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When listening to a teacher give a lecture or reading this article, your mind has a tendency to wonder off into the world of daydreaming. Now this might earn you a reminder from the teacher to pay attention. In the world of psi focus is an essential skill. This means you have to keep all your attention directed at getting the wheel to move or to gather energy to make a psi ball. Doing this is a problem that every new psion must deal with. Fortunately, there are many ways to sharpen your focus. Find a quiet room with no distractions. Get into a comfortable position, but beware of lying down; Falling asleep won't help you. You may close your eyes or you can leave them open. Image a blank piece of paper or a blank wall. Keep thinking about that image and do not allow any other thoughts enter your brain. If you find yourself beginning to think about things just tell yourself that you are and try again. See how long you can keep your mind blank. You do not have to use the blank wall. Try listening to music and pick on instrument to focus on. You could focus on the drums for starters. As you get better at this you can add some distractions in. I strongly suggest that you add one at a time. Turn on some the television. Think of the blank wall while in a loud crowed room. This exercise can be useful in many ways. This could be the start of your meditation. You can use stop a telepath from knowing your surface thoughts while you get a shield up. Blanking your thoughts may stop you from dreaming. The exercise I gave you involves visualizing, which can be a hard skill for some newbies. Visualizing is the ability to picture a mental image in your head. It is not a psionic skill, but an everyday skill. Visualization can be done using all senses. When you stare out a window in class thinking about that car you have always wanted, that is visualizing. For an example I want you to think of a car that you have always dream of owning. It can be a real car or a made up one. Picture the whole car. Maybe it is tiny or maybe it's really long. Now mentally walk around the car. Look at all the sides. Now go inside the car to the driver's seat. Is the seat made of out leather? What are all the cool new features? Turn around and look at the back seat. Can you see it? If you can, you have just done visualizing. You can also try using your other senses. What does the metal feel like? the seats? does your car have that new car smell? Using as many senses as possible will greatly improve the lucidity of your visualizations. Focusing and visualization does not involve psi, but they will greatly help you in skills that do require the use of energy. The mastery of those skills opens a lot of doors in psionics. JediKaren |
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