Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Spring Forest Qigong Terrible, TERRIBLE Itching...

Yes, let it go and it will go.

Alex

Hey Heartbeat,
Are you taking anything that may be affecting your metabolism for weight loss or maintenance? Are you taking coffee, soda or anything with caffeine in it?

As AlexK stated yes it will if you let it go. Very wise words indeed. Consider this if while in the moment of the itch you start to give it your attention; at that moment are you not feeding energy to it? Kind of like when the mind babbler distracts the meditation and you go off with the distraction rather than bring the focus back to center. Trust it will subside and it will, ask for help to remove the experience so you can move on and pay it no more attention. I know easier said than done but persistence will win the race.

I've been reading throught this thread, and wanted to just add that although I don't get the itching sensation, much, I DO periodically get such a stab of pain in one spot that it makes me winch. Distracting, to say the least. After the first couple of times I've associated it with the exercise where you bring in energy through the lower dantien (is that spelled right?) and then begin to move it down the legs, back up and up the back etc. I have a problem with my lower back and now my left leg since an arthroscopy 2 yrs ago. (the doctors tell me it's a co-incidence)

Anyway, I think of the sharp stab is a releasing of something blocking that area. The energy gets there and WHAM - it gets hit head on.

Although it can almost take my breath away, and definitely brings me out of meditation, I have begun to just talk to it (silently) and say that it's okay; I'm here for you. That may sound a bit strange, reading it like that. But it's a reassurance that I have noticed the pain, I understand that it hurts, or itches perhaps, and then I go back to the visualization/meditation. Works for me.

I am encouraged by reading this thread. Thanks for the input - I am going to try and ride out the physical discomfort, I guess you would say "go with it," next time it happens rather than just acknowleging it. See if it will swell and then dissipate completly, like in Shawn's telling of Jim's story.

I'll let you all know what happens.
*A*

Better late than never, well here is my 2 cents worth. You can breathe into the pain/distraction and affirm its release on the exhale. What ever approach you take you can think of it dissolving send love to it for a gentle transition and let it float away.

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