How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 93

Each time you have to carry out a creative session, go into your
mental office and discuss the problems with your advisors!
2. Increase your intellectual capacities:
Top class swimmers imagine that their hands are twice as big as they
actually are and that their feet are webbed. This vision helps
swimmers go really faster.
Just before sleeping, make a relaxation phase and then imagine that
your brain is bursting out of your skull and is forming a halo.
See yourself like this and you will gain in confidence in your
intellectual capacities. Thanks to this new confidence, your
capacities will really increase!
3. Control your breath:
we have seen in relaxation and visioning the role of the breath. Right
now, we propose a more radical but very effective method.
One hour before the creative session, relax and hold the breath for as
long as you can. Repeat this exercise and you will feel both a great
excitation in your mind and a greater clarity.
4 Incubation
Incubation is a contingency phase: It means that you have not solved
your problem during the creative session. Consequently instead to go
on with the problem, it's better to set back from it. It's said that
incubation can last minutes, weeks or years! we shall focus on
incubation lasting hours and minutes!
1 Incubation lasting hours
An universal technique is simply to go to bed! Let 'suppose that you
have a creative session and that you do not find any results. Stop and

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