Optimism

Reading my book on optimism (Beyond Positive Thinking), I began to see imaginary ships floating through my vision that, in my video game (Pew Pew 2), I would need to track and destroy.  Playing the game necessitates constantly seeing these threats and being aware of them, even in peripheral vision where a clear view cannot be obtained.  Thus, the game trains my mind to associate this pattern of enemy flying ships to whatever it sees, including the text of my book.  In the same way, I can train my mind to see the patterns of happiness, optimism, abundance, and you-have-it, by constant visualization practice and by feeling emotional connection to the desired context/outcome/situation.  In this way, my mind will naturally see the positive patterns in the world and choose to act on those instead of the ones which my environment and society have passively conditioned me.  This is the strategy for "manifesting" a certain reality as suggested by the book on optimism.