Visualisation practice sounds like a good idea, but I just don't get the picture.

Visualisation, and the use of your imagination skills to create images, is a right brain thinking process.

To do it brilliantly, surprise, surprise.......you will need to be both physically and mentally relaxed.

Use diaphragm breathing, ways to relax and, if you wish, self hypnosis.

Some people describe themselves as not visual, unable to get the picture, can't see images in their mind.

What follows are some simple, effective and fun visualisation practice exercises that will develop your potential for right brain visualization.

You can do these exercises as you read them....it doesn't take very long and it will be a good way of internalising them for later repetitive use.


Create a mental screen.

Close your eyes and use your imagination skills to create a blank mental screen in your mind.

If you can't do this, don't worry, try recalling your last visit to the cinema - in detail.

Start with the drive from home and re-run the entire experience until you are sitting in the cinema watching the blank screen and waiting for the show to begin.

If that doesn't work, try imagining a TV or computer screen instead.

Carry on with the exercises even if that isn't working for you - yet. The more you practice the more your mental imagery and visualization will be strengthened.

Add some images:

Imagine the following images on your blank mental screen - put them there in your mind:

* a list of numbers (add the numbers one at once to make the list)

* a list of letters or words (make each one a different font or colour or bold or italics)

* a coloured circle (add more differently coloured circles if you wish)

* add in some coloured triangles and squares

* a crescent moon or starry sky or.....any other object of your choice.

Get the idea? (or, should I say, get the picture? - sorry about that).

Now picture some other stuff:

How about:

* the smiling face of a loved one?

* your pet?

* a clown?

* a scene from your favourite movie, or TV programme or sporting epic?

Now, move your visualisation practice from objects to feelings:

For example, imagine:

* the sound of a gong

* a voice calling your name or children playing, loudly

* the sound of a train going by

* the taste of an orange or lemon

* the smell of perfume or petrol or freshly baked bread

* ice cream or your most hated vegetable or your favourite meal

* see and feel yourself walking on the beach or in your favourite place (feel the sun or wind or rain on your face)

* see yourself dancing or shaking hands with an old friend or stroking your pet or laughing or crying (picture the details)

Develop your visualization practice further by using role play images:

In your imagination, picture a scene and describe it as if you were, for example:

* John Lennon

* Cleopatra

* Merlin the Magician

* Mickey Mouse

* any other person or character of your choice.

There's no way you will ever know how well you did this exercise, of course, but that's not the point.

The more visualisation practice you do, using your right brain thinking and imagination, the more benefits you will achieve when:

* setting your goals

* being creative in envisioning your future

* problem solving

* decision making

Visualisation practice is fun and smart.
Build regular sessions into your self improvement programme.
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