Dealing with physical challenges during meditation.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Steve, the throat thing is an occasional event but the brain construes it as suffocation so there is not much to do about it. I believe it's some excess mucus in the larynnx. Luckily it is rare or occasional.

Sometimes I will find my legs fall asleep when I am meditating the circulation slows down which is can be painful if we do not move them. Sometimes also I find it if my back is at all curved and not completely straight that I feel pains in my lower back after some time meditating. These are conditions that most of us deal with probably at some point in our meditation. Everybody might be a little bit different in their personal challenges.

[guest88]

i find myself alternating between sitting up and laying down. my thoughts still seem so scattered. i can center back but can't seem to hold the attention for long. i must be out of practice. among other things.