To change how you act, you must first change how you feel. The speaker argues that visualization and imagination generate the emotions needed to reprogram your subconscious, making desired actions inevitable. Affirmations alone don't work unless they shift your emotional state first.
to act different. Well, before you can act different, you got to be different. So focus on the being. What do I need to do to be different? What type of thoughts do I need to entertain? What type of thoughts do I need to stop entertaining? How do I need to use my imagination? How have I been using my imagination? Okay, let me start practicing using my imagination to see myself the way I would like to be. Let me imagine myself as confident. Let me imagine myself as happy. Let me imagine myself as charismatic. Let me imagine myself as being loved. Let me imagine myself being prosperous. As I start to imagine myself that way, I start to feel that way. And when I start to feel that way, I'll accidentally start thinking that way. Now, if I'm feeling that way and I'm thinking that way, I couldn't act otherwise even if I wanted to. Let's get into it. Ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling. No idea can be impressed on the subconscious until it is felt, but once felt, be it good, bad, or indifferent, it must be expressed. That's why I always say the affirmations don't work unless they change the way you feel.
