Black Light meditation

20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment

by graceandclarity in Practicum

Black Light is a term I like to use for the grounded Energy of our amazing planet Earth.  As we discussed in my recent blog “Divine Black Light,” Black Light has just as much healing potential as White Light and is an important balance for the airy, expansive energies of Its counterpart.  To cultivate and explore the healing powers of Black Light, try the simple exercise below.

Rather than thinking of Black Light as a dull, dark energy I like to imagine Black Light as a sparkling black or dark blue swath, scintillating with power and potential.  I breathe this Light up my legs from the Earth to my Heart Center, where I hold Its grounding power.

Some days I focus here and breathe comfortably for just a few seconds, while on busy or chaotic days I may spend a few moments breathing more and more of this Energy up from the Earth, through my legs to my Heart.

When I’m ready to move on, I continue to hold the image of the shimmering Black Light at my heart while inhaling White Light from the top of my head to my Heart.  There the two co-mingle in perfect beauty.  I breathe comfortably while holding my attention at the Heart’s meeting point, sometimes visualizing a Yin/Yang symbol and other times imagining a swirl of sparkling black and white Energy.  Then I exhale the perfectly blended combination out in front of me and imagine it balancing my own life and healing the world around me.

After a little practice, you will be able to clearly distinguish between the vibrations of Black and White Light.  Focus on deepening these different sensations, memorizing and relishing the unique qualities each one possesses.

You will find that Black Light meditations are especially helpful in times of change or drama.  Such visualizations also help balance those with a notable amount of Vata in their Ayurvedic constitution.  This meditation can be uniquely settling during weather patterns creating extreme temperature changes or producing excessive amounts of wind.

I invite you to start using this practice today so by the time you need it, your heart and mind will be ready to welcome and metabolize the unique properties of the blessing we call Black Light.

For more inspirational practices, please visit the other entries from our Practicum and Try this! collections.

Divine Black Light

20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment

by graceandclarity in Uncategorized

Today I feel lucky…the first spring flowers are up and blooming exuberantly in my front yard!  As other parts of the country still contend with brutal winter temperatures, I am blessed with the fragrance and color of spring’s tender return.  It makes me think of where it all began and before long, I find myself contemplating dirt.

No, really–dirt is on my mind, that primal autograph book carrying the signatures of all organic matter that ever came before.  Where I was born the dirt is incredibly black, full of dense nutrients and moist with the nourishment it shares with all forms of life.  But dirt is also a symbol, a symbol of the larger Earth and the nourishing energy the entire planet holds for us all.

When we think of the sun and sky, we often think of radiant, white light and the energies of awakening, inspiration and the uplifting of the human heart.  Conversely, when we think of Earth energy we might think of the darkness of soil and caves, a grounded feeling or even a profound stillness lacking in change.  But if we look closely we can see there’s actually a force at work there, causing the tulip bulbs we plant to find their way skyward and the vegetable seeds to push upward, even from their place of origin in the dark.

I like to call this Earth energy “Black Light.”  Like the much-publicized enigma of Dark Matter which stumps even today’s best scientific minds, Black Light is a challenging concept and a mystery to many.  What is that force, that Intelligence beyond the reach of White Light that carries so much power and potential?

Among other things we can think of Black Light as the formless–but very active–energy that fills each flower bulb, tree root and fruiting plant with the impetus to grow.  Black Light is not “darkness,” nor is it bad.  Black Light has the same Divinity as White Light, its qualities are simply a mirror image of the other.  Whereas White Light carries the qualities of air, lightness and expansion, Black Light inverts these qualities and embodies groundedness, density and core magnetism.

Meditating on Black Light can be very healing and is an important part of balanced energy for many people.  You may wish to try the simple meditation described in my “Black Light meditation” blog.  Since everything that exists has the thumbprint of the Divine in it, I think it’s time we acknowledge the healing power of the Universe’s Black Light as well as Its White Light.  Our planet is changing and as it does, it needs our help in stabilizing the energies at work creating this change.

I hope you will try the simple practice described in “Black Light meditation,” then make up one of your own and even share it with a friend.  There’s no end to the good we can do when we all band together and embrace ALL our Light and power!