True visualization is God's attribute and Power of Sight acting in the mind of man. When one consciously pictures in his mind a desire he wishes fulfilled, he is using one of the most powerful means of bringing it into his visible, tangible experience.

The first step is to determine upon a definite plan or desire to be fulfilled. In this, see that it is constructive, honorable, and worthy of your time and effort. Be sure to examine your motive for bringing such a creation into expression. It must be honest, both toward yourself and the rest of the world, not merely to follow a whim or gratify appetites of the physical senses. Be very sure that there is no lurking feeling within that you would be glad to benefit at the expense of another.

The second step is to state your plan in words as concisely and clearly as possible. Write this down. Thus you make a record of your desire in the outer, visible, tangible world.

The third step is to close your eyes and see within your mind a mental picture of your desire or plan in its finished, perfect condition and activity.

Contemplate the fact that your ability to create and see a picture within your own consciousness is God's attribute of sight acting in you. The activity of seeing and the power to create are attributes of your God Self which you know and feel is within you at all times. God's Life and Power are acting within your consciousness to propel into your outer world the picture you are seeing and feeling within yourself.

Keep reminding the intellect that the ability to picture is an attribute of God - the attribute of sight. The power to feel, experience, and associate with the perfected picture is God's power. The substance used in the world without, to make the form in your picture and plan is God's pure substance. Then you must know, God is the Doer, the Doing, and the Deed of every constructive form and action that ever has been sent forth into the world of manifestation. When you thus use all the constructive processes, it is impossible for your plan not to come into your visible world.

Read your desire or plan over as many times in the day as possible and always just before retiring, because on going to sleep immediately after contemplating the picture in your own mind, a full impression is left upon the human consciousness undisturbed for a number of hours, enabling it to be recorded deeply in the outer activity and allowing the force to be generated and accumulated which propels it into the outer experience Life.

In this way you can carry any desire or picture into your consciousness as it enters the Great Silence in sleep. There it becomes charged by God's Greatest Power and Activity, which is always within the Heart of the Great Silence.

Under no circumstances discuss either your desire or the fact that you are visualizing with anyone whatsoever. This is imperative. Do not talk to yourself about it out loud or even in a whisper; for you should realize that the greater the accumulation of energy generated by your visualization, contemplation, and feeling the reality of your picture, the quicker it will come into your outer experience.

Thousands of desires, ambitions, or ideals would have manifested into the outer experience of individuals if they had not discussed them with friends or acquaintances.

When you decide to definitely bring about an experience through consciously directed visualization, you become The Law - God - The Law of The One to whom there is no opposite. You must make your own decision and stand back of your own decree with all your power. It means you must take an unshakable, determined stand. To do so, know and feel that it is God desiring, God feeling, God knowing, God manifesting and God controlling everything concerning it.

No one can ever know God as long as he considers a force opposed to God; for whenever he acknowledges that two forces can act; he has a resultant quality of neutralizing activity.

Conditions can never improve for anyone until he desires Perfection and stops acknowledging a power opposed to God, or that there is something either in or outside of him that can prevent God's Perfection from expressing.

If Perfection and Dominion are to be expressed, you must know and acknowledge only The Law of the One. The One exists and controls completely everywhere in the Universe.

Cast out of mind then all doubt or fear of the fulfillment of that which you are picturing. Should any such thoughts or feelings - which are, after all, but human emanations that do not contain perfection - come to your consciousness, instantly replace them by the full acknowledgment of your Self and world as the Life of God - the One.

Have no set time in your mind for results, except to know that there is only now - just the immediate moment.

Take this discipline, use it, and you can manifest a resistless power in action that cannot and never did fail.

The above excerpt is from the book series "I AM" Discourses. (Ballard/Saint Germain)