Episode 107 Transcript
Intrinsic Wisdom of Imagination
Hello friends and listeners! Thank you for joining me! I am so happy to have you here for this series on Metaphysical Humanism. In the last episode I finished up discussing the 5 Metaphysical Humanist Principles of Self -Mastery. These were the principles of self-awareness, self-responsibility, self-control, and Self-love (self with a capital S). The mastery of those four principles leads you to the 5th principle of self-actualization and the state of peace, harmony, and balance known as equanimity.
To be honest, these five principles take a lot of effort and focus and determination to master. You have to change old habits and rewrite limiting paradigms and set your ego aside. This is not easy to do without the support of a spiritual leader or a mentor or coach.
Over the next 6 episodes I want to offer you some additional insight into tools that you already own that can help you make these changes to grow in your life. They are actually metaphysical superpowers that are unique to humans – at least we think they are unique to humans. See, they are mental abilities – ways we think and use our minds – skills that we are born with, and which develop as we grow up.
I first learned of these mental abilities through hearing Bob Proctor speak and I studied his program and others like Mary Morrissey, and these tools have been invaluable resources on my journey. Unfortunately, we don’t learn about them growing up – so they develop in us on autopilot without intention.
Of course, we do learn that we have 5 physical senses – hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, smelling. These senses make up an autonomous system that tells us a lot about the world around us at any given moment- temperature, nighttime, fire burning, baby crying. But most people don’t realize that we also have special metaphysical gifts that are available to instruct us too – these are our intrinsic wisdoms.
By properly tuning your awareness to these superpowers you can use them to transform your life. These six mental abilities are your Imagination, Intuition, Will, Memory, Reason and Perception. By increasing your understanding and honing your use of these skills, you will have access to a deeper wisdom that you may have never known. In the end, you will discover that you have in your possession everything for your journey of self-mastery and self-actualization.
So, let’s get to it! Your first superpower is your Imagination!
Your Imagination is undoubtedly the most effective superpower you possess for building your dream life. Without it nothing is possible; with it, anything is possible. You’ve used your imagination everyday since you were a child, only the way you use it has changed. That’s because no one ever told you how your imagination contains the intrinsic wisdom to transform your life. This wisdom, when developed, gives you a tremendous creative superpower.
That’s what I would love to share with you today – how to access your imagination in the most powerful way possible.
Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” He’s saying knowledge is finite, while imagination is infinite.
Did you realize that everything is created twice? Look around you. Everything you see was created twice. First as a thought in the imagination of a creator’s mind, then as a physical item produced for you to acquire, to use, and to enjoy.
It is imagination that helped our most ancient ancestors attach a rock to a stick to make a spear for hunting, and later to create a bow and arrow, and then a rifle. It is imagination that created the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, and today’s skyscrapers. Cars, planes, computers, telephones – first they were a thought in the mind of artists, engineers, architects, scientists, and inventors.
Children have an amazing capacity for using their imaginations. They create new worlds, new creatures, fantastical stories, and run off on thrilling adventures. Think back to your own childhood and the places you went and the worlds you explored. Do you remember how real it felt?
As a child, I spent a couple weeks each summer with my grandparents and their neighbor had a daughter my age. We turned my grandmother’s front porch into a ship and sailed away on it for at least 3 summers. We faced pirates and storms and were lost at sea. Sometimes we were investigators and spied on other houses on our street and passed notes in secret code. It was thrilling and we were caught up in it like it was real life. And our minds believed it was real – at least for a while. Do children play like that anymore or is it all done on video games now? What a shame if not.
But also, our imagination allowed us to believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy – again, for a while our minds believed they were real.
Our childhood imaginations led us to create stories and art and movement; to bring to life what was playing out in our minds. We imagined life as we wanted it and lived it out in our play.
And then, suddenly, we stopped imagining like that anymore.
If you are my age and remember playing like that, then you are also at the age to know what happens to your body when you stop exercising – you get out of shape. And that’s what happens to your poorly used imagination. It stops working as well. And as we grew up and we started to have problems – with friendships or grades and then its money and jobs and bills … our imaginations stopped working like they used to. We stopped imagining the life we wanted and instead we used our superpower to have thoughts about our problems and imagine the worst outcomes of stressful situations.
As adults we spend time worrying and thinking about what we don’t want. And remember – how is something created? First as a thought and then in the physical world. Sooo if we are imagining our problems and worrying about our problems getting worse or thinking of unhappy outcomes we don’t want – those are the exact results we are creating. Energy flows where attention goes.
I have anxiety. And there are times when that has come in handy because I think at least 10 steps ahead. My imagination is on fire sometimes as I run through all the potential outcomes that could occur… like Dr. Strange in the Marvel Movie Infinity War. When complications arise, I often already have a solution for it. So that is kind of a nice bonus.
But then there is the not fun side because I worry – a lot. I worry about my adult children if I don’t hear them. I worry about my husband if he is late. If I am in an anxiety panic, which almost never happens anymore but used to happen a lot before I started to work on myself, my mind takes me to the worst-case scenario – which leads me to overreact and make situations way worse than they need to be. Luckily, Metaphysical Humanism Principle I is Self-awareness, and I am aware of this about myself, and my family knows this about me too and my closest friends and they get that my imagination is twisted up with anxiety and they help me through it. But in those moments my mind is imagining the worst, and I am feeling terror.
Imagination has the power to create strong feelings us – from fear of something bad happening– to being suspicious of a partner cheating to feeling self-conscious when entering a room because you think everyone was talking about you. Or we focus on our problems and what we are missing and feel lack in our lives– well, we know lack energy will never lead to abundance, right? That’s Law of Attraction.
This is how we use our imagination as adults – or rather misuse it.
But what if we didn’t?
What if we went back to using our imagination like we did when we were children and thought about what we want, where we want to be, the life we want to be living, the adventures we want to go on?
This is your creative imagination and it’s at work all the time. The creative Imagination is your ability to receive new thoughts, ideas and insights from the infinite intelligence—thoughts, ideas, and insights that have never been perceived before maybe by anyone – definitely not you. This helps you solve problems, or to come up with a brilliant new business idea, to create or invent something, or it helps you get over your writer’s block, or see the next step you need to take towards your dreams.
Thomas Edison said, “The imagination is the great workshop of the mind, our ability to imagine beyond what our conditions and circumstances project into our awareness.”
What he is saying is that imagination makes anything possible. He would certainly know.The ideas for theinventions he helped create would have been viewed as unbelievable and not possible for most people before they were created. If his imagination hadn’t taken him beyond those boundaries of rationality and possibility, would we have light bulbs or movies or the record player?
To use the superpower of imagination for your best and highest good, you will need to train you mind to think of the solution instead of focusing on the problem – to imagine what it is you would love instead of what you don’t want – whether it’s in creating a vision for your life or navigating through a stressful situation or circumstances in life – ask yourself what would I love to have happen here. Imagine it. Imagine the result you would love. Imagine yourself achieving that result. Just like when you were a child and imagined you were fighting pirates on your ship – your imagination included you winning and making those pirates walk the plank. What do you want? What result would you love? What is your dream? What does that dream life look like – feel like – sound like? You can live that life today in your imagination – and remember, your mind doesn’t know the difference! So, you will feel what that life feels like and in doing so you activate the Law of Attraction to work in your favor.
If you have a current stressful situation in your life or you are trying to create a life you love – take a few moments and, in as much vivid detail as possible, and in the present tense as if you are living it now, imagine the outcome or life you would love to achieve. What would you love to have happen when your problem is resolved – think big! Not just what you think is rational or possible – but what you would love to have happen.
Think about what you want your life to look like when you achieve your dreams. Where are you? What are you doing? Who is with you? How are you spending your time? What do your relationships look like? How are your finances? Do you work? Do you travel? Do you own your dream house or are you living in and RV traveling the country – perhaps you are sailing the seas on your yacht?
Take some time to use your imagination like you did when you were a kid – dream big! Nothing is off limits! Go beyond what you think is rational or what you think you can achieve – don’t put any boundaries or restrictions on what you want.
But be aware – you’ll be pulled back into disempowering use of your imagination. Fear happens. Self-doubt happens. Being reasonable and rational happens – and these can be dream stealers. Thoughts of I’m not good enough, or if I do this people will laugh at me, or I don’t have the money for this, or I’m too old. Think of this as an opportunity to work on clearing out those pesky paradigms – those old beliefs and thoughts that have kept you stuck up until now. Interrupt those thoughts and shift to imagining the outcome you want. Go back to your dream. Go back to your self-awareness – of who you are and who you want to become.
You can create anything you imagine! Everything you will ever be, do, or have – the good and the bad – is born in your imagination. This creative wisdom was in you the moment you were born. Its yours! No one can take it from you, and you can use this superpower as you like. Why not choose to use it to create what you would love?
This is the most powerful use of your imagination.
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