On Feb. 11th, while in a light trance and having trouble deepening the relaxation, I decided to relax my energy centers rather than bring energy into them. There was much less tension in my legs upon relieving pressure in the base center, so I continued up to to the heart, but didn't notice any other immediate effects.
The next day I felt emotionally, mentally, and physically dull. I figured this was probably due to relaxing the ECs, so I raised as much energy as I could during meditation. That made me feel better, but now (2 weeks later) there remains a lingering physical effect of very slight numbness, or lessened sensitivity.
Could this be harmful in some way, and can it be reversed?
This is something I see little information about. That is, meditation, and especially energy work techniques, will cause alteration in 'baseline' perception over time. For example, I've been practicing energy/trance techniques and meditation for about 10 years now, and my daily awareness is radically different to what it was before I started on this road. Whether this is good or bad is up to the individual to decide.
Regardless of if we are really manipulating energy or not, we generate the sensations of what we perceive to be energy. We then reinforce this sensation as desirable, and entrain the brain to produce it. After a period of time we start to feel these things when outside of energy work / meditation practice etc.
Something I've also noticed is that things 'look' different. I guess the best word for it is there is a distance between me and the world, years of meditation has produced a slight disassociation – but I can't see any other product of practicing regular awareness techniques – it's just par for the course.
The only way to reverse these things in my own experience is to quit all energy work/ meditation etc for a period of time and really indulge in 'mundane reality' (i.e. ground yourself) – I attempted this once, and although the daily symptoms I experienced lessened after a couple of years, they were still with me to an extent.
As stated above, prolonged conscious alteration of awareness, will, not surprisingly, produce an alteration of baseline consciousness over time :). I think more should be don't to advertise this fact on energy work / spiritual websites etc and in such books.
I find it causes a shift in reality perspective. I find myself looking at things that arn't there a lot. People wonder what I am looking at.
I was going to say what you said too Jingo. If you just stop with the meditations, it goes away, at least partialy.
Still, I have never experienced senstivity dampness. Quite the opposite really.
Maybe you messed up and threw your chakras out of wack and didn't realise it.
Just stop for a while and let your body get its propor energy levels back, you may have adjusted things to fast and now your body is having a little bit of a back lash trying to adjust.
Hello the present moment,
Mostly, balancing the chakras can lead to opening the chakras and start a purification proces within the chakras itself, so negative energy may start poring out of them, this could be the reason why you feel this way. I suggest try balancing them some more and try guiding negative energys to mother earth, or make circling movements with your fingers before the chakra in clockwise direction when vieuwed from your perspective and keep realising that you are not the negative energy that flows within you, just realise you are not a part of those emotions.
Hope it helps.
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I wouldn't say that this is good or bad, it's just different. I'm going to keep an eye on it and continue my usual practice.
Thanks to all for your advice.
I think I've experienced every kind of mental alterations due to the utilization of NEW. From headaches to precognitive flashes, all sorts of experiences.
Anyway it happened at the very beginning, for sure due to the blockages of my energy system (I never put any effort on this kind of things).
At this point I'm quite happy with the results. I can feel great, huge, pleasure and relaxation when I move energy up and down, more especially in muladhara and heart chakras.
I've learned also to move sexual energy from muladara up the spine, which is a type of energy far stronger and "warmer" (no jokes, please) than the universal one.
Sometimes it seems my spine is completely hollow and that the energy goes upwards as water does in my house's pipes. Really great.
NEW is great, but we should not forget it's based on eastern knowledge. My previous research on yoga has been of great value and I'd recommend it to everybody.
Anyway as your energy channels start to be cleaned up your psychic energies will be released in your mind in the same way toxins are released in the blood stream before their final expulsion out of your body. Examine them, jot them down, and do some introspection, because they'll give you valuable information about clogged emotions.
The good and evil that dwell inside your head feed from psychic energy. They're not good or evil in themselves but, fed up, they could produce important troubles. Remember those cases (related in yoga treatises) in where badly awakened kundalinis, clogged in the lower part of the spine, could lead a person to all kind of bestialities because of the strength of the lower and the weakness of the upper ones.
Just some thoughts. Hope they contribute to other viewpoints.
Hello andonitxo you really make a lot of sense and new is indeed very powerfull and usefull, although i should pay more attention to it, no i am doing sahaja yoga which is yoga to awaken the kundalini, but in a non-agressive way the feminin way they say so you won't get all those side-effects. But to be honest there are side-effects although they clean there would not be any, but these effects like headaches and strange feelings at my chakras are duo to the purifing proces that i just have to sit out, and help by meditation.
But i think i am gonna give new some more of my attention.
bye bye