Kundalini Hair Care

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Date:  Posted 5 years before Dec 10, 2017

devaPriya Yogini 5 years ago

I grabbed this online..and thought I'd share here.

Consider the possibility that the hair on your head is there to do more than just look good. Humans are the only Creature who grows longer hair on their head as they grow into adulthood. Left uncut, your hair will grow to a particular length and then stop all by itself at the correct length for you. From a yogic perspective, hair is an amazing gift of nature that can actually help raise the Kundalini energy (creative life force), which increases vitality, intuition, and tranquility.

CUT HAIR

Long ago people in many cultures didn’t cut their hair, because it is a part of who they are. There were no salons. Often, when people were conquered or enslaved, their hair was cut as a recognized sign of slavery. It was also understood that this would serve as punishment and decrease the power of the enslaved.

The bones in the forehead are porous and function to transmit light to the pineal gland, which affects brain activity, as well as thyroid and sexual hormones. Cutting the hair into bangs, which cover the forehead impedes this process. When Genghis Khan conquered China, he considered the Chinese to be a very wise, intelligent people who would not allow themselves to be subjugated. He therefore required all women in the country to cut their hair and wear bangs, because he knew this would serve to keep them timid and more easily controlled.

As whole tribes or societies were conquered, cut hair became so prevalent that the importance of hair was lost after a few generations, and hairstyles and fashion grew to be the focus.

The science of hair was one of the first technologies given by Yogi Bhajan when he came to America. “When the hair on your head is allowed to attain its full mature length, then phosphorous, calcium, and vitamin D are all produced, and enter the lymphatic fluid, and eventually the spinal fluid through the two ducts on the top of the brain. This ionic change creates more efficient memory and leads to greater physical energy, improved stamina and patience.”

Yogi Bhajan has explained that if you choose to cut your hair, you not only lose this extra energy and nourishment, but your body must then provide a greater amount of vital energy and nutrients to continually re-grow the missing hair.

In addition, hairs are the antennas that gather and channel the sun energy or prana to the frontal lobes, the part of the brain you use for meditation and visualization. These antennas act as conduits to bring you greater quantities of subtle, cosmic energy. It takes approximately three years from the last time your hair was cut for new antennas to form at the tips of the hair.

KUNDALINI HAIR CARE

In India, a Rishi is known as a wise one who coils his or her hair up on the crown of the head into a ‘rishi knot’ during the day to energize the brain cells, and then combs it down at night. A rishi knot energizes your magnetic field (aura) and stimulates the pineal gland in the center of your brain.

“This activation of your pineal gland results in a secretion that is central to the development of higher intellectual functioning, as well as higher spiritual perception.” Yogi Bhajan

During the day, the hair absorbs solar energy, but at night it absorbs lunar energy. Keeping the hair up during the day and down at night aids this process. Braiding your hair down at night will help your electromagnetic field balance out from the day.

SPLIT ENDS

Loose scattered hair can develop split ends. Instead of trimming them and losing your antennas, Yogi Bhajan recommends applying a small amount of almond oil to your hair overnight so that it can be absorbed before you wash it the next morning. Keeping your hair coiled on your crown and protected with a head covering during the day will help your antennas heal. If you have long hair, see if your experience is different when it is clean and coiled at your crown, or down and loose.

WET HAIR

One year, after Winter Solstice, when Yogi Bhajan was sitting with wet hair, he explained that he was drying it before putting it up in order to avoid a headache. When you put your hair up wet, it will tend to shrink and tighten a bit and even breaks as it dries. A better idea is to occasionally take the time to sit in the sun and absorb some extra vitamin D. Yogis recommend shampooing the hair every 72 hours or more frequently if the scalp sweats a great deal. It can also be beneficial to wash your hair after being emotionally upset, to help process emotions.

WOODEN COMB

Yogis also recommend using a wooden comb or brush for combing your hair as it gives a lot of circulation and stimulation to the scalp, and the wood does not create static electricity, which causes a loss of the hair’s energy to the brain. You will find that, if you comb your hair and scalp front to back, back to front, and then to the right and left several times, it will refresh you, no matter how long your hair is. All the tiredness of your day will be gone.

For women, it is said that using this technique to comb your hair twice a day can help maintain your youth, a healthy menstrual cycle, and good eyesight.

If you are bald or balding, the lack of hair can be counteracted with more meditation. If you find some silver strands in your hair, be aware that the silver or white color increases the vitamins and energy flow to compensate for aging. For better brain health as you age, try to keep your hair as natural and healthy as you can.

TAGORE’S HAIR

Yogi Bhajan told a story about hair many years ago at Khalsa Women’s Training Camp (KWTC) in New Mexico:

Recognize how beautiful and powerful your hair is – that when you keep it you live a life of fulfillment in this world. When Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet who found God within himself, tried to meet a friend on a steamer ship, the friend didn’t recognize him and so he wrote him a letter. “We were on the same steamer, but I didn’t find you.”

Rabindranath Tagore**

May 6,1861 - August 7, 1941

Tagore said, “When I realized the Oneness of all, I threw my shaving kit into the ocean. I gave up my ego and surrendered to nature. I wanted to live in the form that my Creator has given me.”

When humans allow their hair to grow, they are welcoming the maturity, the responsibility of being fully-grown, and fully powerful. That is why you will find grace and calmness in a person with uncut hair from birth, if it is kept well. The ALL~Source Goddess has a definite reason for giving you hair.

It is said that when you allow your hair to grow to its full length and coil it on the crown of the head, the sun energy, the pranic life force, is drawn down the spine. To counteract this downward movement, the Kundalini life energy rises to create balance. In Yogi Bhajan’s words, “Your hair is not there by mistake. It has a definite purpose, which Mystics, Oracles, Seers and Enlightened Beings have discovered... and the ignorant people will just laugh at.”

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Errin,

This was posted months ago but it might be relevant to what you posted above:

neil 13 months ago:

I just got back from a yoga conference in Colorado.  I met a lot of interesting people and took seven yoga classes taught by four different yoga teachers.  Three of the classes were Kundalini yoga taught by Snatum Kaur and Tias Miller.  All of the Kundalini yogis at the conference wore turbans.  I got to wondering; why the turban?  So I asked three of them and got three different answers.

The first yogi, an Indian, said it kept energy contained in his body while meditating.  The second one said it is their belief not to cut their hair and the turban is used to wrap the hair up.  He said the turban also helped keep sunlight off the top of the head and also acted as pressure points on meridians on the temples.  The third yogi said the turban prevented the hair from standing out during Kundalini practice.

I thought it was interesting that no one had the same reason for wearing a turban.  I mentioned to one of the yogis that I have a friend (Michael) that practices and teaches Kundalini Yoga and doesn't wear a turban.  He said that it isn't necessary to wear a turban and many people who do Kundalini Yoga don't wear one.

Does anyone know the real answer why some Kundalini yogis wear a turban?

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neil wrote:

I just got back from a yoga conference in Colorado. I met a lot of interesting people and took seven yoga classes taught by four different yoga teachers. Three of the classes were Kundalini yoga taught by Snatum Kaur and Tias Miller. All of the Kundalini yogis at the conference wore turbans. I got to wondering; why the turban? So I asked three of them and got three different answers.

MiBeloved’s Reply:

The system of ashram life in India is very rigid in a certain way because there is always dos and don’ts. For instance if you are living in a Hare Krishna ashram you have to do what is called shave up, which means to have all your hair shaven except for a circular patch at the back top of the head. This is called a sikha in Sanskrit.

Anyone in India who wears a sikha is considered as being as ashram resident or a person whose parent was just deceased. To perform funeral rites called Shraddha, a son has to get his hair shaven except for the tuff of hair called a sikha. This is by the regulations of the death rite rituals from ancient scriptures.

But in the Hare Krishna movement, one has to shave up as a sign of change in lifestyle to that of the rules of the ashram and also as a sign of submission to a guru of the sect. Some senior members of these ashrams are allowed to grow their hair but even then, they usually have that special tuff which blends in and is not as visible.

In the Hare Krishna movement also no beards are allowed.

If you go into a Swami order in India, like the one from Shankaracharya, you have to get your head completely shaven with no tuff. Some Buddhist sects also require the same thing.

My point is that ashram life has its restrictions

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The name Snatum Kaur is Punjabi and it is adapted from Sanskrit. Anyone who uses a name with Kaur attached is a Sikh more than likely and has taken initiation into the Sikh religion. This is not part of kundalini yoga, but it may be seen as being part of it by some persons.

The Sikh religion was started by Guru Nanak and to understand what they believe in read a book called the Japji and also check the large book called the Adi Granth Sahib.

That is the scripture.

If you go into the Sikh temple you might be surprised to see that it is not like a Hindu temple which has idols of various deities. In a Sikh temple the object of worship is the Adi Granth Sahib book. It usually sits on the throne in the temple.

Historically Punjab was an entry point for invaders to enter into India. After the Muslim conquest, there was an assimilation of Hinduism and Islam in Punjab which resulted into many new religions which were a compromise of those two opposing religions. Islam says that there should be no idols period, while Hinduism recommends idols of deities.

So the Sikh religion is a compromise of those two systems.

All the Sikh gurus beginning with Guru Nanak were mahayogins. Some were rulers or chieftains and lead armies to battle but they were all trained in yoga austerities.

Sri Harbhajan Singh Sahib is in the disciplinic succession from Guru Nanak. I took lessons from him in kundalini yoga but I did not formally join the Sikh succession. He never demanded that one should wear a turban. At least I never heard him say that. He taught kundalini yoga to anyone. If however you were interested in the religious part of his life, then that became an issue since you had to take initiation into their Sampradaya spiritual lineage.

In the astral world, up to yesterday I saw Yogi Bhajan while I was doing exercises and he has not to this date stipulated that I had to become a Sikh. When I was in the ashram in Denver no one said I had to wear a turban but I did wear one and in fact it was a problem because I was working at AT&T at the time and the fellow employees used to give these weird looks of disapproval. I wore it just because everyone at the ashram did. As the saying goes, when in Rome do as the Romans do.

I did study the Japji and the Adi Granth Sahib and once during a special Sikh festival week, I read from the Adi Granth Sahib while wearing a turban, even though I was not formally initiated into the religion. During that week the readings from the book went on 24 hours per day and so I volunteered for about 2 hours of reading.

Traditionally this is read in Punjabi language but with Yogi Bhajan, it was done in English from a translation.

Sikhs greet each other by saying Sat Nam which is from the Sanskrit Sat Namah, which means that the name of God is Sat or essential truth, essential reality.

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Neil wrote:

The first yogi, an Indian, said it kept energy contained in his body while meditating.

MiBeloved's Reply:

This is only true for someone who is meditating regularly. There are millions of Shikhs in Punjab and they do not meditate regularly. Sikhism for them is a religion and that is all it is. They do not practice kundalini yoga.

A turban can if one allows it serve to keep the energy contained in the subtle body. It can do that but that is not necessarily so in all cases.

I noticed that when I was using a turban full time when I was in the ashram, that it did increase my third eye focus even when I was doing common things while not meditating. So there is some truth to this teacher’s statement but again others wear turbans and their psychic abilities remain in dormancy regardless.

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Neil Wrote:

The second one said it is their belief not to cut their hair and the turban is used to wrap the hair up. He said the turban also helped keep sunlight off the top of the head and also acted as pressure points on meridians on the temples.

MiBeloved's Reply:

Yogi Bhajan never prohibited anyone from cutting hair but he did say and I can vouch that he did, that the hair is part of the energy of the psyche and if it is cut some of the energy will be drained out unnecessarily.

Traditionally Sikhs are not allowed to cut their hair at any time. A turban was used especially in the ancient days when going into battle since then the loose hair caused problems. Even the hair from the beard is twirled and pulled back to join the hair on the head which is swirled in order to accommodate the turban.

But it is a fact that sunlight affects the crown chakra and mystic perception. What he said about the meridians on the temples is valid.

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Neil wrote:

The third yogi said the turban prevented the hair from standing out during Kundalini practice.

MiBeloved's Reply:

I cannot comment on this.

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Neil wrote:

I thought it was interesting that no one had the same reason for wearing a turban. I mentioned to one of the yogis that I have a friend (Michael) that practices and teaches Kundalini Yoga and doesn't wear a turban. He said that it isn't necessary to wear a turban and many people who do Kundalini Yoga don't wear one.

Does anyone know the real answer why some Kundalini yogis wear a turban?

MiBeloved's Reply:

I would say that mostly only the yogis who are in the Sikh religion use turbans. Rarely would you find anyone else who teaches kundalini yoga wearing a turban.

Strictly speaking kundalini yoga has nothing to do with turban wearing. I have not used a turban since around 1973 when I was living in the ashram in Denver and my kundalini yoga practice has progressed. All the same wearing a turban would be beneficial nevertheless.

Can a bike be ridden without a helmet?

Or how can a helmet help the riders?

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neil 13 months ago:

Thanks Michael.  That clears up a lot of questions.

unlimitedsun 5 years ago

I wish to learn more about the influence of light on internal energetic functioning of the mind.

Ultimately, that is in line with covering the head (as well as eyes) during practice session.

Perhaps the hidden location of the amygdala is purposeful; click below: