The Power Of Imagination

Hey guys,

I recently talked about the power of imagination in one of my posts. 

Well, What is imagination ??

- The wikipedia says Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses.

I agree to the definition, but don't understand it, lets try to fetch the exact definition of it.

Einstein said - "Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Some of you might be thinking - "that might be true for someone like Einstein but for people like us who hardly get enough marks to pass the examination, knowledge is must. We can't just imagine ourselves passing the examination without actually studying for it."

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But what if I say - YES YOU CAN DO THAT.

First look at these examples- 

One dramatic example of the power of vivid imagination is that of Air Force Colonel George Hall. He was a POW locked in the dark box of a North Vietnamese prison for seven grueling years. Every day Hall played a full game of golf in his imagination. One week after he was released from his POW camp he entered the Greater New Orleans Open and shot a 76.

Another incredible account is that of Vera Fryling, M.D. A Jewish teenager on the run from the Gestapo, she lived undercover in Berlin during the Holocaust. During this time she imagined that she was a doctor, a psychiatrist in a free land. Overcoming the Nazis, Soviet army and a bout with cancer, Fryling ended up on the faculty of the San Francisco Medical School. “Imagination,” she says, “can help one transcend the insults life has dealt us."

Now lets turn to the scientific aspect of it and lets start with some experiments-

• A study was conducted to test the power of imagination. The experiment was done on a group of Olympic athletes. In this, the athletes were divided into two groups, the first one were supposed to actually run a 100m race while the other group had to run the  race only in their mind.At the end of the experiment, It was observed that the same kind of muscles triggered in both the group of racers and to the surprise the amount to which these muscles triggered was almost the same.
  

• During another experiment a number of students learning piano was divided into two groups. The first group, with the name “the mental practice group” sat in front of an electric piano two hours a day, for five days, and imagined both playing the sequence and hearing it played. The second group, that was named “physical group”, actually played the piano. The brains of both groups were mapped before the experiments, each day and afterward. When both groups played the sequence after the end of the practice, a computer measured how accurate their performance was. The results have shown that both groups learned to play the sequence. The mapping of their brain showed similar brain map changes.
  

• Anatoly Sharansky Became a Master of Chess Through Mental Practice - this shows how imagination leads to physical changes. While in prison, most political prisoners are mentally falling apart due to a lack of use of their brain that needs external stimulation. Anatoly Sharansky, a Jewish computer specialist, who stayed for a long time in prison in the worst conditions of isolation, played mental chess for months which helped him to keep his brain from degrading.During his mental practice, Sharansky played both white and black, holding the game in his head from opposite perspectives which is an extraordinary challenge to the brain. The result was that when world champion Garry Kasparov played against Sharansky, he didn’t manage to beat him. Sharansky became a master of Chess only by using his imagination.

  

  Antoly Sharansaky

Even now, if you are not satisfied then lets take the example of some of the greatest geniuses born over time

Albert Einstein - Undoubtedly the greatest genius of all time that ever stepped on this planet. Lets look at this - in 1905 Einstein submitted 3 papers that changed the course of history. The reason for his success was not just knowledge, it was something beyond the physical terms.

As he said, He used to go in for thought experiments. He would lock himself in his room and would be lost in his world of imagination for days all together. and see what he did to the history

Albert Einstein

Nicolas Tesla - The man who created the electromagnetic world that we live in today. He said, He would imagine the entire motors in his mind and then modify its design in his mind only and try to work out various combination which would ultimately work for him. He ofcouse believed in Alien lives and other stuffs which have not yet been proven yet. But, he said that he successfully communicated with aliens.

Nicolas Tesla

Ramanujan - The greatest mathematician of all time. He said that we would have dreams in which a mystery creature would come and write mathematics equations on a red wall and when i would get up. He would recall those dreams and work on those equations. 

Ramanujan

So, were these creatures some hypothetical ideas or mere results of pure imagination??

In Hindu mythology, there is description of a place called the Akashic records ( google it in the side bar given on the right of the page for more) which is supposed to be the collection of all the knowledge of the world in a single place. What I personally believe is that when these geniuses like Ramanujan or Einstein would go these thought experiments, they somehow were able to access these akashic records and share with us the knowledge they gained there.

During Mahabharata, In the beginning of the war, Arjun said to lord krishna that we will not fight against his own brothers and his gurus. and then Lord Krishna showed him an image and said that the future is already decided, it will surely happen one way or the other, You just have to play your part. So, I believe that lord krishna would have showed him a way into the Akashic records where Arjun saw the future and learned the little secret of life.

Enough of religious stuffs, Now lets turn to some scientific ideas.

Let me ask you a question. What are thoughts?? 

Think of it for a while...............

According to what i think these thoughts are nothing but vibrations. Vibration is must for everything to function in this universe, everything here is vibrating with a particular frequency and hence has a specific amount of energy. So, does this mean that even our thoughts have energy??

Yes indeed, each thought has its own energy which depends upon its vibration. 

You must have seen people around you who are mad about something, you call it madness but i call it passion. So, I would correct myself and say that these people are passionate about something.

So, when you are passionate about anything, and all the time you are thinking of nothing but the things you want, then it would lead to very strong vibrations and hence a great amount of positive energy that would ultimately lead you to succeed in the field you are passionate about.

Paulo Coelho in his book "The Alchemist" said that when you truly want something from deep within your heart then the whole world conspires for you to get it.

So, think of whatever I said today and try to imagine yourself the way you want to be.

Keep on doing this until you get the answer to the question given below in "YES".

"Will You Love Yourself, When You met Yourself??"