What No One Tells You About Manifestation Visualization

Visualization always sparks big conversations in my SelfMadeLadies community, as it is a powerful manifestation method.

One question I got recently asked in the Q&As of the Practical Path was: ‘I struggle to visualize with my eyes closed… Can I visualize my manifestations with my eyes open?’

Yes, you absolutely can visualize with your eyes open — in fact, you’ve already done it. Think daydreaming with purpose.

And many even find it easier to visualize dreams with their eyes open than to visualize them with their eyes closed.

But first, let’s have a look at what visualization actually is.

Visualization is basically a technique to create a picture in your mind. When manifesting, we mainly use visualization to create such a mental image of our goals, to see ourselves as we have already manifested our dream.

But visualization can support you much more in the manifestation process, and therefore, it is a very important manifestation method that I often work with. Specifically, in combination with a vision board.

But it can do even more…

Visualization can, for example, help to identify your abundance blocks but also to overcome them, which is very important for your manifesting success.

There are very exciting sports studies that show that athletes who ‘only visualized’ parts of their training achieved better results than athletes who completed the full training physically.

This is also the reason why visualization has been used in the Olympic sports sector for many decades.

Eidetic and Non-Eidetic Vision

There are people who have a problem imagining a clear picture when they visualize with closed eyes.

You have to know that this is completely normal. Only about 10% can really see images like a movie; for others, it is often more like thoughts.

This is called eidetic and non-eidetic visualization. I can visualize things in my head like they are real, so I’m definitely an eidetic person. But I know from many women in my manifesting community that they have a problem with this.

The eidetic memory is the ability to vividly recall images from the memory after one has seen or experienced something only for a short time. Or, in the visualization process, this would be the pure imagination of something that has not yet happened.

The good news is, it doesn’t matter in what group you fall.

If you are eidetic, you probably have no problem visualizing with closed eyes. You then see your vision playing like a movie in front of your mind’s eyes.

As a non-eidetic person, you might want to test the open eye visualization, for which I’ll give you step-by-step instructions below.

Important: as with all manifestation methods, apply it in a way that is best for you. I don’t believe there is right or wrong. These tools have the most power when they give you a good feeling.

It’s all about emotions when you manifest.

But now let’s test out if you are better with open eyes when visualizing your dreams.

Open Eyes Visualization

1. Look at a picture that has a symbolic effect on you when you think about your dream.
   
   For example, a beautiful beach if you want to manifest a trip to Hawaii or a picture of a toned fitness model if you’re going to lose some weight and get into shape.
   
   The picture can be a printed photo but also a drawing. And it can also be on a computer monitor or your mobile phone.
   
   
2. Relax your eyes. Try to look slightly downwards, with your eyes half open or upwards. Choose what is most comfortable for you.
   
   
3. Start visualizing; just think about daydreaming. As I said earlier, we’ve all done it already, so you can do it for sure.
   
   Keep looking at your symbolic picture. Start with a kind of story to build this picture and your goal around.
   
   If you have practiced this a few times, you can try in a further step to look at the picture only at the beginning, and then from step 2 on, look at an empty wall or into the distance (the sea, a lake, a meadow…)

You see, visualization works just as well with your eyes open as with your eyes closed. More importantly, as with all the manifestation tools, is consistency.

PS. Don’t forget to grab your free vision board guide