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Psychological distortions and vitiated thoughts produce and accumulate toxic matter inside the body. Leśyā dhyāna is a unique process of catharsis for cleansing the body. Colourtherapy and leśyā-dhyāna purge out the accumulated toxic inatter and purify the emotions and thoughts.
When the attitude is positive and unvitiated, the thoughts are also virtuous and pure. Thoughts are not directly affected by kaşāya (innate malevolence). Thoughts are produced by cerebral activity and learning. Thought, memory, contemplation, analytical faculty, assessment and all other such faculties are branches of knowledge and are, therefore, cerebral functions. On the other hand, emotions are endocrine expressions. We have two controlling systems in the body-the endocrine system and the nervous system. The former produces emotions and the latter produces thought. Thought has little influence on emotions but the latter has profound effect on the former. Emotions belong to the internal domain and thoughts belong to the field of action. That is why one should not worry too much about one's thoughts. Let those who externalize make 'thought' their chief concern, but for those who want to internalize and whose main concern is inner harmony, thought is of little significance. They should concentrate on the purity of emotions.
The simplest catharsis for purifying the emotion is the perception of bright colours-red, yellow and white.
When we visualize the above bright colours and intensify the visualization, our emotions and attitude change automatically. There is no scope for thinking or contemplating. The radiant energy of bright colours neutralizes the waves of thought, uncertainty and delusion. They subside. At the same time, the delusion-subsiding waves are reinforced and activated.
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