First of all, what exactly is visualisation ?
If I say ‘think of a banana’ what happens in your mind? Now you may or may not love bananas but you will get a fleeting image of a banana. You may also, in the same nano-second get a fleeting image of your fruit bowl on the table which may just have bananas in it, or your mind may swiftly take you to where you shop for bananas – your local supermarket perhaps and the precise shelf where you know they are displayed. All of this happens so fast we don’t really consider it to be visualisation.
But it is. And all of us do this all the time regardless of where we are or what is happening around us.
The subconscious mind does not recognize words. Humans have invented words to communicate and describe as best we can what we are thinking or feeling to other humans. Your subconscious is just like your computer. When you push a button a certain thing happens. That’s the reason we so often seem to repeat the same mistakes or behaviour over and over again and then think of ourselves as unlucky or worse, imagine we are being punished for something.
The subconscious mind works with images. It doesn’t care what the image is or if the image is good or bad or, even evil. It absolutely does not make judgements or moralise – we do the judgement and moral bit with our emotions. The subconscious simply fixes on the vision we have emotionally identified with and accepts that is what we want. In our example above of the banana, the feeling behind the image is a ‘take it or leave it’ kind of emotion. Most of us don’t have strong feelings one way or the other about bananas, but we have unwittingly accumulated a huge amount of baggage about ourselves which often sabotages our efforts at visualisation.
That’s why, if we’re visualising to bring something into our lives it is very important to be very precise and absolutely clear about what it is we want. It's also just as important to know how we see or visualise ourselves. (justmindpower.com)
If I say ‘think of a banana’ what happens in your mind? Now you may or may not love bananas but you will get a fleeting image of a banana. You may also, in the same nano-second get a fleeting image of your fruit bowl on the table which may just have bananas in it, or your mind may swiftly take you to where you shop for bananas – your local supermarket perhaps and the precise shelf where you know they are displayed. All of this happens so fast we don’t really consider it to be visualisation.
But it is. And all of us do this all the time regardless of where we are or what is happening around us.
The subconscious mind does not recognize words. Humans have invented words to communicate and describe as best we can what we are thinking or feeling to other humans. Your subconscious is just like your computer. When you push a button a certain thing happens. That’s the reason we so often seem to repeat the same mistakes or behaviour over and over again and then think of ourselves as unlucky or worse, imagine we are being punished for something.
The subconscious mind works with images. It doesn’t care what the image is or if the image is good or bad or, even evil. It absolutely does not make judgements or moralise – we do the judgement and moral bit with our emotions. The subconscious simply fixes on the vision we have emotionally identified with and accepts that is what we want. In our example above of the banana, the feeling behind the image is a ‘take it or leave it’ kind of emotion. Most of us don’t have strong feelings one way or the other about bananas, but we have unwittingly accumulated a huge amount of baggage about ourselves which often sabotages our efforts at visualisation.
That’s why, if we’re visualising to bring something into our lives it is very important to be very precise and absolutely clear about what it is we want. It's also just as important to know how we see or visualise ourselves. (justmindpower.com)
