Mental Simulation

Mental simulation and focus are usually what most pop psychology and Law of Attraction books focus on. They are an important first step in the process of getting what you want out of life.

Visualisation

Mental simulation is make believe. Make Believe. Its a funny old saying isn’t it. You don’t hear that saying much these days. It has negative connotations to it, like describing something that is somehow childish. But there is a profound truth in those two words. When you are simulating your desired result before it actually happens, you are making yourself believe something, that has n’t happened yet. And that is the trick.

Auditory and Kinaesthetic Simulation

Our sense of sight is not the only one we can simulate. You can also simulate the sounds and feelings associated with a desired goal. If you can see, hear and feel all the senses (even smell and taste), you provide such a rich sensory movie that your mind will believe that the result and already taken place.

End Result or Process

Through my years of research and Hypnotherapy and NLP training, I have broken down goals and outcomes into two. Outcomes are either the result or the process of achieving the result.
Recent psychology studies have shown that you get better results by simulating the process of achieving a goal, rather than just the visualising the result.
This information is critical for you to take into account. It is one of the reasons why people fail with the Law of Attraction. Let’s say your goal is to lose weight. If you just visualise yourself being your ideal weight, you are less likely to reach your goal, compared with if you visualise yourself actually eating the healthy food, taking the exercise and generally doing what slim people do.

By the way if you are looking to lose weight contact me and I will show you how I did it.

So if you know your desired outcome and the habits you need to adopt to achieve it – visualise yourself adopting the habits.
That means visualise yourself doing the work. The results will be quicker and better.

What if you don’t know how to achieve your goal?

If you know what the goal is but don’t know how to achieve it, then you can’t focus on the process. Perhaps it’s a long-term business or financial goal, that is years off in the future.
In these cases, you should only focus on the end result and don’t try to think of all the steps to reach it. This is where the vision boards and mind movies come in to play. You set in to action the Reticular Activating System (RAS) part of the brain. The RAS regulates sleep and waking, but it also have an important function in acting as a gateway between the conscious and subconscious mind. I will go into more detail on this in a later post.