Hello everyone,
it's my first post here on The Dharma Overground. I just wanted to share my experience and say thanks to Daniel and the others for the advice on this topic.
I've been sitting for about 3+ hours a day since december 30th, as I'm going on another 10-day Goenka retreat next wednesday (been meditating for 2h/day since july '09 when did my first 10 day retreat). And for a cuple of weeks 3C has hitting me pretty damm hard and I was loosing my faith already. Besides practically
everything describe in MCTB (pain in the neck, back, jaws, feeling feverish, dark emotions, despair, etc.) I was also experiencing loss of apetite, nausea, some minor diahreia, and the feeling that I would be stuck in the stage forever: as my mind was slow and really confused. After franticly reading MCTB and this topic, I decided to sit no matter how painful, frustrating, and confused I was; and today, after sitting with the mess that was my body and mind for 6 hours I finally hit early A&P. I know it's no big deal, and that I may fall back, but it was a huge relieve anyway. I may even get stuck in 3C for a while longer in retreat, but at least I know that it is possible to break thought! I intend to practice as suggested ''every single second that gets by without at least noticing something come and go is a tragedy and a waste of a great opportunity''; let's see what happens!
I must say, however, that if 3C was like this, I'm frightend alredy by the dark night.