To appeal to the sense of touch when visualizing for a new car, for example, in your imagination, you sit in the new car and put your fingers over the steering wheel and feel the notches behind the steering wheel. Also, smell the new leather or the new vinyl or the new upholstery. There's a certain unique thing about the smell of a new car. I'm already into smell as well as touch here.

I've had a lot of fun with people who said they wanted a new car, and I would always tell them to put their hand on the steering wheel and feel the notches behind it. Even as I tell you, I can feel it. Those of you who drive, can you feel it?

Touch what you want, see it, and feel it. The subconscious mind responds to visualization and it responds to feeling. But remember, the visional sense (seeing) leads all of the other senses.

Experience the Feeling of Being What You Want to Be

Use your emotions!

How does it feel to be rich? How does it feel to have plenty of money? How does it feel to have a million dollars? Would you be laughing and feeling joyful? Then act out those emotions. Put a smile on your face and laugh out loud! Would you jump up and down? Then start jumping up and down.

Some people take it to the extreme. A lady in Philadelphia told me she wanted a house. So I told her, "Go and look for the house you want." She went back home with her kids and started packing up everything. They said, "Mama, where are you going?" She said, "I don't know where I'm going, but we're going out of here! Rev. Ike told me I could be what I want to be, I could do what I want to do, I could have what I want to have, and I see myself in my own house. Get those things out of that drawer and pack them up in these boxes here." She saw herself in a new place, she felt it, and it happened.

In Your Visualization, Use Your Inner Sense of Taste

I always visualized a vacation in the Caribbean area and those tangy drinks, maybe because the food and drinks are so flavorful there! Bring your sense of taste into play in your visualization. If there's somewhere you want to be, taste the food and beverages that are indigenous to that area. Do you want to be in France? See it, touch it, and taste the local cuisine. The idea of taste helps to stimulate your visualization.

When You Visualize, Employ The Inner Sense of Hearing

Hearing is essential. In your visualization process, appeal to and employ the sense of hearing in your mind. Hear people telling you what you want to hear. Hear your friends say, "Oh, you sure look great. That trip did you a lot of good." Whenever you 'hear' anybody's voice, you immediately tap into them on the subconscious level. You are in immediate, subconscious communication.

Never Get Into a 'Mental Argument'

Never have a mental argument with somebody in a visualization. If you see, feel, and hear yourself fussing with somebody, and people do fuss in their minds, there will be trouble!

Now, I'm going to ask for confessions. How many of you ever fuss in your mind with people? How many of you have 'imaginary' arguments? Well, we're not going to do that anymore. I told you people visualize all the time without being aware that they are misusing visualization. In their mind, they 'see' themselves fussing, they see themselves fighting, they see themselves quarreling. You see how vivid people are in their visualization, how they talk back and forth. This is a form of negative visualization. Please don't do it or there is going to be trouble.

A Technique for Losing Weight

Do you want to take off some weight? Here's an effective visualization technique using your inner sense of hearing: put the words into your friends' mouths in your imagination. See and hear them tell you, "You look so good! Whatever you're doing, it's working wonders!" See and listen to yourself say thank you to them, etc. Hear what you want to hear during your visualization.

Use Your Sense of Smell in Your Visualizations

Think about the flowers and vegetation that may be indigenous to the area you wish to vacation or visit. See them then, then smell them. Smell the coffee percolating. Smell the steaks sizzling out on a ranch in Texas. Smell the bread and the pies and the cake baking. Smell whatever is associated with your vision.

Dream Your Dreams

Occupy your dreams. "Lift up now thine eyes and behold the land. Walk up and down in it, and in the length of it and in the breadth of it, and all that your eyes shall see, I will give it unto you." Now, what does that mean? Does that mean that that was something God told Abraham several thousand years ago? Or is that the Lord God Almighty, the law of mind revealing its secret to you? That's the Lord speaking, the law of mind.

I'll give the meaning to you. That statement is mental and means: What you see is what you get! Some people think it means the Holy Land in Israel, but this scripture states a law of mind. "All that your eyes see, I will give it unto you." This is a statement of the law of mind, meaning all you can visualize, any dream you can occupy, will come true.