Rule#13 Rule of imagination (RUIMA)

The Rule

            Consider this quote “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. Do you know who said this quote? It is quoted by Albert Einstein, the man considered as the most genius person ever lived. He is the man who comes up with the theory of relativity which states that time is not absolute and will change relative to the observer. For example, if a person is in a space ship and travelling near the speed of light, his clock will tick more slowly compared to the clock on earth. I will not go into detail on Einstein’s theory of relativity but I just want to make a point that to Einstein, imagination is even more important than knowledge.

            This is because knowledge are solutions/facts already discovered and unearthed whilst imagination is something that takes that knowledge and goes beyond that to come up with more new and original solutions and ideas. So you could have all the knowledge and know everything in the world that has been discovered so far but with imagination you can come up with something new not already known or yet discovered so far. For example, Einstein always imagine himself travelling at speed of light and see how the world will look like when he is travelling at the speed of light. From this imagination and his knowledge that speed of light is a constant, he deduced that it is time that changed when he is travelling at the speed of light.

            When we were a child, we are always imagining things. We imagined ourselves to be superman that saves the day. We imagined ourselves to be policeman, doctors, soldiers when we play with our friends. We imagine ourselves to be the strongest, fastest, richest people on earth. We imagine ourselves to be princes and princesses. As we grow older, reality seems to smack us in the face and we seem to lose the ability to imagine. What we have to do is like Einstein, why not we reverse back our clock and imagine what we could and could not have been when we were younger? Even better forward our clock and imagine what we could and could not have been in the future.

            If you are an assistant manager working in division A, why not imagine yourself as a manager working in division B? If you are a manager working in company A, why not imagine yourself as an Assistant General Manager working in company B? If you are a salaryman, why not imagine yourself to be a businessman? Why not imagine yourself to be a CEO of your own company? Imagination is limitless, you can even imagine yourself to be a bestselling author.

            In the documentary ‘The Law of Attraction’, the producer interviewed leading authors, philosophers, scientists, and rich people on ‘The Secret’ to their success. All of them attribute the secret of their success by imagining exactly what they want. For example, if they want a house, they will imagine exactly the type of house, the colour, the shape of the house that they want. According to them, their subconscious mind will find ways to get the things that they imagined and want, whether through working harder, or finding the perfect opportunity, or writing a bestseller etc. That is the power of the imagination.

            We are at the position we are right now because of the limitation that we set ourselves. Imagination has no limit, therefore through imagination, we are able to break through the limitation that we have set ourselves and we can rise higher.

           

What is this rule?

            This rule will allow us to break the ‘prison’ that we have set to ourselves. If we think that we are capable of only earning RM 5000 every month, then that amount will be the exact amount that we will earn. If we free our imagination and think that we are capable of earning RM 10,000 every month, then our brain through our subconscious mind will find ways to achieve our dream. There is no limit to our imagination but of course our conscious mind will prevent us from imagining the impossible. We will never achieve our dreams if we think our dream is impossible. So sit back, relax and imagine exactly what you want!

How to implement this rule?

            We need to see in advance through our imagination what we want to accomplish. To practice this rule, set up a goal, fantasy or desire about what we want to achieve in order to enhance our life. Sit back, relax, close our eyes and fantasize about the goal we just set up. Don’t put any limitation on it and don’t shroud it with any sort of doubt. Be one-hundred percent certain about achieving that goal. Keep in mind that there is no one who is going to interfere with the goal or fantasy we just created and there is no one who is going to prevent it from happening. We are the creator of our own world of fantasies. Only we, but no one else, have the power either to accomplish or deter its manifestation. The most successful imagination are done in a meditative state at the alpha-state of mind.

More about this rule

Many successful people, including Albert Einstein, Nikola Telsa, Napoleon Hill, and others, practiced the imagination method in their early lives before they became world-famous. Their biographies indicated that those men used to visualize their fantasies, even the technological discoveries, which later found fully realized. They all proved to themselves that "believing is seeing." Latin Proverb: Believe you have it and you have it. Belief is the motivating factor that enables us to reach our goal.  Their success-setting strategies of their earlier lives for manifesting their goals and dreams through the power of imagination on a consistent basis led them to where they were in the human history. They experienced in their minds and lived with their goals and dreams as if it was real before they actually accomplished in this material world.

The epitome of using imagination to create and invent was Nikola Tesla. At an early age Tesla trained his powers of imagination. In his autobiography “My Inventions”, he describes, “Every night (and sometimes during the day), when alone, I would start out on my journeys - see new places, cities and countries - live there, meet people and make friendships and acquaintances and, however unbelievable, it is a fact that they were just as dear to me as those in actual life and not a bit less intense in their manifestations.

“This I did constantly until I was about seventeen when my thoughts turned seriously to invention. Then I observed to my delight that I could visualize with the greatest facility. I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture them all as real in my mind.”

Tesla was a prolific and unparalleled genius, giving us AC electricity, the electric car as well as many other devices, some which have not seen the light of day because they would revolutionize man’s approach to energy.