Q: I experience “pressures” in my body–mostly in the third eye area. It gets quite intense sometimes, for example, when I read your web site–expanding the pressure through my forehead, etc. I have not found anyone to help me understand this and wondered if this may be something written about that I have not discovered yet. It seems to happen randomly, sometimes, throughout the day. But I seem to have an effect on it when I open to spiritual matters. I cannot say that it is painful, especially if I “breathe” it or kind of “ride it.” I sometimes experience vibration or radiation in my throat chakra–sometimes along with this. Would you address this? I am grateful for any reply.
A: The mind and the body are not just interrelated, they are fundamentally the same thing: cosmic energy in conditioned form. That is why when we see appealing food the digestive system immediately reacts and gets ready for digesting food.
Our mental (manas) and intellectual (buddhi) levels can be profoundly and dramatically affected by our thoughts according to the nature or primary vibration of those thoughts. Therefore when a person begins thinking more and more of spiritual matters, and especially meditation, reactions may be experienced on the physical level. Many people are perplexed or even worried out this, and sad to say most religious and even yoga teachers have no understanding of it, even if they, too, have experienced it.
Such sensations are evidence of a change in the vibratory structure of our body and mind. They are normal and natural. Sometimes the energy sensation can be very intense, but no harm results, and in time the process transmutes into a subtler form until it becomes purely intellectual, resulting in insights and intuition.
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