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After you have calmed your mind with your breath you may begin your chosen meditation. Two basic types of meditation technique are generally taught today. The first is the Zen approach of ‘silent sitting’: in this method you sit facing a blank wall or mirror until the mind becomes blank. In psychic development groups, candlelight or a crystal is often used instead. The idea is to sit until the moment of pure enlightenment happens, even if it takes twenty years. The second approach uses a mantra; a sound or image that rhythmically lulls the mind into quietness. After a thousand repetitions the body begins to vibrate at a higher frequency and the meditator becomes aware of higher energies beyond the physical senses of our daily mind.

There are numerous meditation exercises that I would recommend, for instance:

• Focusing on the light of a candle

• Concentrating on a picture of the chakra symbols

• Concentrating on a picture of a deity (god or goddess)

• Focusing on the point between your eyebrows, the third eye

• Chakra meditation

Staring at a candle flame is often used to prepare a psychic in a development class. The candle is placed reasonably close to the eyes, letting the mind connect with the image to build up an interpretation of psychic imaging. The same technique is also used with symbols and other images, as well as flowers, crystals, colours and even sand.

When we first begin meditating, however, the aim is to still the mind; not to follow the endless chatter that it throws up. In this way we begin to open up space in our mind – we do away with the superficial and create space for the psychic and spiritual.