my hands are shaking as I am writing this. If you have an injury or condition, modify your body position during meditation to accommodate your body. Sometimes during meditation I feel that I don’t have a sense of the position of my physical body. My whole body was paralyzed. Why Meditation Sometimes Hurts. The bottom line on all of them is that during meditation we can sense subtle energies in the body (or even in the energy field around the body). Some people report having involuntary movements, such as a hand rising, while others say that their body twitches. I just came out of a meditation (pictures light expanding & contracting in body) & 2 minutes before the meditation ended I had to stop. I seem to get a lot of random and quick muscle twitches all over my body. Why causes sensations during meditation? I've had a strange physical experience during meditation twice now, where I feel I'm being "pulled." There are various ways of learning to move your attention point; it certainly helps to practice moving your point of attention to different spots in your body, during meditation, as a first step. I don’t have a sense of whether I’m upside down or upright, and I feel like I’m whirling or moving in an anti-clockwise direction on a spiral. And my body just wasn’t used to spending 16 hours a day alternating between sitting and walking meditation. One of the most effective meditative practices for refining your responses is something I call bodysensing—a practice to help you feel embodied, in which your physical sensations can inform and change your behaviors and mind. If you are sitting in an appropriate and comfortable position and you still feel pain, it is not uncommon for some to experience joint and muscular pain in meditation … Hence the pain in my back. Nowadays, during meditation, I feel a big pressure inside my brain (it is like pulsation) togheter with I could say a sensation of electric shock, the sensation of electric shock is felt in my feet too, I try to relax to avoid those sensations but I can't and for this reason, I got fear and stop meditating. I've had somewhat successful meditations, but on each day there has been a point in my meditation where I get this sensation were my whole body starts vibrating and I feel this energy running through my body. The first time I felt as though my body was being pulled to the right, so … The maximum time I could sit, without moving, ranged from 30 to 40 minutes. The human body wasn’t designed to stay motionless for long periods of time. I can just outline my body but can’t feel … So, I've been trying to get back into meditation and for the last 2 days have meditated for about 1 hour each day. But when i close my eyes its either streaks of blue light floating through or its simply pitch dark. I lose contact with my body and can’t feel any part of my body. Yes, I experience quite a bit of body sensations during certain meditations. Every morning i wake up feeling uneasy and feel like vomiting. Personally, I feel like my body is balancing and equalizing itself out when I have these movements. It was like someone had poured liquid cement into my body and as it was hardening it was trying to burst out of my body. That happens because during meditation our awareness can go to deeper levels. We can feel subtle energies that we normally don't notice. I also seem to get a decent amount of head movement. In my own experience, I suffered greatly from leg pain during the first four years of my meditation practice. After 40 minutes, I’d shift position, give myself a hard time, and plan for my much-needed knee operation. 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