POWER OF VISUALISATION

You must have set a goal in your life or maybe you currently have that one but if you find difficult to pursue then this article definitely for YOU! 

Setting a goal is not a tough task but follow it, is quite difficult. The simple reason to give up in-between is that you slowly start realizing that this is not your cup of tea, and start to try something else.

So, if you expect to reach your potential or expect to have your dream come true then you must become MASTER at visualization! 

You must be thinking of what the heck! I am talking about. I am not going to give a piece of advice or handing over a to-do list but going to tell you the most interesting part of the brain.

As I said you have to become a master at Visualisation but the question is WHY?

Visualization is the most powerful skill. You must have heard about "Law of Attraction" or the word "MANIFESTING"!

When I read more about it then I found that our brain has a system, a technical term for that is Reticular Activating System (RAS), a network of neurons. So, I intrigue what does it actually do? 

Basically, it is a filter system that allows certain information in your brain and blocks out other information and you will be amazed to know who program this filter. You yourself do this programming. Yes, you read correctly,it is YOU! 

But, how do you program this filter? So, let me decode. Suppose, if you constantly feel like you are unlovable, then RAS throughout the day points out every single piece of evidence that confirms your negative belief which you hold about yourself. So, if you think people don't like you then your filter i.e. Reticular Activating system literally looking for evidence to confirm that belief all-day long.

This is a kind of confirmation bias which means your mind loves to read or search things that you agree with because reading things that you agree with confirming your filter. 

So, till this point, you must be feeling like, OK Fine! but why we have such a filtration process. There you go! if your brain let in everything or your brain gives equal value to everything, then your head literally explodes off your shoulders. So this Reticular Activating System protects your brain by filtering information and allow only those stuff that it agrees with. 

Therefore, you must reprogram your Reticular Activating System so that your brain starts to spot an opportunity, starts to spot evidence that things really working out, and it helps you to build momentum, and it all begins with visualization technique.

Let's understand how visualization works? So, assume your goal is to improve your self-worth. Now, I want you to visualize what your life looks like and how you going to feel about yourself assuming that your self-worth has improved. 

To make this exercise a little easier, close your eyes and have a specific picture of what it looks like, you may be seeing yourself speaking up at the workplace, seeing yourself more confident, seeing yourself at the gym to take care of body. And the most interesting thing you know, you are thinking of positive emotions about such feelings; you may be feeling happy, feeling proud and many others connecting emotions. 

what actually happening in your brain when you do this is that you are training your brain to have a completely different filter system. Do you know that your brain does not know the difference between something actually happened (Good or bad) to you and the things you imagine(imagined memory that you are creating). When you imagine or visualize your brain encodes it as a real memory and that's really important because when your brain encodes it as a real memory, it changes the filter system!

And, it's proven that simply visualize yourself doing things, actually develop those skills in you or help to improve that skills as if you were actually learning those skills. To authenticate what I am saying is true, I am giving you a youtube video link of  Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think he requires no introduction but still for those who don't know him; he is the greatest bodybuilder who won the Mr. Universe Title just at the age of 20 and went on to win Mr. Olympia contest several times. He himself described in this video how he started to visualize to set his vision which led him to win that title.

I hope that now you knew the reason why you must start to believe what you think because you are reprogramming your brain, you are changing the network of neurons that acts as a filter.

So, it is more like a domino effect. The more you believe in yourself, the more confident you become, and the more skills you build. And, it is DANG GOOD! Isn't it.

So, this is how it works! And this is the true science bullshit.