Question
Regarding seeing things with our eyes closed. Having suffered traumatizing images during meditation and sleep in my early retreats here, you advised me to note "seeing" and try to let them go in order to get back Equanimity. This practice worked and I haven't been bothered for a long time. Pictures illustrating reflective and guided meditations do come, of course. This retreat during the expanded "on your own" time at the end of a guided meditation where I was getting a bit stuck to find a good example to focus on an image, the picture of a person I knew appeared. Through calmly observing through an inquiring creative mind I could use it to give a good example to continue the meditation with. Is this practice of using visions okay?
Answer
Yes, it's using images wisely.