The Prosperity Project: Creative Visualization Techniques

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Creative Visualization Techniques - Project Summary

Sunday, July 13, 2008

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.

~T E Lawrence

Here is an overview of our Creative Visualization Techniques project. This post provides links to pertinent aspects of this project, so that you won't have to sift through the archives.

If you would like to try this project for yourself, you could start on Day One - Our First Exercise and then continue on through Day Thirty - I Love My Life. Or, you could browse through the posts and work the project in no particular order.

This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply.. and give you the benefit of our own experience and our support if it seems pertinent or appropriate. Feel free to post your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. Even though we love you, comment spam is deleted when discovered, and anonymous posting is discouraged.

You will find complete listing of the day by day links at the bottom of this post. Yes, there are more than 30 posts - this was an intensive project. To alleviate confusion, the posts are listed in order of occurance - first to last. The basic summary of our results can be found here: Reporting On Our Results and individual comments and feedback can be read How did we do?.

We do have a recommended reading list if you are interested in expanding your understanding. I don't know how up to date it is, but there are a lot of really good books listed. Feel free to add titles and authors that you would recommend. There is also a collection of our favorite affirmations, prayers, poems, and etc. Or you can just go to Way Cool Quotes and find a bunch more.

As promised, here is the complete listing of all the posts for Creative Visualization Techniques:

Daily Exercises and Meditations:

Reporting on Our Results

Judging by the posted results, this project was a rousing success. It looks like creative visualization does actually work. Here's what some of our participants had to say:

Wow, this went by so fast! This was a really great project and creative visualization works in amazing ways.
I enjoyed this project and I think it really did work.
I do think visualization works. And I would recommend it absolutely.
Though I only recently subscribed to this project ... I am aware of using the power of IMAGINATION/VISUALIZATION which results in a powerful activation of the LAW OF ATTRACTION.

Here are the success stories that were shared:

My sister was really angry and tense over her home situation. Her daughter and son-in-law and baby were living with her and everyone was getting on each other's last nerve, I told her to visualize the baby playing in a nice yard, happy. (Actually, it was my guide's suggestion). Within two weeks they found an awesome house for a great price with a lovely yard for the baby to romp in! I really feel that hanging on to their irritation was directing their energy towards STAYING IN THE HOUSE rather than MOVING.
My other sister created a vision board, including a picture of the Island of Malta for creating a vacation there. Voila'! She just met a man whose family is from MALTA. Wow.
For me, I was visualizing my yard quite a bit. Creating in my mind a lush, peaceful sanctuary. So far, my husband and I explored a really cool landscape shop (he normally wouldn't be caught dead having anything to do with the yard), I was inspired to do quite a bit of clean up, fertilized plants and watered more.
I visualized a working washing machine for a coworker, and her washing machine "miraculously" began to function perfectly.
I visualized a washer and dryer for myself, and voila! After I don't know how many months... at least 3... I now have a working washer and dryer. (Which cost me nothing !! and was delivered and installed FREE!)
I visualized a lawnmower and a mowed yard area for myself and now I have the mower - the mowing part is a little slow in coming - but time for the DOING of the mowing has been allotted. So that's on it's way to being done.

Here are the not as successful stories that were shared:

The larger goal of paying debts is still a challenge. I'll be doing great, creating images of sitting at the table and writing check after check to eliminate balances that are due. I feel so relieved and happy and FREE. But then every so often the word BANKRUPTCY pops into my mind and I have to shoo it away really fast.
The bigger things were harder for me. I couldn't come up with anything really CLEAR for anyone including myself. So... consequently the bigger things that I was HAZY about have been hazy in their manifestation.

Words of advice - insights - and other thoughts:

I think by visualizing consistantly and being EXCITED about it, improvements towards my goal have occurred.
Perhaps when our creative process feels stuck or impossible even, we need to remember to look at the little signs that tell us, "Hey, keep it up..don't stop now..you're on the right path!" Here's a story to illustrate: Last night I was on the deck looking at the sky just past sundown and it came again as an option. Out of nowhere came an absolutely beautiful huge bird (hawk, owl?) that gently soared down and circled me a few times, probably 15-20 ft directly above my head. Ok, ok. I'll stop being negative and won't think of the "B" word (bankruptsy) any more! It sure made my heart peaceful and hopeful to see that bird, I felt comfort and encouragement.
What I liked most about this project is that it really got me focused on a daily meditation practice that was interesting and enjoyable.
When I begin a project I first of all create the cover, I did this for my new CD project PRESCRIPTION FOR WELLNESS, and also selected Master tapes of Sunday messages I had presented on this topic. I then asked someone I knew, who had a passion for creative audio/visual techniques, how I might go about editing the tapes. RESULT: He met with me AND offered to do the project FREE OF CHARGE! .. it is now in the making. ON REFLECTION: This began with a "Divine Idea." I went into THE SILENCE, just being open and receptive to "whatever;" then I FELT EXCITED about the project and let the UNIVERSE know my needs! Now I live in GRATITUDE for the FLOW OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS!

To those who shared their experiences and their thoughts - A big thank you! If anyone else would like to add their results and experiences (positive or negative), just post it as a comment and I'll add it to this post.

Imagine

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Here is something nice to entertain you while we wait for everyone to check in and post their results, so if you want to put your 2 cents in, now's the time. On Sunday, I'll be uploading our results page and also a wrap up of the project. In the mean time, enjoy!!

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion too,
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
Or brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You! You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

How did we do?

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Wow! This project was chock full of all kinds of information. I'm wondering how we did. Here's a list of questions to answer that will give an idea as to how effective creative visualization actually is.

Did any of the things you visualized for yourself or others actually take place? If so, what?
Were you more successful when visualizing for yourself? or for others?
Do you feel that you have a good understanding of what creative visualization is? Are you comfortable with the process?
Which techniques did you use most often?
Did you learn anything? If so, what?
What was your favorite part of this particular project?
Your least favorite?
Were you able to create a time and a place for a regular daily practice of the techniques presented? If not, why not?
Does creative visualization work for you?
Would you recommend creative visualization to others as a way to achieve prosperity?
Is there anything else you'd like to share?

I love my life.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Picture the sky, trees, buildings, activities in your life - the interesting and varied people you will meet. Visualize a brilliant light coming from your solar plexus area and emanating throughout the whole scene radiating the entire image with light. Imagine yourself moving from one activity to the next, feeling energetic, alive, full of light and smiling. Your wallet is stuffed with $100 bills, your home is filled with every beautiful thing you want, maybe there is even a garden overflowing with flowers, fruits, and vegetables ready to be picked. Picture yourself hugging the loving people around you, welcoming them with open arms.

~Laurel Jan Fuller - Shaping Your Life

Important points

Monday, July 07, 2008

When using creative imagery, craft your desires with:

Ideal - what you want.
Purpose - why you want it, who you will become in the process of creating it.
Activity - the steps of mental and physical preparation - the "how to."

Here are some points to remember:

Thoughts are things and everything is created with thought.
You are a mental-spiritual being and your physical experiences are for your learning.
The secret to visualization is creating clear, detailed thought forms using all five senses.
You must release your visualized thought form to your subconscious mind for manifestation.
The language of mind is in pictures or images.
You have free will; therefore, you always have the freedom to choose the thoughts you want to think and create.
Other people have free will. You can create yourself as you desire but you cannot create someone else.
The physical world, your physical body, physical conditions will respond to the direction of your thoughts.
Thought directed with intelligence is the greatest power in the universe.
You are endowed with imagination and will; therefore, creating and fulfilling desires is inherent in your nature.
Like attracts like. Therefore, create positively and with love.
Love is the magnetic attraction between positive and negative poles.
Be aggressive by shaping the thought images you desire and receptive by expecting and watching for your desires to come to you.
The nature of matter is change. If you don't like something in your life, you can change it to become what you want. Imagining how you want to improve yourself and conditions in your life is the first step in making it so.
You have the freedom to choose your response to any person, place, or thing in your life. Love your enemies by creating understanding. When you initiate the response you desire, you have the power of understanding, which produces inner and outer peace.
When you feel trapped in any limitation, imagine every alternative you can think of. When you have exhausted the probabilities you can imagine, start imagining possibilities. Remember that you can always add to what you have and what you experience by imagining "what if...?

~Laurel Jan Fuller - Shaping Your Life

Pretending vs Visualizing

Sunday, July 06, 2008

It is important to know that visualization does not take the place of physical practice and preparation. You cannot give an effective speech by visualizing yourself on a stage if you have not written or prepared or researched a speech to give! This is pretending.

When you pretend, you actually increase your anxiety because you are always afraid of being found out. You cannot play excellent music by picking up an instrument without studying the notes, unless you are going to improvise. Even then, you need to develop skill through practice with learning how the instrument functions.

So... What I'd like to know is what one small thing can you do today, right now, this moment that will bring you even a tiny bit closer to your dream come true? Have you thought about the steps you might need to take in order to achieve what you want to achieve... have what you want to have... be who you want to be? Is there something you could learn? or a person you could call? Do you need to think about and/or formulate a "plan of action"? Does the idea of taking action scare you? or excite you?

Think about it! And then do one small thing.

What do you think of this?

I found the following post at Clam Lynch.com. Sometimes I wonder if I have this same attitude towards my own creative visualizations - that somewhere in my head, there's a voice that thinks I'm being silly and living in a make-believe world.

So, I'm curious. Does this push your buttons, make you laugh, or is it just one big yawn? If you could talk to this Clam Lynch person, what would you say? How is what he is talking about different from we are doing this month? How is it the same? How many times have you let someone's judgments and criticisms talk you out of a big idea? How many things have you wanted to do but didn't because you were afraid people would laugh at you, or think you've lost your mind?

I LIKE TO THINK OF 10 IMAGINARY THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN I FIRST WAKE UP IN THE MORNING. Before breakfast or coffee or a cigarette or whatever else might pop up before I get out of bed (wink).

IMAGINARY FOOD.
IMAGINARY MONEY.
IMAGINARY JOB.
IMAGINARY FRIENDS.
IMAGINARY MENTAL HEALTH.
IMAGINARY CAR.
IMAGINARY LOVER.
And so on…

THEN I IMAGINE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK, FEEL, TASTE AND SMELL LIKE.

THEN I PLUG INTO IT.
AND GET, TURNED ON TO IT.

THEN MAYBE THE PHONE RINGS OR I GET AN EMAIL OR THERE’S A LOUD KNOCK ON THE DOOR (Sometimes on the apartment door sometimes in my mind)

AND IT USUALLY IS SOMEONE OR SOMETHING TRYING TO PULL ME INTO THE SO-CALLED- REAL WORLD-SAYING, "WAKE UP IMAGINARY MAN WITH YOUR IMAGINARY THOUGHTS OF THINGS UNSEEN"

And they start in with their FEARS and their LOGIC and their GOSSIP and OPINIONS and BLAH, BLAH, BLAHS!

AND I SAY, "NOW WAIT A DING DANG, BEE-BOOP'N MINUTE!"

I AM cooking up some NEW THOUGHTS and there’s one thing I know about COOKING. TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE IMAGINARY STEW!!

FOLKS IMAGINATION IS WHERE IT ALL STARTS.
FEEL IT, BE IT, SEE IT, DO IT !!
AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOUR IMAGINATION WORLD WILL BECOME YOU REAL WORLD.
JUST KEEP AT IT AND GET JAZZED ABOUT YOUR IMAGINARY NEW WORLD.

TALK TO YOURSELF (OUT LOUD) ABOUT HOW GREAT IT IS.
AND HERES A LITTLE TIP:
I FIND IT HELPFUL TO WEAR SOME KIND OF HEADSET IF YOUR OUT IN PUBLIC SO UNHIP FOLKS DONT
GIVE YOU THE FUNNY EYES OR CALL THE POLICE.

BUT MAKE SURE THE OTHER END OF THE CORD IS STUCK IN YOUR PANTS POCKET, NOT YOUR ZIPPER, OR SHIRT.

AND JUST YAMMER AWAY ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE SO GREAT!! IN THE IMAGINARY NOW.
AGAIN DONT JUST THINK IT, FEEL IT!!!

I AM IMAGINING A GREAT NEW LIFE FOR ME/YOU, AND YOU KNOW THAT IS THE REAL DEAL!! And I AM NOT JUST PULLING YOUR TOOT STRING.

IMAGINE THAT FOR A MINUTE. A WORLD OF TRUE IMAGINATION.

I AM GOING TO NOW TAKE ANOTHER IMAGINATION NAP.

GOOD MORNING, GOOD NIGHT, GOOD DAY.

IMAGINE ME AND YOU.

I DO.

CLAM

Walking The Labyrinth

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Not long ago, I happened onto the image below, it's from Heart Sounds, and it occured to me that this might make for a really interesting visualization exercise for this project.

As you can see, the artist has "walked the labyrinth" by writing words and symbols. I thought that maybe we might do something similar. This week we are visualizing our larger goals, our biggest dreams, and seemingly impossible ideas. I wonder what would happen if we took them into the labyrinth as a meditational written exercise.

If you'd like to try it, here is a labyrinth template you can use as a base. The full size image can be downloaded here.

I am a spark of light.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Picture yourself with a warm glow in the center of your being. Image it growing, first small like a candle flame, then increasing in size to the size of a flashlight beam, then growing to fill your entire body with light, then radiating out beyond your body until your entire being is a silhouette of light. Image yourself walking through your experiences like this, and see your light sparking a glow of light in each person you encounter.

source: Laurel Jan Fuller - Shaping Your Life

Focus on symbols or goals

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Sit quietly and focus (visually) on a symbol, picture, or object related to some goal or project. As you maintain focus on the subject your patterns link and change. The usual effect is that initially you begin to get a flow of ideas, old and new, about the subject. If there is tension to begin with in your relationship with the subject or what it represents, you body may express that tension for a while, but as you continue the focus there will be a release and a new relationship pattern.

This is a good meditation for clearing up relationships with people, places, money, success, or any goal-oriented endeavor, as well as for stimulating a flow of creative ideas in relation to it. Many people are doing this without realizing it when studying, planning, or working. The third thing this exercise does is set up a resonance that begins to attract the nearest equivalent to what you are focusing on.

A useful variation is to focus on a symbol, picture, or object related to a problem in your life. This may upset a lot of people who say they don't want to give energy to their problems by focusing on them, but this focus is different. When you focus on a problem with a calm attitude of positive expectation and nonjudgment, the problem changes because you change. You may get different insights or realizations about it, or conditions surrounding the problem may change without your conscious knowledge or effort, but something will change.

We often say that it is easier to resolve a problem if you make peace with it first, and that is what this exercise helps you to do.

~Serge Kahili King

Traversing The Circle

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Do creative visualization with a black circle about six to eight inches in diameter drawn on a white background. Imagine a path or a road in the circle that goes over a hill or around a bend and out of sight. Enter the circle with your awareness and follow the path or road, looking for something (without defining what).

You may or may not find yourself in a body, you may or may not feel like continuing the exercise with your eyes closed. You also may or may not find anything in a given time period, but you usually do. Just go along with whatever happens.

This visualization helps to open and strengthen your creative imagination, and provides lots of good insights.

~Serge Kahili King

An Extended Visualization

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Pick a quote or a phrase and as you repeat it keep your mind open to ways in which it operates or could operate in your life. And while this can be done in a condensed meditation of five to twenty minutes, it can also be done in an extended meditation that lasts all day.

By focusing on one thought all day long, it becomes a background or framework for everything you do that day. This not only gives all the benefits of focused attention, it also helps to incorporate a chosen idea deeply into your life pattern while also giving new insights about it.

Not sure what phrase you want to use? Here are some ideas:

Every day in every way I'm getting better and better.
Everything I need is coming to me easily and effortlessly.
My life is blossoming in total perfection.
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now.
I am the master of my life.
Everything I need is already within me.
Perfect wisdom is in my heart.
I am whole and complete in myself.
I love and appreciate myself just as I am.
I accept all my feelings as part of me.
I love to love and be loved.
The more I love myself, the more love I have to give others.
I now give and receive love freely.
I am now attracting loving, satisfying relationships into my life.
My relationship with _____ is growing happier and more fulfilling every day.
I now have a perfect, satisfying, well-paying job.
I love doing my work, and I am richly rewarded, creatively and financially.
I am an open channel of creative energy.
I am dynamically self-expressive.
I enjoy relaxing and having fun.
I always communicate clearly and effectively.
I now have enough time, energy, wisdom, and money to accomplish all my desires.
I am always in the right place at the right time, successfully engage in the right activity.
It's okay for me to have everything I want!
This is a rich universe and there's plenty for all of us.
Abundance is my natural state of being. I accept it now!
Infinite riches are now freely flowing into my life.
Every day I am growing more financially prosperous.
The more I have, the more I have to give.
The more I give, the more I receive, and the happier I feel.
It's okay for me to have fun and enjoy myself, and I do!
I am relaxed and centered. I have plenty of time for everything.
I am now enjoying everything I do.
I feel happy just being alive.
I am vibrantly healthy and radiantly beautiful!
I am open to receiving all the blessings of this abundant universe!
_____ is coming to me, easily and effortlessly.
I have a wonderful job with wonderful pay. I do a wonderful service in a wonderful way.
I stay deeply relaxed and centered, and everything is accomplished easily and effortlessly.
The light within me is creating miracles in my life here and now.
I am now attuned to my higher purpose in life.
I love and accept myself completely as I am.
I don't have to try to please anyone else. I like myself and that's what counts.
I am highly pleasing to myself in the presence of other people.
I express myself freely, fully, and easily.
I am a powerful, loving, and creative being.
I am deeply satisfied with my financial situation.

sources: Serge Kahili King, Shakti Gawain, and others

Exploring the Power of Flexibility

Monday, June 30, 2008

Imagine that you are walking on a road toward a city that has a central square with a treasure chest in the middle which symbolizes an important goal in your life (you don't have to decide what that goal is right now). At the edge of the city is a high, guarded wall, and where the road enters there is a huge, solid gate. Using whatever comes to mind in your imagination, get into the city and reach your treasure.

When you've done that, replay the scene and get into the city by a different means. Then do it again, and again, at least half a dozen times, changing your method for entering each time. With your imagination you'll be training your ku for great flexibility in reaching your goals.

~Serge Kahili King

A Diorama

Sunday, June 29, 2008

We have now come to the point of visualizing the big things we want to create in our lives. I thought it might be fun and interesting to create a diorama to really give some added depth and dimension to our visualizations.

What is a diorama? A diorama is a little world that can be viewed as a story. Dioramas are used to show things in relationship to each other, which makes them a creative tool. This can be a powerful way to create a desired outcome. Putting the images into a diorama makes it easy and fun to be reminded of what you are working to create in your life.

Things You’ll Need:

A shoe box
Magazines
Glue and gluestick
Scissors
Imagination
Dollhouse-size objects (optional)

Step 1: Use a small box so the diorama does not become overwhelming. It might work better to find a few small, powerful images than to fill a large diorama box with too many symbols. A small shoe box is just about right. The diorama is like a stage. The box is on its side, like a room with one wall removed, or like a dollhouse, where it is easy to look inside.

Step 2: Spend some time going through magazines to find all the right images to use in the diorama. Some of the most effective scenes include people and items from daily life, like chairs and tables. Making a scene that is somewhat like a familiar room can help bring the visualization into focus. For example, if you are wanting to make new friends, then look through the magazines for images of people. Think about mixing and matching the faces, clothing, and other parts to come up with fantastic friends.

Step 3: Use things around the house for armatures to put the magazine pieces on. A table can be made from a box that a deck of cards came in, with cardboard legs, for example. To make it a feast for the eyes, cut a square of paper with a gorgeous pattern on it, and place it on the table with the corners hanging off the sides of the table like a tablecloth. The magazine people can be fortified with cardboard, using a square of cardboard taped to the bottom so they will stand if wanted.

Step 4: Add lots of detail such as wall coverings and windows if the scene is indoors. Or, if the visualization is outside, find the appropriate outdoor scene in the magazines and piece it together on the inside of the box. Include animals, magic items, musical instruments, anything that can contribute to the visualization.

Step 5: A light can be used to make the diorama come alive. A string of holiday lights can be used simply by placing the string along the front of the diorama. Or, a window can be created in the back of the scene so a small flashlight can shine into the diorama. Creative lighting can make a big difference in the overall enjoyment of the finished piece. Make sure all the pieces are secured, unless you want to be able to move them around.

Invite family members to make dioramas as well, this can be a really fun project for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Need some inspiration? Here's an example:

To feed your right mind

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Moonlight.

Douse the lights, douse even the candle
Speak to her gently; she's been shunned
so long, she runs away.
Suggest, don't expect
Invite
Wait

Let being fill up the space
of doing
So that what you're doing
is being.

Let the message emerge
from the sea of understanding
like a mermaid singing her seduction,
Think fishes, flying through dark waters,
Think night, moonlit seas, and
no moonlight at all.

Think water. Think depths, dampness.
Think subtle. Think subtler.
Think feelings.

Your wis-dame, your wisdom,
is an archivist. She knows what happened.
Just ask.

She isn't afraid, she's been here before.
Another kind of clarity, silvery, not stark, emerges.
Your wis-dame is your oldest ally,
your mother-wit.

Without her you are less than half yourself
with her you are whole and ready.
Like a dolphin she is beside you
when you are goalless
and seeking only to satisfy your higher yearning.

Be attracted, addicted to life
and life's deeper demands.
Love, don't curse, the blind alleys
the red lights and lost luggage.

Without guessing there's no game.
Not "no pain no gain"
but "no love no gain"

You mother-wit
your wise dame

The sage speaks in patterns and pictures,
a scatter tongue. Catch as you can
her butterfly dust

But if you treasure her treasure
be loyal,
For eons she has been wooed in the dark
and spurned in the sun.
If she was with you then
She's with you now.

Ask
Ask
and then, of course,
listen.

~Marilyn Ferguson

Wherever I am, good things happen.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Picture yourself walking into a room, imaging a brilliant light emanating from within you and all around you. See your light touching everyone in the room and see each person's light becoming brighter as yours contacts theirs.

~from Shaping Your Life by Laurel Jan Fuller

Our life is shaped by our mind

Our life is shaped by our mind;
we become what we think.
Suffering follows an evil thought
as the wheels of a cart
follow the oxen that draw it.

Our life is shaped by our mind;
we become what we think.
Joy follows a pure thouught
like a shadow that never leaves.

~Dhammapada

Get out of the box with these techniques.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

One: Do awareness meditation outside, with the intent to discover something new about Nature that you never knew before. Be aware of visual details in plants, trees, soil, water, clouds, birds, animals, etc, but pick a restricted area to focus on, like a single plant or group of plants, or the clouds in one part of the sky, or one animal. The new thing you learn doesn't have to be dramatic, just new. This not only enlarges your appreciation of Nature, it also provides rich associations between Nature and your life, and increases your awareness of patterns, natural and unnatural, in the environment. I used this nalu once to find a pair of wire rim glasses someone had lost in a Tahitian jungle.

Two: Meditate on the world around you in the framework of its being a dream. That is, look at it as if it really were a dream, a projection of your own consciousness and not a separate thing with solid object. This is one of the most disturbing exercises for many people because it begins to change the pattern of your habitual relationship to the world, some very strange effects may occur. Just remember that if you don't like it you can simply stop doing it. Some will find that it opens up unparalleled adventure, however. I have used it to discover other dimensions or dreams in the midst of this one, which has given me a greater range of action in my undertakings.

Three: Focus on an imagined thought form. This jumps us into a different range of awareness. In ordinary terms I'm suggesting that your purposely create a hallucination, but in esoteric terms I'm suggesting that you exteriorize a thought. Imagine something in your immediate environment as vividly and realistically as you can and observe it as if it were as real as anything else around you. Your imagined subject could be something that is beautiful, that is useful, that represents a goal, or that represents a problem. You'll get the same effects as with the previous meditations, and in addition it will be great training for your imagination. An added benefit is convenience. You can carry a thought form with you anywhere.

~Serge Kahili King

Focus

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Here is an exercise that focuses on your peripheral sight. What you do is pick something in your immediate environment to center your attention on, and then shift your attention to your peripheral vision, that which is visible around the edges of your vision, without moving your eyes. Let your attention wander all around the outer edge of vision, just don't move your eyes if you can help it. I suggest not more than five minutes at a time to begin with, and remember to blink. In addition to the meditative benefits, the purpose of this exercise is to relax your eyeballs, change some mental habits, and expand your vision.

In Western culture many people grow up trying too hard to see things clearly, trying too hard to see what others have told them is out there, trying too hard to focus with their eyes instead of their attention, or trying too hard not to see what they shouldn't and what they fear. The result is often a rigid seeing pattern that verges on tunnel vision and puts great strain on the eye muscles. Since memory is stored in patterns of muscle movement and position, limited seeing patterns may also be linked to memory suppression or memory obsession (when you can't get a memory out of your mine). Because most people have not been trained to use their mind efficiently, they tend to use their body for things the mind is designed to do (like when you try to push a ball in a hole or a basket with your body even after it's on its way). So often they unconsciously use their eyes to push and pull or hold in place.

In addition to helping to relieve the tension produced by such factors, this exercise opens up your vision in two curious ways. First, you may begin to see farther around you than seems physically possible. It is not uncommon for people to see things that are behind them while doing this exercise. Second, you may begin to see things that people looking with ordinary sight will say aren't or can't be there, like movement, waves of energy, objects, or figures. If you experience it, it's real. you don't have to figure out what it means or why it's there, or whether something is wrong with you because no one else can see it, any more than you would if you happened to catch a glimpse of a wild animal in the woods that no one else around you saw. Simply enjoy the fact that you saw it.

~Serge Kahili King

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