How would you like to improve your life without moving a muscle? It sounds like the latest productivity scam, but it’s true.
You can dramatically reduce your anxiety, increase your performance and blaze a path to success all while sitting in your favorite LazyBoy Recliner.
How? The same way that Olympic athletes, race car drivers, jet pilots, and parachutists do – envisioning the future.
Visioning God’s Way
Proverbs 29:18 says, Where there is no vision, the people perish. And it just makes sense. Andy Stanley put it this way:
“A clear vision, along with the courage to follow through, dramatically increases your chances of coming to the end of your life, looking back with a deep abiding satisfaction, and thinking, I did it. I succeeded. I finished well. My life counted.”
And we all want that.
How God Created Your Brain to Change
Science now documents why visioning is so powerful.
If you were to peek inside your brain during any activity, you would see that the brain pathways being used, whether hitting a golf ball or going through a job interview, are the same pathways used when you merely envision that event.
Both activities, visioning the activity and doing it, activate the visual cortex – the part of the brain that sees.
Brain science shows us that anytime you use a particular brain circuit you strengthen that circuit. So, detailed visioning of the future prepares your mental circuits in ways similar to the activity itself.
Three Powerful Activities
To use this powerful brain tool effectively remember these three things:
- Visualize it positively. Every time you envision the future – good or bad – you are strengthening the path you just pictured.
- Visualize it precisely. The more detailed and realistic the visualization, the more connections are created in your brain.
- Visualize often. Visioning the future is most effective when it is done for brief periods stretched over time.
Has God planted a goal or dream in your heart? You really can start to build new neural pathways toward your future goals while still sitting in your chair.
Sit back, close your eyes and start moving closer to your dreams today.
As I read this post, I’m nodding my head in agreement. God placed a dream within my heart years ago. Even the name “Heart Choices” is a part of that. But life always seems to get in the way. I need to get back to that vision and be obedient.
Blessings and love,
Debbie
I agree, Debbie. It’s all to easy for me to get lost in the ‘trees’ of life and miss the ‘forest.’
By the way, still loving the name “Heart Choices.”