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Erlend K replied to the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces – Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation 8 years ago
Update: I have managed to deal with this problem now. I realized I was straining too much during my meditation, unconsciously tensing my muscles.
The last two weeks I have had two appointments with a massage therapist and one with a acupuncturist. I have also started doing 15 min of progressive muscle relaxation before each sit. The tension…[Read more]
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Erlend K replied to the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces – Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation 8 years ago
Thanks for the advice, both of you.
Yea, you are right, it is more like pressure than pain. However it starts feeling painful after I play around with it for too long, trying to make it go away.
Since reading Teds advice about shavasana, I have done 4 30-40 min sessions lying down. I find that the tension mostly subsides, but I also founnd it…[Read more]
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Erlend K started the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces – Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation 8 years ago
Hi fellow meditators!
This is my first post on this forum.
To introduce myself, I have been meditating regularly since August 2016. The first four months I did pure samatha/anapanasati (I don’t really understand the difference between these two), and gradually worked my way up to 1,5 hours a day. I started enjoying meditation a lot, and noticed…[Read more]
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Erlend K changed their profile picture 8 years ago
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Erlend K changed their profile picture 8 years ago
