Mental video

Mental video is a way to extract more information, meaning and understanding from any event - lecture, master class, presentation, and even conflict with a colleague or relative. This technique can be used to improve the effectiveness of training, understanding, solving problems, generating ideas.

Mental video is one of the extensions of image streaming, so mastering it requires basic technology to master it successfully.

Instruction

1. Close your eyes, relax, and begin to describe the event out loud. Use a voice recorder or ask someone to be a listener - this will help you to extract more information from the memory. Describe the event in the present tense, as if it were happening right at that moment before your eyes.
2. Recall a specific memory of a selected event. Start by describing the situation, the speaker, the participants, the actions taking place, as well as your feelings and thoughts at that moment. Aim for the most detailed description, even if for this you need to invent some details. Consistently describe the event as its logical development in accordance with the rules of image-streaming. Hold this for about 5 minutes - then the subsequent results will be much richer.
3. Now go directly to the content of the event - information, ideas, meaning. Do not strive to build the fragments that come to mind in chronological order - just describe, following the hints of memory.
4. Use the same approach as in basic image streaming - watch for when visual images begin to appear in your mind. When this happens, switch from the description of the immediate event to the description of these images. They can be modified, often in an unexpected direction, or be replaced by other images. This is a symbolic response of your subconscious, offering you the keys to understanding and understanding the inner content of the described event. Continue to describe the flow of images, and you will quickly come to important insights. Do not stop work when the first insights appear - they will be replaced by new ones, and possibly deeper ones.

Tips

• Begin to master the technique at those events where you feel it makes more sense than you managed to catch at first.
• Although it is better to make a mental video immediately after the event, as soon as it becomes possible, you can get an interesting effect from viewing events that are more distant from you chronologically.
• You can make a mental video together with a person who was at the same event, taking turns in taking the roles of a narrator and a listener.