"NOT ABLE TO VISUALIZE"
Many people have this problem.
Have you ever made a mental movie? Maybe while listening to a romantic song, you imagined some scene where you were spending time with who you wished was your partner, during adolescence it happens often, and then you fantasized about it again and again involved with the music in your headphones?
If you think about it what you visualized there was really more than just a little pyramid. So what does this limitation that you are experiencing depend on? On the hemisphere you are using to visualize. You don't ask yourself if while you are fantasizing about your first kiss you are visualizing well, is that color just the right shade, are you seeing it well? Maybe we should remark a little bit on the twisted brightness of the thing, etc., etc. No, that stuff is just all left hemisphere stuff.
Fantasizing, the music itself. It's right hemisphere. When you try to visualize you take it seriously, and that automatically leads you to think that since meditation is a serious thing, we have to ask ourselves if we are doing it right. But this is false. Rest assured that if you do something in itself it just works. Of course it may always work better as you progress. But it works.
We use the term visualize when we imagine a body chakra to indicate that that is not just a fantasy, but the chakra is really there. But what you have to do is not visualize the body chakra, but fantasize about the body chakra. Yes, by doing that you will be able to visualize it.
The chakra is really there obviously, the human mind is connected with the universal mind and can direct the energy of which the ether of this universe is made up. Even if you don't see this energy with your eyes, but just visualize it, or even only feel it at the level of physical sensation, the energy moves. Of course precise meditations require precise visualizations or sensations, but basically managing energy is naturally part of what the power of the mind can do. So there's no use worrying about it too much.
Many people have this problem.
Have you ever made a mental movie? Maybe while listening to a romantic song, you imagined some scene where you were spending time with who you wished was your partner, during adolescence it happens often, and then you fantasized about it again and again involved with the music in your headphones?
If you think about it what you visualized there was really more than just a little pyramid. So what does this limitation that you are experiencing depend on? On the hemisphere you are using to visualize. You don't ask yourself if while you are fantasizing about your first kiss you are visualizing well, is that color just the right shade, are you seeing it well? Maybe we should remark a little bit on the twisted brightness of the thing, etc., etc. No, that stuff is just all left hemisphere stuff.
Fantasizing, the music itself. It's right hemisphere. When you try to visualize you take it seriously, and that automatically leads you to think that since meditation is a serious thing, we have to ask ourselves if we are doing it right. But this is false. Rest assured that if you do something in itself it just works. Of course it may always work better as you progress. But it works.
We use the term visualize when we imagine a body chakra to indicate that that is not just a fantasy, but the chakra is really there. But what you have to do is not visualize the body chakra, but fantasize about the body chakra. Yes, by doing that you will be able to visualize it.
The chakra is really there obviously, the human mind is connected with the universal mind and can direct the energy of which the ether of this universe is made up. Even if you don't see this energy with your eyes, but just visualize it, or even only feel it at the level of physical sensation, the energy moves. Of course precise meditations require precise visualizations or sensations, but basically managing energy is naturally part of what the power of the mind can do. So there's no use worrying about it too much.
