Talk:Visualization

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I don't understand why the mental visualization should dominate this page. Since visualization through visual imagery for all sort of purposes theese days is such an important part of human activity. -- User:MrMambo of 04:27, April 12, 2004

TUT, Inc. promotes a visualization philosophy of "Thoughts become things. Choose the good ones." It is a good resource to learn practical visualization skills.

  • Suggest link to TUT and/or competitors

Arguements against? Visualization and particularly TUT's take is self-helpish but who is to say you can't help your situation through visualization? In fact, Mike Dooley promotes open-mindedness as part of being realistic. At a fun seminar last August he told the crowd, in short, that you can usually succeed (make your dream feelings, etc come true), but you can almost never dictate the "cursed how's" of how it will happen.

Should a commercial site be linked to? The Wikipedia article on seduction links to commercial self-help guides in Double Your Dating. It is worded to specify the links are to commercial sites.

"There are also many commercial seduction products available for men. Recommended ones are All About Women by Giuseppe Notte, Double Your Dating by David DeAngelo" - Wikipedia: Seduction

The TUT link should be done similarly.

~Anonymous, August 22, 2005

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[edit] New subheading relating to meditation?

What do you think of adding a new link from visualisation to meditation. It is a common meditation technique (at least it is in Buddhism), so maybe link it to Buddhist meditation (which at the moment does not have a visualisation section yet). 21 November 2005 (UTC) R.Sok

[edit] Educational visualization

Which of the links in this dis-ambiguation page is educational visualization a sensible re-direct to?? Georgia guy 21:24, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Silva?

How does Silva really relate to visualization? It's a very loose connection! GregA 12:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] autosuggestion technique?

as a brook, pond, waterfall, one's baby, etc.. An autosuggestion technique frequently used for "mental practice" by athletes, in which one imagines perfect performance A self-help technique for goal setting and refinement, as set forward in Shakti Gawain's 1978 book Creative Visualizaton

I'm sorry, but no, lucid visualization isn't an autosuggestion technique. Autosuggestion is one technique, used by self hypnosis practioners, as is visualization. They are completely different. Somebody decided "self hypnosis" wasn't quite kewl sounding enough, and has skewed the entire network to a comical taxonomical error.

[edit] This is a disambiguation page

So I've change it to match WP:MOSDAB. The following probably belongs on a visualization (psychology) or some such page, but I'm not qualified to create it.

  • Creating internal mental images (internal visualization and imagination)
    • A technique of relaxation, whereby images that invoke a relaxed state are visualized, such as a brook, pond, waterfall, one's baby, etc..
    • An autosuggestion technique frequently used for "mental practice" by athletes, in which one imagines perfect performance
    • A self-help technique for goal setting and refinement, as set forward in Shakti Gawain's 1978 book Creative Visualizaton

John (Jwy) 05:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)