Meditation and Visualisation: Visualisation

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Meditation and Visualisation: Visualisation

Visualisation

Visualisation is the process of focusing your concentration on an image of what you want and seeing it as already having manifested. It is a ritual of going in into the inner recesses of your mind, and with the power of the subconscious mind, causing the manifestation of the desired object, instance or circumstance.

Visualisation resembles our familiar habits of fantasies, daydreams, and imaginations but entwines a certain discipline into them. Visualisation is not imagination, though the dividing line is very subtle. Imagination is an outward projection of the mind and has its foundation in desires and emotions.

When you imagine something, it is not necessarily backed by the power of the conscious will and the volition of intent. The visual is weak, vague, and somewhat in the distance or in the past. Visualisation, contrarily, is of the mind and the use of the will. Visualisation uses rules and laws of Nature, and knowledge of the inherent unity and oneness of creation with that which has been created. Spiritual visualisation exercises your mind on a holy image or on the formless form.

Visualisation is extensively taught and used today in all spheres of activity from the mental to the spiritual. As a source of power, it can be used to manifest much of what we may want or need. What you visualise is what you actualise. The brain is a great gift to us from the Creator. Made up of billions of cells that communicate and co-operate with each other to form sensory and motor areas, it also communicates with billions of brain cells throughout the body.

All input to the body through the nervous system, including sight, sounds, emotions, feelings, etc., is recorded in the brain even from prenatal days. Our mind is even more powerful and communicates not only with the brain, but also with other minds. Just as the wave is a perennial part of the ocean, our consciousness is one with the Universal consciousness.

Each of us, through our subtle energy bodies, our interconnected, so that whatever we think, do, or feel, in some remote or gross way affects the consciousness of others and thereby also the Universe as a whole. And the more calm and relaxed we are as we actually practice visualisation, the more focused and instantaneous will our results be. God's power is omnipresent and omnipotent.

If you can break away from the consciousness of this bundle bag of flesh and bones, you will be able to feel yourself as part of a bigger power. The conscious mind is then able to focus that power as you would focus the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass, and the more of the rays you gather in the quicker will what those rays are focused on smolder and burn.

To practice visualisation, the mind's own creative powers may be stretched to the limit. There are no fixed rules, though one must always visualise only something positive and harmonious, both, for oneself or for another. Visualising personal gain at the cost of another, or willing a change in another's personal choices (eg. if you try and lasso in a specific beloved) is courting trouble and will boomerang back on you, either now or in the future.

Relaxation is a prerequisite to successful visualisation, just as calm and composed breathing is a precursor to successful relaxation.

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See also: Meditation and Visualisation, Meditation, Meditation for Beginners, Meditation Techniques)