The Strengths and Limitations of Imagination Technique: Introduction

The following is my paper about the strengths and limitations of the technique of visualization.

Introduction

Imagination is one of the beautiful abilities for human beings and we use it every moment unconsciously, but we are not usually aware of the fact (Gawain, 1978).  The technique of visualization is helpful to use our imagination in a conscious manner.
Although there are a lot of psychospiritual, therapeutic, and transformational techniques in psychosynthesis, among them, the technique of imagination plays an important role for other techniques in psychosyntheisis.  In regard to the human imagination, Assagioli (1965) stated that human imagination evoked our various memories, emotions, feelings, and thoughts at the same time, and the imagination in itself was synthetic.  In other words, as long as our imagination in itself is synthetic, the technique of imagination in itself is a synthetic technique.  That is why the technique of imagination is significant for psychosynthesis in that it can give rise to our various emotions, feelings, and thoughts and also it can synthesize them.

This paper focuses on the technique of visualization among various techniques of imagination.  That is because the technique of visualization is the important base of not only the techniques of the imagination, but also the other techniques in psychosynthesis (Assagioli, 1965).  Also, this paper discusses the various strengths and limitations of the technique of visualization.  As for the strengths of visualization, the technique of visualization is used in a lot of fields for example, spiritual psychotherapy, sports, and health, and also various positive effects are reported scientifically.  On the other hand, this paper reveals not only the strengths of visualization but also the limitations such as negative self-images.

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