Welcome to day 5 of the 7 Keys to a Healthy Mind or as I like to call it, Perspective as Poetry.

What you focus on you make real.

Let’s say it again. What you focus on you make real. Plain and simple. We either venerate or victimize ourselves with the points of view we adopt and hold on to. Our mental pictures, therefore, are of the utmost importance when going for a smiling mind.

Shortly after the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota I was speaking with Shephard Smith on The Fox News Show,  Studio B. Shephard ask me how any of us could possible remember any learned survival techniques in the actual moment that we need them. My answer was the power of perspective.

Picturing in advance ANY situation, good or bad, thriving or surviving images alike, our mind believes them to be real, to be actually occurring in that moment. Emergency survival situations or thriving in your personal passions, doesn’t matter.

Think of your last vivid dream. Did it seem real? Were you aroused or terrified, how fast was your heart beating? How heavy was your breathing? Your mind made the movie, offered its perspective, and the body believed it to be true!

Do you remember the old Memorex cassette tape TV commercial when the late Ella Fitzgerald sang and broke the glass with her voice. Right after the glass shattered from her amazing volume and pitch, the announcer asked, “Is it live or is it Memorex?” The cassette recording of her voice sure appeared real to the busted glass. Our minds can’t tell if our perspectives, our mental movies are live or taped, real or imagined. To your mind and body they are one and the same. When you picture an event, your body believes it is actually practicing that event. Bottom line, if you picture your golf swing, your mind thinks it is hitting some balls. Plain and simple.

So, here’s the key.

Your perspective becomes poetry when you create vivid, dynamic movies in your mind’s eye. Make your movies full of sound, visions and outcomes. Script your mental movies to move you! Imagination and visualization are the key. Make sure you see the events unfolding through your own eyes. I know it seems small and nit-picky, but in your movie, you can see everything but your own face;  you arms, torso, legs, surroundings are all “in the shot” if you will. See the movie from behind your eyes.

Before we go…

** I am not a doctor, a psychologist or psychiatrist.** Now, for those of us that suffer from a diagnosed, major clinical depression or chemical disorder, only the valuable time spent with your doctor, will hash out a plan, best suited for you.

Please join me tomorrow for day 6 of the 7 Keys to a Healthy Mind; Fear as a Good thing.