How to Practice Healing & Zen Meditation? Articles | Meditation

By: Darren Williger

Healing Meditation

Though healing meditation can be used to heal yourself and others, we will concentrate only on the former, since you are just getting started. Used to cure the body from various categories of illnesses, healing meditation starts exactly the way any other meditation process does. Once you are relaxed and calm, the actual healing meditation begins.

To start with, imagine a bright light covering the area which needs healing. There are various colors which can be imagined which enhances the healing process, but to begin with, you could imagine a bright white light.

As you cover the healing area with the bright white light, you start to see everything gloriously illuminated. Then imagine the affected area gradually returning to its normal healthy state. While the thought of white blood cells attacking the affected area helps a lot of people, others simply use their own creativity and imagination to illuminate the affected area and bringing it back to normal state.

This process enables you to go as creative as you can with the healing process. If you find it difficult to imagine any area which is affected by disease, simply imagine that the area is a healthy part of your body as it was before the disease condition affected it. You do not have to be 100% correct in your visualization, so long as you try to cover the affected part with your own illumination. You are simply showing the body part the direction for it to become healthy again.

Zen Meditation

There are two essential items used in Zen meditation, which is done sitting on a cushion placed on a mat on the floor. The items are called zafu and zabuton, where the zabuton is the mat placed on the floor and the zafu is the cushion placed on the mat. Placement of these items helps to ease the pressure on your legs while you meditate, so that you could concentrate on the meditation it self and not on your uncomfortable legs.

The essence of Zen meditation is to open up the chain of thoughts. It is normally done in a sitting position where your spine should be erect and your hands and legs folded.

The internet is a good source to find the different sitting positions which are used in Zen meditation. If you have problems in any particular sitting posture, you could always try another one.

Once you are able to sit comfortably in one of the Zen recommended positions, keep your eyes half-closed. The purpose of this is not to put you off to sleep and not get distracted by external distractions.

The process starts with focusing your mind on your breath or on counting. With practice, you would find that it becomes easier to concentrate every time you sit to meditate. Zen meditation is best done when you practice it with a group who are experienced so that you could access the various teachings associated with it. You could also expect the support which a coherent group can offer in such cases.