Start Doing This Immediately to Train Your Brain for Success! What I鈥檓 about to share with you in this article cannot be ignored. It has literally made the difference in my clients鈥?ability to gain control over their lives in remarkable ways. You may have heard of visualization or maybe creative visualization from interviews with athletes who have used this powerful technique to win more gold medals and titles than perhaps any other single training method. This is different than being mindful-the Millennial term for a type of meditation done to calm down, reduce stress and just be in the present moment. By visually creating and actually sensing, feeling and being in a perfect race or competition in their own minds, professional and amateur athletes are able to use these mental images to help them prepare for the real thing. What you may not realize is, this technique is very simple to perform and has been recently popularized by the film and book, The Secret.
This technique has been around for a long time and has many different names. Some religions refer to this technique as seeing with 鈥楾he Mind鈥檚 Eye鈥? Wallace Wattles published The Science of Getting Rich in 1910 and talked about a different way of thinking and referred to being able to heal the body with the mind. Shortly after his book, Charles F. Haanel released The Master Key System. In his book, Mr. Haanel targeted techniques introduced in The Science of Getting Rich and dug deeper into techniques designed to improve thought. Broken into 24 lessons, The Master Key System was designed to be a home study course not only instructing its readers how to think, but that thoughts themselves are the thing that manifest our goals. Twenty- five years later, the well known, best selling work, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was published. Again, at the core of Think and Grow Rich was the principle that our thoughts should be trained, just like a muscle,and their power taken seriously.
In Think and Grow Rich, Hill states, 鈥?Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.鈥?Hill calls ideas 鈥渋ntangible forces鈥? In 1984, Dr. Denis Waitley began using the same principles of visualization with Olympic athletes. In his very popular 1986 book, The Psychology of Winning, Waitley outlined how to form and really use visualization as a tool for success. The athletes he coached were so effective in Olympic competition; his books became the standard book for sports psychology. Even high school athletes took notice and have since tried his method. So how can this practice of purposefully visualizing yourself doing what you want, being where you want, looking the way you want to, and achieving the level of success you want be useful to you? Hmm, please re-read that last sentence.
It鈥檚 a rhetorical question isn鈥檛 it? This next part cannot be emphasized enough. If I wrote this over and over again, filling up all the space of this article, it wouldn鈥檛 be overkill. If you continue to conjure up negative thoughts and you continually give those thoughts the lion鈥檚 share of your attention, guess what will happen? You鈥檒l continue to notice the negativity in your life but what鈥檚 more, you will have just fostered a breeding ground for more negative thoughts that create more negative things. The cycle continues this way. You may start blaming others for your misfortune. It wasn鈥檛 your fault that you didn鈥檛 get the job, that the police officer pulled you over or that you were late for work. This is not the way you want to live is it? Not taking responsibility for your actions? This means there is no way you can be responsible for your own success either. If you can鈥檛 own up to what you鈥檙e doing wrong, it鈥檚 only fair that you can鈥檛 take credit for what you鈥檙e doing right either.
