Eyes on the Prize

Visualization can be defined as the act of mentally imagining oneself performing tasks successfully. Great athletes utilize visualization to improve their performance in a selected sport. The mental rehearsal of actions have been shown to improve physical and psychological reactions.

As you rehearse and visualize yourself successfully performing a task, you actually stimulate the same regions of your brain and the same muscles as if you were actively engaged in the task.

To state it simply, you are who you think you are and can do what  you have convinced your brain you can do.

When you visualize yourself graduating, being promoted, giving a great speech, running a 5K, etc. You are training your brain to succeed.

Visualization can have negative outcomes as well. 

Many of us visualize a negative outcome and we rehearse that negative outcome mentally until it manifests.  We have convinced our brain to fail. 

Studies show that young Black men that grow up in poor neighborhoods  can be placed on a positive or negative trajectory based on interactions with authority.  If law enforcement, educators, or even parents diminish their self-concept through negative interactions the young men will convince themselves that they are unable to perform well which results in lower test scores and grades.

It is no secret that men are stimulated and motivated by visualization.  However, gazing at a beautiful woman is not the problem.  When a man mentally rehearses or visualizes certain actions with that woman he starts to train his brain to react in certain ways and the body follows.

What are you visualizing? Are you picturing yourself as a successful husband or wife or have you manifested the negativity of divorce?

Have you trained yourself to  be successful by imagining yourself at the finish line?

I challenge you to cast your eyes only on things that you wish to manifest and visualize positive results.  It is too easy to focus upon everything that could go wrong but remember your mind will focus all its attention on your imagery.

Visualize success

Visualize peace

Visualize prosperity

Visualize a happy ending  

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