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While making your 2008 wish list remembers this: visualize and it will materialize.
There is something really exciting about a new year. It’s as if we get the chance to start afresh and bring about changes that will transform our lives forever. Wiping away all the pain, failure and drudgery of the previous year as the clock strikes 12. I don’t know about miracles but there is a powerful technique for bringing about change that can work like magic! And that’s visualization.
I would suggest that you start each day with visualization. Before you start rushing about madly, just create your day in your mind. Picture yourself going through the typical routine of the day. Go into details: the way you interact with different people, how you manage challenging situations, what you do to make your day rich and rewarding. Notice particularly how you weave in the preferred change in your life. And then, spring out of bed and make it happen.
Many of you might want to shrug this off as New Age stuff. But I am talking about it from my experience as a therapist. Visualization as a technique has been used in therapy for a long time (solution-focused brief therapy, narrative therapy and hypnotherapy, to name a few) and enough research has been done on it and published in scientific journals to give it credibility.
I will give you another example. Suppose you want to get rid of the intense anxiety you feel about making presentations. Try this:
* Find a quiet place, close your eyes and visualize yourself sailing through the presentation with amazing poise and confidence.
* The more detailed you make it, the more effective it will be. Visualize the clothes you would be wearing, the captivated expression on the audience's faces, your voice, your facial expressions, every step or gesture you make, the jokes you crack and the impact on the crowd. Imagine a white light radiating from you and wrapping the hall in a captivating spell.
* Do this visualization regularly and next time you face an audience you will see the magic work.
So how does this really work?
* Brain trainer: Visualization opens up our brain to new possibilities. It primes the brain and creates neural pathways. When humans mentally rehearse a familiar action they execute some of the same neural operations used during overt motor performance. No wonder visualization is a crucial part of athletic training for the Olympics, known as Visual Motor Behavior Rehearsal (VMBR)
Visualize first
* Creativity enhancer: Visualization activates the creative sub-conscious, which generates ideas and ingenuity: like a painter who stares into space for hours capturing the picture in her mind's eye before transferring it on to the canvas.
* Energizer and motivator: At times we get so overwhelmed with our daily stresses that life gets restricted to a pillar-to-post existence. And when we think about bringing about a change we often get into a ‘push mode’. This pushing can drain out a lot of energy and slowly wash out motivation. It seems like such a drag. On the other hand, visualization works at ‘pull mode’. Once we have visualized something then it can pull us with an astonishing energy.
The best thing is that you can use this effective tool to bring about change in any aspect of your life: work, relationships, parenting, staying fit, managing emotions, self empowerment— anything. All you need is openness to change, vivid imagination and exciting dreams.