You and Your Brain 1: Affirmation Visualization Meditation
Dear Friend,
You have the power to rewire your brain. Help your students improve their well-being and readiness to learn through mindsight.
Visualizing what you want in your life through Visualization Meditation is a practice that promotes rapid and sustained neuroplasticity. This means you can rewire old thinking habits into new patterns that serve your life better.
What do you wish you were better at?
- Creative endeavors: Singing? Writing? Drawing? Painting?
- Activities: Fishing? Running? Softball?
- Concentration: Reading? Studying? Test-taking?
Act as if it’s already happened.
When you hold an image of what you want to attract, your brain behaves like it has already happened. Your senses hold memories from your experiences. If you expand your senses to imagine more good or imagine you’re already “good” at a certain activity, your brain believes you!
When you focus on the good and see the positive in your life, you live in abundance and gratitude. This helps you see yourself more clearly because you can do much more than your limiting thoughts.
Visualization Meditation expands your self-awareness.
Mindfulness Activity of the Week
Peaceful Place Visualization
- Sit up tall at your desk or on the floor and close your eyes.
- Ground yourself with a moment of breathwork.
- Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
- Imagine yourself sitting in a peaceful place.
- Perhaps you are sitting on the sand, feeling the sun’s warmth while listening to the soft crash of the ocean waves.
- Listen closely. What else can you hear? Maybe it’s the sound of seagulls crying in the distance or the wind blowing through the tall trees.
- What can you feel? The sand beneath your feet, the soft breeze passing over your body, or the cool sensation of the water on your skin.
- What can you smell? Perhaps the smell of the tide and the ocean floor or the sweet smell of coconut sunscreen. Notice every detail.
- What can you taste? Open your mouth and breathe in the salty air. Can you taste it on your tongue?
- What can you see in your mind’s eye? Pebbles, sea glass, kelp strewn like grass on the shoreline. Look a little closer. What other treasures do you see?
- Take a few moments to embody all that you are experiencing. Embody the sense of peace that this special place brings to you.
- Visualize that sense of peace enveloping your body, holding you close and safe.
- Open your eyes.
- Use this same visualization and insert any activity you want to improve.
Movement Activity of the Week
Bridge
Practice aligning your mind and your body by looking up at what’s possible.
