Visualization Tips and Tricks

Visualization:

 Tips and Tricks

1) Practice and Observation.

 Visualization is a common technique in magickal circles, yet people assume everyone starts in the same footing and this simply isn't so. Most people skim read the world, while others study light and patterns. Observing something for sometime is not something most people spend any amount of time learning. Need a candle, but don't have one, try here. Need a bowl of water but on a bus? Try here!

In my experience it is something you can learn, but as with most things it takes practice. 

In my book The Key, many of the meditations start with observation and then holding the image within the mind after the fact. If you can hold the image and not let it get "fuzzy" or morph into something else then you are on the right track. 

Having the object (or elemental symbol) before you and observing it everyday changes not only how you look at things, or how you see them but how solidly you can hold them in your mind.

2)Animate your mental picture.

Once you can hold a still image in your mind comfortably and bring it to mind clearly at will then next part is to make the candle burn. the water move. Instead of making a "photo" in your mind, make a short movie/film/gif. 

3) Apply texture

How something feels is just as important as how it looks. You can observe with your touch, your skin, your feet. Focus on it the way you would with your sight. This kind of meditation requires focus and drawing back the awareness to the body and is something many practiced meditation practitioners can struggle with. Things like yoga, and tai chi, even martial arts and dance (in which I have practiced most of my life) help with this awareness and kind of meditation.

4) Back to Black

Once you have managed to achieve some success in the three fields your visualization will be much improved. Yet observing the black before your own eyes as a meditation practice is more difficult than it sounds. We tend to want to add things, or make it "black" but the darkness before our eyes is very rarely black. Observing how something is and not changing it is actually very tough. Once you have a handle on your own space before your eyes you can repeat exercises 1-3 within this space.

Most of these techniques are woven carefully into the exercises I give in my book taking fragments and extracts from meditation techniques I have used over the years.

If you have any questions about visualization (or anything else) come listen to The Blackthorn Path radio show Sunday evening 8pm Eastern 7pm Central over the next few weeks as I will be guesting this great show with Gayla Drake (no relation!) and Mumsy!

Check out some of their other shows if you have missed them (or like me live somewhere the show is super late!)

Until then

Bright Blessings xxx