Meditation Aspects: How To Learn Visualization
Hi! In my last article I described an example of visualization technique. Today I write more about visualization and how to learn visualization. Visualization means ability to see images you want to see with your inner sight. As such ability visualization usually needs some effort to be managed. But the most you train the most it grows stronger and the better, clearer and colorful visualization you are able to do.
Here you go with great and easy exercise about learning visualization:
First choose any object near you and put it on floor, or table. It might be something colorful, detailed dily, beautiful panorama photo, etc. Be sure there are no other things near your object that would disturb you. Observe closely all details of the object – size, shape, colors, texture, etc. and try to remember them.
Now, close your eyes and remember the object, with all possible details you’ve been just observing a while ago. Remebering these details should bring the picture of your object, so you should glimpse it with your inner eye. If you cannot remember something ask yourself for help. Observe your feelings about the hole exercise.
Now, remember and picture another object that is near you. Remember all little details of it. After doing that go and find that object. Contemplate on what was correct in your mind and what you missed.
For the last point, try to remember something from your past. Maybe your favourite teddy-bear from the childhood, or your first bicycle? Allways focus on remembering all details of the object. Then, if it was bicycle, try to remember it on place where it was usually standing. Pay attention to your feeling about the exercise.
For beginners visualization might feel little harder to manage. Remeber, the more you practice visualization, the better it will be. But, do not get overtrained! 15 minutes a day is enough!
Visualization has limitless advantages. It is a tool for communication with your subconsciousness. You can use to imagine your future and that way you talk about it to your subcosciousness. Also it is used when working witth chakrams.
More about it in the future. See you in the next article!
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Visualization is creating a mental picture of something. Visualization is important because it makes the future become more clear. Seeing yourself already achieving your goal makes your brain believe that attaining that goal is possible. Focusing consistently on any given goal will enable you to manifest it far sooner than if you didn’t focus on it at all. Focus brings the goal closer to you.
Have you attempted visualizing, but find it difficult or impossible? Try this. Pick up a photo and study it closely; then close your eyes and tell me what you see. If you see anything resembling the picture, you are visualizing. It’s that simple. If this doesn’t work, or if you want to improve your visualization skills, take the same picture and while looking at it, close your eyes and open your eyes and close your eyes again. Do this as many times as possible for a few minutes. Soon you’ll be seeing the picture, but you won’t know if your eyes are open or closed — and you will be visualizing better than before. Practice this technique often. You can focus on anything: people’s faces, pictures, buttons. Get creative and have fun with it.
Additional Visualization Tips
§ When visualizing, it’s important to view the action from the first person — that is, see yourself achieving your goal through your own eyes, rather than watching yourself from the outside. This method is very powerful because this is the way you already see and experience everything.
§ Less powerful is viewing your goal from the third-person perspective, seeing yourself achieving the goal as if you were watching a movie. It still works, but it’s not as effective as viewing from the first-person perspective.
§ Make visualization fun — the more real your image is, the better this works. Make the image not just a still picture, but a full-length movie staring you. Replay it over and over, seeing yourself as the hero, achieving your goal. Create background music, pump it up, make it feel real, and have fun with it. This is how you want to see your goal — in vibrant Technicolor on an IMAX screen — not in dim, dreary, out-of-focus scenes shown on a shoebox-size theatre in the multiplex.
§ Your goal is a picture located somewhere in your mental image frame. When you close your eyes and see the image of your goal, determine where your mind is locating the picture: top, bottom, right, upper left, etc. Now, recall an important goal you have already accomplished, and find out where that goal is located in your mental image frame.
So now you have two goals in mind: one you’ve already achieved and one you want to achieve. Note every little detail about these goals: Where are they located? What are the colors of the images? Are they big, bright, and clear — or are they small, blurry, and distant?
How do these images feel to you? Does one make you feel happy, excited, and thrilled? Does the other make you feel depressed, wistful, etc.?
Once you’ve noted every detail about the two images, take the goal you have not yet achieved and give it the same qualities as the goal you have achieved. Make it bigger and brighter; move it to the same location as the image of the already-achieved goal; make it feel the same by inserting every detail. Adjusting your mental image of the current goal to mirror one you’ve already achieved makes your new goal seem easier and gives you the feeling that you have already achieved it.
Physically act out your goal in action moves. For example, with your eyes closed, envision yourself buying a new home, walking through every detail. First, you get on the phone and talk to your realtor; later you shake his or her hand (yes, pick up an actual phone and really shake a hand). Greet the realtor and explain, in detail, what you want your house to look like. Take them to the house you want to buy (yes, really walk in place and explain the details out loud, using lots of gestures). I know this seems silly, and you may feel like a kid playacting, but this is a great visualization technique, not to mention a great stress reliever. Go through all the motions and experiences, as if they were really happening. Notice your emotions, and have fun with this!
Allow yourself 10 to 30 minutes every day or every other day for visualizing your goal. Set aside time to rest and remove yourself from everything else going on. Find a quiet, uninterrupted area to perform these techniques. Remember, the more you focus on your goals, the sooner you will achieve them
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