How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 105

such as a concert hall where you are singing on stage or a laboratory
where you are developing a scientific breakthrough. It might also
take you back in time or into the future.
How do you feel when you're practicing your skill? What do you
perceive? How does your body feel? What are your characteristic
postures, gestures, patterns of movement?
Describe every sensory detail you can about HOW you (as your
chosen genius) experience your abilities.
Borrowed Genius Step Five
Now begin to move freely through "your" memories. Go to the
moment of greatest understanding or illumination, to your highest
point or greatest aha! experience. This is the time when, more than
any other, everything came together and suddenly made wonderful
sense to you.
Describe out loud as much as you can of that moment and
experience, particularly the perceptions and understandings you
received.
Borrowed Genius Step Six
Now notice that you, the genius, are standing in front of a big, fulllength mirror. Clap your hands once. The mirror has suddenly
disappeared, and you and your genius have separated and are
standing there facing each other.
Project a warm feeling of thanks to them and realize they, in turn,
are thanking you for the opportunity to share with you some of the
experiences that mean so much to them. Listen closely while your
genius points out a key point in this experience or tells you
something important about it that you've yet to realize.

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