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PART 2
The following quotation from "Memoir In the Defence of Caligostro" (from Serge Hutin’s book "The Secret Societies From Yesterday till Today") expresses very well a superior level of consciousness of a human being:

"I do not belong to any age, and I do not belong to any space. I feel permanently that I am outside time and space. My spiritual being experiences in its essence, the eternal existence and if sometimes if let myself sink into the cosmic thought climbing back up the course of ages, if then I reach my almighty spirit towards a superior way of living, different from that which you are familiar with, I experience the paradise-like ecstasy and I become that who I want to be. Participating fully and consciously to the reality of the Supreme Being, I conduct almost all my actions guided by the divine inspiration that helps and surrounds me."


THE ART MOULDS THE ARTIST AND THE ARTIST MOULDS THE WORLD
This superior inspiration appears only in the more or less conscious moments of superior receptiveness. The great composers, the people of art, even the scientists have had such moments of brilliancy.

If a person had this inner state of superior receptiveness and truly allows the resonance with elevated subtle realities, these realities will materialize into sublime ideal forms into the sphere of the consciousness.

Any kind of artistic experience or realization not only re-create art, but also they transform the receiver’s personality because through symbols received telepathically or created exteriorly, the art creator is capable of reintegrating certain aspects and of reaching a new elevated level of consciousness.

More than this, the act of creation and the act of being created are complementary parts of the same phenomenon. Through contrast, when the art and the inspiration are considerably embarrassed by the ego, creativity stagnates.

When the ego becomes exacerbated, art disappears, and when the ego disappears, universal art flourishes at its own will. When the artist is crushed down by the ego, allowing him to be dominated by petty calculations he begins to "imitate" himself and he is no longer capable of transmitting the sublime to the others. These inspirations then do not transform him and his personal inner growth stops.


THE GENIUS IS NURTURED WITH ESSENCES
In the genuine act of creation, free and manifested uninhibited, characterized by a "crazy" spontaneity, the artist nurtures himself first and most important of all. At this point, he offers a lot to the others.

When a person offers himself or herself to the world, they accept in fact the subtle guidance and inspiration of the inner superior consciousness. From this point of view, we may say that the superior act of nourishing is in fact equal with being nurtured. Through Vishuddha Chakra, the brilliant artist performs the ineffable identity with the inner voice, through his art.

In the case of a person who has the consciousness predominantly at this level, his or her role will be equally as distributor and receiver of the divine grace. Through the sublime experience of receiving the grace, the individual consciousness nurtured with the nectar of the divinity goes up to the next centre of force, Ajna Chakra.

Here the person realizes the mystery that the one who gives and the one who receives are in fact one, fused in ineffable unity, just as the drop that is now reunited with the ocean it used to be a part of.


For a better understanding of the 5th center of force, we explain a few key-words:

Akasha - subtle fundamental element that the yogis discovered for thousands of years as pertaining everything in the universe. In some secret texts, it is depicted as the space ether that comprises and records everything.

In the Orient, Akasha or the all-comprising ether is the subtlest of the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether). Akasha is a fundamental substance that the wise advanced yogis say to fill and pertain all over the universe and it is the basic support of life and sound. In Akasha is registered instantaneously everything that occurs in the universe, and these images may be read by clairvoyants and are called akashic clichés.


Eternity - that which is truly divine and exists beyond time. The states of genuine spiritual elevation, which prompt us on the peaks of ecstatic consciousness are tangents to the perception of Reality.

This feeling of the eternity appears also as a state of satisfaction when we are completely into the present. The present moment is the mobile image of the eternity, and simultaneous experience, with depth and authenticity of the moment, together with extracting its essential significances, means in fact to transcend it through the access to the sublime sphere of force of authentic spiritual vision and experience.

In the spiritual realm, eternity is the spiritual counter-part of time in our phenomenal world. As Plato said, "time is a moving image of eternity".


Intuition - represents the direct, immediate knowledge of truth, through resonance and without involving the thought and the mind. C.G. Young defined intuition as one of the four fundamental psychological functions of the human being, the other three are thought, feelings and senses.

He describes intuition as a function of exploring the unknown, which offers possibilities and implications that are apparently difficult to be consciously perceived. Intuition is not an act of will; it is a state of attention and inspired reception.


Inspiration - state of resonance and inner communion that leads to a certain sublime experience, idea and/or action.

It is characterized through the revelation, on a subjective level, of some experiences, representing a psychic condition auspicious to the act of creation, reason that determined Plato to rightfully conceive it as a message of the divinity that pertains those who allow themselves be taken into ecstatic states of trance.

For Schopenhauer, the inspiration was the eternal subtle world of the divine ideas, and for Nietzche it was the expression of the Dionysian drunkenness giving birth to brilliant creations.


Time - the universal property of all forms to be comprised into a certain subtle energy of time, situating simultaneously or successively towards one another. The entire creation is subject to this becoming, so in other words to the subtle energy of time, only through the pure divine consciousness that transcends any becoming and time.

As it is in its essence a subtle energy, the dimensions of time are characteristically modulated by the structures of the individual and cosmic consciousness.

Thus, the information referring to past, present or future events are recorded or stored in a sui-generis magnetic support of the universe, reality that in yoga is named "akasha-ic recordings or clichés".

The advanced yogic can recall and re-live these traces deposited in the energies of time, after the experience occurred once. Also people that have natively this capacity of recalling the akasha-ic clichés can do it, but these cases are quite rare.

The presence and accessibility of such information in akasha tattva is implied even in the current theories in the modern physics, and examples of this would be the theory of the "implied order", issued by David Bohm, suggesting that there is a certain phenomenal and structural order in the universe and that this order has nothing to do with either becoming or temporality.

The scientists who lived at the end of the 20th century have proved that our sense of appreciating time is in fact a distortion of the reality.

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"Intense focus and meditation on the subtle element corresponding to this center of force is defined in the Yoga texts as the special, beatific expansion Akashi Darana. The person who practises this form of meditation will not die, nor disappear at the dissolution of the world. This person obtains the knowledge of the past, present and future as well as the control of the mysterious energies of time." (Swami Shivananda)

Location: the fifth energy center, Vishuddha chakra is located in the physical body in the area of the neck.

Represents: pure consciousness, creativity.

Symbolical representation: it is the dwelling of sound, and dreams, and the symbol of purity.

On the psychic level: it governs expression, awakening of inspiration, eloquence, archetypal models. This center of force is closely connected to the feeling of acceptance, superior receptivity, and subtle protection.

On the physical level: it coordinates the activity of the vocal cords, the hearing system, pharynges, oesophagus, as well as the spine. The corresponding glands are thyroid and parathyroid. This center of force is connected to the complex process of nourishment.

Specific reactions in the case of energetical disturbance: the person in which the energies characteristic to Vishuddha chakra are disturbed will have to face an imbalance at the level of the above-mentioned glands. The emotional factors are nonetheless extremely important in triggering this disease. These factors are translated in symptoms as insomnia, anxiety and depression.

Characteristic element: the subtle energies of ether.

Sense: hearing.

All the miraculous possibilities, the gifts, the powers named by the oriental tradition siddhis are related to the activation of Vishuddha Chakra, and to be more specific, they are related to the fifth element, the ether.

The effects of meditating on this chakra are calm, serenity, purity, melodious voice, the awakening of artistic inspiration, the capacity of interpreting sacred writings, scriptures, of understanding the hidden message of dreams.

The person under the influence of Vishuddha Chakra no longer find attractive, nor important the distractions and pleasures caused by the senses and intellect.

Such a person will seek real knowledge beyond the limits of time, and beyond hereditary or cultural conditionings. Entering its field of energy equals the freedom from the whirlpools of this world and the control over our ego.

The idea of cosmic consciousness is related to this center of force. Both physiologically and psychologically, Vishuddha Chakra corresponds to the complex process of nurturing. The balanced development of the three centers of force leads to the formation of a balanced and harmonious personality.

The fourth center of force, Anahata Chakra is an intermediary stage, a central point that unifies the inferior levels with the upper levels, the sphere of survival, social living, and assertion of one’s personality with the subtle, refined levels of the manifestation.

Not by a mere accident is Anahata Chakra the center of the heart, of love, of the awakening of the soul. The next stage is then the acquiring of a superior state of receptiveness, and an opening towards the divine inspirations.

In this sense, Vishuddha Chakra corresponds to the process of nurturing, both physically (the projection of Vishuddha Chakra is the neck) and subtly, referring to an energetical nourishment through the access in the superior worlds of the universe.

On this stage, the notion of "inner superior consciousness" becomes accessible, and the person may intuitively enter the mysteries of the divine manifestation.


TIME IS THE MIRROR OF ETERNITY
The state of receptiveness to the superior, elevated worlds makes possible the opening of some access gates to these universes. These experiences appear spontaneously in meditations, or they may be reached through the pouring of the divine grace. The psychologist Abraham Maslow named them "peak experiences".

For all the people who had such experiences, in their moments of ecstasy, intuitions and transcendence these experiences represent the most important thing in their lives, and are considered as the truly most precious aspects of life, that give life its value and measure.

They may be certain forms of overcoming one’s individuality, or simply a sensation of being out of time.

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PART 4
"Even when we do not suspect it, love is the supreme law of the universe. It is a mysterious law that governs and rules every existing thing, from the lifeless atom to the union as a couple of two persons. All our thoughts and actions go to it as to a divine centre of irresistible attraction."

Love is what gives people the power to dream and follow their dreams. Love gives birth to the mysterious aspiration of self-knowledge.

If you feel you no longer have this wonderful feeling of love towards a person, or something really important in your life, then it can only mean two things: either you were never able to love, or that you forgot to look inside of you, where this love is still present.

Love knows that the things of the mind are flicker and are subject to change. Therefore, overwhelming, pure love turns even the most pitiful person into a winner.

Love is...just like this. You just perceive it, in your moments of joy and happiness, through your loved one. However, love does not need that.

Love does not rule over anything and does not want to be ruled. Above all, love offers something, and it requires nothing in return. Sit is divine simplicity in action and living.

Love is an earthly reflexion of heavenly love, and therefore it does not have any boundaries or limits.

If there is love, it is everywhere. And if there is love, it will exists from now on, for ever.

Love is the ineffable, overwhelming, and divine feeling that makes us feel we grow in our consciousness that makes us feel we are one with the infinite. Love is mostly manifested through the sublime aspiration of becoming united with the "object" of our love, with the person we love dearly and deeply.

The emergence, persistence, and development of this feeling in the sphere of each individual is intimately connected to the formation and crystallization of one’s personality.

The yogis have always considered the feeling of love as extraordinarily important and often characterized it as an essential value-criterion of the degree of a human being’s spiritual state of elevation.

It is a measure of the fact that in the most intimately individual part of a person, he or she who loves has the possibility of acquiring the qualities of love itself, that is infinity and divinity. Consequently, true, genuine love is a very simple modality of overcoming or transcending one’s ego.

"The most beautiful love one can experience is the love of God. He is our eternal lover and our souls are his beloveds, and when the soul meets the greatest lover in the whole universe, then the divine love begins." (Paramahansa Yogananda)

"Oh, Lord, when I dwell in the house of my mortal consciousness, I think I love my parents and friends; I imagine I love my birds, animals, and possessions. Now, after I entered the temple of omniscience, I know you are all I love, manifested in the shapes of my parents, friends and all creatures and things. By loving you, my heart knew how to love everyone. Being loyal to you, I am loyal to all of them. And I love everything." (Paramahansa Yogananda)

For a better understanding of the Anahata chakra, we introduce to you the explanations of the following terms:

Harmony - concordance, accord, matching the component elements of a whole. Philosophical category that expresses the adherence of the parts, the coherence of the interior and exterior, the unity of the form and content, the unity of the contraries. Harmony is often considered as foundation, attribute, or effect of the beauty.

Transfiguration - procedure of inner alchemy that makes possible the resonance with subtle divine energies from the macrocosm. Through transfiguration, the elements of the exterior reality, distilled by the noble vision, imagination, and power of expression of the person capable of transfiguring are transformed into a new, elevated, spiritual reality, source of a form of ecstasy.

Through the example of artistic expression, the transfiguration represents the proof of the active and creative role of consciousness. The sublime artistic expression, capable of recreating the reality with new, and deeper valences brought the art the name of magic mirror of reality. Transfiguration plays an important part in sexual continence and in the art of divine lovemaking.

Empathy - resonance that is awakened and amplified through the yogic practice, allowing a superior psychic and affective communication with other people, or sometimes with beings from the unseen worlds.

Generally speaking, we all know that a mother knows intuitively her baby’s needs and feelings. This apparently mysterious connection such as between the mother and her child is naturally related to the fact that initially the child is one with the mother.

Empathy is an intuitive modality of knowing the others, because it ensures a form of affective communication and immediate, sentimental transposition, making possible the identification with other persons, in various situations of life.

Through certain psychological techniques and best through certain yoga techniques, a person can normalize and improve his or her experiences and perceptions. A powerful, beneficial, positive emotional experience "charges" the person in question with positive energy, stimulates the mind, and euphorically "colours" the soul.

The study in the field of psychosomatic confirms the fact that disturbing, negative emotions cause various heart, liver, and/or brain diseases, and in the same time they deeply affect the consciousness of the physical body.

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PART 3
We continue the presentation of the fourth centre of force, Anahata Chakra. Placed at the level of the cardiac plexus, it corresponds to the empathic, affective, elevated states of universal love and compassion.

The subtle corresponding element is air, vayu tattva. Anahata Chakra has 12 directions or energetical channels of vibrations of the cosmic energies. The yogi who activates his Anahata Chakra 100% will become the instrument of manifestation of the divine love. At this level there is also the reflexion of the essential Supreme Self, under the form of the individual soul.

Anahata Chakra marks the meeting place between the energies of the first three centres of force and the energies of the three superior centres of force.

We live our lives in a constant, perpetual rush. We carry inside of us "synthesis" of experiences. We carry past loves marked by victories and loses.

However, when we mention love and we recall the feeling, all things become bright because of a mysterious, special and alive radiance.


THE MAGIC OF SIMPLICITY
It is possible, even very likely, that you do not recall what happened three years ago, on January 7, but you definitely remember the moment when you met your lover or when you decided to be together.

Before your eyes, the images begin to follow one after the other. These moments are those that touched you most deeply, sometimes they made you cry, other times they made you smile.

If you experienced a great, exceptional love, you undoubtedly felt you are a beautiful, powerful person, with a special mission meant only for you to fulfil.

After a time, after this love came through your being and destroyed the last remains of the ego, you felt a stronger and better person, although apparently without any ground for it. And your love became more intense, more conscious and more elevating.

Love is constructive and creative, and it unites and elevates those who experience the feeling. It is a regenerative principle and it transforms boredom, scepticism or loneliness. The works of art, poetry music, all these have love as an unseen ingredient.

Love is real, just as real as we are. Love is not a sterile intellectual concept, but it is a mysterious magic of our whole being. As long as even the existence and growth of a single spade of grass are not the work of accident and chance, the fact that in the universe exists a person who loves you is more than meaningful.

We are here, on earth, mostly to manifest the divine love for those people who deserve it and above all, to manifest our love for God.

Few people know that the easiest way to be transformed into a better person is through love. Love is the only valid parameter to measure the value and importance of all things. Shared love is the destiny we all have to fulfil, when we deserve it.

Loving is the easiest and most natural way of living one’s life.

Each person feels the need to love, even before having the chance to do it. If a person experiences a state of pure and overwhelming love, sooner or later this love will attract a similar love in return.

"Trust and transfiguration are the virtues of love."

"What is love if not the desire to surpass one’s limits, of getting out from one’s inner limitations?"

"Love is the greatest of all human happiness, because it is the supreme effort a person attempts to escape the inner loneliness."

"Love is charming and delightful: it gives us the sense of our existence in its real variety and value. In love everything changes, all things become meaningful. Through transfiguration, a mysterious divine paradise emerges from nothing."

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PART 2
IT IS YOU I WANT, ONLY YOU
Other great mystics reveal to us their experiences:

"But God where is? It is in missing Him. Where there is nothing but consuming love. In the very point in which love burns and is not consumed. This is where the "sight" of God is. And in this space, all in flames, occurs the mysterious meeting beyond mind, between the beloved God and a soul in love with Him. In the heart."

Saint Simon tells us about this encounter:
"I am speechless at the sight of His beauty and kindness and when I see how the Creator opens up His arms and comes upon me and reveals His infinite Glory to me.

Thinking how fast can someone reach to His heights, I immediately find Him splendid and shining radiantly from my heart. His light appears from outside and all of a sudden we find Him inside of us, from which He springs forcefully like a burning fire."

One of the most elevating Christian spiritual practices is the isihast prayer, the prayer of the heart, which implies that the practitioner repeats Jesus' name constantly and without stopping.

The repetition of the prayer "Lord, Jesus Christ have mercy on me!" leads to experiences impossible to describe, an announcement on earth of the happiness awaiting us in the other world. Such bliss is saved for those who seek God in the simplicity of their loving heart.

"I felt that the prayer was now getting down from lips to my heart; it seemed to me that my heart was repeating the words of the prayer with every pulsation, with every beat, all by itself.

I no longer repeated the words with my lips. All I did now was to listen carefully to the sound of my heart. It seemed that my eyes were sinking inside my heart. Then I felt a slight pain and an overwhelming love.

This love was for Jesus Christ. I felt that if I only saw Him, I would fall at His feet I would hold them in my arms and I would kiss them thousands of times.

I would thank Him for the gift of love He has given me. Then I felt in my chest such a beneficial warmth that one could not possibly tell or describe."

"With my eyes closed, focusing all the forces of my imagination, I would look upon my spiritual heart. In the beginning I felt I was getting confused, but after a while I began to realize my heart and its movements and through my breath I was able to insert in it and then to take out of it the prayer of Jesus, as the saints teach us.

Inhaling, I would look with my spirit in my heart saying: "Lord Jesus Christ" and exhaling the air I would say: "have mercy on me". I began with one hour of prayer per day, then gradually I increased the number of hours to several hours and finally to the whole day.

It took me about three weeks until I felt some pain in my heart and then a very pleasant warmth and an unimaginable joy. This joy gives me the desire to continue to pray.

I felt a burning and overwhelming love for Jesus and for all of God's creatures. My eyes were in tears. My weak thoughts were clear now and my mind seemed to see things clearly. My soul was praising the Lord ceaselessly and my heart was lost in a sea of joy."

Rumi: "Love is the only constant in this universe. Love comes from the infinite and is eternal."

The deepest and most uplifting feeling a person can experience is love. Love is ours, and yet it does not belong to us. It comes from God without ever having left Him. It is eternal and eternally creative.

What do we understand through love? What do we experience through love? Each of us sees and understands according to the awakening of their souls.

There is no tenderer path leading to God than love. Silent and tumultuous, passionate and candid, bright and invisible, uttered and unspoken, yet always in bloom, love is what keeps us alive.

Tomorrow when you wake up, look at the things around, the trees, the stones, the animals, the people and see this love everywhere. Wake up 30 minutes earlier tomorrow. Wash up and come back to your room.

Sit in a meditation pose and relax the whole body. For seven minutes, focus on the Yantra of the Great Cosmic Power Bhuwaneshwari and perceive the expansion of the heart chakra, Anahata Chakra.

Close your eyes and focus on Anahata Chakra, breathe deeply 21 times and direct the energy into the heart center. You will gradually perceive the activation of Anahata Chakra.

Now open your eyes and look at the world as if you were in Anahata Chakra. You may even imagine that you have a gigantic eye in Anahata Chakra, looking at the world through it. You will feel you soul opened and happy that it can comprise the whole world.

You will also perceive a gigantic sphere of force, filled with love and radiating love in Anahata Chakra. Close you eyes again and stay like this for a while.

Become aware of the fundament of all things in the universe: love. Come back gradually, open your eyes and go to your daily routine, remembering to look at the world through your heart.

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Love your fellows with kindness and transfiguration. Find in each of them those qualities that truly deserve to be loved and admired.

Think of the others before thinking about yourself at least 7 times a day and thus you will feel that the love you give them comes back to you, infinitely.

Location: the fourth energy center, Anahata Chakra is located in the physical body in the area of the cardiac plexus.

Represents: compassion, emotional tranquility, detachment and unconditional love.

Symbolical representation: the consciousness of love and empathic communion with other beings, abnegation, self-giving.

On the psychic level: endless and everlasting love for your fellows, compassion, altruism, empathy, acceptance, self-giving.

On the physical level: it coordinates the activity of the circulatory system, respiratory system and immune system.

Specific reactions in the case of energetical disturbance: the person in which the energies characteristic to Anahata Chakra are disturbed will suffer because of dramatic, even tragic situations. Such people will have problems with the thymus, the endocrine gland corresponding to this center of force.

Characteristic element: the subtle energies of air.

Sense organ: skin.

Sense: tactile sense.

"The person concentrating and meditating on Anahata Chakra may easily have out of body experiences, he or she may easily "fly" to another realms, into paradise-like universes or into another person's body, experiencing the other person's states. Such a person becomes the instrument of the divine cosmic love and obtains all the other divine qualities."

From a mundane perspective, a person with awakened Anahata Chakra will have a well-developed artistic sense, mastering art, poetry, or prose.

In a human being the awakening of Anahata Chakra allows the experience of sublime states of love as well as the intimate, mysterious communion with the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Let us remember the wonderful vision of Sundar Singh: "And I began to pray: "O, Lord, You who are everywhere,You who are the water of my life, have mercy on me and fill me up with your Holy Spirit and with your love, so that nothing else could get inside of me ever again.

I want only You inside my heart, for ever and ever. I do not want blessings, I want You, only You. I do not want the world, I do not want the vanities, I do not want its glory, I do not want the sky. I want You.

Because for me you are the sky. In you I found my peace and tranquility of my heart. My heart is for you, not for any other beings. Therefore, my heart can find its peace only in you, Father, the one who seeded in me this thirst for peace and You.

Tear from my heart all that is against you will, come and dwell inside of me and lead my heart to wherever you desire.

When I got up, what did my eyes see? A being made of rays of light, of a beauty beyond all words was standing in front of me.

Although that being of light did not say a word, although I was not able to look properly at it because the tears filling my eyes were hindering my sight, a wave of love was coming from that being and a divine light was filling my soul.

I recognized immediately the Lord. I came from the rock and I fell before Him. He had the key to open the gate of my heart and to fill it up with His love. I could see nothing in me, nor around me. I could see only Him.

Obviously, the heart of man is the temple and throne of God. When the Lord picks up a heart to come into, the heavenly sky and kingdom get to life inside that man's heart."

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PART 3
Here are some good statements that you can use as self-suggestions:
"I trust myself completely. I follow the example of those who succeed. I fully deserve to be successful and to be happy. I actively want to play my part in the universe. I am certain that I will reach my goal.

I want to win and in order to do that I will first win a victory over myself. In order to succeed I assume the attitude of a person who always succeeds.

I am ready for this wonderful day, aware of the gigantic force of the Universe that sustains me and that manifests through me.

I allow the cosmic energies to manifest freely through me, and I assimilate the cosmic energies that make me a new, better person.

I believe stronger and stronger that I can be successful in whatever I choose to do. My look is daring, my speech is warmer, more loving and convincing.

My walk is firmer and more self-assured. I want to express as often as I can, through my smile and through my look a beatific force, inspiring trust, love and sympathy."



SIMPLE TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING YOUR SELF-IMAGE

EXERCISE 1:
Sit comfortably on a chair, in front of a mirror, with your spine straight. Close your eyes and create in your inner universe a state of calmness, of tranquility.

Then open your eyes and look at the reflection in the mirror as if you have just met that person for the first time. Observe the first impressions. Watch the changes of your facial expressions, according to the thoughts and feelings that change inside of you.

Try to establish a good relationship with the person in the mirror. Relax the muscles of your face and control your breath. These two actions contribute to your inner balance.

Imagine now that you replace all negative attitudes with positive ones, with the help of your breath and relaxation. Close your eyes and try to become familiar with this new perception on yourself.



EXERCISE 2:
Light a candle. Sit comfortably on a chair, with your spine straight. Close your eyes and create in your inner universe a state of calmness, of tranquility.

Then open your eyes and look at the light of the candle, comparing the dance of the flame with your thoughts. Imagine that its light destroys and burns away all your mental impurities, all your negative thoughts.

Then close your eyes and project the image in the area between the eyebrows. Maintain this mental image as long as you can. You will finally notice the appearance of a state of interiorization, of purification, of calm and tranquility.