One part of creative visualization I haven’t covered yet is negative creative visualization.  I don’t mean using visualization to help negative things happen (although we all tend to do some of that subconsciously anyway), but rather visualizing things in an unattractive or undesirable way to discourage them from happening.  For example, the weight lose book…

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the…

    Way back in the 1800’s, A Spanish captain planted orange trees on the Caribbean island of Curacao.  When the trees bore fruit, the captain was disappointed to learn that the small oranges were very bitter.  He abandoned his orchard.  It was many years later that someone discovered that the skins on these small bitter oranges…