Mona Sharma explains how visualization can shift your nervous system from stress to rest mode. Imagine waking joyful with good digestion and a healthy body, making it feel real enough that your body actually moves into healing.
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So visualization is such a powerful modality to help us change our state. And if we're living in that stressful state for too long, but we don't want to break there, we have to break the cycle through visualization. If I were to ask you, Jay, like, how do you want to feel in your body? If you were to think about yourself in the most optimal health and happiness, and waking up feeling joyful, knowing that your digestion is working, your body is primed, everything is just in tune. Your body is working so hard to help you heal, and it knows that you're busy, but it's just. It's taking care of it. Things has got you right by visualizing that so clearly, to the point that you can make it feel real. That's a physiological shift to shift you out of that sympathetic state into a parasympathetic state, which I think is so powerful.