Visualisation exercise

Visualisation is one of these skills everybody has – but it needs practise. Reading books, daydreaming, planning for the future are all activities that employ and hone your visualisation skills. The exercise given here is meant to practise visualisation without any further goal associated with it.
Each day this week, pick a fruit – apple, orange, grape, kiwi, cherry, whatever. It is best if you have that fruit within reach, especially for the first days. Explore the fruit – look it over completely, rotate it in every direction, take in the form, the colours, the texture, the little flaws where the fruit is not perfect. Touch it, feel the firmness, the softness, the texture.
Then put the fruit away and close your eyes. Picture the fruit in your minds eye. See it rotating in front of you, see the colours, the size, the texture, the little flaws... Take your time. Then imagine holding the fruit, moving it, feeling its firmness, its surface... Take your time. Then imagine taking the fruit to your nose. Smell it – does it smell? Take it to your mouth, imagine taking a bite. Hear the sound you make chewing on it, taste it, taste the sweetness, the flavour. Enjoy it. (Of course, if necessary, imagine peeling it first. Again, imagine the feeling, and enjoy the smell.) Try to involve all of your senses in the experience, and take your time.
Pick a different fruit each day. After the end of the week, imagine a bowl holding all the fruits you visualised during the week, and perform the visualisation with this bowl. Visualise creating a fruit salad from it, and imagine the taste, and the feeling of the different parts of your fruit salad.
This is an exercise that allows you to practise your visualisation skill. It is interesting to do for a time, especially if you manage to include as many senses as you can. The exercise should teach you how to do visualisation, and what difference it makes to include more than one sense.