I have some blockages in my cheeks and behind my ears that I've been working on for the past few months and I'm finding this to be one of the most difficult places to work.. perhaps because it's so close to the seat of awareness. I find that the process of focusing on jaw / head / cheeks induces a lot of tension in those areas... one time my jaw muscles were so tense that when I yawned, one muscle cramped extremely painfully, almost as bad as a sprain.
It doesn't seem to matter how hard I try to relax my jaw / face while working... even if I'm working in the temples, energy starts moving and pulsing in that whole area and causing pain and tightness in the jaws.
I'm trying to view this as acceptable hardship as part of the gains of energy work, but darnit the sensations are extremely annoying... one constant sensation in particular feels like when you push your tongue inside your cheek and cause a point of pressure to poke out ("tongue in cheek")... only I feel that up in my cheekbones or up near the temple. It has a sort of "suctioning" feeling to it.
If I widen an awareness action to include say the whole head, the sensation pretty much solidifies to an "iron bar" like feeling from throat chakra to brow chakra.
On the one hand it's interesting to feel such dynamic physical sensations... just the very act of moving awareness causes a physical reaction, beit pain or pressure or throbbing... but on the other hand... it's driving me NUTS!
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