Imagine what we could do with our lives if we knew that with every thought we have we create our own reality!

The simple truth is that each of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. When we create peace, harmony and balance in our minds, that is what we will attract in our lives. If our minds are full of deep-seated negative concepts about ourselves, we have automatically and unconsciously expected and imagined limitation and problems to be our lot in life.

If we believe we are 'unlovable' and that our lives are lonely, then that becomes our experience in the outside world. Changing our belief system and affirming to ourselves that we are 'lovable' and 'surrounded by love' allows love from all directions in life to pour through towards us.

Since embracing the idea that physically we are all energy, much has been written about the human aura and energy fields. Scientific thinking has changed dramatically in recent years, now embracing the idea that we are all made up of 'energy' and that that energy rather than being solid and concrete, moves and changes like the ebb and flow of the tide.

On an energetic level, thought is the finest and lightest vibration. It manifests instantaneously. When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. The thought or the idea; "I think I'll change my hairstyle" is what precedes the creation of the new look. So when we hold an idea or a thought in our minds, eventually it will attract and create a form on the material plane. So if we are constantly thinking about illness, we are undoubtedly going to draw illness to ourselves! This is the law of magnetism. Where thought goes ...energy flows!

Since the increased interest in holistic therapies, the study of human energy fields has become a science in itself. We now know that negative thought funnels this energy inwards (towards us) whilst positive thought directs it outwards. Thought directed outwards allows us to link with the Universal Mind, that great reservoir of 'minds past' that are strengthened with knowledge and spiritual values. So what we think and believe about ourselves becomes the truth for us. When I was thirteen my English teacher asked me to recite a piece of prose in front of the whole class, then proceeded to 'rubbish' my attempt, humiliating me in the process. This brief but painful experience set up a belief system in my adult life that my voice was monotonous and uninspiring. It was a negative self-concept so ingrained that I couldn't even leave a message on a telephone answering machine!

One day I decided to change that belief system. Happily I now record Hypnotherapy tapes for my clients and give motivational talks in front of hundreds of people. The only thing we are dealing with is a thought and a thought can be changed!

No matter what our problem is, be it our health, relationships, finances or otherwise, our experiences are just outer effects of our inner thoughts. Even self-hatred is a thought or a belief system we have about ourselves. We buy into the feelings. Change the thought and the feeling will go.

When I am working with clients, I am quick to emphasize that it is our negative thought patterns that influence the energies of the physical and create our major health worries.

A healthy mind = A healthy body

Although there may be a presenting 'physical' problem for a client seeking my help, the process of disease has usually begun at a much subtler level. Emotional or mental disturbance or holding on to negative thought patterns blocks the flow of energy in the etheric body, (the etheric body is a blueprint of the physical layer in the aura), so creating problems in the physical.

Recently a lady who was suffering from acute arthritis was unable to say one positive thing about herself until we discovered through the psychotherapeutic process that everyone in her life had criticised her and put her down from teachers to parents and so on, her criticism of herself had attracted inflammation to the self. Another lady was plagued by inflamed and infected gums, until in one session she realised that she had been harbouring deep seated resentment and revenge toward someone in her life...

Just stop whatever you are doing for a brief moment and take a look around inside yourself. What negative self-concepts are you holding on to and would most like to change? Write them down and commit to them.

Transforming your life does not have to be a difficult or involved process. However although I am maintaining our internal dialogue has a huge impact on our lives, the process of change does not occur on a superficial level, by simply thinking 'positive thoughts'. It involves awareness and insight and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes on life.

A great Sufi poet once wrote; "Your power lies not in the middle, nor the end of an action, but at the beginning in your head."

Even in today's 'high tech' world, the human brain remains a mystery, almost unfathomable. We are taught about 'left' and right brain hemisphere' and that both halves of the brain work in entirely different ways. With our 'left brain' logic we learn to reason, discriminate, and verbalize our thinking. But it is with 'right brain thinking' and the power of the intuitive mind that we learn to access and harness the real power within us.
Your personal power lies within yourself.

When we use our imagination to create what we would most like to manifest in our lives we are engaging the power of the intuitive mind. Amazingly, what at first might seem impossible to us becomes a reality. There is nothing new about creative visualization, we use it every minute of everyday. It is our natural power of imagination, the basic creative power of the universe whether we are aware of it or not.

Creative visualization teaches us how to recognise good and fortunate things happening in our lives, in other words it turns the dreamy realm of wishful thinking into stark reality! Sometimes the mental conversations we carry on with ourselves can block everything we deeply desire.

Creative visualization teaches us how to see differently. It will show you how to see in your imagination. You can start with a brief exercise that will take just five minutes a day. First think about the circumstance of your life that you would most like to improve upon. Next find a comfortable position, take a few deep breaths and relax your mind. Then begin to imagine as vividly as possible the exact thing you most want to be, do or have. See yourself being it, doing it, having it! Make it as real as possible and whilst holding the image in your mind make a positive, affirmative statement to yourself, such as; "I am healthy and fit. My lifestyle nourishes and supports my physical well being".

Affirmations are an important element to creative visualization. To affirm means to 'make firm'. Affirmations are a strong positive statement that something is already so. Choose your wording carefully though; I once had a postcard on my kitchen wall which read; "I want to change the world, but I can't find a babysitter". Hardly surprising then that every time I was booked for an evenings talk, I was frantically ringing round at the last minute for a babysitter! Now my poster reads; "I can change the world and I always find babysitters!"

Whilst you are visualizing, don't pay any attention to the doubts or contradictions, just let them flow through your consciousness and return to the positive image of yourself. The more you visualize what you want, the more real your wish becomes. This positive mental attitude automatically creates the opportunities that you want. Suddenly small miracles begin to appear in your life...

Creative visualization works only for the good and only when we are in alignment with our 'highest' aspirations.

Continue to work with your mental picture in your mind as often as possible, both in quiet times and when in a casual moment you happen to think of your new goal. The clearer and stronger your intention, the more quickly and easily your goals will manifest.

When you truly begin to let go of the negative self-talk and limiting beliefs and open up to the creative energy inside yourself, your life takes on a course of deep and meaningful growth. So if what we think and believe about ourselves becomes our reality... then from now on, become the creator of your own life, thinking and believing that you deserve only the best. Truly begin to access your own power and change your life!
As well as working with clients on a one to one basis in her therapeutic work, Jacqueline is also a Master/Teacher in Magnified Healing carrying out talks and workshops for personal growth such as 'Prosperity Programming', 'Emotional Healing', 'Past Lives - Resolution & healing' and more.