Imagination is a process in which we can conceive various pictures in our minds and describe what we expect or want to achieve. Imagination is an ability we are born with, and we can learn how to improve it so that we can be more successful.

Imagination is of immeasurable value and we often use it to achieve our wishes. Many outstanding athletes are good at using their imagination, such as figure skater Brian Boitano.

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The reason why he achieved the 1988 Winter Olympics The championship, and the reason why Jack Nicklaus won the Masters six times, are all related to this. People can use their imagination to imagine how they will be praised, they can use their imagination to construct a speech, and they can use their imagination to find answers to problems. Medical expert Carl Simenton used imagination extensively when treating cancer patients. Therefore, if you firmly believe in your dream or goal, your subconscious mind will be restructured, your thinking will change, and your behavior will change accordingly.

Imagination can mobilize our minds and bodies to engage in specific actions. This process is like a movie. As we prepare for action, we are already in it, playing a role. Sometimes, film is a natural process; sometimes, we need to work hard to conceive of the film. If we make changes in our daily behavior as we imagine, it becomes a reality; if we prepare to act as we think, it will become reality. Imagination can help us prepare for various situations. Without it, we are likely to lose focus and lose confidence.

When you are preparing to do something, a picture will inevitably emerge in your mind, imagining what the process and results will be. This picture is not actually what you see with your own eyes, but how you perceive things. What you see and perceive causes your subconscious to follow this path in response to events that are about to happen or have already happened. For example, if you are preparing to give a speech, you will imagine in your mind that there is a small room with not many people sitting in it, and you are standing behind the podium, expressing your opinions. If things don't match your imagination and the furnishings and layout aren't what you hoped for, you're likely to become squirmed. At this time, when you arrive at the venue, you will see a large and spacious room. The podium remains the same, but the audience is much larger. The picture in your mind is clearly outdated and will be discarded. Reality is very different from your imagination. If you want to avoid the above embarrassment, you should imagine several more scenarios. In this way, no matter what the situation is, you can deal with it calmly and relax freely.

Please remember the fact that your mind has a picture of everything, and everything you want to do is described in it. The picture in your mind is actually a specific plan or a certain aspect of your life, such as how much money you should earn, what kind of job you should do, how you should treat work, and even how you look at something and do it. Every little thing is included. You need to understand that the more recent behaviors and reality are more consistent with the established picture, and it also contains more details in your life. On the contrary, the further away you are from the picture, the more dissatisfied and lost you will feel. Therefore, try to paint your desired picture as accurately and carefully as possible. If the impressions are positive, they can relieve your stress and help you achieve your goals; if they are negative, they can add stress and hinder your success. You need to fill your mind with useful images and prevent negative images from eroding your thoughts. This way, you can focus on the task at hand.

Just as you talk to yourself all the time, you also create various pictures in your mind all the time. When these images are refined, they become prototypes of what your subconscious expects you to do. When your conscious behavior is inconsistent with these archetypal copies, you become hesitant. On the other hand, establishing a clear and accurate picture or image of what you desire can help improve your performance and boost your confidence, because then you are doing exactly what you want yourself to do. .

As I mentioned before, the subconscious mind will absorb what is presented to it through self-talk and imagination as if it actually happened. It has no ability to discern truth from falsehood, or differentiate between what happened and what did not happen. For example, suppose you are driving and someone rear-ends you and you are injured. Your mind is like a camera with a wide-angle lens. It will show you a picture, as if you saw the moment of being hit, and this picture will be deeply imprinted in your subconscious mind. At some point in the future, if you see such a scene, or even a similar scene, you will feel scared and anxious. This indicates that your subconscious mind is using images from the past to warn you away from danger. In reality, this may not actually happen, and you may not be injured, but your subconscious will associate pain with this image.

You can eliminate this reaction only by letting your conscious mind tell you otherwise.

In fact, thinking can even make the human body have certain functions through the nervous system, even if people have never practiced it in reality. A classic example occurs with basketball players. The members of the team were divided into three groups: the first group practiced free throws every day for 21 days; the second group also spent the same time practicing free throws, but they used their imagination to practice in their minds; the third group Do nothing. Each team's free-throw shooting skills will start out as equal to each other's, and then measured at the end of the practice. The results showed that the first group of athletes who practiced free throws every day improved their performance by 24% after 21 days, while the performance of the second group of athletes who only practiced in their minds and never really practiced improved by 23%. Why is this so? The fact is that when we imagine a certain movement, our minds send electrical impulses to the corresponding muscle groups, causing them to react in the same way as if the movement actually occurred.

A British researcher found that muscle ability can be increased by 16% through thinking training alone. This means that when you sit in a chair and do something with your brain, it will directly affect your muscle tissue. In this study, the researchers focused on the muscles on the little finger, but the working principle of the muscles is the same regardless, and this method can also be applied to other parts of the body.

Just as our behavior is the result of the summation of what we talk to ourselves, our behavior also predicts the picture we construct. Athletes who can visualize how they will swing a golf ball or take off quickly will achieve better results than those who cannot visualize how they will perform the movements. In fact, in all areas of life, we usually do what we want to see happen. It is not uncommon to hear people, when asked to participate in an event, say, "Oh my God, I can't imagine what I'm doing there." Therefore, people who enjoy diving can imagine themselves swimming in the water and enjoy speaking in public. of people can imagine themselves speaking. If you can picture or imagine what you are doing, then go ahead and do it.

Sometimes imaginary pictures can also confuse people's thinking. It's possible that some people imagine the picture as something out of a movie. But you might also imagine a theft, or perceive something instead of actually seeing it. It doesn’t matter what you think of, but what matters is the detail and emotion that infuses your imagination. Many elite and world-class athletes can tell you that they have a heart-pounding feeling and follow every detail of their imagination until they succeed. Many people will also say that when they were very young, they knew they would be a firefighter, a teacher, or a nurse because they imagined it as they grew up.

Perhaps what happened to a golfer is a classic example of this. His scores used to hover in the 90s. Due to the impact of the environment, he did not touch the ball again for 7 years. When he returned to the golf course, he shot a 74. During the seven years he had not touched a ball, he had not taken a single golf lesson, and his physical condition continued to deteriorate - he was a prisoner of war and was locked up in a narrow and dark cell. Among them, he was held in solitary confinement and isolated from the outside world for five and a half years. In the first seven months, he prayed every day for release. When everything became desperate, he decided to find a way to survive. In that small cage, he decided to play golf with his imagination. For seven years, he played 18 holes of golf in his mind every day, imagining every detail—the schedule, the weather, the clothing, the trees, the tee boxes, the location of the flagstick. At the same time, he further imagined every detail of the shot, staring at the ball with his eyes, swinging his back, and the ball flew through the air and jumped onto the green. He just used his mind to play the 18 holes, completing the entire process in 4 hours of imagination, which was the same as the time it took to actually play.

During the seven years without touching a ball, he improved his golf skills in those horrific and horrific situations. This is the power of imagination. Continuous practice without pressure can enable people to achieve better results under pressure.

You can try to practice your imagination and imagine that you are in an orchard, surrounded by rows of apple trees, full of fruits. On the ground, apples of all sizes were scattered everywhere. Some were broken into pieces, some were rotting, and some looked like they had just fallen from a tree and were still in perfect shape. It's midsummer, and the breeze is blowing, which is really pleasant. When you walk under the tree and look at the apples falling on the ground, then you raise your head and suddenly see a bright red and translucent apple just within your reach. So you stretched out your right hand and picked the apple. Put it in front of you, there are two green leaves attached to the apple. You slowly turn the apple and notice a wormhole in it. You feel as if you can become invisible and emerge from the other end of the hole.

After going through this imaginative process, you can evaluate whether you can easily enter the picture, notice every detail, and feel the mood. If imagination is effective, then you must be able to focus your thoughts on concrete pictures. If you do well, you need to know that you need to use the most effective and most successful thinking technique possible. You don't have to do everything.

Those who make the use of imagination a habit know clearly that it is useful to do imagination exercises every day for no less than 21 days before actually starting. They understand that they need to visualize their movements and correct any inaccuracies. Try to make your imagination as lifelike and vivid as possible, including sounds, images, and textures. If you are calm and relaxed, if you are emotional, if you can control the content of your imagination, if you can carve out the details of your imagination, all of these will go a long way in developing your imagination. The best time to reach the subconscious mind is a few hours after waking up in the morning, when your mind is in a more open state and more able to accommodate new things; followed by the time before going to bed at night. You should spend 10 to 15 minutes every day using your imagination. It's best to fix this time.

Another interesting and helpful way is to use 80% of the time to imagine the results you want and the situation you expect when you are imagining, and 20% of the time to Imagine situations and consequences that surprise you and are unexpected. Both methods work.

Using imagination can be very beneficial in achieving your goals. They enhance your training, nurture your psychology, enhance your skills, call your attention, and refine your preparation. We must firmly believe that continuous and reasonable use of imagination will improve all aspects of life.

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Quotes about imagination

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The so-called geniuses originally refer to those who are very imaginative. …Men of genius always use their imaginative powers proactively. In short, they always use fantasy to clear the way when thinking about problems... after obtaining enlightenment on the far side of fantasy, they return to reality, so the span of their thoughts is extremely large.

————〖Takahashi Hiroshi〗Japan

Excerpted from page 818 of "Treasure House of Eastern Thought"

Fantasy can become the basis of originality

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————〖S·Maugham〗

Excerpted from page 253 of "I am the person who knows creativity best"

Today more than ever There is a need for fantasies, dreams and prophecies, imaginings of potential tomorrows.

————〖Toffler〗American Futurist

Excerpted from page 105 of "Futurists Talk about the Future"

Some of the world's largest, The most hard-hearted companies that were once the embodiment of presentism now employ intuitive futurists, science fiction writers, and visionaries as consultants.

————〖Toffler〗American Futurist

Excerpted from page 105 of "Futurists Talk about the Future"

Today, we suffer from lack of Utopian vision.

————〖Toffler〗American Futurist

Excerpted from page 108 of "Futurists Talk about the Future"

Every era is Raised on fantasy, lest people give up on life prematurely and bring humanity to its death.

————〖Conrad Joseph〗British writer

Excerpted from page 70 of "The Thoughts of Famous People Who Influenced Human History"

Fantasy is extremely Valuable quality.

————〖Lenin〗Russian Revolutionary

If people stop fantasizing, if they do not face the wonders of the universe, then this is a real sign of the decline of mankind.

————Excerpt from "Three Destinies"

Imagination lacking wisdom will produce monsters, and fantasy combined with wisdom is the mother of art and the source of miracles.

————〖Goya〗Spanish painter

As long as we can dream, we can achieve it.

————The oath of mankind engraved on the door of the Kennedy Space Center in the United States

Excerpted from the home page of "Planner"

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A strong America comes from imagination and creativity.

————Excerpted from the back cover of "I am the person who understands creativity best"

"This type of imaginative exploration of possible futures...will greatly expand society's time horizon." Stretch forward to lay the foundation

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————〖Toffler〗American Futurist

Excerpted from "Futurists Talk About the Future" 》Page 110

We are in a dilemma: on the one hand, the degree of uncertainty caused by accelerating change is increasing, and on the other hand

we need anything that is quite correct. The most likely future image of time. Therefore, creating a reliable picture of the most likely future

is an urgent matter for the country and even the world.

Now, the world is full of future exploration stations. We might as well consider establishing an international university association - the World Future Database

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————〖Toffler〗American Futurist

"Futurists Talk about the Future" page 111

Not only enterprises...local governments , schools, civil society and other organizations also need to imagine their potential futures.

To do this, it would be helpful to establish "Imagination Centers" in each region for technically assisted brain attack seminars.

These centers will be gathering places for people with creative imagination rather than technical expertise.

…The vast majority of opinions and methods proposed by people will of course be absurd, ridiculous, and technically impossible.

However, the secret of creation is not to be afraid of coming up with stupid ideas and bad ideas, and then to submit all opinions to strict criticism

and evaluation. Imagining the future requires an environment where people are allowed to make mistakes, where everyone is free to express new insights and ideas, and then critically screen them. We need the sacred temple of social imagination.

————〖Toffler〗American Futurist

"Futurists Talk about the Future" page 106

Fantasy leads to scientific exploration necessary and primary steps.

————〖Charles〗American Philosopher

Excerpted from page 250 of "The Thoughts of Famous People Who Influenced Human History"

...Imagination is depth. There is no psychic faculty that deepens itself more deeply, penetrates more deeply into its objects than imagination, which is the great diver. Science, in its final stages, meets imagination.

————〖Hugo〗French writer

Excerpted from page 411 of "Compilation of Shakespeare Reviews"

Imagination is active knowledge and creativity and the necessary background of wisdom.

————〖Zhao Xinshan〗

Excerpted from page 290 of "Philosophy and the Contemporary World"

Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited , and imagination summarizes everything in the world, drives progress, and is the source of knowledge evolution.

————〖Einstein〗Master of modern science

A person who lacks imagination will inevitably be claustrophobic in the tight circle of his personal narrow emotions. .

————Excerpt from "Psychology"

First get...an all-encompassing imagination, then learn your lessons, and then wait for revelation.

A theory, as long as it has any value, cannot be formed by collecting and organizing individual observations. On the contrary, it must be a sudden enlightenment of imagination, just like poets and The composer had an epiphany.

————Anonymous

Imagination is the source of all hope and inspiration...

Never do it because you are afraid of making a fool of yourself or others saying you are "imaginative" Let go of your assumptions.

————"The Art of Scientific Research"

As an inventor, Edison's power and productivity should be largely attributed to the inspiration given to him by his imagination. .

————Anonymous

If thinking lacks romance, it also lacks imagination, lacks breakthrough flow of consciousness, lacks broad vision, and lacks the ideal state of life. The pursuit of beauty may lead to over-realization and utilitarianism of life goals, leading to fatal short-sightedness and resulting passivity in life...

————〖Golden Horse〗China

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Excerpted from page 60 of "Romance in the 21st Century"

Imagination is the touchstone of human ability, and human beings rely on imagination to conquer the world.

————〖Osborne〗Father of Creation

Excerpted from page 313 of "The Secret of Creation"

Imagination is invention, discovery and A source of other creative activities.

————〖Aristotle〗Ancient Greek philosopher

Excerpted from page 313 of "The Secret of Creation"

Imagination is not something you are born with It is an innate quality, but the result of acquired development. It is an ability that can be cultivated.

————〖Wu Keyang〗China

Excerpted from page 316 of "The Secret of Creation"

Imagination, as a creative cognitive ability, It is a powerful creative force that creates second nature from the materials provided by actual nature.

————Excerpted from "Western Literary Theory Part 1"

Imagination not only makes things greater, more strange, and more beautiful than what is seen, but also perceives the beauty of things. defect.

————Excerpted from "Western Literary Review Part 1"

Imagination is not an argument, nor does it lead to proof, but the soul longs for them. The wisest experimenters have found that it is better to have twenty imaginings than to have only one, especially when these imaginings are contradictory, because the human reason already knows how to deal with contradictions.

————〖Adams Henry〗American Historian

Excerpted from page 4 of "The Thoughts of Famous People Who Influenced Human History"

Rich imagination Power comes from the full passion for innovation. When a person's passion for innovation is at its peak, we often find that he will have a "lover" who always follows him, and this "lover" is the inspiration.

————〖Langaming〗China

Excerpted from page 4 of "The Secret of Innovation"

John Mesfield once said: "Human beings The human body is an imperfect thing, and the human heart is not trustworthy. However, human imagination is the driving force that makes human beings excellent.

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————Excerpted from page 12 of “I Am the Person Who Knows Best About Creativity”

Wagner said: “Thumbs became stronger due to the invention of the vise.” Strength; the invention of the hammer and the development of fist and arm muscles are all gifts of imagination. "

————Excerpted from page 12 of "I am the person who knows creativity best"

Klasla Aircraft Company believes that imagination is "illuminating the road to the future." , investigates pointers for clues to the future and provides the best possible guidance for those planning to take this route.

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————Excerpted from page 13 of “I am the person who knows creativity best”

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