How To Visualize Difficult Subjects

Visualizing points of view or concepts that other people are trying to explain can often be difficult and confusing.

Part of hearing what another person is trying to communicate means making an effort to understand their viewpoint and the concepts they are talking about. Doesn’t require agreement but, communication requires understanding.

There are ways of learning to visualize and start to understand where the other person is coming from

What Is Visualization?

Visualization is a technique used to help you see things more clearly by creating mental images of them. Along with imagery, visualization is the use of secondary thought to create a more accurate mental image of a problem or issue.

They can be used to shift away from your own mindset into the trying to see the mindset the other person is coming from. Creating images can help with visualizing as it helps to engage the whole brain.

Why Does Visualization Help With Difficult Tasks?

Visualizing can also help dealing with difficult situations like anxiety. When you have an anxiety disorder, it’s important to remember that the feeling is not the thing. Instead of focusing on the fact that you have an anxiety disorder and what it means for your situation, try to imagine how things would be if you didn’t have the anxiety disorder.

Visualizing not having anxiety wont necessarily take the anxiety away. It can provide a level of hope by being able to think beyond the presence of the anxiety. Being able to see yourself in a different place may help you find a path toward making the vision real.

The different perspective can help reveal your feelings about things.

How to Visualize

• Sit comfortably in a quiet room with your eyes shut.
• Imagine you’re close to the problem or issue you’re trying to visualize
• Imagine you’re looking at it from a different angle
• Try to imagine you’re looking at the problem from the outside in, and then from the inside out - this can put you both inside and outside the situation and let you compare the impacts on you.
• The outside-in view can help when trying to visualize another person’s point of view.

Visualization is a powerful tool to help see things more clearly.

Shadowspub is a writer from Ontario, Canada. She writes on a variety of subjects as she pursues her passion for learning. She also writes on other platforms and enjoys creating books you use like journals, notebooks, coloring books etc.

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