Have you ever found yourself trying to visualize a more vibrant lifestyle, only to frustratingly stop because it feels untrue, impossible, and downright crazy?
If you can relate, you have unknowingly resisted the heart and soul of visualization.
What Is the Heart and Soul of Visualization?
Seeing yourself already living your dream lifestyle, feeling into it, and believing it is occurring before any tangible evidence of it exists.
This is far from lying to yourself or some “fake it until you make it” trick. It is, however, the key that can unlock a vibrant new way of living life after 60.
This article, and the accompanying video, is the beginning of a new, 12-part exclusive series for Sixty and Me readers titled “Visualize a Vibrant New Lifestyle After 60”. What I am going to be sharing with you in this series is how to embody the essence of your dreams and desires for the lifestyle you deserve.
Visualizing Is Not a One-Time Thing
To successfully visualize your desired lifestyle before you have any concrete proof of it in your physical life, you will want to go beyond just thinking good-feeling thoughts.
To embody the heart and soul of visualization, you will want to imagine the vivid details, bask in the euphoric emotions, and explore the immersive experiences associated with your new, vibrant lifestyle.
This is not a one-time thing. It is an ongoing practice.
Before we go any further, let’s take a moment to acknowledge three common questions I hear when talking publicly about this subject.
How Do I Do It?
Reconnect with your childhood imagination to access your natural ability to playfully create without limits. If you are like most people who are 60 and over, you may have forgotten how to create through your childhood imagination. In this new series for Sixty and Me readers, I’ll show you how.
Where Do I Start?
You begin where you are right now. Visualizing your ideal lifestyle needs to be grounded, but it does not need to be tethered to the reality of your current lifestyle. The key to this is visualizing where you want to be without allowing your present situation to define the terms of your desired lifestyle.
Will Others Think I’m Crazy?
When it comes to your life, it doesn’t matter what other people think; it matters what you think. What you think determines your reality. Remember, your ideal lifestyle is yours and not someone else’s.
The Power of Your Childhood Imagination
When it comes to visualizing your ideal lifestyle, you will want to see it, believe it, and then you can achieve it. The power of your childhood imagination helps with all three.
Your childhood imagination allows you to feel the excitement and fulfillment of your dreams before they materialize in the physical world.
There is infinite power within your childhood imagination to create anything you desire. It can reverse the negativity of limiting beliefs. It also realigns you with the joy you naturally and playfully accessed with ease and flow as a child.
#1 Obstacle to Visualizing Your Ideal Lifestyle
Many people who are 60 and over find it difficult to visualize their ideal lifestyle through the power of their childhood imagination.
The #1 obstacle to visualizing your dream life after 60 is a Fixed Mindset.
A Fixed Mindset is established early on in life through rigid beliefs and strict rules. These are often harsh and aimed at controlling behaviors that come naturally to children, such as curiosity, playfulness, and imagination. This can produce inner turmoil, self-doubt, and even emotional trauma that you will unknowingly carry into your 60s.
In whatever ways this may have shown up for you, a Fixed Mindset is likely where your inner child lost her connection to the power of imagination.
6 Powerful “I Am” Affirmations
To open yourself up to reconnecting with your childhood imagination, overwrite fixed beliefs, and embody the heart and soul of visualization, you will want to make positive changes to how you speak to yourself.
Here are six powerful “I am” affirmations to help you build an unshakable foundation for visualizing your new, vibrant lifestyle.
- I am effortlessly attracting everything I need to make my dreams a reality.
- I am committed to my dreams and trust the universe supports me at every step.
- I am embodying the confidence, joy, and success of the person I aspire to be.
- I am partnering with my childhood imagination to create my desired lifestyle.
- I am grateful for the life I am creating and the infinite possibilities before me.
- I am worthy of living a life that excites, inspires, and fulfills me.
Next Steps
There are additional steps necessary to replace a Fixed Mindset with a new, more empowering one that is supportive of your new lifestyle.
In our next article and video in this series, I will introduce you to a five-step inspired action plan to undo the effects of a Fixed Mindset and open you up to embracing change through your childhood imagination.
I invite you to join me in the video, where I will share with you five immediate benefits for reigniting the playful mindset of your childhood imagination. I will also guide you through five journal prompts to help you integrate what you are learning.
Let’s Have a Conversation:
What do you visualize for yourself in the near future? How do you see your life developing a few years away from now?
