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✨ Visualization and the Key to Being Who You Want
Every being with a mind makes decisions. These decisions are guided by goals—unique to the individual or group—that reflect perceived needs or ideals. Each goal represents a vision of a better state of being, shaped by the individual’s context: who they are, when they live, and where they come from.
For instance:
- A businessman seeks promotion to support his family
- A warrior enters battle in pursuit of honor
- A model seeks beauty and physical perfection for fame and notoriety.
Though their paths differ, all are oriented toward a meaningful subjective aim. Through attention and will, they interact with the world in what can be described as **evocation**—drawing forth a reality from shared possibility.
👤 Subjective Worlds in Objective Frames
Consider a Canadian man of Western European heritage born in 1996. His genetics, birthplace, and age are fixed. But how he interprets media, makes meaning, and forms goals is subjective.
We all live within shared objective layers (local, national, global), but we each filter them through our unique lens. This is the **liminal space** where meaning arises.
🧠 Attention Changes What You Find
What if the way we attend to the world **changes** what we find there?
This isn’t just poetic—it’s supported by quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and brain science.
We may be unaware of two crucial facts:
1. There are **two distinct modes of being** (hemispheres) that want different things
2. The form of attention we bring to the world **changes both the world and ourselves**
📖 From _The Master and His Emissary_ by Iain McGilchrist
"There are two fundamentally opposed realities, two different modes of experience... Their difference is rooted in the bihemispheric structure of the brain... I believe they are involved in a sort of power struggle..."
— Iain McGilchrist
McGilchrist's model isn’t just about neurology—it’s about **culture**, **identity**, and most importantly **how we shape reality**.
🧭 Left vs. Right Hemisphere — Key Overview
The Left Hemisphere
- Narrow focus, reductionist
- Classifies and names things
- Utility-driven and manipulative
- Builds wholes from disconnected parts
- Seeks fixity, clarity, and control
**The Right Hemisphere**
- Broad attention, contextual
- Embraces ambiguity and flow
- Holistic, intuitive, relational
- Recognizes limits and complexity
- Excels at meaning, irony, metaphor
“It is with the right hemisphere that we understand the moral of a story, or the point of a joke.”
—McGilchrist
🗣️ Language, Embodiment, and Emotion
Language is **not just syntax** or logic.
McGilchrist writes:
> “The body is... the necessary context for all human experience. Language... is an embodied skill... deeply connected with the body.”
This matters because real language is **relational**, not just descriptive. Tone, rhythm, irony, and metaphor are **right hemisphere** tools. Children learn language **intuitively**—not by rules, but by **imitation** and **feeling**.
> “Children are astonishingly good imitators—not copying machines, but imitators.”
🪞 Imitation and Visualization
True imitation isn’t mechanical copying. It’s **empathic resonance**.
>**Mirror neurons let us **"inhabit" another** when we observe them. That means when we envision the person we want to become, we must go beyond thinking.**
We must **embody** that person.
🔁 Becoming through Visualization
Here’s the formula:
1. Right Hemisphere: Envisions the goal
2. Left Hemisphere: Abstracts actionable traits
3. Right Hemisphere: Simulates and emotionally inhabits the new identity
This is not “positive thinking.” It’s **embodied becoming**.
> If you can **become** the person, then you can **achieve** the result.
Visualization, properly understood, is a **rehearsal of being**. It is not imagining. It is becoming.
This is an introductory post of an indepth course exploring the right hemispheres deoth and broad, holistic nature drawing from evolutionary biology, quantum physics and such instances as the CIAs Project Stargate. If that is of interest to you please consider joining The Republic and sharing your own insights.
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✨ Visualization and the Key to Being Who You Want
