This is part of my Meditation Journal where you can find dozens of more posts like this.
Journal Date: 8-21-07
Fatness: A feeling as if the body increases in size, its borders growing. First, there is a recap of yesterday’s “unlinked” feeling that maybe describes it better (for viewers) than yesterday’s audio/video.
This state has been happening since I was a child. I remember quite often being in bed and having this feeling start. It was a feeling that my hands then chest, face, head, and entire body was growing – like swelling. There was no pain? But there was a tingling feeling.
I’d never been able to reproduce the feeling on my own until I started to get into the Jhana states. When I first got that state during meditation it was totally unbelievable to me that THIS was the state that was coming to me since I was a child… really weird to finally figure it out.
Over the years I have had many people comment on my posts and videos about the Fatness Feeling. It seems that it’s kind of a common happening. Rare, but more common than I ever imagined. I’d never heard anyone in childhood tell me they experienced the same thing.