Imagination Exercise
Unwrapping Your Imagination
The technique of the ideal model is based on the freedom for you to influence your own destiny. Images can either imprison us or limit us, or we can use them to actuate our greatest wishes. The powers if the imagination are immense and things unfold powerfully if we let them. The imagination is a great gift and this exercise is designed to help unwrap it.
Preparation
- Vividly imagine a chosen goal, or an ideal you, or embodying some concept
- Choose a quality you feel will be helpful at this time in realising your goal, ideal, life purpose etc. For example: love, strength, purity, understanding, joy, peacefulness, unity, compassion, power, or confidence. Be sure this is clear before you begin the next step.
- The following meditation/visualisation should take 5 to 10 minutes and can be performed on more than one occasion.
Meditation
- Now sit comfortably and close your eyes. Take 3 deep breaths slowly in your own time. Allow your body to become still, your emotions to calm and quiet, and your mind to stop racing. Allow your breath to soften, to become quiet and rhythmic.
- Imagine yourself as already having the quality or qualities you have chose, in the highest degree of purity and intensity you can imagine.
- Allow this image to take shape in detail.
- See the look in your eyes expressing the quality, your physical posture, your facial expression. (The image may not be very stable in the beginning; it may be fuzzy, or appear and disappear in flashes. Even so, it will exercise a powerful influence on your unconscious.)
- Hold this image in your mind for a few moments, encouraging it to increasingly express the quality you have chosen. Really feel it. Feel it come to life in you.
- Imagine walking into this image and becoming one with it – something like putting on new clothes. As you merge with the image, feel its quality becoming part of you. Imagine how it feels to possess the maximum degree of this quality. Feel you body pervaded by it. Feel it penetrating each one of your cells, flowing in each vein, filling your whole body. Imagine this quality permeating your feelings, your way of thinking and your motives, your speech, your actions.
- Imagine yourself expressing in one or several situations of your everyday life, more of this quality than you previously have. Imagine these situations dynamically and in detail.
- Then in your own time open your eyes and begin to draw, write freely, or write a few key words that express your experience of your unwrapped gift of being your ideal.
