PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS 3 (VISUALIZATION) AT WEALTHNUGGETS4U.COM

Personal development tools: The use of visualization techniques to promote desired outcomes and enhance our personal development and mind power is nothing new. It as long been known that our minds and bodies find it difficult to differentiate between what's imagined and what's real. For example if we pretend we are running a race just in our minds the effect on our mind and body is virtually the same as if we are really running it. That's the reason we sometimes awake from dreams in a breathless state, it's as if we we're actually experiencing the dream for real.

So if the mind finds it hard to differentiate between imagination and reality it stands to reason that by constantly imagining a desired event or result we can eventually make it happen. In a controlled study to demonstrate mind power, two sets of basketball players of similar ability were told to practice intensely for a week and then they would play each other in a game.

However one set practiced physically whilst the other set practiced purely mentally. After a week the game was held and the set that had practiced mentally won comprehensively. The mind is a very powerful instrument and mind power is often very much underrated.

Personal development tools fact: Muhammad Ali.The legendary boxer said that he fought all of his fights in his head, well before climbing into the ring with an opponent. He called it his 'future history.'

Unfortunately most people give up on things far too easily. Do not underestimate your own personal mind power, If you've been visualizing something for what seems like an age and nothing as actually come to fruition take heart from the fact that the longer something takes to create or build the bigger it will become. Once you've started the process, as long as you don't cancel it out with doubt and negative thinking it will definitely come into being. Your subconcious mind will scour the universe to find things that will help you acheive your goal, that's it's job.

There are various personal development methods that can improve the effectiveness of visualization which in turn will increase your mind power and the speed of you aquiring your desired result, however be warned we don't always know what is best for us and when we should have it. So, as the saying goes. "Be carefull what you wish for..."

Whenever you pray or wish for something always remember to add the following phrase - "This or something better for the good of me, my higher spirit and everyone concerned." By doing this you are giving your subconcious mind and (your) God, the force that drives the universe, a much more specific instruction and hence less margin for error. I mean, you don't want to aquire a large sum of money as the result of something bad happening, so be specific.

Personal development tools: The method that improves the effectiveness of visulization the most is the one which focuses on our emotions. If you visualize with emotion you will acheive your desired result or goal much more quickly. Conversely, If you do anything half- heartedly why be surprised when you get mediocre results.

The reason that you get better results if you attatch strong emotion to your visualizations is that you are attatching real feeling to your thoughts, you are in effect turbo charging them and your subconcious mind will respond accordingly.

For example how do you think you'd react if you were a student and your lecturer entered the classroom and told you and your fellow students to line up against the wall? You'd probably all get up and do it, there'd be a few moans and complaints but you'd all do it.

Now let's change the scene for a second. Your no longer in a classroom but queueing in a bank and in burst two armed robbers screaming for everyone to get on the floor. Your reaction is going to be completely different. The actual requests are similar but the gravity of the situation is totally different. The emotion generated in the second scenario is extremely intense and thus the result is acheived much faster.

Wealthnugget4u:- Personal Development tools: If you are visualising a bigger house or a better car mentally move your family, possesions and even pets into it!. Imagine what your new house will look like with your furniture in it or imagine transfering all the contents of your current car over to the new model. It makes the visualisation much more credible.

Wealthnugget4u:- Personal development tools: If you stuggle with visualising, then practice with a simple three dimensional shape. Visualise it stationery and when you've mastered that start moving it around with your mind's eye. Rotate it, move it further away, then closer to you.

Gradually increase the complexity of the shapes until they become sophistisated images. Then try two images at once, then three. Within a couple of weeks you'll be able to visualise fully blown scenes. This discipline will also help increase your powers of concentration and subsequently further your personal-development.

Wealthnugget4u:- Personal development tools: Another method for practicing visualisation and increasing your mind power is to look at a picture, close your eyes, visualise it and then check your results.

Keep repeating the process until you become competent at it. I appreciate that some people are incapable of visualising. If you are one of these people then mentally commentate on the 'visualisation' and this will enable you to aquire more detail.

Pretend you are going about your everyday routines in your new house or lifestyle. Pretend you are doing the cooking or cleaning, brushing your teeth in your new bathroom or chatting with your new partner. Do everyhing that you can to make the desired situation more believable.

Wealthnugget4u:- Personal development tools: Stop using expressions such as: "That's just my/our luck." Or. "Why does this kind of thing always happen to me/us?"

STOP IT! And stop it now. The truth is, those kind of things happen to everyone, it's how you react to them that determines your position in life. Promise yourself to donate a fiver to charity everytime you catch yourself using such self-defeating comments. That will encourage you re-program your way of thinking.

As I've already stated you must create movement in your visualizations in order to make them more effective but also try moving time around. By this I mean you should try imagining that you are seeing a current situation as a memory ten years in the future. Or that you are ten years in the past looking into the future. This can be quite spooky at first but once you've mastered it you will gain additional insight into your life and you will feel more in control of it.

Wealthnugget4u:- Personal development tools: If it's extra money you desire and let's face it, who doesn't! Then imagine it being printed, See the printing rollers whirling, the notes being cut to size, see them being securely stored, loaded and delivered to you!

Use your mind power to Imagine your new house being built brick by brick, room by room. Imagine the building company applying for planning permission to start the build,errecting the advertising boards, digging the foundations. It doesn't matter if it's an established property you've got your eye on because remember all of these things did happen once. Imagine getting the keys for it, exchanging contracts, meeting the current owners, all smiles, everyone's happy. The list is endless.

Visualization isn't restricted to sight alone. Use your mind power to imagine what a desired object or situation will smell or feel like. You may find it easier to concentrate on one sense at a time. Be patient and results will come. Don't try to force your personal-development or a specific situation into being. You will get what is best for you when the time is right.

Personal development tools quote: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." Lewis Carroll. (1832-98) English author, cleric and mathematician.

Good luck with your personal development planning.

Regards, Andy.

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