Why do I get a feeling on my forehead as if someone is touching it during meditation?
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Due to ones past store of conditioning one gets different experiences. The main thing is not to attach too much importance to these experiences as thinking about it will be a distraction main task at hand which is the meditation and also perhaps a source of attachment or aversion on how you react to it which is also decremental to meditation.
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It's very normal and common for people to feel the sensation such as someone is touching a particular area, or ants crawling on your skin. That comes as a natural result of relaxation. The conditions of the body are always changing, so that's likely to change. The underlying principle at work, is when you deeply relax, force pervades through the entire body. If your energy channels are open, then this will be experienced as the 4 jhanas described with similes in AN 5.28. If your channels aren't open yet, then the force will feel uncomfortable, itchy, strange, and painful wherever the force is hitting energy channel blockage.
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Iβm experiencing the exact same thing.. it felt like thereβs someone pushing their forefinger on your forehead. I tried my best to not focus on the sensation and to recenter my attention to the breath but to no avail, the strange feeling crawls to my neck and back that it became too difficult to concentrate so.. I opened my eyes :(
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I would suggest that this is a quite normal phenomenon. However, it is nothing to be concerned about, and there is nothing in the Buddhist teachings in the ways of interpreting this as something special.
Rather, there is the teaching of noticing the sensation as just a sensation - as one of the six sense inputs - and noticing the feeling that arises from it as just a feeling. The purpose is to not get caught up in sensations like these, but being mindfully aware, notice them, acknowledge them and by knowing them for just sensations, remaining equanimously unattached to them.
I would suggest that with patient endurance, including this as just a phenomenon of your practice, deliberately avoiding getting enchanted by it or averse to it.
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