Comment I: Visualization in Meditation Class

In the last class session of the Visualization in Meditation course at UTEP-OLLI, the instructor, Lynn Provenzano, cited how to use a picture of our secret imaginative place for meditation to enable the self to focus on a stated affirmation. Say, the affirmation is "I am at peace with myself", then the self translates the affirmation into a picture of himself in repose. Next, naming and mentally proceeding to each part of the body, from top to the very balls of the feet, the meditating self concentrates upon, then releases and lets go any tension or irritation encountered there, thereupon moving onto the next bodily part. At the conclusion of the top-down analysis, the meditating self seeks for any object--person or thing--that should be brought into our secret place in light of our particular affirmation governing this entry. Result I found in my case: I had greater clarity of who I am as the one in affirmation and what I further was in need of in order to claim rightfully that affirmation being focused upon! All-in-all, this teacher is fantastic in bringing on a fruitful meditative experience in my life!