Kundalini rising

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Date: Posted 6 years before Feb 06, 2017

Darren 6 years ago

Last night during a short meditation I felt my kundalini rising up my spine reaching my crown chakra. Now although this is something I welcome I still have a few anxieties as to which way to react when it's in the process. Usually it's every few months when I will feel my kundalini activate.

Last night I was lying on my back. Does sitting, standing or lying on your back help or hinder the process? Which is preferable?

Spontaneous movements, usually my arms forming various shapes and poses finally ending up with a 'self hug' type posture or my hands become locked together and raised in front of my heart. Should I let these movements happen on their own and just observe or should I keep my hands/arms/body in a fixed position?

I also have slight pains or cramps in my stomach area around the time I have a release. Are these blocks, is there anything I can do to alleviate such symptoms?

So when I meditate like last night and feel the Kundalini I am not sure what to focus on. I’m too busy questioning myself on whether I should let go and let things happen or try to manipulate the energy in such a way that I get full benefit. This questioning of myself and wondering if "I'm doing it right" leaves me a little fearful and unsure about the whole process. I'd prefer to fully embrace and benefit from it as best and safely as possible.

Darren

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Darren wrote:

MiBeloved's Response:

You should have faith that kundalini will rise and then will subside as usual and that it will not harm itself. What do I mean by itself? Most of the psyche is kundalini. Most of the sensual and emotional energies you feel are derived from kundalini. Since it is a survival mechanism, it is really superfluous to be fearful that it will do damage. It does not need your assistance for safety really. It can manage the psyche and itself. The correction is that you, as the individual limited spirit in the psyche need to realize that most of the psyche is not you but is kundalini force which is seamlessly fused with you.

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Darren wrote:

Last night I was lying on my back. Does sitting, standing or lying on your back help or hinder the process? Which is preferable?

MiBeloved’s Response:

The preferred posture for meditation is the one which is most comfortable for you and which does not induce sleep. If you read yoga text books like Hatha Yoga Pradipika, you will read that a certain posture like full lotus is the ideal posture, but this advice is for those who have a body which can comfortably assume that posture. If any posture causes discomfort, that will affect the meditation. Therefore in meditation, just use the most comfortable posture but do not take a posture which usually leads to sleep.

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Darren wrote:

MiBeloved’s Response:

You should allow the body to assume those gestures (mudras) on its own but you should make a note of the posture and make a detailed note of how the kundalini energy moves or is accumulated during the assumption of those postures. However control your mind so that these observations do not discourage kundalini from rising further. In other words, observe what is happening to the chi force but do so in such a way that the force is not discouraged and does not lose its high energy charge.

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Darren wrote:

I also have slight pains or cramps in my stomach area around the time I have a release. Are these blocks, is there anything I can do to alleviate such symptoms?

MiBeloved’s Response:

If you assume a posture which is not comfortable for the body and which causes circulation to be cut off or constricted to a certain region, then there will be cramps and the like. But this should cause no alarm. Some yogis who sit in lotus posture may endure terrible cramps and so long as these do not rip the yogi’s attention away from the meditation, these are okay. If however they attract the attention forcibly, then the yogi should not take such postures but should assume an easy pose like sitting on a very spacious and spongy couch. If there are cramps in the stomach area and if they are derived from another cause, then they have to be treated appropriately. For instance one may instruct kundalini to take the front route in part so that about 30 percent of kundalini energy comes up the front part of the body from the base of the spine to the groin area then to the lower belly, then to the navel, then through the chest and neck into the head.

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Darren wrote:

MiBeloved’s Response:

Okay here goes: The mantra usually used by yogis is Om namo Shivaya Or Om namah Shivaya The problem with this mantra is that for it to be effective you have to know something about Shiva and his relationship to yoga and meditation practice. But there is a way out which is to use the automatic mantra, which is the naad sound which is heard usually on the right side in the region of the ear. Keep yourself in and focused on that naad sound. If while doing that kundalini enters the head of the subtle body, then remain with naad as you observe what it is doing.

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