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The introduction of imagination

It’s worth reminding ourselves that relaxation will assist to dissipate our physical stress and give us access to much more of our thinking capacity by
accessing our right-brain faculties.

My aim with this technique is to teach you to relax both physically and mentally. This will reduce stress and trigger right-brain activity. Then, we will focus
the right side of your brain and your expanded thinking on solving your problems, improving your performance and bringing any changes you desire into
your life.

Imagination is an outstanding part of the right side of the brain. Einstein said: ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ He realised that if we use
only the knowledge we have today we will produce no growth or fantastic future breakthroughs in any area of life. What we will be doing here is accessing
storage banks of additional knowledge and creativity, previously untapped by conscious thought processes.

Once physically relaxed, I call this state ‘stage 1 basic foundation’, a state in which we can access – or, if you like, build on – the right side of the brain. I
have found that taking a few seconds to imagine being somewhere relaxing assists this process and allows creative faculties to prepare themselves for what
follows. The more I went through this ritual or pattern of behaviour, the more I seemed to understand at a deeper level what I wanted to achieve within my
brain. It seemed to set up expectations of improved outcomes or performance.

Once physically and mentally relaxed you reach the state of stage 2 physical and mental foundation, or simply ‘PM foundation’. You might imagine being
in a state where you are standing on the corpus callosum between the two hemispheres of the brain, a point at which you could freely access both the left and
the right side of the brain at once.

To develop the right hemisphere and to provide a means of access I learned to engage the imagination fully but in a controlled manner.

Repeat the relaxation process now.
Let the visualisation begin.

Imagine walking along a pathway with a river gently running alongside on our right. Up ahead there is a bridge spanning over the river. On this left side of
the river, the landscape is bleak and there are grey clouds overhead. We can see that across the bridge, on the right side of the river there is an inviting lush
green meadow where the sun is shining and the skies are blue. You will create or imagine this landscape – you can choose to remember a beautiful landscape
from your travels or envision a totally imagined one.

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