Effectiveness of Visualization

Success has no fixed formula.  The different people take different routes to climb the success ladder.  Some people do affirmations daily, some  hear motivating and inspiring talks and some others visualize their success through images and pictures in their mind. Needless to say, these powerful practices are to be continued in conjunction with your hard and smart work and actions.   

This visualization is a very powerful technique.  It is also known as the art of creating compelling and vivid pictures in your mind.  It is the most underutilized success tool, the human beings possess.  This tool is very much instrumental to bring achievement of  all your goals as practicable as possible. The visualization works in three different ways.

1. This tool activates the energies of the power of subconscious mind.  For any successful endeavour, the contribution of the subconscious mind is far more than the conscious mind.  The most successful people always concentrate their focus to activate the ever agile subconscious mind with the help of affirmations, visualization and imagination.  You can control your conscious mind, but you have no control on your subconscious mind. It will never listen to any logic.  It is like a computer; what you feed, it stores and again retrieves, as and when you require.

2. With the help of visualization, your brain is able to program its reticular activating system (RAS)  just to notice available resources you need for your usefulness and utilize the same for your success.  Of course, these resources are always available with you, but you are not able to recognize the same. 

3. Visualization acts as a magnet and it attracts you to various like minded people, opportunities and resources by which you are able to accomplish your successful journey in your life.

The Neuro researchers and scientists have established this fact that when you perform a task in your real life, your brain does the same process, which it is supposed to do when you visualize the same activity in your mind.  In short, there is no difference in the brain about the process of your actual doing or visualizing the doing.  This principle is also applied whenever you learn any new thing, you try to accomplish a new skill or you indulge yourself into a new activity.  Harvard researchers conclude that people, who visualize the things in advance, have better performance than the one who are not visualizing.  The persons with a capability of visualization or ability to develop this tool are performers of one hundred percent accuracy of any task.  In visualization mode, you energize your brain and in that state of mind, when you start to perform in  reality, your achievement will be almost to the target.  But the unfortunate part in life is that our education system does not advocate this tool to implement in mass scale.  The sports psychologists use this technique of visualization to enhance the performance of the sports persons.  In fact, almost all the celebrity athletes or experts in any field  follow this technique. Before any game or event, they repeatedly visualize their winning and in most of the cases, the positive results only take place.

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When you visualize on a daily basis regarding your wishes or desire as if the same are already accomplished, it creates a conflict and arouse your sub-conscious mind to take action to fulfill your desires or wishes. How this happens? These conflicts when magnified over a period through regular visualization, causes three things to happen.  Firstly, it sensitizes your brain’s reticular activating system to make you aware about the impact of the regular visualizations and ultimately forces to achieve the same; of course, you have to be action oriented.  Secondly, it activates your sub-conscious mind to suggest solutions for getting the goals you want to achieve. You will be able to generate new ideas in the morning immediately after you wake up. You may get the same while driving the car to your office or when you are simply lazing at your home. You will get the solutions so that  you are able to achieve your desired goals. Thirdly, it creates the power of motivation. You will see that you start taking extraordinary actions and your determination level will be very high to achieve your goals. 

The tool of the reticular activating system works in a scientific manner.  At any given point of time, 8 million bits of information pass through your brain. All these information may not be relevant for you.  Even you may not be able to attend to this. So, the work of the RAS is to filter and supply you the one which is exactly needed for your survival and achieving your goals.  RAS knows what to let in and what to filter out?  How?  Here come the power and practice of visualization.  Your daily visualization and affirmations by which you are constantly provoking your sub-conscious mind, RAS will provide you only those and discard the balance.  This tool also supplies you other relevant information according to your belief and images of yourself, others and the world.

The RAS is a very powerful tool as stated, but it will only look for the exact picture, images and self-talk you provide.  On its own, its power is almost negligible.  So, you have to provide the food of thoughts to RAS to accomplish your goals.

The mode of visualization supported by positive affirmations and continual self-talk is very useful methods to energize you, particularly when the things are not that smooth. In an ideal environment, you can easily achieve your goal, but when the sea is rough and if you are asked or happen to sail, then this power of visualization will be very effective.  In that phase of your life, if you want, what you visualize, then you have to definitely use this tool of visualization.