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Ive been doing relaxation and energy meditations for a while now.

but it fails often, because I ALWAYS TWITCH

ill be doing perfect and then TWITCH it all goes away.

I try to supress it, but it always comes back.

It usually occurs in the neck.

any advice?

do some stretching, maybe even some basic yoga, before sitting down or laying down to meditate. The twitch is a common relaxation response as your body starts to loosen up and enter something similar to a sleep state.

Turn your neck side to side, forward and backward, rotate to either direction, and try to feel the particular muscles that are twitching. This is a little complicated by try to follow me.

Find out which muscle is twitching. Hopefully, and most likely, it is a superficial muscle, that is one near the surface of your body. You're going to try to shorten that muscle by tilting your neck in the direction that it pulls your head. The muscle will feel slack when you allow your head to hang in that direction, as it were. Press your fingers down on one of the ends of the muscle, preferably the place where it attaches to your head. While holding this point, move your head/neck in the opposite direction. This will help stretch the muscle a bit, and release some of the attachment end trigger points, which can cause twitching. I hesitate to instruct you in the deeper trigger points of the neck, as they are difficult and there's a lot of damage you can do in that area without training.

Another option, of course, is to get a massage once in a while. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

peace