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Imagine it to live it
What becomes real in your mind
will become real in your life.
Visualization is the process of creating an experience or intention in your mind,
before you have it in your life.
Global superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger has made several references to
visualizing his goals before he actually achieved them. Michael Jordan, the
legendary basketball player, claims that he visualized the type of player he
wanted to become before he found success. In fact, top athletes often use
visualization. One of the best tennis players ever to grace our planet, Roger
Federer, says he uses it in his training regime. These sportsmen are training and
performing to perfection – within their minds.
Psychologists Alan Budley, Shane Murphy and Robert Woolfolk suggested in
their 1994 book that mental practice results in better performance than not
physically practising at all.
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The brain patterns that are activated when you
imagine
an action are very similar to those that are activated when you
physically perform the action, so visualization can actually train your brain for
the event.
When we visualize what we desire, not only do we align ourselves to vibrate on
the same frequency as the object of our visualization, but we also influence our
subconscious mind in the same way as we do with affirmations.
The brain and the nervous system
cannot tell the difference between what
is imagined and what is real.
We can take advantage of this. If our brain believes that the ideas we’re feeding
it are true, then our life will begin to reflect that, too. If you imagine yourself to
be more confident than you currently are and the brain thinks it’s true, you’ll be
more confident!
Engage your senses
When we talk about visualization as a process, we don’t mean creating single
mental images. You have to create scenes, not pictures. In those scenes you must
involve all your senses: taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing.
Go into as much detail as you can. For example, if you want a new car, don’t just
picture the car. Put yourself in the car, driving it around. Think about how you
feel while driving it; the sound of the car; the sight of other cars on the road; the
temperature of the air around you, and so on. Live the experience as if it were
true in that precise moment. Get creative with your scenes. Really bring them to
life by making them bright, colourful, loud and big. All you need to do is close
your eyes and start creating.
It’s important to create a scene that makes you feel good. Your imagination
should ignite positive emotions, and this requires a lot of focus, so always do it
in a quiet place where you can relax and distance yourself from any distractions.
When I use this technique, I get confirmation
that I’m doing it effectively when I start
to feel a little tingly. That is, I begin
to feel as if it is actually happening
and it fills me with excitement.
If you find it hard to create visuals in your head, there are things you can do to
help yourself. Vision boards are very popular. Collect pictures and clippings that
depict what you want to manifest and fix them to a board. This will help you
clarify your goals, and you can place the board in an obvious place in your home
to keep you focused on their intentions.
I like to keep a vision board as well as practise visualization. I don’t keep a
physical board, but collect images on a personal website and try to spend a few
minutes viewing it every day. This has worked well for me. I even manifested
my dream proposal to my life partner by gathering images on Pinterest, a
popular vision board platform, of how I wanted it to look.
As a teenager, I used to produce music as a hobby. I was a big fan of a group
called So Solid Crew, one of the biggest acts around at the time. I had their logo
printed onto my school pencil case. In class, I daydreamed about working with
them.
A year or two later, a member of So Solid Crew, known as Swiss, released an
album called
Pain ‘n’ Musiq
. I absolutely fell in love with this album and would
listen to it day and night. It put me in a trance and I’d visualize myself working
with Swiss and creating great music together.
Remarkably, it wasn’t long after this that I did have the chance to work with
Swiss; through a musical artist and mentor of mine called Clive, who happened
to be friends with him. Eventually the three of us collaborated on a few songs,
before just Swiss and I worked together.
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