Visualizing - By c0verst0ry

Visualizing By c0verst0ry
I decided to write this article because there are tons of people that do not realize exactly how many different ways that you can visualize something. Most people read the term visualizevisualize in an article on a website and instantly think of picturing the action in their minds. Not only that, but there are some people who do not even understand the term at all. People have more senses than just sight. There are five senses that can be used to visualize something.
You would not believe how much more in depth you could go into Psionics if you were using more than just the mind's eye for visualization. The point of this article is to explain how to go about conditioning yourself to use forms of visualization other than just your mind's eye and to learn how to use several different visualizations at once.
Now, the easiest thing to learn about this is all of your sensessenses. You can hear, smell, taste, see, and feel. Feeling is one of the biggest and most important that can be used. You must learn and understand how to incorporate different things into learning to use alternative forms of visualization. Also, good memory and an active imagination will help a great deal.


TOUCH
Now, think about energy. It flows through everything, constantly moving and being recycled. Can you think of anything else that easily flows and runs through a cycle? Water.
A good way to learn to manipulate energy by using a tactile visualization is water. To begin understanding how to do this, go to either your kitchen/bathroom sink or your bathtub. Turn on just the cold water. Stick your hand under the flow and let the water run over your skin. Feel how it hits you, the way that the chill of the cold water makes your skin somewhat shrink at the shock. Pay attention to how it rolls over your arm, feeling like a nearly solid structure but never holding its form. Now, fill a sink/tub with enough water to go up over your wrist. Slowly submerge your arm as deep as you can. Take in the sensations of the water coming up over your skin. See how the water covering your skin makes it more apparent that your skin is there. The water allows you to feel every single millimeter of your flesh. Learn to remember the sensations of how things feel.
Another good thing to use the sense of touch for is learning to program energy or a construct to feel warm or hot. Water is still good to use here. Repeat the same processes only using warm water rather than cold water. This will help with understanding how to program raw energy to feel warm. Also, you can sit near a fire or hold your hands out to a heater to learn and remember the sensations involved with intense heat. By doing this, you should easily learn to program energy to be warm and hot without having to rely only on your mind's eye.
The best way to learn to program energy to be cold is probably to handle ice. Get a cube of ice and hold it in your hand. Feel how at first the ice does not feel that bad, only slightly cold. Once you've held it for a few seconds, it makes your skin and muscles contract and swell. A stinging sensation then follows. Another thing if you live in an area of the world where it tends to be cold a great deal is to go out and play with snow. Grab it in your hand and notice how like the water, it feels structural, but does not have a truly solid form unless you put pressure on it. Just like the ice cube, it will sting and cause your skin to tighten. Once again, try these exercises and practice them often to get a hold over remembering the sensations that go along with them.
Feeling is also a good way to shell a construct. Trying to shell a construct using only the usual visualization may be easy for some, but complicated for others. Think of things that are also hard, or even designed to hold things in or together. Find a piece of wood or metal. Run your hand over the wood. Feel the grain of the wood and the texture that it produces. Get the understand how the wood is sturdy because of all the small pieces within it that make it up. Realize that even though the wood is structurally sound, it has quality of being alive. Now, feel the metal and how impossible it is to affect it in any way. No matter what you do to it, you won't damage the metal without using great heat or a metallic tool of great strength. Pay attention to how lifeless and heavy the metal is. Another good thing to use is plastic containers such as Glad and other random off brands of Tupperware. When pressure is put on the plastic, it gives in, but it does not break. This is a single, complete structure that keeps whatever is inside in and whatever is outside out.

SMELL
The next sense to use for visualization is your sense of smell. You may not be able to think of many things off hand dealing with Psionics that you would need to be able to smell. What if you were doing pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, or making a construct that you were planning to program to be hot or even cold.
For the hot, there's nothing better than something burning. Start a fire. Light a match, burn a candle, do whatever you want to ignite a flame (make sure to be careful and safe. House fires are bad). Now, as the fire burns, take a few deep breaths. Hold in mind all the smells that come to your nose as you breathe. Things like wood, sulfur, and stuff like cinnamon, lemon, and myrrh, if you lit a candle, should come to you.
When it comes to the cold, there are two things that I can tell you about. Rain and snow. Right after a rain storm, go outside and smell the air. It has a fresh, awakening scent about it that makes me feel like nature is starting afresh. Also, when it is snowing, smell the air. All the normal smells that fill the air are gone, left with a smell and scent of emptiness. Remember how I compared energy to water earlier in the article? Well, the idea here is to find natural water out in the woods somewhere. Water out in nature has a smell to it. It's unmistakable. Once you can get used to this smell, you'll be able to remember it. When you do remember the scent, you'll be able to recall it during energy manipulation to aid in the visualization.
Electricity will be a hard smell to get to know. Basically, the only chance you’re going to get to smell electricity is if something electrical short circuits. I'm definitely not telling you to go out and pour water all over your stereo or anything, but if something electrical malfunctions, get a good whiff of what it smells like. Smell these things often, taking time to remember the scents.
HEARING
Now, you can also learn to incorporate your sense of hearing. Once again with the water. Go back to your kitchen sink. Turn the water on and listen to it. Even before the water hits the bottom of the sink you can hear it. It's almost like something tearing through the sky so fast that you hear it, but it is still gentle and tranquil.
Another thing that I shall once again fall back on is programming a construct to be hot. When there's a fire blazing, you hear embers crackling and popping.
If you ever do any aerokinesis, always remember the sound of the wind blowing.
Also, for electrokinesis, you can just think about thunder, or if you have one of those orb things with all the electricity, you can sit and listen to the sounds that it makes. Be sure to take in these noises and remember them well.

TASTE
As much as I hate to say this, I cannot think of anything that deals with the sense of taste. The only thing that even comes remotely close to it would be programming a construct to be either hot or cold. If you've ever sat really close to a fire, you've most likely managed to swallow or inhale some smoke accidentally. If so, hopefully the smoke was from a fire burning wood rather than plastic, rubber, or garbage of any sort.
The cold aspect will once more desire a climate where it is cold fairly often. Not only will you feel the snow as described above, but you will taste it. Not much to taste really. Water, only just a little sweeter. Maybe you'll be luckier than I am in the manner of finding things that can be used to incorporate your sense of taste into visualization.
SIGHT
This final sense will be the hardest to use as it is the one that you will need control over your own mind and a good imagination for. This visualization will involve using your sense of sight and your mind to trick yourself into believing that you actually see what is happening. It is like using your mind's eye style visualization, only you are convincing yourself that you are actually seeing it. Energy flowing like a river of millions of little glowing particles and a hot construct that is a ball of flames in the palm of your hand. A swirling sphere of blizzard strength snow to form a cold psiball and wisps of smoke and fire coming off of your hand as you light that candle using pyrokinesis. Even a wooden ball forming in your hands around a psiball to form the shell. All of these are good examples, and I'm sure that you could think of countless more.
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
Now, the final skill to learn here is to incorporate using all of this tactile visualization into a useful situation. I'm going to explain how to make a psiball using the methods that I explained above.
You’re going to want to begin by gathering energy. This energy will be all around you, in the air and in the ground. You can visualize the energy all around you in the air and on the ground as tiny particles of energy flowing around like water. Visualize the energy coming from the air, the ground, and your own body and going into your arms.
As you do this, recall the way the water sounds as it moves and how it feels flowing over your skin. Hear it. See it. Feel it flow down your arms to your hands. Smell the water as it flows from your palms into the space between. Watch the energy form into a small ball of splashing, convulsing water about an inch and a half in diameter. To shell the psiball, make the ball of tidal waves in your hands transform into a ball made of solid steel. As you do this, pay attention to the way the ball feels changing from shifting water to metal. It will become heavy and hard, cold and lifeless like the steel. You have successfully made a psiball using the alternate method of tactile visualization rather than the visual visualization of the mind's eye method.
Now, let's go on and program it to be hot. You already have the iron ball in your hand. You just need to make it hot. Use your physical eyes and imagination to view the metallic ball catching fire. Hear the flames crackling as the ball ignites. Smell and taste the smoke coming from the flames. Feel the heat coming from the fire. Watch the iron ball grow from a metallic ball wrapped in flames to a red hot flaming sphere. Try on your own to use the alternate visualization methods to make a cold one.
Now, go out and learn all these things and others to use. Try to incorporate anything you can think of that may help you visualize and do something. Think of your own methods and ways to learn tactile visualizations.