depth of the browns, golds and yellows, the lushness of the reds and oranges; imagine the smell of it wafting sensuously up your nostrils, the taste of it bringing pleasure to your palate and tickling your tongue. Visualize well, for as with water, clean, wholesome food will become harder and harder to come by as time goes on and a steady supply will be extremely beneficial to your ongoing wellbeing.
shelter
While it’s true that the essential purpose of shelter is to give you adequate protection from the elements as well as privacy, your home (or homes) also affords you the space to play out the theatre of your being, complete with props, sound effects and lighting. So don’t hold back as you visualize this, your perfect home or homes, located, aspected, designed, furnished, equipped and externally landscaped exactly as you’d like. Go into as much detail as you can muster, all the way down to the finish on the plug sockets, the feel of the bed linen, the width of the TV screen, the colour of the walls and floors, the shape of the swimming pool, the heat of the steam room and the green of the foliage as the breeze blows through it. See yourself with key in hand, opening the door and stepping in – smell it, run your fingertips along the worktop surfaces in the kitchen, gaze at your reflection in the bathroom mirror and tiptoe proudly through the tulips in the yard.
clothing
(including, for the sake of convenience, shoes, accessories and all hair, skin and bath products, perfumes, tweezers, nail clippers, razors and all the gubbins you need to make you feel presentable)
While the essential purpose of clothing is to protect you, both from the elements and from being arrested (other than in your own home or equivalent, or designated nudist areas), we wouldn’t have such a huge global fashion industry had we not the compulsive proclivity for dressing up for the purposes of impressing each other; and while it’s possible you’re so enlightened you don’t do that too, it’s unlikely, so visualize your wardrobe now, full of the most beautiful clothes and footwear you can possibly imagine and your bathroom shelves stocked with all the products you could ever want to pamper your beautiful body. See yourself stepping out in all your manicured finery (or neo-hippie throwaway chic, or however you fancy yourself looking), feel the fabric against your moisturized skin, the leather around your pedicured feet.
visualize your wardrobe now, full of the most beautiful clothes and footwear you can possibly imagine.
physical warmth
See log fires, underfloor heating, double glazing and roof insulation for the winter and warm sun on your shoulder for the summer, or however you like to take your physical warmth. See yourself now never having to shiver in discomfort – except, of course, on the rare occasion the boiler breaks down and you get ripped off by the plumber, for which occasional, inevitable eventuality, even the power of wu wei is no match.
physical comfort
While you’d think this would be covered by a combination of the above, comfort within your skin also depends on how flexible, supple and hence pain-free your body is, so visualize yourself being as loose as a long-legged goose without an ache or pain anywhere on your person – not just in an abstract way – actually visualize each limb and sector relaxed, supple, flexible and pain-free, and don’t just visualize it but feel it from within as well.
strength
No need to explain why you need to include strength in your list of things to manifest. If you’re not strong, you’re weak, and if you’re weak you won’t stand up to the force of the world, which grows stronger the more you manifest, and life will simply knock you over. Strength here applies equally to mental strength and physical, though generally, mental strength comes from physical strength (and to some extent vice versa). So visualize those back muscles strong as an ox, those rippling biceps and quadriceps, those flabless abdominal muscles and proud pectorals, and don’t just visualize them but feel them from within, rolling the concept out to include every sinew, nerve, bone, organ, blood vessel, sense organ, skin surface and all other constituent parts of your body. Be strong, comrade, sister or brother – the revolution needs you.
if you’re not strong, you’re weak, and if you’re weak you won’t stand up to the force of the world.
stamina
Wu wei or not, you’ll need stamina to do everything you’ll need to to manifest what you want – even to get through the day in a straight line you need stamina, so visualize yourself now tireless, indefatigable and with boundless stamina – enough to move ten mountains, not just one. And don’t just visualize it but feel it collecting and storing itself in your bones and tissues, especially your thighs, which provide the perfect repository.
energy
Well, obviously you have to have access to limitless energy or you’d flake out before anything good happens; as well as which, you need energy to support your visualization, specifically in connection with utilizing the micro-cosmic loop for manifesting purposes, a process to be explained shortly. So visualize yourself imbued now with infinite energy – see it filling, supporting and surrounding you, perhaps as light, perhaps as an invisible vapour – that’s up to you – and don’t just see it but feel it too, for as you see and feel, so will it be (you create your own reality), and see yourself thus imbued, supported and surrounded until your dying day as there’s no point programming yourself to flag when you get old or you won’t be able to enjoy whatever it is you’re manifesting.
visualize yourself imbued now with infinite energy.
health
Without preamble, visualize a rich golden fluid – the golden elixir of life – entering through the crown of your head, pouring down through your brain into your neck and through your throat into your body; through your heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, bowels, sex organs and all the other bits and pieces; through your arms, hands, hips, thighs, lower legs and feet; bathing every cell as it goes, renewing each one and making you well. See yourself enjoying robust health as you wander about your perfect home, energized, strong, full of stamina, wearing fine kit and smelling sweet.
longevity
While you may find it presumptuous to consider the possibility of extending your lifespan by choice, and while you may well be right, you might as well throw it into the mix anyway as there’s nothing to lose in doing so and possibly many years of extra life to gain. I do it all the time and am still going strong at 153 – and and feeling damn chipper too, I might add. So without further ado, visualize your cells reprogramming themselves for an extra lifespan now. See, if you’d care to be so bold, yourself
