(click title for image) Dude, life is a lot. It’s hard, it’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rejuvenating, it’s everything we perceive it to be, because our perception is our reality. To put the law of attraction in basic terms, all thoughts turn into things eventually. I’ve said it before, but anything we are doing in any given moment, we are training ourselves to become better at it. Thinking positively, negatively, whatever. Some people question New Thought Philosophy, while teaching their kids the science of Universal Law, that like attracts like. Eventually they will see, these truths are one and the same. In order to effectively change your negative thinking patterns, you must also feel, through visualization, that the desired changes have already occurred. By visualizing that we have already accomplished or received our hopes, the reticular activating system (RAS) filters information, discarding “white noise” and only allowing what is at the forefront of our mind to move through to the cerebrum where this information is turned into conscious thought and emotion. RAS can help you focus on the desired outcome you’d like to receive, while the release of dopamine is what makes us feel good, so they play off one another. Visualize to feel, feel to visualize. Exercise psychologist Guang Yue, compared gym goers with those who visualized workouts, resulting in 30% muscle increase for gym goers, and 13.5% for visualizers, that’s almost half! An avg. that remained for 3 months. Long story short, and I know it’s easier said than done, but like any muscle, the mind must be trained, so train yourself to get what you want. Use what you have to get what you need. Visualize that all you want and hope for, has already occurred, then HAVE GRATITUDE. Your body doesn’t know the difference between chemicals produced through visualization or real time experience. Most of the time, we are living with a body flooded with chemicals produced based on experiences from the past, but when we produce these new chemicals of positivity, we allow our body to stop living in the past, and we begin to live in a future we create for ourselves, the present moment.