I am sorry for the spelling mistakes in my previous reply. I was looking for a send button on the screen and did not realise that the save button is also the send button. I thought I was saving the message for further correction and elaboration but then realised that it had already gone!
I do experience the tingling sensation in the head as well as in some parts of the body. The sensations differ in their nature in the difference parts of the body. In some parts, such as shoulder joints, the elbow joints, knees, thigh and calf muscles, the sensations are less pleasant. The tingling sensations which I experience in the head and front parts of the torso can be said to be pleasant. The fact of the matter is that I had not analysed these sensations more deeply and had not gone beyond my first observation. I had assumed that they were one single indivisible entity and had left it at that. I have now attempted to go deeper and find they rise and fall, and their movement seems to be syncronised with my pulse.
In your book you mention experiencing ten, fifteen and even more sensations in a second Firstly I have not counted them and secondly they appear to be not more than my pulse rate.
Also, the less pleasant sensations in the joints and knees seem to be lodged there permanently as whenever I focus my attention on them during my journey from head to foot and foot to head, I experience the feelings experienced in my second visit seem to be the same as those felt on my first visit to each of these joints, as if the sensations were permanently lodged there. I feel as if I am visiting my old friends! In other words, while the sensations felt in the head are differen tfrom those felt in my shoulder joint, the sensations experienced in the shoulder joint, knees etc are the same on each visit.
Further, if these sensations disappear as you have mentioned, why do I feel energised after the meditation session? How does one explain the difference in the nature of body sensations before and after a meditation session? What is it that is left behind which gives you a better feeling after a meditaion session?
Incidentally, I also expereince a ringing sensation in my ears, which feels circular. Ajhan Sumedho calls it the sound of silence.
In my last ten day meditation treat, I had a strange experience. When I came out of my meditation cell after a full day of meditation sitting, I walked in to the garden and felt as if all the plants trees and flowers were alive and joyous and I was one of them and was also dancing with joy with them. The feeling did not last long. When I looked around after a few minutes, the suroundings were lifeless! I do not know what one can make of this experience!
