Imagination – “As Opposed to Creative Visualization”
By representing the idea
of imagining with visualization, it can make it fairly confusing.
Visualizing indicates forming inner images, pictures and scenes as
movies that play out in the mind as a form of anticipated or wished for
experience. Then, many get confused as to “how to” visualize, what it
means exactly, and believe that it means to see fully detailed, colored
images and scenes that play out with precision and detail, and while it
certainly can be this way, especially for a well developed imagination,
for most people it’s usually much more impressionistic. Most
visualization resembles the type of image we see as a reflection in
glass or water, or a reflection in a dark, shiny surface where it’s more
shadow-like and formed, yet not particularly detailed. This resembles
what is referred to as “thought-forms” that exist in the astral field as
shadowy images that we form through repetitive thinking or dwelling on
ideas.
The imagination however,
is a faculty of the mind that forms a full sensory experience that while
it’s main component is visual images and shapes, it also focuses heavily
on hearing and sounds, feelings as intuitive and as touching the surface
of material reality, any forms of smells that would be inherent in the
experience, and taste whenever appropriate, as well as the internal
dialogue as thoughts that we naturally have while engaging in any type
of experience. It’s what we are telling ourselves about the experience.
The imagination takes an inspired idea as unformed, and shapes it into a
full 3-D sensory reality that is realistic and believable, and therefore
possible. The true use of the imagination however, places the greatest
emphasis on “feelings” that we have as a result of the inner experience
we are having. The feeling is the full-body intuitive sensation that
blends the visual into a holistic experience as a form of memory that is
complete with emotions, thoughts and meaning that brings realization
around an idea that can only be obtained through the experience of it.
This is the creative
power of the mind to create experience by first creating it internally
while shaping it with detail and definition that sets the vibratory
patterning that attracts and organizes the outer experience as a
correspondence. The outer experience is not exact to the imagined one,
although it can be, but is rather analogous to the inner experience.
It’s of the same nature and theme as the internal experience, yet
modified according to the will and interactive quality of those
participating in the orchestration of the outer experience. Because the
outer requires other people, situations and events, the original vision
is modified accordingly as a basic requirement to incorporate the ideas
and desires of all who partake in the over-all experienced that is a
shared reality. This is why the emphasis is always placed on the
“feeling” of the experience rather than the visual aspect. Visually it
may be entirely different than you imagined it, yet it will feel the
same. It’ll be the same type of idea as a form of theme, which is being
illustrated in a modified and varied manner. The feeling, as the
vibratory frequency is what composes and structures the experience to be
of a certain patterning that beautifully conforms to the influences that
everyone participating contributes, while maintaining the same basic
idea as the essence of the over-all experience. You will recognize the
fulfillment of your wish, not by what it looks like, but by what it
feels like as you realize you’re in the process of having it.
Linda Gadbois, DES., CCHt.
"Contemplation"
Imagining the Possibilities
by: Linda Gadbois
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