As has been the case for a while now, the feeling content of the enegy movements through my body come in many forms, sometimes painful, sometime equsisite. Sometimes it feels like knives are moving through me. Sometimes a cooling flow of water follows a path of wildfire burning. Sometimes it feels hollow inside with a flow of air through the space. Sometime I feel an intense pressure like a great weight of gravity. Or I might be pulled into positions as if I am being put in traction. Sometimes the surface of my skin becomes very sensitive, and any part of my body feel as sensual as if in orgasm.
Usually these sensations come in sequence, but are not predictable. They also usually have direction, starting in one part of the body, moving either up (toward the head (I am not standing)) or down, sometimes in a circular pattern either vertically (head to toe) or horizontally (around the column of my torso, or head, or any other spot). Often a clearly defined area of my body will be the focus, either my right side or left, front side or back. A center is often defined by a space between the activity on right versus left, and sometimes a vortex will form around that center space.
I am finding that the soles of my feet are becoming the source of a very pleasant energy that moves upward through my center eventually going through the top of my head. Sometimes I feel as if my entire body is a fountain of pleasant energy passing from a source below my feet through my head past my upstretched arms.
But sometimes, like this afternoon, I am put through painful waves of sensation, which I don't resist, but can feel like they will never end. I have learned to not resist painful cramping anywhere it occurs, because that will be a place where the generalized pain will most likely exit when it has taken its course. Today I think I've detected a pattern of direction whereby pleasant energy flow starts in the lower part of my body, and moves upward, either into my head, or through its top. Painful flow can move in any direction, but it will either dissipate as if a fire that burns out, or if it is an intense sustained flow, it seems to be exiting downward through my feet. So maybe good moves up, and bad moves down. Just a speculation.
It is getting more common for me to "see" a color of the energy as it moves. I think Buddha said the feelings in the body are composed of the four elements: earth, fire, water, air. And the energies that move through me have feelings associated with those four (as well as the "space" inside that they sometimes leave in their wake).
My fleeting visuals these days are of landscapes, plants, caves... Sometimes just a close up of a wall of some texture, today a green stone wall that transformed into a soft formless yellow/gray mass. Those images are clear, but fleeting.
And kriya, as always, range from hands moving the energy around, to my body being contorted into positions and durations I don't think I could do in a non-meditative state.
A post note: As today's painful energy flows down through my feet subsided to a relative calm, I felt something different than ever before: faint waves of energy gently lifted from me downward from all around my body, not through the channels of my feet. It felt as if many faint ghosts were exiting my body. These individual small waves left me many at a time, a full-body exodus of many bad energies.
