It's not all complete yet, but the center of my head is gradually becoming like that. The areas around the head are already showing some movement and are becoming clay-like (although it doesn't smell like clay). The movement is like clay, but the sensation is clean and refreshing. It's similar to mochi that hasn't been kneaded properly yet, where the shape of the rice remains or there are hard spots.

This is happening gradually, and it seems like the areas closer to the surface become loose, but then the deeper areas are still hard, and then the next layer is loosened, and this repeats.

Just like when you peel an onion, there's always more inside, or when you peel a cabbage, there's so much more inside, and just like onions and cabbages continue to grow if you leave them alone, even after peeling the outer layer, harder parts keep coming from the inside, so I think it's necessary to meditate a lot, faster than the rate at which it becomes hard, in order to loosen it.

However, recently, a good cycle has started where my head loosens, my body loosens, and relaxation deepens, so I think the loosening is progressing even without much effort.

Until I reached this point, I was concentrating a lot of energy and focusing on a single breakthrough, but I think that as energy flows through, the loosening tends to start automatically. Now, it still feels like effort leads to faster progress, but eventually, the loosening will progress in a chain reaction. There are already signs of this, and even in daily life, I feel that the loosening of my head, the loosening of various parts of my body, and relaxation are linked and cycling.

I think that by not stopping this cycle, and sometimes accelerating it, deepening the loosening and relaxation, the feeling in my head will open up, and I will become more sensitive to subtle things.