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How to Meditate? - Mental Screen Meditation                                                           Posted: Oct 2009    

Learn how to use mental screen meditation to exercise and improve your daily activities.

Mental screen meditation has some similarities with visualization meditation. The difference is that visualization meditation is related to passive visualization and relaxation. The goal of Mental Screen meditation is to establish the inner stage for mental exercising and testing of skills or activities that you intend to use in real world.

Mental screen is the mental tool for problem solving or exercising. Before visualizing the mental screen, sit straight, breath slowly and deeply and close your eyes. Position your eyeballs as if you are looking slightly above, around 30 degrees. The space that you "see" in front of yourself is the space for the mental screen. The mental screen should take a whole field of vision, including the space left and right. Do not use your eyelids for the mental screen. It should be positioned beyond. Imagine it as if it is placed 1-2 meters in front of you.

You can use your mental screen for many purposes. You can mentally train the sport techniques. You can learn the school lessons. You can rehearse the business presentation, prior to the meeting. If you have a certain problem, try to visualize it on your mental screen. Try to find the root cause of the problem.

As different colors influence our mind in different ways, you can use it for a background colors. By default you should use white color. If you want to intensify the process use red color. The good trick for intensifying the experience of the color is using the real color object before the visualization. For example take a red cloth and look at it for a 1-2 minutes. Then close your eyes and visualize your mental screen. You will visualize red background very easily.

Strong visualization is the key of success for use of mental screen. Whatever you exercise on your mental screen, it will be trained and learned better if you have a strong visualization. The strength of visualization comes with practice. At the end of the exercise clean the screen of all objects and exit the meditation with a few full breathing cycles.