Air meditations are used to enhance mental awareness of yourself. Air rules over mentality and knowledge, so the meditation energy it invokes will focus on those as well. Air is also associated with floating. These mediations often have the opposite effect of grounding.
Air Meditation of Knowledge
- Sit in an open area where you are comfortable. It is best to be skyclad, but loose clothes are fine as well.
- Sit on the ground with your hands and feet in front of you.
- Close your eyes and take slow breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth, concentrating on the air flowing in and out of your lungs.
- With each breath, concentrate on the feeling of the air rushing through your nose and into your lungs.
- When you feel like you are floating visualize wind all around you. Picture it blowing through you.
- As the wind blows through you, allow your thoughts to flow with them, listening to the knowledge carried on the wind.
- Focus on your inner thoughts, allow your mind to linger on them.
- As you come out of the meditation, allow the wind to slow around you, bringing the thoughts to the front of your mind so that you can remember them.
Air Visualization Meditation
- Sit in an open area where you are comfortable. It is best to be skyclad, but loose clothes are fine as well.
- Sit on the ground with your hands and feet in front of you.
- Close your eyes and take slow breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth, concentrating on the air flowing in and out of your lungs.
- With each breath, concentrate on the feeling of the air rushing through your nose and into your lungs.
- Visualize the sky. Picture cloud moving swiftly across it.
- Concentrate on the patterns of the clouds in your mind, try to pick out what they form.
- When you see a cloud that resembles something you recognize, concentrate on it, bringing it to the forefront of your mind.
- As you come out of your meditation, breath a little faster and try to keep tabs on the picture you found in the clouds.