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Kara-Leah ~
Wow – thank you for sharing this. I do this as well, I just didn’t use the kundalini language that you speak. As you described your experiences of letting your body move (I just called it unwinding) and falling into a deep sleep, seemingly upon command and having letting go dreams and experiences… yeah, I do that too! I know a bit about yoga language, so this gives my experience a whole new dynamic to explore. I am smiling with gratitude, connection and joy. I’m not crazy and I’m not alone – YAY!
Hey Colleen,
Great to hear from you. An unwinding process… that’s it exactly… only not unwinding a day or a week… more like a life time or more.
Language is such a big thing… especially when it comes to awakening experiences. Because I’ve been practicing yoga for so many years, I’ve tended to use yogic language to describe my experience. But there are plenty of people out there having awakenings that aren’t practicing yoga etc… so what language is then appropriate?
It’s something I going to explore in an up-coming article as I think it’s really important to look at the words we use, the connotations that hold, and how they can stop us from directly experiencing our reality – whatever that might be.
Blessings,
KL
As Colleen said, it’s great to have a shared language that assuages any fear of craziness. Having recently visited a mental hospital & a hearing for someone trying to leave it, I’m acutely aware of the often silent & repressed fear most people have of being called crazy. It grieves me that allowing movement, sound & the release of energy is something we call abherrant & even lock people away & medicate them for. A clearer support system & understanding of the process might free more of humanity from the delusion of control we mostly operate under. In the meantime, thank you for your bravery, honesty & example of how “normal” a connection to life & energy can be, when understood & supported through crucible-like practices of stability (drinking water & clear-seeing, for example).
With gratitude,
Melissa
Hey Melissa,
Oh this is something you and I have talked about so many times… maybe we need to record an MP3 of our talks on awakening 🙂
Again – talking about it and grounding the experience in a broader context of reality is so powerful. Often, what makes us crazy is thinking we’re crazy – the mind gets all in a bind, anxious and freaking out because we have no context for what we’re experiencing.
Definitely worth exploring more in future articles!!!
Many blessings,
Kara-Leah