Negative Repercussions of energy work?

[DaDestroya]

I was just wondering if anyone experienced anything similar to me.

Since a year ago, like March 2004, I've been practicing my energy work, like not really consistently, but once in awhile i would do it, at least once or twice on average a week. A number of months later, I think it was around September- October, I started to notice some strange feeling that would happen around the sides of my head during energy work.. it was like a pulsing feeling that i would cause me to immediately stop any and all energy work at the first sign of it..

I had read in the NEW energy ways, to watch out when focusing energy around the head, as it could lead to bad effects (psychosis when storing in the third eye storage center? and emotional problems in the heart storage center, or something? I could be wrong..please correct me if i am..)..

As i am a person who wanted nothing to do with any negative effect from something i went into to get positivity from, would make sure to stop anytime a feeling like that would show itself, until it became unavoidable.

While reading one of my books on my way back from school, I noticed that I was suddenly getting the headache out of nowhere. My head was pounding and there was little i could do other than put the book down and get some sleep on the bus.

After that occurence, everytime i opened a book on the bus or subway, i would still feel this headache and it wouldn't go away. I asked my doctor about it in November, telling him that whenever i though about it, it would come and he only told me 'not to think about it'. The problem with that is that whenever i thought to myself that i didn't have it (as it would intermittently appear and disappear), it would return.

My mother recently told me that i appear to have become a less tolerant and more impatient person around the house all of a sudden. At times i notice myself and quickly stop myself from getting too angry..and it appears to be caused by this headache as well as it started around the same time.

Even now as I write this, i feel the pounding in my right temple and surrounding area; at times the pain shifts to my left temple area. Massaging the areas with my hands relieves (or rather nullifies) pain while i'm doing it, when i focus on something else, it leads me to not notice it, but in both cases, the pain constantly returns. Using my nonphysical energy hands, nothing works.. I can't even do my routine energy work because i automatically focus on the pain whenever i get into a relaxed state... whenever i try to systematically open my chakras, by the time i'm around like, the solar plexus one, the pain goes to my head and it becomes impossible (or really really difficult) to focus on anything but my headache.

Earlier on it would hurt to the extent that i would have to go to sleep to avoid it.. and when i trance myself (like the period right before bed) it goes away..but pressure builds up in my upper naval area, like right between my eyes.

It's not bad enough to make me not leave my house or to stay in bed all day, but it's quite a bother to be able to take my focus whenever i do anything related to energy or meditation..Whenever i wake up, it's not there, it's during the day that it comes, or i think about it..or as my doctor may say, 'cause' it.

haha it hurts a bit even now, as it moves to the rear left of my head...could someone please help? i would like to have my energy building, and meditation back in my life. Any suggestions or comments, i'm sure my higherself and i will be able to solve this if we find out what it's all about with your help.

[Tom]

You should learn reiki and receive energy from as many people as possible as often as possible. The thing is that you are experiencing what was negative already inside of you, but it is being stirred up and healed. The more help you have pushing through it, the better.

[karnautrahl]

I suggest carefully, daily steady secondary body training-if possible with an experienced partner to aid you in clearing blockages perhaps. AFter a couple of month of daily energy training (assuming you've not done much consistently that is) your secondary body should be more capable of handling primary centre work which again needs to be done in a steady balanced way.

Think of it like training for body building or some other sport. You'd work methodically and steadily to build a foundation.  The energy body will respond faster than muscles to careful building and training.  Leave the chakras alone for a time. Start as if you'd never done any energy work and assume you'll need 20 minutes daily at least.   It never hurts to start slowly from scratch again.

If you send me a photo I will endeavour to send remote healing-however your strongest result is likely to be from your own efforts in this instance I feel. Other peoples genuine efforts won't adversely influence your effort however .

[DaDestroya]

wow, thank you both for your hasty replies.. my only problem now is that, I don't know any experienced people in any field of the spiritual around here.. in fact i'm the most knowledgable/aware amongst my friends of energy and this is why I'm in a stump.

Tom, I'm not too sure how reiki works either, I suppose there must be some links out there on the net or even this site no?

karnautrahl, sure, I'm not to sure how to send you a picture though, but that remote healing does sound interesting...

I'm not sure how reiki works, but from what I've read, all that I know is that it has to do with energy..but I do suppose that maybe i had not performed enough secondary energy work.. that probably is the cause..i remember doing a bit, but skipping straight ahead to the primary cause i guess i wanted to feel results quicker or something  -_-0

thank you for your answers, I'll consider the both of them~  

[Tom]

www.reiki.org and www.sharereiki.org come to mind. The first place is good for articles and the second has lots of people who can teach you at a distance for free. My name on the forums at the www.sharereiki.org place is also Tom.

The nice thing about reiki is that it is so easy. It works best when you just take some time to allow it to work on its own. It requires no effort; just the time you spend doing it.

[EJN]

I have the same problem.I am Reiki II, and Reiki does not help.

[DaDestroya]

wow EJN, you're the first person I've heard of so far who's had this as well.. I guess I can still try the secondary body stimulation.. let's hope it works..

[Lotus]

I guess a good thing to do initially, would check with a doctor first to see if this is a mundane physical problem (even a potentially serious one) instead of assuming it's energy related. In other ways, it could be psychosomatic. I know the feeling of that, because before i've also kind of created and reinforced a little problem and made it a big problem. It was something similar. A kind of dull tension in my eyes and head that made silent sitting pretty difficult. Only, because i made it a problem by focusing on it. I also stopped chakra work for months, and that in itself took away the focus on the problem.

[EJN]

wow EJN, you're the first person I've heard of so far who's had this as well.. I guess I can still try the secondary body stimulation.. let's hope it works..

DaDestroya,
Try to stay barefooted on a ground for 10 min or longer several times a day, at least once a day. Hug a tree, or press your back against a tree for 5-10 min. Imaging a tree energy pouring into your spine and spreading all over your body. Do one of these at least once a day for two-three weeks, it should help. These exercises are helpful to balance energy.

[Zante]

Last night I gave some time to try and stimulate my brow chakra, I tend to do this every night and a week ago I was suffering from very bad headaches because of it. The thing is I haven't stopped trying and a few dreams later and conscious recollections of some important past events to do with  "involuntary projection", last night I had a very strong pulsing feeling on the right side of my head.
Whenever I tried to focus on my head I would get that same feeling but it caused me no pain whatsoever. As I type this I'm trying to recreate that pulsing feeling but am unable to.
It could be an energy block I suppose but to be honest I have no idea of what it really is.

[alexd]

Last night I gave some time to try and stimulate my brow chakra, I tend to do this every night and a week ago I was suffering from very bad headaches because of it.

Ditto


Alex

[DaDestroya]

I guess a good thing to do initially, would check with a doctor first to see if this is a mundane physical problem (even a potentially serious one) instead of assuming it's energy related. In other ways, it could be psychosomatic.

haha yeah, the thing is that i had visited a doctor like a number of weeks after it came about and told him that i have a headache whenever i think about it, and he had told me just not to think about it.. it's been impossible since those 5 months..

   
Oh yeah and EJN said this too:

DaDestroya,
Try to stay barefooted on a ground for 10 min or longer several times a day, at least once a day. Hug a tree, or press your back against a tree for 5-10 min.

Yeah.. since i do live in canada, i've only been able to try this since two days ago (this winter just wouldn't go away man)... about 5 minutes each day. I know that i should do this longer but drawing attention to the neighbors is not something i enjoy doing particularly..

I've noticed that however, it appears true that whenever i think negativly in any context, such as being bored, or annoyed with any ones behavior in particular.. it appears...haha as it is now (even though i'm not really annoyed at anyone or anything, just thinking of this headache).

oh yeah, today i came home and after speaking to a friend about my headache of 5 weeks, she told me the same thing saying that i should see a doctor, but i had told her that it's spiritually related to me, she sorta gave a hopeless look and i was on my way.

i got home and lit up a small bowl of marijuana in my pipe. (the effects that weed appears to have in regards to energy manipulation are truly outstanding, freal) I then walked around my tree in my backyard only for a few minutes, as it was cold this evening and my neighbors' back windows look onto my backyard. Drawing attention to myself does not bother me but i would not want anyone questioning anyone else in my family in regards to my own business with nature, naturally n_n..

i went up to my room, and smoked the rest of it, and started trying to look at the auras of the trees that were in back of my house..i had read in a book, i think the celestine prophecy that whenever you look at the auras of trees you are in a way exchanging energy with it, and helping you and the tree somehow(?). so i did this for awhile, and noticed that the headache was still persisting..

I decided to do some relaxation technique of my own, of just standing there and breathing and not listening to any internal voice of mine whatsoever.. after awhile, i noticed tingling in my feet, at first thought that they were ants (in my house, yeah) and quickly dismissed the thought as the thought of it brought the feeling back in full force. I breathed into my stomach many more times and soon decided to close the window and do the same while lying down in my bed.

after just a few minutes of mentally picturing a picture of myself when nervous, and matching that picture up with a picture of myself when feeling great (some sort of positivity exercise), I noticed fierce vibrations starting to rock me from the top left of my head. Just enveloping the whole crown region (strangely enough as its doing right now.. hmm, it relented a bit just there...feels a bit different), and penetrating the rest of my head continuing to go downwards.... i thought that i was going to achieve an astral projection.. and thought this to myself, and in the process ended up feeling the feelings leave.. i had previously done some positivity exercises that would result in my not fearing astral projection, and really came closest as i ever did..but my teeth clattering together was forcing me to abort, as was my stomach digesting lasagna from lunch a number of hours earlier.

while feeling the vibrations i was trying to imagine myself healing my condition. like from a different view of myself, basically doing that.. it seemed to be functioning..(in its own way..which means not really)

i later, still lying down of course, decided that the best way to go about this was by activating my chakras from the root upwards..by the time i got to about the heart or throat chakra, my brother and father came into the house.. as my father went into his room (the one adjacent to mine) i sort of felt a presence to my right..but i can't prove this to any degree obviously, as i am like a rookie at astral projection (and havent even projected yet).. but yeah, at first i was a bit fearful and then i asked God to protect me and sent positivity in the direction of the entity... i appeared to just..not feel like it was present anymore...and afterwards got up and continued my daily routine of playing dreamcast with my brother.. n_n

ohkay, i'm not astral fighter of any sort (or not to my knowledge) but i think that 'defeating'(if i even did..?) that entity has made a change..the nature of my headache does feel somewhat different..

Although, yeah lotus, i'm definitely considering that doctor thing..haha.. it's been 5 months of doing this and i havent been able to defeat it at all..for all i know that socalled entity could have been, anything~ including a hallucination..although i (or at least think i) know the difference between a weed induced hallucination and an astral one(?)... vibrations while meditatiing are muuch more realistic than anything else...

so basically being positive about everything appears to help.. but this is very impossible..

does anyone have like any other suggestions? i wish i was able to check out that rei ki stuff, but.. life takes us by the leash sometimes, i haven't even been able to check that out n_n

P.S
oh yeah, and kids, don't do drugs~ n_n

[andonitxo]

Hi there,

Very interesting thread. Those headaches happen to me when I stimulate my third eye, so I'm quite reticent to even think of it. The problem is so, that I, subconsciously, have decreased my energy workouts, a thing of which I realized just some weeks ago. Yeah, our sub-minds are always there not to let us suffer in anyway.

But the matter I wanted to point out is your magic weed. I'm not contrary to non artificial drug consumption, everyone should know how to organize his life, but I've read that marihuana blocks some energy pathways so some archetypal energies aren't able to flourish in equilibrium in your being. Don't remember by heart, but I'd bet they're those ones related to moon and pisces, so your capability to deal consciously with imagination and daydreaming gets out of your control (because they get trapped in your subconscious).

So your headaches could be a non controlled way of manifestation for those energies which are speaking to you in this way.

Perhaps you should anthropomorphize them in your imagination to speak to them and to learn from them.

[DaDestroya]

yeah, i must say..i think that i am a responsible person, and in no way do i advocate the use of anything at all to the extent of dependency... addiction is a condition of the body that damages the soul.

the substances i use were what taught me that but that's besides the scope of a discussion on headaches from energy work

but I've read that marihuana blocks some energy pathways so some archetypal energies aren't able to flourish in equilibrium in your being. Don't remember by heart, but I'd bet they're those ones related to moon and pisces, so your capability to deal consciously with imagination and daydreaming gets out of your control (because they get trapped in your subconscious)

Hmm thank you..but i've gotta tell you something interesting that happened andonitxo..

the same night right after i did some meditation of some sort.. like after exercising an stuff.. i noticed that... as i sat there and focused.. i was able to feel the headache dissipating slowly.. to the extent that it was all focused at the roof of my head... it seemed like whatever weeded meditations i was doing,  they seemed to help much more than my sober ones..

i don't know if it was karnautrahl's remote healing or my meditation or both, but it felt as if i was regaining my original state of no headache.. but slowly.. ever so slowly..

the next morning, strangely enough, as they seemed as if they were like disappearing for good.. at about 2 pm.. they came back in full force..

So your headaches could be a non controlled way of manifestation for those energies which are speaking to you in this way.

the thing about that is that they started a month after i stopped smoking.. as i had wanted to get a blood test last autumn, i decided that my blood content should be as pure as it could be.. it was only directly after the doctor's appointment, a month after i stopped, that i got the headaches..  haha, i didn't get them while smoking i mean, so if anything it could have been that the weed was helping me against it all ? or maybe they could of just been stress headaches? afterall, the doctor did tell me i had like high blood pressure and then the second i got home i started to feel headaches...

This morning however, while i was in the library, i decided to attempt to meditate. So haha, i held a paper bewteen my hands, so as not to draw any attention (as if i wasn't doing it already) to myself  while meditating in the same position for 20~30 minutes.. i noticed that i was able to see my aura through my half closed eyes,  between my two arms..but whatever that's besides the point..

i was trying to ease the pain in my head and it was actually working a bit..it always eases off a bit but never completely to a stop.

i'm surprised that there are other people who have encountered this same type of thing though!..i thought i was the only one..but just like everyone else, i'm still looking for a solution to this..if anyone can help, i would greatly appreciate it..

any bit of advice is welcomed.

[aslegnat]

Last night I gave some time to try and stimulate my brow chakra, I tend to do this every night and a week ago I was suffering from very bad headaches because of it.

Be careful, and follow RB's directives. Early stimulation of primary centers can lead to undesired results like you report.
ASLEGNAT

[bloodsong]

Try to stay barefooted on a ground for 10 min or longer several times a day, at least once a day. Hug a tree, or press your back against a tree for 5-10 min. Imaging a tree energy pouring into your spine and spreading all over your body. Do one of these at least once a day for two-three weeks, it should help. These exercises are helpful to balance energy

Another thing to try is going outside, lying on unpaved ground, let the back of your neck and the heels of your feet have skin contact with the ground.  As much skin as you can in between helps out, but I realize this may be difficult if you live in a populated area!  Make sure your head faces North and your feet are in the South and stay that way for at least 10 minutes.  If you live in a city and people start asking you what you are doing, just tell them that for some people, the childhood joy of cloud-gazing never gets old  

What this does is helps sync up your body's natural bio-magnetic field to the Earth's.  This is helpful because, well, you're kind stuck on this planet.  This also helps hasten energy body development, but I wouldn't try doing both at the same time for at least a month, and try to align your energies once a week.  If nothing else, you have a good excuse to act like a kid, which is something too many stop doing, in my opinion!

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