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To visualise is to create a mental image of something

• Visualise: form a mental image of; imagine. Oxford Dictionary
• Visualise: to form a mental picture of (someone or something).   Merriam Webster
• Imagination,  Vision,  Intention,  The future,  Begin with the end in mind,  Dreaming,  The Law of Attraction

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To visualise is to combine the power of imagination with the power of conscious intent

• Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you’ve ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life. Christine Anderson
• Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Robert Collier
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
• It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez
• It is through the imagination that the formless takes form. Catherine Ponder
• Imagination, Build, Begin. To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act! Alfred A. Montapert
• The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building. Robert Collier
• This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau
• Intention,  Proactiveness

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To visualise is to begin with the end in mind

• All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default. Stephen Covey
• Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey
• Begin with the end in mind is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. Stephen Covey
• Begin with the end in mind. Shape your future by creating a mental vision and purpose for any project, large or small. Stephen Covey
• To begin with the end in mind means to begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen. Stephen Covey
• Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it. Charles Fillmore
• You’ve got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it. Chuck Norris
• Begin with the end in mind

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To visualise is to harness and magnify the power of thought

• I am thought. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. Peter Nivio Zarlenga
• It is impossible even to think without a mental picture. Aristotle
• Man’s mind cannot understand thoughts without images of them. Thomas Aquinas
• Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. Robert Green Ingersoll
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To visualise is to daydream with purpose

• To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen. Stephen Richards
• To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real — a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies . Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true. Peter McWilliams
• Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett
• To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real — a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies . Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true. Peter McWilliams
• Turn on your dream machine. Create mental pictures of what you want. Peter. J. Daniels
• Dreams,  Purpose

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Visualisation helps you harness the power of consciousness

• Consciousness is but energy in its finest and most dynamic form. This helps explain why events are effected by what we imagine, visualise, desire, want or fear, and why and how an image held in the mind can be made real. John Kehoe
• Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don’t say ‘I’m going to do such and such’ – it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness – your visualization – and the socalled material world. George Leonard
• Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail. Florence Scovel Shinn
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Visualision helps you harness the Law of Attraction

• You see, the Law of Attraction is responding to your vibration, not to the reality you are currently living— but if your vibration continues to be only about the reality you are living, nothing can change. You can easily change your vibrational point of attraction by visualizing the lifestyle you desire and holding your attention upon those images until you begin to feel relief, which will indicate that a true vibrational shift has occurred. Abraham-Hicks
• The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want, you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now.  The Secret
• Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind. The Secret
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Visualisation helps you create the power of desire and motivation

• All I know, is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the ‘want power.’ For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on stage and winning. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization. Brian Tracy
• One method of finding motivation is to use creative visualization. This means creating a mental picture of the outcome you wish to achieve. Amanda Harvey
• Thinking in images creates fire in the mind, visions in the soul and energy in the body. Dr Jean Houston
• All I know, is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the ‘want power.’ For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on stage and winning. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Desire,  Motivation

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Visualisation can help you move closer to your dreams and achieve great things

• By picturing ourselves creating at our highest levels, imagining the finished product and the deep joy that comes from creating, we move closer to our dreams. Visualizing the end result from our creative effort helps us achieve it. Salli Rasberry
• If you can’t see it, before you see it, you’ll never see it. Jack Graham
• The greatest successes in business, sports, and other human activities that reward success all involved people who deeply imagined their success in their mind and then brought it to life. Jerry Bruckner
• The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. Norman Vincent Peale
• To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan . . . believe . . . act!  Alfred Montapert
• When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative “success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.” Maxwell Maltz
• When you visualize and imagine anything in your mind with sufficient emotional content and vivid detail you plant the seeds in your mind that will grow into the reality you desire. Jerry Bruckner
• Visualization, that seeing of that which is not yet, is essential for the attainment of all the good that man may aspire to. Tehilla Lichtenstei
• If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William A Ward
• Dreams,  Achievement

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Visualisation can help you create wealth and business success

• The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Robert L. Schwartz
• Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you’d take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal. Tyler G. Hicks
• Wealth,  Prosperity,  Success

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Visualisation can help you understand

• If I can’t picture it I can’t understand it. Albert Einstein
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Visualisation can help you recondition old patterns and behaviours

• Learn to be the unshakable witness to your old patterns and behaviours, knowing that they are simply illusions; the programmes of a previously misguided subconscious mind. Know that through meditation, creative visualization and the repetition of positive affirmations, these old patterns will in time be replaced by new empowering behaviours and beliefs which although just as much an illusion, will ensure your success rather than your failure. By allowing your Higher Self to lead you, you open yourself up to a world of miracles in which you can consciously create your reality. Tania Kotsos
• Habit,  Transformation

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Visualise what you want; not what you don’t want

• Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. Jerry Gillies
• When you stop and observe yourself, you will find that you are unconsciously visualizing the worst possible scenarios, which is in turn making you feel bad and attracting more of those situations into your life. You’re essential telling the universe that you want more worry and stress. Henri Junttila
• Be clear what you want

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Visualise your ideal self for you become what you envision

• Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behaviour. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future. Brian Tracy
• When you run inspiring, imaginative pictures through the movie screen of your mind, wonderful things start to happen in your life. Einstein said that ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ You must spend some time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in the practice of creative envisioning. See yourself as you want to be, whether this means serving as a great judge, a great father or a great citizen of your community. Robin Sharma
• We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. Orison Swett Marden
• We can become what we imagine. Jerry Bruckner
• Undoubtedly we become what we envision. Claude M. Bristol
• Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Visualise your goal as already accomplished

• Visualize your goal as already accomplished. Put yourself into a state of actually being there. Make it real in your mind, and you’ll soon see it in your reality. Steve Pavlina
• Visualise your goal as if it is actually happening to you right now at least once a day, each and every day. Physically sense the feeling of accomplishment you are after too. John Kehoe
• You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. Les Brown
• Visualize your goal as reality every day. Make it real in your imagination, and you will make it real in your life. David Lawrence Preston
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Visualise your ideal future …

• Take twenty to thirty minutes to think about what you expect your life to be one, five, or ten years from now. Visualize a future for yourself in which everything has turned out the way you’ve wanted. This writing exercise in a sense puts your optimistic ‘muscles’ into practice. Even if thinking about the brightest future for yourself doesn’t come naturally at first, it may get there with time and training. Amazing things can come about as a result of writing. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• This is a mental exercise in which you visualise the best possible future for yourself in multiple domains of your life. You imagine yourself in the future, after everything has gone as well as it possibly could.  You have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing all your life goals.  Think of this as the realisation of your life dreams, and of your best potentials.  Laura King’s exercise
• Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present. David J. Schwartz
• Mentally imagine and prepare for your perfect future. Che Garman
• Spend time every day visualizing another detail of your perfect future. Che Garman

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… for the future you see is the future you tend to get

• The future you see is the future you get. Robert G Allen
• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. Richard Bach
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill
• The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
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Visualise the outcome you desire

• Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. Maxwell Maltz
• Have an outcome in mind. How will you know when your project is complete? Visualize what the project will look like when you’re done. Then write this down in a sentence or two. Leo Babauta
• One powerful exercise you can practice to supercharge your thinking and accelerate your results is called idealization. In idealization you continually imagine the perfect outcome or solution for any situation in your life. You project forward three to five years, or even further, and then create a mental picture of the kind of life and career that would be ideal for you in every respect. Brian Tracy
• Visualize your successful outcome in great detail. Leo Babauta
• See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. Robert Collier
• If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default. Stephen Covey

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Visualise what wild success looks like

• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Norman Vincent Peale
• Have you envisioned wild success lately? David Allen
• Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. Rob Gilbert
• Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Success,  Vision

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Visualise your destination …

• If you don’t know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart. Bryce Courtena
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… and the path it will take to reach your goal

• The second major way of visualizing involves focusing on the path it will take to attain your goal, rather than seeing it as already realized. Jeffery A. Martin
• Visualization can be very helpful, if you imagine the steps you will take in order to succeed. Mentally simulating the process of achieving the goal, rather than the hoped- for outcome, not only results in a more optimistic outlook, but in greater planning and preparation. Picture yourself doing what it takes to succeed, and you will soon find yourself believing that you can. Heidi Grant Halvorson
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Visualise your perfect day at the start of each day

• Before you get out of bed, visualize how your perfect day would look like. How do you want that day to go? Henri Junttila
• Begin each day with a visualization of yourself at the end of that day reflecting on what a fantastic day it’s been. Jeffery A. Martin
• Meditation, movement, journaling, visualization. It’s hard to have a bad day with that start. Brian Johnson

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Visualise the end of your life and what people will say about you

• Visualize your 86th birthday. Your friends and loved ones are around you. One by one they each stand and give a personal tribute to you. These individuals represent the roles you now fulfill in life (i.e. husband, parent, friend, job role, community service). Assume that you have fulfilled these roles to the utmost of your potential. What would each person say?  What difference have you made in their life?  What qualities or characteristics will you be remembered for?  What outstanding contribution of yours would they mention?  Stephen Covey
• Death,  Leaving a legacy

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Visualise the potential that lies within you

• Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us. Stephen Covey
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Visualise the impossible and you’ll begin to see it as possible

• Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. Cherie Carter-Scott
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Visualise the presence of God

• One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm “God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.” Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation. Norman Vincent Peale
• Visualize a kind, benevolent being (which could be a trusted friend or person you know or your preferred idea of the universe/higher power/spirit) is with you and is saying this to you: “I love that you love…” And then allow yourself to list all the things you love! Write it down as a list. “I love that you love making art. I love that you lvisioove dancing. I love that you love to have fun.”  This always leaves me feeling re-affirmed and self-secure. It never fails to make me feel happy to be me. And it allows me to feel loved for who I truly am, not for what I do for others.  Sarah Louise Byrne
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Add the power of emotion to your visualisations

• Imagine your ideal and see it in your mind: that’s a visualization. Now, imagine that same ideal and FEEL how you’ll feel when it’s arrived. That’s a feelingization. Arielle Ford
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine SaintExupéry
• The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion- picture screen, is the difference between success and failure. Neville Goddard
• Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. Robert Collier
• Emotion,  The Law of Attraction

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Add the power of belief to your visualisations by believing they will be realised

• Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it. Charles Fillmore
• You must begin with a belief and then act as if that which you believe or visualize were already your reality. Wayne Dyer
• When constructing your visualizations you should only use positive thoughts and intent, and you should see what you desire as already being yours. Jeffery A. Martin
• What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.  Napoleon Hill
• Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. Robert Collier
• Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality activates the creative power of realization. L. Linall, Jr.
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Add the power of planning to your visualisations

• It’s not enought to visualise a positive result; it’s much better to plan how you’re going to get there. Shane Murphy
• To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act! Alfred A. Montapert
• If the vision is there, the means will follow. Faith Popcorn
• Think of something you need to do, something you want to learn, or a problem you have to confront. What is it? Now make a concrete plan. When will you follow through on your plan? Where will you do it? How will you do it? Think about it in vivid detail. These concrete plans—plans you can visualize—about when, where, and how you are going to do something lead to really high levels of follow- through, which, of course, ups the chances of success. So the idea is not only to make a growth-  minded plan, but also to visualize, in a concrete way, how you’re going to carry it out. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
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Add the power of action and hard work to your visualisations

• Envisioning success brings you an inspiring image, but bringing that image to life requires action. Larina Kase
• I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. Jim Carrey
• In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.  Wayne Dyer
• The harder you work… and visualize something, the luckier you get. Seal
• Visualize, ‘prayerize’, ‘actionize’, and your wishes will come true. Charles L. Allen
• I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. Jim Carrey
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Add the power of commitment to your visualisations

• It’s one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It’s quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you’re visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe. Wayne Dyer
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Cherish and nurture your visualisations

• Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire; a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct. Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life. And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams. Richelle E. Goodrich

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Let your visualisations of the future effect your present behaviour

• Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on. Deepak Chopra

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Base your visualisations on your purpose and principles

• In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person’s life. Stephen Covey
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In tandem with visualisation, work on letting go of negative beliefs

• Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling that we don’t realize they are beliefs at all. We assume that they are simply “the way life is.” We may be consciously affirming and visualizing prosperity, but if our unconscious belief is that we don’t deserve it, then we won’t create it. Once we become aware of our core negative beliefs, they begin to heal.  Shakti Gawain
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Use meditation to empower your visualisations

• Meditation is a tool that you can use to give your thoughts more focus and power. It is much easier to visualize what you want and inject substance (feelings) when you are relaxed and free from distractions. Henri Junttila
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Use visualisation to help you relax

• If you find it hard to fall back asleep, try a relaxation technique such as visualization, deep breathing, or meditation, which can be done without even getting out of bed. Remind yourself that although they’re not a replacement for sleep, rest and relaxation still help rejuvenate your body. Jeanne Segal
• Pay attention to your body and mindset throughout the day. Notice any tightness.  When you do, do the following: 1. Visualize it dissipating. Just imagine the tightness floating out of you and into the air, dissolving into little bits and then being blown away by the breeze. 2. Go from tight to loose. 3. Breathe. Take in a deep, slow breath.    Smile. This transforms everything.  You can now approach any activity, any moment, with an attitude of relaxed enjoyment.  Leo Babauta
• Practicing relaxation techniques before bed is a great way to wind down, calm the mind, and prepare for sleep. Some simple relaxation techniques include: 1. Deep breathing. Close your eyes, and try taking deep, slow breaths, making each breath even deeper than the last.    Progressive muscle relaxation. Starting with your toes, tense all the muscles as tightly as you can, then completely relax. Work your way up from your feet to the top of your head.  3.  Visualizing a peaceful, restful place. Close your eyes and imagine a place or activity that is calming and peaceful for you. Concentrate on how relaxed this place or activity makes you feel.   Jeanne Segal
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Use visualisation to overcome fear

• Anxiety and fear dissipate quickly when countered with conscious breathing because concentrating on the breath enables you to refocus your attention inward. You can ground yourself and regain your usual calm by taking a series of deep belly breaths as you visualize your feet growing roots that stretch miles down into the earth. Madisyn Taylor
• See yourself confronting your fears in your mind’s eye and handling those fears like a champ. Les Brown
• To deal with fear, go to your meditative level. Polarize the fear; visualize the positive expectations. What would you be doing if you did not have the fear? Go over this again and again. Josè Silva and Burt Goldman
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Use visualisation to develop empathy

• When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God’s image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. Graham Greene
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Use visualisation to help you develop your ideas

• My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain. Nikola Tesla
• Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. David Seabury
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Use visualisation as mental rehearsal before sport or any other performance

• Visualization is mental rehearsal for whatever you want to do or accomplish in life. Jerry Bruckner
• I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice…. The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you’ll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times. Camille Duvall
• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It’s like having a mental workshop. Jack Youngblood
• I’ve discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen. Charles A. Garfield
• Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind’s eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it. Charles A. Garfield
• The real trick is to make the moves in your head first, as a way of testing them out. Juliene Berk
• Visualization lets you concentrate on all the positive aspects of your game. Curtis Strange
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Use visualisation for healing

• An important weapon in the battle with disease is to visualize your body filling with vitality and light. J. Goldwag
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Use negative visualisation to appreciate what you have

• The Stoics recommended that we spend time imagining that we have lost the things we value—that our wife has left us, our car was stolen, or we lost our job. Doing this, the Stoics thought, will make us value our wife, our car, and our job more than we otherwise would. This technique—let us refer to it as negative visualization—was employed by the Stoics at least as far back as Chrysippus. It is, I think, the single most valuable technique in the Stoics’ psychological tool kit. William B. Irvine
• Instead of spending our days enjoying our good fortune, we spend them forming and pursuing new, grander dreams for ourselves. As a result, we are never satisfied with our life. Negative visualization can help us avoid this fate. William B. Irvine
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Here are some more uses for visualisation

• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing.  Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly.  Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear.  Be still and listen.  Sue Patton Thoele
• When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of wellbeing. Alan Cohen
• Sometimes when you’re in a bad mood, it’s tempting to cling to a story that justifies it, and then retell it over and over like a picture book you’ve heard a million times. And then he said this…And then I did this…And then I messed up… Visualize yourself closing a book and taking a new one off the shelf. Then start telling yourself a different story—one where you’re not a victim, one where you’re not powerless, one where you’re accepting what happened and moving on so you don’t lose anymore time to that other book. Lori Deschene

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• The more you practice visualization the better you get at it. Jeffery A. Martin
• The soul cannot think without a picture. Aristotle
• The soul never speaks without a picture. John Holland
• Reshape the images in your head to match the vision in your heart.
• How? When you have tackled what and why, the next step is “how.” How will you know when you have arrived? How will you get there? How are you going to get it done? How will you empower yourself to achieve your goal? Taking the time to visualize and feel the “how” helps you see some of the necessary steps to take in order to achieve your goal.
• People get what they want in life when they reach the point at which they can see themselves having what they seek. Thomas D Willhite
• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it — delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough. Vera Nazarian
• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing.  Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly.  Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear.  Be still and listen.  Sue Patton Thoele
• I let go of expectation. I visualise cutting the cord to my expectations. I imagine them drifting into the air until they are gone. Susan Jeffers
• As long as you are seeing ‘what is’, you cannot grow beyond it. Abraham-Hicks
• Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths. Vic Braden

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