Learn how to use future visualization to bring about positive results in your life.
Future self visualization can help you:
- Prepare yourself for a successful date or job interview
- Activate a positive state of being to feel good throughout your day
- Program your mind for a desired potential future you want to experience
- Calm your nerves of any unwanted resistance of an upcoming event or project
And much more.
After you’ve read this post, you’ll know how to perform a future visualization effectively and with ease.
Keep reading.
What is future visualization?
Future visualization is a very effective technique used by individuals looking for success in life and business.
It is based on the premise that you can use the power of your imagination to affect the outcome of events and circumstances in your life.
The technique involves visualizing a future scenario that you wish to experience. You use your senses to stimulate vivid pictures in your mind, which can even elicit strong emotions, as if the experience is already happening.
When done regularly, it helps reprogram your mind and change your perception of yourself, enough for an identity shift.
Many people who understand how the mind works use it as a manifestation technique.
That’s because the subconscious mind cannot tell what is actually happening for real and what is being imagined.
“I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.”
Jim Carrey
How to visualize your future self successfully?
- Define what you want your future to look like
- Think of a new version of you and use the identity shift method
- Adopt a manifestation mindset
- Active your intuition by being more present an into your body
- Tap into your emotions
- Take action
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7 Ways to Use Future Visualization
Here are 7 different ways to aid your visualizations and turn them into a practice for life. When you do, you’ll notice more things showing up that you imagine regularly.
1. Self hypnosis
Self hypnosis is a very safe and effective technique for visualizing a future you want to manifest.
It works by relaxing your body and listening to a pre-recorded hypnosis audio or guided meditation, that slowly takes you into a deep hypnotic state.
The spoken words then prompt you to visualize your future self as the person you would like to be, living the life that you want to experience.
There are many hypnosis tracks available for free on YouTube, but I have found more benefits in ones I have purchased.
Here are just a few of my favorites:
- Joe Dispenza – Turning into New Potentials
- Dick Sutphen – Self-Creation Guided Meditation
- Hypnosis Downloads – Create You Own Future Hypnosis
2. Meditation
Meditation has been used for thousands of years to disconnect from the mind and current circumstances to influence a deep sense of peace.
Many people struggle, suggesting that they cannot stop the thoughts that arise and so abandon the practice.
However, the very act of witnessing thoughts that arise is what meditation is all about.
It can also help aid in your pursuit of a better future, because it helps you accept everything that appears within your consciousness.
This is an important step in realizing your future visualization, because without acceptance of what is, change is impossible.
3. Breathwork
Breathwork is an extremely powerful tool for releasing manifestation blocks and developing a vision for the future.
It is also used to calm down the nervous system, which can ease stress and anxiety.
I can honestly say that breathwork completely changed my life when I started practicing in 2019.
After experiencing depression for many years, turning my attention to my breath enabled me to turn my life around.
It also led me to discover my passion for writing and personal growth, which got me on the path of blogging and freelance writing – a future I had always dreamed of.
Some people say that breathwork can help you connect with your higher self, which is possibly the most effective way to make future visualization work for you.
4. Binaural Beats
Binaural beats are often used to induce a state of relaxation or sleep.
They can also induce other states of mind, including those of focus, meditation, and creativity.
The technique involves the use of two tones, one played in each ear. The brain then creates a third tone, which is the difference between the two.
I have experienced positive effects with binaural beats, enabling an extremely relaxing state where all the muscles in my body are completely relaxed.
When this happens, you’re able to get really present and in tune with the sensations of your body, which can help develop a clear vision for the future.
5. Act As If
The Act As If technique is where you behave as if you were already the person who had the life you want.
To be consistent with this, you define things about your future self, such as beliefs and values, and shifting your identity.
This identity shift makes it easier for you to “act as if”, and performing the behaviors consistently rewires your brain to take on the beliefs and identity of who you need to be to create this future lifestyle.
Try it.
Read my detailed posts on the Act As If technique to learn more.
6. Use a Mind Movie
Imagine walking around every day with the ability to see a movie of your future life. A life where you have a tonne of confidence and certainty it will come true.
Some people find it difficult to visualize their dream life.
This is where Mind Movies can help.
It’s like a vision board, but in movie format. And they’re super easy to create.
No matter whether you desire success in business, to find your soul mate, or a fitter body.
If you can imagine it, you can turn in into a Mind Movie, complete with affirmations, inspiring images, and uplifting music.
When you need to remind yourself of the life you want to manifest, you can turn to your Mind Movie.
7. Create a Vision Board
This is the classic law of attraction technique that states you attract into your life what you focus your attention on.
And vision boards help prime your mind on a subconscious level to help you manifest your future visualizations.
Creating a vision board is simple. All you need is a framed cork board you pin images on.
Browse images on the internet that resemble all the things you want your future to look like and attach them to your vision board.
Then, place your vision board somewhere you’ll see it every day.
For best results, spend time each day looking at the things on your board and imagine they already exist in your present reality.
Eventually, your subconscious programming will believe these things already belong to you.
Your Reticular Activating System (RAS) will start searching your environment for evidence they exist, which brings about opportunities and synchronicities to confirm what your mind believes on a subconscious level.
Conclusion
You should now have a clear understanding of the future visualization technique, what it is, and how to use it to create the life you want.
In the post, I shared 7 ways you can develop visualization and turn it into a practice.
