Hi there MC…I experience this too after studying mysticism for over a year. The experience your having is related to Kundalini awakening. When the Kundalini awakens in the base root chakra and rises through the 7 chakras until it reaches the crown chakra this activates the opening of the third eye. Once the Yogi has achieved this he or she has attained Christ Consciousness. So you are at a very high level of mystical awakening. This pressure is energies from the crown chakra flowing up and down your chakra system and pulsating in your third eye. You might experience this your whole life. For me it’s been 10 years. I would pray at lot during the times it’s the most intense to bring you closer to the intuitions of your higher self. Blessings and prayers…-James Girouard OFS [quote=“meditation casualty”]
Mine is a VERY long story so I shall be brief. Nearly 18 years ago I decided to try Transcendental Meditation. Shortly into this practice I began to experience intense head pressure when I tried to meditate. It would subside after the session. I believe I received poor instruction, which I believe played a major role in this. I was straining and trying way too hard because it was not explained to me how effortless it had to be.
I soon began to experience the head pressure outside of meditation. I was told to keep meditating to work through it. It got worse. Long story short, it soon became permanent. The TM people were of no help whatsoever. In fact, they made it worse. It is now almost 18 years later and I have not been free of this miserable affliction for even one minute. Not one minute. This constant head pressure is not something I GET. It is something I permanently HAVE each and every waking second of every day. Again, this going on 18 years. I’ve just learned to somehow live with it.
I pretty much gave up on trying to rid myself of this about two years into this when it became apparent that nobody had a clue about what to do and nothing I had tried worked. Occasionally, however, I find new inspiration to try and find someone in this world who can maybe help me get rid of this awful thing. Now is one such time.
It’s so powerful sometimes that I don’t know what it would possibly take. At times it’s unbearable. But there’s nothing I can do about it except pop a few extra strength asprin pills to take the edge off just a bit when it gets really bad. And just wait until it settles down a bit. Sometimes it’s just sort of backgrund noise, but it’s ALWAYS there.
The best explanation I ever got was that the energy of the subtle body became reversed and travels up the spine. This is definitely energy. It feels like high pressure air pressing against my skull. I don’t believe it’s kundalini as such, but what some refer to as its “wind.” There are no other symptoms. It’s not centered on any one area, like the crown or third eye, but it’s rather a full helmet effect. It is slightly more pronounced on the left side of my head.
I tried acupuncture and it was completely ineffective. I was told that acupuncture wouldn’t help because it doesn’t go deep enough. And this is really deep.
Early on in all this, I was able to temporarily eliminate the pressure on 3 seperate occasions. The first time, when it was really bad, I just started vigorously massaging my trapezius muscles, which I noticed were very tight. This immediately began to bleed off the energy, like steam being released from a pipe. After several minutes of intense massaging, the pressure was completely gone. The pressure returned when I resumed the meditation. This never worked again.
The second time was after a network chiropractic adjustment. The pressure was at least 90% gone. It went from a torrent to little more than a trickle. I was still listening to the TM people, however, and soon tried to meditate again, to “work through it.” As soon as I began to meditate the torrent of pressure returned. I underwent regular chiropractic treatment for at least a year afterwards and never had any success again.
Later on there was a period of a couple of days, however, when I was experiencing icy tingling sensations in the occiput. The pressure shifted accordingly to the area of the tingling, as if it was reversing itself. This soon ended, however, and it returned to the front/sides of my head.
The third instance was when I was stretching my back one night. I arched my back quite forcefully and noticed when I got up that it was gone. I was ecstatic. I thought it was over. Unfortunately, it began to return just a few hours later and within no time it was back up to full strength. Arching my back in this manner has never worked again, and I’ve nearly broken my back trying to do so. It’s as it a certain technique will only work once, like a trigger point that can only be used one time. It’s only been some sort of physical manipulation that’s worked at all.
Now, I’ve read several posts on this forum addressing head pressure. On the one hand I’m glad I’m not the only one in the world who’s experienced this. On the other hand, it seems that everyone’s experiences were temporary and were fixed by certain exercises described on this site or simply faded on their own. I haven’t read of someone else on this forum or anywhere else having this permanently like me.
I’ve tried some of these techniques but quickly gave up on them, as this seems completely resistant to everything I try and the frustration can be defeating. They don’t seem powerful enough. Maybe I haven’t given them enough of a chance. I don’t know. Sorry to ramble but there’s a lot of ground to cover.
Any ideas? I’d really appreciate it.
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Hi mc,
Its already around 8 years sinc u started facing head pressure. Did you get the better way to unblock pressur.i am facing same. I am following jim and karma,s suggestions. Uddiyana with water breath. It gives temp relief from excresion isssues. Lord within me made me to visit here.thanks to people here especially jim. If anybody gets solution for their issue, please put clear steps or pls upload video of related to unique steps.
He is within us only some wrong things i are doing against to commitment to self.started confessing. Praying to him to make honest with him.with whom i need to pray? #128522;
Hi Jrb.
I just registered on this website and posted my history with this kind of issue.
https://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17696
I’ll check the book you recommend. Seems like many people are big fans of John Sarno’s work.
In the meantime, can you read my post and let me know if what you found will help me with my condition?
Thank you!
Thanks to everyone who shared in this thread!
I experience the same problem. It started after practicing DM and spinal breathing from this website 8 years ago. The head pressure has been permanent - i.e. is with me every second of my life since then. So it’s definitely related to this practice (I quit these practices after this started happening.)
I can’t do any practice on myself that raises the energy like spinal breathing or even certain forms of Qi Gong without making it worse. Grounding, relaxation and getting out of my head helps but is temporary relief and doesn’t resolve the problem.
Other symptoms for me:
- Permanent energetic sensations in the body, like the feeling of electricity moving in the body
- Tinnitus and ringing sounds
- Periods of what I’d describe as brain zapping - in the night I’ll wake up feeling like I’m being electrocuted and will involuntarily shake for a few seconds until it stops.
If anyone still reads this forum, would you be able to confirm if these are kundalini syndrome symptoms?
I’ll definitely follow up on what jrb shared. I’m prone to dissociation, intellectualisation and mental control as defence mechanisms. I’ve been on a gradual journey of self-healing over the last 5 years in which I’ve gradually become more connected to my body and emotions and I have noticed this symptom get milder with time. So the idea that this is being caused by emotional repression sounds plausible. This therapist seems to have a similar theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FqB8WTU4s
If anyone else has experience resolving this I’d love to hear from you.
Namaste!
Hi Aquila,
Welcome to the forums! 
Sorry to hear about the difficulties you have been experiencing. This is a very rare reaction to the AYP practices.
Could you answer the questions in this questionnaire? That would help us to advise you more easily. You can copy/paste it into this topic.
https://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11628
Christi
Will give my experience with head pressure here. I practice SRF kriya on and off since late teens. During a sade sati (vedic Saturn return) I had some untoward effects from kriya and one of these was a lot of energy in the head without any release. It felt like solar nerve was very active also. The psychic tension became so strong that I found myself really praying hard for help. I was begging Babaji to help me, and when the intensity reached fever pitch, just like that “drowning man gasping for breath” suddenly I saw him in a vision. He uttered 3 words in a strange tongue and each one of them opened a part of a nerve along the front of my body. The first word opened the head, from brow to neck, the second the torso from neck to navel, and the third from navel down to the feet. I felt all of a sudden immense relief and a kind of womb-like space in the navel, with flashes of blue astral light and a sort of watery or water-like sensation of the prana. It was one of the most singularly transformative experiences of my life and has had an effect on my meditation and practice of kriya to this day.
For anyone suffering from this malady, it would probably help (aside from prayer) to move breath/energy through the front channel of the body, down from the head to the navel, as in Navi or Nabhi kriya, or even more along the lines of Qigong practices. This is to promote as much as possible the opening of this channel, which seems to act as a release valve for the firey ‘angry kundalini’ symptoms that occasionally afflict meditators. It is actually a variant of kriya proper to move down in the front channel, and I have heard it was sometimes given this way to female disciples. It is the common form of the Taoist way of practice.