creative visualisation
35. Meditation: going to the bottom of the sea
The act of meditation is in many ways an immersion into the deeper part of our being – an unlimited consciousness that lies beyond the often superficial human existence. True, the human reality cannot be ignored because it needs perfection and fulfilment. But if we are only ever aware of our limited human nature, we never get to expand into the deeper reality, the heart and soul. In meditation we try to dive deep into the sea of tranquility that we all possess inside us – that “sea of peace and joy and light” that Sri Chinmoy alludes to in his poem, The Golden Flute.
In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy offers a simple visualisation to help us discover and swim in the inner sea:
34. Creative visualisation: a flower inside your heart
For this weeks meditation exercise, we move to the realm of creative visualisations – using our imagination to create a reality that inspires the mind and brings forward the inner propensities. This is not the act of day-dreaming or creating false realities, but rather the act of bringing forward realities that already exist within us.
Sri Chinmoy's words:
14. Play in the garden of your mind
For this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy takes us into the realm of creative visualisation — using the mind in a creative and positive manner. We are constantly assailed by thoughts and in order for our lives to be spiritually expansive, we must learn to discriminate between a progressive thought and a regressive thought.