances as the measure of truth.
Your current circumstances are yesterday’s results. They’re based on yesterday’s consciousness. They have nothing to do with what you’re creating today.
So when you finish your visualization and you open your eyes and you see your current reality, you have to consciously choose not to give it power over your emotional state.
You acknowledge it—yes, this is where I am right now. But you don’t let it determine how you feel.
You maintain the feeling of the vision. You carry that feeling with you throughout the day.
And yes, it’s going to feel weird at first. Yes, it’s going to feel like you’re living in two realities at once. You are. You’re living in the reality that’s ending and the reality that’s beginning.
But the more you maintain the feeling of the new reality, the faster the old reality shifts to match it.
Here’s a practical thing you can do: throughout the day, anytime you notice yourself dropping into the old feeling state, stop and reconnect to the vision.
Close your eyes for 30 seconds. Remember who you’re becoming. Feel it again. And then open your eyes and continue your day from that place.
You’re training yourself to maintain a feeling state that’s independent of current circumstances. That’s what creates the shift.
But you have to practice it. You can’t just do it once in the morning and expect it to last all day. You have to reinforce it throughout the day.
That’s the practice. That’s what changes everything.
