The secret is no longer a secret. The best seller book ‘the secret’ talks about the power of visualization at length. It is a success affirmation technique which is now being used by millions all over the world. Success is an attitude; and attitude comes with appropriate ideas leading to appropriate visualization. Professional athletes, famous actors and people from many other fields utilize this power knowingly or unknowingly.
Why Visuals?
A man thinks in visuals. When asked about a vacation, a man will visualize a beach, beer and babes. Same way, a man’s dream is a set of visuals or pictures. It is all a mind’s game, so visuals have nothing to do with the fact that our eyes are open. Whatever we think comes from facts which we learn early in our life. Ask yourself, when was the first time, you heard the word: beach?
The factors which were used to define those moments stay with us and we take a hint from these deep rooted visuals (in our head) while we imagine things. While selecting a beach for holiday, our minds will unknowingly look for that image which is instilled in our mind and compare it with the reality. We zero in to something which is either a carbon copy of that image or something which is closer to it.
Power of visualization
Many of us might be aware that we all have a memory bank. When you want something and you visualize about it, you unknowingly store images in your memory bank. When we visualize the same thing again, it is like we are making the image stronger (deep in terms of mind). That image will be at the back of your mind and you will be reminded about it once it a while. The idea gets stuck in your subconscious mind and you will automatically make efforts towards these visualizations.
Why is it Popular with Athletes?
Unlike other professionally popular people, the life of an athlete is all about records. A second here and there, and a different person gets attached to a record. There are 2 kinds of efforts
- Conscious efforts
- Sub-conscious efforts
Conscious efforts are training based and the actual physical efforts you put in something. Subconscious efforts are when a person conditions his body to behave in a manner he or she wants. Imagine a person whose conscious efforts and subconscious efforts combine? That is the power of visualization.
It is like replicating what you think over and over again. Positive visualization creates positive vibes. A man with no negative vibes will have a better shot at glory than a realistic man who sets his boundaries according to his thoughts.
How to Benefit from the Power of Visualization?
To prepare for an important event, visualize better things about it. Do it again and again. Aerodynamically a bumblebee should not fly, but she does. It is because she doesn’t know that she is not supposed to fly. Likewise, 100% belief in your visualizations will create better results. Ask your friends to visualize as well for you.
All in all, visualization is like defining something well in advance and matching the path or steps corresponding to visuals.