Visualization
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1. The lotus thread of light
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. Observe it so that it will be easy for you to visualize the sushumna nadi². 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 nadi3 another slender thread, begins and ends on the left of the sushumna nadi⁴, and the pingala nadi5, a third slender thread, begins and ends on the right of the sushumna nadi. The ida⁶ and pingala⁷ 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 nadi⁸ 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 nadi⁹ 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
Sushumna nadi - One of the three major nadis, energy pathways in the body arising from the root energy
center and ending in the crown center. The central pathway of the kundalini energy.
Ida nadi - Energy pathway arising from the root energy center and ending at the left nostril. Feminine,
cool, represents the moon.
Pingala nadi - Energy pathway arising from the root energy center and ending in the right nostril. Hot,
masculine, represents the sun.
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!
2. 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, both loving as well as not-so-loving, being a 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.