Meditation Practices Spreadsheet

Happy New Year!

Much like the meditation experiences spreadsheet, I am creating a meditation practices spreadsheet. Please contribute any practices you know.

This information will be used to create the categories in a meditation practice/experience/insight tracking app that I am creating, so if there are any practices you want tracked, get them on the list. Thanks!!!

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avm...hSTZ1OTR0c3ZvNWV4Y3c

Also, here is a link to the previous spreadsheet on Meditation Experiences, use it for whatever you want!

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avm...IT2lnOHRpR2k3bkRSaFE

limbic: Can you explain 'Feverish nausea with intense pressure' further? I haven't run across this one before. Is there anything that you can remember occurring before or after this experience? Have you experienced this multiple times?

Thanks!

Is this perhaps the disgust nana?

I didn't do the best logging of it on the spreadsheet. -- sorry! I'll fix that. I forgot to put tension in w/ the description. And simultaneous, strong vibrations throughout multiple body parts, but most prominently the hands and face.

What I was thinking about was an experience I've had two times. One time it happened in the meditation hall on a 10 day retreat, about midway through the retreat. The other was just about a week ago in the morning when I was lying in bed talking with someone.

Both times it started with a bunch of conflicting hotness/coolness and pressure which combined, made for nausea. But it was much heavier on the pressure the time I was in the hall. But the uncomfortableness of the conflicting hotness/coolness is what started this experience both times. It started weakly, in the background of things, gradually but noticeably got stronger. Maybe a minute or so and it was commanding enough that I forgot about other stuff happening, at that point it overrode other experience. And as it got worse, the pressure got heavier in stride with the pulsing of it. It increased in pulses. The pressure was in my inner head, like spine area, throat area, behind the face area. Maybe a little bit in the shoulders too. But the pressure in the throat area was where the about to spew all over the place sensation comes from.

And while this was all happening, in step with the intensifying pulse, I began to breath very heavily, very fastly.

Then the pressure subsided a little as the vibrations commenced in my hands. At this same time my hands and wrists began tensing and constricting themselves. The vibrations then spread throughout a large part of my body. I think somewhat in my torso, in my feet a little bit too, but most definitely in my face and hands/arms. This went on for maybe 5 minutes. Maybe a little more. Definitely longer when I was on retreat. The vibrations/tingling was very strong and distinct, powerful and vivid. I was lying down when it happened the last time and was just kind of abandoned myself to it in awe. When I was on retreat, there was more premium placed on really keeping up with it, alot of attention gathered at my hands, and it was more intense. I was also sitting that time.

By the time the vibrations and weird hand posture commenced I had forgotten about the nausea, or the nausea wasn't very nauseas any more. But the hot/cold waves were still happening somewhat. But the unpleasantness had all decreased a good bit. Instead of being very heavy and pithy and moving, it was distributed throughout my body like a solid sheet. So it was less unpleasant in that it was less disorienting. And there was the vibrations breaking it up.

And I think I was sweating through it, on my forehead/face.

Then it faded gradually and afterwards there was an interesting tactile quality to my hands, to my sense of touch, like it was very clean in some way and whatever I was feeling was experienced in a clear, crisp way.

Thank you so much for the detailed description. I think I will try to break this up into multiple experiences and see if that works.

I've always been thinking it was some 3rd nana type stuff, since I consider myself to be pre-A&P, for the most part. Although I have had a small handful of intense A&P event and a couple dissolution seeming things. Maybe it is disgust, and I just didn't notice the preceding nanas those times.

Another thing. The nausea/pressure pulses with heavy breathing are something I've experienced independently from the strange hand posture and tingling.

And one last thing. The hotness happened on the inside of my body with the conflicting coolness raking across it on the outer valences of my skin, making for a weird, shivery disorienting kind of effect.

Np on the description, happy to help