Visualization (meditation)

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Meditative visualization is an exercise in which certain images are evoked in a concentrative and imaginative manner.

medicine

As an element of psychotherapy , colors, shapes (burning candle, rose, triangles, rectangles) and landscapes are visualized in autogenic training . It is also used for cancer therapy according to Carl Simonton .

competitive sport

Mental projections are used by top athletes to optimize motion sequences and achieve the highest possible performance.

Magic and esotericism

Various visualization techniques can be found in the area of esotericism . In Western magic , the visualization of basic, geometric and / or colored shapes such as triangles, five stars and objects is an important element of practice.

Buddhism

Visualization as a “mental projection” of various Buddhas or mandalas is a basic meditation exercise , especially in Tantric Buddhism ( Vajrayana , Hevajra ) . There various Buddha-forms (Tib. Yidam ) and mandalas, some of which are represented in great detail with many attributes (Damtsigpa), are mentally and optically projected by the practitioner during meditation up to self-identification. Mantras are recited in support of such practices . The practitioner's ability to concentrate is promoted and the identification of the mind with the idea of ​​an independently existing, independent self and its own body that exists independently of other phenomena is to be relaxed.

The aim of such exercises is the dissolution of the ego, which according to Buddhist doctrine is the cause of all suffering and the overcoming of the unnatural splitting of the phenomena of the world into subject and object, as well as the overcoming of passions, which are inherent in unenlightened beings.

Daoism

In Daoism there are different Taoist meditation techniques that are often associated with visualizations. Shangqing Daoism in particular places great value on visualizations.

See also

literature

  • Mantak Chia: Tao Yoga of Inner Alchemy I - Taoist Visualization Exercises , Ansata 1990
  • Mantak Chia: Taoist Astral Healing: Chi Kung Healing Practices Using Star and Planet Energies , TB
  • Reinhard Franzke: visualization . Logos Verlag, 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ O. Carl Simonton , Stephanie Matthews Simonton, James Creighton: Getting Well Again
  2. ↑ Franz Bardon: The way to the true adept (1956, level II p. 79; 19th edition 2001)