Seeing images in the image stream isn't the only way to get it going... You can just go with it by describing what you feel / sense. Like my hands are tingleing, my head is throbbing... theres a yellow blob on the back of my eyelids. I also posted some kick starters for image steaming on the genius code forum... you'll notice they don't all start with images. One trick to remember is to grab that first flash of an image, however vague it seems you will realise that you saw a lot more in that quick flash.
I think you are letting yourself down with the belief that you cannot describe stuff
The memory optimzer. Does work. Most research shows good memory is associated with the ability to visualise. Even with that course you have to pick up a pen and get creative from time to time and you do describe stuff. By adding details like descriptions you expand the neural pathways. They more ways you have of experiencing something the more ways you have to remember it. So it doesn't matter if you describe how you feel about something, what something sounds like or what something looks like it will expand your neural pathway, create more links or provide more options.
If you try to limit it to what you like doing or are already good at then your brain doesn't have to create anymore links than you already have. To built more concentration, memory, learning ability, or mental clarity you need to expand your comfort zone. That usually means developing a new skill. In which case the Centerpointe program over time may help you release the emotional hangups that prevent you from moving out of the comfort zone.
I think with the Centerpointe program you will have to use it for quite some time before you motivate yourself to do what you need to do in order to expand your neural pathways. Exercising your mind, doing stuff like image streaming, describing stuff in detail, mind mapping books you're learning from, applying the brain games from the memory optimizer course, using direct learning from the genius code and stuff like that.
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited September 19, 2002).]