About Mental Imaging

Everyday I look at various news sites and only rarely do I find a good, positive, inspiring story about a woman.  So, I started this blog to create a permanent collection of thoughtful, well-written articles about independent, creative, quirky women like you and me — having fun, succeeding, learning, advising, playing, sexing — basically just getting off on life like we should.  It’s time to completely re-imagine and re-visualize what it means to be a woman — and the stories contained in this blog can help us do it.

One definition of Mental Imaging –

When someone has any given sensory experience, then re-imagines it later, the brain activity in the two cases will be similar in both location and intensity. Because brain activity continuously influences the body, and vice versa, any experience has a given effect on the body, and revisualizing it would generate a similar pattern of brain activity with similar effects on the endocrine system, the immune system, and so on.

Very generally speaking, visualization can therefore be regarded as a form of autosuggestion or self-hypnosis which, by generating emotions, may have a beneficial physiological effect on the body. Much remains unknown about the precise mechanisms of this interaction, but numerous studies of visualization have demonstrated its actual physiological effects.