Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” An astute observation indeed. In order to estimate the power of imagery, you need only recall the last time you saw a horror movie and broke out in goose bumps, or remember the last time you waited in anticipation to eat your favorite food and felt yourself salivating at the thought of the tasty meal.
Both these are instances of the body reacting to a mental picture or your imagination. For the sake of defining this facet of imagination, perceive it to a sequence of thoughts that are practically and directly linked to your sense organs, or faculties of hearing, touch (feeling), taste, sight and smell.
Imagery’s relation to health is direct in that it affects your physiology by allowing you to access your body’s chemical processes. A true yet easy to establish mind-body connection. Positive imagery implies using positive thoughts (affirmations) that focus positive healing energy on your body’s cells.
As a medium for health, positive imagery that follows positive thinking falls under a branch of medicine that is referred to as psychoneuroimmunology, using the mind to influence the body’s well-being.
In the words of Dr. Martin Rossman, co-founder of the Academy for Guided Imagery, “The imagination is probably a person's least utilized health resource.”
Even though it is a resource that is freely available and extremely cost-effective. So why are positive affirmations and imagery so rarely used?
Perhaps the reason for this is a lack of awareness of the mind-body connection, as well as a poorly developed mind eye, the eye that is the key to unleash the power of imagination. How well do you envision yourself and your future through the eye of your mind?
Just as a task that has been visualized through to its every logical step, becomes easier to implement, so to a body that is constantly and clearly visualized as healthy is one step closer to actual health. The keys are constant and positive visualization or imagination. Health needs to be worked at, albeit easily by affirming a state of wellness. Allow your mind to work on your body as a canvas by projecting a healthy you.
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