Remain focussed between the eyebrows and very motionless.
Blink as little as possible. Let your energy ‘crystallise’ through
stillness.
Instead of looking at any details of the image, become aware of
the fact of seeing, the seeingness. If no seeingness can be perceived
yet, just feel the image instead of looking at it – the whole image
of the scene in front of you, not only your friend's image. Sense
it in a ‘tactile’ way, feeling the pressure of the (non-physical) light
on your eye.
To this we now add a third component to be implemented
simultaneously with the first two:
Become aware of your heart centre, in the middle of the chest.
Try to feel the other person (or yourself in a mirror) from your
heart. Don't pay any attention to the image even though your eyes
are open. Just be focussed in your eye and feel your friend from
your heart.
Your focus is now double, in the eye and in the heart. But it is not
a split. Rather, it is like anchoring your eye in your heart. You are
not looking from both the eye and the heart, you are seeing from
the heart, through the eye.
Tips
This is our triple process of vision: the eye, the seeingness, the
heart. You can play with these three elements and emphasize more
of one or another, depending on the energy flow of the moment.
Where is the heart centre located, exactly? Whenever you wish
to localise a chakra, it is preferable not to be too precise. A chakra
is not a point but rather a zone, an area of vibration. So one could
say that the middle of the heart chakra area is roughly in the
middle of the sternum (around the acupuncture point Conception
17), and also behind it, inside the chest. But do not look for it too
much. Rather become aware in this area, and let the feeling arise
by itself. As long as you remain in the middle of the chest and do
not go astray in the solar plexus, everything will be fine.
This approach introduces a mode of perception that is quite
different from the usual way the mind operates. Usually the mind
tries to cognize the world by grasping details from the images in
front of us, and drawing conclusions from them. In this case, the
perception is based on the feeling of the heart, independently of
any of the features of the image. You tune into the person in
front of you and establish a connection from the heart on a
