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What is the difference between Meditation,


            Creative Visualization, and Mindfulness?












        Many of us use the word meditation as                  Please allow me to shed light upon these
        a blanket term to cover practices that                 three different yet related techniques so

        though they are adjunct and can launch us  that we can begin to use the proper terms
        into the state of meditation, are separate             in the future and understand the actions
        practices. There are distinct differences              needed to achieve them.

        between meditation, creative visualization,
        and mindfulness. Due to the branding of                Meditation is a practice in which we

        creative visualization as meditation even I            withdraw from the senses. Mindfulness
        gave in and called my creative visualization  is a process that brings us into the
        podcast, Meditate with Ambika. Please                  present moment with a sense of being in

        don’t think me a hypocrite after reading               the here and now. Creative Visualization
        what I am about to share with you. After               is what most people are doing when they

        all, if I had named it, Creatively Visualize           think they are meditating while watching
        with Ambika, would you know what I was  a video or listening to a guided sequence
        offering to you? Likely not.                           called meditation.

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