You may have heard about visualization and wonder how can that help? This may sound strange but the brain sees and feels the images in your mind. Because of this, it doesn’t know the difference between what your eyes are seeing and what your imagination is seeing!

Images from the eyes are translated into impulses in the brain and the same thing is done with what our imagination “sees” – as far as the brain is concerned, if you imagine you’re lying on a beach with the ocean lapping close by, then that’s where you are!

In tests where top athletes visualized winning a race, research found that the brain fired the muscles required in running the race during this process. So even though the athlete was just sat down imagining, the brain/body were acting as if the race was being run.

With the athletes, the more they visualized winning a race, the more firm became their convictions and beliefs and hence they won the race. Ultimately, the winner is the one with the strongest belief and conviction. This applies to all of us who want to achieve a dream or goal.

This is why your imagination and visualization are so powerful – the body acts and the mind believes as if you have already attained your goal.

To visualize your goal, find a quiet space, sit down and start to breathe deeply to relax. Once you’re relaxed, bring an image of the goal into your mind – see yourself in the picture having attained the goal and really feel the happiness, the sense of accomplishment.

Become like a child and go into the picture – see other people, talk to them, make it colourful, bright, add sounds, whatever is needed. Do this for a few minutes (say 5-10 minutes) and then go about your day. Try to do it every couple of days. What will happen is that new ideas will come to you, or you may be drawn to new place, events. Be open to following the nudges that come to you.

To those people who find it hard to see images, go with the feelings and senses which arise within in you when you think of the goal. Heighten those feelings as much as possible and this will have the same effect.

The Law of Attraction says we live in a feeling universe – this is why visualization helps since it connects us to the solution on a feeling level. Start to be open at the conscious level to the ideas which arise and to act on them.