White Light Healing Meditation

White Light Healing Meditation

This visualization can be used to focus on purifying and healing sickness or emotional and mental disturbances, habits or confusion. It can also be practiced each evening to purify negative physical, verbal actions and thoughts that you generated during the day and leaves you feeling clear, free and joyful.

Arrange your body in the most comfortable and conducive position for meditation and relax your body.

Let go of any tension you might have but still keep your back straight which helps the mind to be clear and focussed.

Generate a positive motivation to do the meditation.

Be aware of the breath as it comes and goes out of the nostrils.

Just like the doorway or the gateway of the breath, going in and out of our body.

Imagine that as you breathe in you take in very pure and blissful light, and think of it as white in colour, the colour of purity.

This light represents all the good energy and positive qualities that exist in the universe.

If you can accept the existence of enlightened beings then these are the qualities within their minds.

Perfect unconditional love for all beings, universal compassion for all beings, wisdom that understands the way things are and is completely unconfused.

Courage, being without any fear, especially in regard to helping others, no matter what has to be done to help others, being very skilful in knowing how to help each person according to their mind and their needs.

You can think of other positive qualities that you would like to develop within yourself. Think that those qualities are in the form of this light.

Imagine breathing it in again and when it comes into your body, it flows to all the parts of your body, going all the way down to your toes, finger tips and filling every tiny part of your body, down to the cells, the atoms, subatomic particles.

Just spend some time doing that; breathing in the white light, letting it feel your body.

Think of the light as being healing, having the quality of healing you, healing whatever pain, problems, sickness you might have in your body and mind.

This light has can heal all those things.

Have a feeling that this is really happening, that there really is this blissful clear light coming into you and filling you.

Be content with whatever visualisation comes to you and feel that it is really happening. There really is light coming in and filling you.

Your body becomes very light and clear and relaxed.

The nature of the light is very blissful, very nice, so that feeling fills you up.

Continue to visualise the white light coming in when you inhale.

Now begin to visualise dark smoke or pollution going out of your body when you exhale.

This smoke or pollution is whatever problems that you may have, sickness, pain, physical problems, discomfort but more importantly aspects of your mind that are problematic, negative aspects of the mind, anger, pride, selfishness and so on.

Anything in your mind that makes you unhappy or disturbed.

The negative karmas you’ve created in the past, the imprints of those actions.

Anything that is negative in your body and mind, imagine that going out of you when you breathe out, in the form of this dark smoke.

And then it disappears into space and it doesn’t go anywhere or pollute or disturb anything, it just becomes non-existent.

Continue to meditate like this, visualising the white light coming in and the dark smoke going out.

Your body and mind becomes more and more clear and pure and blissful and free of all the problems and negativities.

Now to conclude the meditation dedicate the effort you put into doing this meditation and whatever positive energy that was generated to benefit not just yourself but others as well, as many other beings as possible.

May it bring greater peace, happiness, clarity, positive energy and freedom from suffering and problems for as many other beings as possible.

This meditation has been made available with gratitude from the Foundation for the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) "How to Meditate" module of their Discovering Buddhism Home Study Program. click here

You can let Dekyi-Lee lead you through this meditation by ordering the Practical Meditation 1 CD.click here