Post by Senbecc on Feb 19, 2007 6:10:08 GMT -5
OK, easy question...Whats your best friend look like? Whats your home look like? Whats your dog look like? Can you see them in your minds eye? Bingo, thats visualization. Now all one needs to do is learn to hold images like these for an undetermined amount of time and see them doing things like talking to you, sitting in the yard as the wind blows on a hot summers day, or running across the yard, by the house as your best friend laughs to achieve "creative visualization." This is something that must become a science, though I will say that I know several people who cannot visualize what-so-ever and can still journey as well as anyone who can. It is something like being blind in this plain I suppose, your other senses become heightened.
However that is for people who *can't* do it and know so due to years of trying...Most people can visualize just fine, and this thread is going to be a way of learning to accomplish creative visualization through practice and study.
The first exercise is fairly simple. Take a simple object like a pencil, a lighter, or something of the like, and stare at it for say oh...30 - 45 seconds then close your eyes you will see the lighter in your minds eye for a time, then it will probably reduce to silhouette then into nothingness. Which is fine, thats to be expected the first few times. Try to hold the image in your mind as is until you can hold that image as long as you want...Is this creative visualization? Well no, not yet but it is a step toward it...
I'll be posting a second exercise to this thread shortly.
However that is for people who *can't* do it and know so due to years of trying...Most people can visualize just fine, and this thread is going to be a way of learning to accomplish creative visualization through practice and study.
The first exercise is fairly simple. Take a simple object like a pencil, a lighter, or something of the like, and stare at it for say oh...30 - 45 seconds then close your eyes you will see the lighter in your minds eye for a time, then it will probably reduce to silhouette then into nothingness. Which is fine, thats to be expected the first few times. Try to hold the image in your mind as is until you can hold that image as long as you want...Is this creative visualization? Well no, not yet but it is a step toward it...
I'll be posting a second exercise to this thread shortly.