Dear Newsgroup,
I typically avoid posting personal queries to forums devoted to
professional correspondence, but would like to try it once:
I have recently begun having a sensation during periods of extreme
relaxation (meditation) which remind me of a feeling I sometimes had as
a very small child (typically when feverish). I wonder if any in the
group have heard of such "symptoms" being reported by people in
connection to a recognisable condition:
The sensation is very hard to describe, but "extreme heaviness and
hardness" is the most succinct description that occurs to me. It is not
so much as though something hard and heavy is weighing me down, but
much more that I get the sensation that *I am* an extremely hard mass
of heavy material. When the sensation begins it is accompanied by a
hint of pain much like the ache from being struck on the nose, which
dulls into a numb feeling as the sensation continues.
As I said, I can clearly remember having this sensation when feverish
as a very small child. I am 37 years old and started meditating (muscle
relaxation method) some 15 years ago very occaisionally as a way to
relax or improve concentration. In just the last three years the
sensation has started to occur after I've reach a deep level of
relaxation and stay there for several minutes.
The sensation is not pleasant and through "waking" just a little I can
make it cease. However, I have recently decided to actually pursue
*sustaining* the sensation for 10 minutes or so, in hope of getting
some idea what it represents, or the hope that the cause of the
sensation will somehow "wear itself out".
As you can see from what I just wrote, I'm really quite clueless as to
what it is, what to do about it and whether it's the sort of thing one
*should* even try to do something about.
I just realised the feeling may simply be from flexing the muscles in
my head too much during the muscle relaxation phase of the meditation.
I've never considered the muscles in my head as being overly strong,
but I suppose years of medication might cause them to strengthen
sufficiently such that tightening them when preparing for meditation
actually causes stress to the brain etc. This fits particularly well
together with fact that *feverishness* caused the same sensation for me
as a child. Still, it's funny, because I've never heard anyone else
talk about such a sensation during a fever. It will, in any event, be
easy enough to simply flex my facial/head muscles less in the future
and see if the sensation quits occurring.
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Any Ideas?
- DeepStream
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