Brilliant Tips for How YOU Can Realize YOUR Dreams!
How visualization helps you achieve your dreams. Four brilliant visualization tips. Create your own reality. Our thoughts are powerful tools when it comes to directing our lives. They are the foundation for everything we can achieve or that might elude us. The power of visualization has long been a recognized method in various disciplines to help people achieve their ambitious goals. Top-class sports have been using it for just as long as business coaching or other success training. Knowledge about the effects of successful visualization is very old. If you know how to read between the lines of ancient or historical writings, you will soon realize how many clever minds have practiced this method throughout the centuries. In contemporary culture, pop and movie stars like Beyoncé and Jim Carrey, in particular, repeatedly emphasize in interviews that they would not be where they are today without positive affirmation. So there are many reasons to believe in the power of visualization. But probably the most important one is that it works. We would therefore like to present you with four ingenious tips on how you too can succeed with this powerful technique and thus achieve your goals.
1. You can't go wrong
There are now countless books and other media dedicated to the topic of visualization. Each of these self-proclaimed gurus claims to have discovered the only true and effective method...for good money, of course. But the fact is, the development of a positive mindset is very individual. Many factors decide how you can integrate your personal affirmations into your everyday life and which approach you choose. Like everything in life that is supposed to bring us forward, it need not be tedious or annoying. Visualization must be fun and easy to incorporate into your daily routine. Don't think of it as a compulsory exercise or a to-do that has to be completed. Lightness must play the main role in visualization, only then will your thoughts and feelings be directed towards the actual goal of your wishes. The more fun factor you can get from the technique of positive affirmation, the better. Some people even use them to spice up unpleasant or deadly boring everyday situations. So, for example, if you want to turn dull meetings, meaningless PTA sessions, or that excruciating afternoon coffee with your mother-in-law into quality time, use those times to build your castles in the air. Reframing situations that tend to be negative into something positive gives your thoughts extra power.
2. Use your daydreams
Most people indulge in fantasies and daydreams every now and then. At the red light, on the bus, in the train or in line at the supermarket checkout. From now on, try to steer your spontaneous ideas in the desired direction. Use these dead times of the day productively to strengthen your thought images and play them back in as much detail as possible. We spend more than enough time in life waiting for something or someone. Guide yourself in spirit whenever you can to the place of your desire. Surround yourself with the people you want to attract into your life and experience the success you yearn for. See yourself as the person who has already arrived in the fulfillment of your dreams. Instead of being stuck in a bland meeting, lie on the beach holding the hand of your new love, or simply trade in the packed train for the fancy company car that your new job will bring. Make every situation the best you can think of. That way, visualizing practically takes care of itself. Added bonus: Everyday situations that would otherwise stick to your schedule like chewing gum can easily be turned into meaningful units of time that serve your own personal progress.
3. Involve all your senses
Although visualization primarily takes place in our heads, it is a holistic affair. The greatest importance is certainly attached to our feelings. The more we can get emotionally involved in the image from our mind's eye, the better. We need to feel the joy, the butterflies in our stomach, the excitement and the pure happiness that comes with the fulfillment of our wishes. But our senses can do a lot more for us in this regard. How does your new love's hand feel in yours? How much can you feel a hug that you've been longing for for so long? How do you feel the pat on the back from your colleagues and friends when that promotion or new job finally works out? What does the fresh paint in your new apartment smell like? What scent will your new partner's body give off? What music will you listen to and how will the applause sound in your ears when you finally reach the goal of your wishes? The more body, mind, heart and soul you can involve in this project, the better. Committing yourself with all your might to the potential of visualization actually means full body engagement.
4. Use horse-trader tactics
Visualization is a bit like any other negotiation. You always have to ask for more than you actually want to achieve. Anyway, this horse-trader tactic has already proven useful for many people. One of the most helpful and inspiring quotes on our way towards our goal is certainly that of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: "If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough" and Africa's first female president certainly knew what she was talking about. Your dreams are a private matter. In fact, it's a good idea to keep them under wraps until you can present results. So what's to stop you from dreaming up something really big? Instead of a promotion, why not aim for a seat on the executive floor? Or better yet, create your own empire from scratch. Fly to the moon? No problem! It doesn't matter how unrealistic your desires may seem at the moment. We can make everything a reality through the power of our thoughts, if only we believe in it strongly enough and, above all, in ourselves. Many great inventors and researchers of the last 200 years had one thing in common: Apart from them, no one could see the big picture of their passion and no one but themselves believed in it. We would still be without electricity and without telephones today if the people behind them had not followed their frighteningly big dreams with persistence, doggedness and sheer willpower. So by all means, become an impostor.
Our conclusion
Well-thought is half done. Anyone who has once experienced success with the method of visualizing will never doubt it again. The name doesn't matter any more than the goal we are pursuing and the initial situation we have to put up with at the moment. Autogenic training, mental coaching and affirmation techniques have long had a fixed place in many disciplines of our lives, which have absolutely nothing to do with esotericism. On the contrary, top sports and top management, for example, want to see results and this is exactly what visualization delivers.