Kundalini Awakening
Think your Kundalini is opening? Are you actively trying to open your kundalini? Have a look at the list below and see if you can identify with some of the following signs. This list is not all inclusive, there may be other signs as everyone is different and we all have different blockages in the energy system to be released.
Signs may include:
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Muscle twitches, spasms
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Itching, tingly, crawling or stinging sensations in the body or skin
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Periods of extreme hyperactivity and/or overwhelming fatigue
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Energy rushes or feeling like electricity is running through the body
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Intense or greatly reduced sexual appetite
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Feelings of being very hot or very cold
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Unusual sleeping patterns
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Greatly increased or reduced appetites
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Headaches and a feeling of pressure in the skull
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Racing heartbeats or pains in the chest
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Digestive system problems
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Numbness or pain in the limbs (particularly the left foot and leg)
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Pains and blockages anywhere; often in the back and neck (Many cases are Kundalini-related.)
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Emotional outbursts, rapid mood shifts, seemingly unprovoked or excessive episodes of grief, fear, rage, depression
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Spontaneous vocalizations (including laughing and weeping) -- are as unintentional and uncontrollable as hiccups
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Hearing an inner sound or sounds, classically described as a flute, drum, waterfall, birds singing and bees buzzing but which may also include roaring, whooshing, or thunderous noises. May also sound like ringing in the ears
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Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating
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Altered states of consciousness: heightened awareness, spontaneous trance states, mystical experiences (if the individual's prior belief system is too threatened by these, they can lead to bouts of psychosis or self-grandiosity)
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Heat, strange activity, and/or blissful sensations in the head, particularly in the crown area.
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Ecstasy, bliss and intervals of tremendous joy, love, peace and compassion
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Psychic experiences: extrasensory perception, out-of-body experiences, pastlife memories, astral travel, direct awareness of auras and chakras, contact with spirit guides through inner voices, dreams or visions; healing powers
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Increased creativity: new interests in self-expression and spiritual communication through music, art, poetry, etc.
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Intensified understanding and sensitivity: insight into one's own essence, deeper understanding of spiritual truths, exquisite awareness of one's environment (including "vibes" from others)
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Enlightenment experiences: direct Knowing of a more expansive reality, transcendent awareness
Does any of this sound like you? If so you may need help to control these signs, sometimes they can be disruptive or even seriously affect your quality of life.
Perhaps you have been working on opening your kundalini but are finding it frustratingly slow? Or perhaps the kundalini is stuck in one chakra?
If you're struggling with any of the above symptoms or are actively engaged in opening your kundalini already, then Kundalini Reiki Attunements can help you!
Do this once in a while. Do not be too violent with this exercise. Do it before you have anything to do with the kundalini, like before a dance of awakening. Other practices concerning kundalini will come in time. It is not a priority to awaken the kundalini right now, although you will eventually wish to. Kundalini is the power of god within us.
Contact us to find out how we can help you control your opening and put you back in control of your energy rather than the other way around. We specialize in helping people make this a smoother transition.
Actively awakening the Kundalini.
Removing the barriers
Kundalini means “coiled”. It is a serpent coiled very tightly in your root chakra. When you do techniques that awaken the kundalini, it will start releasing great energy into your body.
This energy is coiled so tightly that releasing it too quickly could damage you physically and mentally. Awakening the kundalini is good when it is done softly at first.
There is a major channel of energy in the center of your spine called the Sushumna.
The Suchumna is the passage used by the vapors of the kundalini when it is awakened. From the base of our spine up to our skull, the Sushumna encounters each chakra as it goes.
When the kundalini is awakened, energy will rise into the Sushumna one level at a time.
At the contact of each chakra, the energy of the kundalini opens the chakra and activates it, lighting it up with the light of god that was stored within you. Before the kundalini actually rises within the sushumna, it is only the vapors of the burning power of god that rises through the three channels.
Two other channels, called the Ida and Pingala, on each side of the spine, link the base chakra to your nostrils.
The ida, on the left, and the Pingala on the right, start from the base of the nostril, pass by the root of the nose, up your skull a bit on each side, down the back of your head, down to your perineum.
These 3 channels do not only serve when the kundalini is awakened, but are the main passageways for energy continuously, at a low intensity.
The passageways for the energy get blocked, with years of sleep and regular bad habits. As dense energies get to you, barriers form in the energy channels.
If we try to remove these blocks of density quickly it can damage these channels, so we must slowly work on them to open the channels again so that the vapors of the kundalini may rise again without causing pain.
Never rush into activating your kundalini, never be too anxious to get there. It is preferable to receive an authentic initiation with a master or a good teacher, one that will explain to you every detail of the process.
Until then, you can practice Kundalini awakening rituals, and the removing of the barriers.
Step 1.
Relax, breath in and out slowly, deeply, with normal breathing.
As you inhale, concentrate on tailbone of the spine, all the coccyx regions. As your exhale release your concentration and relax. Do 7 breaths.
As you inhale, concentrate on the region in your spine directly behind your navel. As you exhale, concentrate on your dan-tian, in front of your body, just below your navel. The energy will go where it must naturally. Simply concentrate where you should, and let everything else go. Do 7 breaths.
As you inhale, concentrate on the region in your spine, below the base of the throat, just below the little bump. As you exhale, concentrate on your dan-tian in front of your abdomen. The energy will make it’s own movement. Do 7 breaths.
As you inhale, concentrate on your “Jade Gate”, the pointed bone behind your skull, at its base. As you exhale, concentrate at your front dan-tian. Do 7 breaths again.
Relax, breath in and out slowly, deeply, with normal breathing.
Step 2.
Slowly breathe in and concentrate on the air passing in your nostrils, extracting the energy from the air.
The energy goes up in the ida and pingala, to the top of your head a bit on each side, to the back of your neck, down each side of your spine, way down to your base chakra.
The energy enters the perineum and ignites a white flame that burns accumulated toxins and impurities in your abdomen.
The flame produced a blue smoke that dumps upward into your lungs, that is expelled while you exhale.
Have the consecutive breaths nourish a constant and continuous flow of energy by your nostrils, down to your base chakra, nourish the flame that burns the barriers, that becomes blue smoke, out your nose when you exhale, and white energy enters in again… and so on.
A simpler way of explaining this is as follows:
Circular abdominal breathing
This is probably the most common way. Sit with the spine straight and breathe deeply into the belly.
And as you do picture the breath going all the way down to the pit of your stomach, then turning around and coming back up along your spine. Exhale slowly as you picture it coming up the spine.
Don’t get into contortions while doing this. It takes quite a bit of practice, so be patient. The theory is that by pulling the breath up the spine you help raise the kundalini.
Some people breathe into each of the chakras in turn, if you do breathe into all seven (one cycle).
You can do as many rounds as you like, just complete a ‘cycle’.
Deep abdominal breathing is beneficial on many different levels even if you’re not doing kundalini work.
Breath of fire (or Dragon’s breath)
This is another variation. Again, it’s rapid breathing through the nose. But whereas other meditations breath deeply the breath of fire is shallow. It’s almost a kind of very rapid sniffing. The movement comes from the middle chest, and must never go down into the abdominal. As you continue gradually quicken the breath. This can produce light headedness.
Any meditation can be a means of opening the kundalini. It is important to keep the spine erect during meditation. Sit on a chair, be comfortable and warm because during meditation the body temperature can drop noticeably. Many yogis talk of experiencing an elongation of the spine after a kundalini awakening. It’s interesting that some who do Pilates speak of a similar phenomenon, perhaps the breathing required to build the “girdle of steel” spoken of in Pilates awakens kundalini too.