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Originally posted by CarsonZi
Quite quickly I noticed that I was locating the mantra at the third eye and that the usual "tingly sensation" I feel there during most practices was rapidly turning into uncomfortable pressure.
Hi Carson,
My question is this: Why do you think you were experiencing pressure at the third eye?
Most nights, when I lay in bed before falling asleep, my brow turns into a high pressure magnetic hole. I love the feeling. It grows and moves around. Sometimes it feels like it distorts my whole face, like my face is being pulled apart by very strong magnets. Like my forehead and nose are melting into my cheek. It is something that I've grown to love and look forward to.
Also, that pressure is sort of a barometer. Sometimes it starts up on it's own, like when I and reading the Dalai Lama's books, or something I'm very interested in. Also, it occurs if I really relax my face and just let go.
Do you think the pressure is bad or detrimental?
Here is what Samuel Sagan says about pressure in the third eye:
From "Awakening the Third Eye":
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10.7 The pressure in the eye becomes uncomfortable
In some cases the pressure in the eye can become uncomfortable,
bordering on a headache.
What happens? A mixture of different factors can be envisaged.
• You are grasping.
It has never been suggested that you concentrate on the third eye,
but just that you keep an awareness of it. Yet it is very easy when
fighting to remain in the eye to start grasping the eye instead of
being just aware of it. An unnecessary tension is generated, that
can turn into a kind of headache.
So if this happens to you, the first thing to do is make sure that
you keep a gentle awareness, and do not force anything.
• The energy is trying to pull you upwards and you are
unconsciously resisting.
From time to time as you practise being in the eye, your
consciousness will be lifted up, from between the eyebrows to
above the head. This is very natural, and is due to the close
connection that exists between the third eye and the crown
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centre, at the top of the head. When this happens, just let
yourself be pulled upwards, and enjoy being above the head for a
while. Then come back into the eye once the experience is over.
In the beginning it often happens that you do not recognize the
‘pull’ and that you unconsciously resist, forcibly maintaining
yourself between the eyebrows. Your very determination to
remain firm in the eye, an aspiration which is right,
unconsciously makes you resist the natural flow of energy. The
result is very simple: a headache.
What is to be done? The answer is obvious: change your focus for a
while. Move your awareness from between the eyebrows to above
the head. The excess of energy accumulated in your head will be
released upwards.
Thought you might be interested to know that.. It would seem that by focusing on your solar plexus, you released the excess energy there instead. Intuitively, I think you are lucky you didn't activate the fire aspect of manipura, which potentially could have caused spontaneous combustion.
From the wiki:
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Function Manipura is considered the centre of dynamism, energy, willpower and achievement (Itcha shakti.), which radiates prana throughout the entire human body. It is associated with the power of fire, and digestion. It is also associated with the sense of sight, and the action of movement. Manipura is "the center of etheric-psychic intuition: a vague or non-specific, sensual sense of knowing; a vague sense of size, shape, and intent of being."[1] As such, some psychics recommend "listening" to it since it may help in making better decisions in one's life on many different levels.[2]
Through meditating on Manipura, one is said to attain the siddhi, or occult power, to create and destroy the world.
[edit] Association with the body The position of Manipura is stated as being either behind the navel or the solar plexus. Sometimes, when it is located at the navel, a secondary chakra called Surya (sun) chakra is located at the solar plexus, whose role is to absorb and assimilate prana from the sun. Being related to the sense of sight, it is associated with the eyes, and being associated with movement, it is associated with the feet. In the endocrine system, Manipura is said to be associated with the pancreas, and the outer adrenal glands; the adrenal cortex. These glands create important hormones involved in digestion, converting food into energy for the body, in the same way that Manipura radiates prana throughout the body.
So, your experience kind of makes sense to me. You transfered the buildup of energy to your solar plexus and it affected your digestion system.
Just another point, in the book called "The Chakra Bible" by Patricia Mercer, it says this about the Solar Plexus Chakra:
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associated endocrine gland
Manipura directs energy to the islets of Langerhans situated in the pancreas, which produce insulin to lower high blood sugar levels, and also glucagons to raise low blood sugar.
Did you stimulate your pancreas into producing glucagons? Is that what caused the sweet minty taste? Probably. You skyrocketed your blood sugars, which accounts for the "waisted" feeling the morning after. And yes, the white drops flow down from the crown.
link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20547661 quote:
We report that glucagon, which plays important roles in the maintenance of glucose homeostasis, enhances sweet taste responsiveness through local actions in the mouse gustatory epithelium.
I'm just watching out for you, you know..
TI
And for what it is worth, in my humble opinion, it's all not just scenery. You can really hurt yourself if you don't know what you are doing.
