I remember asking a client, “Do you take the time each day to picture a result you want to create for that day?”
“I’m a man of action,” he responded. “I just get up and get going.”
I questioned, “How’s that working out for you?”
“Well, I’m getting decent results, but I think I could do a lot better,”
Truism.
Taking the time to visualize what you want to see happen before you jump into action may appear, at first, to be an unnecessary step, but there’s a reason that elite athletes, executives and top professionals around the world “picture it first.”
To visualize is to realize.
Oddly enough, many people don’t understand “the mechanics” of visualization. They get hung up or stuck on a number of hurdles.
For example, a man closes his eyes to visualize a goal and cannot see it. When he asks other experts about this, he is told that he’s “not visual.”
Not true.
A lady once told me that she can see the idea of what she wants to visualize, but gets upset when she can’t “see it clearly.”
“Define clearly.”
“Well, I should be able to picture it as clearly as everything in this room, or as clearly as an outdoor scene,” she replies.
“Says who?” I question.
Another sticking point is the idea that you must be able to focus on a single image or goal for long periods of time. If a person’s focus waivers at all, the person thinks he is doing something wrong.
Again, not true.
Assuming that visualization is purely visual and that you must see everything crystal clear are common mistakes.
Visualization is also about feeling, hearing, smelling, tasting and so on.
Yes, and so on….
The other day, a friend asked, “In Theatre of the Mind you mentioned that you need to add emotion to your visualization to make it work.”
“True,” I interjected.
“Well, I’m not sure how you do that?” he asked.
At this point something dawned on me. It’s time to create a monthly group coaching program based upon Psycho-Cybernetics, Theatre of the Mind, Zero Resistance Living and other knowledge I have gathered over the decades, such as martial arts breathing exercises.
And that’s what I intend to do.
If this is something you are interested in, send me an email to state what you want to learn.
More information forthcoming.
In the interim, make sure you are invested in at least two of the programs I’ve mentioned above, as they will probably be prerequisites.
See it. Feel it. Be it.
Matt Furey
