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Thank you for posting this. I believe I had one in 2006 when as a result of emotional trauma and lack of sleep I had psychosis. Unfortunately the western medical system – I am referring to the intensive care units in hospitals – have no real understanding of what is going on, and worse, misdiagnose and prescribe drugs to “deal” with it. What makes me say I believe I have had it is that afterwards, for weeks, actually months, I had the most intense and surreal, etherial and blissful feelings of love inside me. Unity and a magical transcendence even. Withough the right guides though, I became lost. An opportunity for healing and integration was lost to clinial psychologists, who simply gave sleeping pills and tranquilisers to deal with a most powerful and initiating force.
Fortunately I eventually came across the works of Stanislav Groff and realised what was happening to me. I took up yoga soon after and have not looked back, especially since I stopped all medication and not touched it since. It is a real shame more people are not exposed to information that is culturally acepted and nurtured in other cultures. Vicki Noble calls it a shamanic healing crisis, and that is a good description too. I will be looking next year at becoming more public about my experience, and continuing to learn and teach yoga to help those that go through it.
Thank you.
Hey Monica,
Wonderful to hear your story – this kind of experience is more common than we think.
I had my own experiences within the western medical system which largely mirrored yours. It’s likely that many people’s experiences of mental illness would could well do with a spiritual context put in place.
There are more and more people though who bridge both worlds – clinical psychologists who’ve had their own awakenings etc. I do believe that we are going to move towards holistic health & well-being, where the spirit is as recognised as the body.
Certainly, for someone having an awakening, knowing what’s actually happening and how to deal with it makes the world of difference. Sometimes medication can be required in the short term, but approaching the healing from the perspective of both body and soul makes a world of difference.
Many blessings,
KL
I have been documenting what has been going on with me for years, from brain aneurysms to strokes, tia’s seizures(non epeletic) my awakening to the woman I can say I love today. Long story not ready to share, just glad to know I’m not crazy!
ummm…. glad to hear I’m not crazy either, as this has been… well let’s just say it wasn’t a natural awakening, but on that I was not spiritually ready for. But I am so glad to have read this article and to know that I’m not the only one who hasn’t yet figured out how to talk about what has come to pass…
Thank you for your comments. My experience in 1973 is very similar to yours. It has been a very difficult journey over many years for me but being a medical practitioner with a basic grounding in Neuroscience, Psychology, Psychiatry and Christianity I eventually was able to comprehend the meaning and purpose of this remarkable process. As an educationalist my response to this spiritual awakening was to develop a community site on Google + called Spiritual Transcendence and Gnosis to help others who may experience this Awakening of their divine nature, for it can be a frightening experience for those who have no pre-existing knowledge of this experience.
Thank you for sharing this resource – I really appreciate it! People need such things!
I feel like im going crazy where do i get help i know im not crazy with everything im reqding im going through it i just feel like i dont have any more strength i feel tired weak idk anymore btw im 40 years old
Hey Carol,
You can book a session with me here: http://karaleah.com/work-with-kara-leah/ That may help.
Been there done that. Thanks for the author reference
gotta like the medical cautionary warnings, and the belief that the purpose is to embody the divine in our lives
also like that you reference that this awakening could happen in many ways besides yoga
and am glad your’e continuing this theme with followup articles
though, i do wonder, if us guys don’t have a male energy base, going up to meet a female oneness descending
wouldn’t surprise me 😉 but of course, i don’t know 😉
Hey Adan,
One of the biggest dangers of an awakening is losing all grounding and perception of material reality, hence the cautions to attend to the physical!
The definitions of male & female can be confusing, but they have nothing at all to do with gender. This from Guru Rattana:
So in yoga… Shakti represents energy, that which flows. Shiva represents the stable polarity, that which is absolute. The flow rises to meet the absolute, creating a sacred marriage or Union within.
Many blessings,
KL
Excellent article. I’ve never seen kundalini awakening described so sensibly. I’ve been thinking about time vs. eternity, and the concepts of Shakti and Shiva work nicely there. FWIW, there is a good FB group for folks looking for peer support with this kind of thing. It’s called Shades of Awakening: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1389895917996438/
The Indian system for understanding Awakenings leans towards paternalism. That is to say, the feminine is the coarser energy which must refine upwards through the central channel, an invisible strand of nerve fibers going into the brain…..
So the truth is is that we have both currents moving through us both masculine and feminine energies and these move through our energy systems or chakras, clearing out each one of old unresolved trauma and hurt. As we work with the energy, we facilitate a more clear pathway for the energy to flow. Most people are stopped up….like an old pipe with years of accumulated stuff that needs to be cleared. But the Shakti DOES NOT refine. She is already refined. It is YOU who must refine. And as you do so, there is indeed a growing sense of bliss as you travel “higher” in this process. Truth is, a kundalini awakening does not always go in an orderly fashion upwards up the spine. Many might jump around. Anyone who tells you that one way over another is THE way to go or just seeking to keep a system in place that need not be. If you listen, the energy will teach you what you need to know. You will be guided, and you will have a rich series of resources flooding your life at just the right time, as if by magic. Perhaps you might need to be open to this eventuality.
All of this is layered. Once you think you have gotten to the core of something, onward you go to another energy wheel and it has its own stuff that has to be cleared at a given vibratory rate. Eventually, though, your energy body becomes like a shimmering chorus of vibration. The pathway is surrender. Simple. So simple it can be a struggle. When in doubt, its about the love. A love so pure inside of your soul that to touch it is to touch the very essence of bliss in this world.
And of course, this is a very personal experience even if this is all nondual…..right?
Blessings.
Wow sister. You really spelled it out!! Lol thats how it is 🙂
Read your article.I do not dispute a word of it.I am graced with it.While I was 14,one of our family(uncle for me) suggested that we can move out of body while awake as we do in sleep.I tried and revolvations of fastest degree started and my breath was like i am possessed. Subsequently after all medical investigation turned normal,I came to know from graced one.that my kundalini is awakened.True,that physical tortures are of great degree,but pleasant. Presently I am not able to concentrate,as throbbing starts if i do it. Ihave started living it.One time it may be blissful and other time it is playing with me. May be each person has its'(rather kundalinis’) own way.I had different experience than yours
Hey Abhay,
Thanks for your comment – I enjoy hearing of other people’s experiences with Prana & Kundalini. Like life, it’s different for everyone.
Kundalini is very real, it is simply the Infinite awakened within, and it is the nature of the Infinite to expand. I would liken it to birthing in the actualization of the Truth. For it to fully actualize within its vessel, it has to clear out all your internal garbage, for your true Self to actualize. If you are interested in awakening your Kundalini consider not. Focus on making sure you are at a place of physical,mental and emotional healthy and sanity. I had an accidental awakening way before I was ready and believe me, the path is NOT easy or fun, you are forced to deal with your garbage, and once that light is on, there is no running from it. Be aware an awakened Kundalini means a lifetime of forced internal work, sound mind body and spirit or not. If it is meant to come to you it will. All I can suggest, whether it does or doesn’t, it is 2013, the planet is in the midst of spiritual renewal, things will get darker before the dawn, and it only makes sense to strive to be at true peace with yourself and remain in your integrity.
In 1997 I experienced this. I had no idea it has a name until reading this article. I’ve searched for years to find the answers, my experience was traumatic because no doctor, no priest, no family not even me could make sense of it. I was not depressed, not on drugs, not drinking, not mentally I’ll. I was stripped of every emotion, not capable in any way of feeling anything. I went color blind. I felt the physical change in me that I could not even make sense of. As months past by I was a hollow shell living to learn of life I never knew existed. But then again, did I? I was never the same person. I have learned so much but not enough. I keep searching and reading. I’ve experienced miracles of God and the true essence of evil before my eyes. I’ve learned how my energy is true. How I SEE is through my heart. I have seen the look on many faces, beyond the eyes of faces. Every time I let some close, it’s the same result. I’m intrigued at how their minds try to fool you. If they only knew the greater gift of good..
To close family I wish I could explain. I think some want answers. Yet I can only give pieces.
I’m writing my story, my experiences and I hope to help people with similiar changes to understand.
MEM
I am so interested in your story maria (MEM). If you don’t mind, I’d like to talk with you about your experiences..? I put my email in one of the upper boxes but, I’ll post it here, too just in case you can’t see it. Please, I’d like to hear your story.
-peacelov3musicandlife@yahoo.com
That’s funny. Kundalini doesn’t go back to sleep! That’s the truth.
After having 3 NDE’s I had my first Kundalini “Bliss” which affected those in my group meditation. I had my crown spilling a fountain of fire, I was crying in absolute utter happiness, and the vibration coming from my hands (we were in a circle) affected the nearest people. They saw what I saw! It’s a wonderful phenomenon! It is hard on the kidneys, however.
So, after the first experience, wait a couple of months or more until you no longer feel your kidneys.
Peace.
I have been having a kundalini awakening for over a year. I’m not sure what triggered it because I had reached a new field of spiritual experience and THEN several traumatic events and deaths occurred. All my hair literally fell out from stress at first. I have been hanging on by a thread since, trying to tell people I’m not sick, just transforming. I have always been a very cold-natured person, but lately my body heats up to uncomfortable levels even with the thermostat on 70*. My body twitches and shivers randomly. I was already pretty healthful but I have gone full vegan and run several miles daily. But no matter what I do I can’t have lasting stabilizing effects. It always comes back. After a man approached my car in traffic (angry because I had honked because he almost hit me) and I had to pull out my mace to avoid being attacked, I pulled over and had a massive panic attack which I haven’t had in well over a decade. Any advice greatly appreciated. I can barely stand to be around anyone, just quit my jobs, and swing like a pendulum between extreme anger, past trauma, and overwhelming love for all. This is really not tolerable or sustainable and I’ve been doing this for about 2 years. Please help.
Hey Aurora,
It sounds like you’ve been having a really challenging time. Is there anyone local you can reach out to? A good therapist or teacher? If not, there are some resources listed in this article and the others – people like Tara who can work with you over Skype.
Her story sounds so much like mine
I really need some help
Hello Kara I greatly appreciate all the guidance and tranquility you seem to bring to those in need.
I am 18 years old just starting my life, going through traumatic experiences and experimenting with various life decisions. Through all of what I have learned and experienced through my short amount of time here is that we all strive to achieve a level of tranquiliy and spiritual enlightenment.
I was only 12 years old when my father died. He called me on my birthday and was arguing with my mother and after all of that he told me that through my entire life he believed that I was not his biological child and that he had never cared for me meanwhile he refused to get a paternity test and 3 days later he had died of alcohol poisoning.
I have been researching the different religions trying to understand what people see in them and why they devote themselves to a certain believe system that they live their life around. In doing so I have come to a realization that a lot of the religions throughout our history has some things right. (The Buddhist view on the path to enlightenment really spoke to me)
Ever sence I can remember I have had a deep yearning for a spiritual guider a teacher perhaps not to tell me do this or do that but to guide me to help me reach a transition and my question for you is do you know where I can learn more about this? Do you know of any sources I would be able to contact or anything that would help me on my pursuit of happiness? I have recently started yoga and was wondering if you had any advice that might help.
Dear Aurora
I did leave a comment earlier but don’t know if you’ve got it,
I don’t want to scare you but you’ll have these symptoms for many years to come, I’ve had mine for about 14 years now,
Here are some of my symptoms.
Memory loss, itching, smelling smoke, body twitching, chest pain, back ache, head aches, pains in my legs especially when resting, fever like temperature, etc.
Basically it’s your ethereal body that being rewired and clearing blockages.
Your body couldnt cope with a full blown kundalini awakening before clearing these blockages and been rewired.
You need to drink plenty of water,
When you start getting pains in your legs try walking on your heels for 11 minutes, you can take a break but be sure you do it daily for the full 11 mins.
And meditate, if you don’t meditate already please consider taking it up, it will help you greatly to clear the blockages
Try listening to kundalini yoga music from spirit voyage
Snatam Kaur is my favourite, she sings like an angel, EK ONG KAAR and EARTH PRAYER are my favourite and GURU RAM DAS for healing,
Don’t forget to see your doctor if your symptoms get worse just to rule out any symptoms that are not caused by your kundalini
Love, shaun
Hey Shaun,
Thank you for taking the time to comment and pointing out it’s always worth checking any symptoms with a doctor as well.
However, I would exercise great caution with meditation when under-going any kind of kundalini experience. In general, it pays to back away from intense spiritual practices, especially meditation, and focus instead on getting grounded and being firmly in the body.
Yes, meditation is a wonderful practice with enormous benefits, but like anything, there is a time to do it and a time to avoid it.
Dear Aurora, sorry, you should walk on your heels between 5 and 11 minutes a day to balance the prana. Not 11 mins as said.
You cannot talk to god while grounded
You must meditate and quiet your mind then you can talk to god and only then will you be enlightened.
If you are going through a kundalini awakening then you must meditate to balance the prana within you.
You are ready. DON’T MISS OUT.
Love ya
Shaun
Hey Shaun,
I’m not sure about some of the advice you’re offering so wanted to add a comment below to temper your suggestions. I’m wary of absolutes (you must, you cannot, only then…) Everyone’s situation is different and what works for one person may not work for another.
I’m also wary of meditation during peak kundalini experiences – it can be the opposite of what people need, although not always. Moderation bodes well at such times.
This may be an unpopular suggestion, but eat heavier foods and take in some beer. It will slow it down. Don’t purify yourself too much and stay away from prescription drugs if possible. Cheese, bread, etc. feel the pain, do think “happy thoughts”, and it will stabilize. Stop meditating and don’t think of spiritual subjects. Concentrate on yourself. In my opinion there is no “God” just a physical process here that will definitely bring up your subconscious and you need to have compassion and understanding for your human self and not push it.
Hi. I am ten years into an accidental awakening and you can email me any time you like. STOP WITH TH VEGANISM AND THE CLEANSING. the energy cleans your body out and if you don’t provide it with enough heavy grounding foods you will get very sick. there is a healer I work with who is good who I would also be glad to reccomend, she is very respectful.
I am confused about whether or not i had an awakening.
I am now 23 and around the age of 17; for many months I passed trough something I would call a mystical experience, I would get panic attacks, find myself on other planets, saw things change in front of my eyes and many more things, prior and during this I suffered from epilepsy and migraines for 10years but all of that disappeared.
Now I wonder if those months of mysticism were what they would call a walk-in or the awakening of my kundalini. If so, would I not just know or could it be that i can simply not remember the awakening?
I just feel lost, and hope to find a description of who I am and what I experienced ( indigo, starchild, walk-in, awakening..)
Thoughts are always welcome, just hoping to find answers to what it was that I experienced.
Thank you
with kind regards,
nicolas
Wow thanks so much for posting this article! I am very interested in learning more and eventually trying to develop my awakening. I’m afraid I am not completely ready yet so I plan on reading more and developing myself to get to that point. This sounds like a life changing experience I wish to have, thanks for all the info!
Hey Adam,
I would exercise great caution on this one… I’m not sure if it’s an experience one seeks out at all. Consider letting go of chasing any kind of Kundalini experience and instead become firmly grounded in one’s practices.
Hi my names Nikki.I started meditating about 7months ago.last week I did a meditation on you tube by Rebecca marina messenger. It was decalcifying your pineal gland and activating your mid brain,chakras with spinal column fluid. I had never heard of kundalini at the time my intention was opening my third eye.but let me just say….(LOL) the experience was OUT OF THIS WORLD! It was almost like being hypnotized! Soon as she said I would feel bliss I felt it! I felt my heart was going to burst out of my chest w love! I felt fire up my spine(but not hurting) It felt like spiritual orgasm! They say its a orgasm times 1,000-10,000 and they’re not lying.it was just in one area.it was out my entire being!!! I had tears flowing w joy BC I felt so close to god.it was amazing.its been a week.should I be having more symptoms than I am? The only thing I’m experiencing is extreme isolation: ( and have in interest in my friends or normal life.all I wanna do is sit online reading about this and meditate.one other symptom is after I had the kundalini awakening ,now when I meditate I do it way faster and very deeper! For about 30mins after I’m completely spinning and I feel and hear energy LOUD as in lightbulbs,computers ext.is all this normal? (LOL well at least common) should I be experiencing more?? Or any bliss? I seem to not find any articles on how long each stage usually last like a step by step article..thanks
I had what I believe to be a spontaneous Kundalini Awakening on 12/8/2012. It happened during my nightly meditation, and at first I was socked at the sensations I was feeling, but as I felt energy move upwards, I began to realize what was happening to me and I surrendered to it to allow it to happen. The whole experience lasted about 2 hours, and my life went through a great deal of turmoil afterwards, and to some degree still is. However, I have sought to have the experience again but have not been able to yet.
Wow! You have no idea how long I’ve been wondering cluelessly about what happened to me one evening, back in early 2000. Practically, 15 years!!! I am so emotional right now from reading your post. You’ve brought me a deep relief and greater understanding. Thank You.
After the kundalini had awakened in me, which I can now say with confidence, because I can truly relate to these symptoms you have described, it took me almost 4 years to recover from the spiritual, emotional and psychological changes I had endured that night. There were people with me that night who had witnessed my episode, and who now no longer speak to me, probably because they felt that I needed to be in a nut house or something.
Every once in a while, even up to these days, the visions and wisdom that I was exposed to, which at that point in time made absolutely no sense, are being answered and understood more clearly. I have always been a truth seeker, and at that time I found myself diving deep into reading material, both ancient and “new age” about religions, spiritual practices (minus kundalini obviously), secret society rituals, you name it – I know a lot about a lot – some things I wish I hadn’t discovered, but it is what it is. I was hungry for knowledge and looking for a path to the meaning of life and in search of the infinite wisdom of this universe.
The awakening lasted several hours, but to me it felt like a matter of minutes. By the time things had calmed down, my apartment was full of family members that weren’t there initially. Apparently, my “friends” had called my 3 sisters, who all lived an hour away, and basically told them that I was “bugging out”.
Now, I will say this, I have NEVER taken any hardcore drugs (x-tasy, acid, meth, etc..), but I did smoke some marijuana that night, so it is possible that it may have been induced that way. And no, it was not laced. Come to think of it, on several occasions, I used to smoke marijuana and purposefully slow down my heart rate through deep breathing practices. I had always been fascinated by the subtlety of marijuana and its ability to allow more focus and concentration to connect body and mind.
Anyway, I will say this – the awakening, for me at least, had several phases. I recall my body posing into yoga-like (padmasana, asana and parvatasana) positions at first. I also remember the hot energetic sensation moving up my spine and reaching my head, then a flash of bright light from the inside left me blind for a little bit. Then there was an uncontrollable rush of super, powerful sexual energy, but in a non-perverted manner, if that makes sense? It was as if the meaning of sex had finally been revealed to me on a deeper, spiritual level, something primal/primitive. I could feel life’s natural desire and will to procreate for the sake of existing and nothing more. I had stripped down to my birthday suit and ran around my apartment chasing my friend’s girlfriend. I think she was into me too, judging by the smile on her face (she is a hippie) and probably would have been consenting to procreate for the cause if it hadn’t been for her boyfriend being there as well. Meanwhile, I was seeing visions of the ancients, the modern, and future (which didn’t make sense until years later). I felt like one man and all men at the same time. I seriously felt the actual existence of the ancient ones who had died before me – as if they were using my body as a vessel or portal. I couldn’t see them, but I somehow knew who they were. The primal fire of existence and consciousness was so potent and present. I felt invincible. At one point I did something, that till this day I cannot explain how… my apartment had 8ft ceilings. Mind you – I’m only 5′ 6”, I had somehow managed to reach up onto my toes and unscrew a light bulb from its socket.
Needless to say that, for years after, I walked around more in tune to life and nature. “Coincidences” in life just seemed to work out for me. Life was just more vivid and surreal. Every moment was revealed to me with such profound understanding and clarity – even the most ignorant, closed-minded people, ironically and unknowingly, would say some of the most profound and wisest things – but it wasn’t meant for them – because they weren’t even awake to receive it.
Anyway, now that I finally have some closure and I can truly say I’m not crazy and that what happened that night was something truly beautiful and enlightening, like I knew it to be. I will begin to tread lightly down this path again and actively practice kundalini yoga and hopefully help take humanity to another level of self.
Thanks Again!
Sincerely,
Josue
The One that watches you every moment also smiles as you recognize the more of which you are, which you are discovering!
Spontaneous awakening. Remember when Neo said “I know kung fu?” I have that for the last six or seven weeks. The serpent is alive in me, the dragon.
DO NOT force this thing or even TRY and make it happen. If it is time, it will happen. I feel it is like puberty – you cannot, nor do you want to, enter into it “early”.
Make sense?
Wicked emotional/spiritual/psychic drama. Terror. Sadness. Joy. All mixed up. Almost lost my job.
Hi, reading everyone’s comments from my own experience a Kundalini Experience is a deeply spiritual and can be at times isolating experience especially to us in the west. We have no “guru” to guide us or help us or prepare us for these processes and they are not always blissful and can be very painful until we come to the understanding and appreciation of why they took place.
There is no right or wrong answer. I found mediation very helpful. If I didn’t. I wouldn’t have had the experience of leaving my body and meeting my higher self. I find I need that time to set intentions for the day and calm myself but that might not work for someone else. I also know I need to ground myself and be in my body and be in the sea and put my feet in the sand. The Kundalini will take you unless you are prepared to embrace and completely accept but you must find what works for you. You must find your own truth because ultimately that is the whole point. We must support each other. Find a good mentor. It’s just my opinion but that is how I have made peace with my process. Michelle x
Wow, Thank you so much. By far the most helpful site I have found to help me understand what the hell is going on!
Thank you!
Aatma
I think I may have had a awakening in Jan of 2010. I had a intense sharp burning pain in my arms that traveled to my chest and stayed there. I was paralyzed with pain. My son called 911. when fire department arrived they checked all my vitals and they were normal. They asked if I still wanted to go to the hospital in which I did since the pain was still there. While at the hospital I had a CT scan, blood work to check for stroke heart attack etc. all were fine. I was released the next day, only to have another attack that same night but this time it caused me to dry heave. went back to hospital now they are checking me for cancers leukemia and all other things scary. all test were negative. I had a attack while at the hospital. Feeling hopeless after she ( the nurse) filled me with as much morphine my body would allow, she held my hand for comfort until the pain subsided. The next day after my doctor checked my report from the pain attack the night before since I was attached to every medical machine known to man it seemed, he only came back confused since all vitals were perfect. That night I had a vision while awake It was a Dragon red with burgundy low-lights. It was smiling and its lizard like claws were in a fist. The vision went very quickly. I felt it was the devil and she was the cause of my pain. 5 days later not having anything medically wrong I was released home. nothing was the same after that. I noticed a strong feeling that someone or thing would be in the room with me and it was soo strong that I would get overwhelmed and avoid looking in the direction I felt the presence coming from in fear of actually seeing something there when I know I am alone. I started to become very good at ignoring it, still am. I developed this new thing where I would get a urgent, nervous anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach. (not what you think). This feeling would only happen if something was going awry whether major or minor. One example is I was visiting my in-law when her home phone rang. the feeling hit me like a stack of bricks. along with the thought of someone being ill and dying. Well when she hung up she said ” I have to go, my brother passed out at work. He’s at the hospital.” I stayed at her home, since i have a key and know the alarm code to lock up. While in the kitchen I heard a male voice say my name to get my attention ( like hey, but it was my name instead) the voice was her brother. It was strange since he was perfectly fine and up and talking. 3 days later he passed unexpectedly and suddenly. But when my husband and I received the news, it wasn’t news to me. I felt from the time of the call that whoever was the subject of that call was going to pass. That was a scary experience for me. It also happens with minor tings too. My husband hates my new found “Intuition” because it is always and I repeat always right. He says I am a jinx. Examples are when he say “Hey babe me and *** are going to the bar after work”. In most cases its fine when he goes. but there have been a few where as soon as he says the name of where they are going I get that feeling and I say ” Babe I don’t think you should go,” or I cause a fuss about it and a few times I even said what was going to happen. Well the times I didn’t think he should go he went and he regret it later. The times where I said this is going to happen, it happened and it was exact. Now he listens whenever I get the feelings and i do too because it happens for me too. I have also been getting a lot of Dejavu’s as well. I remember being in a second hand store and I saw a Tiger’s Eye stone. I fell in Love with it. It was so beautiful but I felt a De-ja-vu. well the stone was already sold. since then and that was 2 years ago it still pops up that I need to get that stone, like I really need to have it. Today I searched the benefits of Tigers eye. It took me to a sight that showed the different zodiac birthstones. My b-day is May 21. Some has me as Taurus, others Gemini some both. Tigers eye is one of the birth stones for both and one of its many benefits is that it can help awaken the Kundilini and to use it with a serpentine stone if that was my goal. I wanted to know what Kundilini was so I clicked the blue highlighted word in that text to satisfy my curiosity. The writer described a dragon/lizard image speaking to them during their Awakening and that it can cause illness or discomfort when awakening and to not try it alone if not properly educated and prepared on the subject.. I was shocked, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I researched a little more online and remembered all of the changes that happened to me since then. I still get the chest pains though I am used to them and they are nowhere near as bad as the first attacks I feel like they have a purpose and it is nothing medical. I have seen my Primary doctor a specialist of Oncology and Hematology and a Cardiologist and Pulmonary doctor. While at the hospital in 2010 and the millions of other times I went to the hospital for the pains They would always say my oxygen would get very low, almost like I stopped breathing. My oxygen levels would always cause my machine alarm to go off and every time they would come and do a oxygen test with this long needle that they move and twist in my muscles so they can accurately determine my oxygen levels, Every time the results were good. The nurse when I get relaxed (and not always when sleeping) said my breathing slows down dangerously (according to them) but when the nurse comes in she is shocked that I am up alert and not blue. they ran in there on code she’s about to die one time, they scared the soul out of me with that shock back to life machine lol. well nothing is wrong and the cardiologist performed different stress test to see if it is Angina as diagnosed in 2010 or any other heart related issue, and it wasn’t. They even tested me for unstable Angina which happens at period of rests, they gave me medicine to induce a pain attack. nothing. I am healthy as an ox.
I always thought it to be a dragon but representing the devil, and I always felt a connection to that stone. I asked myself aloud ” Is that what I had an awakening, and is that why i feel a strong connection to that particular stone so I can learn how to use it for that purpose?” I am not sure If my case is an awakening. It seems most likely since I have attempted tests for all causes to no avail. I have since then experienced a big change in my life and this seems like it could be the cause. Can I have a Kundilini awakening without knowing it even exist or what it is? Or am I a bipolar schizo?
I am currently 20 years old and going through a Kundalini awakening, you have no idea how much relief I get from finding out what its all about, and hearing other people’s experiences. I have experienced the highs and lows. I have been at work and suddenly felt out of my body, filled with depression and guilt triggered by nothing. Working through so many emotions while just starting a new job has been difficult. I’ve never been very materialistic, always have been comforted by spiritual practices, meditation, and talking to other likeminded people. But I go through days where even food doesn’t appeal to me, i’ll barely eat for days, no longer drink coffee, and don’t touch some of my favorite foods. Remaining calm is easy to do, I just drift off into a place of peace and talk to people honestly and openly. Having this awakening while working retail has actually been a feat, although this isn’t really the place for me. I’m going to school to be a lab tech, and i’m wondering how long this is going to last. I still feel like I have so many emotions and trauma to work through and it’s all been an intensified and sped up process as it’s pushed out go my body and I feel lighter, more conscious of the energy inside. I feel more alive and full of life force while everyone around me is stuck on trivial, lower consciousness issues and all I want to go is reach out and have a heart to heart connection. I especially need that right now as I’ve always felt different from people, and even my family, and have pushed people away because of it. One of my few soulmate connections lives across the country, is a few years younger than me, and has been a great listener of my experiences. There are spiritual holistic centers in my state but everyone is a lot older who goes there, and I feel like even the most spiritual people there have a bit of an ego. I have a hard time trusting people, which I know is another journey ahead of me when the pot gets stirred again.
Hi Alex
I have just nearly finished my Kundalini Awakening process and it was one of the most difficult and painful things for me personally a human being can experience. That isn’t everyone’s experience just mine.
In the end though if you can be patient, have completey trust and faith with God, the process and understand that this is your time no matter what it brings up. Have complete trust no matter good or bad. Listen to yourself. Whatever you need and let God guide you, always go back to that and light, patience. Each thing that comes up will teach you something and ultimately whether it is compassion, understanding, empathy. As each memory burns through, painful as it may be to clear or not. It will bring you into alignment. And you will have more understanding. Gradually it becomes easier and you can begin to trust yourself and the process. Less fear.
I hope you find your own way and your own way brings you great blessings.
Michelle 🙂
Reading this was like a lightning shock, because ever since 2012 I have been feeling so out of it, but slowly getting better. In 2012 I started a job that was isolating and made me feel incredibly lonely after coming out of a year of serious non-prescription drug abuse. Throughout this period I was completely and totally alone. I had my family of course, but I couldn’t talk to them about this. I was going through severe depression and even more severe anxiety and then, at the high point (or low, in some ways), I finally wanted to end my life. I had thoughts of walking off of a subway platform. Then one night I experienced a night terror-and they kept happening for the next three years. During the first one I ever had, I felt this painful buzzing sound in my ear, like a pressure building up that I couldn’t release. I thought my head was going to literally explode. I have never felt that again to that intensity. I have a feeling (after talking about it with someone) that it might have been my Kundalini awakening. If it is, I know I’m still going through it because even though I’m better and no longer feel the need to harm myself, I still feel isolated and uncomfortable around people, as though they have absolutely nothing in common with me. It’s like I watch people and am able to see through to their souls if they’re lost, if they have deep hate, if they have trauma, and I just FEEL for them. I prefer the company of animals and the elderly these days.
I don’t know if i’m completely through it, because for awhile afterwards, I had serious anxiety attacks, like where I would call people to make sure they were not dead or I was convinced that I myself was dying of a serious illness. Death terrified me. It’s not so bad now, I can kind of ‘control’ my anxiety and I don’t get depressed unless I smoke marijuana, but now I just want to help people. Lately I’ve been feeling like i need to quit doing the job I’m doing so I can help the elderly, especially because I hate administrative work. Like I said, I LOVE working with old people, especially after I worked in a nursing home for awhile. I feel like they ‘get’ my energy.
None of this probably makes sense. But after someone mentioned that Kundalini might have been the force behind my buzzing in the head night terror (and possibly my other terrors), I figured it was worth a shot to check it out. If it changes you for the better (which I certainly hope my experience will, as I still don’t know why this period in my life happened) then that’s wonderful. I know I really needed it.
I just started doing Yoga, but I have a problem with breathing and meditation. Yoga feels strange to me, but I’m sure it’ll get better with time as I’m not used to it.
exactly same happened..i somked weed and i went crazy after one day..i knew what ws happening but then pulses ran upward from lower backa nd head start racing thoughts and exploding fear.then after 1 month i was stable but once a while in a week i wud get thata electriic current anxiety starting feeling but i controlled it..now i can control my thoughts o be negative or positive..i love lie.i gave up ego..we r so tiny. we r illiterate.read bhagwqad gita…do good karma./
Thanks all for your beautiful experiences.
I don’t know but from my inside
I feel scary but still I want too try
kundalini aroused, which is possible by the grace of a real guru will lift your soul to a higher plane where you will have eternal bliss and oneness with god
Hey dear kara-leah,
Thanks you so much for such a nice article on kundalini. I would like to share some of my real experiences on the same. I was gifted kundalini awakening by a great secret yogi in india named HH Dayal Das Ji Maharaj who was disciple of HH Faqir Chand Ji Maharaj from Manavta Mandir, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. Dayal Das Ji was not very popular hardly having 100 disciples in whole india, out of them more then 90% were illiterate villagers. He use to charge any aspirants kundalini through shaktipat. I received my initiation 25 yrs back when I was student of computer engineering. In the process of shaktipat we were in need to sit in an intense aura of radiation around him and have to do at least 4 hours of collective meditation sittings with other practitioners in four installments per day. Anyone who is newbe having no idea of meditation could experience a tremendous flow of energy in his whole body only with in 2-3 days. And anyone who spent only 6 days in his company can get his kundalini charged permanently. Since I got initiation from him only one goal remained in my life to develop this power so as to make myself capable to distribute it to as many people as I can in this life. I sacrificed every thing in my life, my carrier, job, everything which I was having and what life had offered me, even I didn’t do marriage and remained single. For last 25 yrs I have remained a regular practitioner of kundalini. I am having a great experience of facing and dissolving hard blockages in astral body. I think this comment block is not sufficient space to share my long experiences. If you or anyone else is interested in knowing more on it I can share with direct correspondence at my email I’d ranveer.b.singh@gmail.com
And I will soon start to write good posts related with it on blog
http://www.cosmicconscious.in
I am having a capability with grace of my guru to transfer it in anyone through shaktipat and its the instruction of my departed guru and passionate mission of my life.
Anyway, thanks for writing on such a great ancient wisdom and heritage which has almost vanished from this world and all those places which are popular with it they are having nothing except theory or methods for its arousals. Its also a fact anyone doing these practices may try for more then 20-30 years but kundalini may not awake. But due to an aura of radiation which remains around a long regular practitioner it gets charged immediately.
Thanks again.
hi i have a question- I’m fifteen but have been doing kundalini meditation and yoga since before i was born – my mom did pre-natal yoga. and i did yoga all the time as a kid – so I’ve always been exposed to the kriyas, meditation etc. I feel that I’ve experienced symptoms of these but all at different times but I’m not sure if its just me or if it is ms. Kundalini- 2 years ago my mind went into a weird state where i felt nothing and got very depressed. I’m not sure if it was just part of being an adolescent or not. and i experience really bad neck problems along with these weird trips where my mind went out of body and i couldn’t think felt extremely dizzy and my stomach would kill me following by throwing up after. I don’t know if those trips was my mind but i know its not health related. But now at 15 i am all of a sudden attracted back to being into kundalini meditation and music and my mind is becoming very open of accepting things and almost like a mini awakening and see colors when i close my eyes- but I’m not sure, i believe this is just my own self i feel that i could’ve had this happen when i was very very young -6-8 yrs. also following a lot of trauma and my aura i always felt it going up like a string being pulled. Im not sure i am going to talk to my mom but thank you for everyone sharing these stories. But if anyone knows what this is – i don’t think its a kundalini awakening but i don’t what it is. -Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this post. I never seen someone put the kundalini experience so plain ( a beautifully vulgar lol). I feel connected to those words. Especially how the awakening can sometimes be the beginning of chaos as the bull shit just burns away. Thank you for a sense of community. Peace xo
i think its awaked cauz of mental stress!!! I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT AND I HAVE NOONE TO HELP ME…I FEEL ANXIOUS AND SEPARATED FROM THE WORLD..NUMB AND ALOT MORE im not even sure if i want it ..help please!!!!
I have been practing 7 sets of pranayama since 2 months and now i realise certain change in my body..i am becoming physically weak more depressed and i quit it. And i started chanting meditation everything was ok for 2-3 days and then after i felt the same as previous and i quitted that one also and strted buddhist meditation zen with the help of a monk and this also resulted in the same problem. I read this about in internet it was due to kundalini awakening and imbalenace of energy around my bodies
what can i do to overcome this problem it’s making me more depressed day by day
hope u will reply
Thank you for this writing on Kundalini and for sharing this with others. I also liked reading of some of the comments below your article. I am happy I came across your site as it shows me there are many other people in the west experiencing Kundalini awakening.
I had my awakening back in 2009 and it was truly an intense experience. Full on blow. Afterwards I could not cope for some time and it went pear shaped for me. So I also haven’t got just the bliss side of the experience. There is just so much more after the awakening that one has to go through.
My experience still continues and I am still affected and transformed. I guess it never really ends.
If anyone is interested to read my full story about my experience and what happened with me afterwards, I wrote a book about it and it was recently published in paperback. You can find it on http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/DrivenBy
Thanks again for your contribution in this area of awareness.
i had something like energy flow experience once when i was indulged in meditation. i used to felt like something inside me had taken me above ground and hanging in air. though the experience was wonderful but it doesnt happens now. i do not meditate now and feel psychologically low sometimes and physical health problems too. WHAT IT COULD BE? do kundilini has something to do with it?
Hey Varun,
It could be anything. We’re complex psychological beings. I’d suggest always taking care of yourself on a physical and psychological level first. That’s the most important thing. Whether Kundalini has triggered these experiences or not is almost irrelevant.
I too have experienced so many of the physical symptoms, which have caused immense pain in the base of my spine. I was at work on October 2nd 2014, I work with the elderly as an educator, we were playing a game of sandbags. I suddenly developed a spasm across my lower back. It was crippling.
I went on a vacation to Scotland. I love Scotland, lived there for 4years. But the pain and spasms became worse. I had trouble walking. I developed pain and swelling in my feet. I wasn’t the best guest, but luckily have understanding friends and relatives. I forgot to mention that my marriage of 35 years was falling apart. The plane ride back was a nightmare, by the time I got back I was in tears.
Have seen a team of specialists. The Neurosurgeon looked at the MRI and said that I have the worse case of lipomatoise that he has ever seen and he would not operate. This pain maybe caused by an accumulation of fat at the base of the spine, inside the vertabrae also, causing the spinal cord to become constricted. Also, they diagnosed me as having type II diabetes. So I do have medical diagnosis. But, I have lost myself along the way. Where in the world is Janie?
I have become increasingly weepy, don’t sleep, spacey, floaty feeling. Now I have the involuntary muscle spasms. I have always been very empathetic, to the point of physically feeling others pain. And have a tendency to know things about people, without knowing, if that makes any sense.
I thought meditation would help. I listened to guided meditation on YouTube. It may have made things worse I guess, after reading some of the posts. I started noticing numbers, like 11:11 and 10:10. Everywhere. The University of Google said it was angels trying to get me to become more aware and asks the angels what was I to do. So, I saw 10:10 and I asked the angels what should I do. I Googled 10:10 and it described the meaning of those numbers. There was also a place to post comments and there you were.
After, all that…is it possible to have a medical condition and an awakening at the same time? From what I’ve read above, it appears so. Since reading, I have felt less anxiety? I did have my tarot cards read and all though she didn’t mention anything related to my pain or medical issues, she did say I was ascending. I had know idea and still don’t really know what that means or entails. I guess I should find out.
Thanks for this site. I felt as if I could be having a breakdown. It is frightening but I feel more hope right now. Everyone’s posts, thank you for your help.
Janie
Hello. Wow, that was again a lot about yourself. Like a diary 🙂 Too much drama and talk….too much gloss and too much ‘wanting and trying to be enlightened’. There are some genuine teachers out there, I’ve seen many but most of the time I chuckle and hope that one day they might realise that it’s much easier that they think.. Humbleness, humour, laughing about ourself, in a gentle way…try it. Find all your peace and an abundance of happiness quietly in nature. No big drama about anything…! Forget the ‘big words’, fame, glossiness etc. Your smile will be a more relaxed one if you truly found your happiness. A smile form the inside of YOU not forced by any techniques. Take care. Chihuahua.
To whom it may concern,
I’m so happy because of how real this all is. For anyone who is scared or having negative effects, I’m so sorry. I know some things about a ton of things, but not everything about everything. That would be too stressful :p. I just want to put a few thoughts out there for anyone who needs it. As cliche’ as what I am about to write will sound; it is crucial. You can find whatever it is you are seeking in love. <3 I do not want to share much; your perception gets messed with enough constantly. Just do not forget about love.
🙂
Very informative blog. I am really looking forward to get some help from you. My sister has a low self confidence and she was very angry, short tempered and worried being single. She joined Art of living center in India and did some Shakti Kriya in 2015 Jan. I think in that course she learned some Kundalini awakening techniques and perhaps she might have not done it properly. Because of that she is doing all the crazy stuff. She just cry all the time and talk about her past. . We consulted her to a psychiatric and because of the medicines she was good for a while. In between, she found a good match for herself and got married. But soon after the wedding day she is back to normal and doing the same stuff what she used to do it earlier. She is not performing any household chores, does not eat, sleep.
I really appreciate your help in this regard.
Thanks,
Mona
Hey Mona,
Unfortunately I can’t offer any direct advice via comment or email. Many people practice awakening techniques, however it doesn’t mean necessarily that an awakening takes place. The path of yoga does take us into our psyche though, which is why it’s always useful to be supported by both a great yoga teacher and a psychiatrist or psychologist (preferably one who understands the path of awakening.)
Send me any and all pertaining the esoterica of kundalini.
Could hitting your tail bone possibly
awaken kundalini?
I don’t know – possibly.
Kara-Leah, thanks a lot for this very informative description.
Now I know what has been going on inside me since the fall of 2012
My pleasure Alf. I found it very valuable to have a context within which to view my experiences.
Hello, I have a question… I’ve been meditating for many, many years, several hours every single day. My third eye is always vibrating, even as I type these words but does that mean that I have awakened my kundalini? I have not had any other symptoms other than digestive problems lately but I haven’t seen a doctor yet. I’m just curious to see what you think because I have not had sensations in my spine, just a heavily vibrating third eye. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
I think I may have experienced something like that. Many years ago as a teenager around the age of 15 or 16, I experienced an energy force surrounding my body. As I laid there feeling this energy, I felt I was sinking into the unknown. I felt some type of submergence….I started to feel afraid because I tried to move but couldn’t move. …tried to scream but couldn’t scream. I felt like I was going deeper into the unknown and that if I didn’t get out of it when I did that I would have died that night. I thought that maybe it was a near death experience. But now that I’m hearIng about this, it’s making me wonder. Oddly enough, I have not thought about that experience all these years now, until recently when I read someone else’s account of a similar experience. She said she felt it was Kundalini. Unfamiliar with the term, I began looking for information about it. Honestly, I’m still not sure what I experienced. Just that her story brought my experience back to memory.
Is this awakening also something that happens when you stop eating animals and your body changes? I have changed my diet to vegetarian and then to vegan. I have been healing my adrenals and thyroid via diet I have suddenly tinitis in my ears and burning tailbone and a desire to stretch my spine. I am on my own and so I must not get compromised as I pay for my own way. Will this stop me feeding myself if the burning energetic sensation passes up through the spine to my brain?
Will I go mad and not feed my little dogs and similar, will I be able to drive my car safely?
Since I have had my first Kundalini-awakening I have been emphatic to GOD. I feel bliss all day and all night for the last 2 years. Its a pretty strange/ cool feeling. I mostly feel the kundalini over and over again when I make love with my boy friend. And I also feel it when I am over water (when I pee) My chakras go up, or the Kundalini goes up, whatever you want to call it. My BF used to be a Guru in India in the 1850’s, this is another life that we are in now of course. I am getting more and more used to the strange things that happen to me. I used to be foggy for a long time before the chakras went up.
Anyway, I could go on an on and talk about more strange things, but I wont.
Thanks for providing this website, it helped me figure a lot out.
Very good write-up. I absolutely love this site. Keep writing!
Wow finally somewhere makes sense. I identify with the empathy, not feeling like I fit here, deja vu, out of body experiences, ect. I went thru trauma and was also put through the medical circuit including too many wrong prescriptions. When I finally had enough of that merry go round and decided I was done with all my meds I found myself fasting from everything by the third day I was on my knees praying to Jesus, to please help me. I was then inspired to repent from heart for everything that i had done to offend God. I felt lighter and detached then an incredibly beautiful shimmering radiant being of golden light formed about 7ft tall not male or female yet somehow both. When I asked the being who they were they said that they were me. There are no words to explain the pure LOVE that I felt was for me. I thought it was the rapture and we were all going to heaven I didn’t understand why my fiancée wasn’t having the same experience. It lasted for hours in which the golden light being communicated telepathically to me that they were going to lift the veil and show me that time was not real. I think I saw the past, present, and future all at the same time. Meanwhile, my fiancée is calling everyone we know trying to find out what to do about me not eating or sleeping for three days and what he thought were hallucinations. When he was in tears asking me if I knew our two year old son, I told him of course I do. At this point it was like having one foot in two different worlds and then I found myself surrounded by huge walls of water hundreds of feet high on all sides while simultaneously standing in my dining room. I panicked and survival kicked in all I could think was I need to get to higher ground, then maternal instinct kicked in and tried to tell my teenager that we had to go to the mountains to get away from the flood now. At that point I realized I was being shown something either from the past or the future. I asked the light being what i was here for and was told that i would be mother to new race and could see myself standing in a grove of pine trees with children all around me. I was then given a new name. The being expressed that it wanted me to go with it somewhere and I found myself wanting to go but expressing back that I couldn’t leave my two year old son without a mother. At this point my fiancee was in tears begging me to take a bite of a sandwich. As soon as I did everything disappeared and I have spent the last eight years searching everywhere for an explanation. My empathic abilities are so strong now it’s difficult to be around others. I can feel everything about them good, bad and ugly. All I can think about is how to bring back that incredible feeling being so loved and simultaneously having access to all the answers in the universe. In my research the Gnostics seem to have some incredibly insightful answers but I am interested in other experiences interpretations. -HopeinPhilly
hi,
I have been meditating and chanting mantras for three months, i have few question to ask on what I’m going through.
1.when i see any object the wall, the tree, the dark surface i see flares i really dont know what it is(its like charge particles moving) but my eye sight has been very good since meditation, no pain and no itching in eyes.
2. after meditation my neck and chest part use to get locked (kind of jamed) usually left side and when stretch using my left hand upward it makes a crackling sound and yes I feel very mild and the lock is released. but its getting milder every time it was more a week ago not its draining out but not completely.
3. I get pricking all over my chest, this usually does not happen when i meditate, feel bliss when i go deep into meditation, but when i sit doing nothing, after having a glass of water and after having food, sometime when i move around i get this, I took ECG, chest scan all were normal, took test one month back.what make me worry little sometime there is very mild prick on my central chest part, it goes immediately, when i take deep breath in and out i feel chill and smooth though.when i stretch or twist my upper body i get crackling in my chest and should i feel relax but what it is happening i dont know?
4. when its too sunny out i feel warm in my chest and back, but i do not get sweating, inside i feel chill and bliss but outside i feel mild burning kind of warmness.
5. yesterday i felt pain twice at left rib at nipple and back after deep meditation while i was doing some kitchen work, felt little scary but at the sometime i was relaxing myself and it vanished when I took a nap, today its not there.
6. sometime when I meditate I don’t feel like i’m breathing, even sometime when I’m sitting or after having food my breath duration is very small a mild one.
7. when i start meditation sometime I get ringing sound and also ear fluttering (this use to be more before and also i use to get even i’m not meditating now its all become mild, a very mild one)
8.yes recently when I meditate I can feel that something is getting unblocked in my chest and back.
9. There use to be other symptoms like palpitation, stomach upset and dizziness, its all now gone due to gods grace.
10. yes i feel young, bliss, light weight, great in concentration and also i got six pack (hahahahaha) but all that good things I got due to meditation and chanting mantras does not make me happy, when I feel i have still not know who am i?
Hey Kuchul,
Unfortunately I can’t answer questions via comment or email – I need to speak to person to feel the truth of thei experience. If you’d like to book a session with me, you can find out more information about that here: http://karaleah.com/work-with-kara-leah/
When I was 12 years older I had an experience that I later discovered was a kundalini awakening. A physical feeling of intense pleasure exploded from my abdomen to my lower spine then shot up my spine and into my head. I fell to the ground and my consciousness expanded to include everything around me. The physical feeling of bliss or pleasure was so overwhelming. Then my body went into a feeling of pins and needles and I couldn’t talk or say a word. Extreme pain from cramps in my abdomen started and I kneeled on the ground wanting to vomit. I couldn’t move or even breathe hardly at all. Every time I tried to breathe agonising pain would engulf my body. Then as fast as it happened it disappeared. For the next four years I would continue over time to experience stomach cramps that would paralyze me. My parents took me to doctors and even hospital once. I had a second awakening experience later in life but not so intense. These days after 43 years I can experience it in a more subtle form. Stretching, deep breathing, relaxing my abdomen and a lovely feeling traverses my body. I then feel content and full of energy.
i just wish this would be more scientific and less mythological. i’m an atheist-pantheist and just a few minutes ago i finally found the name to something i’ve been able to do innately throughout my life. i can willingly make this ‘coil’ of energy flow up my spine. i also feel it in my thighs and a bit in my arms. i have felt it increase now that i am exercising and building more muscles. it’s become more intense when i make it flow. for decades i’ve been wondering what it IS that i’m doing or what’s happening. but i need a scientific AKA real approach. none of this ‘gods’ or ‘divinity’ concepts made up by humans.
this is the first article i’ve read. now that i know what i’m looking for, i’ll check out more articles and i hope to find something that explains this process more deeply. i am grateful, however, for the knowledge you shared. if anything, it’s given me more information to advance in this new quest 🙂
peace!