These\ndays in business and in life, everyone is looking for an edge. An upper hand\nthat will allow them to execute and succeed on higher and higher levels to\nexperience the success, freedom and fulfilment they seek. With top\nentrepreneurs and business people sharing the secrets of their success and\nurging others to engage in daily routines that include activities such as\nvisualizations to get to the top, more and more people are turning to these\nonce \u201cwoo woo\u201d techniques to gain that upper hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like\nanything in business and in life, there is a right way and a wrong way to do\nanything. I often hear from clients and workshop participants that techniques like\nmeditation, visualization and goal setting simply \u201cdon\u2019t work\u201d for them. Yet,\nwhen we delve deeper into HOW they do these processes, it quickly becomes clear\nthat the issue isn\u2019t so much that their brain is different and therefore the\ntechnique doesn\u2019t work, rather it\u2019s a case of the technique being done on a\nsuperficial level and therefore can\u2019t do the deeper work the person is seeking.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So how can you improve the depth that your visualizations work at? Here are my top 3 tips to powerup your visualizations to get them working for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our\nbrains contain a section called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). This is\nthe filtering system of our brain that determines what we become aware of, and\nwhat is \u201clost\u201d in the dark recesses of our unconscious mind. Think of your RAS as the most high powered GPS\nor homing device in the entire world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we communicate, we communicate in pictures not in words. Everything that you read, hear from others, or think to yourself creates a picture in your mind (like right now – you have a picture in your mind of a picture in your mind!). This picture gets placed in the RAS as the \u201cdestination\u201d that we want to reach. Similar to typing a specific address into the GPS in your phone or car \u2013 the RAS will start to seek out how to get you to that picture the fastest and easiest way possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nis why vision boards work, we give the RAS a specific picture to seek out. To\nsupercharge the effectiveness of the vision board \u2013 we need to be specific in\nthe language we use to speak about and represent our goals. The majority of\npeople who use vision boards spend time looking at their vision board once,\nmaybe twice, a day. On the other hand we have 1,500 words per minute that\ntravel through our head \u2013 so the language we use every day can undo the good\nwork of our vision boards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When\nwe use non-specific language (ie. \u201cfinancial freedom\u201d) to discuss our goals,\nour RAS is unable to get a clear picture to seek out. This causes us to revert\nback whatever beliefs or picture we held onto previously. What to do\ninstead:<\/em> be specific and clear about what you want (ie. \u201cI want $1 million\nin the bank\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most\npeople, when discussing their goals, talk about what they don\u2019t want (ie. \u201cI\ndon\u2019t want debt\u201d). The RAS is unable to process the word \u201cnot\u201d \u2013 so when we\ntalk about what we don\u2019t want, we end up programming the RAS with a picture of\nthat thing we don\u2019t want, which the RAS then works to seek out. What to\ndo instead:<\/em> focus and talk about what you DO want (ie. \u201cI want $1\nmillion in the bank\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our unconscious\nminds (the part of the brain responsible for driving behaviour) doesn\u2019t know\nthe difference between fiction and reality, between the past and the present\nand between the future and the present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When\nwe perform a visualization looking through our own eyes (ie. If my goal is to\nown an Aston Martin, when looking through my own eyes I would see my hands on\nthe steering wheel and the windshield in front of me) the unconscious mind is\ntricked into believing that we already have that thing. Even though logically\n(consciously) we know that we don\u2019t have that car, our unconscious mind and RAS\nwill close the filters off to seeking out ways to own that car as quickly and easily\nas possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What\nto do instead:<\/em>\nPicture yourself in the third person. Using the car example again, instead of\nseeing myself as the driver of the car (through my own eyes) I would see myself\nriding shotgun, and when I looked over to the driver I would see myself driving\nthe car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This\ntells the unconscious mind two things: first is that the goal is achievable (as\nNapolean said: \u201cWhat the mind can conceive, we can achieve\u201d) and second is that\nwe haven\u2019t achieved that goal yet and to take action to find it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you want to admit it or not \u2013 emotions drive us. The emotions we experience most often determine our energetic vibration and the quality of the things and people we attract into our reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When\nwe are constantly stressed out, negative, angry or engaged in drama, our\nenergetic vibration drops and we attract those things to us. And vice versa,\nwhen we are happy, fulfilled and grateful our vibration raises and we accelerate\nour growth and manifestation abilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s\nimportant then to identify the emotions you\u2019ll experience when you achieve your\ngoals. Then, during your daily visualization, focus on feeling those emotions\nin your body to raise your energetic vibration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\nalso recommend finding other activities that will allow you to experience those\nemotions, and commit to engaging in those activities on a daily or weekly\nbasis. For example, if moving into a beach house in Carlsbad, CA will cause me\nto feel calm, peace and gratitude then I would prioritize and schedule\nactivities such as meditation, yoga and walks in nature with my dog on a\nregular basis to experience more calm, peace and gratitude in my present life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Implement\nthese changes into your visualization process and you\u2019ll see results and changes\nin not only your goal achieving success, but also your mindset, the amount of\nopportunities you see and how you show up to obtain those opportunities! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These days in business and in life, everyone is looking for an edge. An upper hand that will allow them to execute and succeed on higher and higher levels to experience the success, freedom and fulfilment they seek. 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Tip\n#3: Connect with the emotions you\u2019ll experience when you achieve the goal as\noften as possible<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n