[Erlend KMember]

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 headaches are now completely gone! I also find meditation more relaxing and enjoyable than before.

[Erlend KMember]

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 very difficult to keep attention on the breath in that position. My mind behaves just like it did when I first started out meditating – constantly walking away.

I tried experimenting with my eyes, but finds that this creates tension for me as well.

From what I have read tension headaches tend to be coursed by unconscious tensing of the neck muscles. I’ve booked an appointment at a massage therapist, and another one at an acupunctureist, and hopefully that will help.

I also found a piece of advice on an other forum that I tested for the first time during my afternoon meditation today: Wrapping a wet towel around my head. For some reason this relieved a lot of the tension.

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