Power of Imagination: The Lost Art That Creates Reality

The power of imagination is something we’ve largely forgotten. A big part of growing up is using this thing called imagination.

As a child, you have imaginary friends that help you solve the mysteries of your neighborhood. You set up imaginary boundaries, empires, and forts fully equipped with lasers, invincibility shields, and lavish quarters. This is where you and your top officers plot your rule of the neighborhood, escape the distractions of reality, and become the creators of your own universe.

You dub schoolmates princes, princesses, knights, and wizards. Creeks become great rivers with serpents that you battle victoriously. Cardboard tubes become magically wielded weaponry. Ice cream pails and two-liter bottles become rocket packs transporting you to alternate dimensions.

You feel it at the very core of you and know it to be true.

When We Stopped Believing

And then, at some point, many of us stopped believing in the worlds we created. We were told that reality doesn’t work that way. We were forced into an education system designed for conformity.

We started memorizing facts and equations instead of inventing new realities for ourselves. We went mental and lost that feeling of wonder. We try to get it back, try to force it, but we’ve forgotten how to feel.

Imagination is all about feeling into all of the possible potentials we’ve already created, if we could just move past our mental capacity and feel into it.

Thinking Versus Believing

Imagination is not just about thinking something. It’s about believing it. Imagination is getting so lost in your ideas that they become real.

We’ve gone too mental. We don’t believe our dreams anymore. We shout affirmations at ourselves, but we don’t really believe them. We say, “I’m the infinite creator of my own reality,” but do we really understand what that means?

Imagination is feeling into all of the possibilities and then choosing one to experience.

Einstein said, “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

The Greats Were Imaginers

Imagination is about being playful. Allowing yourself to toss reason out the door and just dream of the infinite possibility.

Thomas Edison loved to imagine. Nikola Tesla was a great imaginer. Einstein, Beethoven, Mozart. All the greats were active imaginers. That’s what made them great. They went beyond their minds. They imagined.

Imagination, this feeling, and choice create reality.

But we get so mental. We say, “I can’t write that book until I’ve taken this writing workshop.” Then it’s, “It’s hard for me to write because I have a full-time job.” Then it’s, “I haven’t been very inspired lately, so I don’t know what to write.”

Don’t write anything. Don’t do anything. Just allow yourself to imagine.

Feel What It’s Like

You might start off a little mental by envisioning yourself going into outer space. Transmuting time and peering into the distant future. Talking to aliens. Saving a princess.

But once you start to lose yourself in it all, feel what it’s like to experience:

What does it feel like to be giving a Q&A for the bestselling book you’ve already authored?

What does it feel like to already know how to play that instrument with concert perfection?

What does it feel like to have a global platform to raise awareness?

What does it feel like when fairy tales come to life?

We Are Still Children

A physicist once said that if we could somehow visit our ancestors and show them the bounty of modern science and technology, we would be viewed as magicians.

Yet science hasn’t even tapped into an understanding of even 1% of how the human mind, consciousness, and Spirit work. Is there something we can tap into that goes beyond our understanding of technology?

When we were kids, they told us that anything was possible. It was that simple.

Einstein said, “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Take a deep breath and feel into the potentials of your imagination.

Anything is possible.