Possibility: Wearing Rose-Colored Glasses

How the Divine Power of Imagination Makes Space for Possibility

The one who dares to wear rose-colored glasses possesses possibility thinking, activating the innate divine power of imagination. Imagination is one of our spiritual powers or capacities, with which we are able to conceive of, envision, and embody our desired reality.

What we can conceive we can create. Put another way, we bring about what we think about. The biblical proverb “without vision the people perish” highlights an urgent mandate to dream of what can be.

“What can be, can be when we hold a potent idea in mind, develop it by imagining it fleshed out into manifestation, and feel the thrill of fulfillment while incubating the idea in mind.”

From Divine Audacity: Dare to Be the Light of the World by Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett

Neville Goddard, a 20th-century metaphysician, taught that imagination is the redeeming power within us. He equated imagination with Christ consciousness, the awareness of our divine identity by which we pivot away from a limited, only-human sense of self.

By means of imagination, we conceive of an ideal—a divine idea—that, when held in mind, leads us to experience the ideal as an existing reality, and to live accordingly. We have access to infinite possibilities that match our ideal.

We are the music makers.

We are the dreamers of dreams.

We are the movers and shakers

Of the world forever, it seems.

Arthur O’Shaughnessy

For example, when searching for employment, we hold the divine idea of dedicating our talents for a worthy effort and experiencing tangible rewards as well as feelings of fulfillment. We possess creative power to envision and embody our most preferred reality, to look ahead while envisioning aspects of our ideal job.

The forward-looking power of imagination makes sense to us because we utilize it all the time. We think ahead to the meeting or event we are planning, imagining all the details needed and desired. We place ourselves, in our imagination, on the beach well in advance of our body’s arrival there for vacation. We anticipate how we expect to feel when we have recovered from an illness or injury.

Replacing Unwanted Memory

For all its forward-looking power, according to Neville imagination works after the fact as well. He insists we are able to revise our past!

“We don’t discard the thing that is unpleasant [that experience we had moments, or years, ago], we revise it; revising it we repeal it; and as we repeal it, it projects itself on the screen of space bearing witness to the power within us, which is our wonderful human imagination."

Awakened Imagination

Neville advises that we replace an unwanted memory or belief with a wanted one, telling ourselves the revised story until we feel the helpful effects in our bodies and being.

For example, a person who has had a falling out with a family member can imagine a conversation that would have been preferred—replacing disharmony with harmony.

Imagination Helps Us Rewrite Our Story

Replaying the revised story replaces the unwanted with wanted thought, feeling, and future possibility. By removing the negative and replacing it with the positive possibility, we can imagine ourselves into the very experience we prefer.

Does revising our story smack of spiritual bypass or avoidance of reality? When we utilize revision, we neutralize a past hurt by imagining that what happened may not have been intended the way we interpreted it. We tell ourselves a more sympathetic version of the story of our adoption or the factors leading to the breakup of our relationship. In this way, imagination is a helpful tool for our reflection, understanding, and forgiveness.

By vision and by revision, we are capable of cultivating our amazing capacity of imagination. Wearing our rose-colored glasses, imagine the possibilities!

Affirmations for Imagination

Creating is Natural to Me.