Pain in my head and involuntary opening of eyes during self-inquiry

[geddie212]

I have been practising meditation about a year and a half. I will attempt to explain what I'm doing as best as possible , which is difficult since it's quite abstract.

I started off doing the nothingness meditation which naturally evolved to a form of a self-inquiry mediation. To keep it brief, all I do is observe self then keep going deeper and asking who is observing self? and who is observing the observer? etc.. I made it sound like it a dialogue but it's more of a physical process where I keep going deeper and deeper by concentrating on self.

So the more I keep focusing and concentrating on self, I get a more and more intense pain in my head, it feels like a physical pain. It's quite a sharp pain, like a concentrated headache/weak migraine sensation. And my eyes involuntary open. They first just start twitching and then open up. This isn't that much of an issue, because I usually get eye twitches when I meditate, but it's more intense than usual. It gets more intense the deeper I get into the self-inquiry.

Anyone else experienced this? What do I do? Should I just plough through the pain and carry on?

Appreciate you advice in advance

[Telepresent]

Maybe pay attention to what position your eyes are in. I have had similar moments in the past, when trying to 'look' inside, and thought "ooooh, something's happening!" - then I realised in these moments my eyes were rolling up in my head, and acting as though I was intensely trying to 'focus' on the inside centre of my forehead. I can recreate the pain/dizzy sensation by consciously moving my eyes into this position. If I feel that coming on now I just take a moment to let my eyes relax again