What is Creative Visualization?
Creative visualization is a technique that changes your outlook about the world and, in turn, makes changes happen in your life. This is the idea behind the practice of positive thinking. Successful people have advocated positive thinking since the 1800’s.
The technique of creative visualization is used to achieve all types of goals, from financial to health and personal achievement to athletic or academic success. Studies involving athletes have shown that athletes who incorporated creative visualization techniques into their training regimens had significantly improved performance over those athletes who relied on physical training alone.
Creative visualization can help you to achieve any goal, as long as you’re willing to commit to the technique.
Why Should I Learn Creative Visualization?
Creative visualization is an important skill to learn because the results can be so incredibly powerful. Everyone can benefit from this technique and it can improve any area of your life.
You can achieve anything you can visualize; you can gain financial independence, successful interpersonal relationships, a new job, lose all that weight you been trying to lose for years or even improve your golf swing! Almost anything that you want to accomplish can be facilitated by the techniques of creative visualization.
How Do I Use Creative Visualization?
Creative visualization is actually a pretty simple process, the most important part is to see things as vividly and in as much detail as you possibly can. One way to make your goal as vivid as possible is to write it down in detail, work on it until you are happy that you have all the details exactly the way you want them. For example if you wanted to lose weight, you would work out an image of your ideal self.
Pay attention to the details like, what you would wear, how you would feel, the sounds you would hear, really make it a vivid picture so it will imprint on your subconscious.
Sometimes it is helpful to imagine you are watching yourself on TV or sitting in a movie theater and you can see yourself going through your usual daily tasks but exactly as you want to be, as you intend to be.
Notice how you feel when you wake up in the morning, knowing that you don’t have to struggle to find something to wear, you can wear anything you like. Notice how it feels putting on your jeans and feeling comfortable knowing you look great. Notice how you feel walking up the stairs and not being out of breath.
Notice how you feel when it is really hot outside and how much easier it is being thin.
Your key to success is to put as much detail and as much of yourself as you can into these visualizations.
Creative visualization is all about breaking down the mental barriers that block you from the things you really want in life. You have to ignore the negative thoughts that tell you that your goal isn’t possible. Instead, focus on seeing yourself in a new, more positive light. You’re a person who deserves to meet their goals and who is intelligent enough to make these goals happen.
Is Creative Visualization Hocus Pocus?
Some people believe that visualizing your goals and desires is a waste of time or that it’s magic that doesn’t work. Visualization is nothing more than focusing your mind on what you want to achieve in life. Rather than being distracted by little things in everyday life, visualization allows you to keep sight of your main goal so you can take the appropriate actions to make it a reality.
The more you focus on what you want to achieve as opposed to focusing on what you don’t want, the more your subconscious mind will simply accept your detailed visualization as reality.
The power of your subconscious mind is such that it seeks to achieve what it believes to be true and will not stop until it achieves this aim.
You have already seen the results of powerful subconscious conditioning although perhaps not in the way you intended, for example, every time you reach for a cookie when you had planned to stick to your diet. Why do we do that?
It’s because of subconscious programming, we seemed to be compelled to eat the cookie because our subconscious mind believes we must have the cookie to fulfill some function, whether it be habit, or distraction from boredom or other emotions.
By using creative visualization to reprogram your subconscious so that it no longer sees you as an overweight person who needs to eat for reasons other than physical hunger and nutrition, you will find that you automatically become the person you visualize. Slim, healthy, happy and in control
Creative visualization gives you a plan of action. Use it every day along with positive thinking to achieve anything, even things you have always wanted but thought were far out of your reach. Keep looking forward to bigger and better things in life and you’ll find a way to reach those goals!
