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# Re: Step 2 - visualisation and auditory exercises

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Step 2 - visualisation and auditory exercises
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:33:04 -0700
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    Dear Newbie,

    >> I don't really have problems "hearing" sounds during 5 whole minutes
    even in a noisy environment, but it happens that fugitive images of a
    clock or of a hammer cross my mind (as mentionned in IIH) which I
    quickly dismiss.
    I'd like to know whether those images alone are also considered as
    disruptions even if the sound is maintained normally. <<

    To quote Bardon:
    "When doing these exercises it is *most important* to keep
    within the limits of auditory concentration, not allowing for pictorial
    imagination. Should such an imagination emerge, you must banish it
    immediately. *Never* must the chiming of the bell provoke the
    imagination of the bell itself. This exercises is completed, as soon as
    you are able to keep this auditory imagination for five minutes.
    "Another exercise is the sensory concentrations. Try to
    produce the sensations of cold, warmth, gravity, lightness, hunger,
    thirst, tiredness and hold on to this feeling for, at least, five
    minutes, *without the slightest visual or auditory imagination.*"

    In other words, it's 5 minutes of auditory concentration *without visual
    images*. So, yes, images that emerge with your auditory concentration
    are considered disruptions. The point is to completely isolate each
    sense.

    I recommend the Center of Stillness technique of negating the senses as
    a way to isolate just one sense at a time. For example, when it comes
    to practicing the auditory concentrations, negate your sense of sight
    before beginning. This will help train your separation and isolation of
    the senses and make it much easier to automatically project *just* a
    sound without emerging visuals.

    >> Another question concerning visualisation. I had the strong
    sensation that visualising with open yes was an "quasi act of
    creation" somewhere, contrary to the same exercise with closed eyes.
    Did anybody feel the same, or am I the only one being played tricks
    by his imagination ? <<

    Both are acts of creation. It's just that when we see an image with our
    eyes open, it *seems* more like what we'd normally consider a creative
    act. Our brain is more accustomed to accepting visual images, perceived
    with our eyes open, as "real", than it is accepting those we see with
    our eyes closed as being "real". Nonetheless, both are equally "real",
    just at different levels of density.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    12 May 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
    http://www.ABardonCompanion.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis
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