WHAT IS A VISUALIZATION?

What is a visualization and what does it mean to "visualize"? What happens to you when someone says "picture this"? Everyone has a unique response and their own individual way of "seeing" in their "minds eye". The first step is to set the mind aside and don't think with "it". That is a hard concept for many people. Imagine that you are looking at your mind. Most people (in Western culture) see a brain. Whatever your picture of the mind is, is fine. How do "You" differ from "Your Mind"? The "You" in you is the essence of who you are. It's very hard to separate ourselves from our bodies, but if we think of our body as a shell or a case that houses "me", we can get a clearer picture of who and what we really are. The visualization that we just did was to look at our minds. Whatever you saw or felt or experienced was a visualization. You have some sort of concept of these terms ("mind", "you", "me", "looking at", "your body"). What would it be like to think without your mind? Can you feel answers instead of thinking them? Can you experience an answer that is completely different from your mind's response? That is what the visualization is reaching. It goes beyond the mind. Living from a mental viewpoint is very limiting. It requires logic and scientific proof of everything. The mind won't allow us to believe in anything beyond what we can see and conceptualize. Some people are logical thinkers and they refuse to believe that there is anything more than what their minds can understand. Rigidity keeps us very small and tells us that there is never a way out. Rigidity does not allow us to solve problems creatively. It takes everything at face value.
If you tell a rigid thinker "no, you can't" they believe there is no way to get a "yes" from the person who said "no". A creative problem solver will come up with at least 2-5 ways to get a different response. They don't accept walls or limitations. In the James Bond movies or the Bourne Identity series, the protagonist will always find their way out of impossible situations. We watch the movie and wonder, "how in the world are they going to escape this situation?" We even look at our friends and ask "what has s/he gotten herself into now?". Often that person finds a solution that we would have never anticipated because it comes from a higher place.
We are faced with challenges everyday of our lives. Logical thinking can only help us up to a point and magical thinking doesn't work either. Solutions seem to come from the ethers but actually they are created by our thoughts and by an interaction between "us" and that higher energy or universe or whatever your concept of God is. Something greater than ourselves responds to our thoughts and questions with an event that we would have never anticipated. However, we cannot live on faith alone. First we ask a question like, "how do I...". We must have trust and faith that the answer will come and the starting point is going within and asking this "greater energy" to respond. We still have to do all the leg work and "make things happen" but the guidance is the missing link for so many of us. How can we hear it if we are keeping so busy that we exhaust ourselves? Visualization requires a relaxed state. Some people cannot sit still and silent for long.

Practice sitting in silence with a friend. Set a timer so that no one can talk until the time is up. Notice all the things that get communicated during the silence. Notice everything that happens during that period of time.
Practice all of these techniques and you will make progress and then you will begin to see the changes in your internal and external life.




Debbie Simon, LCSW is a NY State Licensed Psychotherapist and Life Coach. She uses visualization as a tool to accelerate the process toward manifestation and success. In her 20 years of practice she has helped hundreds of people change their lives in significant ways.
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