Imagination crisis Alert

"that which you imagine, believe with a red hot desire and act on, is yours to keep"

Consider this quote from Robert Moss's excellent book...The Three ONLY Things...

"the greatest crisis in our lives is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck, and we bind ourselves to the wheel of repetition, because we refuse to reimagine our situation. We live in a set of negative or confining images and pronounce them reality"

He also said, "we do it to cling to the familiar, not daring to give up what we are or, have been, for what we are meant to become".

One of my personal epiphany's was that, most people don't like to think. They believe, that thinking is hard work and who can blame them for not wanting to volunteer for work. It seems much easier to just react when things go poorly, blame others or circumstances.

Imagining is thinking

It is really easy to sit and daydream, but remember that any form of imagining is thinking. So when you play with thoughts in your head you are creating an action that can lead to all kinds of possibilties if you accept the importance of your thoughts. We keep insisting on trying to make life difficult, when the universe wants to simplify it for us and make it easy.

The unreal life

Herman Hesse had this to say...."There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside themselves for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself"

So how we interpret what happens to us determines our reality. Two people can have identical experiences and interpret it differently. The effect on their lives can be dramatically different. At any misfortune, one could say...damn, nothing ever goes my way. Another could interpret the misfortune and say...that's not good, I wonder what I could do take advantage of that. One gives up and the other finds answers and maybe even prospers from the experience.

The philosopher Marcus Aurellius had this to say...."a man's life is dyed in the colors of his imagination". So if you're thinking to yourself, my life is a little grey and dark, maybe it's time to dust off your imagination. Daydream about a better life and how that would be and feel.

Don't dismiss imagination in yourself and especially never in your children. Accept what it has to offer, the possibilities are truly only limited by your imagination.

Smile, it looks really good on you!

Eduardo

P.S. Right now, I'm imagining a big beautiful blue sky with white puffy clouds floating by. I'm sitting on my boat, basking in the warm rays of the sun and admiring the blue calm waters that surround me. I'm enjoying the feeling a gentle warm breeze on my skin and an ice cold beverage in my hand. And.....well, why don't you just join me and experience it yourself...