100% success rate with negative visualization

[cylon]

Throughout your life there's a good chance you have played mental movies in your head of bad things happening. You've practiced it diligently. You've done it so much that it has now become hard-wired into your brain. Your brain has become so good at this that all you have to do is momentarily think of a negative memory, or anticipate a scary scenario, that instantaneously your body reacts in such a way that it is REAL.

Think of that. You could be just sitting down thinking, then you remember or anticipate a negative event, and your body is set to run out the house, down the street, screaming and yelling at the top of your lungs as if a pack of saber tooths are hunting you down. If you can't run, then you're scanning for household items that could be used as weapons to defend you. Your mind perceived the threat, you're ready. Good luck.

Wait, you're still in the chair. Do you hear the saber tooths? No. And as long as you're a good pet owner, your house cat laying flat on its back oblivious to the world around it isn't going to pose much harm either.

Now that's "reality". But your brain obviously was living in a different reality than your immediate environment. And whatever thought you had, was so real, that for a moment, you effectively lived in your visualization, just as if it WERE reality.

Lots of people, myself included, say they struggle with visualization or seeing images in their mind or thinking about a certain state of mind or future for a long period of time. The funny thing is that we are ALREADY experts at doing it, all the time. So good at it that we're not aware we're doing it, it's a habit, it's a skill, it's natural. If there were an Olympics for visualization skill, we would all qualify for gold medals. Except we're imagining or remembering things that bring us pain. And that becomes our world (LOA).

Any new skill takes some time, and with our addiction to the feelings that negative visualization and the resulting negative experiences they give us being so strong, replacing it with something positive is going to feel weird, foreign, strange, scary, whatever. The transition from negative to positive, is not necessarily fun. I kind of go up and down myself, really happy and focused, then kind of feeling comfortable with my negative circumstances.

My point is that visualizing or using LOA is not something we really have to "learn" to do. We're already doing it. We're already pros at using it, just not consciously. Once you get the hang of using it consciously, it will become just as much of a habit and just as hard-wired in your mind as the living on default negative stuff was.

[peroquantosnombres]

How do you get rid of the habit of negative visualization and worrying?
I've done LoA for almost 4 years and know the importance on focusing on what I want as opposed to fearing what I don't want. But sure enough, everyday I get a bad mental image of what I don't want.
Tips?

[cylon]

Originally Posted by peroquantosnombres

How do you get rid of the habit of negative visualization and worrying?
I've done LoA for almost 4 years and know the importance on focusing on what I want as opposed to fearing what I don't want. But sure enough, everyday I get a bad mental image of what I don't want.
Tips?

By replacing it with the habit of positive visualization and learning to get your inner peace from yourself, and not the external environment. This isn't the easiest thing in the world, but I think it's that simple. It's just repetition.

But when you get a feeling of ecstatic joy, I think that makes you even more likely to do what you did to get that feeling. You have motivation. Then the negative feeling, is not that joy that you experienced, and since you've had a taste of joy, you're going to want to naturally do more and more of what it took to get you to that place.