The Power of Creative Visualization

By Barrie St John

Creative relaxation, or viualization, has been used for centuries to help alleviate pains and heal people. Words and thoughts produce pictures and images inside our minds. These pictures, coupled with our wonderfully creative imaginations, can really help us in many ways, especially in hypnosis. I believe hypnosis makes the feelings and images generated extremely powerful. When we’re in hypnosis our creative visualizations can have that much more impact.

Generally in life, you can do what you think or imagine that you can do. What we picture, what we think, and what we imagine are really, really important. Let me give you an example: The steel workers who worked on building the first skyscrapers often walked around on the steel girders without any safety straps or harnesses. They did it because they imagined they could do it. When they thought about going to work, they pictured themselves doing it safely. The moment they thought or pictured that they couldn’t do it safely, they stopped being able to do it. People used to say of them, “well, they just lost their nerve.” What really happened is, for whatever reason, they started to think differently about the work they used to do.  They didn’t believe they would be safe anymore, so they were unable to continue.

Because thoughts are pictures in our minds, and these pictures are visualizations, what we think we can do we can accomplish. That’s why in my self-hypnosis recordings I use lots of suggestions to help people paint pictures with their minds. I’m helping people utilise their imaginations through self-hypnosis.

If someone were to come see me for help with a fear of public speaking, I would assume that when they think doing it they probably picture themselves making a lot of mistakes or feeling nervous. In this case, the trick is to help the client change their internal pictures or imaginings of the event and begin to see him or herself as capable of speaking publicly. Hypnosis and creative visualization are particularly successful at this. The pictures in one’s mind are very important in shaping our beliefs. 

Some people say they have trouble picturing things or do not have a good imagination, but I think we all can do it in our own way. Sure some people may be able to have very vivid, panoramic views of things, but not all of us have this experience. We may only be able to get a sense of things or have a brief flash of an image in our mind. Everyone’s visual sensory system is different, but images don’t have to be particularly vivid to have an effect on our unconscious mind.

Creative visualization is an important aspect of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. The suggestions contained in my self-hypnosis CDs and hypnosis downloads will help you to visualise images and reshape your reality. The mind is an incredibly powerful thing.

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