Kundalini Awakening

[shadowmaker]

kundalini awakening is the beginning of actual spiritual experience.

The question arises: how is this awakening triggered? There are two broad approaches to kundalini awakening: active and passive. The active approach involves systematic physical exercises and techniques of concentration, visualization, pranayama (breath practice) and meditation under the guidance of a competent teacher. These techniques come from any of the four main branches of yoga but for this purpose could be termed kundalini yoga.

The passive approach is instead a path of surrender where one lets go of all the impediments to the awakening rather than trying to actively awaken the kundalini. A chief part of the passive approach is shaktipat where one person's kundalini is awakened by another who already has the experience. Shaktipat only raises the kundalini temporarily but gives the student an experience to use as a basis.

I feel like I have been going through this. There's more than just what I posted, but you should look it up and maybe it can answer some things for you people?

[shadowmaker]

Physical and Psychological effects


-Involuntary jerks, tremors, shaking, itching, tingling, and crawling sensations, especially in the arms and legs
-Energy rushes or feelings of electricity circulating the body
-Intense heat (sweating) or cold, especially as energy is experienced passing through the chakras
-Spontaneous pranayama, asanas, mudras and bandhas
-Visions or sounds at times associated with a particular chakra
-Diminished or conversely extreme sexual desire sometimes leading to a state of constant or whole-body orgasm
-Emotional upheavals or surfacing of unwanted and repressed feelings or thoughts with certain repressed emotions becoming dominant in the conscious mind for short or long periods of time.
-Headache, migraine, or pressure inside the skull
-Increased blood pressure and irregular heartbeat
-Emotional numbness
-Antisocial tendencies
-Mood swings with periods of depression or mania
-Pains in different areas of the body, especially back and neck
-Sensitivity to light, sound, and touch
-Trance-like and altered states of consciousness
-Disrupted sleep pattern (periods of insomnia or oversleeping)
-Loss of appetite or overeating
-Bliss, feelings of infinite love and universal connectivity, transcendent awareness


now if you were to go to a doctor you would be prescribed medicine for depression/anxiety/pain

life changes occur and it's natural.

I think I should just be a Hindu

[Odin]

i jerk involuntarily. it sometimes leads to this state of whole body orgasm, as is described.

lolz.

okay but all lolz aside, yes, i would say all of these things are indiciative of reaching new spiritual planes, because they involved fundamental changes in your mind/body/awareness.

are you prepared to worship the Hindu gods?

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I know nothing about Kundalini Awakening....but I would agree that life changes happen naturally...and it is sad that so many people are being diagnosed with anxiety and depression and are then medicated...I think the medication is more harmful to them than their symptoms...

[shadowmaker]

Jan 15, 2013 5:20:50 GMT -6 Odin said:

are you prepared to worship the Hindu gods?

not necessarily worship, but pay some respect daily is not a bad idea..it's only natural to give shout outs to the wise

[shadowmaker]

I agree blackswan, it's much easier to go see a doctor rather than try to cope with the madness one experiences during an awakening. and doctors "know" everything according to what most people think so what they diagnose has to be true. meds mask things just like drugs. now there are some that possibly aren't mentally strong enough and do need some type of med to get by, but i think a lot of people could probably benefit through learning about the state of mind, the state of just being. So many people can't sit alone without some type of distraction. If one can't stand to be by oneself then how can one technically begin to be with someone else. you gotta love the self 1st and that means begin with being alone by yourself and learning about you.

[Odin]

Jan 15, 2013 13:19:51 GMT -6 shadowmaker said:

Jan 15, 2013 5:20:50 GMT -6 Odin said:

are you prepared to worship the Hindu gods?

it's only natural to give shout outs to the wise

YOU RANG?!

[Odin]

Jan 15, 2013 13:27:54 GMT -6 shadowmaker said:

I agree blackswan, it's much easier to go see a doctor rather than try to cope with the madness one experiences during an awakening. and doctors "know" everything according to what most people think so what they diagnose has to be true. meds mask things just like drugs. now there are some that possibly aren't mentally strong enough and do need some type of med to get by, but i think a lot of people could probably benefit through learning about the state of mind, the state of just being. So many people can't sit alone without some type of distraction. If one can't stand to be by oneself then how can one technically begin to be with someone else. you gotta love the self 1st and that means begin with being alone by yourself and learning about you.

Yeah.....unnecessary drugs do cause problems.

Though my mom has a serious anxiety disorder. And I am very glad that she takes medication for it. Because I have seen her off of it, and in no way do I think it would lead to a spiritual awakening for anyone.

[shadowmaker]

right there are exceptions, but overall some people just don't bother trying to look into something like this out of fear and ignorance, but again some really do need that medication.

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Jan 15, 2013 13:27:54 GMT -6 shadowmaker said:

I agree blackswan, it's much easier to go see a doctor rather than try to cope with the madness one experiences during an awakening. and doctors "know" everything according to what most people think so what they diagnose has to be true. meds mask things just like drugs. now there are some that possibly aren't mentally strong enough and do need some type of med to get by, but i think a lot of people could probably benefit through learning about the state of mind, the state of just being. So many people can't sit alone without some type of distraction. If one can't stand to be by oneself then how can one technically begin to be with someone else. you gotta love the self 1st and that means begin with being alone by yourself and learning about you.

Right now being alone after reading about the annunnaki, is sort of freaking me out...lol


But on a serious note, I don't know about that...I personally spend a lot of time alone...I love my alone time, and myself ♥ I am able to do the things that I enjoy and take interest in when I am alone...but doing so, does not help me to be able to meditate...It has nothing to do with me not being able to be alone with myself per se, but when I try to sit and concentrate quietly, I will hear a noise and it will break my concentration..

I am currently downsizing my material possessions, not that I am a materialistic person, for I am not...I am actually very thrifty...but one does accumulate things, like papers, books, linens, etc...I don't have much, but am trying to live even more modestly...let go as you will..I am hoping by clearing out and minimizing, it will help with the concentration and meditating....

Everyone needs alone time...I think the strongest relationships are those that allow for their partners to do their own thing and be able to discover themselves...so then they can discover each other in a new light...

[Deleted]

Jan 15, 2013 20:43:53 GMT -6 Odin said:

Jan 15, 2013 13:27:54 GMT -6 shadowmaker said:

I agree blackswan, it's much easier to go see a doctor rather than try to cope with the madness one experiences during an awakening. and doctors "know" everything according to what most people think so what they diagnose has to be true. meds mask things just like drugs. now there are some that possibly aren't mentally strong enough and do need some type of med to get by, but i think a lot of people could probably benefit through learning about the state of mind, the state of just being. So many people can't sit alone without some type of distraction. If one can't stand to be by oneself then how can one technically begin to be with someone else. you gotta love the self 1st and that means begin with being alone by yourself and learning about you.

Yeah.....unnecessary drugs do cause problems.

Though my mom has a serious anxiety disorder. And I am very glad that she takes medication for it. Because I have seen her off of it, and in no way do I think it would lead to a spiritual awakening for anyone.

I am sorry to hear about your mom Daniel ♥ I am glad they help her some people do need them and can function better...some on the other hand don't.... my brother is on meds for anxiety and depression...but I think in his case they are doing more harm than good...they have him on more than one, and he just sort of stopped talking to everyone and just sits and does nothing...he has totally let himself go and has no desire for life or to do anything anymore...he used to have a lot of friends and had many hobbies and interests..now he is void of life

[shadowmaker]

not fond of discussing personal things in a forum, but I wish my mom would begin to get some sort of therapy for moving on and finding peace within her own past. She will never do that though and so unfortunately she will remain bitter til the end.

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Sorry to hear about your mom

[shadowmaker]

thanks

[Odin]

Jan 20, 2013 13:23:00 GMT -6 shadowmaker said:

not fond of discussing personal things in a forum, but I wish my mom would begin to get some sort of therapy for moving on and finding peace within her own past. She will never do that though and so unfortunately she will remain bitter til the end.

i can understand...my own mom has things she has to work on, but she's 60 and it's hard to change when you're old.