| | Yesterday (16 April 2013) I did a 30 minute sit and 1 hour 40 mins lying in bed. Today (17 April) 30 minutes sit again. Here are my notes from the long session yesterday.
Focussed on breath, then broadened into observing the vibrations, which were quickly apparent and fairly strong and consistently fast thoughout the session. Trouble with continual swallowing at first, but this eventually died down. I did quick "noting" throughout most of the session, silently and just expressing thoughts to note things, when I occasionally got distracted I noted this, returned to noting breath in/out, then buiding back up to the fast noting.
In the later part of the session, after say ~45 mins in there were two distinct sequences where I felt a clear shift in the quality of sensations away from the physical, there was some kind of progressive change and I had the feeling I was going somewhere, and then after a climax I seemed to fall back to the earlier state with more physical sensations again. This happened twice but with some significant gap in time (20 mins?) between them.
At some point I remember feeling a little unsure, even anxious, about what was happening, but was quickly able to move away from that emotion back to simply probing the sensations dispassionately.
Even more strangely, at times in the last ?30 mins of the session, at about three separate points where the vibrations started to become temporarily more intense, I actually heard/felt some kind of "cracking" which seemed to come from my nose/sinuses/forehead. That was really odd and I have never had that before, but I didn't feel worried. There was no pain.
Another thing: especially after an intense session like this, when I wake in the night or even next morning to get up, the vibrations are just immediately there and really obvious straight away on waking. They then fade as I go about my morning routine, and go to work. |