Something moved in my root chakra!

[Dsmoke]

Thank you so much for your reply, Robert. I really appreciate you taking the time to do so. I'll take your advice and continue asking for guidance. Diet really affects the energy, so I'll continue to experiment with that.

I should add, for anyone who is confused, that I only recently learned that some people use "root chakra" to describe a chakra below the feet. When I was learning about chakra, root and base chakra were interchangeable terms. Here, I'm talking about the base chakra in the perineum, not the one below the feet.

[Pilar]

Dsmoke,
I enjoyed reading about your experience and have absolutely nothing to contribute lol. However, I agree there are strange and wonderful things afloat and have also been having wild experiences pop out of nowhere in my meditations. For about a month now, I've been waking up at 3 am every night during a peak in my energy cycle. Sometimes the energy is washing back and forth from my head to my feet so quickly I feel like I'm vibrating. One night, I did begin to hear the sounds of a very strong vibration and saw a large orange merkaba swing into place in two giant triangles around me. I could hear it vibrating all around me - whomp whomp whomp whomp. It was a very intense experience! On other occasions, I have felt like I went part-way through a death experience. Very intense, and very strange. At any rate, it seems there are changes going on affecting all of us, doesn't it? ~P

[Dsmoke]

Interesting, Pilar! I find it fascinating when symbols come of their own accord during meditations or dreams. Perhaps their is something "in the air" so to speak, for those who can feel it.

That makes me wonder if there are cycles for such things. Like right now, people like you and I are going through changes because we share some common ... something? And perhaps in 8 months time, another group of people will begin their strange experiences while ours die down.

[Pilar]

You mean it's going to die down??? That might be a great thing, if it truly is moving in cycles, because things get so intense during these night meditations, I could use some time off occasionally! I've also been pretty heavy into qigong lately, so meridian-dredging is stepping things up a notch in my energy experiences, I think. What kind of meditation are you doing that's bringing on your new experiences? ~P

PS-the merkaba wasn't just a symbol in this situation - it was a vehicle! It was fully powered up and ready to go somewhere! lol I totally chickened out! I remember thinking - I have no idea how to fly this thing!!

[Dsmoke]

Pilar, judging by what others have told me, the intensity does die down and is cyclical. It's not that it goes away, but I've been told that it isn't always "AAAAGH OMG!" Maybe it's like Robert's NEW system - at first, you get really strong energy sensations and then as your body gets accustomed to it, they lighten up. I don't know.

I am going to my second qigong class this week After the first class, I did one of the exercises in a lucid dream and wow! Talk about intense. But most of the time I just do my own variations on NEW. I have also been doing my own variations of shamanic journeying lately, too.

[Aunt Clair]

Persuant to the topic of kundalini opening the limbs uo ,
a few things occurred this month which follow on from that ;

1.A medium visting from England saw pads like energy centres on the fingers of a few people in my community including myself and a lady who is not in my circle but known to me . We confirmed this in circle but were surprised that a stranger found them on a person not in our circle ,The lady who had the pads is a strong healer , medium and channeler . The pads like fingertip energy centres allow us to pull negative energy away from and out of patients . It is clumsy and not particularly effective yet . The energy comes to the pads like strings and good energy comes out with the bad so far . But I am sure it will work better in time .

2. Many peers across the world on diverse forums have complained of pains in the arm from the elbow to the fingertips . A few have complained about similar pains from the knee to the toes .

3. A few dreamers from across the world have had dreams of cobras biting their hands , coming out of their palms and going into their palms . One from the oneline circle who lives in Serbia had a dream of rainbow snakes coming out of one arm and rainbow fish going in the other one .

4. There has been a change in the look of the palm clairvoyantly . Many have a 3 ringed coiled oval looking like a gas burner . It has rainbow colours and is oval in shape extending across the palm longer from the finger to the wrist than across .

5.A few sitters have had talons of dragons or in a few less cases demons appear clairvoyantly on the toes these are curved and about 8 cm long .

6. My own dreams have been about sleeves removing a core from the inner arm and this being replaced by a higher energy core which is then wrapped in an outer sleeve of higher energy silver in the middle and gold on the outside .

7 . I had hoped that we would have conclusion this full moon but that was last night for my part of the world and there was no change yet however , my mates in circle and I report strong kundalini spiking in the hips . So I think this will open in the next 2 weeks by the new moon .

[Pilar]

So basically, it is only going to get more interesting!

[Dsmoke]

Aunt Clair, I've had intense sensations in the hips for quite awhile, but none of the other things you describe. Interesting!

[McArthur]

ps, when energy sensations become intense, grounding will help. Take a shower, eat a heavy meal, drink a glass of wine, get in some walking, etc. This really helps.

In Gopi Krishna's book "Living With Kundalini" he states that eating heavy meals always made matters worse for him at the beginning stages of his experience, leaving him bedridden for days on end. So much so that for months he was barely able to eat mere morsels of rice and milk for fear of triggering the adverse effects he was experiencing. Then later (years IIRC) he went from eating little to eating more than normal. Personally I have found that eating a heavy meal also makes matters worse for me but also eating very little doesn't help either. I think the best approach is what Gopi did, which was to eat small meals frequently (every 2 to 3 hours) rather than having the normal 3 big daily meals. He also claimed drinking plenty of fresh milk helped if one is not able to take in too much food. He definitely seemed to have to concentrate on his diet and how much he ate during his whole experience.

Alcohol(*note), or any other mind-altering substance, IMO, is a definite no-no as far as Kundalini is concerned if you are trying to calm it down. For me it just intensifies it and makes it rage even stronger, but then I am used to it, so each to their own.

I agree a shower or warm bath might help but walking, for me personally, only tends to excite the energy involved. But that may be because I am not as physically fit as I need to be so that is why I can get adverse effects sometimes that way. Laying in a soft bed in a quiet atmosphere or with soft music playing certainly helps me* and if all else fails (and the surge is too strong for me to handle at the time) I take some of my emergency supply of valium (it being the only mind altering substance I find helps to calm the snake).

How to tell if you're experiencing Kundalini? It feels like you have 100,000 volts of spiritual electricity coursing through your mind; you can feel the unmistakable power of it raging through your very core and emanating from you - and more than likely so will those around you (although they might not quite know what it is they are feeling, you will most certainly have a noticeable "presence" about you, ). After all, you're manifesting your Higher Self, and that is extremely powerful - "too powerful" immediately springs to mind For me this often tends to come out as me giving off extreme heat (sometimes called the Shaman Heat) - so much so that the windows on my side of any car I am in become steamed up even on warm days (this happened a week ago while I was in Spain). Centering and balancing exercises are very helpful when encountering energies this strong. The Kabbalistic Cross and the Middle Pillar Exercise I have found helpful in that regard, as well as the "four fold breath".

While praying might help some, I find chanting to be more helpful to me personally, but if it is too strong for you then sure, pray to yourself and tell It to "TURN IT DOWN!". Or you could take charge of the energy rushing through you like surfing a wave (if you're able to keep your balance), master it and use it to heal yourself (or others) of any ailments and do a general cleanup of your aura etc. I'm not quite able to master it that well just yet myself but I'm working on it (it still knocks me for 6 every time it happens and is very hard to stay balanced, especially when I'm in crowded places!).

oh! Playing a flute (or harmonica) helps too, as does swaying from side to side (or back and forth) - those Indian snake charmers are onto something.

*I think it important not to overstress what might have worked for someone else will work for others as though they are absolutes because every persons experience of this is going to be somewhat different, although there do appear to be certain guidelines that help.

Btw, Gopi mentions in his book that one Saddhu told him he was being attacked by evil spirits in combination with his Kundalini experience, but he seemed to dismiss this outright. Which is a shame because it looks to me like that Saddhu was right from everything else Gopi wrote in that book about his experiences. I'd be interested on your thoughts about that if you've read the book Robert?


*note: LINK

"It is clear that nicotine and alcohol definitely act in some way upon Kundalini, the former interposing a barrier between the general force of Kundalini and its operation in the various vehicles of the individual concerned, while the other seems to act as a direct stimulant, stirring the Force in wrong directions, or in some way wrongly intensifying it, and in any case doing these things in connection with an individual far from ready for Fire-development. All narcotics, drugs, stimulants, clog the system and interpose a deadening miasma between the individual and all larger consciousness."

[Dsmoke]

Hey McArthur,

I have heard mixed reviews about that Gopi Krishna book. Some people say that he had an atypical experience because he was being pretty rough with his energy practices. Other people say that it's a great book. I haven't read it, so I can't comment!

I personally have a very restricted diet due to necessity, so alcohol and milk are moot points right now. However, I concur with you that heavy meals are best avoided and that diet in general must be closely scrutinized. I'll keep your advice in mind! I'm still having extremely intense sensations (100,000 volts, indeed!), but they mysteriously stop at the sub-navel in most cases. It hasn't reached my crown yet. I have experienced that heat you mentioned, enough that other people have commented. Crazy!