Using Visualisation

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The Power of Visualization by David R. Hamilton Ph.D.

Every thought ripples throughout the body. Scientists nowadays are well aware of the connection between mind and body. The storage of memories in the brain is a mind-body phenomenon. Say you went on a first date and had a wonderful time.

On the way home you feel in love. You replay the evening over and over in your mind. You even make stuff up, maybe even imagining the wedding day in the future, or the proposal. You’re not alone. We’ve all done it.

Scientific studies have shown that the consistent replaying of bits of the evening over and over again in your mind will mean that the memory is strongly encoded in your brain. When your feelings are really strong you will actually grow brain cells in what is known as neurogenesis.

Here’s the thing: Before you replayed the evening over and over in your mind – what is known as creative replay - there were no brain cells in a specific area. After replaying it several times there were. You have created matter where there was none before. Think about it. That’s the biological power of visualization. It is also one of the reasons why visualizing yourself well when you are sick can speed up your recovery.

Many scientific studies have actually shown that the mind can speed up recovery from illness. Placebo studies clearly show that a belief in wellness results in healing. Some scientists believe this is how visualisation heals. When you visualise, and believe in what you are doing, then healing takes place. There are many seemingly miraculous stories of people who have done so. But it’s more than just faith.

There’s a well-known story of a man who damaged his liver beyond repair in an accident. After spending a while in hospital he was sent home with a contraption that had tubes going into and out of his body. This was for life. But he learned a technique known as ‘creative visualisation’ where he would spend hours visualising his damaged liver cells being repaired.

At first, he saw the cells in his mind as black, shrivelled, damaged prunes, but he took an imaginary toothbrush and imagined cleaning the cells, one by one. As he did this he saw them turn a healthy pink colour.

After three months of visualisation he had an accident at home and one of the tubes was torn out of his body. He was rushed to hospital and x-rayed to survey the damage prior to an operation. But the doctors discovered that his liver was completely repaired.

Ultimately, I don’t really think that the actual image we use in visualising is too important. Otherwise, we would all need to use the same ones. The visual image is merely a symbol of what you wish – you intend – to happen. It’s the keeping your mind on what you wish to happen that’s important. The visual image just helps you keep it there.

Visualisation works in life too. Visualising your dreams coming true is one sure fire way to make them happen. The Law of Attraction operates here. That which we focus on most of the time is attracted into our lives.

Say you wanted a new house. Visualising the house you want will immediately begin to move you in the direction of getting it. You get inspirations to turn left instead of right and you seem to just say the right things at the right time. This is the influence of your intention on your brain.
 
‘Stuff’ also begins to happen and people come into your life who can help you.  Scientific studies spawned out of cutting edge theories of quantum physics have revealed an interconnectedness to all things. In other words, every thought resonates at the quantum level absolutely everywhere. If that sounds like too much to get your head around, just trust the physicists and mathematicians who have proven it.

In other words, when you visualise your new house, the thought goes outwards from you in all directions – like the way a radio station broadcasts a signal - and resonates with everybody else. Then people are drawn to you – usually in coincidental ways – who can help.

I often describe it using the metaphor of a spider’s web. How does a spider know that a fly is trapped in its web? It feels the vibrations. So in the same way, people feel the vibrations (at a deep unconscious and quantum level) of your dreams, as you do theirs. This is why statistical studies have shown that we are usually able to sense who it is when the phone rings far more than the law of averages would suggest. It is also why studies of cats and dogs show that they instantly know when their owner has left work. They feel the vibrations.

So if you want to heal your body, visualise! If you want to live your dream, visualise! If you want inner peace, visualise! And be open-minded to the possibility that what your thinking about might just happen.

We usually do the opposite. A person wishing for a new house will usually do far more complaining about the house they currently have, and that they don’t have enough money to get the house they want, and that their husband leaves the toilet seat up, etc, than imagining what they actually want.

Where’s most of their attention? On the opposite of what they want? They want a new house but they are focusing on the one they have. Think about it! So what are they going to get? More of what they already have. They’ll prolong their stay at their current house.

Instead of sending out vibes that attract people into their lives they’ll send out vibes that keep them away. It’s the same with all aspects of our lives. So here’s the experiment: Notice how much attention you give to what you don’t want and change to thinking about what you do want. See what happens.

With such great power at your hands – that what you focus on comes into your life – try to be responsible. What you choose to create defines who you are. The world would be a better place if we choose, as some of our creations, some things that might benefit others, and make a positive difference in the world. So what do you choose?

Copyright 2006 David Hamilton. After gaining a Ph.D. In organic chemistry David worked as a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. During this time his observations of the power of the placebo effect during medical trials led him to begin researching mind-body science. This research led to the publication of his first book, “It’s the Thought that Counts: The astounding evidence for the power of mind over matter.”