Visualization Exercise

VISUALIZATION EXERCISES

The key to all magickal operations is a strong ability to
visualize. Everyone can visualize, but some need to strengthen
their visualization abilities in order to gain the effects
they are working for. The following technique has proved
highly effective in intensifying one's visualizations.

Exercising Your Inner Eye
(taken from Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert McKim)

Taking your time, translate each of the following
descriptions into a mental image. Go back and do it again in a
few weeks and then a few weeks later, and notice the
difference. Notice the difference, also in the way you see
things--inner as well as outer-- after you've done these
exercises.
Now sense (see, touch, hear, taste, smell) with your minds
eye:

a familiar face
a galloping horse
a rosebud
your bedroom
a changing stoplight
a newspaper headline
the sound of rain on the roof
the voice of a friend
children laughing at play
the feel of soft fur
an itch
a gentle breeze on your face
the muscular feeling of running
of kicking a can
of drawing a circle on paper
the taste of a lemon
of toothepaste
of a potato chip
the smell of bacon frying
of a gardenia
of perspiration
the feeling of hunger
of a cough
of coming awake

a stone dropped into a quiet pond with concentric ripples
forming and expanding outward

these words flying away, high into the blue sky, finally
disappearing.

your shoe coming apart in slow motion and each piece drifting
away into space

an orange being cut into five equal pieces and the pieces
being arranged into equal patterns