I asked in another thread, as an aside, about where should one go in the Self-Concentration exercise after the guided meditation is over.
It was suggested to me that I begin a new thread with this issue, because more people might be interested and find it this way.
So here it is: what do you do?
I have found myself getting into a flying through space visualization. Kind of like Superman just backstroking through the universe. Being able to move through and around things at will.
It seems that there is a kind of improvisation space that is both implicit and Chunyi has actually made somewhat explicit at some point.
I also tried using it a bit like the Small Universe today: i.e. I cycled through the guided meditation from memory a few times. That was also kind of cool and helpful.
I think there is a lot of freedom implied here.
I know another QiGong teacher I had always said, like Chunyi that so much of this stuff is simple and in terms of these kind of visualization and imagery things, there really is no right or wrong. With postures, there may be more "good, better best" issues. With these inner images, I think the "best" is what works best. That seems to be an ongoing theme when people share what has been successful for them (e.g. the story Chunyi Lin tells about the guy who used thousands of dragons on his liver cancer. And I have heard another one from one of the Learning Strategies coaches that worked for her and it came totally from her. As she said, "the only thing I could come up with", but what it was worked!).
But I am interested in stories like this, especially if anyone here has success stories about using imagery to help in healing, not only in Self-Concentration, but in other exercises and in general.