The Real Reason Why You're Having A Hard Time Using the Law of Attraction
The Trouble with Not Creatively Using Your Imagination
When we are born, we are of pure heart, spirit, mind, and body. Untouched by the unfavorable situations, and circumstances, that bind us. As young children we are free, to tap into the vast, active, expanse of our imagination to fully use it as intended.
The imagination permits us to be unconstrained, and free to be whatever, and wherever, we desire to be. Beyond anything we can physically see, touch, feel, or experience with our senses, it liberates us to have free reign to escape into the unknown depths of where our imagination can lead us. At a fairly young age cultural conditioning, often restricts our creative use of the imagination, making it little more difficult for us to use it as adults, to access the law of attraction to bring our intentions into manifestation.
Whether you assume the role of an astronaut in a high-tech space ship, soaring high above the earth peering down from a far off galaxy, or you shift assuming the role of a world-renowned executive chief, cooking in a 5-Star Michelin restaurant, which is in actuality is your miniature kitchen set. With the creative use of your imagination, you can literally have it all.
Creative Use of the Imagination
Beyond just mere play, tapping into, and perfecting our use of this facility, prepares us to access the law of attraction. Unfortunately the creative use of the imagination is often cut far too short by parental figures. If permitted, children would freely use the power of their imaginations for years to come.
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
With each passing year as children advance in age, they are soon deemed too old to engage in childish things, and just like that a large number of children are forced to disconnect from the very practice that empowers us to tap into the law of attraction.
As children we are conditioned to learn the boundaries between exploring the world through play, and the limitations that have framed what it possible. For many of us, this marks the start of the process of growing up. Of which releasing childhood practices, habits, and behaviors, are a cardinal first step. This process is more commonly referred to as being “realistic”, by releasing the habit of living in fantasy, and stepping into the so called “real world.”
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination gives insight into our Passion
Have you ever dreamed so big imaging a career or life’s work that is so far outside others capacity, such that no one around you could even come close to believing it. A great number of children and teens who dare to dream big, often have them redirected when they describe their future career goals.
Parental figures often dismiss their children’s aspirations in an effort to “protect them from themselves.” Although well intended, they are likely to offer alternative career paths that are more safe, realistic, and attainable from their parental figures perspective. In their minds eye, they are using their knowledge of past hurt, pain, disappointment, and rejection, as a reference to help them avoid the same fate. Regardless of whether their the experience were personal, or gleaned from an outside source, the intent is all the same.
The insights that you receive through the creative use of the imagination, is individualized to your specific nature, as a download directly from the Divine. Therefore, it is not for everyone to understand what is meant for you. Herein lies the problem. The the more you use your imagination, the more you can begin to see common themes emerge, giving insight into your passion and purpose. For some their calling may become evident at a very early age, whereas it may take a longer for others.
You may remember someone from childhood whose calling was completely evident at a very early age. Perhaps they were enamored with cooking at a young age, or maybe they were obsessed with photography and was never not taking pictures; or maybe they loved to draw and would not go anywhere without their sketchpad in hand.
Now just image that same person was told that they had to abandon that passion to pursue a more lucrative field, or perhaps they were told that they could continue to pursue their creative pursuits as a hobby. Sadly dreams often dissolve in the sea of others beliefs. Just take a moment to image what that could do to them. For some this is enough to completely crush their hopes and dreams, as they abandon their true passion to adopt a more widely acceptable vision to better align with others expectations.
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
or fester like a sore --
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over- - like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load
Or does it explode?”
-Langston Huges
A Dream Differed
From a very early age, I was instinctively drawn to the creative arts, specifically drawing. I practically drew everything I saw that was animated. I loved it. Hours would pass by as I would get caught up in the shapes, symmetry and lines of a figure. Sometimes the details were so intricate the they weren’t easily seen with naked eye.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up, the very thing that made me feel alive, art. No matter how challenging it may have been, I was all the more inspired to master its complexities, to create a piece that reflected the image that I held in my minds eye. This shaped my vision to become a cartoonist at Disney with a prominent role in contributing to cartoon series and animated films.
I was so excited at the very promise of a career would not necessarily feel like work. So much so, that I proceeded to tell every family member, friend, and practically anyone that was willing to listen. Until one day I came across the one relative that proceeded to tell me the “real truth,” about my career aspirations. Although I knew that it came from a loving place, I regretfully came to the realization that unless I wanted to be a starving artist, I had to shift to identify a more lucrative career path. Like many others, abandoning my passion led me to disconnect from the power of my imagination.
Using Imagination to Access the The Law of Attraction
Children have the unique opportunity to perfect the use of their imagination by envisioning themselves doing all matter of things. Outside of being just for mere play, it may not always be rationale for adults to see that it’s practice for attracting any number of things into your experience. The more you creatively use your imagination the more its able bring your vision into the physical realm. This faculty is essential when it comes to manifestation.
When it comes to potential career paths, children are often censured in their use of dreaming into the outer realms of what is possible. Having been on both sides of the fence, I can see both sides, as a child you want to be free, and unrestricted to be whatever is being drawn to you without being boxed-in by limitations. Whereas as an adult you want to do whatever you can to protect your children from potential hurts and pain. Its a thin line to maintain a supportive balance. Much like a lot of things if you don’t creatively use your imagination, use you lose it.
Creative Use of the Imagination: Use or lose It
Mindfulness calls for us to access and use the power of our imagination to envision ourselves living, and experiencing, the very thing we are seeking to bring into our experience. Seeing is believing. Earlier on in my practice, I would attempt to use my imagination to envision a life that was outside of my current experience. In doing so, I was met with a lot of resistance in the form of disbelief.
Practically every time I attempted to restart the practice, I was met with the same if not more feelings of intensity. The more I probed it, the more I realized that I had lost my ability to see beyond the limitations that I had placed upon my life. By disconnecting myself from creatively using my imagination so long ago, I now had to unlearn, reshape, adjust, seeing through the lenses of my experience. Tapping into and creatively using our imagination holds the key to bringing our desires into fruition.
If you find yourself having to unlearn the habitat thought patterns that have limited your creative use of your imagination, Id love to hear from you. Comment below.