What happens after Prana/Kundalini?

Dear Piruz,
Sounds like you are having fun… just joking :grin: . You have been given loads of excellent advice. I will re-emphasize some elements you may have missed.
To answer your question - will you go crazy when kundalini reaches the crown - the answer is no. Not likely. Internet nutters love to exaggerate and create fear.
Kundalini arises from the storehouse of sexual energy situated at the base of your bum, so yes, it impacts sexual functioning. What you are experiencing is a transcendence of sexual energy used merely for the purpose of sex and procreation to a spiritual transformation.
Question 12 of the survey talks of service to others - this, in my experience, is the best means of grounding. I recommend you find a direct means of helping others.
Remember this is a natural phenomena. Kundalini awakenings happen, spontaneously or through practices. It can be a rough ride but there is nothing to fear, even when it gets fearful. Laugh at yourself.
Now for a practical tip. When the energy gets too much, especially in the night when you don’t have immediate means of grounding, sit up in bed, dip your chin into the little hollow at the base of your neck. This will help divert the energy into the heart chakra and ground it. Then simply let the energy do its thing. It will shake you, bend you, spin your upper body. Then it will calm down.
Remember there is nothing to fear.
Sey :pray:

Hello Piruz
Q8 was a very important question but your reply was vague. Obsessively not releasing makes the symptoms worse, not having wet dreams as you mentioned makes the symptoms worse. Your kundalini is far from grounded so in your case the excess should be released and not cultivated
You seem to judge yourself too much ( glad i do not have a girlfriend cause it will end bad) How do you know that for sure? Just drop your too many thoughts and live your life.

Update: I’m becoming breathless during hot showers. The steam from the hot water is inducing Kundalini-like symptoms. I don’t know whether it’s a physical problem or not, but is it a coincidence that hot steam and deep prayers are producing very much the same symptoms? Is there something which, during heart openings, makes your lungs and/or heart less able to function normally or that the organs therein are too tired integrating all that Kundalini. I think it may be the case that this is the response of my lungs and heart to the dynamics of Kundalini (Gods know how complicated they might be) rather than any disease.
Another update: I’ve noticed that, unlike grounding during my initial (abdominal) awakening, in which it was sufficient to take long and slow walks, the grounding of the heart Chakra requires more robust power walking (which felt “too much” during the abdominal grounding). Here’s how I came to this conclusion. I had intense heart/chest tightness tonight (on the left side of the body) so my hunch was, like always, telling me it was clearly a heart problem and not a Kundalini problem. 10 minutes of power walking, however, moved the tensity to the right area, indicating (if not demonstrating) an energy problem. The grounding was robust enough to fully overcome the left-sided tightness in my body. But look what happened next! I’m now feeling fear traveling downwards from the heart to my feet after the robust grounding walk I took, like it’s a response to the grounding exercise. I know this response is temporary but what does it indicate?
What is happening to me? I’m only 28 years old and I’m starting to feel like a 70 year old with all the illness-like symptoms I’m getting!
Stay with me guys. I’ll never forget the help and advice of those who offered any during this very upsetting period of my life.

Maheswari,
Regarding question 8, I’m not “obsessively limiting sexual release”, not by any means. It’s just that my arousal response has, all of a sudden, become one of stress and anxiety. I’m getting sexual tingling down there all day and it feels fearful. It’s not an ordinary sexual response, doesn’t even feel like it, and, in fact, it has the power to upset any enjoyment of (and involvement in) sex. Forget about relationships (which I don’t have any), my sexual response has become upset and distorted.

For those who say “don’t try to analyze too much”, in a sense I agree, getting lost in analysis paralyzes the mind and makes the problem worse and ultimately the problem cannot be solved by analysis, for our experiences of the mind and body are just that, personal experiences and our involvement in them is primarily intuitive.
But just like too much is bad, so is too little. For what purpose would there be of having a community where people share (and study) experiences if not to make the problem and our understanding of it (from all sorts of angles) more communicable to others and more (though not fully) grounded in observable facts?

:slight_smile: [OM]

Yes but remember experiences can be a distraction…and an attachment…
“So, in emptiness, there is no body,
no feeling, no thought,
no will, no consciousness.
There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.
There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.
There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.”
(From the Heart Sutra)

Indeed , very well said Still :slight_smile:
That is what i was trying to explain to Piruz :grin:

I don’t recall ever disputing that. I am not attached to experiences nor am I trying to reproduce them. Quite the opposite. I am trying to work around them and outgrow them for the “experiences” I’m seeing are all inconvenient. This is why I asked what happens after Kundalini and how to an understanding of the dynamics can aid in the process of grounding (another subject I need to understand more fully, which is why I’d dedicated a separate thread for the issue of grounding but have yet to receive any response).

I doubt any of your recent experiences will kill or harm you, especially after you’ve been checked out medically. My suggest is to continue grounding, continue observation (in a journal perhaps?), and then release your attention and see what tomorrow brings, rinse and repeat. Your experiences are random, moving targets; journaling accomplishes three things: tracking patterns over time, writing brings them from the interior to the exterior, and lastly, by closing your journal and getting on with your day, you grant yourself opportunity to hand them off until the next day.
Mentioned earlier: service to others. When your attention is on helping others, it is no longer on yourself, and in that manner should provide grounding/relief.

Dogboy, that’s pretty much what I’m doing, so your advice is something I can definitely relate to.
I still want to know, however, what becomes of me after this Kundalini ordeal (after all the Chakras have been opened) and what to expect when the energy reaches the head (which, according to the pattern I’ve come to observe in my body, seems inevitable)?
Maheswari answered this but his experiences don’t seem to mimic my own. The Prana in me is clearly traveling in a linear fashion, that is, upwards, and lack of grounding for the past 4 months has been something which I’ve come to regret because the Prana had nothing to chew on for months and went viral later on (hence the heart Chakra episode). I won’t make the same mistake again. But what happens after the head/crown?

Didn’t say you disputed it… This passage is a beautiful written reminder for me too :slight_smile: :heart:

Hello Piruz :slight_smile:
Maheswari is a she not a he :grin: :grin:
after the kundalini travels whatever way that works to your own neurobiology and it calms down , it will blend with inner silence (if you cultivate it by grounding) and you will barely notice its effects anymore. And as i keep saying, meanwhile and after that grounding happens, you will just continue your life, as per the Buddhist saying: before enlightenment chop wood carry water, after enlightenment chop wood carry water

Maheswari, I’m sorry I wasn’t aware.
Yes, this is exactly why I’m posting all these questions. I simply want to know if these symptoms are normal/transitory. A deeper (though not overwhelmingly analytical) understanding of the process is something I’ve always longed for. It’s who I am. Making sense of something means making peace. By that I don’t mean a full, analytical and scientifically applicable understanding of the various Kundalini symptoms but at the very least something that can integrate them into a scheme, whichever it might be.
#1612;Regarding the post-Kundalini issue, has anyone here actually been through a full-blown Prana awakening that started from the root and ended up in the crown?

Hi Piruz,

Your symptoms are quite normal for someone who has been overdoing spiritual practices and not grounding effectively. And they are also transitory. With effective self-pacing and grounding they will settle down over time.
If you want to gain a good understanding of the whole process of kundalini then I would recommend reading the main lessons on this website. They start here.
For what happens when kundalini reaches the crown see this lesson.
Lesson 199 - Managing the Opening of the Crown
The crown is not the final resting place for kundalini. After it has reached the crown it will come back down into the heart and radiate out from there.
See this lesson on that:
Lesson 274 - What’s the End Game in Yoga?
Christi

I’ve read all the lessons, but a revisit is always something I never regretted, so I’ll do just that.
But what do you mean “it will come back down into the heart and radiate out from there”? In what sense will it “radiate out”?

As I haven’t had this experience (yet), I’ll go out on a limb and say energy spills forth so that the boundaries of “inside” and “outside” are no longer clear and no longer matter.

Hi Piruz,

At a certain stage on the path, prana begins to radiate out from the body. This is referred to as ecstatic radiance. It is not limited to the heart, but can radiate out from the whole body as well.
See here:
Lesson 90 - Caduceus Correction and Ida/Pingala Review
“This is a key thing to understand about the nervous system. We begin with the limited physical dimensions where the nerves are located in our body. Then, as kundalini awakens and ecstatic radiance rises, the physical dimensions are left behind. So, a nadi, or spiritual nerve, only corresponds with physical nerves in the beginning. As it is awakened, a nadi expands, radiating energy far beyond the physical location of the nerve. There are two ways of looking at this. We can say we are “going within,” traveling in an expanding inner dimension. It feels like that as the sensory experience expands inside. The other way of looking at it is to say we are “expanding outward” in the physical dimension. In other words, expansion on the inner plane is the same as expanding outwardly in the physical dimension. We have to go in to go out. Those who have had kundalini experiences have described the energy going beyond the body as they are expanding inwardly at the same time. Anyone who comes to deep silence in meditation feels this expansion also - going in, but also radiating something peaceful out into the physical world. Whether the experience is the expansion of an awakened kundalini or the expanding silence of pure bliss consciousness in meditation, this is the nadis expanding. Both are different levels of the same thing. It is all the expansion of pure bliss consciousness.” [Yogani]
Christi

What a beautiful passage. :pray:

That’s interesting. I’ve actually read all of Yogani’s lessons months ago but obviously being in the middle of a crises one tends to overlook or forget. This makes a revisit necessary.
It appears I’ve exhausted the members’ ability to add more to this thread. The reason I was into meditation in the first place was to add more to my life, to become more. Now, thanks to Kundalini, I’ve lost whatever peace I had without (yet?) achieving any goal. I understand, of course, that to get more (better still, the ultimate more) one must first relinquish what they have (or some of it, I hope), but I really hope this ultimate peace materializes and I’m not forever stuck “in the middle”.
No wonder why Kundalini is not for the faint of heart!