An image display apparatus includes a display section (display unit) that displays an image, an information acquisition section that acquires predominance levels of sympathetic nerves and parasympathetic nerves and an activity magnitude of the autonomic nerves based on the biological information, an image generation section that generates the biological state image in which a figure having a size according to the acquired activity magnitude of the autonomic nerves is set along a first axis, along one side of which the predominance level of the sympathetic nerves is set with respect to a reference point and along the other side of which the predominance level of the parasympathetic nerves is set with respect to the reference point, in a position according to the acquired predominance levels of the sympathetic nerves and the parasympathetic nerves.
