#visualization exercises

Well hello! Today we are going to talk about visualization while meditating because it was something that nearly killed me while trying to learn because of the lack of posts? I guess now they do exist, but before it was not that easy.

What is meditation? 

“There are different ways to meditate, and since it’s such a personal practice there are probably more than any of us know about. There are a couple that are usually focused on heavily in scientific research, though. These are focused-attention, or mindful meditation, which is where you focus on one specific thing—it could be your breathing, a sensation in your body or a particular object outside of you. The point of this type of meditation is to focus strongly on one point and continually bring your attention back to that focal point when it wanders.” - Buffer blog (link of the page is here) 

What is visualization?

Post about it here 

Problems you might have while meditating and visualizing 

I don’t know you but at first i struggled so much with meditation, and i still do. I think most of us die a little when we have to meditate because it’s hard. But when you already know wtf you are doing is way easier. 

 Now the heard part is named visualizing while meditating (or at lest is hard for me xd). I personally struggle so much visualizing while meditating, I just can’t see what i need to see, and apparently more people feel the same. 

Sometimes when I do visualize, i just don’t see what i need to see... and that’s a problem for me. 

Alternatives for when you can’t visualize. 

This is a personal opinion alright? I think that you don’t need to strictly see it in a really clear way, you could feel like you’re there, or smell it. We have multiple senses, not just the view. 

When you don’t see what you want, maybe is because it’s not your time to see it, maybe you should wait a little more. Patience/practice makes perfect and the student becomes the master someday. 

Just how to Visualize – The Secret to Envisioning for Manifestation

Just how to Visualize On this article we are going to talk about how to visualize the right way. Virtually everyone that is talking about the Law of Attraction concurs that visualization is an important part of the development procedure. We’re told that in order to produce what we desire, in order to associate its regularity, we have to visualize what it is that we want. The even more plainly we…

What is Visualization in witchcraft?

Visualization is a tool or technique used in witchcraft to help focus on your intent. It is using your imagination, senses and mind to create images or words within your head to aid in your witchcraft. It is heavily used in energy work to help you feel the flow of energy by also imagining it bright and colorful in your head.

Every witch and person visualizes differently, there is no wrong or right way to do it. Some people may do it more ‘fantastical’ than others with more lights, glitter and glow in their minds but that does not mean only certain people can use it. In fact most everyone already uses it.You use visualization whenever you are thinking about a memory or telling a story, daydream or dream, thinking through scenarios (like happy events you want to happen), when making mental lists, and when thinking about solutions to things such as what you wish to eat or when you are going to water your plants. All of that is visualization!

How can I strengthen my visualization for witchcraft though?

Practice makes perfect, just like with everything! Practicing visualization exercises can help you feel more “witchy” when doing magic. Here are some simple types of visualization exercises you can do to help improve your own ‘vividness’ of visualization:

Color Exercise

Close your eyes, and think about a color (or if you have another there with you have them say a color outloud). What do you think of once this color enters your mind? Do you think of something that is that color? Do you think of the word itself? Do you see the color in your mind? Take notes on this. Continue through a few more colors. With each color, try to visualize more about it.

After some practice at this try to visualize the word of a color and in your mind change the text of that word into the color. Then think of as many objects, eyes still closed, that are that color. Do this before spells and rituals to help with visualization, and soon you won’t need to do it as much anymore!

What’s in My Pantry?

This exercise is very simple. Close your eyes and think about every food item, herb or anything else that you have in your pantry (or kitchen). As you think of an item see if you can imagine it in your head. For example when thinking of an apple can you see it shape? How red it is and the slight shine to it?

After some time or attempts at this (its fine if it is over a span of a few days), can you begin to imagine more about those food items? Can you visualize cutting that apple and the crisp sound it makes? Can you imagine a tree full of apples and someone picking them and putting them into a basket? Continue this exercise just like the color one before spellwork and rituals to help warm up your mind.

Silly Sentence

This one is more of an imagination exercise but still can help with visualization quite a bit. Get a piece of paper and something to write with then find a random word generator online (very easy to do they are literally everywhere). Now generate three words, it doesn’t matter what they are. Once you have them write them at the top of your page. Now using those words write a sentence using them all.

Example:

My randomly generated words: CHUNKY RECORD LIMITLESS

“In the record, it says that the amount of chunky peanut butter in the world is limitless.”

It’s silly, it makes little sense but it is a proper coherent sentence. Do this exercise a few times with different words. Each word you get, think about how it is used and how it can relate to the other words. Over time this will get easier and easier, add more words to the exercise until you can do it with ease.

Wacky Wild Animals

Like the previous exercise find a random animal generator online. Generate a random animal. Some generators may even give you pictures with the random animal. Once you get your animal close your eyes and think about what it looks like.

For my example we will be using a Deer.

Imagine that deer, now what do deer usually do? Graze in the grass and walk through the woods. Can you imagine this in your mind? Think about how a deer normally. Doesn’t matter if you imagining this deer like a realistic sense or animated, just as long as it is deer. You got that image of a deer in your head? Now think of that deer suddenly blue! What does a blue deer look like? Not only is this deer blue it now has a bird’s nest in its antlers. Can you picture this?

Continue making your animal more and more ‘wacky’. Add accessories to it, change how it walks and stands, change its location and behavior. Keep up this exercise until you have a very wacky animal. Again, a good exercise to do before spells and ritual work.

Sometimes I feel a slight tugging on my body. Not my physical body. The invisible body inside my physical body. My soul. It’s sort of a sickening feeling, but I’ve gotten used to it by now. This was how he let me know he wanted to see me – a gentle, playful pull. I could feel it now, too. I laugh to myself, close my eyes, and begin to visualize.

     I am sitting in a flat field, surrounded by clover. Trees by the dozens grow out of the ground in front of me. Soon, I find myself sitting in front of the start of a thick forest. I stand up and start toward the trees, slipping into the dark shadows between them.

     Fireflies greet me and help light my way forward. Even with the forest looking so seemingly dark and dangerous, I don’t worry about getting lost. I know where I am going.

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