October 18, 2012

  • Creative Visualization

    The book I read to research this post was Creative Visualization for dummies by Robin Nixon which is an excellent book which I borrowed from the library. People have known about the basic principles of creative visualization for thousands of years but this knowledge reached the mainstream when Wallace D Wattles wrote The Science of Getting Rich in 1910. Napolean Hill added to a lot of his ideas a couple of decades later in Think and Grow Rich. If you have a goal you should write it down, break it down into smaller steps and think what can I do today to help me achieve my goal. You should do relaxation exercises, and one of the simplest is to lie down,  start with your toes, tense them, think toes relax twice and relax the toes. You then work your way up your body, doing the same until finally doing your mind. You should then lie there for say 20 minutes and can think about a goal. If you want a material goal like a brand new lambourghini you should decide on things like what colour and model you want and then should research what you can about it. This will help you acheive it. To make yourself more creative, one exercise is to imagine you have a magic chalk and blackboard. You then imagine you draw a door and it becomes real and you open it, you then step through it into another world. This world is different from your world and you have to imagine what it's like. Many athletes use visualization to improve their performance. If for example someone is a basketball player it will visualize shooting the basket in addition to actually practising. If someone wants to run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds he will usually spend time visually it. Your unconscious will gradually accept it as a reality, which will enable you to do it. If you find this post interesting I have done a post on positive psychology at http://daveroberts69.wordpress.com

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