Greetings. My apologies if posting a new topic for this is inappropriate, I looked and couldn't quite seem to find anything recent in this section for this sort of thing so I just thought I'd start a new one. Anyways~
After reading SpiritTalker's "Getting Started" and the Energy Working tutorial CleverlyDisguised posted, I was finally able to successfully meditate for about 18 minutes, which I am very happy about, but I did have a few questions and concerns I wanted to check about before trying again. Firstly, I tried to just let images and thoughts flow through my head without focusing or applying further thinking to them, which seemed to help a lot, but it also meant that after grounding myself a lot of what was going through my head at the time was left in kind of a haze. Does anyone have any suggestions for techniques that can help me better remember this stuff after the fact?
Secondly, while for the most part I think it went very well, I noticed that I had a somewhat rough time grounding myself at the end, which almost disrupted things altogether right as I was bringing myself back, so to speak. Is there a good way to practice grounding myself to lessen the chances of that happening again?
Finally, and this somewhat ties into the first question, I was curious if there was a reliable way to tell what images were actually meaningful and which were just stray thoughts to be brushed aside. I do somewhat remember a few images and sensations, like a warm, gentle light and the faint outline of what seemed to be an altar, but I just don't really know how I should think about those things, or if I should at all.
Sorry again if posting this here was incorrect, or if I worded things wrongly. Figuring out the right words to assign to these things is proving surprisingly difficult.