Improve your Performance by Visualization
| Where intention goes, |
| Energy flows. |
| Where energy flows, |
| Life grows. |
This is a simple Visualization that helps you to mentally prepare yourself in improving your performance.
| Advance your performance by Visualization |
| Kind of Meditation |
Visualization with the use of Affirmation |
| Degree of difficulty |
Beginners and more advanced students |
| Advised duration |
5 to 30 minutes |
| Posture |
Sitting or Lying |
| Advantages |
+ it provides a great mental training
+ it gives you a relaxed, peaceful feeling
+ you can do this exercise at any time and any place
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| Remarks |
More and more sportsmen and sportswomen, business people, and musicians prepare themselves with this Meditation for important performances they will have to do in the future. |
Visualizing is a marvelous technique to prepare ourselves for important performances. More and more scientific research demonstrates the power of Visualization for our performances. In our imagination, we experience the sports performances or the meeting as a big success. Everything goes well, we win, we always reach our goal and there is no doubt at all about the performances to be done. We visualize our preparation, the actual action, and the result. Our body and our mind react strongly to the images that we ourselves create. When visualizing, it is important to experience as many sensations of seeing, feeling, smelling, and tasting as possible. Think of the details of the environment (beach, trees, waves, animals, sunshine, wind, etc.), all the physical reactions, reactions of colleagues, the public or other people involved and imagine how you will feel when it is all over. Look at the images from various angles.
Visualizations have a stronger effect when we combine them with positive affirmations like: everything I do becomes a success or: I am extremely successful. If you want to see more affirmations, go to our website and visit the section on affirmations. If you are confronted with doubts or controversial thoughts, do not resist them and let them pass away as you would do with every standard Meditation. With every form of resistance, we give new energy to our doubts and that is the last thing we want to do. You can also do this Visualization at the end of any normal Meditation. As in the case with any Meditation, we try not to judge, not to get angry with ourselves if things do not go so well, and not to be too goal-oriented. Let us begin!
Improve your Performance by Visualization Exercise
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- Sit down, close your eyes, and direct your attention to your breathing.
- Be aware of every breathing in and breathing out.
- Let your breathing be something automatic and do not try to steer it.
- Observe how the air slowly goes in through your nose, fills up your lungs and goes out again.
- Count a few of your breaths to get into a state of deep meditative relaxation.
- When after a few breaths you really feel at ease and relaxed, you begin with the Visualization.
- When you have reached a state of total relaxation, you visualize that you are actually performing the task and that everything goes perfectly well.
- Pay attention to all the details of how things would really be if your dream became true.
- Try to form a mental image that is as accurate and clear as possible.
- You have succeeded in reaching your goal, see this clearly in your mind.
- Feel the gladness and enjoy the reactions of other people.
- Try to involve all your senses. Smell, taste, look, and feel everything into the minutest details.
- Enjoy every moment.
- Then let go of your Visualization and say in your mind something like: everything is OK, I am strong, healthy and lively, everything I do becomes a success and I enjoy my success. I have performed very well, I am happy with my gold medal, I have achieved everything I wanted to achieve, etc.
- Then slowly take your attention back to the rest of your body and the sounds in the room. Move a little, stretch your muscles a little, and open your eyes.
- Finished!
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