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Professional athletes and other highly successful people use power of visualization technique on a regular basis. Why? Results of a 20-year study of effects of visualization on results revealed an amazing discovery. Humans see pictures on screen of mind when thoughts are being processed; i.e. when they think of things.
For example, if a person, let’s say, George Right, stopped doing what he was doing right now, closed his eyes and thought of his car. What would he see? Is it word CAR that pops up on screen of his mind or a visual image?
Mentally, here's what is actually happening...
George is accessing a memory from his mind that was instilled while he was first learning what a "car" is. Then specifically, his present car popped up. He didn't always know it was called a car.
Similarly, other humans associate names with images or other forms of stimuli as a way to refer back to them in mind. And here's an example of why this simple talent is so important.
Let’s go back to George for a moment. When he goes to find his car after he’s been at a shopping mall, all he is focusing on is finding image that he has inside his head for his car. He quickly scans parking lot and with lightning speed eliminates all other cars until he finds familiar one that he is focused on.
With this example in mind, here is a behind-the-scenes look at how to use visualization to achieve any goal.
·Visualize an outcome you want over and over again to build 'cells of recognition' in your memory bank, just like you may have had with a car or other learned object when you were younger. This serves in following two ways.
