Training The Mind's Eye
Training The Mind's Eye
Training The Mind's Eye
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Lee Pulos, Ph.D.
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Table of Contents
REFERENCE GUIDE
Affirmations ............................................................................................. CD 3
Beliefs ....................................................................................................... CD 2
Brain vs. Mind.......................................................................................... CD 3
Change...................................................................................................... CD 2
Creating Your Reality Through Thoughts and Imagery........................ CD 4
Envisioning the Future........................................................................... CD 5
Goals ......................................................................................................... CD 3
Goal Achievement .................................................................................... CD 4
Goal Board................................................................................................ CD 3
Image Streaming...................................................................................... CD 2
Imaging..................................................................................................... CD 1
Left Brain ................................................................................................. CD 1
Limiting Beliefs......................................................................................... CD 2
Magical Garden........................................................................................ CD 2
Magnetic Belief Screen ............................................................................ CD 2
Mental Imagery........................................................................................ CD 1
Relaxation ................................................................................................ CD 1
Right Brain............................................................................................... CD 1
Spiral of Success ...................................................................................... CD 4
Visualization............................................................................................. CD 1
Visualization Techniques......................................................................... CD 1
EXERCISES
Finding Your Magical Garden/State Mental Place ................................
Image Streaming Warm-Up Exercise .....................................................
Image Streaming.....................................................................................
When the Mental Pictures Wont Come..................................................
The Magnetic Belief Screen...................................................................
Uncovering RoadblocksThree Techniques ..........................................
Goal Setting..............................................................................................
VisualizationFour Techniques .............................................................
Creating a Spiral of Success....................................................................
Enhancing Self-EsteemFour Techniques ............................................
Transformational Imagery for Self-Healing ...........................................
Managing Stress ......................................................................................
Living Your Dream of the Future............................................................
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REFERENCE
GUIDE
In this section of Seeing with the Minds Eye, subjects are listed in
alphabetical order. The CDs on which each subject appears are presented
in parenthesis following each subject heading.
This reference section allows you to return to specific subjects for periodic
review even when you do not have time to listen to the CDs once again or
when you cannot remember on which CD it originally appeared.
Affirmations (CD 3)
Affirmations are the most powerful form of self-talk.
They are manifestations of your will, which is the key to igniting your
imaginationand, thus, visualization. Because they seem so simple,
affirmations have in the past been overlooked as an effective method
for success. Today, however, more and more successful business people,
medical patients and athletes are using visualization techniques to get
what they want out of life.
Two key elements of an affirmation are:
the way you formulate the suggestion you wish to program into
your brain
the number of times you repeat the affirmation
Keep your affirmation short and simple enough that a six-year old child
will understand it. Always state it in the positive, as if you already have
what you are affirming. Always state it aloud, repeating it from five
to 20 times.
The following are sample affirmations for various areas in which you might
set goals.
High Self-Esteem
I am influenced only by positive thoughts and positive people.
I am lovedI deserve love.
New opportunities stimulate my strengths and confidence.
All childhood and teen-age wounds are healed.
I am continually discovering new strengths inside myself.
I radiate confidence and joy.
Goal Setting
I am very clear about what I want in life.
I am living my life by choice and creating my future.
My life is becoming a series of positive achievements.
My self-discipline and inner focus are becoming stronger each day.
I have moved beyond old limitations and am easily achieving my goals.
Beliefs (CD 2)
Beliefs always, always precede reality. A belief is framework or mental
skeleton on which we keep adding incoming perceptions and experiences,
on which we store data to support those beliefs.
Beliefs can sometimes be obstacles on our journey to happiness and success. They are called limiting core beliefs. We arent consciously aware of
many of these, since they were acquired early in our lives and have been
incorporated into our web of consciousness. See the exercises in the next
section of this guidebook to help you identify your limiting core beliefs.
Change (CD 2)
There are six raw materials that underlie all change, that create our reality.
Beliefs
Feelings
Attitudes
Decisions
Thoughts
Choices
There are three tools you can use to chisel or carve the raw materials of
your world into a new reality.
Desire
Expectation
Imagination
Goals (CD 3)
Goal setting is the most important tool a person can have or develop.
Having a focus or self-determined destiny is the one quality consistently
found in people who are high achievers.
There are six general categories of goals that seem basic for most people.
High self-esteem
Good health, energy, vitality
Happy, loving relationships
Career and financial security
Mental improvement
Enhanced spiritual life
There is a process to goal setting, one that, if followed and used in conjunction with visualization techniques, can help you create the future you
dream of.
Imaging (CD 1)
Imaging is very much like visualization (see below). The critical difference
between the two is that imaging involves all five senses.
There are five types of imaging.
Visualsight
Auditorysounds
Kinestheticfeel or touch
Olfactorysmell
Gustatorytaste
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Visualization (CD 1)
The conscious creating of desired outcomes in your life. Visualization is
sensing or seeing with your inner mental eyes. This is different from imaging (see above), in that visualization always involves seeing.
The most common misconception about visualization is that you must be
able to visualize with great clarity and vividness in order to be effective.
In fact, vividness of imagery is not nearly as important as control of it.
Dont be concerned if, from time to time, you see only a fragment of an
image. Just this fragment can trigger a subconscious association with the
big picture, which very subtly brings in and involves more of your senses.
Discover your own personal sense of pacing while visualizing. You can
either take your time mentalizing, or you can allow images to flow out at
a quick, kaleidoscopic speed. Both are equally effective, depending on your
personal psychology.
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The availability of various techniques helps avoid the boredom of using one
technique over and over again, increases the likelihood of finding the
goal/technique combination that is right for you and ignites different areas
of the brain and to bring more of your brain cells into play.
Note: All visualizations should be for no more than 30 seconds at one time.
If you wish to program a goal for a second time in succession, follow the
same procedure for 30 seconds more before moving on to your next goal.
Collage: create a montage or collage featuring five or six mental
snapshots of different aspects of your goals having been achieved.
Strobing or Flash: take an end-goal picture and mentally flash
it off and on, slowly at first, then speeding up, repeating the
pattern until the image takes and ignites.
Computer-Generated: like a computer screen with a small
colored dot in its center, within 30 seconds thousands of colored
dots will begin appearing to generate and create the pattern and
mental picture or your end goal.
Multi-Focus: mentally project beams of light or energy from your
forehead, your heart and your solar plexus, each projecting an
image of your end-goal, creating a 3-D holographic image.
Whoosh or Explosion: after picturing an old, pre-goal condition
in drab colors, whoosh it away and replace it with an image of
your goal achieved, painted in an explosion of bright colors and
glistening energy.
In/Out or Dissociative: picture yourself inside your body
looking through your eyes at a completed goal, then dissociate
outside of your body and watch yourself as an observer in the
goal picture.
The following are three tips for improving your visualization and imaging
skills.
Do your mental programming in an enthused, excited state as if
you have already achieved your goal. Projecting gusto into your
programming mobilizes the limbic system, your emotional midbrain.
Use of all your brain when visualizing. The ideal brain states for
effective visualization are the synergy of your mind-brain, the
focused intent of your left brain and the playfulness or lightness
of your right brain.
Use symbolic images of your goal for powerful, effective, real-life
imagery.
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EXERCISES
In this section of the guidebook, exercises appearing on the CDs are
presented in the order in which they appear on those CDs.
You can refer to this section when you want to review specific exercises and
do not wish to or are unable to refer to the CDs.
Because the exercises found on CD 5 and 6 are the bulk of those CDs, those
exercises have not been reproduced here. To get the full benefit of these
exercises, please listen again to the CDs for their review.
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Aloud, describe a scene from memory or from your magical garden, the
scene you have selected previously. Describe what you see with your mental
eyes. Keep describing it. Keep talking out loud. Have as few pauses,
silences and down-times as possible. Continue the process for four to five
minutes.
Go deeper into the scene and the experience. Embellish your descriptions,
describing the special qualities that make it so special.
Then bring into the scene a person you know, someone with extraordinary
powers of perception and imagingsomeone you know to be an expert visualizer. It might be a young child, for, up to the age of six or seven, children
are often visualizing virtuosos. Describe this personstill aloud. Still with
lots of details. Still with no down time.
Then, to get inside the experience of being more perceptive, put the head
of the person you are describing, of the expert visualizer, onto to your own
head, like putting on a football helmet. For the next two to three minutes,
describe your beautiful, magical scene through this persons eyes, allowing
yourself to embellish the sensory richness of your description through the
perception of your invited observer.
Return your observers head to his or her own body. Thank him or her if
you wish, then orient yourself back to an alert statewithout rushing the
process.
Review what has just happened to you. What worked best for you? What
images, sense, colors, textures, etc., were easiest to picture or feel? Which
ones provided you with difficulty?
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Slowly and gently step through the magnetic belief screen several times.
The fine mesh screen will filter the negative, limiting beliefs from you,
which will remain behind as a residue on the screen, much like the lint on
the screen in a clothes dryer.
Peel off the residue and place it in a small, golden bowl at the foot of the
belief screen. Hold the bowl up in both arms to the sun, so the healing and
transformative powers of the sun transmute the negative, dark energy of
the limiting beliefs into a potent, empowering energy, one that looks like
millions of fireflies or a sea of Fourth of July sparklers.
When it has been turned into positive energy, pour it over your head and
allow the energy to be absorbed into every pore, every cell of your being,
creating new seeds or sparks of consciousness, which you can use to ignite
your future.
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Technique # 2: Close your eyes and take several deep breaths, holding
each inhalation for 15 to 20 seconds, then releasing each slowly, deepening
your relaxation with each breath.
Picture yourself in a small boat, gently, lazily floating down a shallow,
meandering stream. In the boat, you are in a day-dreaming state of mind,
wondering about your question from time to time, wondering about the
obstacle that you wish to uncover.
Floating, being curious, meditatingyour boat drifts onto a white, sandy
beach. You leave the boat and follow a path leading to a beautiful waterfall
with a rainbow-like mist. Another path takes you behind the waterfall,
where, on a ledge, you find a cave. In the cave are two small trunks.
Begin image streaming. Describe the first trunk in great detail: size, shape,
texture, weight. Mentally pose the question you have been meditating on
two or three times. Keep image streaming and suddenly lift the lid of the
first trunk. The answer to your questionWhat is my obstacle?is contained inside the trunk.
Approach the second trunk and image stream again. Quickly open the lid
and your image streaming will provide the answer to the question What is
the best thing I can do to deal with this roadblock?
Technique # 3: This is called the Mirror Technique. Begin with your question. Ponder, wonder, meditate. Relaxing, never rushing, picture yourself
standing before a full-length mirror.
Image stream the description of your reflection in the mirror for one or two
minutes. Then mentally turn your back to the mirror. Pose your questions
three or four times. Dont anticipate a possible answer. Then, after repeating your question, suddenly turn and look at the reflection of yourself,
which will change or transmute into an image, symbol or scene representing the answer you are seeking.
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In the space around the representation of your body, draw your friends,
family, children, job, other things in your life that are important to you.
State their importance to you by their proximity to your own body or by
their size. For example, if your spouse is the most important person in your
life, make him or her very near your drawing of yourself, as well as very
large.
Include both positive and negative aspects of your life in this drawing, and
use different colors representing your feelings about each.
On your second sheet of paper, draw the ideal you, the way youd like to be
(although it is important that you remain realistic about this). Do you want
to be healthier, trimmer? Do you want to be happier? Do you want to
emphasize your heart more than your head?
Again, include the people and things in your life, placing them according to
the importance you would like each to have in the future. Do you want a
new house? Do you want to be closer to your spouse? Do you want to
replace your old job with something new and more exciting?
Hold on to both drawings and pull them out to make additions or changes if
you are so inspired.
The differences between the two drawings will represent the goals you
desire.
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From within the very center of your brain, sense a small crystal-clear
spring of water gently rising and overflowing from the top of your head like
a small fountain. Feel or sense the water flushing the residue and sludge of
negative attitudes out of every part of your brain.
Once all of this is flushed out and the water coming out of the top of
your head is pure and clear, fill your head with a powerful, brilliant, white
healing light.
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Go into meditation and enter your magical garden. Awaken each of your
senses. Finding an opening somewhere in the gardena hole in the
ground, a cave, an opening in the trunk of a large treerepresenting the
opening into your unconscious.
Go into your unconscious and live your dream in great detail for 20 minutes
or so. Just before returning to your alert consciousness, ask your unconscious to continue dreaming your dream for you.
In a week or 10 days, go back into your garden and into your unconscious,
and pick up where you left off. Dream the next segment of your dream for
20 minutes or so, moving it forward in time.
Continue this process once or twice a week, always picking up where you
left off from the last dream. Remember that this living-your-dream exercise
is not intended to replace your daily 10-minute programming of your goals.
Rather, it is to complement and reinforce your dreams with a powerful
process at a different resonance of consciousness.
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