Successful meditation is fundamental to our spritual development and emotional well-being, but for many, it can be an uphill struggle against the body, environment or lack of visualization ability.
For those who may suffer from these complaints, this new book by Nancy Azara is a great tool to aid in focusing, meditating and Becoming!.
This book contains a series of beautiful guided meditations, mantras and exercises which even the most adept will in many cases find profoundly moving, insightful and useful in improving not just one's meditative ability, but visual memory, creative mind and third eye.
Here is an example exercise from the book for Developing Your Visual Memory:
"Go into a familiar room and make yourself comfortable. Take a few minutes to look carefully around. As you do, memorize what is there. For example, see a favorite chair in the center of the room, see the curtains with the light coming through the windows, see a table.
Let your eyes memorize all of these things that you see. Now close your eyes and visualize in your mind's eye this room
Recreate the visual image of this room with your eyes closed.
Open your eyes and look around and note again very carefully what is there.
Now take a drawing pad, oil pastels, pencils, and whatever else you like and go into another room.Draw your room from memory.
Capture the things in it that you remember from your looking.
When your drawing is finished, compare what you drew from memory with your actual room. Notice the differences between what's there and what you drew. But remember, this is an exercise in developing your visual memory; it is not an easy one and not a demand for perfection.
Train yourself to use your eyes in a new way."
This book is just 140 pages plus change, but is not a book to be read quickly and put away. If you are at a new stage of your life, this is a great book to build into your daily renewal schedule, to refer to and work from as you evolve and grow!
