Visualization – Is real? How it works?
Visualization is marked every time with anecdotal evidence of Success Tips. Many articles mentioned about Visualization experiments and documented Visualization as truth bomb of success. No wonder, many celebrities shared their secret of success is Visualization.
Whether Visualization is science or Pseudoscience?!!
Whether it causes psychological or physiological changes in our Body or it comes under law of attraction?!!
Prior to that..
What is Visualization?
The formation of mental image of something. It is a cognitive tool accessing imagination to realize all aspects of object or action or outcome.
Only by imagination, how everything happens?!! Visualization is the best motivator and it enhances your attitude towards your goal. You can’t get any results by sitting for hours and visualize without any motive.
Is it Pseudoscience or Science?
Law of attraction is a pseudoscience based philosophical concept, belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences in to a person’s life.
What happens to your brain when you visualize?
Visualization and action connected to each other and involves the motor cortex of brain. When you visualize, it stimulates the Putamen {region of brain} which is responsible for movement regulation, priming the brain and body for action so that we move more effectively.
{Priming means Exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus without conscious guidance or intention}
What will happen?
1.It makes you stay positive and breeds creativity & Motivation
2.It brings Belief in yourself. Do you know “Placebo effect”? . Belief heals our physical sufferings through placebo. Likewise, Visualization brings belief and empowers you.
3.It focuses your mind and trains you to hold focus and thus by it increases your will power.
4.It helps people who deals with Anxiety & depression to a state of relaxation by mentally rehearsing the action.
5.It has Neuroplasticity effect.
{Neuroplasticity means ability of brain to adapt to changes in an individual environment by forming new neural connections over time}
How to do?
Visualization comes under Guided Meditation category.
Visualization is just imagining about what you want by involving all your senses. So that it will be connected to your emotions.
Let me say, How the smell of your favourite food makes you to feel the taste of food and eventually saliva secretes on your mouth.. Likewise, when we start to visualize, it brings the energy and feel.
Here Visualization can be divided in to two types
- Result-oriented or Outcome Visualization
- Systemic or Process Visualization
Result-oriented or Outcome Visualization:
Here, you just envision yourself about achieving your goal in the detailed mental image with expected or desired outcome using all your senses. What will happen, you start celebrating the success and the possibility of entering in to fantasy will be more. You always feel pleasure whenever you do visualization ,resulting in fantasies and drop your energy to move in to reality.
Systemic or Process Visualization:
Here, Envisioning each of the necessary action to achieve your desired outcome.
Visualization
Triggers Motivation
Increases Concentration
Aids Relaxation
Take away:
Process Visualization gives you energy to move forward in your life. Remember, it never replaces your Hard work and Practice.
Visualization is best tips for relieving stress and helps in healing journey of Physical, Mental & Emotional distress.
It is a powerful way to achieve positive behavioural change by improving focus and self-confidence in an individual and establish performance.
Visualization has positive impact on our lives . Just try & see!!
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