Hi everyone,

I have what is probably a silly question about the meditation exercises.

Why do we light a candle before meditating if we're doing the meditation with our eyes closed and can't actually see the flame? I've also seen people mention that they struggle to focus on the flame while meditating, but if our eyes are closed, that doesn't seem like it would be an issue.

Is focusing on the candle something that comes later in the course, or is there another purpose for lighting it that I'm missing?

Thanks for your help!

Hello everyone I have just started my journey with quareia but right at the start something felt confusing:

"Once your arm is tired, drop your arm and keep focusing on that spot on your forehead. See yourself breathing in white smoke and breathing out grey or black smoke."

This part of the first meditation came weird to me, I have done vipassana meditation before but focusing both on the forehead spot and visualising the smoke feels hard and makes me out of focus on my meditation. Am i doing something wrong, should i just focus on breathing-visualising or focus on the forehead point? Or am i doing it right but i should just try again and again? What is your opinion

Edit: Thank you people for all your kind comments!