Post by mactombs on Feb 1, 2005 16:55:32 GMT -5
I'm not sure these count as meditation technqiues, or if they are more subjects during meditation, but I enjoy them.
The first I like to imagine a solitary yellow butterfly fish in tropical waters. As I progressively relax, I try to become the fish. I feel how the ocean currents slide past, the surf sways me; I see the web-like flashes of sunlight through the water, the bright yellow of my scales; sometimes I see clearly the sky through level planes in the facets of the waves. I notice how it feels to have big, round eyes that always watch above and below, turning. How it feels to have lacy fins swirling stability in this bouyant environment. Usually I just hover in the shallows above coral, or I glide smoothly to the surface to feel increase in the warmth of the sun.
The second meditation I picture an eye. It is surrounded by a triangle. From that triangle blooms a mandala of geometric shapes that move and shift color, like a fractal kalaediscope. I feel the eye centered on my forehead (on the inside), and the complexity of the shapes surrounding it shifting in currents of energy outward from there.
The more I relax, the stronger images become, though sometimes they take on details of their own, or suddenly shift into random views. I try to keep focus on the meditation image, but if it changes, I don't let myself become agitated.
The first I like to imagine a solitary yellow butterfly fish in tropical waters. As I progressively relax, I try to become the fish. I feel how the ocean currents slide past, the surf sways me; I see the web-like flashes of sunlight through the water, the bright yellow of my scales; sometimes I see clearly the sky through level planes in the facets of the waves. I notice how it feels to have big, round eyes that always watch above and below, turning. How it feels to have lacy fins swirling stability in this bouyant environment. Usually I just hover in the shallows above coral, or I glide smoothly to the surface to feel increase in the warmth of the sun.
The second meditation I picture an eye. It is surrounded by a triangle. From that triangle blooms a mandala of geometric shapes that move and shift color, like a fractal kalaediscope. I feel the eye centered on my forehead (on the inside), and the complexity of the shapes surrounding it shifting in currents of energy outward from there.
The more I relax, the stronger images become, though sometimes they take on details of their own, or suddenly shift into random views. I try to keep focus on the meditation image, but if it changes, I don't let myself become agitated.
