How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 104

5.1 Steps:
Borrowed Genius Step One
Close your eyes and breathe deeply for a few minutes. Now imagine
that you are standing in the middle of an exquisitely beautiful
garden. Make this garden more beautiful than any you've ever seen.
What colors and shapes do you see? What do you smell? Hear?
Feel?
Borrowed Genius Step Two
Now invite your genius to join you in the garden. Whoever or
whatever this genius is, begin describing them in the same rich detail
you previously used to describe the garden. Make this genius
completely real through the richness of your description, especially
the feeling of their warm, welcoming presence.
Borrowed Genius Step Three
Imagine yourself moving forward and greeting your genius. Notice
that your genius smiles at you and then turns so that their back is
facing you. This is an invitation for you to step forward and move
INTO the body of your genius.
Now start looking through their eyes, hearing with their ears, feeling
with their feelings, and perceiving with their perceptions.
Observe the garden around you once again. How do "you" (as the
genius) see it? Is anything different from how you saw it before?
Whatever the differences are, make them utterly real as you describe
them in all their richness.
Borrowed Genius Step Four
Now start doing whatever it is that your master is a genius AT. This
may take you to another space where this skill is actually practiced,
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