Visualize

Visualize, making a mental picture of a situation and maybe even make it mentally come alive, is often suggested as a way to deal with a situation that you do not know how to handle, or do not now how to reach a certain goal, find a direction etc. You only picture the goal, and the way in which you reach it, you do not have to worry about.

Although, like everything you use, it is in itself a neutral tool, it is good to be aware of the way your personality might want to use it for his own business. He does not mind to admit that there are certain problem areas in your life, that things do not go the way you want them to, or that you do not feel happy. And he does not mind either to work with you to try to improve that, otherwise you would soon lose interest in his point of view.

The goal you picture mentally usually is one of which your personality does not know how to reach it (otherwise he would already have done so by using his well-known tools). This is easy for your personality: all he has to do is to uphold the mental picture, and soon you start to feel better already. If you somehow succeed in making it come true, that is a bonus and he has pictured it well for you, and should it not or not completely come true, then he also has an explanation why, or why it has to be this way. Not a very "scientific" approach, otherwise you would have made this the one and only way to deal with anything that comes up in your life, and your life would be tremendously fun and successful.

So it seems that your personality has taken over control again, only this time combined with a freeing, more open way to whatever happens next in your life, because he no longer has to actively shape the future for this situation and only uses the goal for its controlling issues.

Now this you can use to be more open-minded about remembering your inner Self, because your personality does not know how the goal is going to be reached, and so he will not turn down every option that comes to mind on forehand. Your mind can be more peaceful because he now does not have to usurp your attention to frantically search for solutions but can more or less let that go. Do not, however, take the goal itself too serious, because then it is likely to become a personality tool before you know it. Now this may help you to see that it is not so much the goal that determines your experiences, but your attitude towards what happens in your everyday life that does.

Why you do not háve to visualize? Because there is nothing wrong with your present situation, so you do not have to picture a new one. It is only your interpretation of whatever you experience that causes the trouble, and it is only your personality who does that.