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Hi, this is Karalee, and I had a small win with RI.
I am an occluded case - at best feel like I'm seeing things very shadowy and fuzzy. My first big win with RI was getting the object out of my head - stop running it as a process - and placing it into the actual space around me. Today and yesterday I noticed that the objects I bring into existence are starting to take on more realness to me, more solidity. For example, a clay pot I typically like to RI is now more real, more gritty. I start my RI with a handwritten list of stuff normally in my space and I run through that list; sometimes I change the object up a little ... turn it blue, give it added features, etcetera, but not always. Change occurs (usually yawns) and I keep going through the handwritten list until no more change and I feel more present, the environment looks more real to me ... not overlayed by fuzzy mind stuff. If even that feels difficult (because of the occlusion) I drop down a gradient and do a six directions RI, and change occurs when I do that too ... put the object around me six directions and hold all six copies of it there. This is the RI I do when prepping for timebreaking; otherwise, when not prepping for the timebreaking part of the session, I might do a more expanded RI with ideal scenes just for the fun of it... luxuriate in it with regard to things I would like to experience, or as an aversion therapy... try putting scary black spiders all around you, eh! :-)) Another thing I like about RI is that when I start it I realize I am the center, so it brings up a certain realization of self with regard to creating and things thus created. Who is this creator? So, even though the exercise brings your viewpoint more fully into the here and now, I find it also to be very expanding of viewpoint of who I am (life) in relation to the created things.... seeing what is more important or central, or causal. The exercise gnaws away at the fixed importance to always be creating something along with fixed aversions to creating something.
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