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A lot of people tell me that they just cannot visualize, but everyone can visualize. In fact, you probably visualize things many times a day, without even realizing it. Some people are more pre­dom­inantly visual that others, it has to be said; but everyone can visualize and as you practice you get better at it, just like most other things in life. And it is well worth the effort involved in learning to visualize as it is one of the most empowering mental skills that you could possibly develop.

Think for a moment about a wine glass and then think about a beer glass…What’s the dif­ference? If you can answer this question you can visualize. You see, without being able to visualize you couldn’t explain this dif­ference. This is why I said before that you probably visualize many times a day without realizing that this is what is hap­pening auto­mat­ically in your mind. What colour is your front door and what style is it? Once again, you simply have to visualize to be able to answer these questions.

Often you will find that you instinctively visualize things in a way that you perhaps did not intend. If, for instance, I ask you to NOT think about a giraffe, what happened? When you try not to do something you inad­vertently put your will power at odds with your ima­gination. In order to com­prehend what you are not meant to do, your mind instinctively creates a picture of whatever it is and your ima­gination wins the battle. A picture really is worth a thousand words — the picture which you inad­vertently visu­alized holds more power than your will power which is telling you not to think about that thing — in this case, a giraffe.

Thus everyone has the ability to visualize, although because we are all unique and indi­vidual we will visualize in our own indi­vidual way and some of us will be better at it or more practiced than others. We all have a primary sense, be it seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting or feeling. As you visualize one or all of your senses may be utilized. You will visualize in your own way and as you practice visu­al­ization you will get better and better at it and will be able to involve and animate more of your senses.

Once you realize the magnetic power of visu­alizing, you can start to inten­tionally picture the things which you do want to picture as opposed to those that you do not. For instance, in golf many people think “don’t go in the bunker” or “don’t go in the water” or “don’t go into the trees”. These thoughts imme­diately trigger visu­al­iz­ations of those very things, and your ball will end up in the place that you are pic­turing — exactly where you do not want to be. A golfer who realizes how powerful visual images are will on the other hand stand on the tee, and inten­tionally picture the ball landing on the fairway, sitting up in a great position for your next shot onto the green…and this is where the ball will go. Whatever you imagine, whatever you visualize, you create.

Visu­al­ization has in fact been proven to have more powerful effect that physical practice. This has been proven time and again in many sports, not just in golf. Your brain does not know the dif­ference between something which is vividly imagined and something which is real, and so as you imagine your ball going into the net in bas­ketball, for instance, your brain is recording this as if it were a real event. The reason why it is more powerful than physical practice is that with mental rehearsal EVERY ball goes in, whilst in practice one or two inev­itably miss.

I have men­tioned here just a couple of applic­ations of visu­al­ization in sport. But this mental skill, this instinctive talent we have of visu­alizing can be put to good use in a far wider sense as well. Imagine the power of visu­al­ization in pre­paring to take your driving test, or in a job interview, or anything at all which matters to you.

You can make your visu­al­iz­ations even more powerfully effective with the help of hypnosis. Hypnosis is a state of both relaxation and focus and your creative mind comes to the fore. Hypnosis therefore allows a greater intensity of focus and thera­peutic effect. Your images and visu­al­iz­ations become more magnetic when in hypnosis. Not only that, with hypnosis you access your sub­con­scious mind, the part which acts instinctively and auto­mat­ically and so you can embed your visu­al­iz­ations deep within your psyche, creating a firm and powerful expectancy that what you are visu­alizing will indeed become your reality.

This is why golf hypnosis, and sports hypnosis in general is so widely used in this day and age. If you want a real edge in sport or life in general then you can empower yourself by learning to visualize effectively and delib­erately, with the help of hypnosis downloads. Simply by listening to a hypnosis download you will learn to use hypnosis and discover how easy it is for you to visualize.

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​03-​​06 10:35:51.