Understanding the Power of Visualization: How to Achieve Your Goals and Live with Purpose
Visualize Your Happiness
You totally can be living the life of your dreams. To many, this seems to be a pipe dream and they end up giving up on bringing their visions into fruition. Do you find yourself wondering how you can bring your visions into reality, and how to start?
Living your life from a higher perspective means to honour the life that you choose to live by going outside of yourself and raising your consciousness. It’s to go after your goals and to live with purpose.
You achieve this by visualization. Also called: mental imagery, goal visualization and future-self meditation. This form of co-creating gets you more motivated to fulfill your goals, places you in action each day, and uplifts your vibe. Goal-directed behaviour of this sort favours your success and attracts many opportunities to you as you begin to bring your visions into reality.
When you focus on images of the perceived outcome that you wish to obtain, you are training your brain to seek out real life experiences that are aligned with your internal desires.
GOAL VISUALIZATION
By visualizing your goals you begin to focus on images that lead you to your desired outcomes. You gain clarity on the processes and what they entail; you begin to make concrete plans that will inch you closer to fulfilling your goals.
Through imaging, neuroscience research has revealed that viewing an actual object versus imagining an object activate the same areas of the brain. Therefore, it’s no coincidence that visualization potentially leads to goal-orientated behaviours and thoughts should be kept positive if you want to experience happy outcomes. Alternatively, anxiety and depression can further take over your mind space if you are constantly imagining negative outcomes. It’s a good idea to get in the habit of focusing on your goals rather than to stress about undesirable outcomes. One way to do this is by outlining what happy looks like to you and what you wish to have in you life.
BENEFITS OF VISUALIZATION
Visualization is all about believing that something can happen and then making it happen:
Problem solving - 90% of the information that enters the brain is visual. Break down problems by creating images to reveal connections and relationships. Work towards coming up with a solution.
Replacement of negative or stressful feelings by focusing on positive outcomes. This can reduce anxiety.
Strengthens the mind-body connection. By visualizing a kinaesthetic action (sports), you take steps in real life to achieve it.
HOW VISUALIZATION WORKS
Visualization improves focus, increases motivation and relaxes you by activating your creative subconscious. Furthermore, it starts to program your mind with you envisioning the resources and action steps that is needed to achieve your vision. You then start to become more consciously aware and you begin to filter information that is purposeful to you.
