Quiet moments are opportunities to slow down and tune in to your inner wisdom.

Use the power of imagery to practice how you want an important event to play out.

A mental or physical health concern can be imagined as something you can mechanically control.

Before the development of language, our ancestors likely communicated and thought primarily through imagery and sensory experience. This may help explain why the mind remains so facile at using imagery as a way of representing and communicating ideas and feelings (Damasio, 1999; Kosslyn et al., 2006).

This post reviews four ways that you can use imagery to help yourself become more successful.

Have you ever had a great idea while you were walking outside? Or saying a prayer? Or taking a bath? Quiet moments are opportunities to slow down and tune in to your inner wisdom. Your subconscious does some of its best work when you’re relaxed and open to new ideas and suggestions. Take a little time every day to allow your mind to rest.

Here’s an exercise that can help: Imagine a sailboat at the lower tip of your breastbone. It floats there in that space. Now take deep, slow breaths. In your mind, watch the sailboat as it rises with each inhale and falls with each exhale. If you find your mind wandering during this exercise, calmly refocus on the sailboat.

Practice will make it easy to achieve the image of........

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