It is so amazing to think that you can almost fool your brain into thinking that something is real when it actually isn’t – yet! But to be able to take that incredible fact and use it to make your dreams come true, well, that’s just Powerful!

Oh, and did I tell you that it’s actually not only powerful but pretty quick and easy to do too? If you want to know more then read on. If you’re happy with your life the way it is them skip to another article now!

Visualisation doesn’t come naturally to everyone at first, but with practice it becomes easier and easier. It is a fantastic technique for evoking powerful feelings and is also a critical part of any goal achieving process.

The aim of this exercise is to bring to mind a vivid, clear and detailed encounter with what you want to achieve or become. Effective visualisation includes what you SEE, HEAR, FEEL (by touch and emotion) SMELL and TASTE.

Follow the instructions below to begin your journey to effective visualization.

1. Sit comfortably and let yourself relax. If you are tense, your muscles get contradictory messages.

2. Have a specific goal. Decide in advance what skills you want to improve and choose a specific short example of having performed that skill well. Bring to mind, or visualize what your senses were experiencing OR create an ideal performance OR see yourself as having the thing you desire in your life.

3. Use all of your senses. Remember that visualization is not just seeing with the mind’s eye, but also touching, tasting, smelling and recalling how it feels emotionally to perform this way.

4. Breathe deeply and evenly, breathing in the enjoyment and experience of having this thing in your life.

5. Visualise it as if your are achieving your goal right now, reliving what your senses are experiencing.

6. Visualise it at normal speed, except when you want to focus on a specific element of the movement.

7. Enjoy it! This is important.

8. Practise regularly. 5 minutes a day, once a day for two weeks.

You can use this technique to improve a skill or achieve your goals. If you have written goals – make sure you spend some time each day visualising them as if they were already done and celebrate as if it were done!

Tracey Dowe is a qualified life coach and trainer with a mission to inspire others to find the best in themselves and to give the best of themselves. I have an uncanny nack of being able to ask just the right question at just the right times to enable clients to have the break throughs that they need. I not only love what I do but I get results too! My own life has changed immeasurably in the last 5 years and I now live each day with boundless energy and passion for life, something that you'll discover if you go to my web site at http://www.momentumpeople.com and I love to inspire others to have the same joy in thier lives too. It's amazing just what each of us can achieve with even a little external encouragement and insight. I'm learning to keep dreaming bigger dreams and to pass that messsage on.