Summary

Visualization and meditation go hand in hand. There are more than one ways to meditate. Learn what these are and chose whichever one you feel most comfortable with.

Transcript

Both creative visualization and meditation are empowering techniques that you can use to enhance your self-awareness and consciousness, as well as effectively focusing your mind. Visualization is a beautiful way to bring positive energy into your body, mind, and spirit, effectively increasing your capacity for creativity.

Visualization in Meditation

Meditation involves focusing the mind while relaxing your body, a useful position from which to start visualization. When your mind is clear, and your body is relaxed, you can use your imagination to visualize ideas and images. Visualization and meditation can heal and teach.

How to Use Meditation to Enhance Your Creative Visualization

Having a subtle idea about what you want to accomplish in your life is very different from pinpointing precisely what you want to manifest. This general desire, or an indistinct need for something more, is what many people are dealing with daily. They know that they want something better or something more from their lives, but that isn't enough for the subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind requires details to focus on.

Fortunately, regular meditation can help. General meditation techniques can help you clear your mind so that you can pinpoint exactly what you desire, which you can then use focused meditation to envision the exact thing that you want in a manner that makes it seem real to your subconscious mind. This is the real secret to creative visualization.

When you gain the ability to concentrate all of your attention on the one thing that you want, you can bring it to the forefront of your unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is the part of your brain that actively works to find solutions to problems as your conscious mind takes care of everyday business. All you need is five to ten minutes, a couple of times a week, to make your subconscious mind work for you to bring the things you really want in your life.

Simple Meditation Exercises to Utilize

If you speak with ten people who practice meditation on a regular basis, the chances are high that you will hear ten different approaches to the technique. The fact is that there is no right or wrong way to meditate. The right one is what works for you. However, there are standard ways that you can begin if you've never practiced meditation before. Here are several techniques you can try to help you with your creative visualization process.

Breath Meditation

Paying attention to your breathing is the most basic technique, as well as being the oldest. Start by finding a comfortable place to sit, either on a mat, chair, or cushion. Next, close your eyes, and press your tongue against your palate. Then close your mouth and inhale through your nose.

Take a deep breath into your abdomen. Slowly breathe out until your lungs are empty. Pay attention to your breath as you breathe slowly in and out. If you need to, you can count your breaths. This meditation technique aims to quiet your mind and just become aware of your breath, as opposed to thinking about it.

Walking Meditation

This meditation technique encourages you to shift your attention to the process of walking, which is focusing on the constant connection between the earth and your feet. Concentrate on your feet as they land on the ground. Try to avoid allowing your eyes or mind to wander. Maintain your focus on the sensation of each foot as it connects with the ground.

Heart Chakra Meditation

The heart is considered to be the center of life and love and can have fantastic healing focus for your meditation. To connect to your heart chakra, start by gently rubbing your palms together to invigorate and warm them. Next, you’ll want to move your right palm over your heart and place your left hand over it. Picture your heart, the core of your body, radiating with energy.

Now, you'll want to imagine that energy is glowing out to the rest of your body, as well as your mind. When you are ready, transfer that energy out across your palms and into the world around you.

Mantra Meditation

Basically, a mantra is a phrase, sound, or word that you gently repeat in a soft and natural rhythm while meditating. Repeating a mantra has been shown to contribute in quietening and calming a busy mind. The mantra could hold a personal meaning that reflects your spiritual beliefs, or it could only be a construction of sounds or words that are comforting.

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