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The Magic of Images: 

How Pictures Communicate With Your Subconscious (and Shape Your Reality)

Yesterday I opened a folder on my desktop labeled “AI Me.” Inside are dozens of my AI personal branding portraits — images of me looking luminous, grounded, powerful, and completely aligned with the life I choose to create.

Every time I open that folder, something inside me shifts.

My subconscious doesn’t say, “That’s just AI art.”
It says, “Ah, THIS is how I want to feel. Let’s move life in that direction.”

And it really can move you, because the subconscious mind controls over 90% of your thoughts and actions according to scientists who study this sort of thing.

The subconscious doesn’t rationalize or discriminate. It just accepts everything it sees and hears at face value — believes it is real. So it doesn’t matter if you’re looking at an actual photograph, or a created image of your most glorious self.

We get to create our reality and the subconscious mind is our most powerful reality-shaping tool. That’s the essence of Magic!

Priestess of Avalon
Having your real face in the image makes it all the more convincing to the subconscious mind.

So I’m suddenly making decisions that reflect the version of me in those images — the one living her purpose, walking in Celtic magic, and helping shape the New Earth with beauty, joy, creativity, and laughter.

That’s the power of images.
They speak the secret language of the subconscious.

The question is, How big can you dream?

Your Subconscious Doesn’t Respond to Logic — It Responds to Imagery

One of the great cosmic jokes is that your subconscious doesn’t understand English (or any human language). It doesn’t respond to bullet points, pep talks, or long explanations about what you “should” be doing.

It responds to:

  • pictures
  • emotions
  • energy
  • symbols
  • metaphors
  • and the images you repeatedly expose it to
Rain maker
Need to water your plants? Call in some rain!

This is why magic is so full of symbols and visual rituals. It’s why shamans journey through vivid inner landscapes. And why a single picture — even a simple one — can instantly change how you feel, act, and show up in life.

Your subconscious takes whatever images you feed it and quietly organizes your beliefs, behaviors, and opportunities to match.

Show it images of your dream life?
It begins re-wiring your reality toward that vision.

Show it images of scarcity and chaos?
It adjusts your life in that direction.

Images are instructions.

So be careful about watching the news or disturbing movies. Those pictures go right into your brain and stay there, informing your subconscious mind that those things are important to you.

Why AI Personal Branding Portraits Are So Magical (Really Magical)

What happens when you put YOU in the picture?

Here’s where AI portraits become more than just “branding.”
They become spellwork.

House of Mirrors novel by Bernadette Wulf
I created this with AI to market my novel.

You can picture yourself as:

  • confident
  • radiant
  • joyful
  • doing your sacred work
  • already living the life you want to be living

…and your subconscious will adopt that identity as truth.

In that moment, you’re not “visualizing” your future self.
You’re seeing a parallel version of yourself — directly, vividly, undeniably.

This is the same principle behind ancient magical practices:

  • Celtic warriors imagined themselves as gods before battle.
  • Druids used symbolic images to shift identity.
  • Shamans visualized themselves in animal forms to unlock hidden abilities.

Your AI portraits do what humans have always done in magic:
They show you a clear version of yourself that your subconscious can attach to and replicate.

And the subconscious LOVES clarity.

Picture worth a thousand words
Images communicate. People get it subconsciously.

When you repeatedly see images of your ideal self, your subconscious starts closing the gap between who you are now and who you’re becoming. Not through force — through alignment.

Images Bypass Resistance and Go Straight to Identity

Most people try to change their lives through effort:
“I’ll try harder. I’ll make myself do it. I’ll willpower my way through!”

But identity always wins.

You act according to who you believe yourself to be… or more accurately, who your subconscious believes you to be.

This is why AI portraits are so powerful: they establish a visual identity that your subconscious will replicate in your life.

You’re not trying to imagine your dream self — you’re looking at her or him.

And your subconscious says: “Finally. Clear instructions to follow.”

You represent your archetype, your path, your future self, and your magic — all in a form your subconscious fully understands.

faery dancer
I’ve always wanted to dance with faeries—why not?

A 60-Second Magical Practice Using Your AI Portraits

Here’s a ridiculously simple but astonishingly effective ritual:

1. Choose one portrait of your ideal self.
One that feels like “Yes, that’s who I want to be — my true self.”

2. Look at it for 30–60 seconds.
Breathe.
Soften.
Feel yourself inside of it instead of analyzing it.

3. Feel what it would be like to step out of the picture as that version of you.
Not someday.
Not eventually.
Now.

4. Say silently:
“This is who I am.”

Do this daily, and the shift becomes unmistakable.

St. Francesca
What if I could connect with animals like St. Francis?

This is how magic works.
This is how manifestation works.
This is how the subconscious rewires itself — through images and rituals, repeated often, believed deeply.

Your portraits become portals.
Living spells.
Identity anchors.
Magic mirrors showing you your next evolution.

When You Feed Your Subconscious Images of Your Ideal Life… It Has to Respond

Picture your subconscious as a wildly loyal spirit helper.
It doesn’t care what you ask for — it will rearrange your world to match whatever you show it.

Feeding my mind
Feed your subconscious with beauty and magic!

Want Help Creating Your Awesome-Self Portraits?

If you want personal branding portraits that don’t just “look nice,” but actually function as magical identity-shifting tools, I can create them for you.

Images that:

  • show you as your higher self sees you
  • activate your subconscious
  • support your manifestation path
  • strengthen your magical practice
  • and help you embody the life of your dreams

One image can shift your whole trajectory.
A collection of them can shift your whole life.

Right now I have a special offer available — not sure when I will end it, so don’t wait or you might miss it.

Learn more: https://www.wulfworks.net/personal-brand-photography-portraits/