The amazing power of visualization

What is visualization and how can it help you?

Before embarking on the repair of the broken object, Master Kintsugi visualizes him "healed" and "resplendent".

Likewise, it is important in your process of resilience to visualize you "restored and fulfilled".

This is a real challenge when you live or has experienced a breach of visualizing yourself differently. After all things are no longer what they were. We may no longer have the same physical, psychic, financial resources. I’m not talking to you here about a magic process in which “Yaka”. Certainly not !

When I was in walker and wheelchair for almost 8 years, I put my ice skates for years, my walking shoes, my heel shoes (my great sadness!). However, I could not resolve myself to give them or throw them away. I kept hope, which seemed very vain at the time, could give them one day. All I could then see was the few steps, a few hundred meters at the maximum that I could walk.

I who loved walking in the mountains so much, it was a real heartbreaker. I sometimes took moments when I remembered the memories of the walking camps. I felt the wind on my face, the special smells of the high mountain, the sound of the steps on the paths, I immersed myself with all these sensations that I had experienced before and that made me feel good.

In itself, imagining me remarcher did not heal me, certainly no, but it has contributed on the one hand to put my brain in positive mode, to experience pleasant sensations again, to focus on something that I wanted to feel one day again. And I hoped that one day ... maybe ...

The advantages of visualization: an astonishing power of the brain

Scientific studies prove it, our brain can be programmed, whether positively or negatively. And if you chose to reprogram in growth mode, positive, reconnect with the possible, with joy?

The powers of visualization are attested. They are used in particular for the training of athletes, or hunting or competition drivers. They visualize in advance the gestures performed perfectly, the success of the tests, the victories. Their brain and muscle memory are thus stimulated. Our brain is thus made that it has little difference between imagination and reality. So why deprive yourself of nourishing it with thoughts, positive sensations that will make you feel better mentally and physically?

When you imagine succeeding in something you want to achieve, your brain starts to work so that it happens for good!

Who do you want to be?

This is the question you will have to ask yourself. What character qualities would you like to have? Who do you admire and why? This will give you answers.

Just imagining themselves as a more confident person, mechanically, we change our physical posture. Test! Visualize yourself or whatever you know with full confidence. How would you feel filled with this strength and confidence in yourself? Do you not feel your shoulders straightening up and your head get up?

Do you have dreams? A vision ? What are they ? Take the time to write them, to draw them, to dream, to explore your desires and your dreams.

Something powerful happens when you view yourself healed and restored - it allows you to see more clearly who you are and get closer to your goal. It reminds you that your life is not static; You grow and evolve constantly. You can choose how!

How to practice visualization?

There are 2 types of visualization:

✨ The realistic, in which you project images from real situations (for example seeing you to walk in the mountains or to do such an activity), with the most realistic details as possible, by implementing all the senses

✨ The symbolism using metaphors. For example visualize your problems in the form of a black cloud that moves away from you

It's up to you to find the method that suits you, but thus, you project on your internal screen the film of success or what you would like to see.

Visualize a better version of yourself. Projects the film of your development and the healing of your injuries. Visualization is not reserved for artists or meditation enthusiasts, it is aimed at all those who want their lives to be different from what it is currently. Visualizing healing and restored allows you to see what is possible for your future, instead of advancing blindly.

To help you, surround yourself with stimulating and inspiring images.

Practical advice

Make your own "vision board". Your brain and your soul will feed on all this.

Vision Board? Kesako?

Vision Board (visualization table) is also called a creative table. It brings together images, photos, and inspiring quotes that illustrate an objective or project that is close to your heart. The visual representation of an objective facilitates its achievement. His goal is to arouse positive emotions in you linked to their realization.

I'm not going to detail the process of making your table, because you can find a lot of articles on the internet, but in summary this gives this:

✨ Choose your goal, your main theme

✨ Defined some key points that can lead you to this objective

✨ Find images, quotes, symbols that make you feel the emotions linked to the realization of these points and objectives, chosen colors that inspire you

It has to trigger a motivation in you to achieve your goal. Also do not clutter your vision board of too much details. It must be readable, placed in a visible place, that you can impregnate it regularly.

Use this image as a source of inspiration in your daily life.

👉 Have you ever used this visualization power? What did you get back? Share it in comment.