Imagination
Imagination is a huge power that we all have.
Imagination links to emotion and to will.
When we imagine, we see, but we also feel something. We actually create an emotion. An emotion that a few seconds ago, we were not feeling.
Therefore imagination gives us the power to create emotion at will.
Try, imagine yourself in a relaxed environment and being relaxed, soon enough you will actually feel relaxed.
The trick is to give your imagination a bit of time to work within you.
That is why we need concentration, which in terms of imagination is the ability to hold steady the images within our imagination.
We need to really develop both imagination and concentration. Study Kasina meditation for some guidelines on this.
Imagination therefore gives life to things. It has within it the power to conceive.
It brings openings and actually opens new dimensions within us. It in many ways brings new dimensions to us.
Imagination is the way to get in touch with dimensions beyond the physical. For example with imagination we can perceive the fourth dimension and perceive dimensions in general.
Imagination provides an entry into our inner dimensions.
Relaxation and innocence help us to develop our imagination. As well as serenity.
Imagination in the hands of the ego becomes fantasy. When imagination is conditioned it becomes fantasy. That is imagination is mechanically used to compensate for what we do not have, are not and can't do.
The main conditioning factors of imagination are compensation and duality. Very much like the sexual energy. Masculine and Feminine always ,duality - two. The sexual energy is binary, it follows the Law of Polarities.
Imagination and sexual energy also work together and share many elements in common. One is that both create and both give power to whatever they are channeled into.
When we lose control of our imagination we lose control of our internal state. When the internal images get out of control our emotions grow out of control.
Imagination produces our internal image, that is what we see about ourselves is a set of images that our imagination generates for us. Those images become our identity and we always do what our identity is.
The right use of imagination is at the heart of awakening. Imagination is that powerful. Because of it we can awaken and because of we can fall asleep.
A good standard for the development of imagination is to be able to hold steady any image that we imagine for at least five minutes.
Will
Will is making things to happen in our inner and outer worlds. Will is what manifests. Will is what turns the tides within us.
Will is the freedom to choose and to sacrifice. Sacrifice is the choice of one good superior to another.
Will is the magic within us that manifests things. The Law of Attraction or Manifestation that is so popular these days is really a prodigy of people's own will.
Values and Will
The goal is to give will to our values. Will into the values equals the values in action and expression.
We start to express and develop any value by using the imagination.
Imagine we think, feel, act and speak with the value, virtue or quality we want to develop. After doing that we feel what the value feels like. This is because imagination sets up emotion.
With the new emotion created we can contrast the ego's way of feeling against the virtue's way of feeling. Then will appears to allow us to chose one or the other.
The more we do this the more our consciousness sees that the virtue is better and a shift or rebalancing occurs within us favouring the value. Then a current of will can run into the value to give it life and manifestation within us and then outside of us in our life and in the lives of others.
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