Creative visualization is a proven technique to expand on one's thoughts and mental pictures with the intent to manifest specific desires.

When you can quiet your mind and focus -- really focus -- on a specific desire, you're using the power of visualization. Some people say they can't visualize, but everyone with a fully functioning mind can imagine whatever they wish.

Even those who've survived the most horrible of conditions, yet had the strength of mind and the will to overcome the odds, used visualization to endure captivity, torture, hunger, poverty, and every other condition known to man.

To visualize is to occupy your consciousness with a specific image. It may be a black and white still, or a vibrantly colorful motion picture with you in the starring role. The mental picture can take any form you choose, just as the subject of that picture can be anything you want it to be.

Visualization is the key to manifestation. Whenever we think, we think in pictures. That's how the human mind is programmed. Think of your car now and what you envision is a mental snapshot of it. Imagine your bedroom. Just think for a moment how you would describe this room and its contents in words. What you're doing is translating the pictures you see into words.

Whenever you've attained a goal large or small, chances are you've engaged in the practice of visualization in some way, shape, or form. In fact, you might have used this great power on several occasions without even knowing it. But what if you could take the simple, ever-accessible ability to "visualize" and crank it up a few notches to the point where manifestation is inevitable.

Here are 3 secrets of creative visualization, secrets designed to add unstoppable power and precision to the process of creating results in your life by design.

1. Visualize often. It's this process of repetition that enables your ideal to penetrate the subconscious fortress. Once you're in, your goal is virtually assured, as long as you act on the impulses your subconscious serves up.

2. Assume ownership of your goal now. Don't wish for a future result, assume that it's yours. This alone will multiply the effectiveness of your creative visualization to a whole different level. Thinking makes it so. And nothing communicates to the subconscious with as much power as the definitive position of ownership. Assume what you want and act as though it's already yours. Make it so real that when your goal actually materializes, it's no surprise but simply the manifestation of your belief and expectation.

3. Go out and have fun. Release yourself from the 'got to have it' mentality. If you follow the principles of visualization and you think, act and live from the position of having what you want already, there's no need to stress about it. Don't struggle or wish for something that you want to manifest. State your desire, visualize it, see yourself in possession and then go out and live your life, fully expecting your desired result to eventually show up.

Try adding these 3 secrets of creative visualization to your routine. Have faith that what you want can be yours. Apply the 3 tools of enhancement and you can substantially increase your rate of success, while reducing the time it takes you to attain what you desire, be who you want to be, or do the things you most want to do.

Creative visualization is the one tool that can give you whatever you desire. And now you know how to turn the spark of desire into physical reality, whatever the desire happens to be for you.