Dear David,
Although I think that the NSR technique is an amazing form of meditation that enhances wellbeing and propels one onto the path of enlightement I am afraid it is just not for me. I have played around with it over the past 3 weeks including doing it lying down for only one minute building up to no more than 5 minutes only once a day.I stopped doing it a week ago because the last release I had has completely messed up my nervous system. Since stopping the technique I have had daily headaches both on top of my head and across the forehead and down around my eyes. I now can no longer do any form of meditation without it enducing anxiety with flushes of heat and nausia. I have experienced a daily build up in my head of pressure and sometimes I need to equalise with my ears. I have been spaced out unable to sleep for longer than 2 hours at a time at night and have had difficulties getting to sleep. I have also been waking up hungry through the night and feeling at times like I am going crazy. I am also experiencing random muscle twitchings.I am unable to read or study without bringing on symptoms. I have been seeing a healer who tells me that my crown and third eye chakra has been opened too much which has loosed the connection between the crown and base chakra. This has affected the pineal and hypothalemus glands that govern everything in the body. Since stopping the technique I have discovered a german study on TM that lists a number of side affects that I have been experiencing. It says that at least 10-20% of people are susceptible to experiencing these side affects and that for those people this technique can even be dangerous. How can something so simple I keep asking myself have had this affect on me. This study was done on long term TM meditators.Can you tell me anything about this study? Do you have any advise on why this is happening to me after such a short time and what I can do to settle my nervous system back down. I take full responsibility for what is happening to me I should have known better and stopped the technique after I had had this experience a couple of times. Although the NSR technique works for most people it is probably good for people to know that this experience can also happen especially if you are very sensitive like me.