Why Do I Have Weird Sensations While Meditating?

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Over the years, I've seen people have very interesting reactions to meditation. I've seen things from people having rapid eye movement, their eyeballs, with their eyes closed are moving back and forth, left, right very, very fast. In another instance, I've seen someone's head shake back and forth, very quickly for prolonged periods of time when he was meditating, some people sob and cry.

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Some people laugh.

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Some people itch, and some people yawn.

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But all of this really comes down to the same cause, which is the unconscious or subconscious mind

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reacting in a physical way

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to the meditation, which is going really deep into our psyche, to these really deep levels.

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And it is essentially, the human body and mind releasing so much repressed and suppressed tension and stress, anxiety,

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fear, anger and aggression.

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It's not the meditation that's causing

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the tingling, and numbness. It's the meditation, that is allowing the body to process some kind of traumatic, or stressful situation.

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If you were getting numbness or tingling, say in your feet, where you're putting a lot of weight, the way you're sitting down, then you might want to shift positions every 10 minutes or so so that you're not compressing any nerves for too long. But if it's the fingers and facial muscles, then we know that the meditation is revealing to us that we tend to maybe maybe we clench our fists.

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And maybe we tense up our face, when we think of some emotion that is coming to mind in the meditation, or some memory that it is bringing up.

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And maybe it's just kind of bubbling to the surface and some thoughts. And if we dig deeper into the thoughts that are appearing, we can find out

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what emotions What memories

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may be causing these thoughts. Certainly ask your doctor if you're concerned about it in any

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serious way.

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But as long as it is over after the meditation, then it sounds like it's not doing any harm.

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And it's nothing to stress or worry or add more negativity to just allow it to be. Just witness it when it arises.

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Don't resist it.

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And then return to your meditation as if it's no big deal.

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Just a natural process is being allowed to take place.

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Oftentimes, when there's a tingling, or a shaking sensation,

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then it's really a leftover

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are from a rush of adrenaline we've had at some point

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earlier in our lives, that we haven't fully allowed our bodies to rest, relax and recover from

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polar bears, for example, when they get really stressed, once they reach safety,

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they

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shake almost violently in the snow. And what they're doing is they're warming their body to burn off that adrenaline. And they shake violently for like 30 seconds. And then they're totally fine. And it's like nothing ever happened.

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And we need to allow ourselves that time to shake it off, burn it off. And so even before you start meditating, really shake off your arms, you know, really shake out your legs, shake out your whole body, and just let your body be loose.

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And I think over time, you'll have released all of that bodily tension you've been holding on to

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