How to Use Visualization Meditation to Achieve Success

By Perry Lai

In this article I shall share with you how to use Neuro Linguistics Programming to do visualization meditation to achieve success in your life. There are three things you must do to use visualization meditation.

First of all, put yourself in a place where you can have total concentration and relaxation. Make sure that the environment is quiet or at least conducive for you to put yourself into a deep state of visualization meditation.

Secondly, make sure that you are wearing very comfortable clothes. In other words make sure that your physical state is in a relaxed manner. This could be using the comfort of the chair you are sitting in. I would recommend that you sit in a chair rather than lying on the bed because lying on the bed would probably mean you may fall asleep. What you want to do during this visualization meditation process is that you are semiconscious or at least relaxed but awakened.

Third thing you need to do is to know how to do creative visualization meditation. Neuro Linguistic Programming has a very unique technology known as tapping into your sub modalities for you to easily achieve a deep state of relaxation and a heightened state of visualization meditation. First of all, allow yourself to close your eyes and relax using your deep breathing technique. Allow yourself to go deeper into a state of relaxation and if you have any mind chatter, just politely tell your mind 'Thank you for sharing' and allow silence to come back into your mind. The very moment you allow silence into your mind, begin to use words to conjure up an image for yourself that you find desirable. This image should be the image that you see yourself achieving the success that you want. This is visualization meditation. As you are saying those words that brings up the vision of success, make the picture bigger and brighter and allow your body to totally associate with that picture that you have conjured up. Hear what you hear and feel what you feel, as if you were totally associated with the image you have brought up in your mind. Practice this as many times as possible for you to properly use the technique of visualization meditation. Neuro Linguistics Programming is a very useful tool for you to use in visualization meditation.

Perry is a trainer with Singapore's largest training company. Using what he learnt from his NLP master trainer mentors, he was able to quit his dead end civil service job and work as a platform speaker and intrapreneur. With his personally designed success system of the "Empowering Communicator", he now helps others achieve success a step at a time using communication skills. Click here to learn how to harness the pwer of NLP for visualization meditation

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How to Develop Concentration

By: Jimmy Cox

The memory has no enemy greater than lack of concentration. The ability to concentrate is important in every effort of memory. For instance, if, while you are reading a book on travel in the United States, you begin to think of trips you have made to Europe, you will remember little of what you read.

The term "concentration" has become rather hackneyed through constant loose usage, and it has a more exact meaning than is commonly given it. Many people believe they are "concentrating" to a sufficient degree when they succeed in doing their jobs competently even when surrounded by distracting noises. That this is not true concentration is evident when one attempts any sort of reasonably simple experiment demanding real, authentic concentration.
As exercises in concentration I recommend the following:

Stretch out in a comfortable position on a couch or bed and be careful to relax your whole body, with no strain or tension anywhere. Close your eyes and try to visualize the form of some simple, familiar article. As soon as you succeed in doing so, concentrate your thoughts on this article to the exclusion of everything else and do not let them stray in any direction if you can help it.

Suppose, for example, you choose an electric light bulb. You must keep your mind on the bulb and not let it stray to the chandelier or the room it illuminates or the people in the room.

At first it will be difficult for you to sustain this experiment for longer than four or five seconds. But by gradual, regular drill, you will succeed in running the time of concentration up to ten seconds or longer. When you have learned to do this, make the experiment more difficult. Instead of the quiet room, select a more or less populous spot where you are unable to stretch out in a position conducive to concentration, and where, moreover, the impressions on eye and ear will make it more difficult for you to collect your thoughts.

2. A more difficult, and consequently more interesting, exercise in concentration consists in remembering as exactly as possible the occurrences of the hour immediately preceding this. It is not sufficient for you to recall only that you were on Broadway where you bought a book or had an ice-cream soda. The correct method of carrying out the experiment would be somewhat as follows:

"It is now eight o'clock. At seven I left my office on Forty-second Street and went to the subway station at Times Square. On the way the show window of X's store caught my eye because it contained a particularly good-looking suit..."
If you carry out the exercise in this manner, you will make an important experiment in concentration: the more detailed, the better. That is, the more particulars you can recall, the more value the exercise will have for you. Of course, it is impossible for you to remember all the people you saw in the subway or all the thoughts that passed through your mind during the ride. But you will find that diligent, patient practice will increase your abilities.

It is important to remember that, aside from increasing your ability to concentrate, this exercise will in time make it possible for you to remember with a considerable degree of accuracy conversations which you have held and sensations which you have experienced. It is hardly necessary to point out how useful this can be in daily life.

If you practice these two simple exercises, you powers of concentration should increase greatly.

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