Creative Visualizations: An Introduction

I have always told my colleagues and friends that humans are so blessed that we were given with the most powerful faculty in the universe – our brain. Yes! That is our brain. Few may have realized that such a great percentage of what happens in our life is created by our own visualizations. Buddha once said, “The mind is everything; what you think, you become.” Therefore, how we see things around us and how we react to them clearly identifies what we will enjoy and what we will not.

To illustrate that, consider this. There are two boys who will be going to a party. The first boy visualizes himself to be restless and shy and have no one he knows to talk to. The second boy, however, thinks that as he get inside the venue, he will see many new faces smiling, great beats and music and absolutely many pretty girls saying Hi’s and hello’s.

The question then is, who do you think among the two boys will end up having so much fun and a date? For sure you’ll say, the second boy, won’t you?

Walt Disney calls this exercise as “Imagineering”, referring to our own ability to picture out events and places and creating positive thoughts on them. Nevertheless, creating mental images is just not sufficient. You have to learn how to feel it, taste it and live with it. You master the skill of getting your whole senses agree to what your mind thinks. Our body responds to the stimulus created by our brain. Thus, our perspective towards our problems, nuisance officemates, ranting boss, complaining customer can tell us either we take it light our take it as a huge load in our back. As it is said, there are always different sides to look at the issue, hence, creative visualization.

For many instances in our lifetime, we have used creative visualizations either consciously or unconsciously. To enjoy the full benefit of this great technique, it can take time to master it. Constant practice can aid you starting from relaxation stage to the actual creative visualization process.

In the next post, I will be discussing how to start creative visualization work for you.

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