The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. CARL JUNG Creative visualization is holding an image of the direction we want to go, of what we want to achieve, of the things and people we want to be with, and of what we want to become. You'd have an almost immediate image of each of those shapes. That image would come from visualization. The use of the term visual in visualization is, perhaps, misleading.
Visualization can take place through any one or any combination of the five senses.
Either word is fine. I'll use visualization because that's the term that has generally come to describe using the mind and emotions as tools for consciously creating a positive reality. His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. We project ahead in our imagination, imagine what the situation will be like, imagine the way we would like it, and imagine all the things that might go wrong.