Cloud Melting

You often hear people talk about using creative visualization to bring about changes in your life. As I said in Concentrative Meditation (Part Two), a creative visualization is a belief in visual form, a positive visual embodiment of something you want to exist in your personality or life. You may pooh-pooh the idea that wishing can make it so. You’re right. Wishing won’t make it so. For a belief to be effective, you have to know it is true. Then you may say, “Okay, if I believe something that strongly, it will be real for me, but not in the exterior world. What I believe and know in my heart can affect me and my own mind, but not the physical world.” You’re wrong.

What is cloud melting?

I first read about cloud melting back in the 1970s in a book by Jess Stearn named Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation. Cloud melting is the perfect test for creative visualization. The process I use is

1. Choose a day that is fairly clear, but has small puffball cumulus clouds. These are the easiest to melt.
2. Choose a cloud. Keep it in your line of sight. Begin to visualize it as gone. I usually start at the edges, seeing them fray away and the cloud becoming smaller and smaller until it disappears. Sometimes I will imagine the cloud getting warmer and warmer until it can’t hold together. Other times I will just imagine blue sky where the cloud is.
3. Continue to focus, visualizing only blue sky where the cloud is until the cloud is gone. This usually takes just a few minutes.

Melt several clouds to prove to yourself that the cloud you are melting is really the cloud that disappears. Notice that the clouds you don’t try to melt stick around.

Cloud Melting and Creative Visualization

Even though I’ve done it off and on for years, cloud melting still fascinates me. Melting clouds isn’t important in and of itself. It’s important because it shows in a nutshell how creative visualization works. You visualize a desired state. Believe the desired state to be true. Watch the desired state happen.

Cloud melting is one of the most convenient ways to practice creative visualization and prove to yourself that it works. You get instant results. It’s easy to do. And it’s hard to ignore such obvious changes to the physical world and put them down to coincidence. What works with clouds, works in your life. As Yoda said to Luke Skywalker - “There’s no difference.”

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