How visualization reduces stress
Can stress be reduced by visualization? How visualization reduces stress?
In this day and time, most people experience worry and anxiety on a regular basis. One of the many methods that are used to combat anxiety and stress is creative visualization. Besides the many benefits that visualization offers to you such as helping you focus and attract what you want in life, you can also use creative visualization as a method for relaxation and reducing stress, worry and anxiety.
How visualization reduces stress, anxiety, and worry
If your goal is to learn how to use creative visualization to reduce stress in your life, then follow the quick guide below:
1. Rehearse future events
Kelly is a singer where she learned to use creative visualization to help her reduce stress due to stage fright. Kelly says she constantly closes her eyes whenever she feels stressed and starts imagining the audience clapping and cheering for her. She actually would hear them in her mind chanting “bravo…bravo…excellent performance…”
Rehearsing for future events in your mind through the use of creative visualization is one of the best methods used by high achievers and successful people to reduce stress and anxiety in their lives. If you start applying this creative method to your life, you will also be able to reduce stress and gain inner peace.
2. Emotional memory
This is a concept where you visualize an experience or an event that has happened to you in the past where you had great pleasure and joy.
Jane mentions that whenever she experiences stress throughout her day, she starts to visualize the time when she got her first baby. She sees in great details how she held him and took care of him. She remembers how he used to smile at her everytime she holds him and starts playing with him.
Visualizing in great detail the time she had her first baby is a tool that Jane uses to bring inner peace for herself and helps her get through her day as stress subsides.
3. Visualize your goals as being accomplished
Visualizing your future goals as being accomplished is a great way to help you attain peace of mind and reduce stress. When you feel as you have achieved whatever you are passionate about, especially your most important goals, you will be begin to feel a sense of satisfaction and stress will begin to subside.
Whenever it takes John a long time to achieve a goal, he tends to get stressed. When that happens, he starts visualizing his goal as being accomplished and in a few minutes he begins to relax and anxiety begins to decrease.
As you can see, you can use creative visualization as a method for reducing stress by rehearsing for your future goals, using emotional memory, and visualizing your goals as being attained and accomplished.
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Visualization is super powerful. It not only reduces stress, it can change your mood and make you feel better. It’s like reprogramming your mind for things it thought but didn’t enjoy.
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Hi Jaky,
Exactly, visulaization has many benefits, it can help us reduce stress, change our mood for better, gives us tranquility, inner peace, and help us create our external world. This is why holding visualization sessions daily is crucial. Thanks Jaky
Dia recently posted..How visualization reduces stress
Visualization opens up such a wonderful world for us. Not only visualizing success in those desired areas, but also visualizing the root of that stress (that hidden emotion), that makes this a struggle for us in the first place…identify with the uncomfortable emotion, and then visualize the stress leaving your body. The energy that leaves will assist in your success as well, because there is no trigger point anymore for fear or anxiety…
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Hi Kenya,
Thanks Kenya
Exactly, visualizing ourselves calm and in harmony with life, helps to create inner peace within us. What a wonerful feeling that is.
Dia,
I learned of the benefits of visualization from a friend of mine during a basketball game. He told me to imagine that everyshot that I threw up would go in. And guess what happened? He blocked everyone of my shots afterwards. But I did learn proper form and ever since then he only block 5 of my 10 attempts.
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Hi Frank,
I tell you, you are funny my friend.
Yea all successful people visualize what they want consciously or unconsciously. The more we visualize what we want in life, the faster we achieve it. Holding regular visualization sessions is crucial to manifesting what we want in life. Thanks Frank
Dia,
When I “see” myself solving a problem or receiving what I want, it usually works out to the positive. After all, what we think about usually becomes our reality.
Thanks for sharing these techniques,
Alex
Hi Alex,
Exactly my friend, what we think and focus on becomes our reality. This is the beauty of visualization. It is a great tool to use to help us achieve what we want in life.
Hi Dia,
I had been using visualization since I was a kid. I would use it mostly when I was bored but I learned later in life how to use it for rehearsing something.
Some people have such an extraordinary ability to visualize that their minds can’t tell the difference between real and imagined.
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Hi Justin,
Exactly, with constant practice, visualization becomes a positive habit and we will be able to see clear mental visions of our desires. It has been proven to be a great asset for people who suffer from daily stress and anxiety, so why not use it? Thanks Justin
Hi Dia,
I find your 3rd point most applicable to me. Acdomplishing something can really be achieved if you continuously visualize your success.
In a way the summary of your article would be visualize positivity. I hope no one visualizes failure because it would lead to catastrophe.
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Hi Dorcas,
Yep for sure, we have to visualize things that are positive. If we visualize negativity such as failure, sadnesss, illnesses, etc…then this is what we create. It is very crucial that we visualize harmony, peace, and positivity in life.
Hi Dia,
I’m a huge proponent of visualization. I think it’s important to mention that the visualization must feel good. If you see yourself as having a million dollars, but that thought brings up all kinds of negative emotions, you’re nowhere near actually getting a million dollars… But if you keep visualizing and paying attention to how you feel, you can slowly work your way into feeling good about what you see.
Hugs,
Melody
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Hi Melody,
Exactly my friend, when we visualize, we have to make sure that our emotions are positive, otherwise, we achieve what we feared and thought. Our positive emotions are an important key to manifesting what we want. Thanks Melody
When you visualize your goals as already accomplished, it gives you a sense of supreme confidence, that YOU CAN do it. Also, it bring your dream to life at a fast pace and makes you believe you already have it, which is SIMPLY BRILLIANT!
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Hi Jonathan,
Yep for sure visualizing our goals as being accomplished bring positive emotions within us and it helps us to reduce stress in our lives. The more we visualize, the more our mental image becomes ingrained within us.
Nice post. I am a strong proponent of visualization, as well. It also gets easier, so if you’re not very good at in the beginning, keep sinking into the details, and eventually they become easier to see/experience. Stepping from mind into manifestation, a powerful practice!
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Hi Antonia,
Exactly, as we practice, visualization becomes easier and easier. It will also become a source that brings you inner peace and happiness. It will also help you create what you want in life. I just love it…Thanks Antonia
Hi Dia,
Visualization is very powerfull and does make a difference. I like the examples that you give Dia. Guess you might say i do this also when I’ve woken up in the middle of the night with a bad dream. I pick a happy time when I was having fun and visualize it. I can go back to sleep and sleep like a baby. (One that sleeps through the night. LOL)Takes way all that stess from the bad dream.
Visualization also works for accomplishing goals. You have see it, feel it and sometimes even taste it and you can accomplish it.
Thank Dia for yet another great post and examples.
Blessing,
Debbie
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Hi Debbie,
Yep remember an experience from our past and starting to focus on it will sure bring up happy and positive emotions within us. When this happens, we move from the negative to the positive energy.
Thanks Debbie
Dia recently posted..How visualization reduces stress
Hi, Dia,
I appreciate the idea of emotional memory in helping with stress dealing.
And I also agree, visualization can help out with this issue-since stress is something we create with our own will, and it is all in our head, we also have an ability to fight it on emotional level. Our mind is a powerful tool. Whenever we want to, we can create positive effects, and thus, fight the stressful situations.
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Great post, it makes perfect sense.
I also think it helps if you visualize the cause of the stress, laying it out helps keep it off your mind. When I was in debt I found it helpful to know who was owed exactly what all the time by keeping a note on my desktop.
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Whether through visualisation or not, I do think it is important to take time each day to just reflect on where you are. I think stress often comes through not dealing with problems and letting them build by ignoring them. If visualisation helps isolate and solve problems, then it can only be a good thing.
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