• The scope of the article is restricted to a specific meditation practice called Supra conscious meditation and the descriptive process of undergoing this technique.

Meditation has roots in the Indian subcontinent. The Sanskrit word for meditation is Dhyana and has its origin in Vedas (Mahony, 1997; Gonda, 1963). Later Brihadaranyaka and Chandogya Upanishads talk about Dhyana several times and give meaning like ‘to contemplate upon or reflect upon’ (Cenkner, 1995; Deussen, 1997). In the 20^th Century, the field of meditation got widened and scientific researches started pouring on.

As per some articles, the total number of research articles on meditation exceeds 2500 and involves more than 6000 citations (Murphy, Donovan & Taylor, 1997; Blairbuckman, 2011). These articles vary from type, form or technique of meditation to oucome based studies.

At a superficial level, the research article shows that meditation reduces physical, mental and emotional disturbances at one end and enhances immunity, physical performance, cognitive performance, creativity and emotional well-being as well as the realization of one’s self at the other end. 

However, the present paper neither focus on comparative analysis on the effect of meditation nor its forms and types. The scope of the article is restricted to a specific meditation practice called Supra conscious meditation and the descriptive process of undergoing this technique. The technique of Supra conscious meditation is rediscovered by the author for common good.

Meditation is generally classified as concentrative, guided meditation and mixed form. Supra conscious meditation is a mixed form of meditation, where some amount of focusing is required with guided imagination. However, a person can guide himself with little experience. There is no restriction of age, gender or other requirement to practice the technique.

Supra conscious meditation focuses on human Chakras. Chakras are etheric energy centres in the human body (Horon, 1998; Tansley, 1972; Leadbeater, 1974). Chakras are placed in the etheric body interwoven with the physical body and have diverse as well as interconnected psychodynamic functions (Brennan, 1987). Supra Conscious meditation cleanses, energizes and balances chakras similar to other meditations like chakra meditation (Horon, 1998), centering meditation (Horon, 1989) and many other customized technique of Kundalini meditation.

Supra conscious meditation imagines healing of chakras with moderate concentration on the stimuli. The meditation receives the required psycho spiritual energy from the five elements or pancha bhootas. As per Hindu philosophy, five elements or pancha bhootas are the basis of all cosmic creation (Gopal, 1990). The Ayurveda also believes that the human body is characterized by these five elements, and lead to different experiences, where the basic pattern of the experience is same (Venkateshan, 2013).

Colour of five elements and the respective Chakras 

The descriptive process of supra conscious meditation

Most of the meditations start with an invocation or a request. It is to specify the intention of the practitioner to undergo the particular technique. Generally invocation does not take more than two minutes to say.

Supra conscious meditation: Invocation starts with saying your name three times and requesting and intending that you are calling upon all the five elements sources. You could also request your personal deity/deities and other divine sources for your support in the success of your intention or prayer. You could then all the pancha bhootas to send their energy to cleanse, energize and balance your chakras and other energy centres. Request the five element sources to send the energy in the each element’s dominant colour form. The invocation can end with the extent of personal gratitude you have towards the five elements and acknowledge their support. You could thank the other divine sources as a gratitude and humility on your part. We could see that the supra conscious meditation invocation is similar to Reiki or other spiritual modalities. It shows that  all invocation procedure focuses on accepting the higher dimension sources, requesting the sources for the energy, utilizing the received energy for positive healing purposes and finally being grateful to those resources with being aware of our humility and expressing it.

Actual invocation

Say it to yourself: I am (3 times) calling upon all the five element sources and requesting them that let me receive the five element sources energy and channel it to all my Kundalini Chakra’s. So that let all my Chakra’s will be cleansed, energized and balanced. I will be thankful to all the sources once I finish my meditation.

Visualization process of supra conscious meditation

You are visualizing the specific colour of the five element energy sources coming from the Universe. Receive the energy gently through your head. Then the energy passed on  to Sahasrara Chakra from the specific element. It is important to note that all the time the five elemental energy comes through the Sahasrara Chakra and pass on to the next chakra. This is mentioned as it is in the following. Approximate location of the Chakra in the body has been given.

Visualize Violet  colour coming from the space element of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara (crown) Chakra. Visualize this violet colour started cleansing your Sahasrara Chakra, then energizing Sahasrara Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Sahasrara Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced. 

Visualize  Indigo colour coming from the space element of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara  Chakra. Then visualize this indigo colour of space element is slowly coming down and entering your Ajna Chakra. Visualize this indigo colour of space element started cleansing your Ajna Chakra , then energizing Ajna Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Ajna Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced. 

Visualize  Blue colour coming from the air element of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara  Chakra. Then visualize that this blue colour of air element is slowly coming down and entering your Ajna Chakra. Then slowly coming down and entering your Vishudha Chakra. Visualize this blue colour of air element  started cleansing Vishuddha (throat) Chakra , then energizing Vishuddha (throat) Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Vishuddha (throat) Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced. 

Visualize Green colour coming from the air element of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara  Chakra. Then slowly coming down and entering your Ajna Chakra. Then slowly coming down and entering your Vishudha Chakra. Visualize this green colour of air element  is entering your Anahata Chakra. Then visualize that this green colour of air element started cleansing your Anahatha  Chakra , then energizing Anahatha Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Anahatha  Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced.

Visualize  Yellow  colour coming from the fire element of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara  Chakra. Then visualize that this yellow colour of fire element slowly coming down and entering your Ajna Chakra, then to Vishudha Chakra and then to Anahata Chakra.  Then visualize that this yellow colour of fire element slowly coming down and entering your Manipura Chakra visualize this yellow colour started cleansing Manipura Chakra, then energizing Manipura  Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Manipura  Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced. 

Visualize  Orange colour coming from the water element of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara  Chakra. Then visualize that orange colour of water element slowly coming down and entering your Ajna Chakra, then to Vishudha Chakra and then to Anahata Chakra and gradually coming down to Manipura Chakra and finally entering your Swadhishtana Chakra.   Visualize this orange colour of water element started cleansing Swadhistana (sacral-gonads) Chakra , then energizing Swadhistana Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Swadhistana Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced. 

Visualize  Red colour coming from the earth element  of the universe. Entering your head, entering your Sahasrara  Chakra. Then visualize that this red colour of earth element slowly coming down and entering your Ajna Chakra , then to Vishudha Chakra, then to Anahata Chakra and gradually to Manipura Chakra, from there to Swadhishtana Chakra and finally entering your Mooladhara Chakra. Visualize this red colour of earth element started cleansing your Mooladhara (root-base-adrenal glands) Chakra,  then energizing Mooladhara  Chakra and balancing it. Feel that your Mooladhara  Chakra is cleansed, energized and balanced. 

Be thankful and grateful to all the elements.

Note: Cleansing means purifying /removing impurities, negative energies and unwanted beliefs accumulated in the Chakras. Energizing means filling with positive energy and thoughts. Balancing means the optimizing the energy, neither excess nor deficient in the activated energy within the Chakra.

Conclusion

The feedback from the participants is very unique and each one feels wholesome after meditation. Another aspect of this meditation is ease of practicing, which does not require much guidance from the teacher or mentor.

Author is Assistant Professor and Counseling Psychologist, Affiliated to Centre for Counseling and Career Guidance, Department of Science and Humanities, PES University, Bengaluru. 

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