Step 1 (of 3) to Learning Conscious Magick: Step-By-Step Visualizations

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In this post

  • Why visualizing each step lets you learn more magick faster
  • How to control magick better using your own visualizations
  • Examples to help you get started

Intro

To master magick, you need to experiment with techniques you read about or dream up.  That means controlling how you do each step of the technique, so you can compare small changes, and keeping track of the results of each attempt.

If you visualize a broad goal — seeing an injury healing or a white shell shielding you — you’re leaving all the details of the technique to your unconscious.  You can’t direct your mind to do new techniques in a particular way, and you can’t be sure exactly what you did.  Broad visualizations prevent proper experimentation.

Instead, put your conscious mind in control of your magick by visualizing each step.  Then you can modify a technique slightly, see how the result changes, and refine your skills through real-world feedback.

Once you learn to consciously control each step, you can learn your style of magick better and develop your own techniques within that style.

This post will show you how make step-by-step visualizations to control each step as you do magick.

Before Creating Your Own Visualizations

Before you start, learn to make your mind respond to new visualizations on the first try.  The trick is to get your mind in the state to do magick before you begin your visualization, so it listens to each instruction you give.

Here are two posts on this:

As you use your own visuals, make sure to hold your brain in the state for doing magick, so it’s ready to listen to your visuals.

Step 1: Break The Effect Into Steps

Whether you’re refining a broad visualization or developing a new technique, start by breaking the goal into steps.

For example, if your goal is shielding, the steps might be closing your connections, shifting your energy signature back to normal, and maintaining that normal energy signature.

For energy healing, the steps might be finding the injured tissue, figuring out the energy signature you want to use, and injecting that energy into the tissue.

You won’t get every step right the first time. That’s OK. The point is to take a guess at how it might work, try it, and develop your understanding of how magick works so you can refine your technique next time.

Step 2: Develop Visuals For Each Step

For each of those steps, develop a visualization so you can tell your unconscious to do each step in sequence.

Start with the noun you control.  Usually that’s a connection, like in closing your connections, using a connection to find injured tissue, etc.  It will be something that is part of you.

Then visualize the verb: closing, searching, shifting, etc.

Then the noun it acts on (the direct object). That’s the injured tissue in “find injured tissue” and the normal energy signature in “shift your signature back to the normal energy signature.”

It doesn’t matter exactly what you visualize, as long as it speaks to you.  Simple, concrete visuals usually work well for me.

Step 3: Test It

Hold your brain in the posture for doing magick, focus on the visualization you just made, and see what happens.

If all you want is to learn your style of magick (Reiki, Golden Dawn, etc) more quickly, that’s all you need.  Ask your teacher for the right steps and visualize each one.

If you want to explore magick further, learn to make sensory connections so you can watch each step in real time and see what works and what doesn’t.  That’s the next step in learning to control magick consciously (next post in the series).

If the effect didn’t work, there are 2 things to try:

  • Break any steps that didn’t work down into substeps, develop visuals for each substep, and test a few variations.
  • Return to step 1 and change the order of your steps, or add new ones and remove ones you had.  Experiment with different techniques.

Don’t worry if new techniques don’t work the first time.  Magick is complex.  It’s not supposed to work right the first time.  Just build your experience and your intuition and the successes will come.

Example: Step-By-Step Energy Healing

Let’s develop a step-by-step visualization for building energy in your body and sending it to a friend.

Steps of The Effect

  • Build energy in your body
  • Expand the pool of energy through more of your body, so you have excess
  • Open the energy channels running down your arm (and place your hand on your friend)
  • Send energy down your arm into your friend
  • Stop the energy flow, close the energy channels
  • Release the excess energy into the area around you

Visualizing Each Step

These are just examples. Feel free to use them if they speak to you, or to create your own.

Build energy in your body: Visualize an incandescent white mist entering your chest. The incandescence speaks to me as energy, and white suggests purity and completeness.

Expand the energy: Same visualization, more of your body.

Open the energy channels in your arm: Visualize tubes, like veins, running through your arm. Right now, they’re tiny, and pinched in a few spots. Visualize them opening and releasing the pinches.

Send energy down your arm: Move the white incandescence through those channels.

Stop the energy flow: Visualize the white incandescence stopping, so the tubes no longer glow, then close the tubes (return them to being closed and pinched).

Release excess energy: Reverse the build the energy visual. Make the white mist leaving your body.

Another Example, and How To Protect Yourself

Click here for a step-by-step shielding visualization*. Beyond being a good example, it’s also something you should learn as you begin to practice magick.

*Note: The shielding post was inspired by Kol’s question below.

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6 Responses to “Step 1 (of 3) to Learning Conscious Magick: Step-By-Step Visualizations”

  1. Kol Drake says:

    I have someone who has been trying your techniques and seem to be making progress. Lately though, as they become ‘more open’ to energies around them and make basic connections to things — they are getting lots of ‘incoming noise & emotions’ — which can be distressing.

    Does ‘doing part one’ help to mitigate the incoming overload or should they be looking at shielding methods similar to your ‘cap a connective link’ concept noted in the attack/defense posts?

  2. Mike says:

    Great question! I’ll need a full post to respond. Look for that coming out later this week.

    Update: See this post for my reply.

  3. Kol Drake says:

    heh…. a very late ‘thank you’ for the shielding information and an updated ‘note’ to say these instructions have been invaluable to those needing guidance in ‘how to work with energy’. I presently have two people working through your ‘basics’ and they are loving the fact this is “… finally something better then the fluffy stuff from the bookstores…”.

    Keep up the great work!

  4. Mike says:

    Thanks Kol! Glad to hear they’re finding it useful and get what I’m about.

  5. farnoosh says:

    hi. you are a very very deep person. i have never saw a divine man like you.
    the problem is i can’t understand the whole process of your guide. because:
    1- they are not clearly explained or i cant tune into them.
    2- your site is like a busy town and i have got lost among the valuable information which are really unique.
    3- i loved they be in some style like the book ” mastering astral projection”.so i can follow each step clearly. why the rare information in this site can’t be written as a guide book?
    4- i feel you think those people who visit your site are expert? you know…you write very very complex and i become disappointed to continue them as i am afraid i couldn’t get the real guidance.
    5- sometimes a part of the guide is in a site and other parts are mentioned in other parts of the site. it really make me confused. those who were in your class totally understand what you say but for some one like me these information needs to be presented ….well….with a lot of describing for each part.
    if you really want to organize them as a book with more details and better organization, i would be glad to help you, my master. in this way people novices as me can better tune into your really really important knowledge that are written in this site.

    best wishes my lord!
    farnoosh

    • Thanks, glad you’re enjoying the site. This particular series is from my first 6 months blogging, so I’m afraid my writing wasn’t as clear as I’d like it to be. But yes, it takes a while to really understand all the concepts you need in order to get the blog, particularly the advanced posts.

      Indeed, a book is exactly what’s called for to get newcomers started with direct magick. That’s why I’m writing one. :) You can see the work in progress by clicking “Books” in the top navigation bar.

      (I’m also going to keep blogging, since that’s where I can explore new ideas and figure out how to explain them, so that I already know what I’m going to say when I sit down to write the book.)

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