joseph,
I appreciate your response. I’ve never read it. I did have a left side imbalance and early crown opening( just one side). I believe he had a side imbalance as well. Thankfully, I’ve never done crown practices. Samyama slowly helps to balance the crown for me.
I might take a look at it.
An update on this. I still have no whatever I was calling the witness. I’ve lowered but not completely stopped practices. The fear has subsided; it seems it was an escape from some other emotion that I don’t have a label for. I guess I would call it ick.
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 14 yrs ago. After experiencing that emotion( ick), I felt all the symptoms of fibromyalgia at once. I felt inwardly strong, so I didn’t do anything to distract myself. It kinda feels like there’s black tar running through you. But the weirdest thing happened, it’s like Shakti starts eating through the tar.
This probably sounds awful. I have no choice but to experience what happens. I’m just kinda here; I have no place I can go. I do feel inwardly strong, like I’ve never felt before
P.S. If anyone is at all drawn to samyama, I’d highly recommend it. I might not be the best example of a smooth spiritual unfoldment. I’ve released that strength sutra, I don’t know how many times. I’ve never felt a movement, but strength( not the way I thought it would be) shows up. I wanted to feel this or that sutra. What shows up is what I need. 
I won’t say anymore in this thread. Everyone I’ve talked to that has fibromyalgia has told me that they just at some point wanted to end their lives. I just think there is another way. If you are reading this, there really is another way.
to you, lalow. I can relate to strength and the power of Samyama.
The other thing that I have noticed is, the more I practice inversions in Asana-particular headstand- I feel strong physically and spiritually.
Wishing you the best health. 
let me simplify this for you, the moment you get that feeling. Simply lie down and close your eyes and breathe and focus on breathing with eyes closed till you feel waves of energy. nothing to be scared of, you are not gonna die, simply try to sleep. If not able to sleep, simply feel what is happening.
If you are afraid of dying, then simply don’t. It’s fine to be scared but its not fine to governed by that. It’ll cripple you if you let it.
I simply don’t know why, perhaps I was a warrior in past life or something but whenever a problem arises that has to be solved the idea of “Staking my life for it” comes to mind all the time, even the mundane matters. Either I can be here or the problem, we simply cannot coexist.
Stop discriminating. Forget this witness; there is no witness. Whom and what to witness? you again rolls back to duality of witness, object to be witnessed and process of witnessing. Since there is no discretion, no interruption in this being, there is no such notion as death or birth; there is only pure blissful existence. Don’t try to analyze your feelings. By analyzing, you again apply your mind, the instrument of Ego.
hello richbrahman
It was your mind that formed the sentences you put in your post. You have analysed Lalow’s question and applied your mind to produce an answer just then.
If you have experienced non-duality, you must know that the gift of pure bliss consciousness does not comes from the injunction “do not apply your mind”. It is the practice of meditation and divine grace that leads most people there.
I feel compelled to say this because there is already too much non-duality advice given from a dualistic position.