Have you ever wondered how some people always seem to get what they want? How is it that they always make the sale, get the date, or get a new job? One tried and proven method is that of Positive Visualization. Positive visualization is a technique of affecting real world situations by using the power of positive thinking!

The secret is to visualize the situation before you ever come to it. Think of how you want to things to go, what outcome is desirable for you. Once you’ve done that, now think about the specifics, and try to use all your senses! For example, maybe you are going out on a first date and you like the person and want it to go well. Visualize the scene. Are you at a movie, a restaurant? Is your date wearing perfume or cologne, and if so then what kind? What does your seat feel like, is it cushioned? Is there music playing in the background? The more details you imagine, the better your results will be.

Now this may sound too good to be true, but studies have shown that this technique works. Prior to the 1980 Olympic Games, a panel of Soviet scientists decided to test the theory by comparing physical training versus mental training (positive visualization). They grouped the athletes as such:

Group 1: 100% Physical
Group 2: 75% Physical / 25% Mental
Group 3: 50% Physical / 50% Mental
Group 4: 25% Physical / 75% Mental

Well, guess what, that’s right, group 4 showed the largest gains in performance! Actually, this technique is not some kind of newfangled thing, but has been used for centuries by practitioners of karate and Indian Yogi.

Visualization Aids

Unfortunately, not all of us are gifted with such active imaginations. This is where the use of visualization aids comes in handy. Follow these aids in order to maximize your power of visualization!

Meditation – You can meditate on your own, or find an audio tape to help you.

Vision Boards – A vision board is a home-made poster with images and phrases to help remind you of the positive behavioral changes you seek. You will want to place the vision board in an area where you will see it often, make multiple boards if necessary. If you find any of the images are triggering negative thoughts then replace them.

Mind Movies – These are similar in concept to a vision board, but are movies for you to watch. There are plenty of movies available on Youtube. Here is an example:

Hypnosis – A trained hypnotist can guide you through a positive visualization session. There are also audio tapes available for self-hypnosis.

Guided Audio Programs – There are guided audio programs available which help you to reach success in positive visualization. For example, you can try out and experience this free guided money meditation.

Bio: Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she writes about education, online degrees, and what it takes to succeed as a student taking online undergraduate degree programs remotely from home. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

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I have completed an Association for Thought Field Therapy approved Algorithm Level Training and am very familiar with its power. If you get the opportunity, read the book by Roger J. Callahan, Ph. D. titled “Tapping The Healer Within”, definitely take up that chance.

Some people call it “Energy Psychology” or “Emotional Acupressure” and it really is based on an ancient wisdom that still works even in our hectic, modern day world.

It’s quite timely for me to be reminded to get back to using the Mind Movies and the tapping again as I’m going through a bit of a transition period at the moment with regard my day job contrasting sharply with the work to which I’m committed with Forward Steps. This is definitely a great way to get myself clear of blockages.

It’s for that reason I share it with you too. I know that I can’t be the only person experiencing a few challenges & decision spaces.

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I’m so thankful to have this to share with you today. I’ve been using this technique myself, and it’s such a calming and encouraging thing to do. It works quietly and powerfully, clearing away the “junk” that builds up during the course of our day to day living.

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6 minutes a day, meditate on your created visualizations in your own Mind Movie.

EVERYTHING begins with a thought, including EVERYTHING that is in your life today (whether you like to hear that, or not).

You have the ability to outsmart your brain and cause a change in the things, people and circumstances that show up around you. Your environment is a direct reflection of the ‘energy’/'vibrations’ that you emit. Your body responds to each thought as effectively as it responds to ‘reality’. It knows no difference between imagined and real.

If you’ve been following the Tennis Masters or US Golf Masters events, then you would have seen individual tennis players and golfers as they struggled with their own minds and their thought gremlins!

This week, have some ‘ready at hand’ power statements that you can repeat to yourself each time that a negative thought enters. Filter the conversations in which you participate. Vet what you watch on television, notice how much is being fed to you that is cementing disempowering beliefs. Select reading material with a commitment to reading things that enliven you and expand your personal growth.

Can you spend an entire day focused purely on things for which you can say ‘thank you’? How big a gratitude list could you generate over the space of 24 hours?

Are you keeping a gratitude journal each evening, so that your subconscious becomes more attuned to seeking out the great things in your life?

Remember: Like attracts like!

“An old man said to his grandson, “Boy, I have two tigers caged within me. One is love and compassion. The other is fear and anger.” The young boy asked, “Which one will win, grandfather?” The old man replied, “The one I feed.” -Indian tale.

Six minutes a day, meditate on your visions in a Mind Movie.

The power of the mind to influence the body is quite remarkable. Imagery can be helpful in 90 percent of the problems that people bring to their doctors or counsellors. Images are the most fundamental language we have. Everything you do, the mind processes through images. When we recall events from our past, it is hardly ever through words.

Images may not be limited to visual. We can include sounds, tastes, smells or a combination of those sensations. In fact incorporating a combination of our senses with our visualizing is powerful.

Imagery is the language that the mind uses to communicate with the body. We do not talk to a damaged or ill part of our body and speak it away. Instead, we imagine the diseased part of our body healing or shrinking away. Likewise, we do not speak to our future and tell it what to show up. We imagine our futures with images, feelings, smells and sounds.

In a Special Issue of Memory, Mental Imagery and Memory in Psychopathology edited by Emily A. Holmes and Ann Hackmann (ISBN: 978-1-84169-967-7), M.A. Conway presents novel insights that suggest, “imagery is highly associated with self goals. Imagery can both reflect and maintain goals linked to psychopathology.
An exciting consequence of this framework is that imagery can be used to resolve dysfunctional states in therapy. Imagery in psychopathology tends to be highly intrusive, distressing, and repetitive. It may arise ‘out of the blue’, i.e. directly triggered from autobiographical memory.
Images can hijack attention and reflect negative self goals. It may therefore understandably provoke a variety of cognitive and behavioural responses. For example, interpreting the image as representing fact rather than fiction, trying to block it out of mind, or avoiding triggers for the image. Cognitive behavioural therapy targets such responses because they are thought to maintain psychopathology in a vicious cycle.
In contrast, responses that update the image in memory could break that cycle. Further there is a role for positive, alternative images.” Conway suggests that generating new images can generate new goals and thus ameliorate distress: an insight that may further enhance therapy.

Unfortunately, many of the images popping into our heads do more harm than good. Your thoughts have a direct influence on the way you feel and behave. Imagination can either be a run-away train speeding towards a wreck, or you could choose to harness your thoughts and visions. It is preferable to manage your responses to life situations, make conscious choices and move them toward what you see when you visualize your desired outcomes.

We are feeling machines. What have you been putting in front of that feeling machine each day? Are you filling it with the emotions and feelings fed to you from a television screen? Have you noticed how negative these images are becoming and how desensitised we become over time, as we view more and more of them? Your brain is sending your body powerful messages of being comfortable with maiming or killing another human being, with yelling and anger. Is that what you want for yourself and for your children?

Athletes commonly use visualization to enhance their performance. We can do the same for our lives. Seeing something over and over in our mind starts to tune our body toward producing that result. See it, feel it and experience it before you actually do it. Begin with the end in mind.

You can do this in every area of your life. See your desired end results vividly, over and over again. This creates for you something akin to an internal comfort zone. Then, when you find yourself in the actual situation, it is not foreign and does not scare you. When that is the case, you are far less likely to reject the situation and sabotage the success. Instead, it will feel like home.

The most effective images are the ones that have some meaning to you. If you want to put your visions on display for yourself and add affirmations to them, then a good affirmation wants the five basic elements of being personal, being positive i.e. stated in the affirmative, set in the present tense, is itself visual, and carries with it emotional feeling.

There are many techniques available to support you with visualization that adds power to your life. Most of them do recommend that visualizing closest in time to the beginning and the end of your day is preferred, for best effectiveness. You can also visualize certain intended outcomes just moments before an event. This is essentially what athletes do, however I am sure that they would also set aside deliberate, alternate times to imagine the successful result for their sporting events.

Some people have shared about personal experiences of almost miracle type situations showing up in their lives shortly after beginning to practise imagery techniques regularly. It may simply be due to the fact that they have now opened themselves up for noticing, tuning in and receiving those opportunities, which at earlier times, might have been ignored or not even seen and heard.

Learn to use your imagination in a way that is purposeful and directed, and it can be a powerful vehicle for getting you where you want to go.

Six minutes a day, meditate on your visions in a Mind Movie.