Latest researc into using visualization techniques for goal setting

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by Dimitri Papalexiou

Have you tried using visualization techniques for goal setting? These methods can help program your subconscious mind with information. Doing this activates your Reticular Activator (RE)- that's the bit of your brain that keeps an eye out for anything that will help with your goals.

The RE works for example if you're looking for a particular vehicle, you have focused on images of this vehicle & set a goal to find one. All of a sudden you see them everywhere, this is your RE doing it's job.

Traditional visualization methods ask you to focus on and imagine your goal/s in vivid detail, using all your senses and adding emotion. This works just fine, but….. new research shows that by doing this you are missing a big, fat, important piece of the image - the negative side (what you don't want!!!)

Instead of just viewing the positive outcome, you actually do a split-screen image in your mind, and you do it in third person. Here's how it works. On the left-hand side of the screen in your brain, you have a picture of what you don't want in your life, a very vivid picture. On the right-hand side of the screen you have a very vivid image of what you do want, and it's in third person.

Not only are you watching yourself, but there's also a group of people watching you. When you combine all of these elements into one picture, one image, one emotional situation, it becomes the most powerful, goal driving, behavioural-change tool there is.

In theory, one-half of the picture is a very clear picture of what you don't want and the other side is a very clear picture of what you do
want. The third component is that you have to kind of step back, remove yourself, and watch it like a movie. If you do that, you see other people in the image watching the whole thing.

You see the other people; there's an audience watching the whole thing, and the audience sees the person as being broke & poor (for example). The audience also sees the person as succeeding and being successful. That was the other component; when they added that, the successful outcomes (goals achieved) dramatically increased.

This enhanced version of visualization kicks butt! You're mind can reach goals two main ways (ask Tony Robbins), you can set a goal that moves you away from pain, like 'I want to be rich so that I wont be embarrassed anymore' - or, 'I want to rich so that I can buy my favourite sports car.'

One version moves you away from a perceived pain, the other towards a perceived pleasure. Using both in the one visualization exercise really boosts its power. It takes a little getting used to, but it truly is worth the effort!

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