tactile imaging vs imaginary feeling

[Non]

hi I started new energy ways and I found that to do tactile imaging I sometimes imagine that I am in a seperate scenario in my head and I imagine as if the tactile imagine action I am doing is occuring in that imaginary scenario.

It doesn't work as well though as if I actually had my awareness in my real physical body and move that around, though I run through a lot of energetic resistance as I feel like I come across like very thick areas that are hard to get through, and I imagine my 'awareness' as a mist of electrical activity, sometimes I have to push it through but it goes to the sides of the area I want to push it through. Anyways.. but sometimes if I can make that same tactile imagine action on the physical limb I think I feel it much more than imagining it in some seperate scenario in my head...

I guess I'm just confused as to how exactly to do this, especially when asked to bring "energy" into the picture, how am I supposed to imagine it. Sometimes it's easier perhaps if I feel like Im trying to move my body part very lightly so I kinda activate the nerves, so I can just feel the area, but don't actually move. Like having an intent to move but then not moving.

[Tiny]

Dear Non,

I have this problem too, sometimes I wil jump into creative imagination. It's a sort of trap.

Most importantly, don't overcomplicate anything.

The imaging part of this tactile technique is mostly a clairvoyant one in my opinion. This means that one's visuals during tactile-imaging are not actively and creatively imagined by oneself but they come to one automatically, just like a case of suddenly hearing a bird sing and automatically seeing the bird in one's psychic eye. This is clairvoyance.

One needs to focus on the etheric body, bringing center of awareness to the tingling sensations (which are not the nerves) in various parts of the body.

Moving the energy in the etheric body, as R. Bruce describes in his "NEW" article, produces a very noticable resistance. The difference between astral and etheric energy is like that of gas and liquid.
Because of the sluggishness of etheric energy, one may jump from etheric awareness (tactile imaging) to imagining the energy moving (which is not what we want) out of mere impatience.
Creative imagination which is virtual reality may sometimes can sometimes cause a repercussion in the etheric body (remember violent movies - sometimes watching the impacts or pains of characters can cause one to feel them in one's own etheric body even tho the actual happenings aren't real and just acted) but I wouldn't rely on doing it the imagining -> repercussion way.



peace

[CFTraveler]

I guess I'm just confused as to how exactly to do this, especially when asked to bring "energy" into the picture, how am I supposed to imagine it. Sometimes it's easier perhaps if I feel like Im trying to move my body part very lightly so I kinda activate the nerves, so I can just feel the area, but don't actually move. Like having an intent to move but then not moving.

Dear Non:
You don't have to bring energy into the picture, it's already there.  The feelings will cause movement in your energy body, and get it flowing.
An easy way to do this is to think about it as 'remembering' how something feels, recreating it in your own body.  This will probably cut down on the imaging, which of course, like Tiny said, will come naturally if you have the tendency for clairvoyance or are a 'visual' person.
It's ok, as long as you feel something, even if so slight you're not sure it's really happening.  It is.