Stretch Your Imagination And Change Your Life
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Saleem Rana
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Published on 09/26/2009
Imagination can raise you to the heights of creative expression or plunge you to the depths of despair. It all depends on how you use it.
When you stretch your imagination, you give the future shape and direction.
Great imagination can restore the past. It can also review a future that does not yet exist.
A whole industry, the entertainment industry, has grown around visually representing futures.
Unfortunately, imagination is also misused. When a small misfortune appears, our minds have a tendency to imagine things to be worse.
If, for example, a bill shows up in your mailbox and you don't have enough money to pay it, your strange imagination instantly configures the direst consequence. Before you know it, your imagination has you standing on the street corner with a cup in your hand begging for quarters.
The imagination gone astray is worry; the imagination gone wild is neurosis; and the imagination gone berserk is psychosis.
Yet, by the same token, futuristic imagination can be used to build fantastic futures, and the reason why our century looks very different than a millennium before is because we have imagined and invented new experiences for ourselves.
When you stretch your imagination, you can do incredible, even impossible, things. You can imagine yourself on the moon in seconds. Now, here's the rub. Some of these incredible, even impossible, things can come true.
President John Kennedy imagined that a time would come when a man could walk on the moon. When he declared this image as a goal, a technology had to be invented to make it possible.
He did not extrapolate on what already existed. He made a leap to a new dimension of possibility.
As an individual, you can, in a similar way, stretch your imagination to create what you do not have enough of right now. You can imagine much more money, spending more quality time with the love of your life, or achieving some pinnacle of success.
The imagination, then, is a double-edged sword.
You can use it to take some uncomfortable personal incident or something terrible you saw on the TV news channel, and blow it up to an extent that frightens you.
Politicians use imagination to incite people to go to war; and insurance agencies make billions of dollars from inventing people to think of disasters.
On the other hand, you can take full control of your imagination and create something wonderful. You can start rehearsing your dreams. You can start reliving your most joyful moments.
The proper use of imagination makes you more conscious, more aware, and more attuned to how a single thought, inspired by a book, a movie, or a real event can change your life.
An aware person will not allow a negative idea to go too far and will allow a positive idea to go much farther.
Using your imagination can raise you to the zenith of hope or plunge you to the nadir of despair. It all depends on what you want in life. A great wonderful, prosperous, happy, fulfilling life is only a thought away. You are not a creature of circumstance, but the creator of your reality. And the way you do it is to stretch your imagination.
Great imagination can restore the past. It can also review a future that does not yet exist.
A whole industry, the entertainment industry, has grown around visually representing futures.
Unfortunately, imagination is also misused. When a small misfortune appears, our minds have a tendency to imagine things to be worse.
If, for example, a bill shows up in your mailbox and you don't have enough money to pay it, your strange imagination instantly configures the direst consequence. Before you know it, your imagination has you standing on the street corner with a cup in your hand begging for quarters.
The imagination gone astray is worry; the imagination gone wild is neurosis; and the imagination gone berserk is psychosis.
Yet, by the same token, futuristic imagination can be used to build fantastic futures, and the reason why our century looks very different than a millennium before is because we have imagined and invented new experiences for ourselves.
When you stretch your imagination, you can do incredible, even impossible, things. You can imagine yourself on the moon in seconds. Now, here's the rub. Some of these incredible, even impossible, things can come true.
President John Kennedy imagined that a time would come when a man could walk on the moon. When he declared this image as a goal, a technology had to be invented to make it possible.
He did not extrapolate on what already existed. He made a leap to a new dimension of possibility.
As an individual, you can, in a similar way, stretch your imagination to create what you do not have enough of right now. You can imagine much more money, spending more quality time with the love of your life, or achieving some pinnacle of success.
The imagination, then, is a double-edged sword.
You can use it to take some uncomfortable personal incident or something terrible you saw on the TV news channel, and blow it up to an extent that frightens you.
Politicians use imagination to incite people to go to war; and insurance agencies make billions of dollars from inventing people to think of disasters.
On the other hand, you can take full control of your imagination and create something wonderful. You can start rehearsing your dreams. You can start reliving your most joyful moments.
The proper use of imagination makes you more conscious, more aware, and more attuned to how a single thought, inspired by a book, a movie, or a real event can change your life.
An aware person will not allow a negative idea to go too far and will allow a positive idea to go much farther.
Using your imagination can raise you to the zenith of hope or plunge you to the nadir of despair. It all depends on what you want in life. A great wonderful, prosperous, happy, fulfilling life is only a thought away. You are not a creature of circumstance, but the creator of your reality. And the way you do it is to stretch your imagination.