How to Visualize

Hey guys!

In today's post I'm glad and happy to share with you my wisdom and experience with Visualization - the one, probably the only, and definitely the most powerful programming skill there is.

I've heard of, over the years, many people who have failed to utilize this amazing tool for themselves, whether it was because of lack of knowledge on how to do it properly and the setups required, or whether it was simply because of lack of belief that it can actually work for them.

If you are regulars on my blog you have the luck and honor to be the only people who will get the following tips and knowledge, which are based on my 5 years experience using visualization for my own self developement. I don't like to brag, but when I compare my own self developement to other people, then I know for sure that it is because of my visualization skills that I am where I'm at.

There are too many articles on the internet on visualizing that I'm gonna bet my balls that their authors have 0% experience using them, and they just copied some ideas they heard from someone else.

I'm going to tell you here what realy works to make your visualizations powerful and real as much as possible, based on my experience, so give this a go.
This is probably going to be the most important post you'll ever read by someone.


Does Visualization realy work ?

YES.
Everybody uses visualization in some areas of their lives, whether they are aware of it or not.

Many people unconsciously create vividly imagined scenarios in their mind whenever they come to block themselves from doing something that scares them. They begin to imagine how it'll look, how it'll sound, and how it'll feel, and they do it so vividly that the imagined scenario feels just as real as if it already happend. Those people will then come to me and tell me "I can't visualize" which makes me literally laugh my ass off.

Visualization works simply because the mind cannot tell the difference between a real experience and a vividly imagined one. So if you can vividly imagine or remember a very pleasant experience, you will literally live that experience as if it was as real as a real experience, and you'll feel all the emotional states associated with it as if they were happening for real. YES, this is powerful! This means that you can feel successful and confident even today!

Pay close attention, though, to my languaging. I said "a vividly imagined experience", which means a full experience, with colors, details and sound.

If you haven't been able, up until now, to use visualization deliberately and intentionally to design the future you want for yourself, then the next part of this post may solve that problem for you once and for all.



KEYS TO POWERFUL & SUCCESSFUL VISUALIZATIONS:

1. Your state of mind - When you come to do the visualization is of super importance. You should do your visualizations when your mind is quiet and relaxed, your body is relaxed and released, and you are surrounded with silence. Anything that is relaxed, quiet, and clean. I recommend you get practiced at daily meditation to quiet and relax your mind, and then do the visualizations after your meditation.

2. Remove distractions - Close TV, close music, and close your room door as well if needed.

3. Allow as much time as needed to perform the visualization - Alot of people try to do the visualizations too quick. Whether its because of lack of patience, or lack of understanding just how delicate and gentle the mental work they are about to do realy is, or simply laziness and trying to imagine just the "end result", instead of the entire story that led to it, and then they wonder why it's not working for them. This is usually done because of time constraints. So, If you have a time constraint or you're just too anxious to finish your visualization asap, DO NOT VISUALIZE AT ALL! Go do something else, because you're obviously not taking it seriously, when you should. If you realy want your visualizations to work, Give as much time as needed. You are doing very sensitive and yet VERY POWERFUL work on your mind and subconscious here man, so give it as much time as it needs. Relax ,take as long as you need to remember everything you can as lively and as vividly as possible. When you take the time to visualize you can enter the visualized "world" much more deeply and strongly than you could in just a 3 minutes attempt. a 30 minutes "one experience" visualization is much more powerful than 5 times a "3 minute" scenario. This is KEY.

4. Visualize from an ASSOCIATED point of view - I'm not going to explain whats the difference between associated and dissociated here. Search Google for an explanation on this. This is another very important KEY. Associated imagery brings back all the emotions, resources, beliefs and attitudes, Dissociated does not.




How will I know if my Visualization worked?

You will FEEL it, dummy. And very powerfully too!
A successful visualization ends up with you feeling as if what you just imaged has actually happend for real, and this is a sign that you did it right.

You will immediately feel the effects of the visualization on your perception of reality, on the way you feel, your confidence, your attitude, your actions and behaviour. Everything will be immediately affected by it.

A successul Visualization will also affect your world in levels I don't realy want to get into in this post, because they are far beyond my understanding as well, but you may begin to experience wierd events in your life that are somehow "related" (or: "resonating") with your visualization, the right people will show up at the right times, you will be intuitively "redirected" to the right books .. you may suddenly have life-breaking realizations you never thought about before .. some realy crazy shit I'm telling you !!

This is based on my real experience with it, and based on many other's experiences as well.

Just follow the tips I layed in this post, and you will soon realize just how powerful visualization realy is.

And as a final note to close this post:
Use this knowledge at your own risk, it is very powerful.

-- leedrag0n



P.S: If I got you curious about the "realm of experience" that could not be understood and want to know more about this, as well as hear explanations by quantum physicists, you might want to check the movies "The Secret" and "What The Bleep Do We Know - Down The Rabbit Hole", I'm warning: These movies will blow your mind away, don't say I didn't warn you! :-)

Anchors (real experience!)

Hey guys !

In today's post I'm going to talk once again about anchors, and more specific about self created anchors - like the ones I explained in details in my State Design - Anchors Part 1 post from May.

What I want to share today is a real experience that I've had that will demonstrate just how powerful anchors are.

I think its good because in any area of life when you learn something new , or have an idea about something .. its almost always the actual exprience of that something that realy "drops the coin" in your mind about its effectiveness and makes you want to use it more.

So anyways .. a little background first:

Everytime before I go out to sarge I usually "prepare" myself with some ritual - To install the state I want to be in when I go out, bring back old memories of past successes, rehearse the things I want to work on, etc.

During the rituals I usually create anchors of the states that I go into, for instance: If I go into some sort of relaxed state (just as I explained in my State Design post) I'll anchor that state to a pressing of my left hand's thumb and index finger , or if I remember past successes and I get into a good state of confidence - I'll anchor that state to pressing my right hand's thumb and index finger, if I laugh (laughter) I'll anchor that to other fingers, etc ..

What happends is that I end my rituals and I go out to sarge (with the state I designed, of course) but I also end it with a stack of anchors on both my hands that I barely use (because I get myself into such a good state that I don't need it).

Anyways .. I took a few days off sarging - that means I have NOT done any ritual for the last 2 or 3 days .. and today I went to do an evening "sports" walk for about an hour.

During my walk a couple (guy and girl) came infront of me, and the girl was good looking and she looked at me, and as she did the guy did to. Now for some reason it brought up a realy unpleasant state .. that I later realized that returned everytime I saw a hot girl passing near me .. this unpleasant state was .. I don't know exactly how to describe it .. tension, fear .. whatever ..

And then I remembered that I had all these stack of anchors that I created on my hand.

Now.. a very useful technique that we learned in NLP is a technique called collapsing anchors, which essentialy is about associating a positive anchor with a currently installed negative one - that causes the negative one to "collapse" -or- to become associated with the good one.

So what I began to do is I began to pay attention to whenever the unpleasant state was coming, and as it was just beginning to arise - I immediately fired off one of my "positive anchors" that I've had in my right hand.

And guess what? After doing that for like 2 or 3 times I just tested it - I passed near a hottie, looked at her, and was paying attention to my state.. and I was relaxed and the old feeling has gone!

So far so good .. but I didn't stop there. At some part of my walk I happend to notice a plastic ball just laying on the street .. and if you guys know me personally you'd know that I just love football .. and whenever I get an opportunity to play football I get into a realy fun state. So I took that ball and started to play with it .. and as I realized I'm beginning to feel all fun and excited ... guess what I did? I ANCHORED IT to a new fingers combination on my left hand!!

So now I had created, on the fly, a new anchor. So now I had both the positive one from before on my right hand, and the new one now on my left hand.

I kept using both anchors whenever I even sensed just a little slight change in my state .. and to keep long story short - I reached a point that I went across a bus station filled with hotties .. and I was just so relaxed, so outwardly focused, so at ease .. that I could actually observe everything about them and talk to them freely without feeling a thing.

Now this completely blew my mind up - I was able to completely change and redesign my state, on the fly, without any ritual and without doing any mental work at all - it was all 100% pure anchors work!

The last 15 minutes of my walk I was just relaxed, focused, and at ease and I didn't have to do anything more - the new state has been completely replaced now .. and before I was about to return to my home ... I was thinking about what I just did here ... and it was an amazing realization to me - because I didn't do any ritual today, I just walked out the house "as is" ... the only thing I had with me ... was my anchors ..

Just think about the endless possibilities that can open up to you when you use this ..

-- leedrag0n

Interesting topics coming up soon!

Hey guys !

I'm working on a few realy interesting topics for discussion and presentation, and they will be up and ready when I finish working them .. as I also am less sitting near the computer as of lately.

In the meanwhile, here's something cool to kinda break the ice and the atmosphere.

Enjoy ;)



-- leedrag0n

Back from russia!

Hey guys!

I know I haven't written in the blog for a couple of weeks.
That's because I was in a trip to russia with my father for 2-weeks.

I'm going to get more stuff soon on the blog as I'm working on a couple of more videos on pretty interesting topics too, some of which I tried even in Russia!

Stay tuned, will keep you informed.

If anyone want to know things about Russia, feel free to ask here.

-- leedrag0n

Rapport, Friendship, Pacing & Leading

Hey guys!

So .. as I promised, here's the long awaited fourth video clip, discussing the interesting topic of rapport & chemistry, friendship, pacing & leading - and why it is one of the most important skills there are for success with women, and people in general.

Because of the length of the clip (17 minutes) it will be divided into two parts. The first (top) video box is the second part, and the second (bottom) video box is the first part, so you should start by watching the bottom video box first!

This is also combined with an OpenOffice Impress presentation, I realy put some efforts in producing this so I hope you will enjoy it. And again, feel free to leave me your comments !

-- leedrag0n

State Design - Anchors (Part 1)

Hey guys!

As I promised.. here is the third video clip that I recorded and decided to load to the blog.

I've had a hard time deciding what subject should I choose to record a video on .. and after some debates with myself.. I chose to record the first clip (out of several that will follow) on state design and control .. a niche that is highly crucial for your success with women, because its directly related to the vibe you project, the way you behave, and the access you have to resources that may be important for your success!

Once again I remind you, feel free to pass this around!
And .. feel free to leave your comments and feedback.



-- leedrag0n

Again! Why rehearsals are SO important?

Hey guys !

This is a follow-up post to the last video clip I loaded in this blog of me explaining the importance of rehearsals to your pickup success, and it is realy .. such an important issue .. that I realized if I hadn't wrote a follow-up to better explain it .. some folks may never get just how important it is .. so here I'm again ! :-)

Listen .. I know that sometimes rehearsing in your house can feel realy boring and useless .. and since rehearsing doesn't involve real women, but imagined ones .. it may sometimes feel like a waste of time .. But YOU HAVE TO DO IT !

Rehearsing is the only way to realy train your mind in new ways of responding, that will be there for you in the real life situation !

And you want to do it in your house, because when you are in your house, you are usually in a neutral and relaxed state .. that allows you to see things more clearly, think on your feet .. feel more relaxed, and your overall mind is less distracted and more open to give the right meanings and interpretations ..

On the other hand .. when you're in the field .. especially in a situation where you're about to meet a realy attractive woman .. you will not be in a neutral state. That's for sure. You are most likely to go into an altered state of consciousness .. that sometimes has a hypnotic effect on your awareness .. so much that you can't even think AT ALL .. not to mention remembering what you even wanted to practice and focus on in the first place !

So if you want to have better ways of acting, responding and meanings available to you when this happends - You must REHEARSE them in your house!

Its just more clever to practice something in a neutral state where you can actually think on your feet .. and have it there available for you when you get hypnotized and can't think , rather than trying to think about what you should do when you're hypnotized and your mind is blocked ... that just makes sense, no ? :-)

But there's actually more to it - in real life interactions (unlike MSN or FACEBOOK or any of that stuff) you usually don't have alot of time to prepare your responses, or to think clearly on the spot about the right meaning and interpretation for the situation .. or do you have time to "get yourself into the right state" .. you have to respond fast !

And whenever you need to respond quickly, you'll always use whats familiar. Why ?

Because you have habitual ways of responding, that have been ingrained through your past experiences .. and in any given moment .. where you have to act, respond, think OR make a decision very quickly .. you are more than likely to act, respond, feel, think and intellecually interpret the situation based on how you've used to be doing up until now!

Sometimes.. it's not even about responding based on what's familiar but responding based on what feels most comfortable TO YOU! Think about the following metaphor - when you go out fishing ... do you put a Pizza Slice or a Hamburger as your bait .. just because YOU like it? OF COURSE NOT! You put worms ... because that's what the fish likes !

So what I'm trying to say here is that, you sometimes have to act, respond, and interpret situations in ways that may feel a bit discomforting to adjust to .. but that will produce results for you in the long run.

Makes sense, no ?

So .. maybe there are better ways of responding ?
Maybe there are better ways to interpret and think about a situation ?
Maybe there are better meanings you can attach to the situation ?
Maybe .. just maybe .. you can even feel better in the situation ?

Just a quick example of what I mean: You approached 2 girls, and they started laughing at you. You completely ignored the fact that they stayed 2 minutes and talked to you, and instead you colored the whole thing as "shit-testing" or "attempt to take over my frame".

Here's a better way to interpret this: You could have created an anchor for their laughter, so you could have a trigger for it each time you want. They stayed 2 minutes that means that they enjoyed the interaction. Nobody stays in a place he doesn't enjoy in. And .. they were just wanting to participate in the conversation .. because your interaction with them was actually one of the more fun things that happend to them that evening.

See what I mean ?

But the thing is this - If you want to be able to see this opportunity next time, and be able to interpret it the same, and feel different, you must rehearse it !

Remember, the mind always responds based to what is most familiar !
So make the new ways of responding, acting, and thinking your new nature.

-- leedrag0n