The core of visualization is creativity. It’s a game of using your (in some cases) dormant or (in many cases) ever present imagination. Visualization comes from a person’s ability to begin to align their physical, emotional, and mental faculties toward the same direction.
Physically:
What if I were to ask you to imagine for a second, the memory of a birthday party. For some it could be their fifth birthday, or for others, just the one last year. If you were to think back to where you were at that birthday, and whether you were standing at any point in the day, the key to visualizing, is to then remember how your body was in space.
Some questions to ask are: How were you standing? Were your shoulders tight or relaxed? Was your face relaxed, or scrunched? You might not be able to remember vividly, but that doesn’t matter. Make it up. The key here is to crate a picture of how your physical body would be in your ideal situation.
Emotionally:
The same to the physical realm can apply to your emotional realm. In the example of this birthday party, the question is whether you can remember how you might’ve been feeling at the time. Say the birthday part was terrible, could you imagine at any point in the day feeling a sense of excitement for the day? Maybe you were just waking up, and you snapped your eyes open and realized that it was your birthday. At that very moment, were you open, focused, relaxed, happy, or bright? Take that feeling and expand it. Imagine if you could resonate that emotional feeling until it exploded into every interaction you had, every smile, and every conversation.
Mentally:
This is the fun part. Begin to link together both the physical and emotional signals that you’ve just began to create. Bring both of those today and anchor the cascading and co-existing images into one mental model and one mental image that you can now carry forward with your every day life.
The key to visualization is how vividly, clearly, and focused you can create that image, until you can almost feel, taste, and see that image so clearly as you live every day.