Faces in Meditation
Category: Ask Deepak
Dear Deepak Firstly may I thank you for being such an inspiration. My question relates to experiences which I do not understand since I've been meditating (for the past year). I sometimes close my eyes and see different faces - none of whom I recognize. This can also happen if I just close my eyes whilst not meditating. I would be very grateful for your thoughts on the above.
This is nothing to be concerned with or anything you need to pay attention to. If you happen to see any faces during meditation, simply return to your practice. All such experiences or thoughts should only be taken as reminders to return to meditation.
Love,
Deepak
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The faces are your internal identity conflicts, insecurities and shadows. There are no external forces owerful enough to interfere with meditation. Learn to love all of yourself, accept yourself and these will go away. You can also ask them to go away with a positive affirmation to love thyself - they will go away.
annjolie // 2012-01-30 22:41:46 // 0 Like(s) // -
I wish next time i will be the one of them..... God bless you Mr. Chopra
Bhawna Sharma // 2012-01-29 04:44:54 // 0 Like(s) // -
We are all interrelated, sometimes you search for things, and things find you instead. There are things given to you from forces you don`t understand. Try to make the best decisions and do your best accordingly. Believe in the higher being.
Julia Mallett // 2012-01-28 21:24:06 // 0 Like(s) // -
Hello dear, you see what you want to see. probably some kind of brain neurotransmitters at work or play. Pay no mind. go back to blankness. nonthought if you wish. you know darling. you will be practicing for a life time. there is no easy fix, way, manner. live your life with 100% hard core honesty, be kind, compassionate and above all, try to do the right thing depending on the situation. You know, situations change and what be right can also be wrong. Love and love more. I have an off beat way of dealing. I laugh at people who give me a rough time. They are usually ars holes who don`t deserve kindness but, if fries their arses if you give them kindness. try not to laugh. use a monk smile instead.
noname // 2012-01-28 14:26:14 // 0 Like(s) // -
Well it is a joy to speak with a clever man.. darkness is ok if its something U requested. But if some1 thrust U into deep darkness then, thats something diff. 1-28-12
Orlando Jackson // 2012-01-28 00:34:09 // 0 Like(s) // -
Why ask someone else for an answer? Look into your spirit and it will have all the answers..besides spirit guides, angels, past lives? Your spirit will know:)
Barbara Kolonay // 2012-01-27 19:41:42 // 0 Like(s) // -
What the person in question is experiencing is the faces of people in the spirit realm - there are many! Some are guides or recently deceased persons. Any good psychic or Medium knows that a vision is a communication device to be aware of their presence!
Maria Rasulo // 2012-01-27 18:11:54 // 0 Like(s) // -
I must say that I too have experienced multiple faces that I feel are encouraging me to expand my heartfelt visions. Loving myself/others more despite race, religion, skin color, socio-economic class, and the real challenge lies in all situations - not just when I think I want to - depending on my agenda. I am reminded that I am just a speck in the scheme of things, and "only the cosmos knows". I am not here to have all the answers, and I am willing to appreciate smiling faces with my eyes open and closed in gratitude. It`s all good. Play with your imagination...vision the faces sitting by a campfire with laughing and sharing. Thank you for sharing...
sparky // 2012-01-27 17:25:17 // 0 Like(s) // -
That would terrify me! I stay in the mindless swirly colored trance. Absolute bliss!!
Nandani Hardial // 2012-01-27 16:28:14 // 0 Like(s) // -
In Zen,it is said `Makyou 魔境` We should not step in this area.Because it`s fantasy, no use and harmful. Great zen-shi Hakuin said this.
Naoki Yoshida // 2012-01-27 16:25:40 // 0 Like(s) // -
I also have that happen to me and wondered what it meant.
Patricia McGraw // 2012-01-27 16:25:01 // 0 Like(s) // -
meditation to me is the best way to unwind forget everything & everyone I also see different things as well as faces all strange but in a good way.
Brenda Mayes // 2012-01-27 15:28:36 // 0 Like(s) // -
2 Steps to attract Riches in Your Life 1. The first step in the creative process is to relax and see yourself already in possession of the things that you desire and build a beautiful image in your mind. 2. The second step is to “let go and let God” and you must always build the images and knowing in your heart that the images will become reality. If you follow these two simple rules, Strange and wonderful things will begin happening in your life and to such regularity that you’ll not be able to explain what’s going on. Suddenly you will start seeing a lot of opportunities in your life. While doing above written 2 steps, sometime things will not go as you desire, it may seem to you that you are moving in the wrong direction. But as long as you have faith and you keep visualizing the goal that you have set for yourself and follow the principle of “Let Go Let God”, the only direction you can move is the direction that brings you to your desired destination. Would you like to know more?
Readtoawake // 2012-01-27 15:28:20 // 0 Like(s) // -
Or... Think about this... It`s to be you see... For when you let things be you really do see everything as for what they really are. This is the key to your inner freedom and knowing.
Garry White // 2012-01-27 14:57:30 // 1 Like(s) // -
I`d say " your lucky to have the time to spend a whole year meditating!" I joke... But no seriously... I had this to again with all areas of life let it be and watch like your waking hours, just observe. The only way to meditate is your way that you make for you, make it true for you!
Garry White // 2012-01-27 14:47:45 // 0 Like(s) // -
Angels...
Maria Neide DeMatos Rodrigues // 2012-01-27 14:46:12 // 0 Like(s) // -
I feel that there is more depth to it for sure. Whilst I think it`s important not to try too hard to work out such experiences, during meditation - I think it`s our nature to try and find explanations....
Marie Seary // 2012-01-27 14:46:06 // 0 Like(s) // -
-Hi Deepak, thank you for your response. @Jewelj, I have also been recently been told that seeing faces could be contact with the spirit world. I meditate for at least half an hour in the morning and evening every day. These experiences have only started happening in the last 6mths. I bring my attention back to my breath but obviously have been curious about seeing random faces of people I do not know....
Marie // 2012-01-27 14:41:13 // 3 Like(s) // -
Some people call it time travling and perhaps your spirit guides ( Native Cultural) beliefs or your helpers.
Marlene Thomas // 2012-01-27 14:36:39 // 0 Like(s) // -
I don`t believe that the answer is as simple as just keep to your mediation, there has to be depth in spirituality. Otherwise your answers are as vague as some of the biblical answers when one questions specific religion.........in my opinion
Karen Olivier // 2012-01-27 14:34:07 // 0 Like(s) // -
In the 1% of the world population there are people, when meditating close their eyes can see only Gold? How we can help them to think like you?
Greg Kaprielian // 2012-01-27 14:19:47 // 0 Like(s) // -
That thing happened to me too, I don`t know how to explain it. I just thought it was something crazy from my mind
Italo Portela Lagrota Felix // 2012-01-27 14:19:05 // 0 Like(s) // -
You are a spiritual teacher & leader I may had, Would you not think they may come to you. XX
Sherryjay Lovkins // 2012-01-27 14:19:01 // 0 Like(s) // -
once I was mediatating and at the very end I was in a car and was about to drive straight into a teenage girl and my foot literally jolted to hit brakes and i woke up...i was in the corpse pose....i haven`t really done that since...
Evan Torrens // 2012-01-27 14:18:16 // 0 Like(s) // -
Dr Chopra, I just finish meditating and had the same experience, I saw different faces popping up out of a orange water like stream of light, some had smiles, and others was just fading with the stream of light. Who am I?
Elliot Allen // 2012-01-27 14:16:30 // 0 Like(s) // -
Wow! That is beautiful. You are so loved & appreciated. Namaste teacher.
Maria Berry // 2012-01-27 14:14:16 // 0 Like(s) // -
New lives?
Cordula Robinson // 2012-01-27 14:13:28 // 0 Like(s) // -
I experience the same thing, usually at night when I close my eyes. They are faces I do not recognize. Is there something more to these faces? Can`t say I see them when meditating.
jewelj // 2012-01-27 08:51:29 // 1 Like(s) //
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-Hi Deepak, thank you for your response. @Jewelj, I have also been recently been told that seeing faces could be contact with the spirit world. I meditate for at least half an hour in the morning and evening every day. These experiences have only started happening in the last 6mths. I bring my attention back to my breath but obviously have been curious about seeing random faces of people I do not know....
Marie // 2012-01-27 14:41:13 // 3 Like(s) // LikeI experience the same thing, usually at night when I close my eyes. They are faces I do not recognize. Is there something more to these faces? Can`t say I see them when meditating.
jewelj // 2012-01-27 08:51:29 // 1 Like(s) // Like