The Power Of Visualization In Improving Your Health Status

My wife, Mildred, attributes much of her early recovery after being diagnosed with MS to her dedicated use of healing visualization.

Her most debilitating symptom during the first couple of years after her sudden onset of MS symptoms was profound and constant dizziness, accompanied by nausea. This was so severe that she was unable to walk without assistance.

The only way she found to control the dizziness, even with the use of Meclizine, was to keep her head immobilized. Even while doing so, however, she became aware early on that even if she IMAGINED that she was moving her head, the dizziness would be activated.

Having been an ardent swimmer from the time she was a young child, she hit upon a simple visualization exercise that she practiced repetitively over a period of many months.

This consisted in simply imagining that she was swimming, turning her head from side to side with each stroke. Since this visualization always activated some degree of dizziness, she reasoned that if she could develop the capacity to visualize this activity very vividly WITHOUT becoming dizzy, it might then generalize to the same result when she actually moved her head in this same way.

Happily, after nearly two years of doing this practice, her intuitive theory about it proved to be correct and strongly reinforced her previous convictions about the potential power of healing visualization. Once she had achieved the ability to IMAGINE moving her head from side to side without experiencing dizziness, she was then gradually able to increase her actual degree of head movement without setting off an attack of vertigo.

This is just one small example of the potential power of using visualization to improve physical functioning, a method that nearly all Olympic athletes utilize, for example, in optimizing their performance.

This has some very important implications for people who are physically impaired due to multiple sclerosis--or through any other form of illness or disability. There is now much evidence showing that vivid visualization of any previously learned skill actually contributes to the improvement of that skill to a degree that is equal to, or sometimes even greater than, actually practicing that skill.

Stephen Pierce, a highly successful online entrepreneur, is an outstanding exemplar of somebody who has transformed himself amazingly through the application of positive visualization, which he associates with the now well-known "Law Of Attraction." (This has recently been promoted by Oprah Winfrey and many other highly successful people.)

He has recently developed and released a new CD, called the OptiMINDzation CD, that systematically activates key parts of the brain to increase one's power of visualization in the service of helping to actualize whatever kind of change one desires in life.

You can get more information about Stephen Pierce and this remarkable CD by clicking here.