Visualization
Have you ever experienced unwanted thoughts recycling in your head over and over on an infinite loop? You want them to stop !!!!! but you can’t figure out how?
Visualization is a useful tool in that case. Simply supplant the unwanted thought with a picture of something you like. Flowers work well for me. I’ve even gone so far as to “assign” different flowers to supplant different unwanted thoughts.
For example let’s say you’re having recurring worrisome thoughts about high gas prices. And let’s say these thoughts are not leading to inspiration about actions you can take to conserve energy or reduce your overall cost for gas.
When the unwanted thought arises, simply envision your favorite flower – an iris perhaps. Or a white daisy. Look at the flower, see its petals, its center. Maybe it’s waving in the breeze. Maybe there are a dozen in a vase. I promise you that, after a while, that flower or whatever you choose as your picture, will offer to pop in your head every time you start to worry about the price of gas.
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April 28th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I love this idea. My garden has always been my safe image. When I need to clear everything out of my head I close my eyes and imagine I’m in my garden. But I really like the idea of a single flower - more focus, more now.
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