Lessons Learned From Growing My Boobs
5 years ago I got fed up with my boobs and decided I would visualize them a cup size bigger. For as long as I had remembered I was picked on for being flat chested and had recently come across the idea of visualization and decided I would test its validity. (It’s crazy I know. I can’t even believe I’m sharing this.) What’s crazier is that it actually worked! I grew my boobs an entire cup size bigger. I started walking around with a size B chest and ironically I hated it. I felt foreign in my own body and, though it was probably only growing pains, I actually found them uncomfortable. Anyways…I decided to visualize them back to their original size and fortunately that worked too.
Growing and shrinking my boobs was the first time I had consciously visualized something into reality but as I looked deeper I had an Ah-Ha! moment.
I use visualization unconsciously ALL THE TIME!
- Last weekend I argued with a friend and was so upset that I couldn’t stop replaying it in my mind. Result: I saw the person the next day and the argument continued along with all the rehearsed thoughts I spent wasted energy on the night before.
- I dreamed about going to college at a conservatoire where all I had to do all day long was be an actor. Result: I got my BA from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
- I created a goals board with all the things I wanted in the future. 2 weeks after putting a picture of Evita on it I was called in for the National Tour. I had visualized the opportunity right into reality. Guess what I visualized next? “They’re going to think I suck. They’re going to call my agent and tell him I suck. I’m never going to nail this character…” Had I spent my energy on more helpful things, the audition might have gone an entirely different direction. (That goals board also had a picture of Hollywood on it…guess where I live now.)
Our minds can’t discern between positive or negative images, its only job is to create the picture we feed it. This is why I am an advocate for meditation and conscious visualization. We don’t even realize that we are master visualizers already and we turbo-charge the results by putting our emotional energy around it. With an intention of developing consciousness we can use this gift to our advantage.
How will I try to implement this Ah Ha! moment? I am producing a documentary called ONE MORE ROUND which is the inspiring story of ex-amateur Golden Gloves boxing finalist David Waknine. Twenty years ago, at the height of his amateur career he walked away from the sport. Now, 70 lbs. overweight and 20 yrs. out of practice, David is battling his way back into shape to fight the one professional fight he never fought. It is about both inner and outer transformation. He is meeting life’s challenges head-on and facing his toughest opponent: himself. He is going back to fight in the ring so he can stop fighting in life.
It is my personal responsibility as his producer and friend to support him in his endeavor. To hold him up to what IS possible and remind him of what he DOES want, especially when the path seems very dark. It is my personal responsibility to uphold the message this project hopes to share, by living that message in my role as producer and in my own life.
It’s not always easy to focus on the outcomes we want when in-the-moment life pressures seem overwhelming. But our lives are made up of moment by moment decisions accumulated over a period of time. When life creates a reality you don’t want, consider where your focus is and spend time visualizing what you might prefer. A warning: ‘be careful what you wish for, you might get boobs ’ Always start by being grateful for the fantastic things you have already imagined into reality. Then get busy tweaking it further.