Using functional MRIs and PET scans, Ganis et al. (2004) have demonstrated that we can map out what occurs in the human brain when using Mental Imagery and see that the parts of the brain related to the unconscious mind do not have the ability to tell the difference between what is real and a figment of the Imagination. Since we all have, to varying degrees, the ability to experience Mental Imagery, we may further improve this ability, at will, and store new memories that redefine our perception and experience.
Knowledge already exists in all of us and we do not need someone outside of us to point out how to specifically think and act.
Imagery is a multidisciplinary prevention healthcare and healing method with roots originating from ancient times. This is evidenced in ancient scripts of different cultures that describe spectacular therapies brought about with Imagery.
Albert Einstein had said that imagination is more important than knowledge and that if logic can take you from point A to point B, then imagination can take you anywhere and everywhere. As a matter of fact, great innovators, those who changed the world either in the field of philosophy or even in the field of technology, were primarily visionaries.
An ability inherent in all, which is not often mentioned in Greece , and by which we can change the way we think, behave and live is imagery. We tend to think that imagery is something that is only used by children and that adults think more logically. In reality, however, we all apply the imagery all the time.
Nowadays we see the increased use of Imagery as an effective therapeutic practice by psychotherapists, mental health counselors, doctors, nurses, reflexologists, but also as a practice of transforming limiting belief patterns, of empowerment and autonomy by life coaches and professional coaches, sports coaches, educators and artists.
Errors function like the beam of a lighthouse. They light the way in the sea of darkness and inspire hope in us that there is a way out once they are corrected. Without errors, we wouldn’t know what we don’t know.