Images from our past and hopes and fears for our future flash across the inner television screen of the mind throughout the day. When the images are free to float, they are our dreams or daydreams. But we all have the power to control these images. This is the basic principle of “creative visualization”.
We have all experienced moments of relaxation, maybe during our childhood or in the company of our friends or loved ones or in the closeness of nature, etc. which are stored in the form of memories in our sub-conscious minds. By bringing these memories in our conscious minds and by creating positive visual images of these moments in the eye of the mind, both of which are essential parts of the Rajyoga meditation technique, we can remove our stresses and strains and experience a peaceful state of mind in any type of surroundings and circumstances.
To experience relaxation by remembering positive scenes of the past, practice the following visualization:
Sit comfortably in a relaxed position…
Activate (open) the eye of the mind or the third eye…
Visualize yourself as a living spiritual energy, a star point of pure energy situated between the eyebrows… Now remember clearly a situation when you felt extremely relaxed…
Emerge the picture of the situation as clearly as you can on the screen of your mind…
Where you were, in whose company, maybe you were experiencing silence; amidst what actions and interactions were you busy…
Now visualize the colours of the situation that you were surrounded by…
Now recall the sounds of the situation, were there any conversations involved… Hear them in your mind… If there was silence, recollect how that sounded…
Now emerge in your awareness how or what you felt…in your eyes… your heart…
your whole body…
Bring into your mind the particular emotions or feelings of relaxation related to that scene…
Holding both the image of the scene in the eye of your mind and its feelings in your mind, place an object in the scene, it could be anything, a flower, an animal, a bird, a star, a musical instrument, etc….
Visualize it clearly there and let it be a symbol for this particular scene and these feelings…
Now you can flash the image of this symbol in front of your mind’s eye to emerge the scene and the feelings of relaxation related to it anywhere, any time, in one second…
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