Human mind mostly works at three levels such as conscious, subconscious and unconscious levels. The conscious mind is the stage where we perform our day to day activities such as our official duties, drinking, eating etc. Unconscious is the sleeping stage when our brain completely shut down for certain time to refresh and gain energies to perform the task on waking up.
However, the subconscious is the stage when we are awake, but our brain is at a high level of relaxation. A time when we are on the bed ready to fall in sleep, the time when we are watching a movie or reading a book and fully engrossed into the story, or early in the morning after praying or meditating. This awakens, focused and relaxed state of mind is the highest performance stage.
It is proven that most of the successful personalities have charged or programmed their brain on the subconscious level with the help of visualization. While searching the best way to program our brains with the help of visualization I, came across an interesting article “Visualization Techniques to Affirm Your Desired Outcomes: A Step-by-Step Guide” written by a famous writer Jack Canfield. Jack Canfield, is America’s #1 Success Coach. He is the founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul® and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. Jack has very well defined how to do visualization and programmed our mind. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at www.freesuccessstrategies.com.
Let’s read what Jack talks about visualization techniques, have been used by successful people to visualize their desired outcomes for ages. The practice has even given some high achievers what seems like super-powers, helping them create their dream lives by accomplishing one goal or task at a time with hyper focus and complete confidence.
Jack stated that we all have the awesome power of visualization, but most of us have never been taught to use it effectively. The daily practice of visualizing your dreams as already complete can rapidly accelerate your achievement of those dreams, goals, and ambitions. Jack further explained that using visualization techniques to focus on your goals and desires accomplishes below mentioned four very important things.
- It activates your creative subconscious which will start generating creative ideas to achieve your goal.
- It programs your brain to more readily perceive and recognize the resources you will need to achieve your dreams.
- It activates the law of attraction, thereby drawing into your life the people, resources, and circumstances you will need to achieve your goals.
- It builds your internal motivation to take the necessary actions to achieve your dreams.
Jack explained that visualization is really quite simple. You sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and imagine — as vivid detail as you can — what you would be looking at if the dream you have were already realized. Imagine being inside of yourself, looking out through your eyes at the ideal result.
Visualize with the ‘Mental Rehearsal’ Technique
Athletes call this visualization process “mental rehearsal,” and they have been using it since the 1960s when the Americans learned about it from the Russians. All you have to do is set aside a few minutes a day. The best times are when you first wake up, after meditation or prayer, and right before you go to bed. These are the times you are most relaxed.
Go through the following three steps:
STEP 1. Imagine sitting in a movie theatre, the lights dim, and then the movie starts. It is a movie of you doing perfectly whatever it is that you want to do better. See as much detail as you can create, including your clothing, the expression on your face, small body movements, the environment and any other people that might be around. Add in any sounds you would be hearing — traffic, music, other people talking, cheering. And finally, recreate in your body any feelings you think you would be experiencing as you engage in this activity.
STEP 2. Get out of your chair, walk up to the screen, open a door in the screen and enter into the movie. Now experience the whole thing again from inside of yourself, looking out through your eyes. This is called an “embodied image” rather than a “distant image.” It will deepen the impact of the experience. Again, see everything in vivid detail, hear the sounds you would hear, and feel the feelings you would feel.
STEP 3. Finally, walk back out of the screen that is still showing the picture of you performing perfectly, return to your seat in the theatre, reach out, and grab the screen and shrink it down to the size of a cracker. Then, bring this miniature screen up to your mouth, chew it up and swallow it. Imagine that each tiny piece — just like a hologram — contains the full picture of you performing well. Imagine all these little screens travelling down into your stomach and out through the bloodstream into every cell of your body. Then imagine that every cell of your body is lit up with a movie of you performing perfectly. It’s like one of those appliance store windows where 50 televisions are all tuned to the same channel.
When you have finished this process — it should take less than five minutes — you can open your eyes and go about your business. If you make this part of your daily routine, you will be amazed at how much improvement you will see in your life.