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Happy New Year all!

I'm new to the forum and to paraliminals. I received a set of 4 for Christmas, and have been experimenting. One of them is the New History Generator, which is causing me some pain.

My problem is that it relies heavily on visualization, which is a very weak area for me. I hate to admit it but I am 99% occluded in visualization. I am very experienced with yoga, meditation, breathwork, etc. But when I have to rely on visualization I am stumped and frustrated.

I am definitely oriented toward kinesthetic and auditory type work. I guess what I am looking for is some input before I throw in the towel and return this particular CD.

Any thoughts anyone?



Just let go and let your inner mind do the sensing. Consciously you don't need to get it too right.

For most people visualising is like looking through a dirty window. People make the mistake of thinking that to think visually they must see it with their mind's eye in full Technicolor. Not so. Even Win points out that you must use all your inner senses, sound, taste, touch, and emotion as well as seeing. I still find the best way to get it rolling is to imagine and make believe. Like running your fingernails down a chalkboard, notice the sound you think you hear and the reaction of your skin if that thought got you going. Remember it was a mere "verbal" description. Words describing something.

If you want to image stream tell the story write the description and talk to a tape player out loud. To me it's not important whether I see it in my minds eye with the clarity I describe it before I described it or after I described it. I don't believe it can be separated. If I can tell you what I had for dinner yesterday. Then the image and the words are stored in my mind for retrieval. You might say, but that's not visualising that's just remembering something. As Vera Birkenbihl points out in the Memory Optimizer course. Memory is only possible through reconstruction. Over time memory changes because each time we remember something we have to reconstruct it.

So if you're stuck on visualisation think of something you already know and describe that. Whether you hear yourself thinking, sense it, feel it or have vague pictures use it and rest assured that the inner mind sees it better than your small conscious mind.

Image Streaming is intended to help strengthen the connections to conscious understanding of the messages from the inner mind. If you use image streaming and just use the words you hear to start talking out loud to a tape recorder you'll make great inroads into understanding the messages (whether or not you see them visually).

Alex