Writing & New Age

Lesson 6: Mental Enhancement Toward Becoming A Greater Writer.

Section 6-1: Visualization, Relaxation, Stress Reductivity, and Inner Journey.

We are now going to go through further exercises on visualizing the inner source, furthering relaxation, reducing stress, and exploring the inner journey.



Begin by sitting comfortably with your feet flat on the floor and your lower back supported. If you wish to do this meditation in a cross-legged or "lotus" position, make sure you have a firm cushion or pillow as your seat. Many a person ruined their back by spending years in sitting meditation without paying attention to proper posture and support. Sit upright with the spine comfortably straight, head level and upright, and chin tucked slightly inward to straighten the cervical vertebrae. Allow your hands to rest comfortably on your thighs, with palms either up or down, it is up to you. Allow your attention to come to your breathing. Don't be artificial with your rate allow it to be slow and natural and above all comfortable. Breathe with your stomach, allowing it to expand and contract. Feel the expansion and contraction.

If your shoulders move more than your stomach then you have not yet relaxed into your rhythm. Don't just move the stomach in and out, allow the diaphragm to push downward and expand the abdomen outward. Fill your lungs with fresh air and know that this is what your body needs more than anything else does. Just sit and breathe comfortably in this way for a minute or two. When you are ready, move on to the next phase of this basic meditation. When you have established your rhythm, you can begin to count. You will count only the exhalations, and count backwards from ten, with each exhalation as one number. The object is to simply count your exhalations backward from ten to one. When you complete the countdown from ten to one, start over with ten. If you lose your place, simply start back again with ten. When you can count backwards from ten to one without distraction, three complete times (30 exhalations) then you have mastered this exercise. Sounds easy? Give it a try for a few minutes then come back to the lesson text.

I. Visualization Exercise #1 Seeing the Numbers:

The meditation you just completed is the Samatha-Vispasana or counting the breath meditation. In this exercise you repeat the former meditation, but this time as you count each exhalation you see each number drawn in the space between your eyebrows (referred to as the Third Eye chakra). If you find you can easily see the numbers there, then try changing the appearance of the numbers. When you can do this for ten counts, add background settings to the numbers. An example is sitting at the beach, looking out over the water at the setting or rising sun, and seeing each number in the sky above the water. This practice adds the benefits of astral relocation and completes your stress reductivitiy. Experiment with differing ways of seeing the numbers with each breath-always noting they are visualized between the eyebrows at the Third Eye chakra level. This level of visualization engages portions of your mind that enhance visualization and reduce stress. Once you have mastered this exercise you may proceed to the next one.

III. Visualization Exercise #2 Seeing the Colors:

Again, begin the Samatha-Vispasana or counting breath meditation. In this exercise when you begin at ten for the second round of counting, visualize a large sphere of red light hovering, radiating, and permeating everything with a brilliant red light. Hold this visualization for five counts then change the color to orange for another five counts. Start again at ten changing the color to yellow for five counts and then to green for five counts. Start again at ten changing the color to blue for five counts and then to purple for five counts. Start at ten a last time while holding a beautiful, radiant, golden color for all ten counts. If you do this exercise once per day for two weeks you will never again have any difficulty visualizing colors. (These colors are the colors of the body's chakras from root to crown.)

IV. Visualization Exercise #3 Seeing the self:

Part A:
Again, begin the Samatha-Vispasana or counting breath meditation. In this exercise when you begin the second round of counting see your self sitting directly in front of you looking into your own eyes. See every feature of your face, your clothing, your hair, your skin, and watch yourself breathing in and counting your breaths. For an added challenge, see your other self hold up the appropriate number of fingers for each count. When you can fully see yourself in the room that you are in, try changing the room's settings, try altering your clothing, try changing your appearance (to an ideal version of yourself), and try seeing yourself writing a successful piece of work. Do this for two weeks.

Part B:
Proceed as in part a, but this time when you see yourself, see yourself lying on a table or the floor. Ask your higher self to "fade" the physical body out of the picture leaving just your etheric and astral body or just your energy system remaining. Look at the colors, pathways, and other presentations that emanate in this image of you. Watch yourself like this as you count the numbers of your breaths. Notice changes that occur. At each completion of ten, draw the colors you see into your system and see them enter the image of yourself at the same time. You will notice your system is brighter and lighter at each repetition of the set from ten to one. You can also see the writer in your image and draw insights into it. Think of concepts, story ideas, fantasies, your creativity attach these to the colors when you repeat counting sequences and draw them into your image.

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