Your Favourite Song and The Future.
There you are driving to work and a certain song comes on the radio.
Or you see a TV show that mentions either a world event in the past or features a specific period in history like the 90’s or when the Berlin Wall fell.
In each occasion, no matter what you were currently doing beforehand, your mind was transported in a flash back in time to a specific moment as if you were there again. No years had passed. No-one had gotten older. You never went anywhere. You are there again. Just you in that space with the people and circumstances of that day in living colour plus the emotions, and smells, and weird little recalls that appeared in your mind all of a sudden. Your greatest memory was a fresh as if you never left.
That is the power of our cinematic mind. It has an almost time travelling ability. Where you were once eighteen and on a trip to the beach with your three best girlfriends or that Saturday in December on one of the coldest days known to humanity when you bought your first Harley bike, your mind can catapult itself right back into the very centre of that experience. You can see it, feel it, and almost touch it.
How many times has this happened to you?
When was the last one? Just a few days ago or last month?
It’s common. It’s normal. It’s the same for everyone. It’s also the key to your future.
Your mind has the same super sharp creative capacity to project itself into the future as it does into the past. It doesn’t know what time is. It simply acts ‘as if’ what it’s envisioning is real and existing. Just ask someone who is convinced they are about to lose their job or that their partner is cheating on them even if neither are actually true. Or indeed ask a patient who is told they won’t recover from a condition or an athlete that they will never win medals who believes they will.
As Shakespeare wisely wrote, ‘Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so’.
If you can view a scene that you once occupied many years ago, the mind can also spring you forwards to another scene in your coming future in the same sharp detail. It doesn’t care. It goes where you take it. It forms a picture of what you direct it to. It’s just been easier for you to remember previous special moments in your life because you weren’t aware you could imagine another wonderful scene you could live in the future too.
It’s time to do this. Take your mental skills and turn them into future building like you did with memory gathering. Instead, now place yourself in another setting – one to come, one you wish to call your life, one you want your mind to believe is here right now this second, your daily world. Show it everything and add amazing feelings, sexy circumstances, feel good sounds like laughter, fab people, and tons of images of you livin la vida loca.
Then take that picture and hold it every minute of your days ahead. Repeat that vision over and over again. Never lose sight of it and work to move towards it. Hardwire it into your mind. Make it your life around you.
Because if you do, your favourite songs will be the new ones you will be dancing to in your not too distant future.