Here is a meditation based on the Daoist system (Chi Gung, Tai Chi, acupuncture, etc). If you are used to using colours with the chakras, you may find it confusing, but I find it soothing and a good way to send positive intent to the internal organs and improve body awareness.

Sit upright and maintain a straight spine, and relax (remember the straight spine!) from the crown of the head down. Keep sending the mind down under the ground and find or imagine golden light deep down. On an inhalation, draw streams of light up the legs into the solar plexus (middle dan tien) and focus the light there. Take a few breaths to build up a cloud of light (inhale the light, exhale and focus). Stop drawing the light in, and circulate it around the body as follows
Take the golden yellow light (like sunshine) to fill and surround the stomach. Visualise it as strongly as you can, in whatever way makes most sense to you, let it swirl around, and watch it for a while.
Draw the light up to fill and surround the lungs, turn the colour of the light to white (like the clouds), and do the same again
Drop the light to the lower abdomen, turn the colour of the light to a deep blue (like the ocean) and repeat
Take the light up to the liver (on the left side at the base of the ribs) and turn the colour of the light to green (like a forest) and repeat
Bring the light up to the heart and turn the colour to red (like fire) and repeat.
Bring the light back to the solar plexus and return to golden light, or use warmth or awareness. On the outward breath, expand the light outwards to fill the body, and keep expanding with every outward breath until the light/warmth/awareness is about arms length all around the body – in front and behind, to the sides, above and below. Sit for as long as you wish, keeping the mind clear by using the internal sensations of the body (breath, heartbeat, pulse, the noise in the ears) and maintain some awareness of the space around you. When closing, you can leave the light/warmth/awareness around the body, or bring it back into the solar plexus or sacral chakra/lower dantien as you wish.


It is important to keep the colours not only in the same order, but to associate them with the organs stated, as they represent the five elements (earth, metal, water, wood, fire) and their associated organs, in the creative order. You may find some colours easier than others. Any you feel strongly can expand to fill the whole body, and you can of course repeat the colour sequence more than once, but be sure to balance them out and do all five each time.
Any other Daoist enthusiasts out there might find it similar to the Inner Smile, which I haven’t got my head round yet.

Love and peace