While meditating, when I got to the good stuff.. I start sneezing like crazy.. until i stop wanting to go there

no

At least one answered.

Thanks.

nope... me either

Thank you.

btw... i've been meditating over 20yr... maybe I'm not as advanced as you tho

Last Edited by Deej on 12/31/2010 01:36 AM

maybe your subconscious is rejecting being made conscious, so that every time you are on the verge of a new state of mind that might bring your subconscious to light, you sneeze. crazy stuff. what if youre allergic to the brainwaves that coincide with a meditative state?

i would try seeing a hypnotherapist to see if her or she can help!

also,.. it could be a neurological disturbance of some kind! what if? what if what if? that is a wild problem.

Hum.. ill reflect on that. if no sneezing (kidding)

i have a story for you..

I read about a woman who was allergic to everything, like practically everything. She was always sneezing. She went to see a past-life regression hypno-therapist. The therapist discovered that in the woman's past lifetime she inherited a large estate with very large gardens. The woman became a recluse and spent all of her time in the gardens, taking care of them, what have you, but stayed away from people.

Her karmic punishment for not wanting to and therefore not engaging in social creation was this allergic reaction to everything. The hypno-therapist asked the woman's higher self if she understood her lesson and could then stop being allergic, the woman's higher self responded yes.

Upon awakening the therapist took a flower from a vase and blew the pollen in the woman's face. She was ecstatic but the therapist helped her realize that she was no longer allergic.

Perhaps the avenues of exploration in which you choose to go are actually guiding you away from truth, reality, love and light, and usefulness, and the fact that you have been sneezing was for the sole purpose that i would remember and then share this story with you.

One cannot meditate while sneezing, it is a sign you should not or obviously ought not waste your time on those thoughts. Why, and how are you to overcome your inquiries into those subjects? Maybe you should feel what is truth as opposed to thinking what is so. Then spend your time meditating on more or any positive thing, to benefit others or your spiritual progression, rather than intellectual knowledge for the sake of, maybe, feeling superior of having such knowledge?

You see here people claiming to be one of the two witnesses of Revelation, but the two witnesses are mischievous, bad characters who are later killed!

you should not think at all in meditation, the object is to still the mind and stop the chattering monkey within.

Your mind is rejecting the mental activity, you are being shown that you aregoing about it the wrong way.

Be still, stop the thoughts for as long as you can, by concentrating on classical or other music, get lost in the music and the sneezing will go away.

Nw

Yes this happens to me too! Not for as long as you but yes. I find I sneeze any time I feel a strong current of energy moving through my body. When I do meditations that draw Light into my being, say thru my crown chakra, I always sneeze at first, sometimes several times in a row depending how open I am feeling it. When I practiced Kundalini Yoga, it happened often. Once the energy settles in me or I become used to it, the sneezing stops. Try feeling it as energy moving thru and breathe that energy in, the sneezing should subside. My feeling is that you're probably very open and sensitive to the energies being awakened and moving thru you, as I am. Perhaps you're also sensitive to the energies of your environment and those around you too, empathic. It would make sense. Anyway, you are NOT alone! I think it's pretty amazing to know some of us feel the energies of Light so physically. Namaste.

Yep. I actually found this post because I googled it just to see if happens to anyone else. It usually happens while I've been meditating for a while, I'll get a throbbing sensation in my nose or forehead. I try to fight it, sometimes I 'breakthrough' it and other times I just have to sneeze lots of times in a row.

If I do manage to breakthrough the sensation, I move onto the feeling of moving up and down, like floating on a raft at sea. Then it fades.

I find a certain train of thought (which I choose not to disclose) makes me sneeze. I've interpreted it as one of my subconscious agents either trying to distract me or warn me of danger, or just saying "NO!". I found this thread because I googled "sneeze subconscious" to see if it was a previously defined phenomenon, and it does not appear to be. But it is a very definite phenomenon for me.

Doesn't happen to me when I meditate, but when I think of certain things, I sneeze like crazy also. I have no idea what causes it, but its maddening at times.

I sneeze like crazy when i meditate, what the hell is up with that? every time, if this is releasing resistance i have released a lot lol

And how you do that, that's the important thing to explain, not just 'hey, still your mind'. Read Eckhart Tolle books, it will help you a lot. When you sit to meditate thoughts inevitable will come into your mind, distracting you. If you can 'observe' them, instead to be one with them and take you wherever they want, then that observer is your higher-self. You're there already.

You can keep your mind clear of all thoughts, focusing on your breathing and your mind will obey, it just takes practice, but in time your mind will be tamed, the reason its difficult for people is because they have no mental control in that way, they are used to every whim and thought going in and out, they don't actively have that ability to stop the flow of thoughts, but done for a short time everyday is very good, there are meditations where you allow thought, but thats another form of meditation with a different goal.

I myself after meditating can stay focused when before i couldn't, it just takes time and practice like walking for the first time or anything else that requires you to learn and adapt, exactly the same in meditation.

... i just have to stop sneezing at points lol
It may be the way im breathing.

i have found that i sneeze as well, right when i get to the most relaxing/ energizing parts of my meditation. i have learned to take the Buddhist approach. they view sneezing as an entrance into the subconscious. i recognize my urge to sneeze. and then place the urge aside (mentally) and continue with my meditation.
Nameste