Joanne Smith, a visual thinker, explains how people unconsciously visualize negative futures and dread events that haven't happened yet. Most don't realize they're doing it, but these mental images shape expectations and decisions. Recognizing the pattern is the first step to changing it.
see lots of pictures and images and motions and movies and whatever else you want to call it. I'm highly visual, highly visual, and a good way of kind of describing it is, a really simple way, is if you're able to dread the future. It's not a nice way to imagine it, but are you able to dread something and not look forward to it, because if that's the case, then there's a high chance that you're visualizing a poor future, a poor outcome. You might not see it as visualizing, but we can visualize poor outcomes. We just might not know we're doing it.
