I have read somewhere that when visualizing, to visualize to the right, left, above or below the black space in front of the eyes and not directly ahead. I dont recall why this is, but I guess its something to do with using your visualization abilities as opposed to your actual vision.
Anyway, whenever ive tried this, I always have trouble maintaining the visualization. The other day I thought about what would happen if instead of visualizing in these areas, I actually put my point of view there instead. So I tried this. I started a visualization off to my right, then I swapped places with the visualization, so I was now off to the right of my field of view, watching the visualization from this point and looking back towards where my field of view would be, if you know what I mean. Within a few seconds I lost all body awareness and was actually "in" my new location off to the right of where my eyes would be looking. Im not sure if im explaining this well, but it certainly seemed to be the most powerful visualization method ive tried. Because I was taken aback at this very sudden shift of view point, I jerked back to my normal perspective very quickly, as is normally the case with me, however I think with more practice this could become a great way for me to lose body awareness.
Just wondering if anyone has done anything similar to this and what the results were etc?
I have been there before. It feels like your awareness has "disconnected" from your body and is floating around in your head.
The reason for not looking in the middle of your visual field is because it keeps you focused/aware of your physical eyes. when doing visualization your goal is to turn your awareness inwards to your mind's eye. If you continue to look straight into your normal physical visual field you continue to try to "see" through your physical eyes instead of with your "third eye".
Quote from: personalreality on May 27, 2010, 14:12:04
I have been there before. It feels like your awareness has "disconnected" from your body and is floating around in your head.
The reason for not looking in the middle of your visual field is because it keeps you focused/aware of your physical eyes. when doing visualization your goal is to turn your awareness inwards to your mind's eye. If you continue to look straight into your normal physical visual field you continue to try to "see" through your physical eyes instead of with your "third eye".
vouch, I wonder if it would be easier to see through your astral eyes if you were blind?