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Visualization Training

Date: 2021-12-27 10:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] davidtrammel
One of the important skills both for occult practice and non-occult practice is the ability to visualize objects that aren't there. I can do this when I build things in real life, such as my under the stairs storage project I'm doing on Green Wizards right now. I have a harder time with some of the training in the LRM. I came up with these training aids and wondered what you thoughts were on them?

1) Visualize a Color: I've got a collection of paint chips from the hardware store, in the primary colors. I spend time with one each day, looking at it, then closing my eyes and trying to picture that color in my mind. I'm trying to work up from one color to several at the same time.

2) Visualize a Small Ball: I have several small foam balls, cat toys about an 1"-1 1/2" in diameter. I roll the ball slowly around in my hand and fingers. Then I put the ball down and try to visualize the ball in my hand. Rolling through my fingers and sitting in my palm. Sometimes I also put the ball under my foot and roll it with the bare sole, then picture that in my mind.

3) Visualize a Crystal: I have a blue fluorite crystal. It is eight sided like a D&D die. Each side is unique with a different flaw, crack, chip or raised section. I run it through my fingers, feeling each side, and visualize first that face then imagining the next sections to each of the three sides. I try to picture the entire crystal in my mind. Once I get a good picture then I try and draw the sides as they connect on a piece of paper, and compare it to the actual crystal.

4) Visualize a Flame: I watch a candle flame and then close my eyes and try and imagine one in my mind, flickering and moving.

Any others you can think of?

Re: Visualization Training

Date: 2021-12-27 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] robertmathiesen
Take a look at "Kim's game" in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim (1901), chapter 9. It's a very effective way of improving both visualization and memory. (The novel, of course, is long out of copyright, and can easily be found on the web.) Wikipedia has an entry on "Kim's Game."
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