Themed meditations can be used within the Clear Space Path without departing from its process, which is to seek to allow material to arise within the meditator's clear space from inside their own being.  To be true to this, they need not to be viewed as guided visualisations nor images to be held too distinctly.  If you have read "Stillness in Mind", you will  have found and perhaps worked with the concept of the 'sense of me and...'  This could be a metaphor for the relationship between the meditator and the theme of the meditation.

So... themed meditations consist of some notions for contemplation around the theme, followed by a narration for the meditation.  You should read the contemplation first and let your mind 'look upon' the ideas they contain (rather than wander around them and start to reason about them).  Allow this to take four or five minutes and, if something specific starts to emerge for you, you can acknowledge it and hold it, but still without starting to reason anything about it.  

After these few minutes, read the narrative of the meditation and draw from it the essential descriptions of the theme.  Say these to yourself a few times and then, when you feel comfortable, start your sitting in your usual way, and at the appropriate place narrate the theme to yourself.  Take slow steps and, if sometimes you step backwards, or re-work, or loop back to the beginning creating a continuous thread, these are also ways to use the theme.

Here are themed meditations for you to try (click on the title) :

 Meditation on being just who I am

 
 
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