Mindful Monday - Setting Your Visions

About This Talk

If you can see it, you can be it. Chris builds on that common idea with a talk on visioning, connecting the phrase “in the mind’s eye” to the pineal gland, which he notes has long been called the third eye, and explaining how a clear picture of what you want can change the programming of the subconscious. He asks listeners to hold the vision they want many times a day and attach the feeling of reaching it.

Key Ideas

• Visioning gives us familiarity with a chosen point in the future, like holding a picture of the Eiffel Tower before a trip to Paris.
• Precision flight teams, Navy SEALs, actors and athletes rehearse in their minds first, so the real moment runs on muscle memory.
• Most of what we do comes from the subconscious, which works like the hidden programming behind a website; real change means changing that programming.
• The subconscious doesn’t hear “don’t want,” so picture what you do want, like yourself at the gym, not the illness you want to avoid.
• Pair the vision with the feeling of reaching it, and repeat it many times a day until it becomes the new program.

“We can’t just change the outside, we actually have to change the inside, and that’s why visioning is so important.”