[CalBettaulp]

Hello again, have a question and not sure which forum topic it pertains to. Wondering if anyone else ever has a sensation that goes up thru their entire body starting about mid thigh all the way to the top of their head and it feels like nervous system stimulation, almost a tickling, tingly wave that makes the hairs on your arms stand up? (wow that sentence was too long ) This seems to occur for me at times of heightened emotion or feelings of deep spirituality. When I say emotion I must add that it's never negative emotion, and not at all a fear response. When I was very involved in an apostolic church, I had these sensations alot during praise and worship. At this time in my life it seems to happen when I hear music that touches me, or I read something powerful and thought provoking. It's a nice feeling, but it leaves me with a sense that there is something I'm supposed to be understanding that I don't.
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[Dyerryjex]

You mean like vibrations?

[CalBettaulp]

The feeling is not at all a vibration, its one long wave that just goes up. I wish I had the right words to describe. Tickle, tingle, its very much a skin sensation and seems related to the nervous system. I have the vibrations all the time and those seem more total body involvement. LOL so hard to explain. I know when it reaches my hairline its a tickling, tingling, tightening sensation. Not sure that helped at all but I tried.

[Dyerryjex]

It sort of sounds like an energy rush, as sometimes I feel something like that in my fingers and/or my forehead, but am not sure this is what you're experiencing.
Ps. a vibration is a wave. How fast or slow depends on the frequency.

[lerobudrse]

I get this quite a lot, though not always in the same body area. "Shiver" is the best word I've found to describe it.

It's definitely triggered by emotional and spiritual things. I can also evoke the sensation again by meditating and thinking of it... it doesn't seem to be any more complex than a wave of some type of energy. Of course, sometimes, the simplest things are the hardest ones to truly understand, and the most rewarding once they are understood. ^^

[Dwencejed]

Yeah, I get this sometimes. It does feel to me like a kind of shiver. Usually for me it's around my torso area, but I've gotten it in other places, too. It's certainly related to emotional/spiritual things, but it never seems to "mean" anything. I think of it just as my energy body "stretching", just the way my physical body does.

[DrJonson]

Isn't this related to kundalini in any way? I thought these waves were sort of a precursor to it, or sort of a cleansing process to allow it to flow.

I used to think when I got wave after wave of these rushes that it was kundalini, but found that it is not. But I still think it is related to it, in some way.

[Duseshoug]

• This is quite common. It happens to me at moments of intense joy and when something spiritually profound has just happened or occurred to me.
  
  It is definitely describable as a shiver, though it is much deeper than that.
  
  As best I can tell it has three purposes:
  
  1. To wake you up and make you more aware of what is happening.
  2. To strengthen and reaffirm the connection of your divine spirit to your physical body.
  3. The shiver is acting like a trigger or physical tick, which coincides with a "recording" of the moment on your permanent energy field.
  
  I hope that this helps!
  
  Blessings,

[Dyerryjex]

1. To wake you up and make you more aware of what is happening.
2. To strengthen and reaffirm the connection of your divine spirit to your physical body.
3. The shiver is acting like a trigger or physical tick, which coincides with a "recording" of the moment on your permanent energy field.

Interesting. I've been having a lot of these lately, and I find that I can definitely relate to #3.
BTW, I just had one of those as I was writing this.