Is using visualization to achieve one's goals wrong?

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Philothea_2.0 said:
If you toss them with olive oil and sea salt and roast them, they taste like nut-flavored french fries, only much healthier. I LOVE brussels sprouts.
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Liking brussel sprouts… that is not only kooky, but disturbing 😉

Okay…How about visualizing while you pray?

Prayer / Silence will be more productive

Maybe concentrate on Christ’s Passion

I went thru a period of “new age” thinking… very empty in the end

Just remember that God wants the best of the bestest for us

Be at peace!!!
 
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Liking brussel sprouts… that is not only kooky, but disturbing 😉

Okay…How about visualizing while you pray?

Prayer / Silence will be more productive

Maybe concentrate on Christ’s Passion

I went thru a period of “new age” thinking… very empty in the end

Just remember that God wants the best of the bestest for us

Be at peace!!!
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Yes, so did I. Left me very unfulfilled. Came back to the church though eventually 🙂
 
I think we might be doing with vocabulary issues here. When I hear visualization, I think of attitude and mental preparation. Maybe I’m naive, but I can’t see how that can be harmful. On the other hand, I can see where someone might be carried away with it perhaps. As long as prayer takes a higher priority, though, it seems that prayer itself will remain your anchor.

For what it’s worth (probably not much), I’ll share something that happened to me about fifteen years ago when I worked in the security field. I used to go through various scenarios in my head when I had “down time” at the office. Usually the job was pretty dull, but once something happened nearly exactly as I imagined. Because of the mental rehearsing, I was able to approach the situation in a unique and creative way which led to the guy in question being handcuffed by a deputy and no one being hurt. In that case, I think the mental exercises were helpful when the real situation presented itself.
 
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