Royane Real
How Affirmations and Visualization Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
By Royane Real
You are probably already very familiar with the words affirmations and visualization. It seems that everyone is talking about them.
Affirmation and visualization are techniques that are often used to help improve our ability to reach our goals. Yet many people complain that they have tried to use affirmations or visualization but they couldn’t get these techniques to work for them.
Why does this happen? One reason is that every body’s brain is different. Some people can visualize very easily. Some people have difficulty in visualizing.
Your success in using affirmations and visualization will improve with experiment and practice. You may need to try several different techniques before you find the one that works best for you, but once you do find an effective technique, you should use it every day.
There are many different ways in which the technique of affirmations can be used, yet the underlying principle is the same. If you have tried to speak your affirmations out loud to yourself, you may have found that your mind rebels against the concept and says, “No, that’s not true for me.” Then your brain shuts down and stops listening to what you affirm.
Does that mean that affirmations won’t work for you? No! It just means you may need to experiment a bit to discover a technique for using affirmations that fits your particular mind set.
One of the most simple and most effective affirmation methods that has been used by many people to improve their motivation for achieving goals. This is the method of simply writing down your goal on paper and reviewing this written affirmation many times every day.
Not everyone is born with the gift of having tremendous motivation. Not everyone is surrounded by people who will enthusiastically cheer you on whenever you lose hope or lose focus to achieve your dreams.
Most of us have to struggle a lot to come up with the motivation and drive to keep on going when we are going after a particular goal. We need to use tools like visualization and affirmations to keep recreating our vision and our confidence that the goal we are going after is worth reaching, and that we have the talent and drive necessary to get there.
Why is the technique of writing down your goals and reviewing them often so effective?
When you write down your goals, you have to activate several parts of your mind, not just the part that visualizes your future, but also the part of your brain that forms your ideas and thoughts into words, and the part that makes your hand move across the page to form your words on paper.
The more often you do something, the more automatic it will become. The more parts of your brain you activate, the more you create and strengthen new pathways between parts of your brain that are normally not very well connected.
This article is written by self improvement author Royane Real.
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