Prana or Kundalini

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 6 years before Feb 28, 2017

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Brandon emailed:

I just got finished with a 50 minute meditation this morning, and it was even more powerful. This time it was heat for the most part, instead of coolness. As it rose up the spine, I felt like I was being expanded, and almost as though my body couldn't contain me. I felt waves of intense energy up to my crown chakra, which sent tingling through my head. At one point I got shocked somehow, and it sent tingling all throughout my body.

What I do right now is I control my breath. This time I was doing 8 in and 8 out. As I do that, I feel the energy going up and down my spine. That seems to activate the Kundalini enough, assuming that's what this feeling is, and it begins to rise. This time it reached to about the third eye.

I will try what you suggest, though. Like I asked in my last email, what makes you think it is Kundalini, and not just a lot of prana flowing through the spine? That web site said that this is commonly confused.

MiBeloved’s Response:

I think you have a misunderstanding about prana. Prana means the energy which infuses kundalini. Just as we have a carburetor and we have gasoline. Gasoline is what the carb burns and runs the engine in that way. Prana is the energy which kundalini consumes and it then runs the body from the energy expended in the burn.

Try to study what the subtle body is as distinct from the physical body, even when that subtle form is inter-spaced in the physical. The expansion you are experiencing is happening in the subtle body.