The Ultimate Brain Science of Visualization

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The Ultimate Brain Science of Visualization

The power of visualization has been widely talked for many years. Visualizing success or attaining the object will help you succeed is something most of us agree with. For some who accuse visualization as just hype and question the logic behind visualization, we have science that backs us. Yes, there really is scientific basis behind why and how visualization works positively for us.

What is visualization?

Visualization is the broader term used to describe the process of creating an image in your mind without actually performing it physically. You can visualize what you exactly want in your mind. Eric Franklin, who founded the Franklin method that uses imagery and visualization technique to activate the body and mind function, claims that planting a thought in your brain and allowing it to grow will increase your performance.

How visualization works?

When you visualize an action, you stimulate the same brain region that activates when you perform the action physically. For example, when you visualize lifting your right hand, the brain region that gets stimulated is same as the one that activates when you physically lift your hand. Thus, imagining an action activates the brain as performing the action.

The science behind visualizationScientists have been studying the techniques of

visualization for a long time. To really understand how this visualization works, we need to understand our brain structure. This will give us mind-blowing facts on how and why visualization works and is one of the best techniques for humans to enhance oneself.

Brain is the most complex organ of human body. Every research on the functioning of the human brain tells us something new and interesting about how it really works. Our brain is made of cells called neurons. These neurons usually correspond with each other and help us performing a function. When we learn something, the neurons create a new connection that gets mapped in our brain. Further, when we use that skill, the same circuits of neurons get activated to help us perform the task.

As we keep performing the neural circuit gets stronger and it becomes easier for us to recall it. This means if we cannot recall a skill or information, then we have not learnt it well.

So, visualization works on this technique. When you visualize an idea again and again, your brain starts to respond to the idea as if it was a real. This is because the thalamus, which is the sensory processor in our brain, does not distinct between realities and the ideas we perceive in our brain.

So, when we visualize an idea over and over again, that idea becomes real for the brain and it responds accordingly. This makes the idea in your brain more attainable to self and you are motivated to work on making it a reality in the real world.

Draw a picture for your brain Now, there is another reason why your brain easily identifies

your idea when you relay it over and again – you visualize it. That’s right. When you create an image in your mind you help your brain in two ways. Firstly, as your brain does not distinguish whether you actually are doing what the image conjures or just visualizing it, it simply creates neural connections to perform the action. Secondly, when you visualize something, you usually think in pictures which is great because your brain perceives best when see pictures.

Visualization creates neural pathways in your brain and these connections form the basis, a sort of blue print for your actual action out in the real world. Another major characteristic of visualization is that when you keep forming the idea in your mind again and again, the images get strengthened.

Further, as your neural circuits are already formed from the visualization of your idea in the brain, your idea or thought seems more familiar

As the intensity of visualization increases, the strength of the neural connections enhance which will help you do that in real-time. As visualization helps you in familiarizing things, they can be exploited in diverse fields to make learning easier. Visualization or imagining images in your mind impacts the cognitive process of your brain. Your motor control, attention, perception and memory are activated. In other words, your brain is trained for real-time performance even as you are visualizing.

Positive effects of visualizationThe neural connections that visualization creates help

you overcome metal blocks, fears and anxieties that keep you from perfuming things. It can boost your motivation; relax your mind and body, escalate your confidence, improve self-efficacy as well as motor performance. Basically, visualization can key you for success and keep in you in positive mind for achieving it.

When you visualize alpha waves are generated in your brain. These waves help you relax and focus. Alpha waves are also responsible for reducing anxiety and stress. They can also alleviate pain and enhance pleasure. Visualization implants new memories in your brain, images that can positive for your mind. By visualizing success, achieving a goal or performing a task efficiently, your brain creates neural connection that makes you think you succeed.

This is known to enhance your confidence and help you stay more assured about doing that particular activity. Repeated visualizations of a series of images that describe your goal make you truly believe that your images are attainable and real.

Further, visualization blocks the information – neural and sensory that is not related to your idea or goal. This means irrelevant thoughts and anxieties get screened which only help you focus more on the goal. It also increases your innate desire to achieve it and suddenly the goal does not seem unreachable.

Focus is one of the major positives of visualization, the very action of visualization demands you focus on one particular thing. They can exercise your brain in understanding the situation and help you in attuning to awareness that is non-judgmental.

Finally, visualization makes your brain perceive it is actually happening in real world. So, your brain activates the areas that make you happy, achieve more and be more positive about yourself.

Your brain essentially thinks in pictures. When you tell a story in thousand words, it cannot possibly perceive everything but create images and it engages your brain until the very end. Also, your brain is not capable of realizing whether you are actually imagining something or experiencing it real-time. This is why visualization works so effectively for us.

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