Visualisation
Reflecting on the Moon
Every object in nature is a symbol laden with meaning and significance. Each symbol is like a window through which we can go with our conscious awareness to discover new meaning. The moon hangs high in the night sky and seems only to reflect the light of the sun. And yet those reflections are powerful enough to effect the movement of the oceans here on Earth. What does this mean to you from a spiritual point of view? This visualisation may awaken the symbolic significance and meaning of the moon in your life.
Sit comfortably with only a low light in the room...
Consciously relax your body...
Take your attention away from everything around you and turn your attention inwards...
You are in the countryside...
It is late on a balmy summer's evening...
Night is descending slowly on the land as you stroll down a country road...
The road ahead rises upwards towards the moon which is slowly climbing into the night sky...
As the moon rises, it is as if the end of the road rises with it...
Full and radiant, it shines its cooling light down on all and everything around you...
It caresses your face like smooth, soft, velvet ...
Walking up the gentle incline you look down to see your body dissolve beneath you...
You become aware of yourself as a small orb of light...
You float upwards towards the moon, as if drawn to a magnet...
For a moment you hover in front of this huge ball of pure, white light...
Upwards you move, into the light...
You can feel yourself being enfolded by pure, white, radiant light...
You can feel its coolness washing through your whole being...
You can feel yourself releasing the tension and worries which have been trapped in your memories, habitual thoughts and recurring emotions...
All anxiety dissolves like honey in warm water...
You are held floating in the purity and the peace of this light as it embraces you ...
Feel it filling you with a peace and contentment that you have never experienced before...
You float for a few moments, letting the light empower you...purify you...heal you ...
Then gently you begin to withdraw...floating out, and away, and back down towards the road below...
As you reach the road your body reappears and you can see and feel your physical costume once again...
You turn and begin to walk back down the road, back into your life ...
Refreshed, renewed and relaxed...
And you are aware that your busy mind is now quieter, calmer and clearer...
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Why Practice Visualisation?
The most powerful energy in the universe is the energy of the mind. Everything we create, from the simplest of objects, to the most complex philosophies, are formed in the human mind. The images and thoughts which you create at each moment directly influence your emotional and physical well being. Imagine yourself eating a lemon and you will begin to salivate, picture yourself fall from a cliff edge and you will generate the feeling of falling along with tremendous anxiety, possibly terror.
The key to relaxation lies in what you do with your mind. Like an inner television screen or an artists blank canvas, your mind is ready to display any idea or image which you choose. While meditation tends to have one point of mental focus (an idea, insight, icon or mantra) creative visualisation is the purposeful use of the mind to create positive images and therefore has a number of beneficial uses:
- 1 Simple Relaxation
When you create peaceful and positive mental images you invoke and awaken feelings of inner peace, releasing tension and dissolving anxieties.
- 2 Generate Healing
There are now many documented cases of patients visualising their return to good health, or using symbols and images to visualise how their immune system fights and defeats physical disease.
- 3 Invoking Inner Wisdom
We all have a deep resource of wisdom and truth at the heart of our consciousness – sometimes referred to as intuition or conscience. Creative visualisation opens and quietens the mind, so we may clearly hear this inner voice and allow it to guide us.
- 4 Goal Setting
When you set a goal for yourself you will create an image of its achievement, sometimes known as a preferred future state. (goals are not desires) The vision then helps you to discern what is useful to achieve the goal, and if the vision is sustained with the right quality of energy it begins to attract towards you the necessary resources.
- 5 Restoration of Creativity and Concentration
Our modern world has encouraged us to become dependent on others creativity and most of us have lost our awareness of the importance of mental concentration. The media and entertainment industries present us with the clever and calculatingly impressive ideas of a few. As we, the many, sit and allow ourselves to be entertained, we can easily become dependent on the creativity of those few, and in so doing lessen our own creative capacity through lack of practice.
Daily visualisation restores our ability to focus and concentrate the energy of our consciousness and become masters of our own minds. If we are not able to do this for ourselves, we allow others to capture our attention and influence our creation. We then become slaves to others imagery, and wonder why we are not able to relax at will, and why we feel drained after a particularly emotional movie.
Learning how to visualise, and develop the breadth and depth of 'inner vision', is the art and the heart of all creativity.
While the weekly visualisations are designed for your practice it is important that you generate your own visualisations - otherwise it can become yet another dependency, and lazy thinking continues. So we would encourage you to use the visualisations which you find here as a template for creating your own.
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