Comments on: Intuitive Visualization in Meditation http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/ Companion to the Meditation Oasis Podcast Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Salinya http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-34195 Salinya Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:54:06 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-34195 Hello! I finished reading this post and I just wanted share that I just recently started meditation, and I always find it really difficult to focus on what the guide is trying to let me visualize. I figured something was wrong with me or maybe because I just started but it happens almost every time. I'm glad to find that there are other means to meditate and I don't have to put up with something that doesn't work with me. Thank you for this! Hello!

I finished reading this post and I just wanted share that I just recently started meditation, and I always find it really difficult to focus on what the guide is trying to let me visualize. I figured something was wrong with me or maybe because I just started but it happens almost every time. I’m glad to find that there are other means to meditate and I don’t have to put up with something that doesn’t work with me. Thank you for this!

]]> By: Mary http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-33415 Mary Mon, 23 May 2011 16:37:01 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-33415 Actually, Andi, our guided meditations that have visualizations are helping you to come up with you own visualizations. They are not the type that give you a lot of specific details to follow. There are certainly guided meditations like that, often called "guided imagery". You are welcome to listen to our meditations for free on the Listen to Our Podcast page and see how you like them, but they are not the type you asking about. Actually, Andi, our guided meditations that have visualizations are helping you to come up with you own visualizations. They are not the type that give you a lot of specific details to follow. There are certainly guided meditations like that, often called “guided imagery”. You are welcome to listen to our meditations for free on the Listen to Our Podcast page and see how you like them, but they are not the type you asking about.

]]> By: Andi http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-33373 Andi Mon, 23 May 2011 02:51:41 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-33373 Are you all referring to guided meditations? Where the speaker is basically guiding you through a scenario, like a desert or to a log cabin in the woods, or something like that? If so, I love those types of meditations. I have a hard time with coming up with visuals on my own as well, so having a guided visualization really helps me relax into the meditation and my mind doesn't wander nearly as much. Are you all referring to guided meditations? Where the speaker is basically guiding you through a scenario, like a desert or to a log cabin in the woods, or something like that? If so, I love those types of meditations. I have a hard time with coming up with visuals on my own as well, so having a guided visualization really helps me relax into the meditation and my mind doesn’t wander nearly as much.

]]> By: Mary http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-29906 Mary Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:21:22 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-29906 Dara, visualization isn't for everyone one. It's easier for some to do than others, simply because of how they process things, but usually if you continue to use it, you will get better at it. It's not a necessity, by any means, to be able to visualize to get the benefit of meditation. Maybe a protective room is what you need right now -- nothing wrong with that! Sounds lovely -- a room of misty light where you sit on a beautiful pedestal. Since that is what has come to you, I think you can trust it and see what it holds for you. In the future, what comes to you will change as your needs change. Dara, visualization isn’t for everyone one. It’s easier for some to do than others, simply because of how they process things, but usually if you continue to use it, you will get better at it. It’s not a necessity, by any means, to be able to visualize to get the benefit of meditation.

Maybe a protective room is what you need right now — nothing wrong with that! Sounds lovely — a room of misty light where you sit on a beautiful pedestal. Since that is what has come to you, I think you can trust it and see what it holds for you. In the future, what comes to you will change as your needs change.

]]> By: Dara http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-29899 Dara Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:39:01 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-29899 i find that i cannot visualize anything if i'm asked to do so. i've been working on developing a space...a mental room that i can go to that will hopefully serve a a multi purpose room. so far all i've got is a door...that i open into a room of misty light that i'm suddenly standing in the middle of. i'm not really sure what to do with that...i've tried changing the light to rainbows...or bubbles...or feathers even..something soothing ...nothing really sticks but the light...so i guess that's what i have...a room of misty light where i sit on a very beautiful carved pedestal...it feels more like a protective room where nothing can get to me...which i'm sure defeats the purpose....any thoughts would be appreciated :) i find that i cannot visualize anything if i’m asked to do so. i’ve been working on developing a space…a mental room that i can go to that will hopefully serve a a multi purpose room. so far all i’ve got is a door…that i open into a room of misty light that i’m suddenly standing in the middle of. i’m not really sure what to do with that…i’ve tried changing the light to rainbows…or bubbles…or feathers even..something soothing …nothing really sticks but the light…so i guess that’s what i have…a room of misty light where i sit on a very beautiful carved pedestal…it feels more like a protective room where nothing can get to me…which i’m sure defeats the purpose….any thoughts would be appreciated :)

]]> By: Mary http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-21182 Mary Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:12:54 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-21182 Great, Eleanor, it's a gift to be able to use the faculty of imagination in this way. Great, Eleanor, it’s a gift to be able to use the faculty of imagination in this way.

]]> By: Eleanor http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-21178 Eleanor Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:49:53 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-21178 I had some hard time with visualization because my mind seemed to wander off once I started the visualizing part of a meditation. I found the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius difficult because "the use of the 5 senses" is a very important part in these spiritual exercises. Later on I realized that I had difficulties in visualization because I doubted the content of my imagination. Very often I treated the mental pictures as distractions and quickly discarded them. Once I overcome this doubt, it becomes easier for me to follow guided meditations using visualizations. I had some hard time with visualization because my mind seemed to wander off once I started the visualizing part of a meditation. I found the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius difficult because “the use of the 5 senses” is a very important part in these spiritual exercises.

Later on I realized that I had difficulties in visualization because I doubted the content of my imagination. Very often I treated the mental pictures as distractions and quickly discarded them. Once I overcome this doubt, it becomes easier for me to follow guided meditations using visualizations.

]]> By: Mary http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-3443 Mary Tue, 05 May 2009 16:06:26 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-3443 Thanks for your comment, Ad_Astra. In addition to being easier, it seems like it's so much more effective to let the visualization come from within ourselves. I think it helps develop the intuition. And reflecting more on this I also see that we are in different states each time we meditate and so the visualization that comes would be different each time and related to what we need at that time. Thanks for your comment, Ad_Astra. In addition to being easier, it seems like it’s so much more effective to let the visualization come from within ourselves. I think it helps develop the intuition. And reflecting more on this I also see that we are in different states each time we meditate and so the visualization that comes would be different each time and related to what we need at that time.

]]> By: Ad_Astra http://www.meditationoasis.com/2009/05/04/intuitive-visualization-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-3431 Ad_Astra Tue, 05 May 2009 01:48:15 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=804#comment-3431 Good point! Actually, this is why the chakra meditation from your podcast is my favorite one among many others. In many meditations of this kind the voice in my earphones goes like "and now you should see a rotating ball of some color, and this ball gives you a sense of something"... which totally distracts me, because I have to force seeing something which is not made by my own intuition and imagination! Your podcast is not like that, and, I'm sure, many listeners do appreciate that :) Good point! Actually, this is why the chakra meditation from your podcast is my favorite one among many others. In many meditations of this kind the voice in my earphones goes like “and now you should see a rotating ball of some color, and this ball gives you a sense of something”… which totally distracts me, because I have to force seeing something which is not made by my own intuition and imagination! Your podcast is not like that, and, I’m sure, many listeners do appreciate that :)

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