Brainstorming techniques work best when you prepare yourself first.
Let’s take an example of goal setting. Before you can start following the realization of your goal, you should really be certain of what you want. And then stay on track until you get what you desire. What I personally perceive as one of the best brainstorming techniques to keep me on track to my goal – is simply – CREATIVE VISUALIZATION.
…and what I mean by this is…to actively imagine the last step of my goal- exactly what I want, rich in details- smell, colours, sounds, emotions. I do it every single morning before my day starts.
What’s more, I do in the evening, before I go to bed.
And that means my idea being as live as I want it to be, every single day, fuelling my actions with purpose and excitement.
What, you ask, is Creative Visualization?
Creative visualization is the brainstorming technique in which one uses the imagination to fully visualize specific actions, turns of action or situations in one’s life. It is vastly important to imagine with all our senses so that we use more of our brain cells and thus reinforce our desired outcome.
Usually referred to in sports, creative visualization is one of the most well-known methods of achieving extraordinary results. Creative visualization, the idea that our thoughts affect our real-life results, was explored in a well-known book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill in 1931. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” he famously said.
When you plan a future event, you should ask yourself about the desired goal:
• What do I feel?
• How does it taste?
• What do I hear?
• How does it smell?
• What do I see?
What comes next is:
One of the most famous examples of the power of thought is the experiment quoted by Wikipedia:
This is interesting:
“In one of the most well-known studies on Creative Visualization in sports, Russian scientists compared four groups of Olympic athletes in terms of their training schedules:
• Group 1 = 100% physical training;
• Group 2 – 75% physical training with 25% mental training;
• Group 3 – 50% physical training with 50% mental training;
• Group 4 – 25% physical training with 75% mental training.
Group 4, with 75% of their time devoted to mental training, performed the best. “The Soviets had discovered that mental images can act as a foundation to muscular impulses.”
But wait, there’s more to Why Creative Visualization Works.
What we currently know about our brains is, among many other facts, that it is :
• in constant motion, reprogramming itself, and it is our emotions that give the direction to the way it changes.
• consists of about 100 billion neurons, and each neuron is connected to approximately 7 thousand other neurons, which creates a huge number of connections between them – between 10 and 14 zeros.
• is constantly reprogramming itself, and it brings changes and improvement in our lives
• according to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of the national bestseller ”Flow”, we can only process a small amount of information of all that takes place at a specific moment. Meaning we can distinguish 126 bits of information per second (a bit is a sound, smell, visual stimuli, etc), deleting all others. When you concentrate on something, like an impression, you cannot concentrate on something else as strongly, and so you are able to build an image with emotion that affects both your mind and body.
One more thing, it’s IMPORTANT:
• whether you look at a thing or imagine it, the same areas of your brain are used. It explains why depression destroys the human body – imagined fear, oppression and isolation damages the cells of the organism, weakens muscles and the immune system…just like the real frightening situations.
How To Use Creative Visualization To Design Our Outcomes
There are many methods to greatly help us shape our future, but one of the best and the most proven is the SMART way of goal setting.
The goals need to be :
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time-bound
Every part of the process is important. For example, “Specific” brings you closer to understanding what you want and what it looks like.
Another great things is that to set a goal that is specific you need to ask questions like:
WHEN is my deadline for this goal?
WHO is closely engaged in this goal?
HOW will I do it and what are the possible difficulties?
WHAT do I want to accomplish?
WHERE will it take place?
WHY do you want it?
Creative visualization has the power to make things happen. Our brains are the most advanced bio-computers that exist on our planet, and the power of thought creates our future.
Who else uses this SECRET? Don’t be surprised to find that the best in the fields of personal development, career enhancement like Tony Robbins, Chris Howard do it consistently. Top achievers in sports, business are no different.
It gets even better when you realize that you can train this ability when you attend a seminar led by those who exercise their creative abilities all the time, like Chris Howard during his
Wealth Propulsion
seminar. What’s more – the brainstorming techniques explored there are powerful,
and…you see the results straight away.
Albert Einstein said and proved it by his own accomplishments:
“Our imagination is more important that knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
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