A Visualisation Trick

This article was published on 11/04/2023

Time to try some visualisation. This is something I struggled with for so long until my teacher told me this. In the beginning my expectations for visualisations were so high, I assumed I would instantly feel as though I had left my body and was on an amazing journey where I could truly see, hear and feel everything I was supposed to be visualising.

I remember discussing my disappointment with my teachers at the time, how I felt I couldn’t do it and was failing. They set me a very quick activity to do and I’m going to share it with you here:

Imagine an orange, a real one. What size is it? Is it a clementine/mandarin/jaffa etc? Does it still have leaves attached? Picture it as best you can. What is the skin like? Can you tell whether it’s one of those oranges that’s difficult to peel or will it be easy?

Can you imagine it? Whether you can see it in your third eye or in your mind, whether you can just remember what an orange looks like and you’re using memory to fill in the gaps. It does not matter.

Imagine what it would be like to start peeling it. What would that feel like? Can you imagine the sound of you peeling the orange? Can you smell it yet? Can you taste it? And what about eating it? Can you imagine what that would be like?

If you can imagine, you can visualise. The reality is that there is no orange, it is only in your mind. But your mind knows what it might look, sound, feel, smell and taste like.

This is the basis of visualisation. If you can imagine the orange, you can visualise a room, a landscape, whole environments, your guides, messages from the past, present and future.

This is the foundation.

Gemma-Marie xx