Improve your skills

The purpose of a practice assignment is to improve. The best way to improve is to practice and be provided with positive feedback as soon as possible after completing a session. This requires that after the session you are allowed to observe or have knowledge of what you were remote viewing.  A practice assignment should almost always be a photograph, but not any photograph will do. The following information will provide you with some guidelines for the selection process.

Confidence in practice

Feeling confident that you are making good use of your time when you start a practice session is half the battle to improving. Knowing you have a hearty practice pool (a collection of practice assignments) will definitely help. You can learn to be resourceful and do this for yourself.

Variety is the spice!

Be sure your practice pool has a variety of subject matter. You want to keep your unconscious interested. When first learning, choose photos relating to ideas you are familiar with, the better your lexicon for the topic is, the more accurate you will be.  Later as you advance, you can choose assignments with many different types of topics you wouldn’t mind learning more about. If you can't prove to yourself that you can accuratly draw an ST to match a photo, how can you trust your drawings to unfamiliar topics and complicated cues?

Mixup Categories

Keep in mind “idea sets” and further break them down into sub-groups and work on your search for images from there. For example, there are structures, and water and life forms. There are natural structures, buildings and smaller structures, so from buildings you might want to select a house, a skyscraper, a cottage, a fort and so on. Select different types of items associated with water such as a fountain, a glass filled with ice cubes, a lake, a boat in water, an underwater plant, and a fish in a fish tank. Make a list of your hobbies, interests and current and previous occupations and think of all the items associated with related subjects and then either take pictures of them or search for them on the internet. Setting up a practice pool is almost certainly more work than you first think it is! Remember to keep the photographs as uncomplicated as you possibly can, you want a definite main subject (item) to focus your attention on while in session. The fewer items in the photo, the less there is for you to question about accuracy. You either drew the simple object or you didnt.

Keep It Exciting

There are a few things you should quickly learn to avoid. Keep the subjects emotionally exciting or at least of a positive nature. The unconscious mind has a tendency not to observe what it is not interested in.  Choosing images of things containing large amounts of ideas, such as books or documents can also lead to a frustrating experience both in session and during feedback.

Use Unaltered Photos

You do not want photos that have been digitally altered beyond basic color balancing and cropping, as ideas about these digital enhancements will often show up in session and detract from your feedback experience. They should be “real” images, not drawings or diagrams. Stock photos are generally not a good source of unadulterated images.

Avoid Clutter

If you are gathering photographs from online, look them over thoroughly for evidence of digital alterations. Choose photos that contain one main subject. Look at the background for lots of activity or clutter, these things may be unnecessarily distracting during session. There are millions of photographs to choose from online, so it is worth tossing anything questionable. Remember you are going to be spending about an hour or more of your valuable time in session.

New remote viewers may begin to pick up data about the photographer. If you want to improve over the long-term, do not focus on misses such as that, but instead give yourself a pat on the back for the important and correct information you gathered about the object represented in the photograph.

Cropping an image is sometimes a good idea if there are some distractions or digital markings, such as overlaid words, around the edges of an otherwise perfect image. Remember to leave room at the top or bottom for your CRN (coordinate reference number).

Make Them Meaningful

You may also want to go through your own collection of photographs, especially if you have lots of images of things, rather than activities and people. Choose meaningful or memorable objects. You can also opt to take some snapshots of items you are familiar with, just move them to an uncluttered, well-lit area if necessary. Any photo that makes you say "oh my goodness", will more than likely cause the mind to take notice during session and provide the best feedback afterward.

Be Respectful

An occasional image of a person, especially one involved in a simple activity, is good practice to gain experience. However, you’ll want a large majority of your assignments to be free of people, especially those that you know. Remote viewing someone you know may have consequences you cannot foresee. You’ll also want to avoid issues such as a friend or family member feeling violated should they find out later you remote viewed them. Even if you don’t gain any private information about them, how can they truly know that you didn’t? Many people have a lot of misconceptions about remote viewing, and even if they are supportive in your interests, there’s no need to risk losing their trust or having them act out in what you may see as long-term irrational behavior. Generally it is much safer to remote view the image of someone who is deceased, such as a president or other historical figure.

Easy Cues

One of the few safe non-photo practice assignments is this cue:

{your name} / pinpoint location / now
(Do not include the brackets, replace with your real name, first name only is fine.)

In remote viewing, using the qualifier “now” has been found to be the exact moment the remote viewer begins the session (not when the cue was made). Feedback for this one is immediate as all one has to do is look around you to match with information in your session.

This cue should be used sparingly as you will probably have more than a few aspects and a longer session. It is however good for variety, perhaps no more than one in ten assignments in your practice pool. Do not over-do this or any assignment, as your unconscious will quickly become bored and you’ll be risking going “off target” during session, and ultimately wasting your own time.

Note that the main subject in this cue is not yourself, but your immediate location. You will undoubtedly pick up aspects of yourself, if not actually have yourself as one of the aspects in session.

To remote view yourself use this cue:
{your name} / who?

(Do not include the brackets, replace with your real name, first name only is fine.)

Remote viewing yourself will provide you with experience of what it is like to be remote viewed and what it is like to remote view a person without risking violating anyone’s privacy. After completing this type of session a dozen or so times (which may take you a year or more realistically), you will have a good idea of the overall “feeling” that occurs when someone is focusing their thoughts, intentions and attention towards you.

Go Big!

Selecting photographs for practice can be a daunting task. You may want to work on finding a few at a time, or drop some prospective photographs into a folder as you surf the web. Others may do well to sit down about once a month for a few hours and prepare 20-50 assignments at a time, complete with CRN. Making a large pool like this will let forget the images on the photographs or at least which numbers are associated with what images.

Practice Makes Perfect

Keep in mind that you are responsible for your own skill development and that the main purpose of the photographs is to improve. You want one main subject to focus your attention on so that you can provide yourself with definitive feedback post-session. Providing yourself with variety will help keep the attention of your unconscious as well as gain experience with different types of subjects. The purpose of practice is to learn to stay in structure and keep to protocols. Even if you feel you know your “stuff”, it is important to practice on a regular basis.  Skill does not come by resting on our laurels or reputation, to keep the skill well-honed requires practice.

Use A Service

An automated system to create practice pools is available at www.remoteviewinglabs.com.There you can create dozens of assignments at once so that you will never know which CRN/TRN you are using with what photo or cue.

If you find you do not have the patience or time to create your own blind practice assignment pool, we will soon be providing target pool services at www.humanpotentialindustries.com.We will be providing a variety of assignment pools for you to download and use based on your current lexicon.