Understanding the Orbs in Your Meditations

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In Living Color: Understanding the Orbs in Your Meditations

by Lisa Shaw

Modern meditation is encouraged as a healing tool, and we may see different colors of orbs as we become mindful. Meditation is prescribed by medical doctors and scientists to calm the mind and body, reducing stress and subsequently decreasing the effects of illness or pain. This use of meditation, certainly lauded by spiritual practitioners, somehow overlooks the true purpose of the practice: to align with the Divine and channel its pure, loving energy into the physical world. I often think of the chiropractor’s bumper sticker, which reads, “Healing the world one spine at a time.” The meditator’s credo could be, “Loving the world, one soul at a time.” The mystics in Hinduism and other meditation-based traditions affirm the purpose of meditation as eventual alignment of all humanity with the Source in transcendent peace. We evolve as a species when we raise our vibration individually; we reap collective benefits.

On a temporal level, the doctors are right: when we meditate, we slow our heart and pulse rates, giving the body respite for healing, and in practicing mindfulness we do eventually quell fears and anxieties. But really, the gifts of meditation extend beyond the body-mind continuum and open us to spiritual experience. Beginning meditators, expecting darkness and stillness, might be surprised when they enter a realm full of color and light soon after closing their eyes, but they might be uncertain about those energies. Experienced meditators know them as our spiritual support system, higher energies that welcome us as waves of light, gracefully wafting colors, each with a particular vibration and purpose.

 
Common Colors of Orbs in Meditation:

Many practical techniques exist to bring us to the state of deep relaxation: rhythmic or focused breathing, guided visualization, chanting, sound vibrations, and music, but no matter which route we choose to find those precious moments of inner peace, when we settle in to the deep, undisturbed state of consciousness, we experience the same phenomena: a mobile palette of changing colors. The move slowly at first, present themselves for a second or two, and drift by, much like our thoughts. They magnify, zoom in closer, penetrating the third eye (the very sensitive space between our eyebrows) to the point of our actually feeling a pressure or tingling there. Then they move by, swirl in again, one color at a time. These colors intensify with increased meditation practice, becoming welcome visitors who arrive as soon as we close our eyes and settle in. What are they? Or who are they? And what do they mean?

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