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You can meditate over a set of graphic prints that won't eat into your table space
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Tarun and Celia Cherian: making meditation easy — Photo: K. Gopinathan
YOU DON'T have to have the usual spiritual trappings if wish to meditate at home or at office. A set of five cards,called The Shakti Meditation Art Set, brought out by Tarun and Celia Cherian of Creator's Child. The couple calls it "an initiative to Awaken the God within".
Meditation with the help of this set — fundamentally five striking graphic images — is different from the meditation associated with yoga. Any person, a beginner even, can make use of it. All the person needs to do is place the set (made calendar style) on a desk or table and glance at it periodically or at a certain frequency of time one is comfortable with. The images radiate different energies and mental states and one can take one's pick.
Meditative plane
According to Tarun, if an image were to impart high energy or take one to a high meditative plane "where one floats", a shift to another would restore the balance. The same principle works if the meditative state is low and a person is in need of a higher state.
Celia Cherian points out that the individual is the centre of this meditative process and that one can take to this exercise at a convenient time and place. While the set helps beginners, those already into meditation may find it of use to intensify their meditative states. Beginners, however, can address pragmatic problems through the use of this set — "power management, charka balancing, stress management, emotional enrichment, relationship issues, psychic protection, enhancing intuition, and managing kundalini awakenings".
Spiritual domain
The set is geared to a wide spectrum of people where age, religion or gender does not matter. It is a product, the couple claims, that brings spirituality into a one-to-one domain. "While work on this commenced four years ago, we brought out the set only now. We hope people will take to it given that it can be a very personalised exercise," says Tarun. The product itself came about by chance — Tarun and Celia Cherian thought of the idea in the process of their art work.
Method
They point out that this method is not ranged against any other meditative method nor does it claim to be the best. It is complementary to other methods, and within this method itself, one image could be complementary to another. According to Celia, this method is compact and covers a range of moods. It can lift one from a very low state to a moderate or high state and vice-versa.
There are guidelines to use the five Shakti meditation prints, the central principle being to focus not too intensely on the central dot or area. Tarun and Celia say most people choose one print as their core and the others to address specific problems. They suggest meditation be set in the order of second, first, third, fourth and fifth image. Each can be placed at an arm's length or up to 10 feet. The meditation time can be anywhere between five to 30 minutes once to four times a day, while, of course, there is the option to keep the meditation print open and glance at it every once in a while.
The set comes with a small booklet that outlines ways in which one can go about the process. It available at 100 Ft, Gangarams and Kahaw and is priced at Rs. 150.
Tarun and Celia can be contacted on 25309525 or email t_c@sancharnet.in or access website www.creatorschild.20m.com or www.taruncherian.20m.com
G.N.P.
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