The Power Of Visualization

This talk is about the power of visualization. I explain why visualization works, how to do it, and offer 2 effective mini-techniques. If you liked this type of content, I talk more about visualization and other LOA techniques in my latest book "Understanding Law of Attraction" Thanks for listening!

Transcript

Hey,

This is Ish,

And today I'll be talking to you about the power of visualization.

So I'll be covering what visualization is,

How to do it,

And then I'll be giving you two bonus techniques as well.

And by the way,

If you want to learn more about visualization,

You can check out my new book called Understanding the Law of Attraction,

Which is now on Amazon and Audible as well.

Visualization is where you are looking into your mind's eye and imagining a scene from your desired reality as if it's happening right now.

Visualization works because your brain doesn't know the difference between what's happening in your daily life and your imagination.

It actually thinks it's the same.

And the reason why it works is because visualization fires neurons,

Which are responsible for transmitting information,

Interpreting images in your brain as if it's actually happening,

As if you're actually performing an action.

So if you think about it for a second,

If you close your eyes and now imagine biting into a sour lemon.

Now,

If you actually did this,

You might start to pucker your mouth,

Even though there's not a lemon in front of you.

And this is because visualization works really well and your brain fires off the same sequence as if you're actually doing it,

Right?

You can open your eyes now if they're closed.

So there was a 2004 study done by the Cleveland Clinic,

And this was aimed to study the impact that visualization had on finger strength in participants.

So they basically got a group of participants and they separated them into three groups.

And they asked them to follow a specific regimen for three months.

And basically the first group physically performed the finger exercises prescribed to them,

And they did nothing else,

Just the finger exercises.

The second group just visualized performing the finger exercises.

So they didn't actually do anything but just imagined it or visualized it in their mind's eye.

And then the last group,

They didn't do anything at all.

And then at the end of three months,

They had their participants measure their strength again.

And the first group,

Who just did the finger exercises and nothing else,

They saw a 53% increase in finger strength.

Then the second group that just visualized it,

And remember they're not actually doing the exercises,

They're just visualizing it in their head,

They saw a 35% increase in finger strength.

And obviously the third group,

Nothing happened.

So it's crazy to think that the group that just visualized it and actually didn't perform the action saw a 35% increase in their strength compared to before.

And keep in mind they didn't move or anything,

Right?

So this is pretty profound.

And a lot of the top Olympic athletes and actors,

I know Jim Carrey does it as well,

Do visualization and incorporate it into their daily life.

And they think that that's the reason why they were successful is because visualization helped.

So Michael Phelps was a 23-time gold medal winner.

He was actually taught visualization techniques as a teenager by his coach Bob Bowman.

And Bowman actually strongly believed in the power of visualization.

And Emily Cook also uses the technique too.

And she's a three-time Olympic skier.

And she says that basically the way she described it was she imagined her mind's eye.

I would stand on top of the hill and I could feel the wind on my back as I went all the way down and I saw the crowd.

And she went on and elaborated more about the specific details on how she turned as she went down the slope.

And she basically ran the whole process of how everything would go down.

And she obviously did manifest a lot of success.

So I think it really works for both those athletes and many other people.

So the way to actually visualize is,

Let's actually get into it,

Is to think of your desired reality as if it's happening right now.

So not in the future,

But take everything in and bring it to the present moment.

And the way to do that is I'm going to give you an example.

Say you want to live in a beach house in Hawaii,

Right?

And you want to imagine a typical day.

So perhaps you wake up in the morning.

You want a picture in your mind's eye,

Looking at the ceiling.

Then you get up and you open the door of your beach house that overlooks the ocean.

So really start to think about it in your mind's eye.

You can picture the door and go really go specific in that.

Can you,

Is it a wooden door?

Is it a metal door?

What is it?

If it's a sliding door,

You know,

Think of that.

And you want to use all your senses.

So if you see the door and then you grab the handle to open the door,

Try to see,

Try to get a feeling of how the door handle would feel against your hand.

So you'd feel,

You'd kind of picture that.

And then as you open the door,

You step outside and then maybe you smell the ocean scent of the breeze and the sand.

You can maybe use your auditory functions,

So hearing,

To hear seagulls in the background and make it as vivid as possible.

And basically,

If you know the law,

Anything but the law of attraction,

You attract what you already have.

So if you keep picturing this desired reality,

For example,

Living in a beach house,

Then your brain thinks it's normal.

And that's what you ideally want to get to.

You want to get to a state where your desired reality is just normal,

It's just an everyday thing.

So that way when it actually happens to you,

It's not a big deal.

Because when we try to grasp onto something that's very far away and it's above what we think we can achieve,

We tend to repel it away.

But if it's just something natural,

It's just like no big deal every day,

It becomes a lot easier to obtain that.

And obviously,

I'm going to cover a bit more of that in my book.

But one technique that I like to use,

Visualization technique,

Is called segment intending.

And this is where you imagine what an ideal scenario of the next portion of your day would look like.

So in your day,

You have different segments or portions,

Such as waking up,

That's one segment.

Going downstairs to make morning coffee,

That's another segment.

Going to work,

Driving to work,

That's another segment.

So you have different segments throughout your day if you can divide your day up into segments.

And basically what you're going to do is,

Before the small ones or even the big segments in your life,

You're going to take some time to imagine an ideal version of that reality and then go forward and live that.

So right before you go down to make your morning coffee,

You would imagine a perfect version of that where you're full of energy,

You go downstairs,

You hug your spouse,

And that will basically prime your brain to look for that in your life.

So when you actually do go downstairs,

You will be in a suddenly better mood.

You're looking for the positive things in your day and you'll be in a better mood and your spouse actually might want to hug you,

Right?

Because you're just in a better mood.

So you're basically training your brain to look for the good things in your life and if you repeat that multiple times over your day,

It will become a self-fulfilling prophecy where you tend to look for the good things and that will be reflected back to you.

It's kind of like selective focus.

And if you do it long enough and more often enough,

Your day tends to just be a lot better.

It's a perfect way to kind of also take a break during your day as well.

And one little hack I like to do whenever I do my visualizations,

Whether it's segment attending or the proper visualization,

Is I like to put on my headphones and I'll pull up ambient music or background music on YouTube.

So if I'm imagining a scene where I'm in a cafe,

For example,

Let's just say I'm an owner of a cafe,

Right?

Just an example.

I'll actually put my headphones in and play an ambient background noise of people in a cafe where you can hear like the clinking of the cups and coffee machines going off in the background and people lightly talking in the background.

And this really helps because like I mentioned,

The goal is to put yourself in the reality right now.

So if you have a hard time visualizing and using all your senses,

You can kind of cheat in a sense by having sounds play in the background and that kind of bring your attention so you can focus that into other senses.

So then it'll be a lot easier to imagine yourself in a cafe.

Obviously if you hear the noises,

Better yet,

If you have a picture in front of you of a cafe,

Then that's better.

But ideally you want to also stretch out your imagination because the world's your oyster basically so you can imagine an ideal state.

And if you can't find that in the picture,

Obviously you use your imagination.

But if your ideal thing,

Let's say a particular car,

For example,

That you want to manifest,

You can visualize that or look at a picture and that'll help you a lot.

Because on YouTube there are so many different videos out there that just like everything's uploaded on YouTube nowadays.

So you can actually get a good sense of your ideal reality just by watching YouTube videos.

So for example,

If you want to live in Manhattan,

Right,

There are first person videos people shoot just walking down the street.

And if you play that with the headphones in,

You can actually pretend it's almost as if you're actually there.

Because if you really believe it and not just watch it as if it's like some video on YouTube,

But actually immerse yourself there and try to see through the camera lens as if you're actually there while you visualize,

That actually makes your visualization a lot stronger.

So I hope you practice this and this technique really helps.

It's really great to do.

And I also recommend doing it right before you go to bed or upon waking.

Those are the best times to do it.

Thank you.

Reviews

Wonderful talk, clear with great examples. Makes it feel very doable. TY! ✨

Great strategy

It really helped to get my thoughts going in the right direction! Thanks!

Very informative, thank you 🙏🏾!

Excellent!! Thanks so much!!