Think and be Thin
I had a email from my website asking how visualization can help to make change in my life and I thought this would be a great blog for everyone. So what is it, and how does it work?
Visualization techniques have in fact been used for thousands of years for emotional and physical healing. By conjuring up positive pictures, visualization can change emotions that subsequently have a positive effect on your mind or body.
If you close your eyes and visualize taking a bite out of a lemon, the chances are that your taste glands will salivate and react as though you have really bitten into a lemon.Also, if you visualize yourself running up and down a flight of steps, your heart rate should increase even though you are sitting down and relaxing. These are just two examples of how visualization techniques can produce real physical changes.
Visualization therapy is believed to encourage activity in the right side of your brain - related to creativity and emotions. It leaves you free to focus on overcoming a fear, achieving insights about an emotional anxiety or focusing on a particular goal you want to pursue. As the imaginary visual experience continues, your blood pressure and heart rate may fall as deep, even breathing brings new energy and vitality into the body. While the mind is busily delving into unexplored realms, the body is in healing mode.
Visualization techniques have been used to cure phobias, lower blood pressure, turn average athletes into good ones and improve the good ones even more. In fact, research shows that visualizing yourself making the perfect golf swing or delivering the perfect tennis volley actually increases your ability to do just that!
Visualization techniques are also used for:
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