According to Vishen, founder of Mindvalley and trainer of The Silva Ultramind System Quest, you use imagination when you create something in your mind. When you receive the information through intuition, you use visualization.
“Imagination is directed outwardly, similar to using your mouth to speak words, while visualization is an inward process of perception like using your ears to hear words,” he explains.
So the best visualization techniques are based on these two distinct processes of using imagination and visualization.