iadnon
6th December 2011, 04:52 PM
Hey:
I've always had a question about relaxation/phasing and I thing it's time to spit it out (I've started to think I'm doing something wrong).
When I initiate a relaxation session I feel my muscles loosening. As they are all connected somehow, the relaxation of some of them make others react. That effect is very pronounced in the skull (jaw-neck-nape), and sometimes it feel like an infinite relaxation/tension loop.
In the first stage I let the muscles go more relaxed by their own, but it gets to a point when you have to "exert" a more conscious intent to go deeper.
The problem is that sometimes I suffer from the opposite effect, and a microtension appears to ruin the process. It's curious, it feels like being relaxed and tensed at the same time.
BUT, I've also noticed a SWITCH. It's been happening to me randomly, so I don't know how to trigger it on purpose. It switches off the body, giving you a sense of sleeping. It reminds me the breathing pattern change that automatically occurs when you start to fall asleep. You don't control it, but you suddenly start to breathe in another way.
Somewhere I read there's a brain switch, aimed to prevent a person sleeping from physically moving. It seems to be like a very unpleasant sensation all over your body. If you remain still while having it the brain switches off. If not, it knows you are already awake.
And my last comment. I haven't had so far any hypnogogic imagery. I just start to dream real images, like a film being played in front of me. Is that normal? Sometimes a barely enter the sleep state, and pop out again.
Thanks for the help. I feel stuck.
I've always had a question about relaxation/phasing and I thing it's time to spit it out (I've started to think I'm doing something wrong).
When I initiate a relaxation session I feel my muscles loosening. As they are all connected somehow, the relaxation of some of them make others react. That effect is very pronounced in the skull (jaw-neck-nape), and sometimes it feel like an infinite relaxation/tension loop.
In the first stage I let the muscles go more relaxed by their own, but it gets to a point when you have to "exert" a more conscious intent to go deeper.
The problem is that sometimes I suffer from the opposite effect, and a microtension appears to ruin the process. It's curious, it feels like being relaxed and tensed at the same time.
BUT, I've also noticed a SWITCH. It's been happening to me randomly, so I don't know how to trigger it on purpose. It switches off the body, giving you a sense of sleeping. It reminds me the breathing pattern change that automatically occurs when you start to fall asleep. You don't control it, but you suddenly start to breathe in another way.
Somewhere I read there's a brain switch, aimed to prevent a person sleeping from physically moving. It seems to be like a very unpleasant sensation all over your body. If you remain still while having it the brain switches off. If not, it knows you are already awake.
And my last comment. I haven't had so far any hypnogogic imagery. I just start to dream real images, like a film being played in front of me. Is that normal? Sometimes a barely enter the sleep state, and pop out again.
Thanks for the help. I feel stuck.