What do you do to cure pains as you enter trance?

[Logic]

Thats something I've been wanting to know for a long time! The last times I tried to project, my left hand started to hurt so much I couldn't go on. I think the itching is just as bad though.

[MrIncognito]

Something that you might try is rolling up a towel to brace and support your neck that way.  Also, make sure you stretch before hand.  In Astral Dynamics, it is stressed that relaxation is one of the most important factors to be dealt with, and I definitely have found this to be the case. Are you stretching out your neck pre-meditation?  Try gently rolling your neck, stretching it forward, backward, and side to side, and a new one for me, which I like, is to tense up your neck and jaw muscles for about 10 seconds and then relax them. Gets ya all "Jello'ey" which is perfect!
Hope this helps,
Brandon

[Tolvor]

FWIW, I have long experience with trances.  If you shift body position in trance, it'll knock you back to at least light trance, and if you do much shifting you'll go to pre-trance, and have to start all over.

For me the big problem is feet, they tend to pulse when lying down in bed, from too much time on feet in uncomfortable shoes.  Relaxation is the key, as other posters have mentioned.  I strive to solve muscle problems by simply not allowing them to enter into my thoughts.  RB mentioned that the thoughts should be quiet.  Questions should go from "What time is it?" to "Wh---------" to "(-)".  I do the same for muscles.  To think about the muscles requires an alpha brain wave, which of course is not good.  

Hope this helps.

[rodentmouse]

Mrincognito has the right idea  graupel.  
you could  do  some  Yoga exericises  on the relevant areas on your body  to  dissolve the tension-  thats the point of hatha yoga.

if i dont limber  up  my  right shoulder before i  lay down,  getting into a  trance becomes  a lot harder,  its the most tense area of my body.

[Graupel]

An interesting theory I have..

When you do your exercises to enter trance (if it is at the beginning of the night when its time to sleep, for example).. do you think it helps to naturally let yourself fall into a light sleep to the point where you can do trance more easily without the full effect of pains that come when you are just settling down in your trance position?

Has anyone had any hypnagogic jerks?  Every night I always have these weird impulse jerks that cause my arms or whole body to vigorously jerk and shake.  Kind of like my mind is going into light trance and no longer has as much control over my physical body as it goes to sleep.

[eleusis2]

I know what you mean, i sumtimes get involuntary twitches in my hands. Really annoying because it breaks my concentration

--Eleusis

[Graupel]

When you practice falling sleep and entering trance while clearing the mind of all surface thoughts (thus remaining awake and not drifting).. what do you do when you get those neck cramps that come when you lay still in one position in bed for a very long time? (I lay on my side and I toss and turn all night).

Would changing positions break the trance too much and I would have to start all over again?  It seems that the stray surface thoughts somehow mask the pain of discomfort that comes with naturally sleeping on my side in bed at night.  Do you just try to cope with the neck discomfort and sooner or later trance will come and you will be asleep enough?