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Headache

mettafoumettafou Veteran
edited May 2010 in General Banter
How can we use meditation/focus energy to get rid of a headache?

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  • patbbpatbb Veteran
    edited May 2010
    mettafou wrote: »
    How can we use meditation/focus energy to get rid of a headache?
    the same way as any other pain, thoughts, conditions etc...

    by not trying to get rid of it and letting it go.

    scroll down and read Ajahn Brahm tooth ache story
    http://lola-jameson.com/painrelief.html
  • mettafoumettafou Veteran
    edited May 2010
    so to clarify.. i'm in shakespeare class; finals week, no time for sleep, need to write about 30 pages in the next week and a half... so what state of mind? metta... directing the energy downward? out through the hands and the feet? equanimity/letting go. anything else?
  • patbbpatbb Veteran
    edited May 2010
    mettafou wrote: »
    directing the energy downward? out through the hands and the feet?
    actually this is what my Vipassana teacher told me to do, body scans toward the extremities (hands feet)
  • PietroPumokinPietroPumokin
    edited May 2010
    sometimes for me, a mental massage, shwooshing around the ethereal mind liquids in the headache epicenter relieves it
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