Tips on Visualisation
Visualisation is a powerful mind tool which can be used to aid relaxation, achieve goals and overcome fears.
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How does it work?
Visualisation is believed to encourage activity in the right hand side of your brain If you listen to a description of biting into a lemon, you'll find your taste buds react to the suggestion as if you were biting the lemon for real. Our subconscious mind is very suggestive to thoughts and words and can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. To really get the full benefit from visualisation, imagining movement, colour, smell, taste and sound will enhance the experience and make it more realistic and therefore more effective |
Tips on Visualisation
- Visualisation is best experienced in a quiet place alone
- Clear your mind and relax your body and mind
- Concentrate on your visualisation subject, concentrating your thoughts on this one area
- Breathe deeply and evenly
- Close your eyes and imagine what it would be like to be in your visualisation, looking at it through your eyes
- What are you seeing?
- What do you look like?
- What are you doing and saying?
- What are your senses aware of (colour, smell, sound?)
What are the benefits?
Visualisation can be effective for:
- Overcoming fears
- Helping to calm nerves before taking exam or similar event
- Increasing confidence and self esteem
- Curing phobias
- Helping to combat panic attacks
- Managing stress and pain relief
Visualisation has also proven results in medical fields by:
- Lowering blood pressure
- Being used as an effective complementary treatment for cancer
People who use visualisation on a regular basis by imagining end results use this technique to successfully help realise their goals.
How effective is it?
Visualisation is popular as a guided meditation technique to aid relaxation
Visualisation techniques have been widely used in sport (including the Olympics) for years and are used to improve performance with impressive results.
Visualisation has also been used in space training at NASA and Olympic coaching.
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