Using Visualization to Enhance Performance

by

Loren Fogelman

Imagine being the star of your own movie. You can see yourself doing something that you only dreamed of doing with ease. You imagine yourself reaching your goal feeling confident. As you play your movie over and over, you are actually increasing the likelihood that you will reach your goal. You are creating a sense of confidence and viewing yourself as a winner each time you watch yourself being the star in your movie.

Visualization is a tool that you can develop to remove barriers and to help you reach your goal successfully. With visualization you would be able to see and feel yourself performing at your peak potential. You can learn to imagine yourself achieving the best possible outcome through a “mental dress rehearsal.”

We all face uncomfortable situations at times. How these uncomfortable activities are perceived is what can illicit the fear response in us. You actually have the ability to remove these uncomfortable feelings from whatever you need to do. Visualization is a tool to relieve the tension associated with having to do activities that are challenging or unpleasant. This technique can be applied to workplace issues, sports performance or personal issues.

If you are a business person preparing for a presentation and have a fear of public speaking, visualization would help to reinforce focus and avoid distraction. An athlete getting ready for a competition and afraid of not performing well would use this for removing the negative thoughts which would affect performance. Feeling uncomfortable asking for something could be overcome as well. This visualization technique is called a mental dress rehearsal. Prior to the event, do a mental dress rehearsal and view yourself being a success. Prepare for an event using visualization. This is one more tool which helps develop self control and coping strategies.

People tend to imagine unpleasant events all the time. How often do you get anxious thinking about a future potential problem? Worrying about something that might happen in the future will always cause anxiety because we cannot control the future. This is using visualization in a negative way. You have the ability to change your perception. The mental dress rehearsal will help to reframe emotional expectations to focus on the strengths and successes. Practicing visualization helps increase your self esteem and improve your confidence.

The following uses visualization for success.

Close your eyes. Breathe deeply and relax your body. Think about the event you want to focus on. Try to include as much detail as possible. Be specific, include noises, smells, what you see and hear. Some people are not able to visualize easily. That is okay. Just think about the event in your mind.

Once you have placed yourself in the picture, imagine yourself doing that activity successfully. In your mental dress rehearsal see, hear and feel it happen as you always dreamed about. See yourself engaged in that activity with confidence and ease. Imagine yourself feeling in control of the event. Continue to see yourself with all the details which might occur at this event and imagine that you are doing them successfully. Be aware of the many details of this event.

While doing the visualization, it is possible that you had some doubts or thoughts that you could not do this activity successfully. Maybe you began to feel anxious as you were doing the mental dress rehearsal. That is okay. Just the visualization process is conditioning you and taking you one step closer toward success. You mind does not have the ability to discriminate between reality and visualization. You will experience improvement through visualization as if you were doing that activity.

Practice your mental dress rehearsal when you have time to relax. With your eyes closed visualize the outcome you want. Be specific about the event. You are the star in your movie. This helps reinforce the change you want.

Choose to see yourself approaching your event with confidence. This prepares you for the actual event. Over time you will notice a change in how you view challenges.

Your outlook will become positive and you will feel empowered. You have just made a change to reach your true potential and rise up to any challenge that comes your way.

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