Visions of the Mind

The first time you meditate, many people experience the phenomenon of seeing beautiful visions or lights of fantastic colors, or listening to exquisite music. The people to whom this happens may think that good meditation leads to these phenomena, and then they are upset when they do not occur. There are also people who tend to compete over their visionary experiences, which, instead of favoring meditation, generates fantasies. This competition can be established with others as well as establishing a more useful competition with themselves, trying to overcome the last marvelous experience.

If you listen to the music or notice the images that pass through your head, it is unlikely that you will attend to your objective, and if you are not concentrated on your objective, do not meditate.

If, on the other hand, you ignore the phenomenon or continue your meditation, those things will gradually disappear. They mark certain changes in our inner energy balance, as well as transitions from one level of consciousness to another, almost always deeper.

Most people who have practiced for years have experienced recurring phenomena. Some Christian traditions of yoga, Zen Buddhism and other spiritual tendencies consider them illusions or temptations, that is, distractions and manifestations of resistance to meditation itself. There are traditions, such as tantra yoga, which suggest that they be observed attentively, without getting involved with them. An experienced teacher will be able to explain many things to you about the evolution of your meditation. According to the phenomena that happen to you.

However beautiful these phenomena may be, they are only milestones along the way, before which many people pass by without experiencing the phenomena. The important thing is to consider them as something that happens in the process and that, as it appears, goes away. If we are aware of them and meditate to experience them, we do not advance. It's like standing there looking at a landmark, thinking that means we've reached the end of the journey. If we only look at them when they pass, let them go and continue with our practice, they will fade gradually, like transitory phenomena that they are.

Like the occasional feelings of euphoria, they denote a change, they must be valued for that, and liberated. If we are aware of these phenomena, we will not be able to continue towards that deeper level of consciousness and greater stillness and clarity, where those experiences are also diluted in silence. These phenomena are by no means goals worth striving for.

When a person who has been very tense for a long time relaxes, sometimes different emotions emerge. Often it is simply feelings that were blocked. perhaps for some time now, in the roaring muscles, which sometimes manifest when the tension that retains them is released. They are feelings that wanted to do something that the mind forbade.

They are past things, that no longer matter, that only need to be released along with the tension. People who do massages and other types of body manipulation are very familiar with these phenomena.

Sometimes we feel like crying, we feel sad or angry. If these things happen to you when you meditate or practice a relaxation technique, don't get upset. The mind always tries to find in the present an explanation for what we feel. For example, if a group of relaxed muscles releases a feeling of rage, the mind immediately seeks in the present, or in the recent past, a reason for that anger. A Chinese proverb says: A man who wants to hit a dog will always find a stick. If we insist, we will always find someone or something to be angry about. It is possible that this anger does not have its reason for being in the present, and is just an artifact, something that has been there for a long time, which has no relevance in our lives today. We must recognize these artifacts as what they are and simply liberate them, so that they do not become entangled in our present life and feelings.

This is certainly not a frequent problem when we relax deeply, but it is something we must distinguish if it happens. If the exercise gives us back our serenity, we know that emotion is just an artifact. If there is really a cause to be moved by, the feelings will not disappear with the exercise, in any case, if we concentrate on our breathing we will be able to consider it with more tranquility and objectivity.

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