One morning during roll call, the guard unexpectedly interrupted the count, and the scientist was able to step out of line and slip away without being missed. He made his way to Switzerland, where he met a couple from California who invited him to visit them there. He soon found himself being driven by their chauffeur along Wilshire Boulevard, just as he had pictured. When we are embroiled in our problems, the hardest thing in the world is to picture what we want instead of stewing over giving our attention to what we don't want, which we thereby attract more of. There's nothing supernatural about it.
Mysticism is helpful, but optional.
What is not optional is the self-discipline necessary to back up our imagination with the willpower to commit to and stay focused on what we want while taking whatever steps we are able to take to reach it. Those steps may include additional learnings, in or out of school, with perhaps some research in the local library or seeking out a knowledgeable person to talk with. They may involve rethinking our attitudes and opinions about someone or something. They may involve breaking old habits, old patterns of doing things, and replacing them with new patterns. We have to be willing to put up with that strange feeling.