Hi Unis,
marc:
but Win does say, on the genius code CDs, that you can kind of imagine him to be present and do the image-streaming to the imagined 'him' in the room.
Unis:
Well, tried that too, but in order to imagine "him" in the room, wouldn't that require a sense of 'seeing' him there?
marc's reply:
Well, I don't know about that. If you're sitting in a roomful of meditators or people chanting, say, and your eyes are shut, don't you have a sense of them there in the room? Do you have to keep opening your eyes and looking at them to prove to yourself that they really are present?
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marc:
Did you see my response to your post...
Unis:
Well, yes, and I had mentioned it in your thread last week over on the CRI df as well.
marc:
I thought that was someone called Gem. Or perhaps I missed a post by Unis - my browser does seem to be playing up a bit. And I shy away from that thread a bit, as you can probably imagine, though I really appreciate the replies. Many thanks for your post, anyway.
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Unis:
It appears that you get far more visually than I have since before my father bashed my head into the floor nearly 40 years ago. Just before that ... was the last time I had anything I could call "visualization on demand". I had a serious concussion then, but since they didn't routinely do MRI's back then, as they probably didn't have the technology, I'm thinking there might be some brain damage.
Marc:
Head/neck trauma leading to mental function loss. Have you ever had craniosacral therapy? A very good friend of mine had a session in which she had a flash of a time when as a little girl she had caught her chin on top of something as she jumped down from a step or a chair, and catching her chin had given her head a jolt backwards, an event she had completely forgotten about. I saw a demo of craniosacral where an audience member with some very severe stiffness and pain due to a long-ago car accident gained what seemed like an astonishing relief from a lot of her hassles from just this single demo session [in front of about 200 people...]. I know, it's yet another thing to try, but if the opportunity came up...
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I repeat something I posted on that other thread: when you go inside and look for images,make sure you're looking, and not just talking to yourself (eg about how you can't see anything) and listening to your replies, and NOT looking...
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I don't think I'm doing particularly well with the image streaming, but at least it offers a practical discipline to try, and I [think I] see the logic behind it, the logic of why it should improve communications between conscious and inner minds. Something else I sometimes do: outside of image streaming, I often see the colours purple and a kind of bright limey green colour when I meditate. When I image stream, I will sometimes look for these colours,invite them in, ask if they're there and very often they come, quicker than they would if I were meditating (I guess) and anyway, I'm not really meditating, yet still the colours come. And I do the image-steaming thing with it: "There's the purple in the lower half, oh now it's swapped over and there's green in the lower half of my visual field and the purple is kind of flowing up and to the right, oh, now the green is flowing upwards and to the left..." And so on. Placing attention on it helps conscious awareness pull it through the door from the inner mind into conscious awareness... And it gets stronger the more I do it.
Don't give up!
regards,
Marc
