Guided color meditation uses color in meditation and visualization to promote healing. There are several techniques used in color healing meditation to encourage healing and wellness.
Color breathing is one form of color meditation that involves visualizing yourself breathing in and out colors. This meditation is simple to perform and takes just a few minutes; you can do it before getting out of bed in the morning or before going to bed at night.
Lie on your back and relax. Close your eyes and breathe deeply and evenly. Imagine you are surrounded by a bright white light that enters your body and floods your entire body with its healing power. Then, image other colors, including green, orange, red, yellow and all the colors of the visible light spectrum. Imagine one color at a time and focus on the intense color and healing properties entering and washing the body.
Different colors are said to offer specific healing properties. For overall wellness, you can use all the light colors, one at a time, to benefit from the specific healing properties of each. Sometimes people use specific colors to gain certain benefits, depending on the needs of the individual. To do this, you need to know the benefits offered by each color.
For example, violet light is said to open the third eye and connect to the spirit. Blue is a calming color and blue light helps to relieve pain. Green is useful for general healing, specific illness and for inducing a state of balance and well being. Orange stimulates the immune system.
There are two different techniques you can use. In color visualization meditation, you visualize the light moving throughout your entire body and filling your body with the healing power of the light. In color breathing meditation, you imagine your body surrounded by the light and you are breathing in the light, inhaling the healing power and moving it through your body with the breath.
During meditation, relax and calm your mind and body. Focusing on the color helps to stop unwanted thoughts from creeping into your mind and disrupting the meditation process. Some people who find distraction a problem during meditation find color meditation techniques easier for quieting the mind.