So in essence quite similar to the western examples of assuming godforms such as practiced in Hermetics by taking on poses and the mindset of qualities associated with different gods as ritual gestures but in a more prolonged sense of meditation than is generally employed but similar base concept.
Could also be compared in part to using elemental and planetary analogies to work with the internal universe to change the self with those concepts and energies and how they relate just another means of specifically applying it into a very pinpoint technique.