Comments on: Visualization Exercises

By: pmp

pmp — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:18:04 +0000

well, there’s imagination-visualization, hypnogogic-visualization, dreaming-visualization, and oh-my-god-i’m-hallucinating-visualization.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:05:03 +0000

Oh yeah I think you recommended that a while back. Will check it out when I have the chance

By: Fell

Fell — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:13:00 +0000

Check out Astral Dynamics, by Robert Bruce. It details his “NEW” (yes, it’s an acronym) way of teaching the essence of “visualisation” to a blind person. It’s considerably more effective than the traditional exercises.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:23:18 +0000

Iâ€™m not sure what you mean by â€œdonâ€™t work,â€ though: it sounds like you anticipate a specific outcome.

Good point, I wasn’t especially clear on that. The visualization exercises were about grounding your energy, becoming calm, and being able to interact with another person’s negative energy and dissipate it without it being taken up by you. That is what I was unable to make “work”

By: channel null

channel null — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:26:13 +0000

Maybe try NLP theory here. We tend to be visual, or audial, or tactile, although obviously in different circumstances this all changes. The Bruce exercises for “astral projection” largely depend on tactile, then visual, techniques and are very effective–I never completed the course but after about three weeks I was regularly getting nighttime disturbances, etc., and frequent false-waking.

I’m not sure what you mean by “don’t work,” though: it sounds like you anticipate a specific outcome. You can visualize a bowl of ice cream all you want. It’s not going to appear out of the ether. You know that. You might, however, end up running into the ice cream truck when you leave your house. I’ve sort of gotten away from “concrete” elements, though, simply because a lot of them are too silly to be caught with. That said, every thing from Chi Gung to Golden Dawn magic relies on motions and mental focus.

By: Gnomely

Gnomely — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:04:26 +0000

Opps, I was saying “really, really, really interesting” to your experience.

If you do have Christ like energy ever think of going to the holy sites in the middle east? Maybe you can bring peace to the Jews and Pals’.
And I wonder if that church dream you had http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/18/communion/ relates to your reiki experience?

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:44:32 +0000

No it’s not, but that’s odd. Boucher is a pretty common last name though…

By: Gnomely

Gnomely — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:39:26 +0000

Really, really, really interesting.
I typed “boucher reiki” in google and got http://www.marielb.net/
I was wondering is that your sister?

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:34:46 +0000

Hey that’s a cool idea about projecting yourself into tarot cards. I like that cause it sort of inverts the process of figuring out how the guy in a boat with a bunch of swords relates to you. It’s an obtuse symbol, so it makes sense to immerse yourself in HIS world instead of vice versa. I like it!

PS. I didn’t mean that Tamura created those techniques, just that you’d learned them from him. Thanks for the links though, maybe they will be of use to somebody near those institutes!

By: Sis

Sis — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:16:20 +0000

Actually Michael Tamura did not start those techniques. He learned them and also taught them at the Berkeley Psychic Institute and they in turn learned psychic techniques from a variety of sources. There are a number of places that teach the same techniques including Boulder’s Psychic Horizons. As for visualization, I’ve never been too good at actually imagining in pictures. My “visualizations” tend to be with either sound and/or feelings with the sporadic picture thrown in for good measure.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:03:11 +0000

Something I struggle with daily is the need for physical proof of the spiritual. And I tend to make use of objects more often than not.

However, I have found that I enjoy visualization when I can do it successfully. I require complete silence and calm to do it though, and this happens rarely. I use a visualization exercise involving tarot cards. I simply choose which card best depicts what I am searching for, and visualize myself in the card. It sounds absurd but it works for me. It gives me something nearly physical to base my visualization on.