Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Seems like there has been an awful lot written about the mind’s ability to impact circumstances and outcomes. I’ve been meandering about online as I work on not acquiring negative energies and I am constantly knocking up against the idea that “what you think you are, you are.” Not sure that I buy all that as I observe the folks around me and think back upon my own life, but real devotees have an answer for that because skepticism will keep the magic from happening, you know.
Hmmph.
Okay, let’s say that I am going to visualize the Carol that I want to be. I can relate somewhat to that, it is like creating an avatar for my 2nd Life, neh? Certainly I have always thought that beladona is pretty much me and even looks kinda like me [well maybe a bit idealized], although kalah and the others are not quite as well-rounded and are really only facets, so I can do this. Now where to start? Hmmmm, that isn’t as easy a question as I thought it was – I find that my thoughts go skipping around from family to followership to money and lifestyle to health and then spin off onto love and relationships and pets and careers and ….. Whoa wait a minute! Lots of things that I have no control over! Can’t change the choices that I have made in the past for one thing. Can’t change the people around me either. And unlike when I created Bela, I can’t put myself on a pose stand and give myself long thick red hair, or a complexion that will let me rock the gray look.
So this creative visualization only works with things that are in the realm of my control, and not in the sphere of my influence? That isn’t what I was getting from the descriptions – you are supposed to visualize an outcome and believe in it and the universe will make it happen, neh? So how do I want to see myself? How about relaxed and glowing, living in Florida and working for the House of the Mouse? Oh and I don’t have to worry about money and I am now a size 12. Meh, that still doesn’t seem like I’ve really got the “right” idea, although there are success stories online that say people have done just those kinds of things through meditation and/or writing down what you want 15 times a day to focus yourself on the desired end result or maybe giving themselves positive self-talk lectures.
Maybe, since this is an offshoot of my musing about how to say goodbye, what I am really asking is how I want to be remembered? No, that doesn’t sound right either because this isn’t about the legacy I will leave behind me, this is about the life that I am leading and the person that I am today. I want to see myself as [1] a vibrant, caring, intelligent woman [2] who abides by the consequences of her past choices without living in regret [3] and looks with optimism to the future.
BINGO! I can visualize that! Now to be that reality…..
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