Creative Visualization For Dummies®

Chapter 3

Reaping the Benefits of Creative Visualization

In This Chapter

Experiencing the mental benefits

Understanding why you feel better

Noticing how you benefit physically

Creative visualization is a personal development technique that achieves real results – as documented in many biographies and scientific studies. But just what benefits can you hope to gain?

Practising creative visualization helps you to achieve a huge range of goals that you set for yourself, as long as they’re realistic and you’re prepared to work towards realising them. But the more realistically achievable you believe your goals to be, the more you believe in them, and the more you believe, the more motivated you are to be successful.

If you keep achievability firmly in mind while practising creative visualization, you’re bound to attain your desired goals. Personal goals are the ones most easily and quickly achieved through creative visualization, because you have far greater control over your inner self than you do over external events and other people. Sometimes the results may take a while, and sometimes they come amazingly quickly. But regardless of when you notice changes, continuing to practise ...