Is daydreaming a waste of time or could there be benefits to visualising events that have not yet occurred?
Daydreaming often gets a bad press, many of us grow up being told to ‘stop daydreaming and get on with our work’. Is this advice as good as it seems or could daydreaming hold positive benefits?
It seems that visualisation; a form of deliberate daydreaming could have very real benefits. In visualisation an individual pictures themselves as having achieved a desired goal. They might see themselves performing well in an interview, successfully dealing with a phobia, or having achieved their target weight.
There appear to be several benefits to this practice. Firstly, you’ve mentally rehearsed for success prior to the event, so that you know it is possible. Secondly you can enjoy the positive feelings associated with success and use these to increase your motivation.
If you’ve not yet experienced the positive feelings which can arise during visualisation why not give it a try?
Close your eyes and begin to visualise yourself having achieved a goal that you’ve set yourself making the image as strong as possible.
Allow yourself to start to feel all those wonderful feelings associated with success.
You will find that this works best when you try to engage all of your senses. See all of the objects and people around you; hear any relevant sounds and so on. You can also amplify every part of your visualisation by making the colours brighter and bolder and turning the volume up. The stronger and bolder the image the more effective it will be at helping to elicit those feelings of success.
The more often you repeat this exercise the more practiced you will become at bringing the feelings of success to mind. You can use these feelings to help you as you work towards your goal.
These types of visualisation are often used by hypnotherapists to help clients achieve their goals. A therapist can help to create a really vivid visualisation with strong feelings of success. It seems that seeing really is believing!
For more information about hypnotherapy see www.alkuonlifesolutions.co.uk
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