My Hoffman Process Experience

The technique is widespread. Athletes often visualize certain elements of a game or move before they actually perform them, acting them out in their minds before they do so in reality: a tennis player envisions a serve before the ball has left his hand; a golfer sees the path of the ball before he lifts his club.

Maltz’s main technique for visualization described in his book is what he calls the Theater of the Mind. You write a script of how you will see yourself performing once your goal is achieved. Then you close your eyes and run through the script mentally, once each day. During that time you mentally visualize yourself succeeding at your goal. Maltz s

This is one reason the highly structured experiences of psychomotor therapy are so valuable. Participants can safely project their inner reality into a space filled with real people, where they can explore the cacophony and confusion of the past. This leads to concrete aha moments: “Yes, that is what it was like. That is what I had to deal with.

“Many people respond to the training, but the ones that respond best and quickest are those that can see how the feedback is related to something they are doing. For example, if I’m attempting to help someone increase their ability to be present, we can see how they’re doing with it. Then the benefit really begins to accumulate. There is something

Like everyone else you view the world through your own filters, so becoming aware of these filters can be very helpful. As mentioned, visualization is used to communicate what you want. From my experience it seems that the closer you can match the way your mind is normally used to receive and recognize information from outside stimuli, the more eff

students who visualized the process performed better across the board—they studied earlier and more frequently and earned higher grades than those who simply visualized the outcome.

Projecting your inner world into the three-dimensional space of a structure enables you to see what’s happening in the theater of your mind and gives you a much clearer perspective on your reactions to people and events in the past.

incorporate into your visualization. This will be partially guided by the level of detail contained in your overall goal. If you picked a vague goal, it will be difficult to use a highly specific visualization with it. If you picked a very specific goal, you can choose to use any level of detail when you construct your visualization. As always, all