Imagination is one of the least harnessed faculties of our mind.It has tremendous healing potentials apart from being a learning tool.This article tries to understand about Meditation through images or Visual Meditation as it is technically called.
Why Visual Meditation?
- Many practitioners of meditation find it difficult to concentrate during meditation by chanting mantra or by reciting verses.
- Their imagination may be very fertile and focusing on certain images capable of arresting attention would be handy to them.
- It is considered as very effective healing technique popular in the east and often overlooked by western medical practitioners.
- By storing positive and healing images instead of filling the mind with imagery of worries and other negative thoughts, we can cure many dreadful diseases too.
- Negative imagination raise the risk of suffering from various diseases like urinary tract infections, ulcers, headaches, heart diseases, acne, arthritis etc.
- Practice of this type of meditation is a tool to harness our energy of imagination and alter the physiology of our body.
What is Visual Meditation?
- It is a tool which helps us to enter the state of meditation. Other such tools are a rythmic sound, a silent room or a gentle breeze.
- In this type of meditation, an image helps us to focus our energies the meditation.It leads to clarity and concentration of the mind required to successfully enter in to the state of meditation.
- This technique is well-known to Hindu saints and Buddhist monks.The images used by them are a lotus flower or watching a whirling dancer or a distant mountain.
- It results in our attention being arrested and the mind being emptied of thoughts.
- When our mind is emptied of thoughts, true awareness begins to unfold the secrets of nature and unleash the healing mechanism of body.
