What The Heck Is Cosmic Meditation?
Cosmic meditation is incredibly hard to describe. The meditation part is relatively easy - the cosmic part is not. This writer has been learning about meditation and practicing one form or another most of her life. I guess thirty years isn't enough to describe cosmic meditation in less than 500 words. If you're game, though, so am I. Here we go.
What's In A Name
Comic meditation is only one of numerous names given to this kind of meditation technique. Other names include "cosmic energy meditation" and "grounding meditation." It is unknown how old this technique is or if it follows any particular kind of tradition. The best I can determine, cosmic meditation seems to blend bits of all kinds of meditations.
What You Do
You don't do much of anything in cosmic meditation - not with your body, anyway. Anyone looking at you will just think you are sitting down, lying down or just generally being quiet and still. All of the action goes in inside of your head, using your imagination or "creative visualization", if you prefer a more grown-up term.
The underlying principle of cosmic meditation is that you tap into the creative life force in the universe. Call it God, call it Zen, call it The Cosmic Paper Clip, whatever - it's the basic energy that keep everything moving. In your mind during cosmic meditation, you plug into this universal energy and use it to cleanse your innermost self and recharge.
There are many visualizations you can use in cosmic meditation. I think one of the easiest to imagine that you are a tree. Feel your roots dig down into the earth and absorb all the nutrients and energy you need. Not only is this energy coming up from your roots and going up all throughout your leaves, but it is also released into the atmosphere. You imagine taking in negative energies (like a tree takes in carbon dioxide) and transform it into positive energy (like a tree giving off oxygen.)
You do this cosmic meditation for as long as you like, or as long as your body will let you. Any kind of meditation takes a long while to develop into any kind of skill. The odds of you being able to meditate on your first try are astronomical. You have to build up gradually to what your mind and body can tolerate. Try not to compare yourself to others. You will learn in your own rate in your own time, possibly using another technique than anything described here.
