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Energy stuck in head
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/11/16 8:37 PM
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Energy stuck in head
Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent PostsI think it is working on my crown chakra, otherwise known as the Rudra Granthi, an energy knot which covers the areas of Ajna & Sahasrara chakras.
It will keep working there until the knot is dissolved. So, I would like to focus on practices which dissolve these blockages in the head.
Things I have noticed are the following:
- when I am interested in what is happening, like having sex or eating or watching a cool movie or talking to an intelligent person, there is no headache at all and in fact there are pleasureable sensations throughout the body.
- when I am bored or uninterested in what is going on around me, the headache starts up
- when I try to make it go away it gets worse
- when I stop thinking it goes away
- it is much stronger during meditation and much less after meditation
- smoking weed (which I don't do very often) has occasionally completely loosened the knot and I have experienced oceanic perception and a smooth rising flow from the root, through the heart and coming out of the forehead and top of the head. On a side note, I often notice that when I smoke weed it gives me a few months "preview" of upcoming developments in my spiritual unfolding.
- the knot's main locations are in the back of the head, the top of the head and the forehead and in between the eyes
- i also feel knots in the throat, chest and abdomen
- loving myself also seems to cause the knots to loosen
- letting go of the hope of ever understanding or achieving enlightenment seems to provide some relief
- the sensations seems to radiate from a bubble of numbness around the core in which the delusion of self seems to reside
- the sensations are attached to the side channels
- I can't really feel my spine or the back of my throat (sushumna / central channel is unavailable to me)
In any case, I have gained equanimity and can function at 100% even when I have a splitting headache without complaining, even internally. This is a gift.
Thanks for any sincere and helpful guidance.
Thank you.
Noah, modified 8 Years ago at 1/11/16 9:37 PM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 1467 Join Date: 7/6/13 Recent Posts- when I am interested in what is happening, like having sex or eating or watching a cool movie or talking to an intelligent person, there is no headache at all and in fact there are pleasureable sensations throughout the body.
- when I am bored or uninterested in what is going on around me, the headache starts up
- when I try to make it go away it gets worse
- when I stop thinking it goes away
tom moylan, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 12:46 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 896 Join Date: 3/7/11 Recent Poststhis is common. you stated that 'bringing the energy down just doesn't work'. i would add , "yet".
some tips i found helpful were:
to introduce and give emphasis to the notion and feeling of 'calm' as vimilaramsi teaches out of the satipathana sutta. a practical tip to effect this came from the forum member teague which was, 'to take whatever energetic concentration object you have, find its perimeter and spread and widen your focus just outside of that perimeter'. i'm paraphrasing heavily but that helped me.
yoga can help bring a more balanced energy as can doing cyclic breathing which is really just acknowleging different locations of the 'breath body' or 'process' of breathing. one follows the breath up the back from the root chakra to the crown on the in-breath and down from the crown, face, throat, heart, belly etc. on the out-breath. a god description can be found on the aypsite.org.
also these sensations tend to be prevalant during equanimity so be equanimous. ;-)
neko, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 5:31 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 763 Join Date: 11/26/14 Recent PostsThat is my experience too. "Energy" and piti being charged up and accumulated in the crown chakra in 1st jhana, staying there in 2nd, and trickling gently down the body in 3rd jhana, transmuted in sukha and relaxation.
That being said, the activity of chakras (if any) seems to vary from individual to individual. For me the main blockage / knot is in the thoat chakra and it only seems to be noticeable in Disgust, so one's mileage may vary...
Psi, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 7:56 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 1099 Join Date: 11/22/13 Recent PostsSorry this took so long to reply, the answer only arose during a deep meditation, it must have been way back in the mind. Most yogis focus on the back, and the spinal column, forgetting to let the energy flow back down the front side. This simple technique should open up the front side and let the energy flow more freely.
If this does not help, there should be no harm done.
The only other way, that I know of, is to let the energy out through the fontenelle spot on the top of the skull.
Besides all that, there are grounding techniques, eating root vegetables and such, lots of physical excercise.
Also, the Moola Bhanda may be of benefit, as it stretches the nerve sheaths, so they say, and brings intention and focus to the lower areas, which should also bring energy back into balance. But this will take quite a while to learn this technique if you are starting from scratch, as for some it is hard to get control of some muscle groups, especially the vestigial ones.... i.e. wiggling ears, moving cranial muscles, coccyx area muscles, perineal area muscles etc.
Psi
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 9:03 AM
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Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent PostsWhen the energy first really started moving I was often compelled to arch my head back, open my mouth, practically dislocate my jaw to one side and stick my tongue out and then a huge rising flow would come out of my mouth straight into the air. This was often followed by cycles of being compelled to lay down on my stomach with my forehead and face pressed into the floor as energy was sucked downward out of each individual chakra sequentially, first up and then back down.
Psi, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 11:07 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 1099 Join Date: 11/22/13 Recent PostsWhen the energy first really started moving I was often compelled to arch my head back, open my mouth, practically dislocate my jaw to one side and stick my tongue out and then a huge rising flow would come out of my mouth straight into the air. This was often followed by cycles of being compelled to lay down on my stomach with my forehead and face pressed into the floor as energy was sucked downward out of each individual chakra sequentially, first up and then back down.
When this initially happened were you compelled as if you were a puppet, were you wearing socks, and were you ReadySpaghetti?
Psi
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 12:11 PM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent PostsWhen the energy first really started moving I was often compelled to arch my head back, open my mouth, practically dislocate my jaw to one side and stick my tongue out and then a huge rising flow would come out of my mouth straight into the air. This was often followed by cycles of being compelled to lay down on my stomach with my forehead and face pressed into the floor as energy was sucked downward out of each individual chakra sequentially, first up and then back down.
When this initially happened were you compelled as if you were a puppet, were you wearing socks, and were you ReadySpaghetti?
Psi
I don't quite understand what you are asking.
Psi, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 1:00 PM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 1099 Join Date: 11/22/13 Recent PostsMy apologies, and may you find happiness,
Psi
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 2:22 PM
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Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent PostsMy apologies, and may you find happiness,
Psi
Jean B, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 2:48 PM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 212 Join Date: 1/7/14 Recent Postsserious headache, strong diziness (to the point I was sometimes about to
faint) and a constant feeling of stupor with this energy being so
strong it would take all my attention.
After trying a lot of things, what helped me was :
- concentration: at first concentration got me energy in the head, so I was avoiding any type of concentration by fear it would worsen my situation. But I found that actually going deeper and through the energy "knots" was actually helping me to dilute and assimilate it
- noting or at least noticing : noticing the enery moving, pulsing, etc. time frame by time frame, helped me to get rid of the sense of a continuous phenomenon. This new perspective allowed me to drop it once and for good
- also taking some time every day to direct the energy through the front channel (along the spine but on the front side of your body), feeling the energy going down and diffusing in the body.
Psi, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 2:55 PM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 1099 Join Date: 11/22/13 Recent PostsMy apologies, and may you find happiness,
Psi
KRIYA YOGA
Muscle twitching, cramps or spasms, shaking, trembling, limpness, rigid-contraction, facial contortions. Itching, vibrating, pricking, tingling, effervescent bubbles of bliss. Tingling/throbbing in left foot and leg is one of the main signs that kundalini is active. Hot or cold changes in body temperature. Shooting currents of energy or heat. Zigzag or double helix of energy up the spine. Prana flow in the central nervous system. Pulsating sensation in the sacrum. Involuntary laughing or crying, deep sighs. Abdomen may flatten toward the spine. Contraction of visceral organs. The anus contracts and is drawn up (bandhas). Purging or constipation. Bad digestion. Chin may press down against the neck (neck lock posture). Eyeballs roll upwards or rotate. Eyelids may not open despite effort to open them. Left eyelid flickers, then towards the end of the awakening the right eye may flicker. Tongue rises to the roof of the mouth or stretches back. Repetitive popping sensation in the sinus above the palette. Body may twist in all directions. Body may bend forward or back, or roll around on the floor. Spontaneous asanas and mudrus. Breathing constriction, heaviness or contraction of diaphragm. Unusual breathing patterns, tendency to belly breathe, emphatic out-breath. Racing heart, expansion pains in heart. Feeling of levitation or intensified gravity, radical grounding and associated lethargy, Chronic Fatigue. Body sense might expand to feel huge or small. Strange aches and head pressures, headaches. Clenching jaw. Yawning, excessive sleep. Inability to sleep during hyperactivation; Hyperactivity, need to constantly walk or exercise. Dry throat, great thirst. Feeling headlessness, mindless, giddy, heaviness of head like one is wearing a helmet. Build up of pressure at the head, neck, spine, thorax and eyes. Paralysis during Samadhi or hypnogogic states. Numbness and pain in limbs, especially the left foot and leg. Numbness on the left scalp and down into left face, with drooping of the left eyelid. Years of pain in the throat (thyroid) or in the left foot or shin prior to the awakening. Loss of strength in the arms during rapture and heart expansions. Psychokinetic interference with electrical equipment. Smell of roses or peaches eminating from the skin.
And haha, found this, more sychronicity, maybe like a hidden message from the past, for me to quit finding hidden meanings... lol
Psychic and bioenergetic phenomena doesn't actually mean anything other than the meaning we give it. It is only we humans that apply "meaning" to things...Psi, subtle and causal effects are simply a revelation or confirmation of the way the universe is put together. However because it is extrasensory and transcends the mind we tend to think that it is more important than the consensus reality that is based on the cognitive interpretation (prefrontal lobe) of information from the five senses. Just because something is beyond the five senses we think it has greater holy significance and we tend to be drawn hither and tither by our spiritual ambition to “get more God.”
Anyway here is the site link,
http://biologyofkundalini.com/
Psi
Eva Nie, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 8:27 PM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 831 Join Date: 3/23/14 Recent PostsFrom my experience, sometimes I suspect that kundalini trains via carrot and stick, do it wrong and it hurts and it will continue to hurt until you learn and then do it right. Then it feels good. ;-P
-Eva
Psi, modified 8 Years ago at 1/12/16 9:52 PM
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Posts: 1099 Join Date: 11/22/13 Recent PostsKundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 6:37 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent Posts- when I am interested in what is happening, like having sex or eating or watching a cool movie or talking to an intelligent person, there is no headache at all and in fact there are pleasureable sensations throughout the body.
- when I am bored or uninterested in what is going on around me, the headache starts up
- when I try to make it go away it gets worse
- when I stop thinking it goes away
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 6:39 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent Poststhis is common. you stated that 'bringing the energy down just doesn't work'. i would add , "yet".
some tips i found helpful were:
to introduce and give emphasis to the notion and feeling of 'calm' as vimilaramsi teaches out of the satipathana sutta. a practical tip to effect this came from the forum member teague which was, 'to take whatever energetic concentration object you have, find its perimeter and spread and widen your focus just outside of that perimeter'. i'm paraphrasing heavily but that helped me.
yoga can help bring a more balanced energy as can doing cyclic breathing which is really just acknowleging different locations of the 'breath body' or 'process' of breathing. one follows the breath up the back from the root chakra to the crown on the in-breath and down from the crown, face, throat, heart, belly etc. on the out-breath. a god description can be found on the aypsite.org.
also these sensations tend to be prevalant during equanimity so be equanimous. ;-)
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 6:41 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent Postsserious headache, strong diziness (to the point I was sometimes about to
faint) and a constant feeling of stupor with this energy being so
strong it would take all my attention.
After trying a lot of things, what helped me was :
- concentration: at first concentration got me energy in the head, so I was avoiding any type of concentration by fear it would worsen my situation. But I found that actually going deeper and through the energy "knots" was actually helping me to dilute and assimilate it
- noting or at least noticing : noticing the enery moving, pulsing, etc. time frame by time frame, helped me to get rid of the sense of a continuous phenomenon. This new perspective allowed me to drop it once and for good
- also taking some time every day to direct the energy through the front channel (along the spine but on the front side of your body), feeling the energy going down and diffusing in the body.
Thanks. Yes, everything is manageable.
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 6:45 AM
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RE: Energy stuck in head
Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent PostsFrom my experience, sometimes I suspect that kundalini trains via carrot and stick, do it wrong and it hurts and it will continue to hurt until you learn and then do it right. Then it feels good. ;-P
-Eva
Certainly it is a gift to be so sensitive to even the slightest delusion, craving or aversion within our thoughts. Sometimes it seems like the ultimate delusion is that delusion itself, or the craving or aversion, clinging, pressuring, discomfort, etc... is our personal problem and that we have to or even can do something about it to change it.
KundaliniLinguini, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 6:46 AM
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Posts: 39 Join Date: 1/9/16 Recent PostsThanks for this link. The article and perspective is wonderful and totally resonates with my experience!
Noah, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 8:58 AM
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Posts: 1467 Join Date: 7/6/13 Recent PostsI didn't mean it as a 'general' recommendation or in some pejorative way that ignored your question. Have you actually tried this yet? It was technical/specific to your descriptions. The knot in your head might be opening up when you are in a state of pleasure. Learn to surrender and open to this pleasure more deeply, and it might permanently pop.
Eva Nie, modified 8 Years ago at 1/13/16 11:22 PM
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Posts: 831 Join Date: 3/23/14 Recent PostsCertainly it is a gift to be so sensitive to even the slightest delusion, craving or aversion within our thoughts. Sometimes it seems like the ultimate delusion is that delusion itself, or the craving or aversion, clinging, pressuring, discomfort, etc... is our personal problem and that we have to or even can do something about it to change it.
Buddha developed and taught a method that lead ot change and cessation of suffering. Why even bother to do that if he thought people could not change themselves through their own actions? In the ultimate scheme of things, I am not even sure a simple dichotomy of destiny only or free will only could even be accurate either way. But either way, I look for things that work right now to fix stuff and I try to get rid of things that seem to work against fixing stuff. If those ideas come from God, me, some other higher me, Godzilla, or the universe, I could not tell you but I can tell you that whatever is behind it, certain things and attitudes work and certain things and attitudes do not work so the best and safest and most practical course of action is to look for the things that work and do them.
-Eva
Ethan P Zwirn, modified 8 Years ago at 11/21/16 12:44 PM
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Posts: 3 Join Date: 11/21/16 Recent PostsAlso, I'd love to know what you think about these few articles on the physical "awakening/ascension" process: http://www.truedivinenature.com/EnergyUpdateJuly2015.htm
https://laurabruno.wordpress.com/…/chronic-fatigue-lightwo…/
http://www.ascension360.net/resources-2/ascension-symptoms/
http://goldenageofgaia.com/…/ascension-symptoms-or-what-is…/
Supreme Maharishi Bhumi 1000, modified 7 Years ago at 1/10/17 8:23 AM
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Posts: 55 Join Date: 10/14/16 Recent PostsJ Adam G, modified 8 Years ago at 11/26/16 8:41 PM
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Posts: 286 Join Date: 9/15/09 Recent Posts- letting go of the hope of ever understanding or achieving enlightenment seems to provide some relief
- the sensations seems to radiate from a bubble of numbness around the core in which the delusion of self seems to reside
- the sensations are attached to the side channels
- I can't really feel my spine or the back of my throat (sushumna / central channel is unavailable to me)
The letting go is a release of the mind-contracting nature of the self-illusion. Knowledge of equanimity regarding formations will not deepen if said equanimity is displaced by desire for enlightenment. Meditation fueled by desire for enlightenment will get you from pre-meditation all the way to the Reobservation Crisis. Letting go will get you from there, to the path moment. Part of that process is penetrating the illusion that "you" are "deciding" to let go -- rather, the spreading field of awareness eventually encompasses not only the "external" sensations that are outside the bubble of numbness, but also the "illusory self zone" inside the bubble, and the "boundary" of the bubble itself.
You're clearly familiar with the equanimity territory. Especially low equanimity (vipassana jhana 4.1) where awareness has arisen that there's pain with the way the false sense of self that tries to push some sensations away and pull others closer -- which is impossible, because sensations just show up where they are, and can't be moved around to other places. They don't even exist for longer than a single mind moment, so how could they move? Not that anyone consciously tries to move sensations around, of course; that's just a way of referring to aversion which tries to make things go away, and craving which tries to make them stay and grow and come closer to the "self". All of which has, at its core, the intuition that there's a cluster of sensations in the middle of the head that "controls" other sensations and makes some arise, and others not.
Some of the things that still need to be noticed as sensations rather than as truths are the perceptions that the bubble is numb. What sensations tell you so? Are there physical feelings there that are called "numbness"? Are there inferences like "no sensations seem to be arising, so there must be a numbness zone"? What's really going on there?
A low-to-mid equanimity thing to do is to really investigate the heck out of that zone in the middle of the head that seems to be the self. A slightly further-along-the-path thing to do is looking at the numbness bubble itself: all the sensations that seem to be "in between" the self, and the non-self field of sensations that "you are perceiving".
Actually all of these sensations -- the external senses, the illusory-self-zone, and the numbness zones that divide the two, are all just sensations that are arising. Intellectually realizing that fact is nice, in that it points out what needs to be directly seen. That said, the book learning itself won't directly trigger the realignment of perceptions with the reality of how they actually are arising. Whatever you want to call the process of having attention grow wider and more inclusive, that's the thing that will open up this knot. Energy practices are optional -- clear comprehension is not.
EDIT: I feel pretty silly for quoting a starting post that was ten months old! I saw this thread under recent discussions and thought the whole thing was recent.
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Posts: 6 Join Date: 4/27/13 Recent PostsIve gather some insight on this. I think sinking and dissolving is probably our best bet.