Matthew Henry Bulley
Hi All
I would welcome some advice/perspective. I have been meditating fairly consistently for a few years. A mix of practice approaches, but mainly focusing on the breath and noting wandering of attention etc.
I have done one 6 day retreat, but otherwise it has just been consistent daily practice – 45 min-1hr sit every day.
I seemed to make good progress in my practice through the first year or so. About one year in I started having energy-related experiences: flashes of light followed by bliss waves etc. These then gradually subsided over more recent years, declining in intensity and the interval between such events also decreased.
What has become a more consistent reality is energy stuck in the head. I remember exactly when it started. During one session, I suddenly I got this odd feeling, like there was a light, moving cloth starting to stretch down my forehead, underneath the skin. This happened at about the time when the light flashes started to disappear and become a rarity.
This feeling was bizarre, but not unpleasant, and it was not accompanied by any fear etc. - merely curiosity and amazement!
This feeling has never really gone away since, but it has slowly expanded and evolved over time. I’ve come to perceive that it radiates out, like a force field from the third eye area, although as it has progressed the “core locus” of radiation seems to shift, occasionally now to the throat area and most recently sometimes extending into the chest area as well. The central point seems to move between these areas nowadays, but always seems like it has a central point (sometimes this is a very constricted “dot, other times a slightly larger but still definable and relatively compact location).  
Increasingly now, it feels like an energetic connection is forming between my throat, chest and third eye area – sensations in one location seems to influence sensations the other locations within the field.
Sometimes there is a pop and shift in the energy and it assumes a new “configuration”. Very rarely, the central point of the energy will “”fizz away” in sort of chain reaction/explosion type thing. On one occasion when this happened there was an explosion of light effect.
This feeling of stuck, swirling energy fields is nowadays with me at all times, even outside of meditation. It is not unpleasant in the main, although it does seem to intensify when I am tired, or stressed, and then it can be a little annoying, but nothing I can't live with. Fortunately, I only really notice it when I am alone and my mind is not occupied by any meaningful activity. It never gets in the way of work, or impedes important tasks.
The trouble is, I am concerned that I am becoming a bit obsessed by it within the meditative context. For example, if I am watching TV, not doing anything particularly engaging, or waiting for students to complete a test (I am a secondary school teacher) I can  become quite engrossed “playing with” this energy field. I can sort of push it around, “prod it” with my attention and my breath and this has become an activity I can get quite lost in!
Nowadays, when I meditate, this swirling energy tends to become rather dominant in my experience. It seems to be intimately connected with my breath. Frequently it can be hard to discern where the breath sensations end and where the energy field begins.
I am becoming mindful that my fascination with this phenomenon is drawing my attention away from other sensations which I should be paying attention to.
Sometimes I get so absorbed “surfing the field” that I lose awareness of other things. For example, I started using Insight Timer to make periodic alarms to counteract subtle dullness. At first the alarms would startle me but nowadays I often don’t even hear the alarms, so absorbed in the field can I become!
I’ve recently started to avoid the breath at the nostrils as a meditation object and switched instead to the feeling of my backside/legs contacting with the floor. This is because I feel I need to draw my attention away from the energy field. But my attention just wants to keep going back to the energy field. This is now more of a draw/distraction for me than discursive thought. I do find myself lost in thought from time to time, however it seems to me the main challenge now is not to get distracted by the energy field.
Anyway. I hope this all makes some sense and perhaps it is interesting. I am happy experimenting and my practice does continue to evolve. I’m not convinced I am completely stuck, or that there’s a problem. That said, I would welcome some perspectives from anybody with experience, particularly anybody who has gone beyond a similar experience, onwards to stream entry etc.​​​​​​​

Matthew H B
I can sort of push it around, “prod it” with my attention and my breath and this has become an activity I can get quite lost in!
Nowadays, when I meditate, this swirling energy tends to become rather dominant in my experience. It seems to be intimately connected with my breath. Frequently it can be hard to discern where the breath sensations end and where the energy field begins.
I am becoming mindful that my fascination with this phenomenon is drawing my attention away from other sensations which I should be paying attention to.
Sometimes I get so absorbed “surfing the field” that I lose awareness of other things. For example, I started using Insight Timer to make periodic alarms to counteract subtle dullness. At first the alarms would startle me but nowadays I often don’t even hear the alarms, so absorbed in the field can I become!
I’ve recently started to avoid the breath at the nostrils as a meditation object and switched instead to the feeling of my backside/legs contacting with the floor. This is because I feel I need to draw my attention away from the energy field. But my attention just wants to keep going back to the energy field. This is now more of a draw/distraction for me than discursive thought. I do find myself lost in thought from time to time, however it seems to me the main challenge now is not to get distracted by the energy field.