Try doing the outer or internal style of positive visualization for a few days and let me know what happens. For smaller things like personal interactions or getting a task done, I have them write “And this is how I’d like this to go.” Then they fill in the blank and sit with it for a few moments. Then I have them look at what they’ve written every day and imagine or pretend that it is happening right now.
#Visualize it full#
You want to see it, feel it, even taste it.įor bigger goals, I teach my students to write out what they want in full detail. The key is to make your internal imagining or visualization as real as possible. But the optimism you’ll feel when you imagine something good happening will give you much better odds of something good happening. Again, visualization doesn’t guarantee that everything will be perfect. You can also use it for bigger things like imagining your perfect career. It can be as small as imagining the best outcome for an errand, like imagining that you’ll find the perfect parking space and that the shelves will be stocked with toilet paper! You can use your visualization to imagine a great conversation with a difficult client. What we want to do is use our imaginations to help us focus on what we do want. Worrying and anticipating the worst outcome for something that hasn’t happened yet is a total waste of imagination. Didn’t you imagine it ahead of time? If you’re like most people, you probably imagined the worst that could happen. By the way, if you think you don’t visualize, just substitute the word “imagine.” Think about the first time you had a job interview or asked someone out on a date. We all use visualization all the time but mostly it’s anticipating what we don’t want to happen.
It comes up with ideas that will bring you closer to what you want and even affects you physically so your body responds in sync with the great outcome you want.
#Visualize it how to#
What it does is that it gets your mind, especially your unconscious mind, working on how to make what you want to happen. Visualizing a great outcome doesn’t guarantee that it will happen. See, they know that their minds don’t know the difference between a good visualization and what’s really happening. They imagine their performance going perfectly from start to finish. They don’t visualize stumbling at the starting line or missing their triple axel. World-class athletes have used visualization for years, knowing the power that their minds have over their performance. The second type of visualization is internal where you visualize what you want in your mind. Don’t judge me, but I put mine in my bathroom because I drink a lot of water, so it means I’ll be looking at my board a lot. Then I put that vision board where I’ll look at it every day. I look in magazines and cut out illustrations to represent those things and then I paste them on my board. For me, I want things like a happy, healthy family: my husband and I close and laughing, my students achieving success success for my businesses the teens I’m mentoring to be happy etcetera. To make my vision boards, I take a big poster board and find images that represent what I do want. Years ago, I learned about vision boards. The first type is on the outer, creating something that literally my eyes can see. I use two types of visualization to focus on what I want. So, when we’re bombarded by what we don’t want, we get to create our own visualizations of what we do want and direct our focus there. We don’t want our focus on what we don’t want, we want to focus on what we do want, whether it’s for ourselves or for our world.
I’ve talked about how energy flows where focus goes.
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