Chapter 1
Skills of the Craft While there are many important skills to utilize in your Craft, including patience, visualization is one of your most essential skills. When you visualize something happening, particularly with an energy shift, you help to make the shift happen. Visualization helps us learn to control, focus, and direct our energies to create the changes we seek. Is visualization really that important? Yes! This cannot be emphasized enough. And yet, I understand that visualization can be a huge problem for people, which is why I want to cover this skill first. Let’s talk a bit about some of the issues with visualization that people face and discuss different ways of overcoming them. When someone tells me, “Just imagine,” I do. I do because my brain is wired to allow me to. The problem is, not everyone’s brain is wired the same, and not everyone has had the same experiences to draw from. So, someone tells me to imagine a mountain, and I can suddenly find myself in the Grand Tetons staring out over Jenny Lake. I can smell the fresh air and the pine trees on the breeze. I can hear the cranes calling along with the chipmunk rustling in the leaves. I have also been to the Grand Tetons, where I was able to stare out over Jenny Lake, smell the air, and hear the cranes. This makes visualizing it easy for me. I can quickly and easily put myself back into a place I have been before.
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