Meditation – A story about the imagination room

Meditation, and visualization or dream casting has always been a huge part of the success I’ve experienced in life. It’s hard to explain what dream casting looks like in real life as everyone will have a different way of dream casting or visualizing their future.

Over the years, I have refined this process for myself. I have only shared this with one person prior to writing my book, my wife, Michele. Her first response was to laugh and say “Really? You do it that way?”. “Yes, I do!” was my answer. I’m ok with being laughed at if it helps get the point across.

As I mentioned earlier, how people visualize is very different. Mine takes the form of magical fantasy gaming. You may be playing the heroine or hero or just visualizing your hopes and dream with emotion.

Below is my less than orthodox method… laugh if you want, the woo-woo kung-foo is real 🙂

It’s 5 am, and the first thing that jumps into my mind as my eyes pop open and I breathe my first breath of possibility this morning is, ‘What can I create in my imagination room today?’
What can I conjure up today to fill my dream jar even before the rest of my household wakes up and the present world starts its day?
I get out of bed, put on my comfy slippers, turn on the coffee machine, head to the imagination room just down the hall, and sit in my favorite sofa chair. From here, I can watch the magic unfold in front of me. It’s here that I get to create anything I want, and I mean anything, from the car that I drive, the house I live in, the profession I choose, the places I visit, and the people I choose to be with – and how they make me feel.

Anything is possible in the imagination room. However, the world that comes to life in the imagination room is even more vivid when I start by being grateful for what I have and am creating. It’s like playing a video game and getting a power-up booster. This is what gratitude does in the imagination room. It gives you a power-up booster to create even more and build on top of what you have.
In the imagination room, gratitude and belief are the keys to anything you want to create. They are the secret weapons of choice for players who win and those who are the heroes of their worlds.

Every journey to the imagination room required me to take a dream jar along with me. The dream jar is used to capture the
essence of possibility as I dream cast. This essence, to me, is a bright gold dust type of substance. I will have to hand this to the guardians of the imagination room as payment when I leave this magical place. It’s payment for entering the space in the first place.

I love spending time in the imagination room, creating and being anything I choose. Still, in this fantastic place, there are also hidden dangers. Dangers that can and will destroy anything you’ve created here and in your real world. It does not discriminate. It does not care who you are, who you know, or what you’ve done in the past. These hidden dangers sometimes sneak into the imagination room with you in the form of limiting beliefs and negative thoughts. These are the most dangerous things you can have in your imagination room. The reason is quite simple: just as you can create and amplify your wildest dreams here, your biggest fears can also be amplified.

These negative thoughts and limiting beliefs will break down anything you have built, attempt to build, and even worse, prevent you from creating the world you want, in your imagination and the real world. The best way to overcome these two destructive forces in the imagination room is with gratitude and belief. You can attain two powerful weapons by remembering and being grateful for everything you have already created here, in this imaginary place, and in the real world. As I end my time in the imagination room, the guardians await me at the exit. The guardian accepts the “essence of possibility” and pours it into a vase at the entrance of a narrow exit passageway with a door at the end.

The passageway illuminates, and on the right, it has a huge window through which I can see the world I have just created displayed on a giant screen. On the left, another huge window shows me the world I live in, fully three-dimensional. Finally, I can see some of what I saw in the window on the right start taking form in 3D. The more “essence of possibility” I collect, the faster I see the 3D images start forming.
I smile and continue to the door at the end of the passage, knowing I’ve already started creating the world I want, and so can you.

This is how I view dream casting and imagination and use it to create the reality around me. It’s what I experienced as a child. Sadly, when we grow up, we often stop using our imagination this way, and we lose this skill. We become an NPC (non-player character) in the world the dreamers create for us.
I was an NPC for much of my adult life, an NPC in this big game of life until I started journaling and meditating.

Journaling and meditation were things I thought of as the woo-woo stuff for a long time until I started doing them consistently and seeing the results they produced in my life.

Don’t settle for being an NPC. Be the conjurer of your world.
Not so woo-woo now, right?

From the book, Believe In The Possible, by Ricardo Collison