Are you struggling to visualize?
If you’ve tried affirmations, meditation, visualization – or anything else, and still feel like something is missing… or not quite know what’s stopping it all… then hear me out.
What if I told you that the problem isn’t your intentions or your efforts — but instead, how your mind was programmed to disconnect from the very power you need to manifest?
Like Einstein said, the real power lies in recovering your long-lost ability: vivid visualization.
The Hidden Power of Visualization: How Your Brain Creates Reality
Science has long proven that your brain can’t distinguish between a vividly imagined event and a REAL one.
When you visualize vividly, you’re not just daydreaming. You experience a life in your mind with no limits – creating neural pathways that your brain interprets as LIVED EXPERIENCE. A memory.
These pathways act as blueprints, guiding your subconscious to align your OUTSIDE reality with your INSIDE blueprint.
- Athletes who mentally rehearse performances show identical brain activation as doing the same exercise.
- Studies at Harvard Medical School demonstrated that mental practice produces identical neurological patterns to physical practice
- Quantum physics suggests consciousness itself influences physical reality at the subatomic level. That our expectation coming from belief alone, can alter physical energy.
The Brain’s Natural Manifestation Mechanism:
1. Imagination creates internal experience – creating neural pathways
2. Repeated visualization strengthens these memories
3. Brain begins treating imagined experience as memory – familiar experience
4. Subconscious mind then acts to align external reality with internal memory
This isn’t magic. It’s backed by neuroscience, centuries of psychology studies, and even quantum physics (the study of how energy manifests).
The problem with visualization is that most EVERYONE has – it is too weak to imagine easily, vividly like we once did when we were kids…
Which is what is required in order to create NEW memories that will manifest from our mind – into our lives.
If You’re Struggling to Visualize – This is Why
Your memories get deeply embedded when they have – a lot of emotional energy, which get’s sent to our brain and neuronal pathways are laid out as – memory. Quickly.
If you look back to your life, all the things you remember, were intense emotional experiences. Something significant happened. And it has a lot of emotion.
Now, think about it… how vivid your imagination was as a child? You built worlds, dreamed wildly, and saw no limits. It’s almost like you lived in another dimension…. You were able to see and experience things in your mind even when you were playing…
But notice how difficult it is to imagine and visualize now?
What changed?
The Destruction of Our Greatest Superpower:
You see… School wasn’t designed just for education.
In 1900’s schools were were carefully reformed, and re-designed to transform free-will, creative children, into compliant workers who will fill up newly built factories and go to work doing what they don’t really want to do.
It was designed to create – employees. Which requires to strip away free will, and enforce – given reality.
Think about it… every day for 15+ years, in front of 20 other kids you get:
- Punished for ‘doing’, wandering, daydreaming and doing what you want.
- Rewarded for ‘getting’ grades, approval, following given orders and memorizing given information.
- Associating pain with doing/creating to subconsciously avoid it.
- Associating pleasure with getting outcomes and approval, making us dependent on wanting more… always having a potential to fail and not get it…
Now free thinking becomes something we are not supposed to do. Not knowing becomes painful. And we seek to be told what to do, follow the safe path and instead of creating – focus on getting outcomes, and buy things to get approval…
And we have been given a safe path to DO only what we KNOW – finish school, finish university, get a safe job and get told what to do. So we never stray away from the given path.
Conformity becomes the only ‘’safe’’ path. Most people start struggling to visualize. But the consequences are even greater.
Your Greatest Superpower Lies in the Right Side of the Brain
Your right side of the brain (creative/visual) – responsible for creativity, visualization, and non-linear thinking – got progressively suppressed. Constantly punished for activating that left side of the brain… dreaming… creating… wandering… building things… doing what you wanted…
You were constantly trained & rewarded for activating the left side of the brain (Logical) for compliance, and external validation.
The Pleasure-Pain Programming:
- Doing becomes painful (free will)
- Getting becomes pleasurable (dependence)
- You learn to chase external, approval
- Intrinsic motivation gets replaced by extrinsic rewards
All together this experience of consistent pain, have led to suppress our desire to imagine, create, build, dream…. associating it to pain, that if we do it – we might get punished… embarrassed… disapproved….
On top of that, this replacement of our natural motivation, to WANTING to GET = leaves us always to live in scarcity, dependence and expectation in society. There’s always potential to fail and not get what we expect. Leading to a voidance, isolation, procrastination….
*The problem is that we accepted this ‘trusted’ system as ‘for our benefit’ believing the lies of the rich. Because they were able to sell an illusion of making us ‘smarter’. Which is how all propaganda works.
The Key to Manifestation: Turning Imagination into Memory
To manifest, you must undo what has been done onto you, without your choice.
You have to recondition your mind and restore natural free-will, motivation to do things without resistance. Rebuilding your right side of the brain visualization power.
Manifestation works because your subconscious acts on manifesting what it believes is familiar. It projects what is inside to manifest reality outside.
And the only way to make a desired future familiar is by imagining it vividly and store it as an experienced memory. For which you need vivid, emotional imagery that you once had.
So, you have to remove the memories of pain – creating resistance, where the mind is blocking your visual access to the infinite possibility.
Where you access to the infinite world… where you close your eyes, and the limits of physical worlds time and space disappear… and you can create any experience.
Why It’s Difficult to Visualize (and How to Fix It)
When you’re struggling to visualize vividly isn’t your fault. Decades of suppression have conditioned your brain to where now the very act of visualization is associated with pain… and you subconsciously resist imagining.
It has created limiting beliefs to where now – you most powerful survival mechanism, is predicting potential of experiencing the same pain you once did in front of class… ‘to not listen’, ‘not follow orders’ ‘to wander’…
Examples of These Limiting Beliefs:
1. “It feels painful to DO things” ”It feels painful to DO what I want”.
- Tip: Practice small acts of creativity without judgment. Stop avoiding the hobbies you always had.
2. “It feels Painful to DAYDREAM.” (I can get in trouble)
- Tip: Start with small sessions, throughout which you accept and praise yourself for being good for visualizing and dreaming. Focus on approval of doing it, rather than getting outcomes.
3. “It feels painful to think how I want.” (free will to use our mind)
- Tip: Again, reinforce the opposite, positive. Also use physical tools (like books or pictures) to anchor your imagination and allow yourself to express your desires.
Our brain is the most powerful survival mechanism, designed to predict potential of pain & danger.
Unlike a ‘fear of spiders’, or ‘fear of heights’ (things we can see outside) our brain also predicts potential experiences that are ‘internal’ associations of pain, such as ‘appearing not good enough’, ‘getting judged’… (invisible beliefs)
Which is what creates most people’s anxieties, self-sabotaging behaviors, and attracts the invisible – believed reality.
This is what often blocks people from achieving success, escaping a life living paycheck to paycheck, or going from one toxic relationship into another, experiencing ‘abandonment’ over and over (having same inside experiences, in new moment in time – appearing different).
Only when you stop trying to swim against the current, you can begin to visualize and imagine easily, vividly and without resistance. To learn how to address different limiting beliefs I recommend you read r/limitingbeliefs .
Retraining Your Visualization Ability: Nikola Tesla Technique
After you remove the internal resistance (self-sabotaging memories), then you may want to retrain your visualization muscles (right side brain activity).
Nikola Tesla, one of history’s greatest inventors, was able to visualize every detail of his creations before building them. Because ever since he was little, instead of suppressing his power, his parents were helping him cultivate and training it.
Nikola Tesla’s Beginner Exercises:
- Begin Small: Visualize simple objects or scenarios daily. Even if it’s just a cube. (Add movement… practice to spin it… move it… color it… CONTROL shaping it… adding a second object)
- Add Sensory Details: Incorporate sights, sounds, smells, and textures.
- Revisit Often: The goal here is to start small and simple. Practice like you would going to the gym. Add extra session right as you go to sleep. When you wake up.
EXERCISE 1: The Neuro-Visualization Protocol
Why You Should Leverage Physical Books:
- Digital content creates fragmented & shallow memories. It’s like instead of going to the gym, watching people lift weight on TV. (It takes away your creative power, by – giving end results)
- Physical books require you to engage in imagery, which get tied to – memory
Detailed Implementation:
- Select a physical book with a rich narrative story or even if Self-Help, one with stories.
- Read one paragraph or chapter mindfully and then stop and begin to visualize it
- After each chapter, close your eyes for 15-20 minutes, and try to recreate the scene with detail
- Visual landscapes – seen
- Emotions felt, sensations experienced
- Character motivations, desires
- Ambient sounds, things said
- Subtle environmental details, context
This visualization exercise strengthens right-brain visualization circuits and increases memory plasticity. It trains the mind to create vivid, emotionally rich experiences and encouraging creative thinking.
EXERCISE 2: Manifestation Visualization Session
Before doing this exercise, take your desire, and materialize it. Print a physical picture. Draw it. Write it down. Anything so that it’s outside of your mind and physical in the world.
The goal will be to bring up the visualization right after engaging with it. Which will help you kick-start the proccess, creating emotion within, and helping continue building the experience from there.
Manifestation-Visualization Protocol Goals:
- 20-minute daily practice
- Choose ONE precise desire
- Create multi-dimensional mental experience
- Engage ALL sensory systems
Visualization Architecture:
Enhance the emotion by creating a full experience:
- Focus on desires and reasons first, as they build the most emotion
- Shift to witness the physical context, what is happening, what can you SEE, what is happening and what actions are being taken – create movement (don’t make it static. Make it a story experienced. We remember multiple things happening to create one great experience.)
- How does having this experience make you FEEL inside, what is that sense of having it?
- Imagine perspectives of others, how others see and feel as they see you in this experience
These are advanced psychological tips and tricks to build emotion. All movies are built on stories… movement… fulfilment of desire, which creates contrast of emotions… showing you ‘re-acting’ so we feel what we see people feel.
This is a more advanced visualization manifestation technique that helps you manifest and create imprints, memories of desired experience, before it even happened.
Anchor Your Vision to Reality
True manifestation occurs when imagined experience becomes a STORED, FAMILIAR memory. When projection (inside), becomes a reflection (outside). Yin Yang. The Universal Law of Polarity – one creates other.
This doesn’t happen through magical thinking. It’s proved by the laws of physics, energy and even biology – the Placebo and even the Nocebo effect in all science.
It all happens through what is inside our subconscious minds – beliefs, memories and past experiences. By visualizing, we simply add new experiences and new memories of a future that our mind perceives as ‘already happened’.
You have to visualize your desires in front of your eyes before they can exist in your life. Which is why visualization is most effective when you constantly remind your brain of your desired future.
Here’s how you can leverage this even further:
- Physical Reminders: Surround yourself with images, objects, or symbols of your goals. (Must be physical, because the subconscious does not store phones or digital fragmented reality as memory)
- Top-of-Mind Awareness: Talk, think, and write about your vision daily (what we prioritize, we surround our time and space with).
- Reinforce Value: Make your desire feel important by giving it your attention and energy. You can write down in detail what you want and give a reason – why.
Why It Works:
Think about it. Everything that surrounds your time and space right this minute are the things that you find the most important to you right now.
If you want money desperately, it’s likely that you are reducing time to see your friends, go out to meet love, and focus on reading books, watching video courses, planning… occupying all your manifesting energies for what is most important.
We naturally manifest what we find most valuable. So, your goals must not only be specific, but occupy your thoughts, your vision and your environment. That’s when your subconscious mind will work tirelessly to make it a reality.
Reclaiming Your Greatest Superpower – Imagination
Remember, manifestation isn’t about attracting something external — it’s about creating a memory of something that hasn’t yet happened, but was stored in your mind as if it did… becoming familiar… known… believed.
…Certain…
Children are natural manifestors. They dream vividly… move… create…build…imagine effortlessly, and trust their imagination. As adults, we must relearn this lost ability.
Start small, stay consistent, and treat visualization as your most powerful skill for creating your dream reality.
You hold the power to manifest the moment you close your eyes — but only if you take action.
So start cultivating your SKILL today:
- Dedicate 20 minutes to visualization.
- Use the exercises above to re-build your skill.
- Surround yourself with reminders of your goals – ignite emotional imagery.
Begin now, and unlock the life you’ve always dreamed of.
