Mindet - Visualization
The principle behind visualization is that when you imagine something good happening, the act of putting the thought into the universe magically makes it happen in real life. Isn’t that incredible? Well… it’s also untrue. You might have a negative impression of the word visualization because there is a trendy and unscientific fad called “manifesting” being propagated throughout Tik Tok, Instagram, and Facebook. Proponents of manifesting state that if you imagine something happening, it will happen. Social media and the blogosphere are littered with videos of people saying things like, “if you imagine your crush texting you, they will” or “if you imagine yourself driving a Lamborghini, you will have a Lamborghini!” This is not true, and this is not visualization. Here’s how visualization really works: There are numerous neuroscience studies examining what happens in the brain when we imagine doing something. This research was conducted because scientists wanted ...