Comments on: Visualize This http://www.aplatefulofyou.com/2009/05/04/visualize-this/ Your life. Just better. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:22:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: bbdaniels http://www.aplatefulofyou.com/2009/05/04/visualize-this/comment-page-1/#comment-15 bbdaniels Tue, 05 May 2009 18:37:10 +0000 http://nurtureyourself.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-15 i think it definitely depends on the person - for me, if i don't describe things aloud, i have trouble remembering them, but for others your suggestion is probably dead on. i think it definitely depends on the person – for me, if i don’t describe things aloud, i have trouble remembering them, but for others your suggestion is probably dead on.

]]> By: Valerie Beeby http://www.aplatefulofyou.com/2009/05/04/visualize-this/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Valerie Beeby Tue, 05 May 2009 09:20:39 +0000 http://nurtureyourself.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-14 Very interesting! Thanks. Glad to see you don't confuse visualisation with imagining using the other senses, as many people do. (For instance, we are told to 'visualise' ourselves, say, performing a golf swing. But the only way we can see ourselves making the swing is to watch ourselves from the outside, which is not the best way to learn how it feels to do it right.) By the way, you suggest describing your dream out loud. I find that using words tends to destroy the mode of mind in which the dream took place. Might it not be better to relive the dream in imagination to consolidate the memory, then describe it later when fully awake? I get this suggestion from one of Robert Langs's books on Communicative Therapy. He isn't well known but has interesting ideas. Very interesting! Thanks. Glad to see you don’t confuse visualisation with imagining using the other senses, as many people do. (For instance, we are told to ‘visualise’ ourselves, say, performing a golf swing. But the only way we can see ourselves making the swing is to watch ourselves from the outside, which is not the best way to learn how it feels to do it right.)

By the way, you suggest describing your dream out loud. I find that using words tends to destroy the mode of mind in which the dream took place. Might it not be better to relive the dream in imagination to consolidate the memory, then describe it later when fully awake? I get this suggestion from one of Robert Langs’s books on Communicative Therapy. He isn’t well known but has interesting ideas.

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