Anyone else have this problem?

[cetaephakni]

Although I have been a Wiccan and Pagan for a long time, it was not until recently that I began spell crafting and circle work. The first two worked wonderfully. The last one not so well. A simple house cleansing turned against me. I was not sure exactly why it went wrong, only that for a day I seemed to have gathered all the negativity and bad

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[morrigane]

I think the problem is not so much with visualization than with, maybe, the lack of focus. If you cannot picture the energies going away and being replace by a white light (which is a rather complexx visualization that most people cannot hold for long unless they have been practicing for quite a time), you can always state your intentions loud over and over again. While repeating a phrase like "I banish bad energies and welcome good ones" or "There is place only for what is pure and good here" or anything that works for you, listen to the word and put all your energies in their meaning. That should replace visualization and help you focus on your intents. Also, you can change your ritual to have smaller visualizations. When I want to get rid of bad energies, I take a broom and literaly sweep them out of the house. I only have to visualize something at the end of my broom. It is much easier as i have seen dust and other things in front of my broom. I only have to replace this image with the one I want.

I used to think that I could not visualize. I did not "see" things no matter how hard I tried, but I tried harder and it finally worked. Now, I can visualize things for quite a while even with my eyes open. However, I cannot taste or smell them in my head yet. I have been working for two years. This is not easy for me, but it can be acheived by anybody. And it is easier to perform a ritual with an image fixed in your mind than with souds as you can add some music and other sounds without being distracted. Well, it is easier for me.

Also there can be a problem with the image you are trying to visualize. I read in a book that associating white with good and purity and black with bad and negativity was colonialist and racist. At first I jumped and though that this was a bit over the top, but the more I thought about it,the more I felt that this was what had been bothering me in my visualizations. I now use pink for positivity and a mix of blurry, muddy browns for negativity and it works much better for me. I am not saying it is the same for you, just that there might be a problem in what you are trying to visualize.

I hope it helped.