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Term: visualization
Visualization: Using the imagination to create an image “in” the mind.Donald Michael Kraig Also See: Creative Visualization
Visualization plays a key role in the successes of many great athletes. Most obviously, of course, visualization in-creases confidence and motivation. Less obviously, it affects and sharpens players’ muscles.
This was discovered by physiologist ... Relevance:
One of the
more spectacular cases involving the use of visualization to change or repair
the body is told by Evelyn M. Monahan, a writer and lecturer who in the early
1960s was involved in a serious accident. Her head was badly injured and as ... Relevance: In traditional cultures the shaman functions as healer and seer. His role is to mediate between the material world and the spiritual world. When someone requests a healing, the shaman visualizes his soul traveling through other realms of existence ... Relevance: Visualization is an extraordinarily powerful instrument. In focusing our psychological and psychic powers and drawing on the untapped potential of the unconscious, we are dealing with forces that in some ways seem almost magical. One writer on ... Relevance: When the patient came to the University of Oregon Medical School, he was barely alive. The 61-year-old man was suffering from a particularly deadly form of throat cancer. His weight had dropped from 130 pounds to 98 pounds. He could barely swallow, ... Relevance: So far we have been considering visualization as a technique that works because it forces us to concentrate all our energies, psychological and psychic, on positive images. We have seen visualization as a method of transcending the many negative ... Relevance:
Until the
1920s, however, scientists considered such ideas no more than superstition or
religious folly. The mind and body were believed wholly separate things, and it
was considered absurd that mere thoughts might heal. Of course everyone ... Relevance: The higher self is that part of your psyche which links you with what one writer calls "the supply of infinite love, wisdom and energy in the universe." Mystics who have experienced it in its pure form describe it as a blinding white light. Mystics ... Relevance: Visualization doesn’t always manifest that dramatically, of course, and it is not solely a psychic phenomenon whose effects are accomplished through telepathy, clairvoyance, astral projection, precognition or psychokinesis. It is much more than ... Relevance: The effectiveness of visualization as a method of dealing with psychological problems has long been recognized. Sigmund Freud believed that images were the "language" of the unconscious. "Thinking in pictures … approximates more closely unconscious ... Relevance: |
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