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When you meditate you do you completely erase every thought from your head? I am new to all of this so I just started meditating and everything. I usually still have a few subconscious thoughts that I usually ignore and dont really notice. Also the other day I was meditating in my closet (because it is dark and quiet in there) and I saw a really bright light off to the left a little so I focused on that and it was an eye with designs around in the light, it only stayed there for a few seconds then it was just a light ..what on earth was the lit up eye!? Was it a vision or something? And im having a hard time opening my root chakra up, ive tried many things that ive looked up on the internet and nothing ..any tips? is it possible that I opened it but I just dont notice it? Im taking it one chakra at a time and this is barely the first one so ill probably have trouble with the others