tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210694372024-03-23T10:49:04.624-07:00Kundalini BlogA forum to share experiences, comments and questions about the Kundalini process.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-18550978415806270112017-09-16T13:35:00.002-07:002017-09-16T13:35:44.061-07:00Are You in An Awakening Process?<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5oh-JSD8vLKtc_-QwjxXnL7hVvVdgOw_VH9wPUCADovorynvbqpyKCRVQXVZzLIByLup2qsgkgOikgKE7HUYMxuo3GgDPtmeleswvMutaooAR5mudZTJvo7JIqCzXMQOnPZQ1/s1600/th.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5oh-JSD8vLKtc_-QwjxXnL7hVvVdgOw_VH9wPUCADovorynvbqpyKCRVQXVZzLIByLup2qsgkgOikgKE7HUYMxuo3GgDPtmeleswvMutaooAR5mudZTJvo7JIqCzXMQOnPZQ1/s1600/th.jpeg" /></a>Every week I speak with several people who have entered a process of transformation. Usually their energy has accelerated and their bodies are moving or vibrating in ways that startle, surprise or frighten them, because the energetic aspects of a spiritual awakening are not discussed or explored in most spiritual traditions. And yet, we are all facets of consciousness living within biological and molecular structures. It is natural for any significant changes in how we view our self and the world to have an impact on our energy systems, as well as the way in which our consciousness operates. As our vehicle changes, consciousness gains new ways of expression through us. Awakening brings changes in every aspect of our lives and even the functioning of our brain. Meditation slowly reconstructs us, as does energy work, long-term yoga or Qigong practice, and even serious physical or emtoional trauma.<br />
The fact is every cell of our body is always dying and rebirthing itself as you know from the fact your body is not the same today as it was at age 1 or 10 or 20 or 40. These changes evolve slowly so we do not notice them day to day, but it is certainly clear after a few years that we no longer look the same, that our consciousness lives inside a continual state of change. In fact I have heard it said that we as humans are more like active verbs than nouns, being in continual movement. The seeking of self-realization is the seeking of that within us that never changes, while all else is in motion.<br />
When we have longed for Truth or God or simply to know who we are, it initiates a subtle change in our direction in life, and we adapt practices we hope will offer us new revelations, outside of our traditional cultural patterns. We may imagine a change that is beautiful and expansive and that will make us a happier person than we are when we begin. What we don’t often realize is that while these new possibilities arise, they do so because old patterns are being dissolved, previous belief structures are being torn apart, and conditioned experiences that block our capacity for freedom are being exposed, so that we can see them clearly and realize they are not the Truth of who we are. Awakening is either preceded by or followed by a necessary demolition project, just as a house may be rebuilt from the ground up.<br />
What makes this most challenging is we don’t get to see the plan before hand, or have any control over the pace and style in which it will be rebuilt. It takes a great trust in the infinite, and the goodness of the universe. I suppose this is why many people get a glimpse of the radiant love or beauty or peace of Oneness first, and then feel they have lost it when the demolition project begins. We have to trust in this glimpse, that it was valid and real, and learn to navigate the process it initiates.<br />
My websites and current books “The Kundalini Guide and “The Awakening Guide” on amazon are designed as supports for this journey and my new book “When Spirit Leaps: Navigating the Process of Spiritual Awakening” is moving toward publication next June by New Harbinger Press. It has excerpts from many stories of the ups and downs you may experience as you awaken. It has been the unexpected direction of my life to meet many who are in this process and be part of a movement toward changing consciousness that all of us are living in. While the World has many challenges today (and when has it not?) there is a subculture seeking Truth and love and understanding of how to be more complete in our human expression of this sacred opportunity for life that we share. I see our consciousness as wanting to help us grow into a true understanding of our relationship to one another. Awakening is not about dissolution into transcendent ethers and leaving our world. It is about bringing light to one another and evolving ourselves so that we are free of the many conditions that block our natural capacity to express human kindness, wisdom and freedom.<br />
I encourage you to join me at the 2017 Science and Nonduality Conference Oct 19 to 22 in San Jose, CA along with multiple other speakers familiar with awakening. It is a place to find your tribe, and understand the process you are part of if you are awakening or longing to awaken. You can learn more about this gathering at www.scienceandnonduality.org.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-79963552825979223502017-03-01T10:52:00.001-08:002017-03-01T10:52:19.080-08:00Awakening is Like This<main id="page" role="main" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.701961); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; margin: auto; max-width: 1020px; orphans: 2; padding: 40px 20px; widows: 2; width: auto;"><div class="main-content" data-collection-id="58b70c9adb29d6424bcc5d04" data-content-field="main-content" data-edit-main-image="Banner" id="content" style="margin: auto; width: 592px;">
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In awakening there is a moment of falling into the Center when all the veils are dropped, the mind stops, awareness is simply aware of Being as itself, and it feels as if there are no boundaries – no boundary of my body, my thoughts, my emotions, my separateness. It is like there is no me or my – no one -- only this. It can happen like a flash or it can last a few minutes, hours or days.</div>
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This is not the end of your spiritual evolution however, although it can mean the end of searching. If you are someone who has had a drive for years to know god or truth or just to feel free -- this moment changes that, because you have a sense there is no one here that needs to know or be free or have any other experience. There was always just this.</div>
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<strong>MORE THAN KNOWING </strong><strong>WHO WE ARE</strong></div>
But enlightenment, and clearly enlightened living, is not simply knowing who you are, knowing yourself as radiant vastness or freedom or love or whatever else unfolds after awakening. It is an unfolding process that impacts the mind, the emotions, and the energy field. It is the release of any sense of division – having no sense of longing for an altered state and no belief in a problem with the world. It is discovering an irrational part of yourself where everything is ok, and happiness rests, even when things are not going well in the external activities of life. For most people this equanimity does not come automatically after awakening but takes some years to evolve, and during that time there is a periodic reappearance of old patterns, and a gradual clearing away of the conditioning, beliefs, emotions and attachments that they carried in their life.<br />
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<strong>MOST TRADITIONS PREPARE</strong></div>
In many spiritual traditions students work deliberately to prepare for these changes with practices that teach balancing and harmonizing energy, monitoring the diet, controlling the stimulations, developing compassion, teaching detachment, opening the heart and doing many other practices. But for most westerners these kinds of practices have been random if at all, and for someone who has a spontaneous awakening they may never have even heard of awakening before it happens to them. So they can feel some confusion and upheaval when they return to their lives.<br />
It’s rather like the movie “Truman” where people live in a perfectly controlled bubble without knowing it and then when he breaks out it is a whole different world. Our relative world does not change but our perception of how it works changes. We see a much larger picture. Nothing exists quite the way it seems.<br />
So there are many adjustments that follow an awakening process.<br />
If a lamp had awareness it might believe it is dependent on a person who turns it on for its light, and be content with that. But suddenly now it realizes there is electricity running through it and that it is connected to a source with a universal power. It might feel different about itself and where its light comes from.<br />
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<strong>THINK OF YOURSELF </strong><strong>AS AN ENERGY GRID</strong></div>
You are wired from birth to fit into your family, culture, religion, etc. Every experience you have had is somehow wired into your system<br />
Kundalini activation is the clearing of all the old patterns and the rewiring and opening of your energy field to a new way of experiencing. The early yogis and the Chinese Taoists and probably other primitive cultures discovered energy could be worked with directly to bring someone into altered states of consciousness and cause changes in the body/mind system.<br />
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Energy is the creative life-forming aspect of consciousness. So if your consciousness changes your energy will also. And this is why people often report involuntary movements, interior sensations, vibrations, inner sounds, heat rising and other strange experiences if they are doing energy or spiritual practices.<br />
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<strong>THE WAY THE MIND WORKS </strong><strong>CHANGES</strong></div>
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The way the mind works changes as well. This is why there can be periods of cloudiness, or sharp shifts in the senses and perceptions, and the falling away of old habits and interests and even a sense of emptiness after an awakening, because the old patterns no longer dominate you. Eventually the self-judgment and criticisms of self and others dissolve – what Freud called the superego – that little voice that is always on your case.<br />
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Emotional Patterns change as the energy changes. But first, they arise – and you can have mood swings, even getting caught in emotions that you find no reason for, as if they are belonging to another life, or the universal field. In time emotional reactivity ends, although there can still be deep feeling and compassion. It just passes through, rather than sticking. It is the impersonal and unconditional love and compassion of a greater source that can move through you as the energy of awakening moves through the heart once the armoring has fallen away.</div>
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There is a formless aspect to awakening – you move into a sense of vastness and pure presence at times, and feel you are not identified with yourself in the way you were in the past. And there is a return into form, which leads to an authentic expression of the uniqueness you are. You discover this and move into it, rather than deciding it the way you might have in the past. Forms – these bodies – go through specific transformations in this process in order to support your ability to access deeper qualities of presence and peace, and for your mind to grow in clear perception.<br />
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Our forms are made of the energies of consciousness. We as molecular structures are primarily energy and space. Enlightenment, in my perspective, is the capacity to feel free as both and to live as an authentic expression of our deepest Truth.<br />
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</footer>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-30265845099187044542016-09-07T13:25:00.001-07:002016-09-07T13:25:21.218-07:00Stillness, Awakening and ACISTE conference<div class="MsoNormal">
Stillness, Awakening and ACISTE conference<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just completed a weekend retreat called Presence at the
Center, a gathering of women committed to spiritual awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we wish to discover the innate happiness
within us it is important to take time out of our lives to rest in our center –
the deep stillness available within our hearts, but often clouded over by the
demands, distractions and worries of modern<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meditation retreats,
especially those held with the added dimension of silence, offer a return to
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I become very busy in those days when I have a retreat
planned, especially if I am doing other events such as webinars or consulting
with those who contact me with concerns related to their spiritual<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is like riding a fast moving train for several weeks, and then skidding
to a halt at the retreat center, where I need to find my own deep silence if I
am to invite others into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding our
Self is about Stopping!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mental activity,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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surrounding us with expectations – all of these can fall away if we STOP, leaving us in the pure sweet awareness that has always been waiting in the
center of the cyclone of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a place within each of us already still, accepting, and open to
the quiet joy of being.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You may find when you are first silent there is an upheaval
of mental activity, and even of unconscious material that arises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both meditation and energy work (such as yoga
or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Qigong) open us to that which needs
to be seen in order to be released, so that our subtle energy field<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can become more free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Release and insight bring growth and widen
our access to inner harmony and relaxation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be patient with what arises as it is your own consciousness inviting you
to meet, release and move toward awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Suffering unwinds itself from our systems as we learn to meet our life
experiences with equanimity and to meet ourselves with love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spiritual awakening has no religious preference and is open
to all. It is not about a belief, or embracing a system or tradition, although
these may offer some initiating practices that will bring an invitation to know
Yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Awakening is an intimate
touching of our natural state of spirit embodied, a direct inner knowing of our
connection with the All.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cannot be
languaged clearly, although poets and sages have found ways to offer
pointers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unusual phenomena may
arise<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when we follow our longing to know
our true nature, but ultimately the outcome is an awareness that consciousness
is vast and unbounded, and a return into a form that knows<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a deep relaxation into life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will be speaking at the ACISTE conference in Palm Springs
the weekend of Oct. -20 -22 on Identifying and Supporting Spiritual
Transformation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go to <a href="http://www.aciste.com/">www.aciste.com</a> for
information about this event, designed to support people who are a spiritual
awakening process. ACISTE is the Assn for the Integration of Spiritually
Transformative Experiences.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I haven't kept up this blog very well and write more often on shantiriver.wordpress.com on living with an awakening experience.<br />
But I am happy to announce I am now offering webinars to bring together people from diverse states and countries who would like support in their spiritual awakening process. These are the upcoming webinars and programs I plan to offer between August and November through www.zoom.us. They are great ways to connect with those who will understand your kundalini process. Contact with me for fees and other information through email: shantiriver@gmail.com<br />
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<b>Awakening and Embodiment</b> – session 2 – 4 weeks, Thursdays, August 11,25 Sept 8, 22 ( 12 noon—1:30 Pacific time ) <br />
This is an on-line satsang and sharing for those intending to deepen their spiritual practice, support others interested in awakening to our true nature, and explore how to live from a new perspective of awakened intuition and inner autonomy.<br />
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<b>Living with Kundalini -</b>- weekly for 6 weeks – Fridays Aug. 19 -- Sept. 23 a.m. PST) <br />
This program and supportive group is designed for people who are going through a kundalini awakening process and wish to meet others having this experience while learning classical and modern perspectives of Kundalini, the kinds of experiences and challenges this process brings, and methods of living more comfortably with it while awakening to the transformation it offers.<br />
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<b> Therapist and Teacher training for Kundalini Awakening</b> – 4 Sessions Fridays Oct 14, 28, Nov, 11 and 18 (12noon – 2 p.m. PST)<br />
If you have taken The Living with Kundalini program at any time you are eligible for the therapist/teacher training which will focus more on identifying the kundalini process in a client or student. You will learn how to use the preliminary questionnaire to assess and understand where to focus in a consultation, the impact of the background and spiritual practices on the experience and how to support this process. There will be time to discuss cases and learn from one another’s experience.<br />
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<b>A FALL RETREAT IN OREGON -- PRESENCE AT THE CENTER</b> -Sept 2-5, 2016<br />
This 4-day/3-night non-dual silent meditation retreat will be held Sept 2-5 at St Rita’s Retreat Center in Gold Hill, Oregon, a few miles from the Medford OR airport. It is an opportunity for meditation and reflection on awakening, experiencing silence, guided meditations and teachings related to awakening to the presence of our true nature, You may also hike in a beautiful 60-acre setting with a labyrinth and waterfall. Journal, or participate in Qigong and sound meditations. Retreat is designed to support your deepest intention for awakening to the Truth of your own Being, and bringing that awareness into your everyday life. We will meet at 4 p.m. Friday (arrive 2-4) and close at 2 Monday. The fee is $275 is paid by August 15. This includes a comfortable double room with a bath, vegetarian meals, and all expense<br />
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<b>ACISTE CONFERENCE IN PALM DESERT, CA </b> Oct 20-22, 2016<br />
I will be speaking on Therapeutic Issues of Spiritually Transformative Experiences at this conference of an organization related to Spiritually Transformative Experiences at the Doubletree Inn is scheduled Oct 20-22. Go to www.aciste.org for details. I am considering doing a kundalini and awakening workshop following the conference in Palm Desert while I am there. If you would be interesting in attending a program with me at that time and place – Oct. 23-24 – please let me know by sending me an email.<br />
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I've been seeking a deeper understanding of the chakras this
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people together from all over the world who are living with spiritual
awakening, most of whom have felt isolated in the process. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are 21 people in the current
class, from parts of Europe, the U.S. and Canada, and now that I am learning to
navigate the internet meeting approach, I can see the many gifts of bringing
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
are many books and discussions of chakras, and it can be overwhelming to sort
out how they actually impact a person's direct experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am reframing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this understanding in a way <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel will be most useful for those going through a
spiritual emergence,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or who are in
a kundalini process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I've woven
my own perspective of watching thousands go through awakening, with the
classical<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>teachings of Kundalini
Tantra, and written an essay for my website www.kundaliniguide.com. It's called
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so much information about chakras can be confusing, and often it is very
esoteric, so a reader misses the profound implications of how their function actually
relates to spiritual awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, the second chakra, which is usually understood as related
to sexually and procreation, is also the seat of deep collective unconscious
material. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if in your awakening
there is an eruption of demonic images, or overwhelming fear, it is likely
there is energy being released as kundalini moves through this area. If a few
weeks earlier you have had a blissful opening to expansive bliss (6th chakra)
you may be shocked and appalled to find these darker energies appearing in
dreams, visions, or emotional upheavals.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chakras, with all their symbols, represent
vortices of energy where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>physical
and subtle bodies intersect with consciousness, and each of the seven usually
identified as most significant in spiritual awakening, have unique energies and
hold patterns in our psyche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few
of these, from the base upward, are our foundational sense of being in a body
(1st), our sexual and collective<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>instinctual energies, (2nd) our sense of power and capacity in the world
(3), our ability to love, be creative and feel compassion (4th),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our potential to discriminate and deal
with the opposites (5th), and our capacity to know cosmic consciousness and our
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Various spiritual traditions focus on different chakra areas
for awakening but ultimately everything we hold comes to the surface to be
transformed and awakened as well. We might wish this would happen in an orderly
fashion but it does not -- energy returns over and over to complete deeper
levels of clearing in our bodies.</div>
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just<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you wonder how they might
influence how you function in everyday life, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you may want to read the new essay on my website: Chakra
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As Kundalini energy moves through the body various issues, even pain, can arise in chakra areas. Usually a person who has activated kundalini has not prepared themselves in the ways recommended in classical kundalini yoga. Some systems say 12 years of preparation is required before the energy is awakened if all is to move smoothly, and this is done through physical cleansing practices, strict diet requirements, gradually adding more advanced breathing practices, sitting in specific yogic styles, and releasing various egoic tendencies through obedience to the teacher and system. It is clear that 99% of those who activate this energy have not done these kinds of preparations and are not interested in doing them. In some cases, yogic masters say that a person who has activated energy spontaneously must have done lifetimes of work previously for this to happen. But our present bodies have not been present during all those lives, so they need adjustments and releases. </div>
My perspective is that many factors come into play to cause a person to be available to this opening (which I have enumerated on my website and in my books) but most often there is a long and gradual process as the subtle body energies, physical body, and psyche adapt to this new energy flow. One must be patient and take time to address old psychological issues and to adjust their life to the new patterns the kundalini energy is calling for. So when there is pain in the body that doctors find no reason for or heat arising, or strange blockages where energy seems to be stuck this is because some clearing is needed since it was not done before the awakening. Some spiritual seekers believe that an awakening will erase all past psychological issues, but if this should happen it is only temporary. Some old beliefs, preferences and habits will fall away or transform, but deeper issues will then come to the surface, and the energy must return to clear the blocks that were created by these experiences. For an awakening to become stable and comfortable it appears that we have to see through all our old patterns, holdings and attachments, recognizing they are not definitions of who we are. Until this happens we are likely to feel divided, or caught in "I got it. I lost it" syndrome, seeming to fall in and out of positive awakened states.<br />
One commenter asked about pain in the neck and shoulders that seems to have no medical source. This is the area of vishuddha, the throat chakra. There are several possibilities for this kind of pain. Energy is often blocked here because most of us spend a lot of time holding back our self-expression or our emotions. It's as if everything unsaid is locked into our subtle energy field. Sometimes spiritual seekers believe they should never feel anger, and so when something outrageous happens to them they swallow their feelings in order to be "spiritual" and forgiving. I met one person who seemed to have tourette's symptoms as his face jerked spontaneously, but once he released anger these problems went away. One does not need to act out the anger, but simply find a safe way to move it out of the body through expression by yelling (at no one) or writing and just fully acknowledging it.<br />
Another reason for pain may be an old injury that has been locked in the system and needs to be released. Kundalini seems to be trying to remove anything tight or damaged in the body. Some call these blocks. Wherever your energy seems stuck and keeps returning to with jerks or discomfort over and over is generally seen as a block, caused by physical or emotional holding from issues in this life or possibly a previous life. Sometimes it is even an issue related to your birthing experience, or your mothers experience when you were in the womb. Also a stiff neck may be caused by the way it has been held for years, and gentle body work can help to open it. Cranial-sacral work or acupressure might be useful.<br />
In yoga there are 3 major "granthis" or "knots" in the body which must be released in this process. These are believed to be points where the power of ignorance and attachment is particularly strong. One is in the solar plexis area, where we are attached to pleasure, material things, and having things go our own way; the second is in the heart area where we are attached to our emotions, certain people, our personal visions and passions; the third is in the the third eye area where a person may open and then become attached to psychic powers and attribute them to their personal identity.<br />
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So as energy moves through to change consciousness and make your energy field as open as possible, these are a few of the clearing challenges that may arise. They can be addressed through therapy (if it is rooted in a past traumatic experience), using sounds such as the Bij mantras to open chakras, yoga postures that are for stretching and relaxing that area, meeting the pain directly with presence and love, guided imagery, acceptance and surrender and in other ways that you might intuitively discover. Taking good basic care of the body is important in this process and releasing personal demands that life be just the way you want it -- learning to live in the flow of the river -- as the Taoists say-- is helpful. This is why quieting the mind or at the least not being driven by thoughts, can be helpful. Our thoughts are often focused divisively, telling us what is wrong and worrying about it, blaming us and others for it. Bring awareness down into the heart or the belly and see if you can be present more fully where you are at any moment. This calming will support the opening of intuition which may be able to suggest some new directions to resolve those challenges in your process.</div>
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You will be responsible for finding your own housing for
this program, which is held in a charming tourist town with numerous hotels and
B and B's. To fly you would come to the Medford, OR airport, 14 miles from
Ashland. Information on housing and travel will be sent with registration
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So perhaps you have had a shift of energies and perspective,
and you are wondering how it will impact your significant relationships. You
seem to no longer be caught in old familiar patterns and you are facing
non-ordinary energetic rushes, emotional clearings, internal vibrations and a
sense that nothing really matters in the way it used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now your partner is wondering what
has happened to you and why you are changing.<br />
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There are several levels of spiritual awakenings but the two
shifts that have the most challenging impact on relationship are the awakening
of kundalini energy, which plunges your energetic system into many new
phenomena, and the realization of consciousness in its vast and unbounded state
of being the All, which transforms your understanding of who and what you are.</div>
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The shifting in energies, called kundalini awakening,
changes how you feel, as it revs up and redirects subtle energies, shaking out
the body, raising heat, and sending out rivulets of bliss or spasms of pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The subtle body is restructuring
itself, releasing old contractions, moving you from one emotion to another,
even triggering moments of unfathomable sadness or irrepressible joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever you were like before this
arising of kundalini you are not the way you were, and this is very
disconcerting for the family and friends. In addition they may sense your
energies and be uncomfortable around them, and be upset that you have lost
interest in sex and socializing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
will very likely feel that no one understands what you are going through. (This
in itself is an important concept to release -- that you need to be
understood.)</div>
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If you have had a spiritual realization, a sense that you
are not your small identity but instead are an indescribable awareness (at
least when you are living in the moment) the chances are you no longer feel
needy, no longer want to carry on as if little things mattered, and no longer
enjoy bonding by discussing mutual problems and practical issues around the
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may be drawn into
nature, or meditation, prefer silence to the television or the social events,
hate going into crowds and big box stores, and generally appear to be a
different style of character than you were before the awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Partners get alarmed when this happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work may also suffer as you can't
concentrate the way you used to, and care little about doing anything that seems
superficial.</div>
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Although I could (and may) write a book on the many changes
that might influence your relationships, for this moment I offer just a few
suggestions for reorienting your life.</div>
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Understand you do not need to leave a relationship that
holds value, love or meaning for you just because of these changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if it is toxic, draws you into substance
abuse, or feels abusive you may need to leave in order to sustain your sense of
presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a false perception
that someone who is enlightened ought to put up with anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Awakening can be a call to action as
well as a call to acceptance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
other words, you need to support your awakening by doing what feels right to
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to take time to
consider whether this is where you want to be -- for many reasons you may feel
drawn to stay, and for others you may be drawn to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just be sure if you want this relationship that you consider
the following questions:</div>
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help my partner live more comfortably with the changes in me?</div>
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Even if you do not feel needy anymore (and many
relationships are built on mutual need) you can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want</i> to be there -- because you feel respect, love, stability,
partnership, mutual values related to your kids, or an opportunity to face the
parts of you that are not yet awake!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Living with another brings up many hidden patterns within us that may
not have shifted in the initial moment of awakening, and still need to be seen
through as part of the old identifications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your partner senses you are no longer needy, let him or her
know you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want </i>to be with them.</div>
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No matter how you feel, your partner may still need something
from you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you willing to
give? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let him or her know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sensitive and supportive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are in the energetic phase you
may still need something from others -- what are you able to ask for and show
appreciation for if it is given?</div>
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2. How can I speak of what is happening without using exotic
and incomprehensible terms?</div>
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You can speak of the physical impact of your meditation
practice being felt as energy, you can speak of mood shifts that feel a little
disorienting and try to find a sense of humor about it, you can lean more
toward curiosity than fear in speaking of the process, and you can be very
clear that you do not need to be understood. Do not expect someone who has
never experienced this to understand it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If they are fearful it is because they care about you and want to fix
it, but as you know they cannot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is very uncomfortable for people who believe they should fix things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have to find new ways to
approach asking for what you need from the relationship, and become very alert
to how you can support them in adjusting to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find someone to talk with that understands the experience,
such as a spiritually oriented counselor or a friend on a similar journey.</div>
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3. Why is everything I used to care about falling away?</div>
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It is inevitable that old identifications and patterns collapse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may not have expected this when you
began spiritual seeking, so now you are shocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the old you was built on conditioning, defenses,
distractions and memories that are no longer so relevant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The needs of your body may be different
-- for example, you may need to give up alcohol, mind-altering substances, red
meat, over-stressing yourself physically or mentally,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and other patterns because you notice you feel lousy when
you do them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your subtle and
psychic energy is focused now in one direction, rising or descending through
the chakras to promote healing and clearing of old beliefs, patterns, traumas
and emotional wounds. Your energy field is more sensitive and picks up the
fields of others more readily. Eventually in a full awakening there is a rising
of internal energies (think of it as the life force) until there is a realization
of your true essence, and consciousness awakens itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is followed by a gradual coming
alive of the body in a new way through which the transformed consciousness can
be expressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the process the
sense of an "I" fades or becomes irrelevant and all it has been
attached to gradually drops away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The uniqueness of what you were, your preferences, and your skills are
not lost but these are held more lightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many relationships thrive with these changes but some cannot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will have to stay conscious in your
relationship to help it endure, if that is what you wish.</div>
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relationship to keep evolving?</div>
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Relationships with partners and families are primarily what
will offer you opportunities to grow further, let go of more attachments, and
develop compassion and sensitivity to the human condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how awake you are or how
distracted by the ups and downs of your spiritual emergence you are still
located in a human body and human world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take time to lean into this as if it mattered, because to only be awake
when you have escaped out of life is to only be half-free.</div>
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The heart opens when it breaks, the mind opens when it truly
is present with another, and enlightenment stabilizes when you can be available
to what is, free of compulsion but willing to meet the dance of creation
however it is flowing for you.</div>
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When your anger or sorrow, irritability or demands, and other
inconvenient emotions are triggered (after you thought they were gone forever)
here is an opportunity to see what may lie still in the dregs of your
unconscious waiting to be liberated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Relationship can be a significant part of the spiritual
journey to wholeness and peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It offers grounding. </span>It
provides allies in the world of form and offers multiple ways of seeing into
the delusions of thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The role
of celibacy in the Indian tradition may be necessary for young men entering
monastic orders, especially if they practice complex breathing and pranic
energy exercises to activate energies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>marriages are an
important aspect of life for many Buddhist masters, Sufi mystics and Cabbalists
in the Jewish tradition as well as the scores or ordinary people who are
awakening today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is important
is recognizing what is right for you, and even this changes from time to time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are in an awakening process it
is time to recognize and honor your own autonomy by listening to your deepest
Truth. Being at peace in relationship may be your final crucible.</div>
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If you are having experiences of energy winding or rolling
up your spine, creating involuntary spasms, and rippling in strange ways
through your body, you are possibly one of thousands each year experiencing
what is known as a kundalini rising or awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may feel frightened or disoriented by this non-ordinary
shift, but if you can relax with it and understand it as simply a dynamic of
your own evolution it can become a treasured ally on your spiritual path.</div>
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When we understand that all of creation is formed as
molecular structures, mostly space and energy manifest in a multitude of forms,
it becomes easier to meet the empty/spaciousness and the enhanced vibrational
energies that appear in our bodies, and face all the changes they invite.</div>
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awakenings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often an intense
spiritual or energy practice will open the body to the heightened energy known
as kundalini by the ancient founders of the yogic system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes an intense concentrated
period may activate this sleeping power, even such innocent practices as
biofeedback, meditation, prayer, love-making, or the charge projected by the
touch of another person who has this awakened energy. In the thousand reports I
have collected over the last 30 years many people write of spontaneous
awakenings, sometimes in moments of great interior stress,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or while using plant medicines or
psychedelics, or while sitting in silence at retreats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you are feeling as if your energy
field has jumped from 110 to 220 or even 2200 you are not alone, although
unfortunately you live in a culture that is totally unprepared to understand
the power and potential of this experience.</div>
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If your experience plunges you into fear and anxiety, if it
explodes you into ecstasy, or if it hits the brain centers that produce imagery
you will likely be afraid you are losing your mind, and if you meet up with the
wrong therapeutic model others will support this interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But some part of you will know this is
real and it is meaningful, even while the mind freaks out about it. If you can
just be curious and open instead of afraid and contracted this will help it
calm down considerably. You need to nourish the witness within you, that which is simply aware.</div>
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Kundalini energy is an aspect of your own life force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is what happens when the normal
pranic energy field or bioenergy of the body is infused with a powerful rush of
energy from the base of the spine, the feet, or occasionally pours down into
the body through the top of the head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naturally you are startled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even people in spiritual communities who have longed for awakening for
years can be both astonished and terrified by this new dimension of interior
activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a naive
assumption that spiritual awakening would be a sweet, simple release into peace
and harmony and improved character and life would be forever blessed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is true that awakening leads
ultimately to peace and harmony, but it does so by stripping away every
identification we hold dear, and releasing every old bit of suffering and
confusion, all of which was held in our minds, bodies and subtle energy fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It tries to release all stressors and
heal all wounds, in the process freeing us from our assumed self image and
personal history.</div>
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I have come to see kundalini as essentially a clearing out
process, and then an opportunity to live from clear seeing and presence, which
doesn't change the content of life itself, but profoundly impacts our
relationship to it. </div>
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Whether kundalini activation is sudden and traumatic, or
slow and gentle, it is almost always a factor in a full spiritual realization
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may initiate the
process of consciousness awakening, or it may fall into place after an initial
shift of consciousness into the recognition of It's true relationship with what
we might call Source or Universal Consciousness, (that which cannot truly be
named, but we try!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This might be
called the non-dual experience, and to the mind it might feel empty and
unbounded while to the spirit it is felt as unlimited spaciousness and
dissolution into the whole (or some such image).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Utimately awakening is the stable recognition of what is
awake in every moment here and now, and not the dramatic experiences, visions,
insights, dramas and traumas that may accompany it for awhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All experiences will pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More will appear. Life is awakeness
moving through experiences. Awakening helps us to take it more lightly, to feel
peaceful even when we're not, and to find beauty in the every day forms we
encounter.</div>
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If you are in an energy awakening process and would like to
be part of a small-group weekend workshop in Ashland, Oregon, planned Aug. 28,
29 and 30 please let me know. I offer this program once every year or two and
will be happy to send you more details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My email is kundinfo@mindspring.com. You may also find helpful my new books "The Kundalini Guide" and "The Awakening Guide", available on Amazon and Kindle.</div>
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To Explore Kundalini and Meditation I am offering several programs this summer and Fall,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">drawing from my books </span>"Energies of Transformation""The Kundalini Guide" & "The Awakening
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Of special interest to my readers will be <u>Living With Kundalini</u>, available in two programs, an internet gathering or as a residential weekend in Ashland, Oregon. </div>
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<b>The internet program will meet the 1st and 3rd Fridays of September, October
and November from 12 noon to 1:30 Pacific time.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may join us from anywhere in the USA and Canada, and
much of Europe if you make adjustments made for your time zone. The fee is $50/month for 2 sessions a month. To register email Bonnie at kundinfo@mindspring.com. Here are the details:</div>
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This Zoom Internet program will
be available to no more than 20 people who wish to learn more about the
kundalini process, share information and concerns with others who are in this
process, explore ways to help the process become more calm and effective, and
feel less isolated in the changes they are experiencing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will be a live meeting where you can meet others through
the web who are in this awakening process.</div>
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There will be six initial sessions, each including a 30-minute
talk and an hour of sharing on a video meeting hookup through Zoom. You will be
given a code to connect easily into the Zoom video chat room. Zoom is free for
you. Topics will include an overview of how the energy works in the subtle
body, how and why awakening happens, the categories of experience that are reported
in this process, the challenges and the blessings of the process, and ways to
move from energy chaos into spiritual realization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who wish may be paired with a partner for
conversation between sessions, suggestions will be made for writing, and your
questions may be submitted for shared discussion.</div>
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30 minute talk and 1 hour of sharing</div>
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If you work with people in this process and you would be
interested in a second group for doctors, psychologists, LPC's and other
professionals please let me know as I may set up a second series for
professional training.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #555555;">LIVING WITH KUNDALINI: </span><span style="color: #555555;">A Weekend Workshop</span></b></div>
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p.m.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>Shanti River Center, 300 E, Hersey, Suite 2 in Ashland
OR.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>$200. fee</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You are invited to come to Ashland and attend a weekend
workshop with Dr. Bonnie Greenwell designed to help people understand and gain
positive tools for living with the activation of kundalini energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The opportunities in this
small group include<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Discussing your concerns and
questions with others who understand because they have had this experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hearing both yogic science
perspectives and modern interpretations of the inner revolution triggered by
the kundalini process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Finding clarity about the function
and purpose of this awakened energy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Learning tools for helping your
mind, body and spirit live more comfortably and harmoniously with spiritual
awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Discovering the grace of
fulfillment in the kundalini process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am a licensed professional counselor with a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology, and also a non-dual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti. I have specialized in and trained therapists
to work with spiritual emergence issues for over 30 years. This workshop is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555;"> opportunity to understand the changes of energy that accompany awakening and
meet others who are also in this process. Private sessions will also be
available for an additional fee the day following this event if requested.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ashland is a delightful town
to visit with theater and a lovely park and many places to stay, including camps,
hostels, hotels and many Bed and Breakfast places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would fly into Medford OR, about 15 miles from
Ashland.and should arrange your own housing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To register send me an
email at kundinfo@mindspring.com, and I will respond with further
information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>OPENING TO GRACE MEDITATION
RETREAT<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Camp Latgawa in the
mountains of southern Oregon<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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a.m. until Sunday Sept. 27, 2 p.m.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">$265 including shared
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This weekend is an opportunity for silence and for deepening
of your spiritual intention and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meditation practice, for self-reflection and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for falling into openness and grace. The
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After our initial introductions and opening Friday lunch we
will hold silence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until Sunday at
lunch, except for satsang sessions where you will hear dharma talks with
non-dual teacher Bonnie Greenwell and be able to ask questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interspersed with guided and silent
meditations, there will be free time for you to journal or paint, walk the
labyrinthe, hike to a waterfall, or sit for additional meditation time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Qigong will be an option before
breakfast in the morning. </div>
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This program will be held in a rustic camp and beautiful
mountain setting, about an hour from Medford airport in Medford, Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are asked to bring a sleeping bag
and pillow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will arrange shared
transportation from the airport if needed.</div>
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register, contact the organizer, Becky Hale, (541) 601-3084 or
bec.hale4@gmail.com</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana;">Science & Non-duality Conference<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Non-Duality Conference at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose next October 22-
25.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a great event bringing
together many non-dual teachers (several from Adyashanti's lineage) with
scientists from varied disciplines to explore the commonalities of our
perspectives of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
information and to read about all the speakers go to
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One of the greatest challenges for people who have activated kundalini energy is anxiety related to the odd, stressful, embarrassing and occasionally painful phenomena that may arise. Since anxiety makes this experience more difficult, here are a few notes on ways to release the anxiety and find more
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1. If you have a history or trauma or abuse the energy may
be triggering sensations that felt invasive and painful in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emotions may arise even though you do not recall
the cause. Sometimes the body stores memories that the mind does not recall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If trauma is part of your life history find a
therapist to talk through old and difficult history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Make a ritual every morning for when you awaken instead
of lying<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in bed worrying – get up right
away – and decide what would lift your spirits such as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>play some music you like, take a shower,
start an indoor garden with pots of flowers you tend, dance, talk to a good
friend, sing, give yourself a mantra such as I am free, whole, available to
love and enjoy my life– you create it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You may feel resistance to lifting yourself out of the anxiety and have
to force yourself at first, but if you want to be well you have to learn to
live in a new way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were happy for a
while so you have that capacity and you need not to let the fearful side of
yourself (the pain body as Eckhart Tolle calls it) overrule you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. One of the truths that awakened people know is that No
Thought is True! Thoughts are just neurons firing, usually based on past
conditioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to question any
negative or fearful thought. It is just the mind carrying you away to a place
that is hurtful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you have a fearful
thought, Can you try to bring your attention to the moment instead – that mean
to bring awareness into the heart and feel your feet on the ground, look around
the room and feel you are there right now, and that nothing bad is actually
happening, ask what is needed right now and move into the here and now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put something uplifting or beautiful in each
room of your house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do not
already meditate, learn to meditate or sit in silence, bring awareness into the
heart or belly. Find the natural stillness deep within.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a good meditation article and DVD available by
adyashanti at <a href="http://www.adyashanti.org/">www.adyashanti.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are dealing
with excessive heat avoid caffeine, spices, wine and other alcohol and
honey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might get a book on Ayurveda
that has a test you can take to tell you your body type, and see if there are
food recommendations for that type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Usually people in this process tune into their bodies to see what feels
right regarding eating meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you
have indigestion look at what you ate that day and see if you can avoid it for
awhile. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To calm heat and energy try taking a bath with Epson salts
in lukewarm water, going for a walk or even a jogging run, putting attention
into the heart and imagining love flowing out on the exhalation, or distracting
yourself with some activity you enjoy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Try a cooling breath – stick out tongue and curl it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breath in through the mouth over the tongue.
Close mouth and swallow, Slowly exhale through the nose. Try this 2 or 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>times when you feel the heat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6.. Find something to do each day that you love and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>look forward to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It might be art, baking something new, connecting with a special friend,
a dance or gentle yoga or deep relaxation class – when energy awakens it draws
us to live an authentic life – to be really true to ourselves. <o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Do not place attention on any fearful message passed on
by someone else – avoid projections that are not based on deep wisdom and
experience related to this process. Be careful about who you follow on the
internet – if they are trying to recruit you or frighten you they are not
working in your best interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
not being caused by some outside energy or anything wrong you have ever
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is your own life force which is
in a process to help you become free of your old patterns, identifications and
suffering. <o:p></o:p></div>
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8. Insomnia is a common problem associated with
kundalini.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is more energy in the
body and it tends to become active when you are trying to relax.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However in our culture millions of people have insomnia –
mental preoccupation and worry is a major factor. Here are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a few general rules for managing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have a completely dark room.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do not use computer, phone or electronics for two hours
before bed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No caffeine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No sugar in evening and eat lightly at night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some people do find some good wholegrain bread is helpful in
evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Count your breaths backward from 100 to 0.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go to bed at same time each night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you lay awake a long time, just get up and do something
else such as read a comforting or boring book for a half hour. (Or scrub the
bathroom floor – this will be a disincentive for staying awake!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Get more physical exercise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are worrying about something write it down and put it
aside.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Listen to a relaxation tape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sounds True has an insomnia set of DVDs that has general information and
relaxation meditations. <br />
Try Tranquil Sleep – a melatonin mix that is over the counter at health food
stores like Whole Foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a chewable
tablet. Take it 2 hours before bedtime.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ask your partner<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
give you a food massage – or share this with him or her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your interest in
sex, food and socializing may go through radical ups and downs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is common during this process depending
on where the energy is working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
time to explore autonomy – really following your own inner guidance about what
is best for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These ups and downs
will level out eventually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is more guidance for people in this process in my new
books <u>The Kundalini Guide </u>and <u>The Awakening Guide</u>, available on
Amazon and Kindle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This experience is a
natural correlate of spiritual awakening, and as you learn to live with it you
are likely to find bliss moments, and surprising insights arise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn to ride the waves and come to
understand what spiritual awakening is really all about.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-55544629624451361632014-12-08T17:17:00.001-08:002014-12-08T17:17:41.725-08:00Kundalini and AwakeningWhether you have activated kundalini energy through
practices, meditation, or for no logical reason you can imagine, the most
important thing to know about it is that this is a passage into a new understanding of who and what you are.
Perhaps the caterpillar feels just as shocked when it finds itself in a cocoon,
nor knowing it was it’s own making.<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kundalini is a sanscrit word meaning coiled, an aspect of
the prana or life force in every human body that is said in yoga science to be
held at the base of the spine, an invisible energy coil holding the entire
energy body in stasis while we live, and freeing itself from our forms when we
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it erupts during our lifetime it
brings about a dramatic restructuring of our energy field and our
consciousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This transformation of energy can feel blissful in some
bodies and stressful or terrifying in others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How we experience the changes depends to a great extent on how
psychologically open and flexible we are, how traumatic or unhealthy our
previous lives have been,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whether we
have old injuries or toxins that need to be released from our systems, whether
we have an understanding or spiritual support in our lives, and many other
factors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helps if we know some
techniques to balance and release energy, release stress from our lives and we
learn how to take good care of our bodies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kundalini can feel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stuck in various parts of the body as it works
to undo old conditioning or heal wounds, physical or psychological.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can cause shaking, jerking, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vibrations, heat flashes, itching, tingling, appetite
shifts, insomnia, mood swings and many other strange symptoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since many of these conditions can also be
signs of other issues or illnesses it is useful to consider factors that can be
the source of a sudden arising of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kundalini energy. Usually a first arising is
noticed, either as a dramatic force of geyser-like power moving up, or a
swirling rolling movement through the body, or a sudden forceful rising from
the base into the belly, heart or throat area. More rarely it opens through the
entire body and seems to pour out of the crown of the head. Or it can be a
steady jerking unlike anything you have felt before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Usually kundalini awakens following energy or meditation
practices, done seriously and consistently for a long period of time. It can
also follow a near-death experience or a traumatic emotional loss in which you
go the depths of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grief or despair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can arise when there is great devotion to
a spiritual being, or while being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enraptured
by chanting or focusing on inner sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes contact with another person with active kundalini will cause
it to stir and activate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may happen
following a profound shift of awareness, where you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>momentarily do not feel your self to be your
old identity, but rather detached awareness, presence, no one in particular or
part of everything.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kundalini is the subtle energy accompaniment to the shifts
in conscious awareness that are known as Self-realization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are molecular structures infused with
awareness, with consciousness that moves through these structures and moves our
thoughts, feelings, sensations, knowledge and understanding from one point to
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have come to be identified
as the condition of our body and mind – a certain race, sex, nationality,
family style, medical history, education and emotional conditioning. Some of
these characteristics are in our DNA, and many are part of our learned identity,
formed of the particular opportunities and experiences we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have accumulated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We each have a unique identity and it feels
very separate from everyone else’s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of these aspects of identity are invisible, known to us
as thoughts and flows in our energy body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(No one will ever find your identity in an autopsy.) It’s as if we are a
computer shifting all of this data around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When kundalini opens and begins to move through the system it is
challenging and disorienting, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as it
clears away much of our identity,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>opening our body to a different kind of experience, one we might call
prior to identification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will
eventually lead us to know ourselves as awareness without identity, which is a
knowing that feels eternal in nature, and free of the stuck patterns in our
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be very frightening to
feel something in us letting go of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In western cultures we tend to believe this must be a sign of mental
illness, but when kundalini is the catalyst it is a sign of spiritual
awakening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You will not lose your ability to know who you are, or how
to behave, or where you live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will
likely lose your attachment to it, and to anything in your life that is not
wholly authentic for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you are
in a toxic relationship, a job you hate, or a lifestyle that is not serving you
these things will press upon you until you change. (It is a myth that if you
are spiritually awake you can tolerate anything).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, whatever arrives in your
life for you to deal with you will address with more dispassion and clarity,
whether it be change, illness, or loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Awakeness is simply being present where you are without resistance, but
with greater clarity about how to respond.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Awakening does not mean you will have no moral compass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is just a different frame of reference –
based on what is needed, and the understanding all of us humans are One in this
creation together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It becomes literally
painful to steal, lie or harm another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you hold on to those types of old patterns you simply lose the
awakeness and sink into a much darker place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More than a few
so-called spiritual teachers have succumbed to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You can’t use awakening to enhance the ego, and keep the
awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The part of you that will
grasp to be someone special is not the true nature but the egoic nature, and if
it gains a foothold you will be caught in a half-way world like limbo, having
the energy and awareness to touch a few people but without any sense of an
inner stability, and lacking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
clarity, love and compassion to help you navigate wisely in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not believe such guides are internally
at peace for if the egoic mind is ruling the life this is just is not
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The true nature known in the
awakened state is at peace with itself and the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a natural relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels pain when physically ill, and
sadness over losses and the great disasters mankind brings upon itself, but it
does not linger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It knows how empty
human preoccupations are and how spacious and limitless consciousness is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It knows we are This.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So eventually if you have awakened kundalini this is where
it is trying to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the way you
may experience fear, challenge, beauty, joy, greater vitality, exhaustion,
feeling out-of-your-body, and returning into a new enlivened relationship with
it. Almost anything can happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helps
to trust the process, to see fear as only a random energy you need not put
attention on, to take good care of your body, to find ways to be more grounded,
to be willing to know yourself as energy and spirit, to sit in stillness or in
nature every day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hope if you are in this process you will check out my two
new books “The Kundalini Guide” and “The Awakening Guide”, self-help books
based on conversations with many other people just like you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I first wrote about kundalini there was
no web, and only obscure books spoke of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Today it is popping up all over the web. Not everything you read on the
web will be accurate. Do not let it frighten you, and do not run off and join a
cult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to your heart and gut and
rest in the truth within yourself, and do what you must to support your life in
this amazing and fortunate process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have questions this blog is a place to ask them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please include your age and any spiritual or
energy practices along with your question as it helps me better understand why
you may be having the symptoms you describe.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-26323009157504751212014-09-02T10:12:00.001-07:002014-09-02T10:12:13.624-07:00When Kundalini ArisesWhen kundalini energy arises there can be bliss and chaos as the body adjusts to a new vibration.<br />
To the extent you can relax and let go into the energy it is likely to feel better and be less troublesome, but the truth is the function of kundalini is to clear out all the old debris of your history, so any unfinished emotional or psychological issues are going to arise to be made conscious and resolved. <br />
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When an initial arising moves all the way through the body there can be great joy and ecstasy and an altered world view that makes you feel completely at one with the world. This is an experience that will pass in a few hours or a few days, and most people feel confused and sad when they return to the felt sense of the former self. This energy is not about becoming high and joyful and staying there. It is about transformation. Just as any reconstruction begins with a deconstruction, so does personal transformation. <br />
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The activation of kundalini is an invitation to awaken to your true nature, that which lies beneath the psychological self you have constructed since birth to fit in and cope with the life you were given. Each of us has a unique set of circumstances because our history varies, but whatever is held in the body/mind will be subject to this transformation process, until at some point consciousness is able to be known in its primal and original form, as the vast and empty spaciousness in which all is one potential. <br />
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We cannot make this happen because the "I" that would try to manage it is not able to go along on this journey. The I we believe ourselves to be is a collection of assumptions, beliefs, feelings, impressions, opinions and memories that are in continual movement (chances are you do not think now the way you did at age 5 or age 20, because more data is in the system an old patterns died). "I" is a verb, not a noun, not a concrete and immovable object. It is a sense that holds a collection. This is greatly challenged in an awakening process and so you feel unstable, uncertain, and sometimes afraid of how you are changing. You are entering into a mystery, where perceptions change, emotions can be erratic, and you often feel unfamiliar to yourself. But along with this can be great waves of love, blissful sensations, insights, and moments of stillness and peace. A few people may hear an inner voice that says something like "Peace be with you" or "This is all okay". Just remember that all that arises passes on, and that the reason that most of what arises happens is so that you can see through it and realize -- oh this too is not what I am.<br />
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Learn to be present in the moment where you are and not dwell on old patterns and memories. Learn to bring energy into the heart which will deepen the sense of appreciation and gratitude for the present moment. Learn to accept with equanimity what you were in the past with all its shadow and challenges and be curious instead of afraid about who you are becoming. Don't let the mind jump to conclusions. Ask it to relax and just see what happens instead of projecting possible scenarios.<br />
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Consider moving more from intuition and from the heart rather than the old ways of decision making. Take care of your body and stay in alignment with your deepest truth and authenticity. These are the ways to support the process and eventually return into a lasting presence and inner peace.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-92192758431872581752014-08-25T14:05:00.000-07:002014-08-25T14:05:27.126-07:00Kundalini: Fascination & Resistance, Control & Letting Go
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<i><u><b>Question from a Seeker:</b></u></i></div>
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<i>I’ve been spiritually seeking for a number of years and one
thing that really seems to bother me is this fascination with Kundalini. I was
fascinated with these Kundalini sensations because of the orgasmic oneness and
union that accompanied them. Recently I'm also interested in working on my humanness and
cleaning up all the messes associated with that. I am less interested in
mystical states of permanent bliss or unity. The problem is that my ego/mind
has started tempting me to have Kundalini experiences and I’ve been feeling
this energy in my body (particularly in my face area), which is difficult to
avoid. When I follow this energy and try to keep my mind concentrated on it for
too long, I get panicked and it feels like my body is going to explode/die if I
continue, so instinctively I stop and try to move on. But the energy keeps
interfering with my ability to enjoy life and to live freely. This seems to be
the main thing that keeps the ego sense of me alive and well (the other thing
is probably a fear of utter despair and depression at seeing my illusions
shattered,) I recently found that if I stop trying to control these energies I
feel better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it better to just
let them happen or to try to stop or manage them?</i></div>
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<b><u>Response:</u></b></div>
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Kundalini is the life force experienced as a subtle energy
running through the body and you are right in your discovery that the easiest
way to live with it is to relax and let it move as it seems to want to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually if you just lay down on a bed
when it starts it will shake you up for awhile as it removes stresses out of
the system and opens up stuck areas in the body, and then it stops after a few
minutes, or feels just like a quiet hum or vibration the rest of the time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can feel blissful (but won't always)
when you let it move and cause a lot of discomfort if you contract against
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can also be scary when it
is intense but if you can substitute curiosity and openness for fear it will go
much better for you. It is not especially useful to concentrate on it or try to
intensify it, much better to kind of shrug it off and wonder what the energy
might be trying to clear out now (you won't often know).</div>
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It is also very useful to clean up any "messes" in
your life, practically speaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stress, toxic habits and relationships, stuck anger and resentment and
other divisive personal issues give the subtle body lots of issues to work out
and make energy releases, emotional upheavals and even pain more challenging in
this process. Think of kundalini as trying to make you very open and free
internally, keeping all your channels open, and having to clear out any
negativity or suffering that is in the way.</div>
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Other than "cleaning up your life," the ego, which
is just your mind identifying with your thoughts about it, needs to let go of
trying to control this or any other aspects of the spiritual process. You are
new to this process and it is here to support shifts and changes in
consciousness that will allow consciousness to awaken to itself -- there is
nothing in it for the ego, which is why resistance comes up. If you are on a spiritual
path and do regular silent sitting or meditation or even prayers of gratitude,
this will further support an awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are doing lots of energy practice, using drugs or following
shamanic, breathwork or other intense practices you may raise more energy than
you want to handle and more mental confusion along with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might get some value from reading
my two new books "The Kundalini Guide" and "The Awakening
Guide" that are designed to help people understand and support the
awakening process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might
benefit from listening to the talks at www.adyashanti.org as Adya is a
wonderful teacher of awakening. This process will interfere with your
fun-loving life and ultimately demand you align yourself with the most
authentic and natural path within you.</div>
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You will learn to find peace and happiness within, but first
any beliefs and illusions that contradict what is true will be challenged until
you see them clearly enough to let them go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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The longing of the heart to know truth or know "Who I
am" or know God -- however you would phrase the longing that has drawn you
into spiritual practice -- is an important aspect of awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust that rather than your thoughts
about what it means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
mystery just how we awaken and what we discover, one the mind cannot grasp. </div>
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It is rare for someone to stop this process, although
occasionally it will stop temporarily if the major stressors and preoccupations
of living become overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
learning to understand and support it make it a lot less challenging and open
up more opportunity to find bliss and joy as the body and spirit become more
open and alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When the energies of kundalini first arise many people do
not recognize them as an accompaniment to the process of spiritual
realization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These energies
curling up the spine or raising heat and jerks and strange body movements
sometimes occur during meditation, or following yoga or Qigong or breathwork,
and even happen spontaneously without any discernable trigger activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in those who are doing practices
that encourage spiritual awakening they are often not recognized for what they
are -- the subtle energy field clearing away stress and old patterns and
opening channels for the awakening of consciousness.</div>
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Our bodies are our vehicles for consciousness and awareness
to experience itself in the flow and experiences of the human condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The life force caught hold as we were
conceived and moves through us throughout our lives. This force is both energy
and consciousness and when we awaken spiritually it intensifies and expands and
shifts our perception and experience of what we are and how creation appears.
This shift is called awakening in non-dual circles.</div>
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It can take months and years for a kundalini process to
mature, as the energy may wind slowly through the body, rise and fall
intermittently, and flush out emotional, physical and psychic issues that have
been dormant or repressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it
is disruptive and frightening for some people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fear is often because of the strangeness and the
unfamiliarity of the random movements and experiences.</div>
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Fear creates contraction and this promotes more releasing of
stress, so the sense of difficulty can be increased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suggest if this is happening to you that you substitute
the energy of curiosity for fear, and relax into what is happening, as this can
help the releasing in the moment to pass through more quickly. Fear is just a
thought followed by energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
will not serve you in this process.</div>
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Although for some people kundalini awakening is primarily
gentle or energetically blissful, it can be challenging for others to accept
and live with the challenges of this process, and nearly impossible to make it
stop once the energy has opened as far as the throat chakra. Before then
stopping all energy and spiritual practices, eating root vegetables and
protein, or doing grounding practices like gardening may help the energies calm
down a bit. There can be brief energy releases that are known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prana-tattva </i>(in yogic science) that
happen only once or rarely -- this is a release of a blockage or stress held in
the body and are not the same as kundalini arising. If the energy stops
completely it was originally not a full activation but just the preliminary
pranic releases.</div>
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If you are in the throes of this experience you may find my
books<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Kundalini Guide or The Awakening Guide </i>helpful as they were
written for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those who need to
understand the changes that support spiritual awakening and offer methods that
help it happen with less confusion and discomfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, awakening brings bliss and insight and an
internal sense of being love -- but for this to happen everything that is not
so peaceful needs to be released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you have longed to know Truth or what is God or what this human
existence is about and followed spiritual practices to get there, you need to
learn to accept with equanimity the process of transformation.</div>
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There are many myths associated with the awakening of
kundalini energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
people expect to receive extraordinary powers, heal all illnesses, or live
eternally if they are able to stimulate the full arising of this energy. They may also think they can fly, walk through walls, and communicate usefully with other dimensions. But in
meeting with 2000 people over the years who have awakened kundalini I have
never seen these kinds of conclusions.</div>
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In a small number of people there may be the emerging of
psychic or healing capacities, but I have met psychics and healers with no known
memory of a kundalini awakening, so kundalini is not essential to these powers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that certain capacities of the
brain or energy field are activated as the energy moves through them that awaken these abilities. Some people will feel a connection to their lineage, or teachers who offer helpful guidance at times, who appear other-dimensional. A few may see visions or struggle temporarily with an apparent entity, but this is rare and often related to trauma in their histories or to practicing occult arts. Those who are reported to fly have learned extreme bouncing techniques that make the body temporarily weightless in obscure yoga systems (I saw such yogis in a video once and it did not seem a very valuable talent for everyday life!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most who discover
these periods of having new "powers" find they fade away over time.
For a few they become a new expression in their lives.</div>
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A more realistic vision of this energy is to consider the rumors as metaphor. Kundalini initiates
a healing within by clearing away the debris of false perspectives, negative
conditioning, and self-images that are illusionary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It opens the psyche to healing itself of old wounds and
relieves the body of the stressors of contraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes it possible to remember your true and unconditioned
nature, the essence of which does live eternally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It annihilates the mind's preoccupation with fantasy and irrelevance. </span>The extraordinary gift of spiritual awakening is the return
to a natural life, one that is embodied with openness and peace, and the
ability to respond to what arises without the angst and drama created by the
conditioned mind. One can become more awestuck by the beauty of simple things,
more compassionate without the entanglement of suffering, and more relaxed
about life and death. This may improve creativity, authenticity, health and
longivity. This is the freedom we call happiness or peace.</div>
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Kundalini arises in response both to energetic shifts in the
body and to a deep longing of the spirit or consciousness to know Truth or God
or simply to end personal suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It cannot be forced or passed on by someone else, except in rare cases
where the individual is very ripe for awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But energy processes, yoga, Qigong, meditation, being with
another who has awakened energy, and a sincere desire to open the heart all can
play a part in awakening by making us grace-prone (as Adyashanti has labeled
the readiness for awakening). Kundalini is said <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by yogis to be curled energy at the base of the spine holding
our pranic energy flows in stasis, and when it unwinds itself through the body
it triggers many changes in both the sensations and the consciousness, leading
one gradually into a transformation of perspective and functioning in the
world. The writer Stu Sovatsky, who also worked with kundalini for many years,
compares this to a second puberty. Like the first, where we begin and where we
end is unpredictable, and the process can be challenging.</div>
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If you long for spiritual realization the awakening of
kundalini is useful and probably unavoidable, whether it is a gentle or an
intense and overwheming process. To the extent you can relax and be present
with whatever it offers it will move forward into its natural conclusion.</div>
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If you need to know more you might enjoy my new books <i>The Kundalini Guide</i> and <i>The Awakening Guide</i> (av. at www.amazon.com)
where I have mapped the territory as best I can and intend to provide a vision
and support for the changes sure to come.</div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-9553127097500841352014-07-30T09:48:00.000-07:002014-08-05T10:00:15.612-07:00Kundalini, Consciousness and YogaMany people enter into kundalini yoga practices with the idea it will make them healthier, more attractive, more alive energetically. These can be gifts of this or other form of yoga, which are ancient practices that make the body more limber and the spirit more peaceful. But for some these yogas will also open up the potential for the deconstruction and transformation of the identity with the personal self. This may sound appealing to a few, but it can actually be very challenging and disorienting because in can uproot all your beliefs, defenses, and ways of looking at life, and also trigger massive energy releases, and unfamiliar feelings and sensations. <br />
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If your life is not aligned with Truth this awakening of kundalini can change your lifestyle radically. It is not commonly understood that a full realization of who we are and a remembrance of ourselves as "nothing" and "All" does not result in an improvement in the "personal" self but a dissolution of attachment to that "self". It is not as if you forget who you have been, but you begin to see the world and your human-ness through new eyes, to stop arguing with the world and all its foibles and disasters, and to live in response to the moment around you -- in the NOW, as Eckart Tolle has pointed out. This shift does not come easily for most people, but is a gradual movement that requires consciousness of how thoughts move to entrap us into identity every day. Many feel awake and open occasionally, and irritated to be trapped in old patterns the next moment. To the extent we are flexible and committed to awakening not only our energy, but our consciousness, we can learn to flow with the ups and downs, the emergence of repressed memories, and the changes in our lives. It is useful to enter this process with appreciation for the gift of life and who you are because the overlay of self-criticism or fear of the world will inhibit your ability to become the free spirit you actually are. Our essence, and our participation in the fullness of the human experience is a great gift not to be discarded as we feel the wonder of simple <i>beingness </i>that plays beneath the surface. <br />
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The true function of kundalini awakening is to prepare our energy field to become open and available to the realization of Truth, to the sensate and energetic knowing of our participation in all that exists. It initiates a journey and a passage way beyond good health and longevity (which are not guaranteed in a physical form, but inevitable for the spirit.)<br />
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Having just published "The Awakening Guide" and "The Kundalini Guide" on Amazon I seem to be on a writing binge right now so I'm putting out articles often on my Awakened Living blog at shantiriver.wordpress.com, sending articles to various e-zine sites, am learning to use twitter, and linked-in more efficiently. I hope my words reach those who need them -- those on this journey to self-realization. Please pass them forward to anyone who needs to know. My websites hold many basics but I hope to keep updating on the blogs. Comment and question where you can if it feels useful to you.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-29095343393426609122014-04-16T08:46:00.000-07:002014-04-16T08:46:16.756-07:00Dear Readers,<br />
As you may have noticed this blog has not been updated for many months, but I am back now and with great news. I just published a NEW BOOK on amazon.com and Kindle called "The Kundalini Guide"! It is based on my 25 year experience of doing assessments for over 2000 people who have awakened kundalini energy. It will be available in print by the end of the April 2014 and as an e-book by April 25. A second book "The Awakening Guide" is on its way. I have been working with these two books for over five years and hope they will be the kind of companion and support that people in a spiritual awakening process need. There are many issues that arise and are usually a surprise to those who pursue self-realization. These include psychological and emotional upheavals, energetic phenomena, non-ordinary moments of expansion or emptiness or visions -- almost anything may arise and not many spiritual communities have the knowledge to help people move through them. I hope these books will offer the insight and general guidance that lead to the awakening of Self (as it is known in Advaita Vedanta) or True Nature (as the Buddhists call it). This awakening is really a remembering, it is an opening of our inner recognition of Oneness with everything, and the possibility of seeing our life and our world through the eyes of pure consciousness or presence. This is a life-altering event that frees us from the constrictions of our conditioning, and allows us to live spontaneously in the flow of our life experiences. Kundalini is the energetic aspect of awakening, that prepares our subtle body for this awakened consciousness. I hope you read my books and comment on Amazon or your own blogs if they are useful to you, and if they awaken more questions for you please send them to my blog, which I will be updating each week.<br />
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Another announcement! I am offering a weekend workshop on Living With the Kundalini Process in Ashland OR on May 9, 10 and 11, 2014. It will be a small group for learning and sharing. If you wish to join us please contact me at kundinfo@mindspring.com and I will send you further information.<br />
Blessings to all of you !<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-69093383350023656322013-03-29T11:12:00.001-07:002013-03-29T11:12:21.615-07:00Kundalini: An Invitation to Truth
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Kundalini arising is an invitation,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>truly a doorway, into knowing what you
are, and realizing or remembering the true nature of existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why the energy is called
divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the energy of the
source of life that enabled you to exist as part of creation, and when it
activates it is possible for consciousness to shift in such a way that it recognizes
its true nature. It shows you that you are not the thoughts in your head, and patterns in your
life that you previously identified with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Some people have a glimpse of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the infinite, the truth that consciousness exists beyond any
boundary, long before they have a kundalini arising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They are given a hint about who they are. It may change their life, or it may pass through as simply an unusual moment, never forgotten but never taken to heart. </span>But most people seem to have the arising of this energy of
the life force known as kundalini, prior to the awakening of consciousness. It supports them in
becoming Self-realized. It invites them into awareness of the infinite.</div>
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Naturally kundalini energy is frightening to the mind of
many people, because it challenges our belief in the uniqueness of our own
identity, and it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is beyond the
understanding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the cultural
perspective of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels sometimes as if you are losing
your mind and your <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>understanding
of who you are, it disrupts and reorganizes your energy field, and it may even
cause physical discomfort as it moves through areas of your body that have
latent physical issues or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stored
emotional content. It can look and feel "weird" and if the body has
experienced physical or sexual abuse, or traumatic emotional and physical
events, it can cause the release of the old memories and sensations held in the contracted
energy field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So for some people
this awakening is a more challenging event than for others. </div>
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You might think of kundalini awakening as a clearing process
that is designed to enable an open, clear and compassionate perspective of life
and death, and to feel the essential bliss and connectedness of all
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> In some people it also powerfully opens the heart to love. </span>For these transformations to happen all the
thoughts, points of view, memories and stored traumas in the body need to be
released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cannot do this yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is done through you by the energy,
in its own timing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
have done clearing through therapy or body work in the past this can be useful,
because there is less "stuckness" in the old conditions and more
acceptance of letting things go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And usually with therapy one learns to release self-judgement, which is
an important prerequisite in this process of awakening to what you really are.</div>
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Our true nature has no judgment and no resistance to life.
Waking up is not an abandonment of life as it is, but an expansion, so that
consciousness sees the inner-connectedness, the oneness, underneath all the
diversity of expression in the world. Without judgment there is still a responsiveness, a deep
feeling can move through related to compassion for the suffering in the human
condition, and action can emerge spontaneously, the form having great
variations among different people. Great laughter and joy can arise in seeing clearing how we
have missed the truth for so many years ,and ignored the clear evidence of our
own eternal consciousness. Even in the joy we can still feel strong compassion
for the confusion that all humanity shares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Unfortunately, not everyone who awakens kundalini will
awaken to Truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many
cul-de-sacs in the process caused by cultural and community biases and
ignorance of the process, fear of the unknown (which one must enter without
reservation at some point), the tendency to regress into self-doubt, or
attachment to old patterns of being that are not released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One needs to learn to listen to their
deepest inner truth, to take care of their physical and emotional needs, to
surrender completely to the energy flow, to be willing to love unconditionally
-- one is invited into many experiences the mind might resist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people feel like they may be
losing their sanity or even their life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many fear-based stories about kundalini
which sometimes amplify these doubts and fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there are risks to health if one is pushing the process,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continues using recreational
drugs, or ignores basic health habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It helps to have some objective support and guidance in case you become
inflated, disoriented or overwhelmed by emotional shifts. (all of which may
happen for limited periods of time). It helps to have a spiritual orientation
and basic self-respect and love.</div>
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Some people are concerned because their financial situation
does not support them and they feel unable to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is helpful if one has a lifestyle and workstyle that are
compatible for their spiritual life, that sustains them through these
transitional times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this is not
available they can only seek inner wisdom to find a way through life support by
using available food pantries and community dinners, volunteering<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>service in a meaningful way,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>living in yogic communities, or
returning to families for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
most cases if one is unable to hold their regular job, a small amount of work
that feels aligned with one's true capacity is helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The body/mind will benefit from some
kind of focus and balance during this awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not about abandoning the body/mind or the personal
life you have been given, only giving up identification with it as
"all" you are. You are still obligated to care for it.</div>
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Poverty during a kundalini process may be no worse than
poverty for a myriad of other reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For hundreds of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>years Zen
monks who sought awakening chose poverty, although they were in a community
that respected this option and helped to feed them. I cannot say why one person
is thrown into this situation and others are not -- some might say it was a
choice from a previous life, or a piece of karma to be finished, or a teaching
about a certain perspective of life, or a pattern or belief that needs to be
relinquished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be caused by
apparent outside circumstances, (all of us can find societal reasons), or for psychological reasons, but it
is your mind that attaches a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>personal meaning to it.</div>
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I was once in a workshop with a nurse who reported a very
traumatic childhood including early rape and pregnancy, prostitution, drug addiction and living
on the streets before her world shifted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in her twenties and she was able to move into school and a
career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I felt into the trauma
of that life and youth what I saw was that she went through that so that I
would not have to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of us
fills a spot in a massive and eternal mosaic of life experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no ultimate reason or why explaining
why some have such difficulties -- it is just so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanity is still in an evolutionary stage, and has not yet
embraced unilateral kindness and health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is suffering and we all are part of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Waking up will only make it better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kundalini arising, and its<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>greatest gift,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a clear perception of the nature of
existence and the releasing of our identification with thoughts that cause
suffering<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will, as the Buddha
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I have not been very constant in my attention to this blog, but it seems in one place or another I have already said so much about the kundalini process. Please go to my websites www.kundaliniguide.com or www.awakeningguide.com if you want more in-depth information. Someone asked who my webhost was and it is ixwebhosting.com.<br />
I usually recommend people who have had a kundalini experience also go to the website www.adyashanti.org for an understanding of what it means to wake up spiritually, because there is a profound shift in perspective and in how one sees the world and oneself when there is a glimpse of the Truth that comes with awakening, and there can be a time when many adjustments are happening. The nondual teacher, Adyashanti, has the most clear and helpful wisdom regarding awakening that I know of, and although he does not speak much of energy he deeply understands the awakening of consiousness that people are invited into when their kundalini energy activates. <br />
Kundalini is the energy of consciousness, our own life force. When it activates it seems to cause a clearing process, where our internal wiring is being undone and reworked. In practical terms we could say all our old ways of thinking, our convictions, hang-ups, fears, self-image are being stripped away. If there are toxins in the body from drugs and alcohol they seem to need to shake themselves out along with fears, stress and darkness. <br />
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The energy is attempting to turn over and release all the old holding and memories that cause us to be unavailable to fully live in the moment, in the NOW of life. Consciousness is attempting to be open and free of the illusory separate self. It is as if the intention is to live in the simplicity, stillness and wonder of each moment, without all the mental clutter that dominates most of our lives. It is not that thinking is no longer available, but it is less clouded by all the personal doubts, assumptions, judgements and fears that our personal sense of "me" seems to carry. When we step away from our separate self and rest, even momentarily, in the openness and presence that is prior to thought, our consciousness and our energy begins a change that can lead us ultimately to a stable inner peace.<br />
But just as it has taken decades, perhaps even lifetimes, to create all these assumptions about what we are, it can take a long time for these to fall away, and for every part of us to wake up to our true nature. This is one reason that the phenomena that come with kundalini awakening is challenging for many people. It is not an easy thing to let drop all the assumptions and belief structures we have wired into our system since birth. It is disconcerting to consider we do not know what we are or what we will be like if these old patterns fall away. There can be moments when the mind is clouded and old emotions are flowing through us spontaneously. It takes what might be called a stability of spirit, a trust in the emptiness, a willingness to just be present with what is while at the same time taking good care of our body and our basic needs as best we can, during this period of transition. It is important to be present in the world rather than just escaping it, but not to be caught in mental judgements about it. Look for the beauty and miracles of living. Move back out of thought long enough to see what it is that is observing thought, what your essence is if you do not believe that thought or take it on right now. Can you tolerate the stillness that you are? can you bring awareness into the heart and see the world from a new perspective? This energy is about transformation and it is neutral, that is, a potential of human experience inherent in each physical body, just as oxygen is part of air. It creates and destroys what is ready to be transformed. We are not in charge of it but we can be in right relationship with it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-87557246220292451112011-07-25T13:20:00.000-07:002011-07-25T13:21:44.480-07:00<div>Dear Anonymous</div><div><br /></div><div>Kundalini is the life current. Or we might say the life force. When it intensifies or awakens itself our subtle body goes through many changes. Sometimes it happens after years of preparation and other times it is a spontaneous awakening. Sometimes it triggers shifts in consciousness that might appear to be depersonalization or a lack of personal identity.</div><div><br /></div><div>You ask why anyone would want this. People who long for self realization have no control over the longing. It may happen before or after the activation of kundalini. It is like The sexual drive It simply arises at a certain stage of life in some people. Others never become interested and have a passion or focus or other things. It is not the ego that wants self-realization. It is the deep true Self wanting to be liberated from the contractions of the conditioned persona that a person carries, which is usually the cause of unnecessary suffering. Some say they want to end suffering. Some feel a need to know if there is a God or they are wanting to know the meaning of life. Most spiritual seekers do not realize the depth of the deconstruction that spiritual awakening brings, and the true nature of surrender, until they are very deeply engaged in the process It can move from great transcendence and bliss and joy to a feeling of falling apart very quickly. It is not a mistake when this happens. It is the just the way it works for most people </div><div><br /></div><div>If you have seen clearly that you are not the separate self but are the life force or universal source or spirit (whatever you might call this which is unnamable), and know you are only wearing the cloak or playing the role of a human identity, the mind might react with terror or sadness or some other emotion to pull you back into old patterns. This understanding is very threatening to the ego structure. Some people feel pulled back and forth for years between old patterns of identification and experiences of pure consciousness</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no question that when awakening happens there can be a loss of drive and of interest in the things you used to enjoy and identify with. This is a very common concern. It is like a whole layer of who we are just falls away. Most people have to find their way into a new way to live. It helps to remember to just be in the moment with what is with consciousness and heart rather than thought. It helps to get out into nature or to explore a few activities you feel drawn to. It helps to set an intention of living in a way that feels intuitively authentic for you and give up concerns about what other people think. You may realize that how you see the world is not the way the mainstream of our society sees it and this can feel lonely to the mind, so it helps to find community and read teachings by those who share your perspective. You can reenter society, work, school, and old activities but you may not feel as engaged in these things as you did in the past. If something feels important or right to do you can learn to consciously lean in and do it even if there is an underlying detachment. This feels better than complete lack of involvement in life. If you do this you will eventually find those activities that are a good fit for you. It is like learning anything. You can learn how to live with life and enjoy other people even though you feel somewhat uninvolved. You can find joy and compassion and curiosity and love in new and unexpected ways, especially if you are just present in the moment with what is! If you can allow your heart to be open, eventually there can be a deep relaxation in just being who you are with no concern for an image and the end of a running dialogue in your head about what you should or shouldn't be.</div><div><br /></div><div>Often those who go through these changes need to be more grounded, more fully present in their bodies. You can use your intuition about how to eat but it is very helpful not to use intoxicants or drugs and to be sure you get enough protein. You may feel inclined to be vegetarian but if so plan a healthy diet with protein it. Your general health and any challenging issues with digestion may require dietary changes everyone is different in this regard so I cannot make specific suggestions. If you have concerns you might see an Ayurvedic practitioner who can look at your body type and energy and tell you specific suggestions for balance. If there is a lot of energy you may feel extremes of hunger or no appetite at all for a while. There are numerous variations in what the body wants and needs at this time. If the energy is very intense some yogis recommend drinking warm milk with sugar and ghee in it, saying this is a calming drink, certain herbs and oils help with calming the energy down and some yogic asanas are useful for stretching and opening the body so that the energy becomes more harmonious. Many people feel a need to avoid stressful and crowded environments, at least temporarily</div><div><br /></div><div>You may feel you have had an experience you would like to avoid, feeling you had no true desire for it. But in fact something drew you to the practices that triggered it Even though the result was not what you had thought it would be. You can try to reenter your old life or you can look for the teachings that will confirm your experience and support a new kind of life. You can see the experience as a great blessing and a gift of insight meant to happen in this life or you can put it on a back burner and see it only as a passing phase. Often spiritual growth takes place in spurts and a deep experience is followed by some years of ordinary living and then another leap happens later in life. I would say that is how it was for me, with several distinct stages between the ages of 28 and 60. Everyone has a unique journey in this process that is really only leading us back to our Self, which we come to see was here all along.</div><div><br /></div><div>You might find the writings of Adyashanti ( esp. “Falling Into Grace” or “The End of Your World”), or Jeff Foster (“An Extraordinary Absence”)helpful. Both had awakenings as young men and describe their way of finding how to move in the world through their writings.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-29315622660152728592011-07-16T13:08:00.000-07:002011-07-16T13:59:33.730-07:00Dear Anonymous,<br />I can't say if this is kundalini without knowing a lot more about you. But generally kundalini energy begins by what feels like an eruption of energy moving up the spine or from the feet and causing involuntary body movements. You are experiencing shifts of consciousness, which are often experienced in what is called "awakening" where one begins to experience themselves as pure consciousness and realize that everything is this, and where the boundaries seem to dissolve. This also happens sometimes when people use hallucinigins like LSD or mushrooms, or pot. Some people experience it in a way that is called disassociation by therapists, and this is a psychological condition that especially occurs when someone is under a lot of stress or anxiety or unconsciously wanting to avoid something that is difficult to face. It happens often to children who are being physically or sexually abused. And a few people just naturally tend to experience it. (These are kids who are called day-dreamers in school or who seem not quite present in their life). If these kinds of issues are up for you it might be wise to speak with a counselor or therapist. If not, and the experience is an aspect of spiritual awakening, perhaps if you stop doing any concentration practices and you get more grounded in the world -- making sure you eat well, avoid intoxicants or drugs, spend time walking in nature, doing physical activity i.e. sports or dancing, the phenomena may stop or become less frequent. Since it is already fading away I think there is a good chance it will pass, at least for the time being. However, in many cases once kundalini activates it does not stop moving through the body and one feels tingling, vibration, involuntary movements and other odd experiences at least occasionally. These do not harm you but they feel disorienting until you get used to them. You are also experiencing what yogis call sense withdrawal, where you do not feel clearly the sensations in your body. This is experienced when yogis do certain types of breathing and concentration practices and is part of the path of some yogas which lead to the realization of Self as pure consciousness. <div><br /></div><div>Since you are young and starting school and since your experience is more about shifts of consciousness than energy events it seems possible you can move out of this experience if you just put your attention on other things. This is called "grounding". Getting more in touch with your body connected to the earth!</div><div><br /></div><div>You ask where this is going. Ultimately a spiritual awakening leads to a felt sense of being in the world but not of it, although paradoxically knowing the body/mind as part of nature. It's a sense of being a spirit embodied. It opens up compassion and appreciation of beauty and love as well as an acceptance of what is. In the end it makes you feel kind of empty and quiet inside and this feels very free and open. But it usually dulls the drives and egoic motivations that are so much a part of western culture, and pulls one more toward a spontaneous and intuitive life lived in the moment. This experience happened very suddenly for Tolle, who I am very familiar with. But he was an older person at the time with his schooling behind him. Almost everyone else I have ever met or spoken to have spent years in this process, after awakening, and only gradually coming into a natural and comfortable life. If you feel you want spiritual direction and awakening at this time in your life I recommend you connect with the website www.adyashanti.org, as Adya is a teacher who speaks very clearly about the process of awakening in ordinary life. His books and tapes could be very helpful. These changes are much easier to deal with when you let go of fear and just see them as part of your own growth process; in the way that going through puberty changes you, so does the awakening of energy and consciousness. <div>If you want the experience to stop, the most useful things you can do are to take good care of your body , learn more about spiritual awakening, get involved in things that interest you, and stop doing any practices that seem to make you uncomfortable. You might try working in a garden or on cars, or baking bread -- concrete, sensate experiences. If you want to follow this new spiritual direction the suggestions are the same but you may also want to learn a little yoga (telling the teacher you need to ground!) and learn to relax with the process, substituting curiousity for fear.<br />I wish you well on your journey. Bonnie</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-81052887515261291292011-07-13T08:22:00.000-07:002011-07-13T09:16:22.074-07:00No matter how our health and spirituality function, even when we are perfectly well, struggling with poverty makes life more difficult. But certainly in the east many who have spiritual awakenings are very poor, and live as sadhus moving among ashrams or living on the streets. This activation of energy is about the transformation of consciousness and the opening of the body into a very simple and natural relationship with nature and life. Rather than the external life, it is more about an inner process that has the potential to make someone more okay with how things are, more attuned to the flow of life as it is, more peaceful. It is the mind that struggles and rages with the inequities of life. This process is trying to pull one into a part of themselves that is quiet, open, compassionate and simply present without all the intense feelings generated by thought. <br /><br />If there are severe physical difficulties it is usually due either to mental anxiety or fear of change, an underlying physical difficulty or limitation, an underlying psychological challenge (e.g. long term depression, anxiety disorder, eating disorder, PTSD), an unhealthy diet or the use of drugs. I have met many people from all levels of society with kundalini activations, and the energy itself can be confusing, shake your body up, take you into altered states, and cause heat and odd spontaneous movements at times. But it does not by itself cause pain and illness. It can aggravate an underlying condition, and it can cause adrenal exhaustion if there is too much energy intensity too often, and it can cause headaches. (you need to bring energy down, more into the heart or belly if there are headaches). In a few people who are very sensitive it is very draining and debilitating. If the energy is stuck in the lower chakras it can cause sexual preoccupation or stomach discomforts. It needs to move up and through the whole system.<br /><br /> If one has an income source or someone in their life to support them it is a great blessing when the need is to rest and be away from the intensity of the working world. Many people find they cannot sustain the kind of work environment they had been adapted to prior to awakening, and seek ways to simplify their lives. It is essential to find a lifestyle that is authentic for you. Although triggers that seem to cause awakening can be identified, no one can say exactly why some people activate this transformation and others never do, but it seems as if it was just meant to be in this lifetime. The intention of this process does not seem to be about destroying your life so much as opening your consciousness to feel itself as one with all things, relaxing into just being, and awakening to the unlimited potentiality and expression of consciousness. Your identity is challenged and those things you think you are (female, male,child, parent, worker, profesional, rich, poor, inadequate, smart, healthy, ill --everything) are seen to be temporary appearances while underneath it all is a quiet spirit and presence that is the true "I" and knows it is only temporarily playing this role. This awakening is not something the mind can decide or understand,and certainly not control when it happens, but it is something consciousness itself realizes as part of the whole experience of spiritual awakening. The kundalini is the life force trying to make realization possible. It doesn't care if you are rich or poor -- it wants you to become awake. <br /><br />There is very little opportunity in the west to find understanding and support for this process. It is totally out of the mainstream direction and thinking of our culture which is built on the glorifying individual success and accomplishment. So people experiencing it can become very frightened and alone and this makes the struggle even more difficult. But what is needed is an internal meeting of the process, time to ground yourself walking in nature and being quiet inside, a simple diet with a protein source that helps you ground, an ability to listen deeply to your own inner guidance and to trust the process. None of these things cost money. You can also find companionship on the journey on the web, read the teachings of spiritual masters like Ramana Maharshi or modern teachers like Adyashanti, and if you are well enough you could do some service in the world that you feel called to. You can do a simple meditation of just sitting in presence. There is much access to resources today that did not exist even 15 years ago.<br /><br />I know it sounds crazy to the mind but there is an old saying "What you resist, persists" Once we stop resisting our circumstances, and stop "arguing with reality" (as Adyashanti puts it) all that energy that goes into anger, disappointment and longing for something to be other than it is can be released. Then we can find a new deeper creative energy within us and begin to take small steps in the direction our heart is leading us, and positive changes can happen in our life. Sometimes our old patterns of how to make things happen just don't work anymore but we keep looking at life from an old position and can't see other alternatives. Awakening to your true nature, and relaxing into just being-ness, can offer a whole new perspective.<br /><br />People enter this process with many issues -- not just limited resources or poverty. Some have disabled relatives they care for, or alcoholic partners, or cancer, or abusive situations that need to be addressed. I have known people whose homes were flooded or burned to the ground. Anything in our external life can be a hurdle that feels like the kundalini process is just too much to deal with, but it is actually an invitation out of that identification and into a realization of the part of us that is not suffering, that is awake and present in the now of living. From this place it is easier to see what needs to happen and not be overwhelmed by it and thus to make changes that serve our lives. It is not thought and mental activity that frees us-- it is spirit.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-48212053629874189922011-06-09T09:03:00.001-07:002011-07-13T08:20:41.182-07:00Two-Day Kundalini Workshop Available<br />If you are having experiences with kundalini energy and would like a workshop that focuses on living with kundalini energy and sharing experiences with others I am planning a kundalini workshop Sept 24 and 25, 2011 in Ashland, OR. I will offer an overview of the process and approaches to harmonizing the energy as well as an exploration of the true function of kundalini arising -- the clearing process that opens you up to major shifts in perspective and the embodiment of an awakened life, the opening of the heart and the inner peace that is possible when this process completes itself. This is a two day program from 9 to 6, with 2-hour lunch breaks and will be limited to 12 participants. The fee will be $100. For more information and registration contact me (Bonnie) at kundinfo@mindspring.com. This program is offered instead of the retreat previously announced in this column. To get here you will need to fly into Medford OR, about 15 miles from Ashland. <br /><br />Kundalini awakening triggers a releasing process for most people -- the clearing of the subtle or energy body. It is as if all of our conditioning, beliefs, and identifications are woven into our energy field and the heightened movement of kundalini is trying to clear out this field, leaving it open and relaxed and making consciousness less subject to holding positions, identifications and reactive patterns we have had all our life. When this shift to openness occurs the mind is more quiet and consciousness more present in the moment, more available to intuitive truth, more likely to move through the heart as love and compassion and appreciation for life. Kundalini awakening is not about power, except for the natural power that comes with authenticity and acceptance of what is, the power to be free of our personal conditioning. It is not about becoming "saintly" but about becoming present, relaxed and in tune with the earth and the natural potential of living in harmony with ourselves and others. When there is sincerity and a commitment to living from Truth each individual who truly awakens finds a unique way of expression in the world, coming from being in tune with an authentic movement deep inside. Some people find a deep healing of emotional and physical issues as the awakening unfolds, but often there is an amplification of challenges during the clearing process. It is as if everything comes up to be met, to be seen clearly and to be released. <br /> Sometimes this clearing and energy awakening occurs before the shifts of consciousness called "awakening" or "realization", for many reasons such as a great shock, an emotional overload, a near-death experience, an intensity of devotion or meditation, doing energy practices such as QiGong, kundalini yoga, martial arts, Reichi, breathwork, yoga breathing practices,tantra or concentrated psychic work. Occasionally it activates in a dream, or with a strongly energetic transmission like Diksha or with a guru. This opening stimulates a great shift in the psyche, the energy field, sensitivity, the release of old memories and many other phenomena as defined on my website, www.kundaliniguide.com. <br /> Sometimes this clearing and energy awakening unfolds after a shift of consciousness that might happen spontaneously or in a meditation retreat or lengthy practice. One might suddenly realize the "Truth" of who they are and feel absolutely free for a while, just open and joyful and connected to everything. Then the clearing begins later, and it is likely this person may feel they have "lost" something. But in fact this is the natural progression -- the passage between seeing the "Truth" and living from it in a stable way. It is like clearing out the house in preparation for moving to another country. Everything must be seen and dealt with. If there is a lot of trauma in the personal history this can be especially challenging and therapy may be helpful as old repressed material arises. If there is a heavy use of drugs or alcohol there can be much need of toxins to be released from the body. It may feel like an invasion but it is actually the true source of your being attempting to transform the old patterns and limitations created by conditioning in this life and perhaps even conditions brought in from other lives.<br /><br /> The more you can relax and allow this process space in your life, and the more you can release fear about it, the easier it will become and the more likely the possibility of noticing the bliss inherent in these energy releases and shifts. You may become more "vata" in the Ayurvedic way of seeing things (Indian medicine system), more light and airy and less focused. So grounding activities can be helpful such as being in nature, gardening, baking, and creative activities. If you are vegetarian it is important to get protein into your diet from beans and root vegetables. Ultimately it is about living on this earth while knowing you are spirit, rather than escaping into a transcendent dimension. You can't be free if you are trying to evade life. Freedom is knowing your true nature and living your human experience with no objections. Being willing to BE. For most people it takes some time to find their way to this quiet joy and presence and the alignment with the Truth they have realized.<br /><br /> I wish you all joy on your journey and that the moving process opens you up to a new world.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21069437.post-52912692833216856682011-05-20T09:54:00.000-07:002011-05-20T10:00:56.739-07:00Dear Maria in the Phillipines,<br />I am writing you on my blog because your email would not work so if you wish to continue a conversation please send me a corrected email address.<br />Yes Reiki can trigger an activation of kundalini energy or a release of pranic energy that helps to keep opening the body and consciousness and feels like kundalini only not as intense.So can sincere devotion and meditation. I have found this especially true in the more advanced levels of Reichi initiation. Reichi generally opens a specific energy pattern rather than kundalini but in someone who is ready for awakening it can spill over to the kundalini force at the base of the spine. Kundalini is the way the subtle energy body responds to the shifts in consciousness that comes with spiritual awakening. It moves up from the base of the spine and intensifies the energy field in the entire body. If you just relax into it and trust it and don't "work" with it to try to push it there does not need to be any problem, although it can bring a lot of unusual phenomena, as described on my website. Sometimes it brings up old emotional issues as it seems to be a clearing process for our conditioning and a way that stress is released from the body. Devotion and a stable spiritual practice can be very helpful in this process. It ultimately takes us into a life that is lived more directly in the moment, more with presence and inner peace.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898282739789951053noreply@blogger.com1