Aug. 31, 2021

How to Use Imagery to Solve Any Problem | UA29

How to Use Imagery to Solve Any Problem | UA29

In episode 10, How to Think Your Future into Existence, you learned how to use visualization to create your future. In this episode, we focus instead on how to use visualization and imagery to solve your problems.

There are several reasons why imagery works so well for problem solving:

Repeated patterns of thinking become wired into our brains and steeped into our subconscious. Our subconscious doesn’t understand language. It does understand pictures and images. We need to be able to communicate with our subconscious to solve deep seated patterns of thinking.

Imagery helps us step out of linear thinking so that we can find more creative solutions.

When we visualize solving a problem a new way, we gain problem solving experience. That’s because our brains can’t distinguish between actual and imagined experiences.

Images can help us remember preferred solutions when we’re in emotionally charged situations that make it hard to remember the specific language we’d planned to use.

Listen to this episode to hear several examples for how you can use images to solve your problems.

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