Welcome to the Envisioning Method Guide.

What is the Envisioning Method? It's a process to get you in a state of ow. While you're in this state of mind you will be actively using your mind to envision various objects, feelings, and emotions that are all scientically proven to create a tremendous benecial effect on your body, mind, and emotions. There are 6 steps. And they will happen very quickly not taking much of your time. And once you're done you'll gain all that time back multiplied in terms of productivity, creativity, and an elevated state of clarity and relaxation. How important is meditation? More and more entrepreneurs are claiming that their daily meditation practice is the single most important is a key factor in their overall success. The Envisioning Method is the precise process which Vishen Lakhiani uses to train entrepreneurs to achieve peak performance.

compassion

Compassion is that which makes the heart of the good move at the pain of others. It crushes and destroys the pain of others; thus, it is called compassion. It is called compassion because it shelters and embraces the distressed. - Buddha Compassion, a favorite practice of his holiness, the Dalai Lama, is expressing the intention of moving from judgment to caring, from isolation to connection, from indifference or dislike to understanding.! Compassion, much like any other skill is not xed it can be expanded and enhanced with training and practice.

Scientic studies suggest there are not only emotional and spiritual benets to compassion but also physical. Compassion leads to an increase in DHEA hormone, which ghts and counteracts the aging process while reducing cortisol the stress hormone. Based on neuroscience research of Richard J. Davidson, UW-Madison Professor of Psychology, alterations in brain function were observed after just a total of seven hours of training. In her TED Talk, Buddhist roshi, Joan Halifax reveals that compassion enlivens us and enhances neutral integration hooking up all parts of the brain.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

gratitude

What makes you happy? Is it family and friends? Wealth and success? Health and well-being? Or all of these?
Whatever it may be, philosophers and thought-leaders agree that happiness is a state of being which cannot be attained as an end in itself. Happiness comes from within and can be attained with the simple, yet powerful act of gratitude. Gratitude is the acknowledgement and appreciation of the positive things that come our way that we did not actively work toward or ask for. Gratitude is not a mere emotional feeling or response, it is a choice we make. Meaning we have the ability to capture the benets by altering our own attitude of mind.

Gratitude has the strongest link with mental well-being than any other character trait. Gratitude increases spiritualism, makes us self-centered, increases self-esteem, improves your sleep, increases your energy levels. Gratitude even makes you more likely to exercise according to an 11 week study of 96 Americans, those who kept a weekly journal exercised 40 minutes more per week than the control group. Other studies with the gratitude journal writing one appreciative sentence for ve things just once a week, demonstrated signicant effects. The group with the gratitude journal was more optimistic and felt happier.

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."! - Eckhart Tolle

forgiveness
- Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let go of the desire for revenge and ill-will toward the person who wronged you. It may also include feelings of goodwill toward the other person.
Forgiveness is a skill you can hone, and that granting forgiveness is more rewarding to you than the person you forgive. It is not excusing ones past behavior or actions. It is rather a process which allows you to empower and thus free yourself of any burden or grudge weighing you down. Researchers have discovered mentally nursing a grudge has the same effects on the body as stressful events: muscles tense, blood pressure rises, and sweating increases. Another study revealed a link between forgiving someone for a betrayal and improvements in blood pressure and heart rate, and a decreased workload for the heart.

Forgiveness can also result in less pain and anxiety as seen in a study where people with chronic back pain meditated focusing on converting anger to compassion. Put simply, forgiveness puts the ball back in your court giving you the power and responsibility, rather than someone else, resulting in greater happiness.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.

visualization
- Oprah Winfrey

Creative visualization is a powerful practice that literally allows you to change your outer world by shifting and changing your thoughts and perceptions.
Studies have shown that human beings over-estimate what they can do in 1 year and under-estimate what they can do in 3 years. When doing creative visualization, its important not to think about what your life might look like based on where you are at now. I ask you not be to be realistic here. Remember that realism is nothing but a socially acceptable form of pessimism. Is there evidence for visualization? An experiment done by Australian Psychologist Alan Richardson revealed something quite astounding. He divided a group of basketball players into 3 smaller groups and tested their free-throw ability. The rst group would practice 20 minutes every day. The second only visualized themselves making free throws, but no real practice was allowed. The nal one would not practice or visualize at all.

There was signicant improvement on the group that only visualized; they were almost as good as the guys who actually practiced. Another example of visualization comes from the famous comedian and actor, Jim Carrey. Before his breakthrough success in Hollywood, Jim was a small time comedian. In 1987, he wrote himself a check for10 million dollars. He dated it 'Thanksgiving 1995' and added the notation, for acting services rendered. He visualized it for years and in 1994 he received $10M for his role in!Dumb and Dumber.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

perfect day
- Earl Nightingale

Its not so much about what we do, but rather how we do anything. You see, a perfect day is is cultivated by the quality of our being, our awareness, in the present moment.
The renowned neuropsychologist, Daniel Siegel, coined the powerful phrase regarding the effect that our daily habits have on the synaptic connections in our brain: What res together, wires together. Meaning the habits we form such as constantly checking email or social media, rushing through our morning routine or breakfast, etc. carry on throughout our day. What results is a feeling of disconnection and a weakened ability to actually BE fully present. This is because as these unhealthy habits become deeper and deeper ingrained in us they rob us of our daily energy.

Stephen Covey of the bestseller Success Principles paints this quality of character that we develop, Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. When you visualize your day, you take control of your path. It as those you decide and the universe by some mysterious way conspires to your demands.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

blessing

I learned about this exercise when meditating with monks for 9 days. Now, I can't exactly explain what I saw or how it worked. But in those 9 days I witnessed some amazing things from these monks. People who went into states of ecstasy, moments of pure joy and intuition. Blessing or harnessing your internal energy is an act afrmation and recognition which is a spiritual or psychological practice. It is a process of recognition and awareness whereby we become aware of the goodness in another or ourselves.

People like to be blessed. To be acknowledged, even in such a small way, is a powerful thing. And this is something you can do even toward yourself. Harnessing your internal energy makes you feel good. When we bless, we make note of the connection between ourselves and a greater spirit or energy, which can be anything you believe in. When we bless a person, we see them, admire them, and wish them well. We make a direct connection with them and bring them into our sphere of consciousness. And that is why when you bless yourself or harness your own inner energy you are able to reap all of these benets.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha