How to Deal with Kundalini

The word Kundalini of often thrown around in metaphysical discussions, but few people
know and understand the concept. If you have an understanding of the concept, it can
save you some from or help you deal better with some very difficult experiences in your
spiritual growth.

Kundalini is a Hindu word for the basic life-force energy, also known as chi, ki, Holy
Spirit, filled with the Spirit, white light. This is the powerful energy that sustains
humanity. It is the powerful energy that transforms an egg and sperm into a human
child. It is often known as sexual energy, but that is only one use of kundalini. It is
meant for the survival and evolution of the human race. Our life is always infused with
kundalini, but we are sort of like appliances. We are plugged into the power source,
and that energy is stepped down, transformed, so that our physical bodies can handle
the current. What happens if you run a 220 current through a 110 volt appliance? It
burns it out, fries it, often destroys it. But if you take that same appliance and adapt it
to use 220 current, it will run just fine. Our bodies work in a similar way (this is a
metaphorical comparison only and not the "real" description).

We are a 110 appliance with access to millions of volts of energy if we open the
channels. We know what happens to our bodies if we are struck by lightning,
delivering millions of volts of power to our electrical system. Unless we are properly
grounded, we overload and get fried. However, if properly grounded, we can flow
those millions of volts of energy right through us and never be harmed by it. In fact,
some stories are told of people who were blind or crippled who were struck by
lightning and totally restored by the experience. But it's a dangerous game to play. If
you do not know how to be properly grounded, and how to channel the energy, there
is a high likelihood of being fried.

Now, the good news is that activating a kundalini experience accidentally happens
about as randomly as being struck by lightning. The not so good news is that all
spiritual practices can lead to opening the kundalini flood gates. This includes prayer,
meditation, magic, witchcraft, yoga, t'ai chi, physical exercise, psychological exploration,
accidental physical injuries, life-threatening circumstances, some sexual experiences,
extreme stress and a whole host of other practices. And if you don't have an
understanding of what is happening, you could experience a long list of unnerving
symptoms including (but not limited to)...

Kundalini Symptoms: Dizziness, giddiness or uncontrollable laughing, psychotic break,
neuroses, physical illness, nausea or headaches, body tremors or shaking, spasms in
various parts of the body, uncontrollable body stretching, manic-depressive episodes
or angry outburst, ecstasy and spontaneous orgasm, inability to concentrate, loss of
memory, loss of time, finding yourself in other realities, hot or cold surges, strange
food cravings, wild emotional outbursts (positive and negative), sleep disorders, wild
dreams, fear and paranoia, hearing voices, seeing visions, spontaneous out-of-body
experiences, awakened psychic abilities, cosmic consciousness, suicidal thoughts,
breakdown of lifestyle, urge to give up all your possessions and go live in a commune
or out in nature, and inability to accept society's rules. To say the least, the more
connected you get to Spiritual realities, the more difficult it can be to live in the limited
lifestyle we call the human world.

With the onset of kundalini, it may seem like nothing works in your life any more, that
you are totally out of control, that life is out of control. Let's illustrate it like this...
Suppose you were born on a tiny undeveloped island and had never seen anything
except that tiny island, it was your life, and you knew what to expect and lived
accordingly. Then suppose Americans came to the island and told you about the
Western world. You would be amazed. You might not believe it, you might be afraid of
it. Then suppose you went with the Americans and saw the Western world and lived in
it for a little while. Then suppose you went back to your tiny little island to live again.
Wouldn't that be somewhat difficult? You might be able to do it, but it would depend
on your attitude whether you could properly readjust. And sometimes, the primitive
people on the island would believe something you knew was a result of what they had
not yet seen, and that the belief was false because it was based on a limited reality.

That's what it is like to come back from a kundalini experience. There are things you've
seen and know, but others haven't, and so they deny it, and you may be seen as
crazy or a space cadet or a heretic. And, after a while of being back, you begin to
question your own off-world experiences. To set out to expand your consciousness
means that you may limit your ability to communicate with those who have not. I think
people should be aware of what they are committing to. I'm not trying to frighten you,
it can be a wonderful, exciting journey, but it has natural consequences in this world.

First, when you practice meditation and work with your energy on a regular basis,
even if it is not every day, the practices begin to strengthen your energy and raise
your kundalini. As this happens, many of the physical symptoms you described can
occur. Short-term memory loss is not uncommon. However, there are also some
physical and psychological illnesses that can cause these events as well. It would be a
good thing to have a doctor check you out physically to be sure that your body is in
good working order. Schizophrenia is an example of a chemical imbalance illness that
can exhibit many of the same symptoms you describe. Schizophrenia is treatable and
controllable with medication. However, it must be properly diagnosed.

Any disharmony in your body, physical or emotional, can cause a chemical imbalance
which increases the effects of the kundalini experience. Also, this powerful energy is
not unlike adrenaline, a chemical released during fear experiences that can increase
strength and reactions for self preservation. When Kundalini energy runs through your
body, it encounters pockets of body memories that are out of harmony with the new
energetic patterns you are creating by meditation and physical practices. It attempts
to break through these pockets that dam up your energy, and when this damming up
occurs, the shaking and quivering and all kinds of physical reactions may begin. Once
the pockets of disharmony are dissolved, the energy can flow freely again, and the
symptoms stop being apparent.  It is like you revved up your engine in your body, and
the engine was not tuned up well enough to handle all the power you gave it, so, like
a car that has its engine over-revved, it shakes and resists the extra power flow and
burns out the extra carbon deposits, but once you are tuned up, like the car, it can
handle the new level of power and runs better because of it.

If your body is not tuned up to handle this energy, it can have long-term effects on
your nervous system. Your body is like an appliance plugged into a huge flow of
electrical energy. If you don't step down the electrical energy to a level that the body
can handle, and adjust the body to a level that can handle stronger currents, like an
electrical appliance, you can burn out the circuit and ruin the appliance you're trying to
power. A person who is knowledgeable about these energy shifts - like a chi master or
ki master - can help you get it under control. The exercises in T'ai Chi and Chi Gong or
Chi Kung and yoga are designed to tune up your body to receive the higher energy
flow. But, you must have a reputable, knowledgeable teacher who knows the order
and speed at which to teach these exercises, or the results will be the same for you as
now. Be sure to choose one who is in harmony with your belief system, or they will
project a reality that does not work for you.

The first thing you might try is to stop doing all the exercises that tend to trigger the
experiences. Shut it down so you can recultivate it appropriately. Then, check your diet
and make sure you are not overeating foods that tend to rev your engine - like too
much sugar, caffeine, heavy meats or spicy food. For a while, during this healing time
for your body, you could choose to restrict your diet to lots of fresh fruits and
vegetables and rice - without a lot of seasoning. You could also drink calming teas like
chamomile. An herbal doctor could prescribe a treatment to reduce these symptoms.

Then you will need to work on your emotional body. The reason that many people
have such undesirable reactions to raising their energy levels is because they have so
many unresolved emotional issues. Unresolved emotional situations deposit
themselves in our bodies as pockets of resistance. And these body memories must be
released to enable full energy flow. Eastern cultures often emphasize non-emotion as
a part of their way of life. This is fine, if they have been taught appropriate ways to
deal with emotions that do come up. However, if emotion is simply repressed and
pretended away, it will come back again, and it will cause adverse reactions to raising
your vibration and energy through meditation and practices. Most people who
experience severe reactions have the potential to be powerful spiritual healers if they
resolve the issues that restrict the flow of energy. If they do not resolve the issues,
they end up quite often as "manic depressive" with bouts of being very happy and
bouts of being very sad, depressed and suicidal.

If you are afraid of what's happening because the onset of the flow of energy is so
disruptive to your life, here are some questions to ask yourself to see if you have
unresolved issues...

1. Do you truly believe in the way of life your society presents to you - are you
comfortable with it?
2. Are you happy with the kind of work you do?
3. Are you close to the people in your life or distant emotionally?
4. Do you love strongly, but don't know how to express your love and receive love
back?
5. Do you feel like just throwing away your whole way of life and going off on a
spiritual quest or journey?
6. Do you often have thoughts of suicide?
7. Do you wish you could speak out against the things that bother you in your life and
society but are afraid to do so?
8. Do you wish for a kinder, more loving, happier way of life?
9. Are you afraid of the criticism other people would show if they knew all these things
about you?
10. Do you feel like there's no solution to the problems you face?

If the first three answers are no and the rest of them are yes, you are experiencing an
onset of the energy of the new millennium. The world is changing its mind, and matter
will follow the change in mind - the cosmic consciousness is accepting new thought
forms, and you are experiencing these thoughts within your mind. The good news is
that this is the chaos before the re-forming of the world as we know it.

The next thing to know is that you have to change yourself first to be able to handle
the challenges of this energy and new way of being. You have to acknowledge old
angers that you have not dealt with and released. You have to deal with old pain and
experience the negative pictures hidden inside you in areas of your body that respond
negatively to the energy flow. The good news is that there are people who can help
you do this. You will have to seek them out on your own. Finding a teacher is a good
first step, possibly one who teaches someone you know and respect.

If you have pain in a particular area of your body, say around your naval, it is usually a
blocked chakra or body memory of pain. When kundalini hits an energy block where it
has a hard time getting through, symptoms occur. The naval area, 2nd chakra or sacral
chakra, is usually associated with personal relationships and fears, also the inability of
the mind to accept your strong emotions. To begin a life-healing emotional process,
you could sit down and write your parents a letter you will never give to them. This is
an exercise for you only - telling them what bothered you as a child being raised by
them. Face the bad memories. Perhaps it is not your parents, but teachers or other
children, but all the hurtful things that happened that you begin to remember. The pain
will be difficult, but if you breathe through it and accept that you can face these things
and forgive and release them, the pain will go away and the energy will be able to
move freely again. Do not be ashamed of the feelings you have, but do not hang onto
them too long either. Pray for the energy tied up in these feelings to be released. Pray
for the healing of the people who hurt you. And pray for your own healing. If you do
not pray, ask yourself to release these feelings, to forgive the people, for the people
to heal and for you to heal. Then, ask for the lesson and the gift in the experience.
Own the lesson, and the pain will disappear.

One of the most disturbing symptoms for many is loss of short-term memory, being
very forgetful. You may wonder if you are becoming senile or developing Alzheimer's
disease. This is known as stepping "out of time" - the memory loss and seeing timeless
beings. This is an expanded consciousness - a separate reality from this third
dimensional world we live in. It is what many biblical and historical religious figures
experienced as ecstasy or religious fervor. It is a high level state of consciousness that
can be desirable if you know what you're doing and understand how to function in that
reality, but you are not ready to handle that until you gain control of the energy flow.

There may also be a great deal of emotion and anger pent up within you that creates
paranoia. You may feel like you have opened a can of worms and can't find them all
again when they run out of the can. Once you begin to do the exercise listed below to
disperse the kundalini and then to resolve emotional issues, you may find things
beginning to improve. Rather than crying out, when you gain control of the energy, you
will visualize a more harmonious life and work toward creating it. The universe does
not want to take anything away from you. It wants to give you everything it has. Your
internal fears and unresolved emotional issues increase the problems in your life. It is
your work to find within you the strength and courage to face daily life and go on
through it, even if it is not what you would like it to be. When you are at peace with
yourself - you will be at peace externally too - and what you do in life will not matter
nearly as much as how you feel about it. All realities are our teachers. The universe is
a loving parent, and we its children. It wishes us no harm, only growth and happiness.
It is up to us to find the happiness for ourselves, to create it for ourselves. It is difficult,
no doubt. It requires constant work and commitment to ourselves and our growth.

Often, you may think others are trying to harm you, and this places you in the energy
of harm. As long as you fear loss, you will lose. As long as you hate life, life will give
you hateful situations. When you begin to see that all is right with the world, that
lessons are being learned, that growth and change need not cause pain, you will
begin to claim the power that has so disrupted your life. And it will fund a new reality.
It takes time and work though. But one step at a time is the way to face it. If you look
at the big picture too often, it will be overwhelming. Take baby steps in the direction of
joy, love and recreating a happy life.

KUNDALINI OVERLOAD EXERCISE:

Once you identify your experiences as classic symptoms of kundalini overload, you can
disperse some of this energy in the following way:

Imagine the energy being in a ball at the base of your spine, breathe slowly, pulling
the energy up your spine. You will be able to feel it move upward. Do not be frightened
by the physical feelings. Keep breathing and pulling it up through each area of your
spine. When it reaches the base of your skull - at the back of your head, pull the
energy into your third eye (the center of your forehead) and project it out to a cause
that will help mankind. Flow it out to feed hungry children, or create peace in the
Middle East, or heal AIDS - anything that feels like a good cause for humanity to. Keep
flowing the energy to a vision of that cause. Do this whenever the tremors or cravings
or sexual things happen, but you must choose a positive result for humanity.

Kundalini is the basic creative, reproductive life force, so it is intended for improving
humanity. You will disperse excess energy this way. You can do this daily if you wish
until you notice yourself being able to think more clearly, and control your body better
until your concentration settles down. This is one of the most helpful exercises I ever
received from my guides. The key is not to be afraid - fear creates restrictions - and the
end results are the ones you know so well if you have been through an overland, as
well as those listed in this article.

Treat yourself well, stay in love, and claim your power and share it with the world.  =0=
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