Muscles in head
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:55 am
Hello all.
When beginning my meditation practice, I had much success in focusing on the sensation of the breath at the nostrils and was making progress with focus on the breath. Over time, I began to accidently gain what I would consider control over the muscles within the head and the sinuses, to the point where now when I meditate, I cannot feel the sensation of the breathe anywhere except the throat, and the nostrils seem totally numb to air. Because the position of the head muscles is distracting. It is as if, I need to align the muscles in the head before relaxing, and my ears will even pop. So, my meditation has lead nowhere for months since I lost the ability to focus at the nostrils because of tension in the muscles of the head and changes in the sinuses. I have no cold or sinus problem, and the muscles that I am feeling are perhaps behind the eyes and I'm not even sure if such a thing even exists or I'm imagining it. So I am not sure what to do. Now, no matter how hard I try, there remains this urge to align some mysterious muscles behind the nose or eyes, and to make my ears pop before I can move toward focus at the tips of the nostrils.
Does anyone have a similiar experience and/or solution?
When beginning my meditation practice, I had much success in focusing on the sensation of the breath at the nostrils and was making progress with focus on the breath. Over time, I began to accidently gain what I would consider control over the muscles within the head and the sinuses, to the point where now when I meditate, I cannot feel the sensation of the breathe anywhere except the throat, and the nostrils seem totally numb to air. Because the position of the head muscles is distracting. It is as if, I need to align the muscles in the head before relaxing, and my ears will even pop. So, my meditation has lead nowhere for months since I lost the ability to focus at the nostrils because of tension in the muscles of the head and changes in the sinuses. I have no cold or sinus problem, and the muscles that I am feeling are perhaps behind the eyes and I'm not even sure if such a thing even exists or I'm imagining it. So I am not sure what to do. Now, no matter how hard I try, there remains this urge to align some mysterious muscles behind the nose or eyes, and to make my ears pop before I can move toward focus at the tips of the nostrils.
Does anyone have a similiar experience and/or solution?