Phasing: My body hurts? A lot?

[Diabolus_Liberi]

Well, I tried phasing for the first time about 12 minutes ago. I was rather surprised with the success, if you can call it that as I did not actually successfully phase. However, I did see very clear images/situations/scenes and experience intense feeling with my physical body.

You see, whenever my body made a slight change my attention would shift to that, eventually my body started to hurt. Not a normal pain, but a pain I have not felt before. At one point, it felt as if my entire body was going to go numb, yet then it just started to hurt more until a noise was made upstairs, that snapped me out of the process...

Normal?

[Novice]

For some, yes it is normal. I had read somewhere, forget where, that the pains you are feeling are you bodies way to get the mind's attention. Essentially to check and see if its still awake before the body shuts down. Now, I'm not saying I agree with their interpretation, but I have noticed that occasionally I will experience an odd pain at different places in my body as I try and relax it. I view it as a test of will-power. I know that my body isn't 'really' hurting. In other words, nothing has happened to it since I've been sitting/lying in the position I am at the time. So I know its fine.

Any attention you draw back to your body will lose the mental state you have reached up to that point, as it appears you discovered. The next time this happens, you can start by being vaguely aware of the pain, but ignore it. Don't allow your mind to focus on it. This will take time, but you can do it. I rarely experience odd pains anymore. So perhaps these things dissapear with time/practice?? Not sure.

[Diabolus_Liberi]

Well, that seems to make sense. I suppose it is my body getting used to something new. I was able to distract myself from the pain by paying intense attention to the image flashes I was seeing, but at one point they got to fast and intense for me to handle, which in turn sent more awareness to my body.

[LittleJoe]

I have the same thing. Often while practicing an old surgery scar starts to burn, it's really painfull. Too intense to just ignore, so I get snapped out of it.

Pretty annoying, but it doesn't happen very often so it's ok