Visualisation or imaging or even imagining isn't the same process as "looking through your hard eyes".
It isn't a physical skill that is required for visualisation but instead a shift in consciousness you might call "learning to see with the eyes of night" or your energy eyes instead. Think of it like ...
... tuning your TV set to a different channel, a different station.
There are obviously many visualisation exercises but this one is particularly easy and natural to human beings.
Children play this visualisation game if they are given a chance; and it creates an in between step between seeing with your physical eyes, and seeing with the eyes of night, visioning to get a beginner started.
And it is very simple - look at clouds and "see" what actually isn't there.
"It looks like ..." and here we have a totally different modality at work, an interpretation, a visualisation that "shows you" something which you are not seeing with your physical eyes.
Sounds difficult, but is entirely natural and simple.
There are some tips to this.
The first is, remember you can't see a vision. It is not seen. It is envisoned, and thereby, scrunching up your eyes, staring hard, focusing like mad is not going to help you in any shape or form.
This is indeed exactly what stops you from switching channels to the other system, that which sees what isn't there to be seen with the naked eye alone.
Tip 2 is obviously to RELAX.
Relax the muscles around your eyes especially. Note if you are furrowing your brow in furious concentration. Stop, relax. Soften the whole erea around your brows, eyes, eyebrows, massage these ereas if necessary, or tap EFT on them, that also helps, of course.
Tip 3 to make this beginners exercise in visualisation work is to start by closing your eyes first, opening them and then closing them immediately again (to stop the old habits of "staring for information" to kick in). You have "seen enough" to proceed from here.
Tip 4 is to now ask yourself the question, "What did that cloud look LIKE?"
This is absolutely a process of metaphor generation, and in the correct manner, the words you then use to describe what you THOUGHT the cloud formation LOOKED *LIKE* is a very basic form of metaphor, a language translation of having envisioned something.
Isn't that cool?
Tip No. 5 for the Clouds Visualisation game is to not second guess or nay-say yourself. You HAVE TO accept the first thing that "springs into your mind" - without "looking for further evidence" (!) or arguing with yourself, or reversing yourself. You have to take the first thing and that's what that is, for this exercise.
Obviously, there is no right or wrong in envisioning a dragon from a random cloud formation. It's not a dragon. It is no more not a dragon than it isn't a snake, crocodile, school bus, space ship, women's underwear or a palm tree, either. Remember you are dealing with a random cloud formation that SIMPLY TRIGGERS A VISION - that's all.
Tip No 6 is: Say it out aloud what you have envisioned. Just say out aloud as soon as you recognise something, which is in fact envisioning something, "A dragon!" and move on without looking back.
I could write half a book on why that is structurally important from all manner of different angles, and including validation and encouragement of the unfolding process, just trust me that saying it out aloud really helps.
The final tip is do it more than once. On the second and any subsequent time, add an art solutions set up such as, "Show me something that is useful," or "Show me something that will give me a new idea for business" or "Show me something healing ..." - whatever, you are the boss.
So there we have it. A simple children's game that teaches visualisation, envisioning, and many things besides.
Don't overthink this.
Follow with the instructions and the video below until you are getting good at it.
Then take this visualisation game outside, play it often, play it with real clouds. The sky can and will become your personal crystal ball, but more, this game teaches all the basics of visualisation you can then apply to all and any other places where visualisation is required.
I would make the note that you will most likely find your dream vision and recall getting better as a direct result of playing the Clouds Visualisation game, and your memory sharper, clearer and easier accessible, so it's worth it.
