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Visualization exercises Here's a progressive, four-step visualization exercise to help you sharpen your skills. Don't force yourself to complete each step in only one session. It takes time to develop great skills. Exercise 1: Get into a comfortable position, close your eyes and relax. Take a few deep breaths and clear your mind. Allow pictures to pop into your head. Choose one and hold it. Don't let anything else enter your mind. Concentrate solely on that picture. Hold the picture for as long as you can. When you let it go, end the session. When you can hold the picture for five minutes, move on to the next exercise. Exercise 2: Choose a very simple physical object, like a pencil, book, etc. Hold it in your hands. Memorize all you can about it: How does it feel, where to the shadows fall, how does it feel in your hands. When you are ready, set the object down and close your eyes. Recreate the object with all the detail you can in your mind. Can you feel it in your hands? Do you see the shadows playing on it? When you can hold the image for five minutes, move on. Exercise 3: This gets tricky. This time, you create an image that exists no where on this Earth. What would a plant look like that grew on a distant planet? Create that plant in your mind with as much detail as you can. What does it look like? How does it feel? What is it's texture? Look at it from all angles. Let the picture vanish. Now recall it and hold it for as long as you can. When you can hold it for five minutes, move on. Exercise 4: Recall your made up plant from outerspace. Once you have a solid picture of it in your mind, open your eyes and "see" that plant in the physical world. Look around you, keeping that plant firmly in the center of your vision everywhere you look. Make it as real as you can, like you could reach out and expect to touch it. When you can hold this for five minutes, you are finished. Being able to visualize energy as well as the expected outcome of our magickal workings is vital to success. Continue to visualize items to make them real in the physical world like in exercise 4. The easier it becomes for you, the longer you'll be able to hold an image and the quicker you will become at visualization. If you are feeling ambitious, try this exercise for a moving visualization. When working with magickal energy, you will need to move it. It is a good idea to practice making an object move, fast, without losing any of its visual quality. Exercise 5: Imagine an object, such as a hotwheels car or a train. Visualize it down to the last detail. Open your eyes and see that object. Now, without losing any detail, make the object move. Make it race across the floor, up the wall, across the ceiling, all over the room. Continue this exercise, building up to the point where you can keep your vision moving for 5 minutes. Learning to move your "object" will be a great advantage in your magickal workings. You will be able to direct the energy you see to move in any direction, to any place, with ease. You will see the energy flow around you as you cast a circle.
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