How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 155

Mental imagery is easily confused with hallucination, because the
two share superficial similarities. However, mental imagery differs
from hallucination in that we have control over the images we
generate. Our eyes accept visual input of all kinds from the world
around us, but our brains and minds are capable of focusing on
single images, images that we have the power to select.
Today there still is no clear association connecting what we see with
what we recreate in our minds and how we respond. But perhaps our
ability to select our minds’ images explains why what we see and
what we “see” are som WF