Talk:Pyrokinesis/@comment-81.99.186.53-20190317152337/@comment-4109661-20190408101751

Imagination is imagination, and nothing more. If you want to get into this sort of thing, I recommend sticking to psi-balls (as they're called here) for now and getting familiar with your own energy first. Not meditating because you "can't be bothered" is the exact sort of mindset that prevents you from attaining this power; pyrokinesis, in my experience, is all about non-thinking and letting your conscious being become one with the fire. Just as you are alive and have energy flowing through every molecule of your body, fire is a manifestation of that life-energy itself, being pure heat and light manifest by the combustion of the same molecules that make up your body. If you are not able to be mindful of your own energy (which is best attained through meditation and practice), you are unable to be mindful of and therefore manipulate the energy of something else, especially something as raw and primal as fire.

tl;dr Practice, practice, practice! There is no excuse to not meditate when it is so central to the practice of psionics and -kinesis. Visualization -- or imagination -- comes before action, but all you are doing is visualizing. This understanding is only attained through contemplation, meditation, and trance; all of which work towards the same goal of mindfulness.