[JerryMember]

You can find a lot of information on the AYPSite.org forum relating to what you are going through.

[JerryMember]

Thanks for the replies!

I wanted to meditate for a few days and try out your suggestions before I replied. I did move to the sensations and I had a temporary release after a couple of sits. I felt openness and then dullness which I was very happy to investigate as it was so pleasant after the unpleasantness of my previous sits and I quickly nodded off. So that’s the next thing I need to deal with! The sensations are back again but I feel more confident dealing with them and I have move passed them into dullness in one sit and I was slight better at dealing with the gross dullness this time.

Kim, I have been doing some therapy lately and that seems to help release some of my stuff as well. I also noticed I was tightening on my meditation object whether it was the breath or the sensations in my body so I have tried to widen my focus and relax which was a big help. I also noticed I was beating myself up a lot especially after I had succumbed to the strong dullness and after when the sensations came back I was getting like “why me” etc so I did some metta meditation and that helped too.

I read about the spinal breathing which I did a few years ago but which quickly had me vibrating off my cushion when I did it then. I have done 5 minutes yesterday and today and that resulted in some of the tension to release into a kind of cool refreshing energy. So I’m going to stick to 5 minutes of that before my breath meditation.

Thanks for the tips!

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