Beginners Mediation Group- Guided Visualization Meditation- Tea & Cake

Beginners MEDIATION Group

This Week Visualization Meditation

Theme Letting Go Past

This week we doing a Guided visualization is a popular form of meditation that involves concentration upon an image or imaginary environment. It is usually done while listening to a recording. An example would be to imagine you are in a grassy field, with a clear sky overhead. There is sometimes a focus on the breath, but generally no attempt to use or control the breath, and because the sensation is imaginary, and the impetus for it comes from outside, the practice tends to be rather passive. This kind of meditation does not come from an established meditative tradition like the others listed above, and so it is untested as a method of spiritual development. Not every recorded meditation is an example of guided visualization; the key is whether it contains elements of hypnotic suggestion or the creation of fantasies under the guidance of someone else. If you are listening to a recording where the guide lays out a method for you to do yourself, or calls attention to sensation and energy already occurring within you, that is not guided visualization, but rather meditation instruction. The key is whether you are practicing a method that will enable you to do a practice by yourself

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Thoughts for this week is letting go the past and making room for new stuff especially with the new year looming. This is our last one till after chrimbo

Hanging on to old stuff is like keeping garbich in the soul and can't liberate darkness for light and beautiful things

Handout with background to mediation, how to mediate and key thoughts and words of inspiration to take into the week and try at home

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