Dan writes, “I have some question. I’ve tried to visualize with closed eyes and for me it’s impossible. When my eyes are closed, I only see black and nothing else but when my eyes are opened I find it’s so easy to visualize stuff. I’ve always been a day dreamer, even in school my mind was always wandering and of course my grades suffered because of it. How come I can’t visualize with closed eyes? Is daydreaming considered visualization? How can I train my brain to SEE with closed eyes? I DO NOT SEE through my third eye and i wish i could. My husband try to teach me how to see my chakras but it doesn’t seem to click in with me. WHY ME? Hopefully you can help me. Thank you.”
Of course you can visualize with your eyes closed or open. It seems that when you close your eyes, you are focusing on what you can see through your physical eyes, instead of simply focusing on what you are thinking. You are free to think about anything you want, whether your eyes are open or closed. Visualization is a name given to thinking about something with any of your senses, even though most people think about visualizing in images – as in, giving form to something.
If you can close your eyes and describe what you are wearing with your eyes closed, or describe how your bedroom looks like, you’ll be definitely using your ability to visualize, to see images, even if those images may pass so fast through your mind that to you it seems as if you’ve seen nothing, but in order to describe how something looks like, you’d have to access the part of your brain that processes images.
For the purpose of growing taller, it doesn’t really matter whether your eyes are open or closed, and it doesn’t matter whether you can see images clearly. Some people are more kinesthetic, and they find it easier to focus on feelings – and if you are more kinesthetic, you can imagine how it FEELS growing taller and being taller.
Someone who is more auditory, may be inclined to focus easier on how something sounds, and perhaps when such a person subjectively experiences desired height, he may be more focused on some sound, perhaps clicking sound, or a sound of a switch, or some other sound that to that person represents growing taller or being of desired height.
Ideally, the person would practice using all of his senses – experiencing himself growing taller and being of desired height with all of his senses – seeing himself growing taller and being of a desired height, feeling himself growing taller and being of a desired height, and maybe saying something to himself or hearing other people complimenting him or involving any other sounds that fit his subjective experience.
You can train yourself to see with your minds eye by looking at something in your environment, closing your eyes, and describing how it looks like. If you can write words in English correctly, then you are definitely using your ability to visualize, because it’s impossible to spell English words otherwise since many of them are written one way and pronounced in a different way, so you can close your eyes and spell different words. You can also put some object in front of you, perhaps a candle, look at it for a while, close your eyes, and replicate that image in your mind – if the words “visualization” or “mind’s eye” are confusing you, then simply think of that candle when you close your eyes.
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