How to improve "spontaneous creative imagination"

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I just read this book on Alexithymia : "Emotionally Dumb: An Overview of Alexithymia"

I found that Alexithymia has a lot in common with AS, mainly the paucity of spontaneous creative imagination (or something like that).

The book says that people with Alexithymia lack a certain (haven't got the hang of it yet) kind of imagination, which is spontaneous and gives clues to the person's feelings on situations.

I have read many times that Aspies also lack (certain types of) imagination. So I thought if I train myself (or rather let myself) to have this "peculiar" kind of imagination, it would probably help me my own feelings and other people's feelings better. I even have had some sort of success with this. It's like using muscles you have never used. There is definitely something there which likes to evolve.

I read that C.G.Jung has had some ideas about how to unleash this kind of imagination, but can't find any resources online.

I must add that this is NOT about using your logic to identify your feelings based on your bodily reactions and such or to identify other people's feelings in similar ways. (well I'm not even interested in other people. I want to feel my own feelings first). It's about actually FEELING the feelings based on spontaneous images that somehow are supposed to arise in your mind and give you a certain feeling. so basically 1. I need to make my brain produce non random images which 2. give me a certain feeling which makes me know how I'm feeling about a certain thing. 3. I kind of think if you can do this you can easily use it to know what other people feel (wild speculation).

Any Ideas how that could be done?
cherz
Omid