Visualization

Visualization, a favorite tool of the psychologist, cannot solve all problems, but many so-called positive thinkers seem to think that it can.

"Jack, whenever there is no good video to watch, no good movie to see in the theatre, or no good book or magazine to read, I opt for Imaginary Visualization. I invent a setting in my mind and stay there for a while." "Sam, can you give me an example?" "It might be a calming teahouse in orbit around a roving gas giant planet, or something totally different."

"Jack, I'll give you an example of Imaginary Visualization: The plants in the garden have blue leaves. The courtyard is square with white marble benches at the sides. There is some dawn light. It is quiet. I sit on a bench." "Wow, Sam, you have good imagination!"

Complex data is more easily interpreted through visualization.

Whenever there is no good video to watch, no good movie to see in the theatre, or no good book or magazine to read, I opt for Imaginary Visualization. I invent a setting in my mind and stay there for a while. It might be a quiet teahouse in orbit around an unanchored gas giant planet, or something totally different.

The plants in the garden have blue leaves. The courtyard is square with white marble benches at the sides. There is some dawn light. It is quiet. I sit on a bench. It is Imaginary Visualization.

Whenever there is no good video to watch, no good movie to see in the theatre, or no good book or magazine to read, I opt for Imaginary Visualization. I invent a setting in my mind and stay there for a while. It might be a meditative teahouse in orbit around a wayfaring gas giant planet, or something totally different.

It is the 26th of February of 2015. Imaginary Visualization is my term for the practice of the mind in which one imagines a vivid, otherworldly scenario. One does it when there is nothing good on TV, no good video to watch, no good magazine to browse, no good book to read, and so on. "Moss Plain" is my Imaginary Visualization in which I wander a vast plain, covered by multicoloured moss. The sky is grey. There is a musky smell.

In Central America, the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System known by its Spanish acronym, Servir, is using data obtained from satellites to assist in regional weather forecasting, disaster management, and monitoring air pollution, red tides and fire.