How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 172

For example: You are watching a horror movie, you feel frightened
and then get a chill up your spine. In this case you were getting a
negative suggestion through your sensory perception (sight and
sound), that produced an emotion of fear which turned into the
physical sensation of chills up your spine. Visualization uses
positive images to produce positive emotions that manifest into
positive physical sensations in the body.
Sounds simple, but does it work? Can what we think actually have
an effect on healing? Bodies do react to the thoughts you make. Our
psychological/emotional state affects the endocrine system. For
example, the emotion of fear is related to adrenaline. If no feeling of
fear exists there is no adrenaline and the same applies in reverse- no
adrenaline, no fear. They work in relationship to each other.
Wherever a thought goes there is a body chemical reaction.
The hypothalamus, the emotional centre of the brain, transforms
emotions into physical response. The receptor of neuropeptides, the
hypothalamus also controls the bodyís appetite, blood sugar levels,
body temperature, adrenal and pituitary glands, heart, lung, digestive
and circulatory systems. Neuropeptides, the chemical messenger
hormones, carry emotions back and forth between the mind and
body. They link perception in the brain to the body via organs,
hormones and cellular activity. Neuropeptides influence every major
section of the immune system, so the body and mind do work
together as one unit.
The brain is a highly efficient system that is connected to every cell
in your body by billions of connections. It is divided into two sides ñ
the left, logical side (words, logic, rational thought) and the right
creative side (imagination and intuition). Day to day circumstances
usually are met in a logical, left brain mode; however by yielding to
the right, creative side of the brain we actually restore balance in the
brain. This allows access to the mind-body connection to achieve
what you want. The right side of the brain automatically steers you
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