Probably the most powerful mind tool around, yet so very few understand, let alone use.
Today I shared with my tuition student the art of visualization. He had a problem with his maths, more specifically decimals. Each time I told him to pen down his answers rather than using a pencil, he would go all jittery.
Thus I engaged with him a visualization exercise, going through the many emotions he would encounter using a pencil and doing “whole numbers”, something he was very familiar with. At each stage, as I changed the variables from pencil to pen, from whole numbers to decimals, I told him to capture from the beginning the feel of doing whole numbers using a pencil, and keep it there. Visualise, and don’t think, but feel. Feel the excitement of breezing through decimals. Feel the power of using your pen, the confidence. It was amazing.
Visualization is powerful, if you know the pointers. Once upon a time I took my riding test and failed twice, even though I kept telling myself that I could pass. Then I decided to do the most over-the-top confidence move yet… bringing along my passport photograph which I WILL use to paste on the riding license form, which I WILL get on that morning which I KNOW I WILL pass my riding test. That morning, to add to the outragoeus visualization exercise I was deeply in, I told myself I had been riding the bike all my life, and that was just another day at the park. I did not tell myself I will not fail, due to the famous law of attraction which I was familiar with already back then.
To pass: below 20 points.
- 1st test: 40+ points
- 2nd test: 30+ points
- 3rd test with visualization, bringing along my passport photographs “knowing” I will pass?
8 points.
