6. Visualization🔗

Go beyond the fear of death and live in eternal bliss Duration: twenty-four hours a day, for 21 days

Visualize that you are light, that there is nothing else inside and outside. There is nobody, no world, there is only intense light. Visualize this from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep, whatever you may be doing.

Slowly, after a few days, it will start penetrating even your sleep and dreaming states. In dreaming also, you will remember yourself as light. Even in deep sleep, you will remember yourself as light. You will be an eternal, shining light.

This technique is so powerful it will give you the clear experience that you will never die! Light never dies. If you think you are matter, you will always have the fear you will cease to be one day. If you realize you are light, the fear of death will disappear!

Allow the intelligence, energy and enlightenment to awaken in you. Duration: 21 minutes

Mentally scan your spine so that you will be able to visualize it easily in this meditation. In the center, alongside the spine is a flow of energy like a slender thread, and that is what we call sushumna nadi¹. It runs from the base of the spine to the crown, passing through each of the seven vital energy centers in our body called the chakras.

The ida nadi² another slender thread, begins and ends on the left of the sushumna nadi, and the pingala nadi³, a third slender thread, begins and ends on the right of the sushumna nadi. The ida and pingala spiral around the sushumna, crossing each other at every energy center, and all three meet midway between the eyebrows.

Whenever your energy is being sucked by the intellect, the ida nadi will be active, and the subtle energy of your system will be flowing upwards. Whenever your energy is being sucked by the sexual center, the pingala nadi will be active, and the energy will be flowing downwards. When enlightenment is activated in you, the central sushumna nadi will be activated, and your intelligence will be awakened!

All your intellectual thoughts suck the energy upward. All your thoughts of comfort or pleasure suck your energy downward. Now you are going to put your energy in the sushumna, the center, so that your enlightenment or intelligence is awakened.

Sit straight and close your eyes.

Let your spine be erect. Visualize your spine to be just like a lotus thread, a small thread from the root of your spinal cord to the top of the head, the crown area. Visualize a thin thread of light in the center of the spine, running continuously from the base of your spine to the crown of your head.

Put your attention on this thread of light. Just see the energy flowing from your root to the crown through this sushumna nadi. Let your whole awareness be centered on your sushumna nadi.

Try this technique for at least twenty-one minutes for ten days. In just ten or eleven days, you will experience the intelligence, the energy, the enlightenment, awakening in you!

Sit and be as relaxed as possible. Do not put your weight on the spinal cord. You can support yourself with your hands.

Visualize energy leaving your body through your eyes, nose, tongue, ears and other sense organs. You are becoming completely empty.

Visualize that you have now become empty. Feel that you have become empty. Whatever you thought of as you is already gone. You are completely empty.

When you feel you are completely empty, stop visualizing. Be a witness. Witness your thoughts and the gap between your thoughts. Do not create any thought or destroy any thought. Just witness the thoughts and the gaps flowing in you.

6.4. Cleaning the inner screen This is a powerful meditation technique for looking in and understanding that you are something more than the body.

Duration: 21 minutes

Whenever you look in, you see only the movie of the outer world on the inner screen. So, first we need to clean the inner screen.

Close your eyes. Sit straight. Inhale and exhale as slowly and as deeply as possible.

Visualize your inner screen as a blackboard. Whatever appears on that inner blackboard, start visually wiping it away. Just as an eraser is used to clean a blackboard, in the same way just wipe clean the inner blackboard or inner screen.

Now, visualize the number ‘3’ on your inner screen. Visualize it very clearly and then wipe it away slowly.

Next, visualize the number ‘2’ on your inner screen, and then wipe it away slowly.

Then, visualize the number ‘1’ and wipe it away slowly in the same way.

Now, repeat this whole process, starting once more with the number ‘3’, then the number ‘2’, and lastly the number ‘1’.

Next, just witness the empty screen. Do not create, maintain or destroy any thought. Just witness the empty screen.

Continue to be with yourself for a few moments.

When you look at your inner being without the movie of the outer world, not only what you are seeing will become different, even the seer will become different. In the outer world, the seer and the seen are two different things. In the inner world, the seer and the seen are both one and the same.

Duration: 21 days

This technique requires that you first cleanse your inner space.

Close your eyes. Sit and look into yourself. First, honestly examine all aspects of your life. Ask yourself exactly in how many areas of your life you built your identity based on lies? When have you uttered words or made promises, knowing that you are not going to live up to them or not going to fulfill them?

No matter how painful it is, do this process honestly. Do not avoid facing yourself honestly. See this as a wonderful chance for self-analysis for introspection. At least be able to admit to yourself where you have constructed your identity based on lies.

Now, for the next 21 days, do not utter any word that you do not mean. Do not use any word or make any promise, knowing that you can’t keep your word. Do not think that no one else can pin you down or corner you. Be absolutely straightforward in all your relationships and interactions. Then this technique will work beautifully for you.

Main Technique Visualize a word like ‘love’, ‘joy’ or ‘bliss’. Even negative words are okay. So, positive or negative, just choose a word to visualize.

Visualize the word. First visualize it with letters. For instance, for love, visualize L-O-V-E.

Next, drop the visualization of the letters. Repeat that word internally just as a sound. Hear the sound.

Then relax from the sound also. Just be with the feeling of that word. Only remember the feeling, neither the letters nor the sound, just the feeling. Put your whole awareness on the feeling.

Now relax even from the feeling. Just be silent. Do not create a thought of the letter or the sound or the feeling. Just be with yourself.

This is a powerful technique that can straightaway transform you and put you in silence, in bliss.

6.6. Weightless – technique 2 Transcend the gross body and enter into subtle consciousness Duration: 10 minutes a day, for ten days

This is a wonderful technique even for beginning meditators. You don’t need any training, understanding or belief for this technique.

First, remove whatever accessories or jewelry you may be wearing on your body.

Either sit or lie down. Be as comfortable as possible. You can also lean against a wall if you feel comfortable that way. You can stretch your legs in whatever way you want, but you shouldn’t need to exert effort to hold your body. The idea is to feel very comfortable without supporting the weight of your body.

For example, if your head is straight, be very clear, you are exerting effort to keep it straight. It always requires effort to keep your head straight. This should not be the case here. In the same way, don’t keep your spine erect, because that takes effort. No part of your body should feel effort or tension. Just drop your arms and relax; do not hold tension in any part of the body.

The weight of your body should not be felt anywhere. Otherwise you will be constantly feeling that you are heavy. Let your whole body be relaxed. Visualize that you are a weightless being.

Actually you are weightless. You only constantly visualize that you are heavy. When on a bed or chair, feel your self become weightless and enter the space beyond the mind. Feeling you are heavy is one shaft of thought. We will now break that shaft with the thought shaft that you are light. It is like using one thorn to remove another. Then, we will throw both thoughts out!

Let your whole body be relaxed, totally relaxed. Just drop the body, let it be as it is. Let the body take its shape. Even when you stretch your leg, let it take its own shape.

Part by part, let your whole body just be. If you feel you are holding any part of your body, relax and stretch. Feel your legs are weightless. Feel your thighs are weightless. Feel your whole body is weightless. Just relax into that weightlessness.

Use your visualization power. Without any personality inside, just let your body be. See your body without any personality. You can function without any individuality or personality. Let your body be without any identify, just as the animals function without any personality or identity interfering.

Do this meditation for ten minutes a day for ten days. You will discover you are weightless! How will you know that this meditation is working? Mentally you will feel like your body is not on the earth, like you have to pull yourself down to the earth because you are so light! You will not feel like you even have a body. Just practice this technique for ten days, it can work miracles.

6.7. Etheric connection Expand your consciousness and conquer your emotions Duration: 21 minutes

Visualize you are a huge body of light. Visualize all your emotional relationships, loving as well as not so loving, as part of your light body (also called etheric body). If you have somebody who is emotionally connected to you, say in another country, visualize that you have a huge body that extends out to that country, and that person (or persons) is also inside your light body! Let all the emotional connections, hateful or loving, be inside your etheric body. Secondly, add along with the visualization of the etheric body, the awareness of your center. Carry this visualization for ten days.

6.8. Burn down your conditionings Liberate your self from your mental setup and be free Duration: 21 minutes Visualize that all your inner thoughts and feelings about people, situations, experiences, anything and everything, are all burning! Visualize continuously that whatever you think about the world, about anything, is burning... it no longer exists. Your attitudes, your interests, your passions, your greed, your desires and your fears are all being consumed in the fire.

This will drastically break your conditioning, and lead you to enlightenment.

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For further information:

How, What, When, Where and How of Meditation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUilg4s6H0M&feature=related

Bibliography Living Enlightenment – Life Bliss foundation