Lesson 5 | Effective Visualization
The Secret of Transformation
By Dr. Frederick Eikerenkoetter
January 31, 2009
“And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him; Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever.”
—Gen. 13:14-15
I want you to underline the passage, “Look from the place where you are,” in your notes.
What does that mean? Look up from your present condition to the condition of life that you wish to be in. That is the whole secret of transformation, the entire secret of solving a problem.
Look from the place where you are.
Look up from your poverty and visualize yourself in prosperity.
Look up from your sickness and see yourself in good health.
Look up from hatred, unforgiveness, envy, malice, and misunderstanding, and see yourself loving and being loved in divine order.
Look up from your loneliness and see yourself with friends, companionship, comradeship, and romance.
Don’t Get Caught Up in Conditions
That’s what keeps people in their problems; they get caught in them. Facts and conditions are not the truth of you! Again, the scripture says, “Look from the place where you are.” So many scriptures come to bear on visualization. Again there’s that scripture verse, “I will lift up mine eyes.”
That is a visualization scripture. “I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.”
There is no help in looking down into the hole I’m already in. No help comes from looking down into the negative condition that I may find myself in. My help comes from the Lord, the law of mind, from getting on the positive side of the law of mind. That is where my help comes from.
“Look unto me all ye ends of the Earth, for I am God, and there beside me, there is no Savior.”
See Yourself As You Wish to Be
The only salvation you will find will be in looking up from any wretched condition you find yourself in, looking to and ‘seeing’ the good conditions you wish to be in. “Stand you still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will work for you today.” That is a visualization scripture.
Quietness in itself is a spiritual quality. When you become still, it is at that point that you, the individual, tune into the cosmic mind. When the conscious human mind is still, you connect to the mind of the universe.
So if you have a problem, look up from that problem, from that place where you are. Be still, be quiet, and see the salvation of the Lord.
What does it mean to “see the salvation of the Lord”?
It means to visualize it.
To put it dramatically, if you find yourself in a hell of a fix, lift up your eyes and look up from that hell of a fix, and see yourself in a heaven of a fix.
If you need money, still your mind and senses, and see the salvation of the Lord. See yourself delivered from that condition. See yourself with money!
It’s so simple that it’s profound, and it’s simply profound and profoundly simple. And that’s, I believe, how the intellect misses all of these eternal truths, because they’re so simply profound and so profoundly simple.
“Rev. Ike,” you ask, “is that all there is to it?”
Let me tell you this: all the studying we do, all the praying we do, all of our spiritual work, it’s one end that leads us to realize these simple truths.
If You Can See it, You Can Be It
If you can, in your own mind, see yourself in good health, you can be in good health. If, in your own mind, you can see yourself as a happy person; you can be a happy person. If, in your own mind, you can see yourself as a loving and loveable person; you can be a loving and loveable person. And yes, if, in your own mind, you can see yourself as a successful, prosperous person, you can be a successful, prosperous person. If in your own mind, you can see yourself with plenty of money, you can have plenty of money! Again, let’s state this principle; it’s so simple: If you can see it, you can be it.
I Am Always Becoming That Which I Am Conscious of Being
I am forever becoming what I see myself being. You have to live in your dream, vision, decision, or choice. You have to learn how to live in it.
Growing up in South Carolina, my cousins stayed with us and visited with us from time to time, boys and girls around my age. They used to laugh at things that I did but still took me seriously.
That’s another thing, I’ve always been strange, and I don’t apologize for it. I had the habit of talking to my imaginary servants I was visualizing and giving them names. My cousins would play along with me even though they thought it strange, but something told them don’t scorn this kid; he’s strange, but don’t count him out. He may be strange, but he’s not crazy.
And so they even learned the names of some of my imaginary servants and would talk to me about them. And I would see myself as a very wealthy person. I remember I sat down one night, and my dear mother listened to me for about two hours, telling her about all the grandeur I would have.
Call Things Which are Not, as Though They Are
And honestly, I was living in my dream and occupying that dream. I was Looking up from the place I was! I remember that one night I spent about two hours just telling my mother everything. We had an old Sears & Roebuck catalog, and I’d go through it, and everything I saw in it that I liked, I saw myself with it.
As a young boy, I did not know visualization as a science; it was spiritual intuition, and we all have that. We were sitting in that house warming ourselves by a Ten Lizzie. Do you know what a Ten Lizzie is? It’s a trash burner.
So I have been intuitively looking up from where I was for a long time, and you haven’t seen anything yet. I’m still looking up. What was I doing? I was consciously occupying my dreams.
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