3 Visualisation Techniques to Build Your Happy Life!

It has been a great breakthrough in my life last weekend. I realized how I want to live, what I want to achieve and what I want to do for other people.

I hope that my experience will help you understand how easy it is to feel yourself happy and conscious about your future. I will also provide you with visualisation techniques which helped me much and may help you as well.

So, let’s start!

Last month has been rich of different events in my life. I launched the brand new web portal, had a great trip to Poland with my friends to the concert of Madonna, spent great time riding on a boat the evening city…

I liked being with my friends, doing my job and riding a boat. However, at some moment I felt the absence of any sense in these actions.

I used to think about that much: Why I don’t feel the inspiration anymore when doing something? What is going wrong?

When launching the web portal, I was visualizing how it becomes popular, how we move to a new office etc. However, I noticed that I had to make an effort to imagine that, like it was something unnatural, not easy-flowing dream.

One morning I wake up as usual and suddenly put my sight to the book on my shelf. It was the “First things First” by Steven Covey. Book provides many visualisation techniques as well as other exercises which helps people live consciously their life. I had read it thoroughly about a year ago and it helped me create my mission and sense of life, according to which I have lived for whole the year. I opened book at a random page and saw the following phrase: “Your mission is not some static thing you can write down and then forget about it. You have to be connected with it and revisit it from time to time.”

I have realized – it was the moment to revisit my mission and the vision of my future life.

I went through the book exercises aimed at the building the strong vision of a mission. I’ll not describe all visualisation techniques because they are probably copyrighted by Steven Covey. But I will retell one exercise which helped me most (sorry, Steve ;)). According to this visualisation technique, I imagined my 80 years’ birthday in small details: where it would take part, who would attend, how I would be looking like etc.

After that I visualised each person who was important for me and listened to the words they say. When I was doing the exercise, it was like an inspiration which probably fall down to great writers. For 30 minutes, without any break, I was writing down the words of my parents, my best friend, girlfriend, my lovely children. I‘ve written down the contribution which I made to their lives, what they liked in me, what I could for them do better…

After I finished writing, I felt great relieve, since I understood what is important in my life now and what I want to do for others.

I have understood that my previous goals - like earn one million bucks or reach 10 million page views were not actually my goals. There were the goals of some perfect model of successful person, created by our society. However, it is not my model anymore.

I have realized that money can provide facilities for reaching my goals, but they can’t be the goals by themselves!

For example I have a dream of living in a private house with large garden and having my good friends living nearby. I may build the house by my hands, or buy it, or win it in a lottery. It doesn’t matter. Only that matters is that my goal is not to win a lottery or grab a lot of money, no! The goal is to live with my friends together, have walks to the mountains, riding horses, swim in ocean, help other people to find themselves – these are the real goals!

After I understood that, I felt the great inspiration, the great willingness to move on and to live, because I know now what I want to do!

Then, without hesitation I created a collage, on which I put pictures of my dreams: private house, mountains, horses, children, educational city I build etc. I found the pictures depicting my dreams in the web, added some from my photo albums and then grouped them together to the splendid inspirational collage! After that I put the collage to the wallpaper of my PC to see it and get inspired each day.

Finally, when walking on the street or going in a subway, I like animating some pictures of my collage. E.g. when I take picture describing the camping laid out at the foot of the mountain, I imagine how I live there with my girlfriend and best friends, make a fire at the evening and wake up early next morning to climb the highest peaks.

So, to summarize, I use the following 3 visualisation techniques to build my future life:

• Visualise in detail your 80 years birthday
  
• Create inspirational collage and put it to the prominent place
  
• When having a free minute, animate your dreams
  

These visualisation techniques together create a strong vision and bring sense to my life. I hope they will bring it to yours as well.

At last I want to assure you: All our dreams come true! So, visualise your dreams. And let your dreams become your reality!