To be able to teach this technique takes a lot of practice
Unlike the Peaceful Spot, which you can learn in one day and turn around and can teach, working with the Imaging System is a bit more complex. Teaching a person how to experience images is the easy part, but unexpected things occur when you take the images into deeper levels of experience.
Your job is to learn to work the image. The image won't tell you what you can do with it, experience does. It is this experience, how to work the images, that you provide when assisting another person.
The idea that you can interact with images is so new to most people that in order for you to help another person use the images, you have to ask the questions for them so that they get used to how this works. This means you have to develop a good sense of how to direct the questions that you ask.
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People who can see images and those who can't
When presenting how the Imaging System works, you may have a harder time with people who already have easy access to images. The person who does not have this ability or has limited ability to see images in their brain may appreciate it more when they have instant access to images.
Individuals who already have the talent to see images easily may have a hard time understanding why you need to relate to your images differently. If the images come too easily, they may be reluctant to explore this ability further.
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Working the Images - when the person you are assisting freezes
When a person freezes during this exercise and is unable to see an image of themselves you have to develop other methods to activate their Imaging System.
For example:
When someone freezes when trying to see an image of themselves,
- Ask them to see an image of someone else.
- Have them describe the other person
- Then have them ask that image to switch to their own image.
It is here where your experience comes in handy. If the person you are working with is named Barb say, "Look at the image of a person you admire. Now ask the image to switch to Barb." When you use Barb's name, the switch is easy because our subconscious sees only one image of a name.
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Working the Images - seeing a future self
When you are assisting a person to experience an image of themselves in the near future
- Have them say, "Show me an image of Barb and what she looks like a month from now."
- State qualities for the image, "Show me Barb with new abilities."
- When that image shows up you, then ask the person, "What do you like about her?"
- Then ask, "What's different about her than the way you are now?"
- After the person has analyzed the vibrations of her future image, then say to her, "Ask the image to enter your body."
- Then remind the person to feel each part of their body. "How do you feel in your head, your neck, your chest, your abdomen, pelvis, arms and legs?"
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Switching Emotions
As you learn to bring different images into your body, at some point you come to realize that you are learning how to switch emotions.
Here is another method through which you can show people how they can switch emotions. To do this you should learn how to transmit energy out of the palms of your hand and fingertips. By placing your hand in front of you, your fingers pointing in the direction of the other person's chest, send some chi-energy out of your hand into the person’s chest and ask the person to say, "Happy!"
If this works, the person will experience happiness in one part or throughout their body. Now ask the person to snap their fingers and say, "Turn it off. Turn off the happy." If this works, the happy feeling in the other person will disappear as if a switch was thrown. Do this several times till the person feels comfortable that they can switch this feeling on and off.
While this does not cover the full range of human emotions it does introduce the person to the idea that emotions can be changed relatively easily.
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Viewing yourself at different ages
To have an image of yourself at different ages show up is relatively easy once the person has been able to have an image of themselves show up. When the image shows up they have to be assisted in sensing and describing what kind of a person they were at that age. You can also ask the image of the child to entering the person's physical body, so that they can experience what it felt like to be that age on a body-sensation level.
For some people, while an image of a child may show up, they might not want to accept what they see as being them. People often say, "I just don't remember what I was like." In this situation just have them explore the image of the child by asking them, "What is this child like? What do you like about them?"
Chi-Kung teachers often recommend visualizing yourself at year six or seven for creating optimal health inside your body. It is recommended that you look at these ages and also at ages three or four.
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The inability to see an image of a younger self
There are several ways to go around this. One option is to have an image of the person's siblings, parent or other relatives show up. When the image of the relative shows up then say to the person, "Take a look at the image of this relative. Do they like you at this age? What do they like about you?" Always look for positive, life-affirming information.
Or ask the person to have an image of a mirror show up in their brain. Then say, "Take a look in the mirror and tell me what you see." Again, always insist that the person see something of value about themselves.
Another method is to ask for an image of someone who the person does not know to show up. They can even have an image of you the assistant, show up. The value of having an unknown person show up is that there is no preconception of who they are, so the information is easier to get. Again you ask the person, "What does this unknown person like about you at that age?"
One of the most important techniques to use when a person has a lot of trouble with any of these techniques is to have them say, "Show me a glimpse of who Barb was at age 5." For some reason the word glimpse removes unconscious resistance and allows the information to show up.
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I already know that
If you are working with the Imaging System, when an image shows up and the thought comes to you that, "I already know this about myself," then you are missing an opportunity to go deeper to learn more about energy and to learn more about yourself. It's important that each image which shows up be treated as a gift that you can learn from.
If you treat each image as if it is your first experience, then you realize that each time an image shows up you are looking at a substance. Your recognition of this substance creates an intuitive connection which allows you to communicate. You may say that the image gives you the ability to communicate with your subconscious.
Some people cannot get past the, "I already know this." The best that you can do is to encourage them to take a second or third look at the image to see if they can notice something that they might not know about themselves.