Every minute of every day your brain is bombarded by thoughts, most of them are negative, and many of them are about YOU! That is a sure-fire way to deplete your energy.
So what can you do?
The most powerful way to compensate for your brain’s bias of focusing on the negative is by visualizing your ideal self doing something you aspire to.
Visualization has often been left to the ranks of “woo woo” but now research has shown that there is a strong scientific basis for how and why visualization works.
Visualization is a powerful tool because the mind can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined. In other words, whether we visualize an action or actually perform that same action, the exact same brain regions are stimulated.
As a dancer this was common knowledge to me (long before science backed it up). If I had an injury and couldn’t dance, I would visualize dancing the choreography in complete detail just as if I was physically dancing. Then, after my injury was healed I would be able to jump right in where I left off. In fact sometimes I could execute moves I had difficulty with prior to my injury with much more ease!
Athletes often use this “power tool” seeing themselves executing their race or movements perfectly in record time, and then physically doing it.
And you can too.
Take 30 seconds right now to close your eyes and visualize your ideal self doing that specific thing that you are reaching for. See it in as much detail as you possibly can. The more vividly you can imagine it the more powerful it will be.
YOU have the power…