Visualization

visualization

Have you lately been to a horror movie? Did you notice how were you terrified while watching it? Did you listen to the screams of the people around you? And even more, did you feel you own heart beating faster than usual? Off course you did. But why did that happen? Were you really in danger? Was there any possibility that you can get harmed? Again no, so why? why did you feel so??!

visualization and the subconcious mind

The fact that many people dont know is that your subconscious mind does not differentiate between a real situation and a visualized situation. In the case of the movie your subconscious mind thought that the monsters are going to eat you so it launched the fight and flight response in order to protect you,and so your heart did beat faster as you watched the movie.

so how can i make use of this?

your subconcious mind thinks that whatever images it sees are real,whether those images were on a movie or visualized in your mind,by visualizing yourself outperforming your peers at work, or winning sport games each time you play your subconscious will think of it as true and so will try to keep up exactly to that level the next time you do the activity.for example visualzing your self speaking confidently in a presentaion many times will program your subconcious mind to perform well the next time you make a presentation.

visualization and day dreaming

Contrary to common belief, visualization has got nothing to do with day dreaming. While day dreaming is just wasting time visualisation is a very powerful method to help you achieve your goals and perform well in the tasks you do. Visualization in simple is sitting in place where you are relaxed and then thinking of the task you are going to do which may be anything starting from winning a tennis game to good performance in a presentation.you should think of yourself performing the task with an amazing performance. Doing so over and over will let your subconscious mind get ready to do what exactly you imagined. After all, in many cases we learn by visualization. If you have tried to play some kind of sport that contains some complex moves like aikido you may notice that actually you watch the sensi doing the move over and over and then you try to do it yourself. Watching him do so is as if you visualized the move in your mind. (see behaviour change using visualization for more information on that topic)

who uses visualization?

Lots of famous athletes visualize themselves winning the race before starting it. lots of football players do the same and obtain very good results compared to the other players who did not visualise(provided that all other factors are constanst). You can also use visualization to help you set your goals, by visualizing how exactly you do want to be in the future. You may visualize the large building of the multinational company you want to have or the big car that you dream of . You may visualize everyone cheering for you while you hold the soccer world cup for your country. Whatever you visualize, if realistic, can be the base for goal setting and for a plan that you will commit to. these images you see will get hard coded into your mind and so act as a motivator to you along your journey.

You can also use visualization in addition to hypnosis to deeply set the goals into your subconscious and so become more motivated towards achieving them .

Want to know anything more?

Yes, what is the subconscious mind?

Hmmm, what is the fight and flight response?

Hypnosis!! I am not going to be a magician now, am I?!!

I didn't find my question here.

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