Visualisation: Law of Attraction
Successful people have a clear idea of their life goals. Constantly dreaming and visualising about them, they are able to harness the power of their subconscious mind thereby setting in motion favorable events that eventually help achieve the goals…
“What you think, you become” – Gautama Buddha..Centuries ago, when the great saint spoke these wise words, he was trying to bring to fore the strong connection between our ‘thinking’ and ‘actions’? Surely, he wanted to communicate the fact that ‘negative’ people invariably think negative, and likewise attract negative people/events into their lives’.
So also, positive people habitually tend to do a lot of ‘positive’ thinking and likewise attract positive people/situations into their lives. Eventually, bringing us face-to-face with the universal law of attraction– ‘like attract like’.
Today, spiritually inclined or otherwise, most thought leaders/corporate trainers working with the nuts-and-bolts of ‘how thinking works’ and even modern-day scientists researching on ‘neurons’ and ‘brain‘would agree that Lord Buddha uttering those golden words might have just got it right.
Visualisation: Reprogramming Mind
In the 21 st century, humanity has clinically re-discovered that mind can be reprogrammed to get things to work-out in a desired manner. We are all waking up to a new reality that it is possible to train our brains to achieve set life goals and objectives. It is possible because the brain isn’t able to differentiate between things ‘actually happening’ and the things that are being ‘imagined’. In short, the brain cannot distinguish between a ‘real’ memory and an ‘imagined’ one. It means that if you visualise some life goal/objective and get the brain to encode it as a ‘real memory’, the brain would immediately set in motion a whole sequence of events leading to its achievement.
Understanding the Brain’s Process System
Our brain has a system called ‘Reticular Activating System’. It is a network of neurons that is designed to filter information allowing in only the required information and blocking the unwanted. It is a protective system, to prevent information overload. Because if the brain starts processing all the information it received, it would simply explode.
Guess who programs this system? We do it, all the time. For instance, if you start feeling, ‘you are not loved’, your reticular activating system will immediately, through the day, start pointing out every piece of evidence to confirm the negative belief that, ‘you are not loved’.
How to get our brain to work for us?
We identify a ‘life goal’ and create a vivid picture in our mind of how things would seem to be when it is finally achieved. Immediately, this would create a conflict in our mind – between the visualised image of the goal being achieved and the present-day reality. Now as our minds are programed to resolve conflicts, our subconscious mind will get working on this visualisation. It will activate creative powers of the subconscious mind, motivate the mind to work harder, create new solutions, find innovative means… only to realise our goals.
When should one do it?
While visualisation can be used to help achieve life goals, we need not spend all day thinking about the goals and objectives. On the contrary, if you spend too much time on visualisation while going about the day-to-day tasks, it could prove to be counter-productive. Instead, you ought to establish the right balance between ‘visualisation’ exercise and ‘daily routines’. Ideally, you should spend no more than 5-10 minutes twice-a-day, preferably first thing in the morning when you wake-up and then just before you go to bed.
How to get better results?
While going about the daily 5-10 minute visualisation exercise, try making the images more real by
adding a lot of emotions to it. The real feelings of sound, smell, taste and touch when added to visual image of life goals/objectives will make the mental image look more profound, and thus the brain will work more passionately to achieve them.
Why make it a practice?
Waking up every day and visualising life goals and objectives for a couple of minutes will not only help you reprogram your mind to get things done, but it will also help you develop the art/skill of getting the mind involved in constructive things. You will begin to feel really good.
-Noel Fernandes
Team, ScienceNow Digital
