Here’s a few tips for anyone who – after putting a decent amount of effort into visualisation over a period of several days – still finds that they have difficulty visualising. Most people will be finding it easier by that time but a few people just don’t seem to be that visual. Use ready-made pictures
The invaluable BPS Research Digest reports on a study by Christoph Flückiger and Martin Grosse Holtforth which found that getting therapists to focus on a client’s strengths for just ten minutes before the first five sessions of psychotherapy (an example of resource priming) improved relationships with the client, and led to greater improvements by session 20. Here’s
“It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness”– Confucius, philosopher, 551-479 BC Also attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, and less frequently to Emily Dickinson.
