Kundalini Awakening Symptoms
When I was looking at a sunset, my first Kundalini awakening came.
And then, without knowing why, I began to weep. Something quite fantastic and indescribable happened: I began to see the sunset.
The sunset quickly faded in the skies, but it stayed with me, churning powerfully through my body. My hands and face were flushed with an intense heat. I began to take in my living room, fascinated by every minute detail that I 'd seen a hundred times before. Life and people
I felt a powerful sense of connection that I 'd never known before. It was the direct experience, at the cellular level, of feeling One with all things. It wasn't floaty and light, but a powerful, primal, fiery and earthly sense of connection and awakening. And no, I wasn't on drugs. I felt old, older than I could ever be in this physical lifetime-- Ancient, in a good kind of way.
However, after a few hours, I knew something was not quite right. Two weeks prior I had begun my work with activating the Kundalini with two teachers from Tamil Nadu (South India) and I understood it was a gradual process. They 'd warned me about trying to do it too fast, and to go in phases. I hadn't expected this lightning-bolt of energy to suddenly split wide open and fill me with a sense of absolute awe, focus and reverence for all that existed. I barely felt human!
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And then the pain started. My head began to hurt and the center of my forehead felt like it would split open. The intense heat wasn't going down, and with so much information and experiences coming my way, all I could do was sit in a chair.
I was having a "premature awakening," where the being (Self) is not yet ready to handle the full-on experience of Kundalini Awakening. Quite a few of us go through this, and sometimes several times in one lifetime before we are really ready.
Thinking back to the way my facilitators had guided me through the process, I began to calm that ferociously wild, fiery, primal energy rising through my spine. Trusting myself, I'm making sure that I'm ready before I fully engage in the Kundalini Journey-- and it seems to be coming up soon.
That brings me to why I'm writing this piece.
Raising the Kundalini is one of those "hot topics" within the spiritual community. More and more people are being exposed to the idea that it exists, that it can be raised, and that raising it is good for you. But that's where discussion tends to stop, with a few notable exceptions. Whilst the Kundalini has the potential to be tremendously powerful and beneficial to you on your spiritual journey, it has an equal capacity to destroy and de-stabilize.
For those of you new to the topic, the Kundalini is a serpentine energy that remains dormant at the base of the human spine. Through spiritual activation, yoga and/or other practices, it can rise from the Mooladhara (Base/Root Chakra) up to the Sahasrara (Crown Chakra) or from the base of the spine to top of the forehead (with a strong emphasis on the Ajna/ Third Eye Chakra). Once it reaches the Crown, you experience a profound moment of spiritual awakening and transformation that's very hard to put into words, but utterly life-transforming.
Kundalini energy is also linked to the energy of the 'Dark Goddess', or Shakti in her primordial, raw, (often) terrifying, form-- much like Mother Kali. It can be fiery-red, burning like the Core of Mama-Gaia, and somehow as ancient and dark as the Origins of the Universe itself. (Darkness here is a different form of sacred energy, it has nothing to do with negativity or evil).
There are various reasons why one's Kundalini may spontaneously rise, especially for women as they progress through the biological life-cycle: When a young girl has her first period, when a woman pushes a child out of her womb, when she reaches that point in life where she enters menopause-- these are times when that dormant Shakti energy can begin to rise spontaneously. Women are advised to attune themselves to their biological cycles first before working with this life-changing energy.
Two weeks prior I had begun my work with activating the Kundalini with two teachers from Tamil Nadu (South India) and I understood it was a gradual process. Trusting myself, I'm making sure that I'm ready before I fully engage in the Kundalini Journey-- and it seems to be coming up soon.
Whilst the Kundalini has the potential to be tremendously powerful and beneficial to you on your spiritual journey, it has an equal capacity to destroy and de-stabilize.
For those of you new to the topic, the Kundalini is a serpentine energy that remains dormant at the base of the human spine. Kundalini energy is also linked to the energy of the 'Dark Goddess', or Shakti in her primordial, raw, (often) terrifying, form-- much like Mother Kali.
When I was looking at a sunset, my first Kundalini awakening came.
And then, without knowing why, I began to weep. Something quite fantastic and indescribable happened: I began to see the sunset.
The sunset quickly faded in the skies, but it stayed with me, churning powerfully through my body. My hands and face were flushed with an intense heat. I began to take in my living room, fascinated by every minute detail that I 'd seen a hundred times before. Life and people
I felt a powerful sense of connection that I 'd never known before. It was the direct experience, at the cellular level, of feeling One with all things. It wasn't floaty and light, but a powerful, primal, fiery and earthly sense of connection and awakening. And no, I wasn't on drugs. I felt old, older than I could ever be in this physical lifetime-- Ancient, in a good kind of way.
However, after a few hours, I knew something was not quite right. Two weeks prior I had begun my work with activating the Kundalini with two teachers from Tamil Nadu (South India) and I understood it was a gradual process. They 'd warned me about trying to do it too fast, and to go in phases. I hadn't expected this lightning-bolt of energy to suddenly split wide open and fill me with a sense of absolute awe, focus and reverence for all that existed. I barely felt human!
Read more at >> http://lifeandpeople.com/kundalini-awakening-basics/
And then the pain started. My head began to hurt and the center of my forehead felt like it would split open. The intense heat wasn't going down, and with so much information and experiences coming my way, all I could do was sit in a chair.
I was having a "premature awakening," where the being (Self) is not yet ready to handle the full-on experience of Kundalini Awakening. Quite a few of us go through this, and sometimes several times in one lifetime before we are really ready.
Thinking back to the way my facilitators had guided me through the process, I began to calm that ferociously wild, fiery, primal energy rising through my spine. Trusting myself, I'm making sure that I'm ready before I fully engage in the Kundalini Journey-- and it seems to be coming up soon.
That brings me to why I'm writing this piece.
Raising the Kundalini is one of those "hot topics" within the spiritual community. More and more people are being exposed to the idea that it exists, that it can be raised, and that raising it is good for you. But that's where discussion tends to stop, with a few notable exceptions. Whilst the Kundalini has the potential to be tremendously powerful and beneficial to you on your spiritual journey, it has an equal capacity to destroy and de-stabilize.
For those of you new to the topic, the Kundalini is a serpentine energy that remains dormant at the base of the human spine. Through spiritual activation, yoga and/or other practices, it can rise from the Mooladhara (Base/Root Chakra) up to the Sahasrara (Crown Chakra) or from the base of the spine to top of the forehead (with a strong emphasis on the Ajna/ Third Eye Chakra). Once it reaches the Crown, you experience a profound moment of spiritual awakening and transformation that's very hard to put into words, but utterly life-transforming.
Kundalini energy is also linked to the energy of the 'Dark Goddess', or Shakti in her primordial, raw, (often) terrifying, form-- much like Mother Kali. It can be fiery-red, burning like the Core of Mama-Gaia, and somehow as ancient and dark as the Origins of the Universe itself. (Darkness here is a different form of sacred energy, it has nothing to do with negativity or evil).
There are various reasons why one's Kundalini may spontaneously rise, especially for women as they progress through the biological life-cycle: When a young girl has her first period, when a woman pushes a child out of her womb, when she reaches that point in life where she enters menopause-- these are times when that dormant Shakti energy can begin to rise spontaneously. Women are advised to attune themselves to their biological cycles first before working with this life-changing energy.
Two weeks prior I had begun my work with activating the Kundalini with two teachers from Tamil Nadu (South India) and I understood it was a gradual process. Trusting myself, I'm making sure that I'm ready before I fully engage in the Kundalini Journey-- and it seems to be coming up soon.
Whilst the Kundalini has the potential to be tremendously powerful and beneficial to you on your spiritual journey, it has an equal capacity to destroy and de-stabilize.
For those of you new to the topic, the Kundalini is a serpentine energy that remains dormant at the base of the human spine. Kundalini energy is also linked to the energy of the 'Dark Goddess', or Shakti in her primordial, raw, (often) terrifying, form-- much like Mother Kali.