Dharma Treasure Community | Erlend K | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/erlend-k/activity/ Activity feed for Erlend K. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2c33d22f86ea9752945b26fe8531caf5 Erlend K replied to the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces - Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/stage-4-tension-headaces-pushing-through-vs-switching-focus-to-the-abdomen/#post-2014 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:10:25 +0000 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]

]]> 361560f027ab5989b0bccf796c421f0c Erlend K replied to the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces - Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/stage-4-tension-headaces-pushing-through-vs-switching-focus-to-the-abdomen/#post-1990 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:29:28 +0000 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]

]]> 7f09716396d35c6e3948f35c4ea6407c Erlend K changed their profile picture http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/all-activity-streams/p/2109/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:38:51 +0000 0 02bffed7bb4fc4772c272d126f9372a5 Erlend K changed their profile picture http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/all-activity-streams/p/2107/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:32:26 +0000 0 341700fe20c270c985d8a3d0c9e7e81d Erlend K started the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces - Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/stage-4-tension-headaces-pushing-through-vs-switching-focus-to-the-abdomen Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:29:32 +0000 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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