Namaste Friends…
Wondering if many of you have ever experienced “etheric” (for lack of a better term) heat around a chakra before? During yesterday afternoons meditation I had a very strong sensation of air spinning at the ajna chakra (both in the front and in the back of the head) as well as an air spinning sensation on the crown and at the heart chakra (just the front here though). These sensations got so strong at one point that it was overwhelming and I had to back off of the mantra and just observe the “goings on”…at this point I used one hand to feel the air in front of these three chakras…it was HOT! I mean physically HOT! It was dark so I don’t know the exact distance between my hand and my body, but I would guess between 8 and 10 inches based on moving my hand closer until it touched the body. I haven’t had any uncomfortable overload symptoms for a while now, so I am just wondering if this has been noticed by others and if it has been, if it is an indication for you to pace yourself. Thanks for any advice/suggestions/comments/concerns 
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Love,
Carson 
wow.Great!
Maybe next time dont stop the mantra like yogani recomend (if its possible).Its scenary.See what happens if you do this.open your self to the experience beyond the experience. 
Hi Miguel…
I had to stop the mantra because continuing it was making the sensations push towards the verge of being uncomfortable…there was just SO much energy movement (and likely friction too) that I couldn’t continue. I had to just stop and let things settle down for a bit.
Love,
Carson
Hi Carson,
Yes, the currents of energy around active chakras can feel physically hot, and sometimes very hot. I think you will find that if you get a thermometer and put it next to the chakras that feel hot, it will not register anything different than normal.
Experiencing energetic symptoms is not in itself a reason to self-pace practice times. If you are experiencing pain, or irritability, or feeling especially ungrounded then these would be classic signs that some self-pacing was in order. If you counted energetic activity around chakras as a reason for self-pacing then you would probably find that you were not doing much in the way of spiritual practices over the next few years. 
Christi
Haha…thanks Christi…
No, no irritability or other usual signs of needing to pace going on here right now, so hopefully am in the clear. It’s just that in the “silence:energy” ratio, I am a considerably more “endowed” in the Silence aspect I think 
. Usually not a lot of energetic symptoms…but basically zero suffering 
. Thanks for the advice!
Love,
Carson
good idea to stop if you felt uncomfortable.
Maybe Now is time for your shakti in action Carson…!
is a good thing cz you have much inner silence and divine marriage can happen!
Ps- youre having wonderful experiences this days isnt it?
Its a good sign i think.
No idea what you’re experiencing but for me that would look like an interesting opportunity to have direct experience how chakras and acupuncutre meridians relate to each other, if they do. You’re a lucky guy, Carson!
Hello everyone and thank you for the kind comments, info and advice!
Last evenings meditation was very interesting.
I am beginning to get a real “feel” for the “flow” of energy in my body. Last night I realized that, at least for me, there is a wickedly blissful connection between the Ajna and the Crown chakras. I could feel the ajna spinning, both in the front at the forehead and in the back just under the bump in the back of my head, but I also felt the crown spinning on the back top of my head as well as spinning at my CHIN! Connecting the line of the “back” of the crown chakra (top back of the head) to the “front” of the crown chakra (at the chin) and connecting the line of the ajna front to back, gave me a sensation in the middle of my skull where these two lines connect, at what I assume is the pineal gland, that just about blew me away…ecstacy city man! I had no idea that the crown chakra had a “front” to it, and I especially didn’t think if it did that it would be 'lower" then the ajna physically…but this is what I felt. Can anyone corroborate this?
Love,
Carson
Hi all,
Carson Great Experience!I don’t know about the heat but I mostly experienced spinning,pulling and itching.Heat once I did feel on mooladhara chakra but not the way you say it.
Guess you have to keep up the practice and see what happens next.Hopefully you(everyone)experience the bliss and unending opening of lotus metaphor.
Love and Light
Viji
Hi Carson,
Classically, in Yoga, the chakra on the top back of the head is called the Bindu chakra. It is located about half way between the crown chakra (on top of the head at the fontanel), and the bump on the back of the head. So it is possible to experience the bindu chakra the crown, and the ajna chakra all at the same time. Personally I have never noticed a connection between the bindu chakra and the chin or the crown chakra and the chin.
The ajna chakra does, in my experience have a rear aspect just below the bump on the back of your head, or directly on the bump and which corresponds with the occipital nerve plexus.
Good to hear about your experiences.
Hi Christi and thank you for the info!
Yeah, I spent some time this morning looking at side profile chakra drawings, and where I thought the crown was, is not where I was feeling the spinning yesterday evening…I have felt the spinning of the crown chakra (on the top of the head) before, but in this experience it seems it was the Bindu Chakra I was feeling…can you explain a little about the Bindu Chakra? I know nothing of it.
Yeah I was almost a little nervous at writing about the chin connection because I had never heard anyone talk about this before…but then I realized that this was just my habit of needing validation for all my personal experiences and I let go and typed away …I don’t know what this was, but it sure FELT like it was the front of (what I now know as) the Bindu Chakra spinning. And I DEFINITELY felt a connection between the third eye and this chakra in the middle of my head…it was sheer ecstacy like I have never felt before.
Oh yeah…I have NO doubts about this one…I think I have a fairly open and active third eye and I regularly have the spinning feeling on both my forehead and just below the bump on the back of the skull.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me!
Love,
Carson
Hi Carson,
When the kundalini is awakening and the chin is tucked in a bit toward the chest as the spine simultaneously lengthens with the bindu point reaching upward in the direction of the sky, it activates a relationship between the sacrum and C7 vertebra (throat area) which acts like a kundalini pump. The lengthening of the spine with the bindu reaching for the heavens and the chin slightly tucked causes the sacrum to tilt backwards slightly. Mechanically speaking, it is this combined action which acts like a pump. When this occurs the connection between the muladhara and the bindu is also stimulated and strengthened.
For many, the C7 throat area is one of the more restricted areas to the kundalini flow. As this mechanism becomes activated, it will naturally clear out blockages in that area and one’s throat chakra, rear and front aspects can become more active. These kind of movements can also be very subtle occuring naturally without intention as the intelligent kundalini systematically opens and purifies the sushumna and chakras according to one’s individual needs.
Perhaps you were becoming aware of some of these natural dynamics or after-effects as your energy system continues to open up and purify.
Love and Light,
Steve
Hi Steve and thanks for the super informative post!
Yes,I am definitely becoming more and more sensitive to the internal (and external too I guess) energy flows as I progress with my practices, I just have very little “book knowledge” about stuff like this…in the past that would have drove me nuts…today, I wallow in the unknowing . Expectations are a drag
Love,
Carson
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today, I wallow in the unknowing. Expectations are a drag
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Love and Light,
Steve
Hi Carson,
The Bindu chakra is said to be the place where the amrita nectar is produced before it flows down to the palate and on down to the throat. It is also said that it is intimately connected with the vishuddhi (throat) chakra, so that could be the connection with the chin that you are feeling. An expanded vishuddhi chakra would have a diameter large enough to include the chin area.
The word bindu means point, or dot, and there are various points in the subtle body which are referred to as “bindu”. The most famous is the bindu above the Brahmarundra which is just above the crown chakra. The bindus are basically zero-points in time/space reality which act as gateways to dimensions beyond this realm. I believe the Bindu chakra is an important aspect of the spiritual energetic transformation, but it is not one of the “main controls” in the early stages of Yoga, so it has not been mentioned yet in Yogani’s writings. I imagine that we will see it coming up more often though in the future.
Christi
Here is a quote from Lilian Silburn’s Kundalini: energy of the depths (p11):
In the Kundalini Yoga book edited by the Bihar School of Yoga, there is a chapter concerning Bindu. I am far away from the exercises intended to stimulate this chakra, but… the book states that it is important to hear an “inner sound” on which you must focus. It is not always easy to hear this sound (they say). Once you can focus this inner sound, you will hear another inner, more subtle sound, which will become more profound as you switch focus on it, etc. By any chance, are there others who can hear this “inner sound”? For me it is rather easy, it is always there, and I remember that I once frightened/scared/made angry my mother when I was aged 6 telling her I “hear sounds” - I was obliged to deny it, but I “see” now where it is comming from. If I focus on it (e.g. meditate), the chin becomes (much more) rigid and at times, a somewhat metallic taste appears in the mouth. The meditation becomes quickly peaceful as well.
Concerning physically hot chacras: several of us have experience with an overheated muladhara 
HI Christi and thanks for sharing…you are a wealth of information
Interesting. Perhaps Kechari mudra comes into play here? I have just in the past week been able to get into Kechari Stage 2 without finger support for the first time. I know Kechari is a big nectar stimulator and I tasted minty air for the first time the other day…probably just some kind of toothpaste residue in my nasal passages or something
Ah, I was aware that Bindu meant point or dot, just was unaware that there was “Bindu Chakra”.
Would the bindu at the back of the head be one that could be a gateway to a dimension where clairaudience is possible? I have been having some really wierd sounds and voices coming to me the past week or so.
Thanks for taking the time to share with me Christi…much gratitude.
Love,
Carson
Hi Machi!
Awesome!
I didn’t read your post until I had finished replying to Christi above…sweet!
Lately I have noticed a huge increase in the amount of “etheric noise” (?) I hear. Sometimes it can be hard to drown it out in order to focus on the task at hand (like getting auditted like I am at work today )
Anyways, thanks for sharing! Fits in very nicely with what I am experiencing right now. Namaste.
Love,
Carson
I like that, “etheric noise”… I somehow is very descriptive of what I experience. Yesterday I meditated on it again. First, I started with a candle gazing exercise (trataka), 2x 5 minutes. The body felt really relaxed after the second time. I could already feel a cold feeling on certain parts of my back and continued by relaxing the state of mind and fixing my position for a few minutes. I proceeded by concentrating on the “etheric noise”, which was easy to distinguish but not to concentrate on, because for some reason my heartbeat was felt strongly. Anyhow, I could do it, and very quickly a very cold feeling was enjoyed at the location of Vishuddha chakra. The feeling was rather intens and spread all over my shoulders and neck. It also introduced a certain rigidity, but this can be because of the cold feeling? It feels like a shiver running over the spine, but then localized at Vishuddha and staying for a longer time. After a few moments, I continued breathing and mantra exercises.
I suspect that what I experience as cold, you may feel as hot. I suggest you try to meditate on the “etheric noise” and report to us (or at least to me ) what you feel