COLOUR MEDITATION
Colour can be used to focus and still the mind for meditation. The Tibetans used a Mandela, a pattern of harmonious shapes, symbols and colours, on which one can contemplate. Crystals can also be used for meditation and placing a clear quartz crystal over a filter on a light box produces a beautiful relaxing light. Meditation is a wonderful tool for stilling the restless mind, concerned with our daily activities, and gives us the opportunity of looking and listening to our higher mind. We all have inner wisdom and all the knowledge we need for our time on earth but we rarely communicate with our inner soul which will guide and protect us in all that we need to know and do. The following meditation is wonderful to do each morning, connecting you to all the coloured rays. You can, of course, develop your own meditations concentrating on a single or on several colours.
Work with visualisations in colour when you wish to relax: visualise a peaceful scene, perhaps walking through the woods by a stream in as much colour detail as possible. Visualise the colours of the sunrise and sunset: practising visualising in colour helps to strengthen your subconscious attunement to colour.
You can also inhale each colour in turn, starting with red. Fill your diaphragm with air while focusing on the colour and slowly exhale, sending the colour throughout your body. Breathe in each colour three or four times, resting in between colours to note how the colour affects you.
RAINBOW MEDITATION
Imagine yourself totally surrounded by white light. Breathe this light into every cell and tissue in your body, until you become one with the light.
Next you see waves of colour coming up from the earth. At first you experience a wave of brilliant red, the colour of blood, rising through your feet and legs entering into your base chakra. Feel it warming you as it rises to the sacral centre. It now becomes orange, the colour of the sun at sunset. You start to feel more relaxed and your breathing becomes free and easy. As the wave of colour rises into your solar-plexus you feel it empowering you and radiating from your centre. You now feel the lower three chakras connected and receiving energy from the earth.
Now focus on the heart and draw in the beautiful green of creativity and growth. You are reminded that you are connected to all living things, the plants and trees, animals, your family and all mankind. Your heart goes out to all these things and you feel a great love for the earth itself. You feel harmony, tranquillity and peace. You can relax and trust in the process of life.
As you draw your attention up to the throat centre you look at the sky, feeling the cleansing blue rays entering your throat, purifying your words. It reminds you of the vastness of the spirit and sky. The blue starts to darken and becomes the indigo ray which enters your sixth chakra, or third eye. This gives you the ability to see inner truth. It is the colour of high ideals and wisdom. Finally the violet ray pours down, entering your crown chakra and connecting you to the universe. You feel both connected to the sky and the earth. You are of spirit and body. Through this realisation you undergo transformation for this is the gate to enlightenment.

The unique properties of the cosmic coloured rays are your keys to knowledge and wisdom. By understanding the powers which surround you, you are also able to understand the powers within you.
Slowly let the violet fade and a great feeling of peace and tranquillity descends over you. When you are ready, slowly move your toes and fingers and open your eyes.
These meditations, practiced on a regular basis, will gradually bring awareness to your physical and etheric state, bringing a sense of wholeness, wellness and balance to your whole being.

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