How to use visualizations to bring about positive change

thoughts and emotions help shape our realitywhat we do and are in all areas of life.

It may not be too bold to say that health, quality of relationships family, as a couple, with children, with friends, or choice and job satisfaction or profession have a lot to do both with the thoughts that guide the experiences and with the image you have of yourself and is projected to others.

Maybe that’s why imagine that some aspect is improved of life can help achieve it.

The psychoneuroimmunologythe science that investigates the connection between mind and body, explains that every thought causes a biochemical reaction in the brain that causes it to release chemical signals to the body.

So when you have encouraging or positive thoughtsthe brain immediately produces dopaminea neurotransmitter that activates the body and makes you feel satisfied.

If, on the contrary, they live Hateful, angry, or self-deprecating thoughtsthe brain produces neuropeptideswhich cause similar sensations in the body and lead to feeling irritable, resentful, or worthless.

The brain, by endlessly examining and evaluating the state of the body, notices in turn that it feels a certain way and in response to that sensation. generates thoughts that provoke the corresponding chemical messengers.

This creates a vicious circle that can influence the nature of feelings, behavior and healthsince the chemical substances released in the face of negative emotions are responsible for altering the internal environment of the organism and cellular deterioration.

As stated by chiropractor and researcher Joe Dispenzawhich defends the power of the mind in the creation of our reality, “what we think and the energy or intensity of those thoughts directly influence healthin the choices we make in life and, ultimately, in our quality of life”.

Can you choose what you think?

For think beyond what feelings dictate and being able to choose between whether or not to comply with what the environment orders the body, evolution has given us an extraordinary gift: frontal lobethe last to be developed of human brain anatomy.

From its location, just behind the forehead, serves as control center or orchestra conductor: filters interference, focuses our attention and silences the storm generated by our centers of perception.

The innumerable conscious and intentional choices that are made every day depend on the frontal lobe. In it resides the closest to our true “I”.

When we impose the will using the frontal lobe we can achieve the calm and control necessary to break the cycle chemical and neurological responses that make up our personality, the alternatives we choose and the reactions we set in motion.

What is the first step to change?

Science has observed that if electrical impulses are measured of a person’s brain while looking at an object and while imagining that same object, in both cases the same brain areas are activated.

Closing the eyes and visualizing the object produces, then, a similar brain pattern to when you actually look. This means that the brain does not seem to distinguish between an action carried out and an action displayed.

I already suspected it in the thirties edmund jacobsonmedical creator of the Progressive Relaxation Technique to reduce stress.

Jacobson asked some of his patients to they will visualize themselves doing a certain physical exercise and discovered that they were produced very subtle muscle movements that corresponded to what the muscles would do if they actually carried out that activity.

This fact seems to indicate that, apart from transform thoughts consciously through the frontal lobe, it is also possible to do it at a deeper level by imagining scenes where you look the way you want in different spheres of life.

To the visualize repeatedly that we are capable of overcoming an illness, of having more positive or enriching relationships and experiences, of being better parents or of achieving greater prosperity, it seems that these images are permeating the deepest layers of the subconscious and allow to develop potential that we previously thought non-existent or impossible to do.

How to open from relaxation?

As a therapeutic and self-knowledge tool, the display You must meet some basic requirements. In order for it to be effective and creative, it is necessary from deep relaxation.

you also have to know what you want to solve building that mental image and evoking it whenever possible with all sorts of details.

The ideal is practice it at night before sleeping, or in the morning, shortly after waking up and starting daily activity. At those moments the mind is more receptive and the brain waves are close to the alpha level, slower and deeper than the beta, which is maintained in daily activity.

Doing this practice can help with anxiety and stress: Provides time to connect with your own deepest needs and allows you to put aside the daily problems that crowd your mind while trying to improve those aspects in which you have the most deficiencies.

For create a corner of calm to mentally turn to in times of stress, one can imagine alonesitting on the sand of a beach with transparent waters, contemplating the swaying of the waves and filling with the smell of the sea, evoking the breeze or the sound of the waves.

Or can be seen surrounded by treesin a beautiful sunny forest through which a stream of clear water flows while the birds brighten life with their song.

In that mental sanctuary, one can feel fullenjoy the here and now, in contact with your own essence.

to these images can be appealed at any timeespecially when you are in low spirits or excessively anxious due to external circumstances.

Overcome fears through visualization

The display can also be used for drive a change in attitude and to overcome shyness, insecurity or any fear, or to assert oneself before others.

To do this, it will be necessary to see yourself in the image created as an effective, safe, courageous person and capable of undertaking any company that is proposed.

through visualization it is possible to reinvent yourself and put an end to false beliefs gestated in the past that have not been known to overcome.

Seeing yourself in action will create fundamental positive expectations to dare to change.

In the same way, imagine yourself – from a serene and deeply meditative state of mind – doing the work you love in a positive and stimulating work environment, or visualize what you would like to have to be more accepted and enjoying personal relationships more – good humour, empathy, understanding, generosity, camaraderie… – helps to get going to achieve it.

An interesting exercise to strengthen relationships when there are disagreements with a co-worker is imagine a scene in which one relates and communicates with that partner in an open, sincere and effective way, and in which everything that is considered appropriate to clarify things is expressed.

Can visualize the other listening listen carefully to what is being said and then, in turn, listen carefully to their point of view.

But we insist: for this exercise of imagination to help, it must be carried out, like the previous ones, from deep relaxation.

Visualization can thus lead to materialize the created imageSeeing yourself capable of achieving what you want.

Visualizing how a difficulty is solved can also help to solve similar ones in the future.. It makes the “success” credible and can lead to acting in a different way than it was done.

Visualization as support for medicine

Some healthcare professionals related to natural therapies use visualization as support in therapy or treatment that their patients follow for diseases of all kinds: from rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis or arterial hypertension to others with a possible psychosomatic component, such as fibromyalgia, psoriasis or allergies.

Visualize flexible arteries free of obstacles or imagine that you have agile bones and joints that allow you to bend and walk without problems, inflammation or pain, can help you feel better.

Tibetan Buddhism uses the colored light in your views. To alleviate pain in any disease, you can visualize and at the same time feel that the body radiates light healer and think that we become a body of light in which pain has no chance to take root, because light is translucent and insubstantial.

you can also imagine healing waves of intense lightsensation of heat and wide and open sounds.

How does colored light viewing work?

In a state of deep relaxation this meditation brings awareness into the body filling it with light to seek calm and well-being:

We let go of the body we relax and take a deep breath as many times as necessary, letting out all the stiffness and tension we have with each exhalation.We feel the calm in our bodyfrom the crown of the head to the soles of the feet. We mentally observe that our body is made up of millions and millions of cells. We feel the infinite character of the body.Then we visualize cells as being filled with light. Each cell is as vast and limitless as the universe and overflows with warm healing energy. With each exhalation and inhalation, we feel that each cell emits and receives waves of healing energy. All cells actively share the healing through the waves.We perceive unity and harmony of our body as these intense waves of energy pass through it.We share the waves of energy healing with all beings and with the entire universe. Finally, we calmly enjoy the sensation experienced and we relax in unity with the healing experiencewithout analyzing it or clinging to it.

In the tibetan traditionis often used during meditation to the therapeutic effects of the five basic shades to reinforce the energies that are most needed:

The white light. Corresponds to water and moisture. has the power to harmonize and nourish.The yellow light. It corresponds to the land whose characteristic is solidity and generates force.The red light. Corresponds to fire. It is warm and increases power and strength.green light. It corresponds to air, and its characteristic is lightness. Facilitates movement and development.The blue light. It corresponds to space, and its characteristic is spaciousness. Get unlimited space.

Heal through visualization

“Visualization helps focus and focus the mind brieflyBy quickly achieving a meditative state, anxiety decreases and, as a consequence, improves the quality of life. On the other hand, the mind gives the internal order to systems that you want to stimulate and these are activated more intensely”, explains Eve John,…