Holding Your Plant in Your Mind, Day 10

Today's exercise is one of my favorite games I play.  I use it to hone my ability to hold an accurate image of something in my mind.  Go out and look at your plant for a couple of minutes and then close your eyes and hold the image as long as you can.  Then reopen and look at it again, may be from a slightly different angle repeating the process of look and hold.  Here is where the real fun begins.  Once again, look at the plant, get the image fixed in your mind and this time reach out and try to touch a specific feature of the plant with your eyes closed based upon the picture in your head.  How well can you navigate with your hands around your plant using your mental image?  

Gradually increase the challenge.  For example, walk around to the other side of the plant and try to reach over or around it and touch a specific feature with your eyes closed.  Or, walk a short distance away from your plant, view the plant, close your eyes, hold the image and try to walk toward and touch a specific point or points on the plant.  I play this game in my home a lot.  I will walk into a room and pick out an object somewhere in the room that I am going to try to navigate toward and touch or pick it up with my eyes closed.  One key to this is taking a few minutes to practice holding the image in your mind as long as you can.  Picture your hand actually reaching toward it.  Have fun and play with this.  

You can do this game anywhere anytime (okay, except for perhaps a moving car when you are driving).  Sometimes I just scatter objects on a table, glance at them and then try to pick items up in a sequence without looking.  If you think of a different variation to do with your plant, please let us know in a comment.

Have fun!