How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation

3.5 Practical Examples 3.5.1 How To Visualize Confidence All of us would like more confidence. Whether you need more body confidence, confidence in interviews, confidence in relationships, or career confidence, I’m sure there’s an area of your life that could do with a confidence boost. But what if you could use the power of visualization and mental imagery to enable your brain to allow you to be confident in that situation? Studies in mental imagery have shown that the brain cannot distinguish from a real or an imaginary picture. The same chemicals release and the same electrical activity displays in the brain whether we are visualizing something or actually doing it. A repeated thought, or feeling, can actually become a belief over time. Have you ever been constantly thinking about a particular outcome in a positive sense that you actually felt good about it? What I mean is that you can actually train your mind to be confident. 57

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