Seeing is Believing What is visualization? Author Belleruth Naparstek best describes visualization as, " A direct, deliberate daydream, a purposeful creation of positive sensory images-sights, sound, smells, tastes and feel - in your imagination"(198). The object of visualization according to Sherry Amatenstein is, "To imagine as clearly as possible that what you want has already occurred" (156). Visualization allows individuals to mentally rehearse, plan, and practice a desired outcome for different situations. Naparstek states what makes visualization techniques work is, "Our bodies don't discriminated between sensory images in the mind