The interesting thing about the mind is that it doesn’t know the difference between what is happening in reality v’s what is happening in your imagination. So, whether you aced an exam or you just imagined acing it, your body will stimulate the same nerves in the brain, causing your body to respond the same!
For example – your heart rate will rise as you imagine the success, which makes your brain believe even more that it’s really happening! And if you can convince your mind that it WILL succeed, it motivates you to work hard at preparing for it!
Afterall – if we convince ourselves that we’re going to lose… then what’s the point in even trying!
But the more we convince our brains that we have already succeeded, the more it BELIEVES that to be true and gets itself ready for the victory! The reason this happens is because when you visualize an action, you stimulate the same region of the brain that is working when you are actually performing the action!
Have you ever been so afraid of something or were so convinced you would fail, that you imagined yourself failing over and over again? Think about it for a minute! It’s something WE ALL DO! We are scared of failing and we focus on that so much that we set ourselves up to fail instead of to succeed! We do this so often it becomes like a film playing over and over in our heads… And most of the time, this leads to us giving up without even trying. Can you think of a time this has been true for you?