What if you knew without doubt that imagination is important and that every image in your mind was shaping your reality?  What if you knew that imagination is your most significant creative power?

We Are Forever Creating

We think of creative types as musicians, writers, or artists.  But we are all creating constantly.  Everyone uses imagination to create their lives, whether they are aware of it or not.

The truth is, there is only the present moment.  When you remember the past, you are recreating that situation or experience in your brain.   Similarly, when you worry or think about the future, you are creating a new situation or experience in your brain.  Both are imaginary.  Many of us continue to recreate in our imagination what happened in the past, and as a result, our lives can sometimes be a series of similar and repetitive patterns.

So everyone is creating with their imagination, whether that be remembering the past or thinking about the future.  Freedom comes from becoming aware of your creative nature and using imagination consciously to shape your life.  Your Higher Self wants you to remember this: Imagination is important not just for artists or leaders, but for everyone. You are not just a passive observer of life. You are its creator.

The Neuroscience of Imagination

When you remember events in the past, your brain is recalling something that you experienced, and so it is recreating something that was real at the time.  It then builds on those neural pathways.

When you imagine or think about something that has not happened yet, your brain lights up in many of the same areas as if you were experiencing it and assumes it is real and builds on neural pathways responding to the images it is being introduced to.

This means your brain doesn’t fully distinguish between what is real and what is imagined. It builds pathways based on the images you hold.

Patterns of Imagination

1. Drawing on Past Experiences to Inform the Future

When your mind replays vivid memories, whether they be successes, lessons, or emotions, it is developing patterns of imagination that shape tomorrow’s choices.  This pattern is at its most potent when you have experiences you want to relive because they made you feel good. When your past is viewed through the lens of your higher self, your memories can be like a creative reference library.  Imagination is important for transforming memories into helpful foresight.

2. Fearing the Repeat of Past Experiences

Remembering fearful or upsetting experiences can be helpful insofar as they can remind you to take care or avoid certain situations.   This pattern of imagination arises as memory locks onto painful moments and turns them into cautionary tales. The brain’s threat circuitry (amygdala and hippocampus) then tags similar present cues as danger.    This pattern is protective, yet it can trap you into defensive routines that block growth.  We can also learn to overcome fearful experiences, and tapping into them as a means to think differently or visualise a different outcome can be powerful.   Becoming aware and exercising self-care and compassion can dissolve the negative energy and open the way for new and more affirming experiences to arise.

3. Visualising the Future—Imagining a Fearful Future

If past experiences result in imagining a fearful future, they can create life limitations.  Take, for example, experiencing a poor relationship that brought out the worst in you.  When you imagine a future with fear, the prospect of recreating that poor relationship can hinder you from experiencing healthy and loving relationships.   Even if you meet someone loving and good for you, you will interpret their actions as if you are repeating the mistakes of the past.

Your higher self would ask you to forgive the past in this situation and open your mind up to the fact that unwanted experiences in the past do not have to be repeated.  If you catch the pattern early, you have every opportunity to change the projector for a better outcome.

4. Imagining a Desired Future

Here, imagination becomes a rehearsal for success. If you can imagine positive outcomes and then embed these in your neural pathways, you can exponentially increase your odds of success.    When you can imagine the future you want, not with fear, but with excitement and expectation, then you are priming your brain to notice the opportunities for this outcome when they materialise.  Imagining a beautiful future with love and expectation is not a denial of reality.  It is inviting the brain to create your reality from within.

5. Borrowing Collective Narratives

I can’t begin to describe how much reading opens our minds, opening us to new possibilities.  Delving into biographical works, stories of far places, and other people’s imagination is key to being able to create outside of our own experience.  Collective images can lift us into possibility or be cautionary information.   For example, reading the history of, say, the holocaust, can be a cautionary tale about our choices in the present moment and the future.

The Power of Staying in the Present—and Why This Is Creative Too

We have examined how remembering and imagining future outcomes are creative.  However, staying in the present moment is one of the most potent ways to create. Dwelling in the now may seem passive, yet it is profoundly inventive. When you are being present, you are experiencing what is manifesting right now. You are in the state of observing, and your mental chatter is quiet.   This is when you are allowing the higher self, because that is your true nature.  Your brain’s default mode is out of action, enabling new insights and ideas to arise.  Inspiration arises organically rather than being pulled from the past or forced into the future. In this state, you can be curious, allowing intuition and higher guidance to co-create,

Imagination Is Important – It Is Your Divine Nature

When you realise how potent your imagination is, you will approach your creativity differently.  Your imagination is the invisible impressions which manifest into reality if you let it.   It is the seat of healing, repairing relationships and allowing your future to unfold.   Your imagination is not frivolous. It is divine. Permit yourself to imagine something beautiful.  Be bold, and you will reclaim your creative self.

Permit yourself to imagine something beautiful. Something bold. Something that feels good. Imagination is important because it reminds you that you are free.

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