Traveling With Color

If you are good at visualizing color, then in order to keep your attention focused on the breath, as an alternative to counting you can use this exercise.

Counting of seven numbers can be replaced with colors of the rainbow.



As you enter meditation and breathe out your first breath visualize red color, orange color as you breathe your second breath and so on till violet. However for your eighth, ninth and tenth breath visualize a combination color formed by mixing 2 primary colors.



For example, red and green, blue with orange and so on. The combination colors are hard to visualize and keep the mind alert.



Avoid thinking name of the color.

Later you can choose only one color for a whole meditation session. Each color will have some effect on our concentration and tranquility. Color can affect both our thoughts and our moods and gain insight into what colors mean to each of us individually. And thereby extends our self -understanding.

To work in this manner, first let the chosen color be a background to the breathing, then concentrate on the breathing. Imagine that you are softly surrounded by the color and your breath is coming through a tunnel formed through it. If at any point your practice becomes disturbing, discontinue the visualization and return to your simple breathing.