Pjotr Hill:
Great that you started practicing, and good that you are seeing positive results in such a short time!
My advice would be to just continue practicing, and try to not analyze it to much, try not to make a big deal out of it. I highly recommend reading the first chapters of MCTB.
When I started practicing a couple of years back I had some kundalini like experiences and pressure/pulling between my eyes. All this distracted me from practice, and resulted in intense mood swings for me which lasted for a year... I give this example as a way to show it is easily to get distracted by these "side effects".
Best wishes for your practice!
Thanks for your feedback! Really, I don't know what to expect at this point --- last night while meditating I felt a weird combination of mild rapture and the dissociated dissatifaction feeling, again. I guess it's probably best to just let my energy system re-organize itself and let the sensations come and go, rather than become attached to any particular state and "force" myself there. Was there something you did in particular after a year that got you out of your mood swings?
Yeah, I'm pleasantly surprised by how quickly I've been making progress. I've spent *a lot* of time reading/ruminating on Buddhism before I formally started my practice, but I don't know to what extent intellectual preparation can make a difference. Reviewing the MCTB literature sounds like a good idea.