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Spatial visualization ability is the ability to manipulate mentally two- and three-dimensional figures. [ 1 ] Spatial-temporal reasoning is prominent among visual thinkers as well as among kinesthetic learners (those who learn through movement, physical patterning and doing) and logical thinkers (mathematical thinkers who think in patterns and ...
Creative visualization is a term used by New Age, popular psychology, and self-help writers and teachers in two contexts. [ 1 ] Firstly, it is used by some to denote the practice of generating positive and pleasant visual mental imagery with intent to recover from physical sickness or disability and eliminate psychological pain .
The authors of the study stated that "mental practice alone seems to be sufficient to promote the modulation of neural circuits involved in the early stages of motor skill learning". [70] Imagery training has been effective in a series of studies, mostly in sport where participants are taught formal skills to improve a mental image. [71]
Creative visualization is the cognitive process of purposefully generating visual mental imagery, with eyes open or closed, [1] [2] simulating or recreating visual perception, [3] [4] in order to maintain, inspect, and transform those images, [5] consequently modifying their associated emotions or feelings, [6] [7] [8] with intent to experience a subsequent beneficial physiological ...
The method of loci is a strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, journey method, memory spaces, or mind palace technique.
Guided imagery (also known as guided affective imagery, or katathym-imaginative psychotherapy) is a mind-body intervention by which a trained practitioner or teacher helps a participant or patient to evoke and generate mental images [1] that simulate or recreate the sensory perception [2] [3] of sights, [4] [5] sounds, [6] tastes, [7] smells, [8] movements, [9] and images associated with touch ...
Cognitive restructuring (CR) is a psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions, [1] such as all-or-nothing thinking (splitting), magical thinking, overgeneralization, magnification, [1] and emotional reasoning, which are commonly associated with many mental health disorders. [2]
The theosophy of post-Renaissance Europe embraced imaginal cognition. From Jakob Böhme to Swedenborg, active imagination played a large role in theosophical works.In this tradition, the active imagination serves as an "organ of the soul, thanks to which humanity can establish a cognitive and visionary relationship with an intermediate world".