Trouble Meditating!!

[Aingeal]

Lately I have been trying to do meditation. I'm not having a lot of luck in this department......

I am getting better at not letting other thoughts {like what am I going to do for dinner etc} come into my head while I am trying to meditate, but I still can't visualise anything, except lots of coloured lights, kind of moving around in the blackness. They almost propel and surround the darkness it's really freaky & so beautiful. Some are like balls of lights, some are start off balls, then expand and kind of wrap around the darkness if that makes sense......

So far nothing else though. Is that normal? Are the lights anything? or is that just what everyone gets when they shut their eyes and concentrate?

Oh sometimes, when I am listening to the guided meditation and it says ask to feel heat on my face, tingles or something, to confirm your Spirit guide is there.

I can! Just not see or hear anything.

Just wondering how long it took some of you to be able to meditate, & how often you do/should meditate.

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Aingeal

Lately I have been trying to do meditation. I'm not having a lot of luck in this department......

I am getting better at not letting other thoughts {like what am I going to do for dinner etc} come into my head while I am trying to meditate, but I still can't visualise anything, except lots of coloured lights, kind of moving around in the blackness. They almost propel and surround the darkness it's really freaky & so beautiful. Some are like balls of lights, some are start off balls, then expand and kind of wrap around the darkness if that makes sense......

So far nothing else though. Is that normal? Are the lights anything? or is that just what everyone gets when they shut their eyes and concentrate?

Oh sometimes, when I am listening to the guided meditation and it says ask to feel heat on my face, tingles or something, to confirm your Spirit guide is there.

I can! Just not see or hear anything.

Just wondering how long it took some of you to be able to meditate, & how often you do/should meditate.

What are you trying to get out of your meditation?

[Aingeal]

Originally Posted by Anagogy

What are you trying to get out of your meditation?

Sorry! I didn't explain properly....... I am hoping to connect with my spirit guides visually, and just learn how to meditate completely, so I can maybe develop more intuitive abilities. I have been told that meditating will/might help.

[ChristsLight]

Meditation is not about the experiences you get.

If you want to meet guides, that will happen naturally as you learn to allow pure awareness to flow through, and as thoughts fall away.

Traditional meditation is not visualizing things, so you should be clear about your goals.

How long have you been meditating? I suspect yoga re rushing things.

[Aingeal]

Originally Posted by ChristsLight

Meditation is not about the experiences you get.

If you want to meet guides, that will happen naturally as you learn to allow pure awareness to flow through, and as thoughts fall away.

Traditional meditation is not visualizing things, so you should be clear about your goals.

How long have you been meditating? I suspect yoga re rushing things.

That's the problem, I am only going by what I am told here & there. I was told that if I wanted to develop spiritually, then I should meditate.

So not being sure how to meditate I go on Utube, then find a guided meditation, which seems ok.....there is so much info out there, it's hard to know what to follow {which is why I love this site, because you guys are experienced and give good advice, without judging }

So I do what it says and yes in the title" it was Meditation to connect with your Spirit Guides and or Angels." or something along those lines.

I haven't been trying for long, only off & on for a month or so, Lol you are probably suspecting right, like usual, I'm rushing things.

Mind you I thought learning to Meditate was a good way to slow myself down & relax.

As usual I appreciate all/any advice and will try and follow

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by ChristsLight

Meditation is not about the experiences you get.

If you want to meet guides, that will happen naturally as you learn to allow pure awareness to flow through, and as thoughts fall away.

Traditional meditation is not visualizing things, so you should be clear about your goals.

Traditional meditation? I didn't realize there was an official rule book somewhere. You must have the first edition.

From my perspective, there is no wrong way to meditate really. There is only what you want to achieve, and the most effective means of accomplishing it whatever that happens to be.

Originally Posted by Aingeal

Sorry! I didn't explain properly....... I am hoping to connect with my spirit guides visually, and just learn how to meditate completely, so I can maybe develop more intuitive abilities. I have been told that meditating will/might help.

Well, that is all certainly possible. I think you may be trying too hard, and as ChristsLight said, you may be rushing things a bit.

Originally Posted by Aingeal

That's the problem, I am only going by what I am told here & there. I was told that if I wanted to develop spiritually, then I should meditate.

So not being sure how to meditate I go on Utube, then find a guided meditation, which seems ok.....there is so much info out there, it's hard to know what to follow {which is why I love this site, because you guys are experienced and give good advice, without judging }

So I do what it says and yes in the title" it was Meditation to connect with your Spirit Guides and or Angels." or something along those lines.

I haven't been trying for long, only off & on for a month or so, Lol you are probably suspecting right, like usual, I'm rushing things.

Mind you I thought learning to Meditate was a good way to slow myself down & relax.

As usual I appreciate all/any advice and will try and follow

Meditation is a good way to slow down and relax, depending on the way you're meditating. I think one important thing to realize about contacting guides and what not is that every time you try you will get better at it. Everything is a muscle that gets stronger with practice. You're efficiency increases with every effort. If you feel like you didn't successfully contact anything, you didn't fail. There was communication, just not on a level that was easily translatable. Your capacity to translate nonphysical blocks of thought will get better in time. You could translate them in a number of different ways. It looks like you are primarily interested in translating them visually.

Making contact with guides is a matter of reception. All you have to do is relax, and let your mind drift between waking and sleeping, and then simply firmly intend to contact your guides or higher self. Then just watch, knowing your desire is coming to pass. The faith is important. You have to nurture it and grow it. Always affirm your success, and clarity in focus. Understand that you are already communicating with them, you are simply seeking to become consciously aware of that communication.

If you practice this consistently, the messages (in whatever form they come to you) will get clearer and clearer. It is a skill like any other. If you want to get good at it, you just have to practice.

Best of luck.