Explaining neuroscience of visualization techniquefrom @davidkchoe

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This is what ninety nine percent of people get wrong about visualization, manifestation, all of these ideas. I'm sure you've heard of these words, and I'm pretty sure you don't fully know what it means. I'm reading this good, Psycho Cybernetics, by doctor Maxwell Maltz, He he breaks down visualization and manifestation yes in terms of kind of the woo woo side of things. Right? Like, the spiritual only side. But he breaks it down in terms of neuroscience and why and how visualization actually works beyond it just being something spiritual people do. It works because within us, there's this idea of a creative mechanism. This is kind of like a self guiding engine. You can think of it as like a heat seeking missile. Right? There's this mechanism within us that drives us towards visions and goals we have for our lives. Whether or not we recognize it, whether or not we consciously do it, this is within us. And that mechanism is always goal oriented. The thing is the goal can be about failure as much as it can be about success. Most people live on autopilot with a goal around failure. They assume that their lives can amount to much. They assume that they're not gonna be successful. They don't deserve fame. Whatever it may be, that heat seeking missile goes towards their goal of failure even if they're not consciously wanting that. And so what visualization does is that it gives your mind, it gives this mechanism inside of you a good, a goal that you fully align with, that you can fully see, experience, touch, taste, smell no that your creative mechanism within you knows exactly what to look for when it's moving forward. No how do we actually do that? How do we come up with the picture, with the image, with the vision of the life we exactly want? And it's like anything else, guys. You have to practice it. And how do you practice it? I think this is where we get super tactical. In the book, he talks about a technique for visualization, and I think it's really interesting. He recommends doing this for thirty minutes every day for twenty one days. That's kind of like the prescription in the good. But I think any amount of time will actually help and build up. And so what he says is do this. Sit down, get relaxed, be somewhere where you won't be disturbed, and then close your eyes and imagine yourself in a movie theater. You're sitting in the movie better. Maybe no one else is there. You're looking at the big screen. And then in the big screen in the movie theater, you start to see the life, the goals, the vision, the things, the people that you worst, and you start to play the picture, the the movie in your mind. And what this is doing from a neuroscience perspective is helping your brain create new memories. No, obviously, memories are usually things that you've experienced that you see best into, But what you want to do is give your mind images of what it is you want. Right? That's why visualization works because, again, that mechanism is gonna go towards whatever goal you have. So the visualization is the practice of actually seeing in a really rich, specific, detailed way what it is you worst, and you have to give yourself time and space to do that. Like I said, a lot of people might think this is some spiritual nonsense or some good bullshit, but I'm convinced more and more every day that this is true, that this works. It's the same reason why you can have a nightmare, and physically, you wake up in a sweat or your heart is pounding. Was a nightmare real? No. But to your body, it felt real. Right? And this is kind of the same mechanism that visualization leverages to make what it is you want real in your life.