Visualizations for Meditation and Self-Hypnosis

In the breathing and relaxation exercise a peaceful scene is used to create mental relaxation. The image created in detail created an emotional response of relaxation. In this same way you can use visualization to create the inner emotional states that you want and even change your behavior i.e. reprogram your subconscious. Every technique here will be more effective if you use it with a meditation practice.

 3 Powerful Visualizations


To create relaxation and peace of mind

Imagine a peaceful place where you feel completely safe and secure. Imagine you are there now and use all your 5 senses to make this visualization vivid in your mind. You will feel calm and secure and even happy if the place you choose makes you happy. This technique enables you to recreate an earlier experience whenever you want for stress relief.


Feel an emotion vividly to create more powerful and positive inner states

Think of something that makes you smile. Feel that smile spread through our body filling you with your smile. Imagine how you look with a big smile on your face and how you would stand, sit and feel. You can do this with any positive emotion. For example think of situations, people or things that make you feel love or joy and spread it through your body.

 
Reprogramming your response to stressful situations

This technique brings together the lessons of positive thinking and the meditation for relaxation to make it easier to change your behavior. This technique will work as a simple positive thinking exercise and you can combine it with the meditation practice to make it a powerful self-hypnosis technique.

First – choose a stressful situation that you want to change. I.e. something that you wish you would react to differently or handle with more calm and confidence.

Second – Imagine/Visualize the way you want to act and behave in great detail. If you want to feel calm, alert and confident then imagine how your would act in a previously stressful situation where you now have the ability to remain calm and confident.

Third – Step into the scene you have created. Imagine you are actually in this situation you have created. Feel the calmness and confidence you would feel in this visualization of how you would like to behave and act.

When applying this technique you can use the first two techniques (above) as guides to creating a particularly vivid visualization. Tip: Use all 5 senses and the positive emotions you want to feel.