I’m starting to visualize myself as a renowned pianist like Yiruma, be a football/soccer player and joined the national team, and have my own food business. My biggest challenge right now is visualizing to grow 12 inches at the end of the year. Pls. Don’t say I can’t because science said, doctor said, experts said..blah blah you can’t. NO, I . CAN. All I need is to believe and visualize it every night before I sleep. I have evidence it works. A friend of mine. He’s pass 21 last year. He is now 5’9. Before 5’4. Anyway, great post and goodluck u all. Never doubt just believe.

”What the mind can concieve and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

I wanted to be a college graduate so early and my visualization helped me a lot..

Also I wanted to have a near death experience and I really had one.. (Thank god I didn’t die)

So using the subconscious mind is a very powerful tool if you use it in right way. Also you need to think the way you want. Otherwise you mind will do any good or bad thing to get it achieved.

I think its important to start from the end, that is to say I’ll imagine the endpoints of exactly I want in detail.

I then experience this by feeling what its like. I make the concrete assumption that what I am experiencing is real.

The iPhone, Facebook, and the changes that are taking place in healthcare and technology were once imagined.

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I have to respectfully disagree you with. I’ve been practicing what everyone in the West refers to as visualization, but my practice is steeped in Hindu and Yogic traditions. I can thank the practice for numerous fantastic things in my life and none of them are “physical”. Example, I’ve used the technique to land plum assignments and jobs, meet my husband and give birth to my son after a battle with an infertility issue. We’re now using the practice to assist with our business and results are beginning to unfold. There is so much more to all of this and the possibilities are endless once we release ourselves from our self-imposed restrictions and limitations.

In that same study, I believe that the researchers did brain scans of people doing a skill and scans of people visualizing the skill. The result of the study was that the same parts of the brain were lit up or in use when actually, physically doing the skill as it was when the people just visualized the skill.

A great book along those lines is The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. It talks about practice and visualization to improve skills.

This helps erase a lot of the fear and doubts one might have.

I would love that it worked to learn new things, “The Matrix” feeling would be awesome, but I guess we will have to do with just improving our skills.

You need to know the activity so that you can visualise it in this way. So the examples usually used are physical ones – where we know the activity to be improved intimately: hitting a ball, running a race and so on.

Which means that it doesn’t work for things you don’t know how to do. And it does not apply to outcomes. Imagining your dream lifestyle or job or whatever.

To visualise in this way you need to do it until your muscles are ready to move.

Visualisation can help speed up learning tremendously – but it is about improving the process of what you are already familiar with – not other things

That’s why I think people should stop dividing their lives, for example, work life, social life, family life. All those divisions are not helpful, after all if you have a problem in one, it will creep to the other parts.

If we start looking at our life in a whole way, it’s easier to spot and deal with problems in the most holistic fashion possible.

Just as you describe with Tiger Woods.

In some respects it makes sense if you can’t concentrate you can’t visualize effectively, but many people do not lose their ability to concentrate because they have other issues.

If they did heaven help anybody being operated on by a doctor who’s going through a marriage break up

I have worked with 2 professional golfers and being positive can be crucial. However, visualization LITERALLY rewires the brain.

There has been some recent research that showed people could actually build muscle by visualizing working out. They have to really, really get into it as though they were working out, but it has worked.

There has also been research by Dr Nick Hall on using visualization to help cure cancer. Results are mixed but encouraging on that,

Visualization is very powerful especially in sports when you see yourself achieve your goal or outcome before performing it – Sports Psychology.

The only problem lies in when you are dealing with personal issues (ex: Tiger Woods) that lower your self image and distract you from focusing and using visualization techniques effectively. “What takes place off the golf course, takes place on the golf course”

The visualization techniques (what my partner found in sports like golf) don’t work unless you have a high sense of self and your life is in harmony. After you deal with these issues and stop withholding, your performance will increase because you will feel better about your self. The visualization / sound technique will take your game to the next level.

Tiger will do very well at the Master this week because he is finally getting his life back to the way it was. You can see it in his EYES “Tiger Eyes” that he is feeling better about his SELF & game.

I think while it may not be as powerful with non-physical skills, it can’t hurt and at the very least will have some positive impact. So why not give it a shot?

It’s more than anything used to get you in the right mindset of positive thinking. Golf is a game riddled with self doubt and fear. I used and taught golfers to use visualization to simply think about a positive outcomes so that they could play a shot freely and confidently.

After watching The Secret and recently reading Think and Grow Rich, I have been trying to use visualization to help me with my new goal.

Although I haven’t been doing this recently because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I am in the process of thinking about the person I want to be so I can visualize having the skills needed to achieve my goal.

Ian H. Robertson writes extensively on this topic in his book Mind Sculpture.