There’s a little more to visualization to manifest your dreams.

It has been tested time after time to work better than not visualizing about your goals. In the past many experiments with athletes of equal ability found that their visualizing group – the group that practiced visualizing about achieving their goals - did substantially better than the group that didn’t. The original research was based on brain research that states our brains don’t know the difference between what’s actually is taking place and a dream.

Visualization programs will tell you to look into your mind’s eye and make a picture of what you want. The part that they are missing is two fold: 1.) The clarity of the picture needs to be in pictures, feelings, smells, tastes, and sounds and you want to have as many of these as possible. 2.) You need to be looking in the correct direction to have your brain properly assimilate the information. You need to look to a spot upwards and to the right. This is your brain’s place to access future events.

Sometimes step 2 won’t help because often our brains keep painful images from our past in that area to “keep and eye” on them and it will impede what we’re trying to accomplish.

Just a side note: This is when you might think about coming to my seminar on Monday on timers. Or contact me so we can do some work on moving around that barrier.

Words, words, words.

Did you know that your words, the words you use specifically, are words that have connection, emotion and meaning in your brain. If someone uses your words in front of you, you will feel more comfortable in their presence than a person who uses words that are a paraphrase of your vocabulary. In the 80’s and 90’s there were active listening courses that had people repeat back others ideas to them using paraphrased words and we now know this is a miss match an actually brings up people’s defenses because it appears we don’t relate if you don’t use the words that match our brain patterning.

If you are marketing to a particular group, you want to know what are the words are to access that group. For example, you are going to get an entirely different group if you market to “body workers” versus “holistic practitioners.” Similarly, individuals will buy an entirely different brand of toilet a paper based on the marketing words used for marketing that toilet paper.