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illnesses become imminent. Creative visualization helps prevent you from succumbing to mental illnesses for it equips you with techniques and methods for dealing with seemingly difficult life situations that may work to your advantage in the end. With a more powerful mind, you will be able to see opportunities beyond difficulties, and solutions beyond problems. Your mind will be strengthened to think well, resting in the knowledge that you can handle whatever it is that life throws at you. It is additionally interesting to note that your psychological strength will also enhance the power of your subconscious mind, so that as you continue to practice creative visualization, optimism will be natural to you, and you do not need to exert a conscious effort to maximize the advantages you can get out of every situation - your mind will automatically think that way. Creative visualization techniques will not only expose you to positive thoughts, but will immerse you into various resources that speak words of wisdom and power, so that these are the things that you remember and live by. Your mind and spirit will be strengthened and renewed, and you will be surprised to see yourself quoting words of wisdom that uplift both the mind and body. 2. Better physical performance. If you think that creative visualization can only strengthen and enhance your mind power, you are gravely mistaken. This is because as the mind thinks, the body follows. Many times, athletes use creative visualization to improve their performance in their sport. Before an important game or event, an athlete imagines the details of the sport, envisioning victory and success which they flawlessly carry out in the actual game. In the same way that coaches show the expected performance of each athlete on coach boards and during planning times, creative visualization helps make images that the mind captures and remembers, and which the body acts on. NBA coach Phil Jackson is a firm believer in visualization and has in fact used it to lead the Chicago Bulls to six championships. 3. Attract money and prosperity. In the same way that physical performance is improved by creative visualization, its techniques also enable a person to attract money and gain prosperity by helping make sound financial decisions and improving one's focus in work performance. 4. Improve health and well-being. One of the challenges in health improvement is retraining the mind and body to eat healthy food and to perform exercise routines that burn fat and build muscles. Creative visualization can be used to bring into reality a person's desire to eat more vegetables and fruits, ultimately taking out junk food and too many sweets out of the picture. Exercise also becomes an enjoyable activity that you will look forward to engaging yourself in it on a regular basis. 5. Obtain satisfying and worthwhile relationships. Creative visualization makes attracting positive people into your life possible. It allows you to establish and maintain worthwhile relationships. Your sense of confidence, self-reassurance and