Focusing on the brain

[Unabomber]

I wanted to start a discussion because I have observed some curious effects to take place when one places one's focus on areas of the brain, or more commonly the center of it.

Any experiences with this from anybody?

[Xanth]

Are you referring to the "Pineal Gland" area?
What "curious effects" do you generally have take place when you do this?

[Unabomber]

Are you referring to the "Pineal Gland" area?
What "curious effects" do you generally have take place when you do this?

its hard to explain, i would describe it as feeling a sort of relaxation/dissociation/internalization-of-self effect.

There is also a localized sensation of some kind of activation or strain somewhere in the back of the brain.

[Pauli2]

I can feel movement an skin tickelings.

Unabomber, why do you call yourself 'Unabomber'?

[Unabomber]

I can feel movement an skin tickelings.

Unabomber, why do you call yourself 'Unabomber'?

cus i like the style and i think its funny.


Here, the iceman...

[personalreality]

I made a post a little while back (that i'm having no luck finding) where I proposed a technique similar to the triangle method.  The principle was that the 3rd eye and crown chakras intersect at the pineal gland, which is also the center of "tinnitus" if you focus on the ringing in your ears.  The idea was to focus on the 3rd eye and crown as energy being pulled in and meeting in the center of the brain. 

[blis]

I've been doing it a lot lately in my chakra meditations.

The book on kundalini yoga I've been working from says your brow chakra(ajna) is actually inside your head. It says the eybrow centre(bhrumadhya) is the kshetram of ajna, a sort of trigger point for the actual chakra itself.

If you can find the right spot(its small) and hold your attention on it you can feel it pulsing.

[personalreality]

the post i was talking about was lost in the server crash this summer.    

[bluremi]

I've noticed that different visualizations of the brain do different things:

-If I visualize parts of my brain relaxing I lose sensation of various parts of my body.
-If I visualize moving my focal point of awareness into parts of my brain those parts start to tense up and absorb my attention, as if my awareness is being focused into a single point.
-If I imagine my brain extending into infinite darkness above my head I can slowly move into it and it feels like I am leaving my body.

The last exercise creates all kinds of funky exit sensations and makes me too excited to sustain for more than 5 minutes at a time. So far