Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power.

LOUISE HAY

Candle Gazing Meditation

This meditation guides you as you gaze at a candle flame. It is a well known form of meditation the practice, also known as trataka, involves focusing on a single object, such as a candle, for a few minutes or longer. Candle gazing meditation may improve focus, cognition, mental health, sleep, and spiritual wellness.

If there is a particular quality that you would like to enhance in yourself such as your intuition, then you could choose a green coloured candle to open your insightfulness. Colour has a great influence on us; helping to balance and align us to the Universal Life Force. Below is a range of colours, and their attributes. Consider also bringing colours, that could enhance your well being into your clothing, and dwelling.

Just a few words of advice when buying candles. Many candles are made with toxic substances such as paraffin, which release harmful vapours when burning. Look for candles made from beeswax, or soy wax. They are non-toxic, and burn longer.

Going deeper into the meditation

Something rather special happens whenever you go deep into a candle meditation. I’ll describe it so that you’ll recognize it, when it happens to you…

The reason that you are able to see is because your brain processes the signals that are sent to it via the optic nerves in your eyes. What happens as this meditation progresses is that your brain begins to stop processing these signals. That might sound dramatic, but it’s actually perfectly natural, perfectly safe and a profoundly serene experience. Let me explain what this looks and feels like…

Your eyes are firmly fixed on the image of the flame in front of you and because your eyes are not moving, they are not providing your brain with any new information to process. You then find that some areas of your peripheral vision start to fade from your vision completely…
radually, more and more of your peripheral vision fades away until you have no visual awareness of anything but the candle flame.

This is a profound experience. Your eyes are open, but you are actually not seeing anything but the small flame in front of you. As a result it feels as though there is no distance between yourself and the flame. In essence, you have become one with the flame.

To achieve this requires both mental stillness and the physical stillness of your eyes. As soon as you move your eyes around, your brain is flooded with new sensory input and you will instantly be able to see the room around you again. Remain still and focussed on the candle, and you will slip back into this state of profoundly deep meditation quite quickly.

It may take some practise to really stabilize this experience, but it’s well worth it!

Candle Gazing Meditation

This meditation guides you as you gaze at a candle flame. It is a well known form of meditation the practice, also known as trataka, involves focusing on a single object, such as a candle, for a few minutes or longer. Candle gazing meditation may improve focus, cognition, mental health, sleep, and spiritual wellness.

If there is a particular quality that you would like to enhance in yourself such as your intuition, then you could choose a green coloured candle to open your insightfulness. Colour has a great influence on us; helping to balance and align us to the Universal Life Force. Below is a range of colours, and their attributes. Consider also bringing colours, that could enhance your well being into your clothing, and dwelling.

Just a few words of advice when buying candles. Many candles are made with toxic substances such as paraffin, which release harmful vapours when burning. Look for candles made from beeswax, or soy wax. They are non-toxic, and burn longer.