Visualization & Mantra Yoga
The following are a series of the secret basic and intermediate meditation
techniques.
The Blue Sky
As you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any
clouds in it. As you picture the clear blue sky, feel that your body is
growing lighter and lighter. Close your eyes and keep the image of the blue
sky in your mind.
There are no limits to the blue sky. It stretches on endlessly in every
direction, never beginning and never ending. As you visualize the blue sky,
feel that your body has become so light that you have floated up into the
clear blue sky. Visualize that your are floating in the sky, and that all
tensions, fatigue, worry, and problems have left you. Relax your mind and
allow your breathing to seek its own level. Feel yourself floating gently
in the clear blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction, never
beginning and never ending.
After several minutes have passed and you feel your thoughts slowing,
picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Your body is
merging with the peace of the blue sky....Your mind is merging with the
tranquillity of the blue sky....Feel that you have actually become the
blue sky. You no longer have a body or a mind. You have become the infinite
blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction, never beginning and
never ending. Feel that you have become the perfect peace and tranquillity
of the blue sky. Completely let go and experience the bliss of meditation.
The Tower Of Light
Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. As you exhale, mentally picture all
tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Then turn your attention to
the crown of your head. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering
into you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.
Imagine this golden light passing from the crown of your head, through your
neck, shoulders, arms, chest, stomach, lower back, and down your legs to
your feet.
As you imagine the golden light passing throughout your body, feel yourself
relaxing. Picture another wave of golden light entering through the crown
of your head and visualize it passing through your entire body and then
leaving through the soles of your feet. Feel that wave after wave of golden
light passing through you in this way. Each wave of golden light that
passes through your body removes more of your tension, quiets your mind,
and helps you to enter farther and deeper into a state of meditation.
Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of
golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden
light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room. Then
visualize the golden light expanding the earth...beyond the sky...into the
infinite. Feel that the golden light is constantly passing through you and
washing all of your tensions, problems, and worries beyond you, beyond the
earth...beyond the sky...into the infinite. Continue visualizing the
golden stream of light passing through you until you have ended your
meditation session.
The Ocean
Imagine a vast ocean. The ocean is filled with hundreds and thousands of
waves. Feel that your are part of the ocean. Imagine that each wave in the
ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy.
Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each
wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties,
and problems are being washed away in the successive waves of joy. For
several minutes, meditate on wave after wave of joy passing through you.
Feel that each new wave of joy that passes through you increases the amount
of joy that you now have, until you feel that you have become all joy.
Nothing exists for you except limitlessness, boundless joy.
Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. The
surface of the ocean is filled with many waves, but below the surface, in
the depths, all is calm, silent, and serene. Imagine yourself sinking
slowly into the depths of the ocean. Here there is only calmness,
emptiness, and tranquillity. As you visualize yourself going deeper and
deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel a profound peace is entering
you. Feel the deeper you go into the inner ocean, the more peaceful and
calm you become.
Visualize that there is no end to the depths of this ocean. It goes on
endlessly. Imagine yourself sinking deeper into his endless ocean of light,
feeling more peace and tranquillity filling your entire being until you
have become all peace and all tranquillity. Continue practicing this
visualization until you have ended your meditation session.
The Sphere Of Power
Practice this technique whenever you feel tension entering into you from
outside. This exercise can be practiced while seated, or as part of
mindfulness, while you work, talk with others, or engage in any activity.
This exercise is particularly effective when you need to stop tension,
frustration, or panic immediately.
Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your
navel. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength. Visualize a
sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding your entire body, which is
supported by your own willpower. Positive thoughts, feelings, ideas, and
vibrations can pass through this sphere and reach you. But as long as you
visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts,
hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations
cannot enter you.
While you are visualizing this sphere of red energy surrounding you, feel
that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in
the area of your navel, throughout the sphere. Feel that the energy of your
willpower can easily effect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that
are directed towards you from the outside world. You will find that with
repeated practice it becomes easier and easier to visualize this sphere of
red energy and that you will be able to stop the negative energy of others
from entering you.
The Rose
Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. It is not
necessary, when doing this exercise, to see a clear picture of the rose.
Simply do the best you can to imagine a soft, reddish rose in the center
of your chest. If other thoughts and images pass through your mind while
you are performing this exercise, simply ignore them.
Imagine that the rose is completely folded up; none of its petals have yet
unfolded. Now, as you focus your attention on the reddish rose in the
center of your chest, visualize that the first set of petals, the outer
row of petals, is gradually unfolding. As they do so, imagine them growing
and expanding and filling the entire area of your chest. Simultaneously
feel that a wave of peace and joy is spreading throughout your entire
chest area.
Then visualize that a second set of rose petals is unfolding. Imagine them
slowly and gently unfolding and expanding, this time filling the entire
area of your body. Imagine another wave of peace and joy, even deeper than
the first, starting in the center of the chest, in the center of the rose,
and expanding outward, filing your entire body with peace and joy. Now
visualize a third set of petals, again starting in the center of the rose,
and imagine them expanding outward, filling up the entire room, spreading
peace and joy everywhere throughout the room or area in which you are
mediating.
Then visualize a fourth set of petals opening up, this time expanding and
filling the entire earth. Feel that peace and joy are spreading from he
center of your chest, from the center of the rose, throughout all of the
earth and filling all of the people and all of the beings and all of the
objects on this earth with peace and joy.
Now visualize another set of petals opening up, this time filling the
entire solar system with peace and bliss. Simultaneously feel that you are
spreading your own inner peace, of which you have an infinite supply,
throughout the entire solar system.
Finally visualize that a sixth row of petals is opening up, this time
filling up the entire universe, spreading peace and joy throughout the
universe and on into the infinite.
As you practice this exercise, continue to visualize additional petals of
the rose unfolding. As each set of petals unfolds and spreads out into the
infinite, feel that they are reaching farther and farther out and spreading
a deeper peace and joy throughout your whole being and throughout all of
existence. There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to
unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your mediation
session.
Swirling Light
Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there
is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. This particular white
light is very soft and gentle. Visualize that the white light above your
forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.
Then visualize that the swirling white light is slowly expanding. As it
does, the white light begins to encompass the other portions of your body.
Imagine the soft white light expanding in a circular swirling motion until
your entire body has become lost in it.
Feel that the room you are meditating in is becoming filled with swirling
white light. Visualize that the light is expanding beyond the room you are
in to encompass the building or area in which you are located. Then
imagine that the white light is expanding even farther, encompassing all
of the area for miles around you. Finally, visualize the soft white light
continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the
earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.
Let go. Allow your self to merge with the slowly swirling calm, peaceful
white light. In this timeless light, there is no yesterday, no tomorrow,
there is no future or past. Your mind is calm and relaxed. All that exists
is swirling white light, and you have become part of that light. Meditate
and continue to visualize the swirling white light, experiencing peace and
inner stillness, until your mediation session has ended.
Practice Tips
All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes
open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice
meditation with their eyes closed.
When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques,
do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the
technique you were practicing and begin again. Initially your mind will
drift frequently to other subjects, but with practice you will find that
your mind’s strength quickly grows.
Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will
become. However, if you neglect to develop your mind through proper
concentration and meditation exercises, it will atrophy and become weaker.
At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground.
Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done
well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe. Also remember, if
you are properly using the secret meditation techniques, you cannot have
a “bad” meditation. The only bad mediation is when you don’t meditate at
all.
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation
experience from becoming stale, and the different techniques will place
you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a
balanced development of your practice.
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