“When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.” FeelsProblemBodyBeautifulLeftWorryMeditationGrowingSkyBlueCloudsYour BodyTensionFloatingFatigueVisualizationLightersBlue Sky Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.” WorldLightStepsDarknessMeditationSymbolsImmortalityEmptinessDoorwaysVisualization Author:Frederick Lenz
“To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.” ExistenceMeditationHumilityInfinitePortionsFiniteVisualization Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.” EndsMeditationBuddhismRoseSessionVisualizationPetalsChakra Meditation Author:Frederick Lenz
“The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.” WaySpiritualTeacherMeditationCryParticularSourceSittingVery GoodGoddessGood WayVisualizationSpiritual Teachers Author:Frederick Lenz
“Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life, not a feeling of being spaced out, but in touch with the moment and with eternity.” WorldFeelsTryingMomentsFeelingsSpacePracticeMeditationThis WorldEternityTime And SpaceVisualization Author:Frederick Lenz
“In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.” KnowsLightSpiritualFocusMeditationEternitySillyOnenessInfinityVisualizationBrightnessSilly Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.” PeoplePlayGamesSportsMeditationSeriousNotesPreparationObsessedMmaVisualization Author:Jon Jones
“I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.” MindAblePainPrayerMeditationEmotionalExerciseHandleOpeningLoved OnesVisualizationEmotional PainMind SetChanging My Mind Author:Regina Taylor
“If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.” IfsKindIdeasDifferentHappensPracticePathMeditationGoes OnTraditionCarefulFamiliarBuddhistNo IdeaBe CarefulVisualizationMantrasMixing Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise only if you are an advanced practitioner. The negative visualization is a meditation during which you visualize, slowly and deliberately, something bad or discomforting happening to you.” MeditationExerciseNegativeAdviseVisualizationStoic Author:Massimo Pigliucci