Strange sensation when meditating

[morathi]

Hi, I'm a newbie here and I didn't know where to post this question exactly, so please excuse me if I this sub-forum is not the appropiate one.

I started to meditate a week ago. Yesterday, something strange happened and I don't know why... I was meditating while lying on my bed. I was breathing deeply but calmly and my stomach started to "burn". I say "burn" because I lack of a better word: it was painless and certainly my body temperature didn't change (I touched my skin to make sure).

Has anybody experience something similar? Or does anybody know why I felt that?

Thanks for your time

[Budhabee]

Hi Morathy,
I saw your lonely post and decided to contact you cause....gosh, nobody has answered your question yet. I do not meditate. I suppose I should. At least you made a start. I am sure that some of these people meditate so I dont understand the lack of reply. I know I sure don't know anything about it. But like I say....I just didn't want you to be lonely. Maybe someone who is familiar with meditating will answer soon.

[beautyscientist]

I can't answer your question either, but I wanted to join Budhabee in keeping you company.

[morathi]

Thanks both of you. Maybe it's just I didn't asked my question clearly or it's too vague or something like that.

Thanks again *hugs*

[Acting Like Godot]

It could be kundalini moving.

[Violetgems]

I agree, it does sound like energy movement related to your solar plexus chakra in particular. What type of meditation were you doing?

[MartialDev]

That is not unusual (and it is not kundalini either). Generally, it is good to observe these sensations but not dwell on them.

[chridee]

you didn't say whether you had opened your chakras while meditating when/if you become sensitive to them you can feel their movement as they spin also when sending healing energy in to these chakras you can get a warm glowing feeling radiate in to your body there are plenty of places on the net if not on this board that can give you information on working with your chakras I'm new to the board so haven't had a good look yet to see what it has to offer

[francorizo]

hi, this is my first post.

I have been there where my solar plexus is burning, but is not with meditation, but by transmuting my sex energy, when am in that state, I put more "fire" to my solar plexus and my my neck chakra only by thinking "dirty" thoughts of a hot woman or women that am attracted to. I would like to know what you did to feel that energy in your plexus.

[dcaldwell]

Originally Posted by morathi

Has anybody experience something similar? Or does anybody know why I felt that?

Absolutely. This is normal. In Daoism, you have three dan tien fields -- one in your abdomen, one at your heart, and one behind your "third eye". These cannot be equated to chakras -- rather, they are places where you cultivate and transmute the three energies. When you begin feeling your subtle energy (qi) for the first time, you will most often realize that as a burning sensation in your abdomen. Embrace it, but don't attach emotion or desire to it.

Grow that qi sensation and allow it to move vertically, which it will naturally do on its own in time. Begin concentration meditation on other parts of your body (like your organs) to attempt feeling similiar sensations. Feeling the qi, as you've done, it the first step in a long line of energy practices.

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

It could be kundalini moving.

I doubt it. Kundalini usually starts much lower, physical movement usually dissipate it's sensations, and considering morathi just started meditating a week ago, I doubt it.

[chridee]

[quote=dcaldwell;104461]Absolutely. This is normal. In Daoism, you have three dan tien fields -- one in your abdomen, one at your heart, and one behind your "third eye". These cannot be equated to chakras -- rather, they are places where you cultivate and transmute the three energies. When you begin feeling your subtle energy (qi) for the first time, you will most often realize that as a burning sensation in your abdomen. Embrace it, but don't attach emotion or desire to it.

Grow that qi sensation and allow it to move vertically, which it will naturally do on its own in time. Begin concentration meditation on other parts of your body (like your organs) to attempt feeling similiar sensations. Feeling the qi, as you've done, it the first step in a long line of energy practice

interesting what you wrote when I'm not working with chakras and feeling there energy i do still feel this energy abdomen //heart//third eye which completes the inner glow and radiates to my outer body after completing a meditation i can feel this glowing heat for several hours after how do i work with this or what is its purpose please

[dcaldwell]

Originally Posted by chridee

interesting what you wrote when I'm not working with chakras and feeling there energy i do still feel this energy abdomen //heart//third eye which completes the inner glow and radiates to my outer body after completing a meditation i can feel this glowing heat for several hours after how do i work with this or what is its purpose please

Sorry for the late reply. I was out-of-town for the last week.

The heat/burning sensation is simply your conscious recognition of qi in that place in your body. The breathing you're doing in your meditation is taking earthly qi and drawing it into your abdomen, hence the glowing. In Daoism, qi is your "life force", so to speak, and not directly equitable with prana since there are many qi's depending on what you're talking about.

To the Daoist, transforming your qi after restoring your ching are necessary steps in beginning the creation of the elixir of immortality. However, most people just enhance their qi for health purposes. Qigong practices are generally used to cultivate/refine your qi. It teaches you breathing methods and how to consciously move qi through your body for specific purposes.

[chridee]

thanks for your reply il look up Qigong practices

[Johnny5]

Hi Morathi,
In the teaching of Buddhist meditation, It would mean a sensation of joy. It happens when you gain some concentration in your practice. There are five different kinds of sensations.....like having goose bumps on your skin with creeping crawling sensation, instantaneous flash of lightening, moisture wash over physical pervade all over the body, like flood of joy on the breakers of seashore or airy. When this arise, it helps calm your mind and body, and also temporarily inhibits illwill and aversion from your mind.

Johnny5