After about 35 years away, I began meditating again several months ago using the Monroe Gateway series. I immediately noticed some physical side effects that were somewhat puzzling. I began getting facial twitches and I started having brief, fairly intense shooting pain in my head.
I figured the twitches were a result of the Hemi Sync sounds since my fingers, hands, arms and legs would, and still do, twitch during the early part of the meditation. The shooting pains would occur frequently throughout the day - like at least once every 30-60 minutes. They were always in the same place - laterally on the upper right side of my head in a narrow band running from back to front and nearly to the eyebrow. The pains lasted only 5-10 seconds and felt like "brain freeze" that you get from ice cream. The head pains and facial twitching lasted about 3-4 weeks and stopped as suddenly as they began. I almost forgot all about them until I read another post about someone having headaches and it jogged my memory.
Has anyone else experienced similar physical sensations? Does anyone have any ideas or theories? I thought that perhaps the sensations were caused by the sudden use of a part of my brain that hasn't received much exercise in the past 35 years, but what do I know?
I figured the twitches were a result of the Hemi Sync sounds since my fingers, hands, arms and legs would, and still do, twitch during the early part of the meditation. The shooting pains would occur frequently throughout the day - like at least once every 30-60 minutes. They were always in the same place - laterally on the upper right side of my head in a narrow band running from back to front and nearly to the eyebrow. The pains lasted only 5-10 seconds and felt like "brain freeze" that you get from ice cream. The head pains and facial twitching lasted about 3-4 weeks and stopped as suddenly as they began. I almost forgot all about them until I read another post about someone having headaches and it jogged my memory.
Has anyone else experienced similar physical sensations? Does anyone have any ideas or theories? I thought that perhaps the sensations were caused by the sudden use of a part of my brain that hasn't received much exercise in the past 35 years, but what do I know?