Visualisation – the TV technique

Blur the image
Enlarge the positive
Look from afar

When you have a distressing memory or image in your mind it can be hard to get rid of and can become intrusive in your thoughts. You can control this and replace it with a positive image using the way you think. It can really work well.

Blur the image

Place your thought and image in an old fashioned TV screen and blurr the picture you think of by imagining you are turning a knob. Make the image hazy as if the channel is out of tune. Fade the image and grey it out.

Enlarge the positive

Think of a positive image, a happy thought or good memory. Place it in the room outside the television. Make the image brighter. Fill it will colour and sunshine. Put in the smiles. Feel the warmth, hear the laughter, build the image.

Look from afar

Stand back and make the TV and room you are in smaller as if you are looking from afar. Enlarge the positive memory and make it bigger and bigger staying with you as you leave the TV and room behind.

Keep bringing back the positive image and thought until it comes first.

This is a type of NLP technique. Look up Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) if you want to read more about it.