Meditation Room Design

Designing a Meditation Room

Meditation rooms should be designed to reflect your needs and preferences. Designing a meditation room can be fun and rewarding...

A meditation room reflects who you are – your feelings, interests, beliefs, attitudes, passions, desires, dreams – your very spirit.

A meditation room is a sacred space to re-energize and renew yourself. And a meditation room is a place of healing and rejuvenation.

I like to think of it as a portal between the physical and spiritual worlds. Where you can just BE.

When you walk into your sacred space you immediately feel a difference in energies. You can feel that you are part of nature and the universe.

Meditation rooms can be inside your home, on a porch area or in a garden.

A good meditation room design helps you relieve anxiety and stress symptoms. You start to relax and feel at peace.

Features of Meditation Rooms

• Tools of Expression - Meditation rooms are places where messages and ideas can seem to come out of no where. Keep tools of expression available (such as paper and pencils) to write your ideas, thoughts or inspirations.

  When you awaken from a dream, you remember it freshly in your mind. However, later in the day, you might remember less--or nothing at all.

  The same might experience can happen when you are meditating in your sacred space . When an idea or vision comes to you, take some time to write it down while its fresh in your mind.

• Neat, Tidy and Organized - A meditation room design should be simple and free from clutter. Simplicity in your meditation room is vital. Consider for a moment how you feel in a messy and dirty room. Then consider how you feel in a room that is neat, tidy and clean. Now take those two feelings and compare them.

  Which one would offer you a clear and peaceful mind, in the present moment, to melt away tension and stress?

  Keep your meditation room simple and clutter free. If you have to keep a pile of boxes in the corner, put a white sheet over them. Dust the book shelves. Don’t have items sprawled about the floor (unless you’ve created a meditation circle).
  
  

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  Meditating outdoors can be very relaxing and peaceful.
  
  

• Only What Feels Right - The meditation room design you choose will reflect the energies that you want to create.

  Everything is energy. What you emanate out into the world is what you will attract. What you think or believe creates your living.

  Meditation rooms should reflect the world that you desire. A universe created especially for you. Meditation room design. Try a Zen meditation.

  Spend some time to dwell on what brings you happiness and joy. What will create an energy within you that allows you to feel at peace? What objects or symbols empower you? Do particular objects make you feel uneasy or disgusted?

  As you are designing your meditation room, it's important to notice and spend time with each item. Feel what they mean to you. If they are not suitable in this space, move them to another room. This space is being created with a purpose--you will be using it exclusively for meditating.

• Objects of Power or AuthorityIn your meditation room design consider using certain objects to bring focus, clear energies, or feelings of peace.

  Use objects that remind you of Higher Beings. You might like to consider statues of your favorite deities, angels or goddesses. Pictures of gurus, Christ, or Buddha.

• Candles - Lighted candles can bring focus. Candles of a particular color can help you focus on certain emotions or concepts while you meditate .

  For example, a pink candle might bring in self love, green for money, growth and healing, red for passion or power, yellow for children, conversation or intelligence, orange for energy, joy and happiness, blue for calmness and peace of mind, purple for soothing energies, psychic awareness and enlightenment, white for purity, etc.

  The aroma of candles can also help you meditate. Some scents can help you relax and get rid of tension. A particular scent can be a trigger to help you get into a meditative mood.

  Knowing a little about aromatherapy can help you with this aspect of designing a meditation room.

• Bells - Musical instruments can be used to clear the energies and prepare your sacred space for meditation.

  Bells offer sparkling clear energies that have been used by many religious throughout time. You might like to have a bell or other musical instrument, such as a gong or drum, in your meditation room.

• The Four Elements - When you sit down to a meditation its good to have the four elements of Earth.
  1. Fire - Lighting a candle can your state of awareness and help you focus. Fire represents warmth and passion, power and potency. Be careful when using fire. Make sure no curtains or paper are nearby to catch on fire.

  2. Water - The element of water is cleansing and purifying. Water can represent emotions and feelings. It can mean clarity, spiritual enlightenment and spiritual alignment. Put a bowl or cup of water in your meditation room as a symbol of purification.

  3. Air - The life force that we could not live without. We breathe the air our ancestors did. We share the air with all beings on Earth, the air connects us as One. Air is already in your meditation room, so no preparation is needed.

  4. Earth - All living things draw their energy from the Earth element. The element gives strengths and is grounding. It brings stability, wisdom and power. Put some sand or dirt in a bowl, or perhaps a plant in your meditation room to complete your collection of the four elements.

• Create A Focus of Meditation with a Dream Board - Take some time to create a poster board of what you want to create in your life. This can be just a poster board with pictures from magazines pasted onto it.

  In your meditation room design, include your created dream board. It's a large piece of paper with pictures and/or drawings of your deepest desires helps you stay focused on your goals. Get a large piece of paper, magazines, glue, markers, crayons, paint, etc. Create your dream board.

• Sand Art - Buddhist monks use sand to create mandalas as a form of meditation. They use sand to represent the impermanence of life and how it is ever changing.
  A small area filled with sand is a good way to unleash your creativity in the form of a sacred zen garden in your meditation room design.

  You could design a mandala or simply create a "mini garden" that reminds you of a peaceful outdoors location. It’s also a safe place to burn candles.

• An Altar - An altar is a spot in your room that is on a table or desk which helps you focus during your meditation.

  When you have the rest of your room organized, it's time to create your altar. This can be as simple or ornate as you would like.

Consider the art of Feng Shui for deciding on the placement of objects in your meditation room. Or use your intuition about where you want to place them.

Before you create your meditation room design, imagine for a moment that you are meditating, your eyes are closed, and when you open them you see your altar in front of you.

What do you see? How does it make you feel? Do you feel at peace? What would you change or add to bring peace and joy? Use color cloth, lace table cloths, feathers, ceramic angels, etc.

A good meditation room design creates peace and tranquility. When you step into your sacred space, you are ready to unwind, releasing tension and stress.

For more information on how to get started meditating, click here.

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