Visualization
A very important aspect of self improvement is getting lot of attention and gaining more visibility these days especially in sports arena and corporate sector, making millions .
"Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization."(A. L. Linall, Jr.) To be more abstract to make sense, "If you can see it you can achieve it!"
Visualizing helps to see clear destination which greatly improves chances of reaching the goals. I was fortuitous to attend a meeting about Self Imagery and Visualization which churned my inner sense to dwell on it more deeply by taking a deep dive.
What is Visualization by the way?
"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose" said Bo Bennett. Its seeing yourself ahead and experiencing the future before it happens. Unknowingly we all visualize some time or rather on various aspects.
By creating a simulated experience in our mind over and over helping it to create an internal comfort zone. Being able to visualize a projected out come will allow us to execute that action with accuracy and precision. Visualization helps athletes improve performance because the body doesn't’t know the difference between a real or imagined event. This is the very reason why we see most of the basketball players closing their eyes before they shoots the free throw or the runner at the Olympics visualizing before they run the race. In fact, golf pro Jack Nicklaus attributes 50% of his success to the use of visualization.
Let me share my own experience as an example to explain this concept. When I started my training for the first marathon which is like 6 years back, I asked few of my friends who ran lot of races to share some valuable tips. You know I always welcome advice from experienced souls, there is nothing wrong in learning from others mistakes. They all had few things to say like, start building my own phase, maintain it full race period and most importantly try to vision your finish and keeping your mind occupied.
They told me "Vision my finish line cheered by thousands of people" which will help a lot by pushing me hard and stay on track continuing to run without giving up. Since marathon is a tough sport, one not only has to have physical stamina but also mental strength and trained to beat the beast inside you to run that far. That visioning or visualization concept did helped me in every race I ran. It kept me on focus with visions varying according to time. I was about to give up on my marathon the 18th miler but by visioning the finish line, I pushed myself to run further and stay the course to finally finish it.
"Nimble thought can jump both sea and land."- William Shakespeare Thats a wise thought. By Visualizing the success you are half way to achieve success. Lets take a practical example that you are planned to give a speech in front of a big audience. Unless your are a presentation GURU who doesn't know the meaning of FEAR, then everything will be a cake walk. But for most of the people out there, its a walking on the thin rope. To overcome the fear factor, visualization helps a great deal.
Try to visualize a successful presentation several weeks before the actual meeting. Imagine the audience in front of you, you were at the stage, go over the presentation material exactly the way you want to present. Try it over and over again few times a week. What will happen is that the image will become the reality. By imagining success, you will achieve success.
When it comes time to make the presentation, you will be confident, relaxed, and knowledgeable - because you've already done it so many times - and have a much better chance at a favorable outcome.
Be it any specific goal, just picture it, run thru your mind few times before it happens visualizing the exact scene. When you've finished running through this visualizing success exercise, you'll feel your confidence rising and feel more relaxed.
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."- Cherie Carter-Scott
Achieving success isn't just a matter of planning and preparing, you also need to practice yourself to act and be successful, and visualizing success will help you do that. You can do impossible things by just visualizing and envisioning them to be a possible act.
Visualization is key to open new doors to success. Just close your eyes and Visualize your act...
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