See what you make of this...

[fender1499]

Sounds like energy in the facial area causing the pain, what Robert Bruce described as the cobweb effect, can be a tickle or pins and needles.

[quant]

And you get passed it by just ignoring it ask much as you can each time you try?

[Soulfire]

I've never had any actual "pains" like that.  Sometimes I'll have a persistant itch or something, but never severe pain.

My belief?  If you experience actual pain, stop the excercise.  Try again the next day.  Pain is usually a natural warning that something is wrong.  Don't be in such a hurry and don't try to force it.  If you keep experiencing pain and keep trying to "force" past it, you will just begin to consciously or subconsciously resent the excercises and you will eventually quit.  Persistance and consistancy is the key, not how hard you try for a few days or weeks.

Consider the possibility that maybe your energy body has some problems or blockages that are causing this?  Maybe try working with the NEW system for a while and see if that helps?  Keep doing the excercises every day and try to OBE, but then consider that if you start feeling pain you have probably done enough "excercise" for that day.

Maybe I'm wrong, but no matter how I look at this, I feel to that keep trying to "push" yourself after experiencing significant pain is probably not healthy.

--Soulfire

[WalkerInTheWoods]

Try looking through the posts from the past few days. I remember someone posted that they had this problem and how they overcame it. I do not remember who it was or which section it was in so you many have to do a bit of searching.

[quant]

I have just finished doing a 45 minute meditation, with an aim to OBE for the first time.  I set off with the intention "today's the day" attitude.  Only one thing stopped me when i did and that's what i want to ask about.

Slowly i lost the feeling in my arms and legs, and decided to start drawing energy.  After this started by feet did not stop tingling until i broke out of meditation.
Not long after starting to meditation i would get lots of pulsing under my feet, then it moved to my left hand, then to my right.
This is when the worst thing started to happen.  I got these unbearable pin prick feeling in my face, on my chin, cheers, upper lip area, a lot on my nose, and on my fore head.  I put up with them for a long time, i would fight the pain best i could, until it got too bad and i had to clench my teeth together.  They were just driving into my face.
I have heard of your subconscious trying to put your off from seeking a quiet mind, but i didn't know it goes to such extremes to actually cause physical pain.  I can still feel it now.
Apart from that, i felt nicely relaxed.  I couldn't feel my hands, i knew they were there, but i couldn't tell which way up my hands where, they were numb i guess.  Legs and feet felt the same.
I think i felt slight vibrations many time.  They would come from the feet and rise up through your whole body getting to the head last of all.
I tried the rope techniques and the point of awareness one (where you bounce it off the walls) but the vibrations soon subsided, and i continued meditating, hopeing they would come back.  I never actually did the OBE, i had to stop because of the pain in my head.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks all!