Head and eyes becomes very heavy while meditation

[amit.sharma623]

Hi All,

I am relatively new to meditation, I have been doing mindfulness of breathing for past 3 months but for some few weeks when I am in meditation session after few minutes the area of forehead and eyes become very heavy and I feel a force is pulling that area. Please give any suggestions about it, is it normal to feel heaviness or something is wrong in my meditation, I always keep my mind-body relax in session.

Please share some experience and advice on this issue.

Regards
Amit

[gregkavarnos]

Hello Amit!
Do you have your eyes open or closed while meditating? Prefer open and try to "focus" higher and not towards the ground so much.
Have you been getting enough sleep lately? If not, then get plenty of rest.
What time are the sessions? Try to do them earlier and not nighttime when you may be tired.

[amit.sharma623]

Thanks a lot for your reply I appreciate it a lot. I do meditation in the morning and in evening with eyes closed , yes I get proper sleep. I have read that when you do meditation and the energy starts to flow u feel the heaviness in head region but in my case after the session I feel the heaviness for long time even at work.

Regards
Amit

[gregkavarnos]

What do you mean by heaviness? Like your mind is dull? Like tired?

[Kyosan]

Here's a funny picture of Mara trying to distract Buddha while he is meditating.

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Distractions when we meditate are a very normal thing. I would say, just relax and refocus on your breathing.

[LastLegend]

Can you detach by sitting in one place?

Can you achieve peace by imagining yourself into it?

[Kyosan]

Thanks a lot for your reply I appreciate it a lot. I do meditation in the morning and in evening with eyes closed , yes I get proper sleep. I have read that when you do meditation and the energy starts to flow u feel the heaviness in head region but in my case after the session I feel the heaviness for long time even at work.

Regards
Amit

While meditating, do you feel stress?

[Enochian]

Embrace it

In meditation you can actually make the whole body go asleep, yet the mind stays awake

numerous psychic powers can then be accessed

[gregkavarnos]

Embrace it

In meditation you can actually make the whole body go asleep, yet the mind stays awake

numerous psychic powers can then be accessed

Says who? Like, do you have a reference for this?

[Enochian]

The Dalai Lama for one. He calls it the Clear Light of Sleep.

[Dechen Norbu]

There are several siddhis that can be attained through meditation, but it is not something that will happen unless one put some years into it, some of them probably in retreat conditions.

[gregkavarnos]

The Dalai Lama for one.
He calls it the Clear Light of Sleep.

This is the specific outcome of a specific meditative technique, the OP was not referring to this practice AND the specific outcome cannot be generalised to all cases of meditation n.

[Dechen Norbu]

Yes, that's the case.

[gena1480]

hello i have to say that your meditation is going very good
let me correct myself the heaviness is earth element
the pulling together is the water element
the function of water element is to hold matter together or make them loose
you should concentrate on spreading what ever you experiencing , all over the body using breath
try to get element/s balance once you there, let go of the elements and focus on balance
once you there, let go of the focus
the next step would be letting go of the balance
metta

[AdmiralJim]

Hi All,

I am relatively new to meditation, I have been doing mindfulness of breathing for past 3 months but for some few weeks when I am in meditation session after few minutes the area of forehead and eyes become very heavy and I feel a force is pulling that area. Please give any suggestions about it, is it normal to feel heaviness or something is wrong in my meditation, I always keep my mind-body relax in session.

Please share some experience and advice on this issue.

Regards
Amit

Hi Amit, good to hear from you, the important thing is to keep at it. I have experience of this and of being easily startled. It is a symptom of mental dullness during the meditation session. Remedies for it are to make sure your posture is ok and nice and straight. if this doesn't help make sure you are wearing loose cool clothing, open a window or door to allow a light breeze into the room. if this doesn't work take a damp cool facecloth and rub it on your face or splash cold water onto your face. if that fails just take a short break and come back to it later.

hope it goes well!!!
Jim

[Tarpa]

Reflecting on attaining a precious human life, preciousness of dharma, of ability and leisure to practice etc. helps uplift the mind, keeping your eyes slightly open may help, just let them relax into being slightly open gazing down sort of along the angle of your nose but not focusing on anything, also this short visualization may help - visualize a white lotus at heart level at center of chest, just a simple 4 petal lotus with a very bright small white light on top of the lotus about the size of a pea, stabilize that a bit especially the brightness of it and then visualize the little white light shooting up from the lotus through the top of your head and way up into space and rest in that, repeat as necessary.
To counteract excitement reflect on karma and the unsatisfactoriness of samsara, this has a tendency to depress the mind, or visualize an upside down black lotus at heart level with a small black drop on it and shoot the black drop down through your body and into the ground.
Also raising the gaze counteracts lethargy and lowering it counteracts excitement.
To counteract lethargy if meditating on a visualization raise the focus to upper part of visualization, to counteract excitement lower focus to lower part for a while.