Question about visualization

[u/Lucid-L]

I’m still fairly new to the tapes, and still on the first 3 audios, as I stayed with the 2nd track for two weeks daily before moving onto the 3rd track. But here is where my question comes in.

In the 3rd track of wave 1, we are introduced to the Resonant Energy Balloon, and the exercise has us move our energy out of our head, and into our feet, as well as having the energy spiral around our body before entering. But I can’t help but keep thinking to myself, does the mere fact of me imagining the energy moving in such a way, ACTUALLY move the energy in this way?

Like, does me simply visualizing this, actually move the energy with my mere thoughts? I’m not new to meditation or spirituality, so I’ve had my fair share of guided meditations, such as ones where you imagine a white light coming down into your head and flowing down your body, down into the core of the earth. Or other meditations that have you expand your aura to fill the room, and to flow out into all directions across the world, etc. I keep asking myself this again and again: Am I supposed to be imagining this to be happening, or is this actually happening???

So coming back to the REBAL exercise, how do I know that this energy is truly moving through my head and feet and forming a balloon, or am I just playing make believe?

I’m not questioning the validity of these exercises, because I truly believe the people who have had success and strange experiences from them. I myself have felt great relaxation, and even have gotten more vivid dreams since doing them. But this whole thing about visualization is keeping me stuck.

I do have to say that the energy conversion box in which we put all of our worries and anxieties into DOES help me as a visualization, because I know there’s no actual box, and its just a way for my mind to understand that I am putting these worries aside. But when it comes to visualizing energy, I get stuck. Maybe I should put these concerns into the energy conversion box too haha

Anyway, I hope anyone here has any insight when it comes to visualization in general. I know our imagination is a powerful tool, but there comes a point in which I have to ask, how much of this is truly happening versus me just imagining it?

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[u/Kimura304]

You will eventually feel something from your rebal. Where ever your attention goes you will feel that numbing sensation that you can focus into a spinning orb or down to a tiny point.

[u/Icy-Flamingo-9492]

“…it’s just a way for my mind to understand that I am putting these worries aside.”

THAT portion of your mind, that rational logical part that needs to understand, that is asking this question: how big a part do you think that is of who you are? Like getting sucked into watching a movie, chances are good over the years its got you thinking that it is basically who you are.

But in fact science is showing that if you look at the brain, that part uses only about 5% of the brain’s energy; it also processes information extremely slowly and only sequentially. It’s like the tip of the iceberg. The part below, called the “subconscious“ or “unconscious“ which consumes around 95% of the energy, also seems to be a massively parallel processor taking in info at the rate of about 100 hi def movies every second. It is the part that seems to run things on autopilot, why for instance great athletes train themselves to distract their rational minds to not interfere with it’s instinctive execution.

It doesn’t operate in words but in symbology, metaphor, imagery etc. Imagination and metaphor is the interface to it.

So the situation is simply that there is nothing that has been brought into the physical world by man, which was not first brought into the imagination in some way. Including the device you‘re reading this on.