QUOTE(grim789 @ Jun 19 2012, 02:00 PM)
This is what i had trouble with whenever i actually realized that i was seeing sylphs. I would try to focus on them and my vision would go back to normal. But once i would just breathe and just unfocus i would be able to see them a lot more clearly. I will have to check out the book always nice to read some different techniques.
I have known a handful of people who seemed to be able to reliably see energies and spirits, and they described it as seeing with their eyes "sort of" - as though there is an input laid over the visual input that is put there by another sense. Most of them stop seeing this overlay when they close their eyes, but one lady I met at a festival saw energies even with her eyes closed.
I have found that when I focus on trying to see what I am sensing otherwise, I will tend to lose touch with it and my accuracy will suffer significantly. Eventually, I stopped trying to see it at all, but I think relaxing and allowing the information to arrive in whatever way it does is probably the key. After all, this is the way most of our senses function.
A simple exercise that helped me when I first made this connection for myself, was to learn what it feels like to hone in on a particular sense, and apply that to this other sense that was perceiving energy. You can sit and listen to a song, for instance, and attempt to hone in on just the base line, just the lead guitar, the backup singers, etc., and try to isolate one particular element of the music (I like music, but you can do the same kind of thing with a painting, I imagine, isolating colors or textures). The 'muscle' in your brain that does this is the same for every sense it seems, and it applies to the energetic sense as well. Identifying the energetic sense in isolation is tough because we all have it but take it for granted the way we do any other sense - it's always present among the various influxes of stimulus we are receiving every hour of the day. In a sensory deprivation chamber it might stand out more, but I haven't spent a lot of time working with them and when i last did I wasn't looking for it.
It's the sense that tells you more about your environment than you can observe with your other senses.
Having identified the sense and the muscle that 'focuses' senses, you can develop a greater depth of information gathering ability through this sense than you will get if you are restricted to a sensory analog experience. For instance, because we see in three dimensions, the visual analog to the energy sense is presented to us in 3-dimensional format. However, energy can be sensed beyond just spatial dimensions, into temporal and potential dimensions (4th and 5th, but I kind of feel the numbering of them gets to be arbitrary as we keep changing our minds about how many dimensions there are). There is no visual analog for these, though clairvoyance is an ability that can offer symbolic representations that can be accurate but requires a learning curve.
peace