A Simple and Powerful Visualization Meditation
The following visualization meditation (sunlight meditation) is excerpted from the Solar Qigong Home Study Course. This can be a powerful meditation practice to apply before your tai chi, qigong or yoga practice. This meditation exercise not only helps you get into the qigong mode quickly, it also builds up a strong qi field around you if you practice regularly.
Visualization meditation guidance
Before each exercise, you need to do an opening brief sunlight meditation in which you visualize yourself at a beautiful place.
When choosing your own beautiful place, please consider the following:
• Ideally, it should be somewhere you have been to before
• Close to nature (forest, grassland, lake, stream, mountain, etc.)
• Avoid places with too many man-made buildings or objects.
• It could be your garden or a park nearby
• With nice weather (sunny day)
• Avoid wintertime (should not have any snow on your beautiful place.)
• Spring to midsummer is the most ideal time.
• The place should be tranquil.
• Avoid the seaside with strong waves.
• Avoid any river with strong currents.
• Avoid big waterfalls (a small one is fine)
Now take some time to choose your own beautiful place. Once you have chosen your place, stick with it, do not change places. By visualizing yourself at that beautiful place, you will be able to connect yourself with the qi field of that beautiful place.
Below is the beautiful place I use for my opening visualization meditation:
This is a Tibetan village in the Sichuan Province of China which I visited some years ago. With altitude of about 3000m high, there are many stories about enlightened beings living in this ancient forest. I had a very special experience while meditating here. If you have a hard time choosing your own beautiful place, you may use this as your beautiful place.
Opening visualization meditation steps
1. Close your eyes.
2. Legs shoulder width apart.
3. Slightly bend your knees.
4. Relax the whole body.
5. Palms touch each other at Middle Dan Tian.
6. Visualize you are at the beautiful place (from a first person’s perspective)
7. It is a sunny day, the sun is shining all over your body, so you feel warm and relaxed.
8. Smile.
9. Do you hear any sounds from that beautiful place?
10. Do you smell any scents from that beautiful place?
11. Feel the energy from the sun vibrate every cell of your body.
12. Visualize yourself immersed in sunlight and then your whole body gradually becomes the sunlight.
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13. You are the sunlight, the sunlight is you.
14. When you can really picture and feel the above, then you can start the actual practice.
Try the above visualization meditation for at least 5 minutes. If you have difficulty visualizing the beautiful place, then take a look at the photo of your beautiful place with your eyes open for at least 1 minute, notice all the little details in that photo. Now, close your eyes and you should still be able to retain that scene with your mind’s eye.
Benefits of sunlight meditation
You may wonder why we visualize ourselves become the sunlight. Maybe we can get some insight from ancient wisdom. In chapter 7 of Lao Zi’s Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing), one of the most translated books in the world, he says “Heaven (sun) is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”
Think about it, the sun and our mother earth are always giving out energy and resources to support the lives of every living thing on earth. That is why they can endure and continue for so long. So, if you want to live long and full of energy, we should be like the sun, giving out energy all the time, giving our best to serve others. The universe is very fair, once you give your best, it will reward you abundantly!
When you do this powerful visualization meditation often enough, you will gradually build up a strong energy field around you. Not only will this strong energy field act like a shield to protect you from negative energy, but it will charge up the people around you. You will have a positive influence on the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of others.
Think about it. You are like a big magnet and people around you are like pieces of iron. What happens to iron pieces when they get close to a magnet? They get magnetized and become magnets themselves. When your energy field is strong enough, people like your spouse or your children who do not practice qigong will benefit from your qi field.
“… a work colleague who is open to energy, said she could feel my energy being very strong and having a calming effect on her the whole day while we sat working next to each other.”– Mark Collins of UK, Solar Qigong Level II practitioner.
Sunlight visualization meditation further considerations
You can also use this brief but powerful visualization meditation in the morning before getting out of the house and/or in the evening before going to bed. You will come to enjoy sunlight mediation and it may become one of your great aides on your path.
One funny thing I have noticed is that people tend to come to me for help. I can be anywhere. I can be on a street that is full of people. People will still choose to come up to me and ask for directions. People have come up to me for help even when I am travelling in a foreign country. Perhaps they can somehow sense the positive energy that I am radiating out all the time.
In the future blog, I will talk about the relationship between the 3rd eye and the Law of Attraction (using your mind power to attract the things you want); why the Law of Attraction doesn’t work for most people and how to make it work for you by practicing Solar Qigong.
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