Deck 17: The Power of Mental Imagery and Visualization

Question 1

What is the primary difference between mental imagery and visualization?

A) Visualization requires outside assistance.
B) Visualization necessitates repeated practice.
C) There is really no significant difference between the two.
D) Mental imagery is a spontaneous flow of unconscious thought.
E) There is no difference!

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Types of images for visualization tend to fall into which three categories?

A) Cancer, hypertension, and arthritis
B) Athletes, hospital patients, and executives
C) Oceans and beaches, forests, and mountain ranges
D) Tranquil scenes, behavioral changes, and healing body images

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Specifically, which category of visualization is most often associated with athletic training?

A) Imagining tranquil scenes
B) Imagining behavioral changes
C) Using detached outcomes
D) All of these

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Patients have used both visualization and mental imagery to:

A) understand the illness and make peace with it.
B) repair broken bones and shrink tumors.
C) inoculate themselves from additional pain or disease.
D) understand the illness and make peace with it and repair broken bones and shrink tumors.

Question 5

Which aspect specifically enhances the visualization experience?

A) Incorporating all five senses
B) Imagining internal healing body images
C) Listening to iPod relaxation playlist tracks
D) Placing an expected outcome on the desired intention
E) Imagining internal healing body images and Placing an expected outcome on the desired intention

Question 6

Upon completion of visualization, one should:

A) sit with one's eyes closed for several minutes and just breathe.
B) generate a feeling of compassion with the image or series of images.
C) offer an expression of gratitude for the experience.
D) think in terms of bringing the image into the present.
E) None of these

Question 7

All but which of the following are considered to be essential components of the visualization process?

A) Focus on gratitude.
B) Focus on the future moment.
C) Incorporate the use of all five senses.
D) Incorporate a positive frame of mind.

Question 8

What is the suggested progression for the creative visualization process?

A) Affirmation, relaxation, concentration, and visualization
B) Concentration, relaxation, visualization, and affirmation
C) Visualization, relaxation, concentration, and affirmation
D) Relaxation, concentration, visualization, and affirmation

Question 9

Although often used interchangeably, the terms mental imagery and visualization are not the same technique.

Question 10

Some people find it helpful to use guided visualization CDs.

Question 11

It is generally believed that having an expectation or attachment to the outcome of visualization will not actually interfere with the outcome.

Question 12

Emotional vibration means detaching the ego from the outcome and to simply let what happens happen.

Question 13

Please define the following terms or concepts in no more than two sentences and give an example to support each definition.
A. Attitude of gratitude
B. Detached outcomes
C. Guided mental imagery
D. Internal body images
E. Mental imagery