Kundalini Visualization

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before Apr 01, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Kundalini is usually coming up the spine during exercises for breath infusion but a yogi should know for sure that the idea that there are nadi channels all over the subtle body, is not a myth or symbolic statement. It is factual. Thus the question arises, as to why does Kundalini come up the spine and does not usually travel into the nadis which are in the body even in the extremities like the fingers and toes?

The answer is that once kundalini has manufactured a body in the womb of the parents it is no longer concerned with the details of that body. Its concern shrinks to basic maintenance and to acquiring pleasures and experiences from the body.

It will not therefore be involved voluntarily in keeping the tiny nadis which run all over the body in order. Even physically we see that the fluid pump in the body, the heart, is not concerned with the details of how blood gets to the extremities. It pumps the blood on the assumption that it will course through those extremities, even though as the body gets older the plumbing system deteriorates.

A yogi has it as an extra chore to make certain that the kundalini flows through the extremities and that is why the postures are required as the 3rd stage of yoga. During practice one will feel when kundalini goes to the extremities, even if that happens rarely. The postures stretch, contract and activate some nadis which are in hard to reach places of the subtle body. If there is not posture regiment, the yogi has to depend on his imagination or visualization to command kundalini to go to various out-of-the-way places in the body. And of course that would depend on how much the kundalini shows a response to such mental commands.

If you can give a mental command to raise kundalini and if kundalini will obey that command, then obviously you have no need for posture, or even for breath infusion practice. Otherwise, it should be taken into consideration.