One common problem people encounter during visualization, "If I am not rich and successful now, how can I lie to myself and imagine that I am rich and successful?" I must tell you that visualization works regardless of your current reality. This is because your sub-conscious mind cannot tell the difference between reality and your imagination.

Simple Visualization Exercise

Let's do this simple exercise for you to experience visualization and feel it yourself.

Close your eyes. Now think about a big yellow lemon. You take it out from your fridge. It feels cold. Peel the lemon. Hmm? Its juice squirts on your hand. Taste the peeled lemon with your tongue. What does it taste? Yuck, very sour.

Do you feel your saliva in your mouth? It tastes sour? How come? It's only in your imagination. You don't even actually taste it.

That's, my friend, the power of visualization! And you just did one of visualization techniques, internalizing. It means seeing images in your mind's eye.

Many of you are visual people. That is why you may make statements like, "I see what you are saying". You need an image to associate with. If I asked you to tell me what your house looks like, the first thing that pops into your mind is an image of your house.

Fake It Until You Make It

Now let's go back to the one common problem that people encounter during visualization, "If I am not rich and successful now, how can I lie to myself and imagine that I am rich and successful?"

What's the one common trait of rich and successful people, namely millionaires? They have millions of dollars, right? They often receive payment of millions dollars check or wire transfer.

So why don't you write yourself a million dollar check? Ten million dollar check? Or even one hundred million dollar check? Then visualize yourself that you receive that check monthly. Visualize how happy you are when you receive that check. Visualize what you can buy with that money. Visualize what you can provide to your family with that money.

Yes, fake it until you make it is a very powerful concept.

That's why in The Secret movie, Jack Canfield (when he was still poor) added additional zeroes in one of the check that he received. He rewrote that check into a million dollar check. Then he put that check on the ceiling above his bed where he saw it before sleeping and after waking up.

Jack Canfield faked it until he made it. The rest is history. Jack Canfield is a multi-billionaire now from a simple visualization exercise using a million dollar check.