Imagine yourself on a bed of soft, fragrant moss, on a gentle slope beneath a large tree , on a hillside overlooking the ocean. The sky is clear. The ocean is calm. The air is skin temperature. With each breath your lungs fill with fresh,clean air that is at the same time soothing and revitalizing . Don't count or change your breaths, but pay attention to them as they become deeper and more relaxed. Although your " eye of flesh" is closed to the external world, your mind's eye is awake and alert. With each breath, you feel lighter , and the interior landscape comes into sharper focus.
You take a particularly deep breath and discover that you are floating effortlessly above the ground. You float around the tree and see what was behind you, opposite the seascape. Gently rolling green hills stretch out to the blue horizon. In the distance, a single snowcapped mountain peak beckons.
As you start to gently float toward the distant peak, you notice a path across the foothills , aimed directly at the mountain. As you move faster, the mountain grows nearer. You can discern the rocky crags and cliffs as you float closer. All your senses seem to sharpen, and a feeling of well being and pleasant anticipation grows within you as the mountain looms ahead. What new discoveries does it hold for you ?
As you move faster and faster, the mountain grows still nearer. You are still perfectly relaxed, still floating, but now you are ascending higher and higher with every breath. There is no physical or mental effort involved in your ascent, but you notice that the path and the plain and the tree are far, far below and behind you as the foothills rise into the base of the mountain and the path climbs up the mountain toward the peak.
At the top of the mountain, the green countryside rolls and the shining sea ripples into the distance. The sky is deep blue above you. You look over the top of the peak and discover that you are atop an extinct volcano . In the crater is the clearest lake you have ever seen. So clear is the lake, in fact, that you don't notice it until you notice the small , wooded island in the center of the crystalline waters.
You descend to the island, skimming a few feet above the ground. On the island, beneath a small, old bonsai like tree, a clear, cool spring bubbles forth from the roots and cascades down to the lake. You lie on the ground and peer into the roots at the very source ,and when your eyes adjust to the darkness, you see something in the depths . What is it ? Remember whatever you see. Study it . And let it go.
Drink from the spring, move away from the tree , float away from the island, up over the lip of the crater, down the other side of the mountain , and at the crest of a foothill, pause for a moment to look at a small valley you've never seen before. What do you see ? Go down into it. Who and what do you meet ? Do they have anything to say to you, show you, give you ? Be sure to thank them for their gifts, and prepare to return to your "other " world.
When you are ready to return , imagine yourself back at the tree on the hillside overlooking the sea. Imagine that the sun is slowly setting. When darkness begins to fall, take a deep breath and open your eyes . Try to fix the impressions from your journey in your external consciousness, then immediately write or draw your impressions and images.
The images that may appear on this first journey are often clues to your most important feelings, solutions to current problems, or helpers on your journey to full visualuzation skills. But sometimes, the meaning of images only become clear later, when other images can furnish a context .
Don't be discouraged if nothing spectacular happens at the beginning . Simply repeat the exercise daily , until you are comfortable with it and the images grow vivid. After all, it is worth a little practice and effort to learn the language of the unconscious so that when it speaks you can understand and communicate with it.
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