My name is Adnan. In the last 3 years or so, I have been experiencing psychological and physiological symptoms which have started spontaneously as a result of suffering in the past, which lead me to undertake spiritual work. It all started with Eckhart Tolle and trying to not identify with the mind itself. As a result, my view of the world started to change. The symptoms used to include tingling and irritation in the body, pain moving from the legs up the body, and now after three years I experience extremely strong pressures in the body, in particular forehead, neck and stomach. These pressures move. This also often increases during meditation. That pressure moves around the body and eventually exists as shooting sharp pain through the legs and arms. Then I feel relieved. The pressure is now initiated by a single negative thought. I used to take medication for sleep before this started to happen and in the last 12 months I am not on any medication.

I have been working with a life coach since April who is helping me get over certain blocked emotions. His approach is very spiritual. In the last 2-3 years I basically do not experience emotions as purely as I used to, they seem to be somehow converted to these pressures and pains as if they are supressed. Sometimes I am not able to sleep at all because of this pressures. They are there until I consciously identify the trigger or what I am not seeing in my subconscious mind. Once I identify the mind program, the pressure is relieved. Sometimes it is very difficult to consciously identify the underlying emotion that is masked by the intense pressure. My sleeping pattern has actually improved over the time I have been working with the life coach who was teaching me ‘letting go (Sedona method)’, ‘12 step program’ (although I was never an alcoholic) and ‘Course in Miracles’. They worked as I feel much better but the pressures also got much stronger and any conscious error I make, the pressures and shooting pains come up. Just would like to check if this qualifies for psychiatry or should I seek other kind of help? I am getting worried now that as I am going deeper into letting go of negative programs using the Sedona method, that these pains are getting stronger and they have started coming out of hands and feet. Is what I am experiencing documented anywhere, perhaps it is some kind of depression? Thank you.