Visual Meditation

Visual meditation is great practice for creative artist or a visual learner.

What is Visual Meditation:

Visual meditation is a vibrant technique and is used in many spiritual traditions, including yoga, Taoism, Christianity, and Tibetan Buddhism, and therapeutic settings.  it’s very different from other meditations, such as shamatha, or calm abiding.

“your perception of this world is unique; it is not seen or experienced in the same way by anyone else because what you see does not exist externally.” Vajrayana theory

Types of Visual Meditation:

There are two type of visual meditation. internal visualization, in which you focus on a mental image of a color, object, place, or situation (following your breath in and out is recommended the most in many traditions) Two is gazing meditation, during which you direct your attention at a fixed object to focus your mind.

“The key to visualization is to do the best you can and not worry too much about whether what you are doing is right or wrong; eventually you will get the hang of it.”

Benefits: A 2009 study published in Psychological Science found that Buddhist deity meditation gave monks the ability to access greater levels of visuospatial memory resources (such as being able to retain an image in their memory). Other research has found guided imagery can help reduce blood pressure, lower cholesterol and glucose levels, and lessen headaches and other pain. It has also been shown to reduce averse effects of chemotherapy.