Todd Goodwin
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first heard Apr 2025
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visualization in the general sense and I mean this in an automatic sense so not so for example someone who is experiencing elevated stress in general which most of us experienced during kovat because we were in a situation where the economy were health were a lot of things social interactions were all really different kind of out of our control and we didn't know how much the world was going to change so
that elevates stress level in general. And when that happens, sometimes There are little fears, phobias, and examples of where anxiety just shows up as a symptom of an overwhelm. So those are just manifestations of an elevated level of stress in general.
Now, as far as visualization goes, when people are in overwhelm, ruminating, worrying, feeling anxious for whatever reason, and people with intrusive thoughts from traumatic past experiences are a perfect example of this, What they're doing is they're unconsciously, unintentionally visualizing negative outcomes. So the person might imagine the car crash.
the person might imagine or remember the upsetting experience that they had even decades ago. And it comes out of nowhere sometimes. It can be triggered or it can just be, you know, they might not even tend to think about it. So what happens is when we run something through our mind, visually, auditorily, self-talk, any of that, usually it's images primarily,
That, in a subliminal way, in like a split second, that image runs through your mind. You may not even be aware of it consciously, and then it changes your emotional state. So what we did, I don't remember specifically what we did other than the driving issue.
is by practicing visualizing by consciously intending to visualize an empowering scenario it doesn't mean just being positive for being positive sake because that can be just as imbalanced or delusional as being overly negative but something where you felt like you had enough control as much as you could have and that you could trust yourself to be in that on that highway whatever it was
you're consciously interacting with your subconscious mind. You're specifically constructing a visualization or a scenario that is telling your subconscious, this is the way I'm rehearsing how I'm gonna think and feel. So it's like a mental rehearsal, and by practicing it, you're essentially giving your subconscious evidence that that's what you are capable of doing.
It's the same thing as if you're trying to pick up a new behavior like speaking in front of a large crowd or going to a restaurant and being able to avoid the basket of bread or the dessert menu. If you rehearse it in your mind and there's certain ways that we can do this that makes it especially effective, then
when you're actually there in that scenario, in that situation, you innately feel like, oh, wait, I've done this before. Even if you never have.
Well, the first would be to try to bring some awareness to when the person might be
negatively rehearsing something or throwing up you know catastrophic scenarios in their mind and it could be a form of self-talk they might say oh my god this is never going to work out or this is going to be so awful or i'm going to be late or i'm gonna whatever and sometimes negative self-talk is useful but in this case if someone is overly doing that they're going to create an emotional reaction to their own self-talk
And then they're gonna physiologically react and they're gonna start sweating and their heart's gonna beat faster and they're gonna have a shortness of breath and they're gonna sometimes just wanna get the hell out of there or avoid the situation altogether. And that's where phobias and panic kind of come in. So one, the first thing I would say is figure out where you're doing harm
And it's not your fault. This is an automatic process. But you can figure out where you're doing it, what might be triggering it, and then ask yourself, what would a more constructive or empowering alternative way of thinking about it be? And then you just practice doing that in your mind, especially if you're in situations which previously triggered the opposite.
I mean, that's one way of doing it.
In NLP, we call that an anchor. But a simple way of looking at it is it's basically a trigger or like a button, a push button for your mental computer or your whole neurology. So basically, the way it works is that it's just associative learning. The reason why that usually works is because we have associations with a lot of things in our life that make us feel different feelings.
So I'll put it really simply. There are certain... sensory triggers that evoke a positive feeling and others that evoke a negative feeling quick example of that if you were listening to a song at your when you had your first kiss let's assume it was a good one and it was like a really emotionally charged positive feeling then even if you haven't heard that song in decades
You can hear that song and a lot of those feelings come back and even the memory comes back. Sound and smell are two of the strongest links to memory, but basically it could be something you see, it could be a touch, like your fingers pressed together, but basically there are natural anchors or associations that our mind makes just accidentally.
And then there are negative ones, like if someone was at a funeral and they were really upset and there's a certain way people were touching them on their shoulder or a certain song that was playing, for example. When you hear that song, you might feel sad. It's not reality, it's not happening now, but it's just a reminder.
So our subconscious has a lot of things to learn and it's just often just presenting us with information for no reason other than just association. So in the case of what we did, I mean, there are ways we can neutralize the negative association. That's usually one of the first things. We probably did that too.
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