(02-14-2017, 12:07 AM)sjel Wrote: [ -> ]I'm going to start visualizing in my daily meditations.
For those who visualize:
1) Do you visualize the same thing every time you meditate?
2) Are your visualization exercises separate from your meditation? Or is your sitting quietly, not thinking meditation combined with visualization?
3) What do you visualize?
4) This thing that you visualize, did you invent it yourself? Or did someone else mention that they use the image, and you adopted it?
5) Are you 'attached' to the image you visualize? Or would you switch to something else? What governs your choice?
6) What does your symbol represent? For example, the first thing that I thought of visualizing is a deep beautiful turquoise rose. But its meaning lies just in the fact that it is beautiful and ethereal. Do I search for some symbol that carries more meaning?
1. No. I was left with the impression an apple is a good start. I found I sucked at it, so stuck to simple shapes. Circle, Square, Triangle, and eventually overlaid them
Also fruits I consume are good practice, I try to envision the banana or orange I ate, and to see it clearly. If I ever manage to get a vivid image, I then try to send it into the light so to speak with thanks for becoming one with myself.
2. It...Depends. Sometimes in the middle of a clarity meditation I'll be struck with an image that flashes in and out. Typically I record this mentally, but sometimes the image lingers, and I attempt to visualize it back into vivid form. Other times a moment of intuition will strike me that I should switch to a visualization.
The most common visualization I used to be struck with was of a funnel leading into a tube deeper inside of me. Now a days I conjure that imagery in clarity meditations without considering it a visualization meditation... I do consider there in terms of psychological nudges and energetic intent, a difference between consciously attempting to visualize, and letting a visual in a still meditation move you.
3. Shapes. Fruits. Trees. Colors. Numbers. Chakras. Geometries pertaining to Chakras. I sometimes visualize my outer courtyard of the heart. It changes now and then but it is pretty much a constant appearance of a mausoleum's giant front yard populated with an overlaying cemetery and varying 'paths' leading to 'the seller's of doves' so to speak, and there's one place in the far back behind the mausoleum itself that resembles a giant sinkhole that can be walked right into despite the sheer 90 degree cliff drop. I've come to call that place the Darkest Darkness of My Soul, it's in there I met parts of myself not scared to murder me, I found their imagery were visualizations in and of themselves. Many of them wore flat masks to obscure their identities, but I know underneath each mask is my face.
I visualize elements of my stories sometimes. Such as in my zombie book and demon book, I used to visualize specific characters like a sort of zombie or a succubus or a random woman on the street who had some mention in the book.
I extremely enjoy doing this with my time travel book though, those visualizations come completely to life and move without my will directing them. The main character herself has appeared to me as a completely differently looking person, and each time coming out of those meditations I realized I'd stumbled upon another portion of my novel already devised within my subconscious. It's weird when your own novel's protagonist tries to break the '4th wall' of the mind and start a conversation with you as a disembodied observer. The first time that happened I scared myself out of the meditation lol.
I visualize the sun and moon and Earth itself, as per Ra's suggestion, I do now and then visualize the Earth, and see bright white gold light flooding into it's atmosphere.
I visualize the interior of my chakras to try and examine them. My red ray especially is easy to see in this fashion. The indigo ray is like looking at a...Spider's face covered in eyes. So many vortices, so many things happening, like seeing the energetics of the brain, I can't manage indigo ray visualizations of this nature.
The violet ray however is a totally different story. Visualizing the hand of God gently resting over the top of my head (like an adult might do to a child as they pass her by in a friend's party), as the violet ray, has led to some interesting insights and intuitions.
I once visualized my own self. I recognized in some ways the polarities of my body, realized how in ways I'm androgynous. Such as my shoulders are very masculine (so much so I'm proud of how attractive they appear), but my chest is effeminate looking. My upper body is feminine while my lower is masculine, my left and right hands physically do not resemble each other, I have an entirely different thumb skeletal structure on my left than than I do my right hand. I have a
hitchhiker's thumb on my right hand but not on my left, which makes no sense genetically to me... Thankfully the link given literally says, don't use hitchhikers thumb as a guide to genetics, hah.
That meditation sort of solidified to me that I'm potentially 6D, but I hate saying that as it makes me feel like I'm more advanced than I feel myself to be...
I try to visualize my old cat, Clem, and try to reach out to him and give to him more love because I felt his time alive with me was lacking the love I wanted to give him. I can't do it though, I end up becoming too emotional. I just wish I would have pet him more, that's all I want to do.
4. Both
5. If by 'attached' you mean grow hooked on to, then sometimes yes. Only I view this as a reminder of needing to maintain clarity in the meditation, I'm meditating to not be as the conscious mind that latches onto thoughts and emotions. When I do I need to 'pull myself out of it', which I attempt with the thought affirmation, "Pull yourself out of it, man!" like a person trying to coax someone in irrational panic from remaining in irrational panic.
6.
... Um, I don't understand. My 'symbol'?
I was once called a
Bismuth.
lol Jk, jk, I meant this:
So my symbol could be said to be a... Spiral regardless of it's properties. Things like...
If it's any indication of Phi, it might be another indicator that I'm a 6D Wanderer... As I apply all the aspects of Phi as representations of utter unity. But it could also just be an affirmation to my feelings of being a paradox and 'unusual' in the way Phi is considered an irrational number.