How to be playful working with visualization
The mind’s eye is a powerful tool for visualization. Whether you are already able to clearly see images and colors, or you are still working with visualizing, it is potent medicine to work with meditation techniques that employ visualization.
Some examples of closed eye visual meditations are nature-based guided visualizations, in which the participant places their spirit body in a setting like a mountain or the beach at sunset, and interacts with the environment, whether breathing in the calming atmosphere, or clearly and simply seeing the wonder of nature.
Another is a traditional kundalini chakra meditation:
Some sit in meditation pose, some lie on pillows and under blankets: Maybe low music or a candlelight, any way relaxing for you: prepare.
Begin to deepen your breath: inhales, exhales. Envision white light entering your mouth and blood stream as you inhale, and the dark waste from your system leaving as you exhale. Let your spine naturally straighten with each breath, or not, just be comfortable.
A note on color visioning – breathe deeply and think of a color. Let the blankness of your mind’s eye find the color, in your memory, or sunlight, or grass, or the ocean, or vegetables and fruits, or your mother’s dress: anything that lets you feel the color.
Beginning at the root chakra (at the tip, or base of your spinal cord where your tail might be connected to the matter beneath you), begin by visualizing red. The root is a dark blood red. Breathe in through your nostrils and let the red air travel up through the root of your spine. There may be a glowing orb here, it may circle one way or another like atoms charged, there may be nothing but your spine: see it, and send the red energy here.
Next move your attention to below your waist, the top of your pelvis, where there is an orange chakra glowing, radiating, creativity through your body. Breath in oranges and send it down to the belly. This is your sacral chakra, where all creativity and life begins.
Straighten, breathe deeply, stretch, allow newness into your body and let staleness out.
Then move up to around your belly button and let in yellow here: your solar plexus; your ‘gut.’ The goal is to vibrate bright sunshine from your mind’s eye to the yellow chakra point at your belly.
Slowly, deeply, inject pure yellow into this point that controls all the excretory systems in your body. Feel the energy lifting from your red root, orange pelvis, and yellow stomach.
Next is the heart chakra, radiating in the middle of your breast plate, bright green. Fill your heart with nature, trees, grass, the smells, the feelings. This chakra allows you to love naturally. Allow green to enter your mind’s eye whenever you are seeking love.
Moving up the spinal cord, or pausing with green forever, can be very therapeutic. The 5th chakra is the vocal cords, in the middle of your throat, and control to your communications. Breath blue – oceans, skies, blueberries, here to control and bring truth and power to your most powerful expression.
Moving up to your third eye, in the middle between the eyebrows, the crown chakra is purple. Here lies your intuition, higher thoughts, the junction of your mind and spirit. Breathe royal amethyst crown energy here.
Breathe deeply. Align. This is your moment to connect with yourself, your chi, the air, the planet, the universe.
When you are ready, and the chakras are glowing, breathe clear energy in, down through the front of your body, then into your root chakra, and up, seeing each color in a line, up through your charged spinal cord to the top of your head, to your seventh and crown chakra, where it streams out glowing white light to Everything. Breathe in and through the white light until you are ready to return to nothing.
To come out gently, wiggle each finger and toe, then shake gently, and stretch. Reward yourself with a drink – water, tea, juice. Be gentle with yourself, your body is your temple.