Seeking clarity of practices in (advanced?) awakening

15. Kundalini Issues Not Related to the AYP System
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Hi all, I found this website last night while looking for information on how to work with kundalini awakening at higher stages, I’ll try to condense this as much as possible and keep it as short as I can, becasue I could probably write pages here.

About 3-4 weeks ago I think by Divine grace a kundalini awakening course found me offered by a monk, which I went through. I started my full sadhana (practice) about 3 weeks ago. Every single day I have had unbelievable experiences in meditation - (sometimes I wonder if I’ve gone mad lol) and I’m noticing big differences in my daily active life too. I’m a lot more calm, peaceful, chronic morning anxiety obliterated with root activation, there’s an inner stillness within me. My brain craves it so much. I’ve had three crown activations and a bliss wave. After being here and looking through the materials I’m honestly feeling scared and lost. Initially, I came to find how to grow with this unfolding, how to manage it safely and to the fullest potential (not rewinding back). I know I will find stillness and figure it out, I will sit with uncertainty and fear and it will pass. But that won’t actually help me figure out what my next steps should be. I’m in awe of how fast everything has unfolded. As it did, I naturally started piecing things together, and I believe (based on the evidence of my life in those periods) that my awakening started probably some years ago without me knowing gradually leading up to 3 weeks ago and now my crown has activated 3 times and I’ve had a bliss wave with the third one that felt like a welcoming home, and I say this not in the sense of ecstasy is home, but apparently through my self healing and growth I was unknowingly but intuitively using tantric practices to heal years ago, which I have stopped.

So now I’m at a huge crossroad. I have this orgasmic desire for unity, just the word itself and the words sacred, communion, they send incredibly sensual waves through my body like nothing has ever done before not even to the edge of what this feels like. I was born spiritual, I have always felt that I am more spirit than human. But my problem, do I start digging through information to find what the next appropriate exercises are ? More advanced breath work? Locks? Or do i dial down and start from the beginning? Maybe just stick to my original practice, but what if my brian fries, maybe there’s a delayed reaction and that’s already on it’s way? Sigh. I am not new to meditation or yoga. I’m also attuned to master/teacher Usui Reiki and Kundalini Reiki. My practice includes mulotejana, kapala-bhati, jalandhara bandha, bumble bee breathing, shambavi , third eye meditation, heart chakra focus, a specific mantra plus instructions for meditation. The purpose is to clear the subtle body, dissolve major knots, pierce all the chakras. It is to awaken, but not to further this awakening with more advanced locks, breathwork, yoga poses.

I know my awakening is totally out of step to the way things are laid out here, but I would be so much appreciative for any help I can get. I can provide more detail if it needed. Thank you kindly in advance :folded_hands:t3::folded_hands:t3::folded_hands:t3:

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Hi Iamtheiam,

Thanks for sharing. It sounds as if you are doing very well. If everything is working out for you, then why not just continue as you are?

If you want to, you could read through the main lessons on this website. Not especially in order to learn new practices, as it sounds as if you have plenty to be getting on with, but more to deepen your understanding of how the whole process of liberation work, and how all the pieces fit together. The first lesson is here, and then you just click on “Next” to get to the next lesson. All the main lessons are free.

Or, the whole lesson directory is here:

It is a lot of reading (over 400 pages), but I have a feeling you will find it very useful.

All these main lessons are available as a published book called “Advanced Yoga Practices: Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living”. That is available in two volumes here.

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Maybe just stick to my original practice, but what if my brian fries, maybe there’s a delayed reaction and that’s already on it’s way?

Hi Iamtheiam,

p.s.

I don’t see any reason why your brain should fry, or why there should be any delayed reaction that you could potentially suffer from in the future, unless you are engaging in crown chakra practices too soon. Information on that, and on how to navigate the opening of the crown chakra safely is given in the main AYP lessons, especially in lesson 69, lesson 199 and lesson 287.

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Hi Tristan,

That is badically the conclusion I came to. I will continue my practice, take a look at the lessons u shared, and little by little go through the rest of the lessons. Thank you for the replies! :folded_hands:t3:

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Hi Tristan,

Yeah, basically I just don’t know if my body is ready for this I mean I started my kundalini practice roughly 3 weeks ago and it seems I’m far from the awarness observing itself stage in the day (prerequisite here for crown activation unless I misunderstood) and I thought this would take some years at least. So maybe if I was having an awakening that started years ago I’m on track and I’m ok, but if I’m not I don’t want to get hurt. There is also the other side of this that if I am ready I’d like to further my awakening and work with the energy safely. My practice is to awaken all the chakras including the crown, but I don’t think it is sufficient for reaching divine union (based on course description), which is my ultimate goal if I can be so lucky.

Today I meditated on the existential who am I question, and I felt activity in my crown and I just wasn’t’ sure what to do. I directed my focus into the third eye probably twice but each time I stopped the crown would light up again, so it’s like do I stop it or do I surrender ? :woman_shrugging:t3:. But, I will take a look at the lesson numbers you provided here, thank you so much!! :folded_hands:t3:

Do you know what the disconnect of time is between the premature activation and the delayed onset of it? Is it lack of integration?

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True that, trust in God, let the currents carry us with a song in our heart, in time dissolved silence and prayerful stillness

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Hi Iamtheiam,

I would not get too hung up on timescales. After all, we don’t know how many lifetimes we have been engaged in spiritual practices for, before this lifetime. Some people come into this lifetime already wired for a fast awakening due to spiritual practices they have already done in previous lifetimes.

The crown chakra will open for everyone at some stage on their path. It usually opens at the right time, when sufficient purification has been completed in the lower six chakras (root chakra to ajna chakra). There can be exceptions to this, such as if someone is engaged in crown chakra practices too early, or is using advanced pranayama practices such as bhastrika or kumbhaka too soon. But, for most people, if it starts to open on its own, it will be the right time.

If it is opening too early, you will know because it will cause you to feel unstable, ungrounded, spaced-out, and can cause pain in the body such as the feeling that your body is becoming sunburned on the inside, or the feeling of an intense headache. If this is happening then that would be the time to back off on practices and focus on grounding. You could always use Shambhavi mudra to redirect the prana away from the crown if necessary.

Having a root-to-ajna Spinal Breathing practice is very useful when it comes to the opening of the crown chakra as it means we have that stable pathway in the body already established.

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