Help with kundalini symptoms

I don't know the solution to your problem, but I must say - for me, there are many ups and downs in my way to enlightenment, also sometimes I feel I fit some profiles of some higher stages, whereas other times I see I lack qualities, which should come on the lower stages. My personal struggles are more about how to survive material world and the troubles and pains in my soul, which definitely purify me. I don't have physical trouble - only I'm right now so empty physically, than I'm weaker and get tired more easily than before, also I'm 40 so maybe I used to be younger; also maybe I don't eat properly. But this is my physical trouble to overcome.

What I wanted to say, to hear words like "Kundalini symptoms", "Kundalini syndrome", etc. - this just fears me. It makes me feel that people go crazy about enlightenment and finally it's simply illegal. I want to say that we should take care that we manage the problems of the way of enlightenment where some words strangely look like finally, we have the problems of enlightenment, people are simply cured, because it somehow happened; people seeking help to get rid of this dangerous and unknown thing. I want to say I do not understand, how this happens, and it's very strange - it looks like that in East, the enlightenment itself is not so much seen as trouble, and the stories tend to get somewhere; reading all this, it's scarely close to the situation, where enlightenment is a scary demon, which catches innocent people.

I can understand if there is trouble, there is trouble, but I want to ask this deeper question - how it can be that about awakening, people talk with such scary voices and dark faces? I can see that I've almost destroyed all my life on my journey to enlightenment, but this all makes perfectly sense to me - I could not live that society any more, so I'm desperately searching my place. Also I don't care so much to have the material pleasure in every stage of my life. But I have never been thinking about so much symptoms, symptoms, symptoms - if we cannot handle them, finally there will be something like Drug Laws preventing the unexpected enlightenment, and people are put to jail for teaching enlightenment strategies. I think that has been happened in history. How can be that in Buddhist countries, you can read many stories, but they have somehow different attitude, somehow people handle everything on their way?

I don't want to say that you don't need to heal and recover, or that people should not help each others with such things - if there is a problem, there needs to be a solution. But I want to say that such situation looks plain awkward ..how can enlightenment happen to people, who are not ready? I has always been like an expected event in your life story, people are very happy - but, now, it's like a fast train, which takes you into the middle of nowhere and then, simply goes away and leaves you there? Are we missing something fundamental in our culture, which usually makes all those things much less dangerous?

And, for me, every step of my enlightenment is a result of hard work and inner call, and all the side-effects are somehow things I prepared for; I understand that I went through all the philosophy lessons, exercises and changes in philosophy of life, and then, in result of that I made a little progress every time; and when things accumulate, all those little steps - sometimes, something big happens and the energy suddenly goes up and changes me completely. But it always happens in direction, where I was moving with a hard work. Now, this is very strange that enlightenment is catching innocent people, and throwing them into stages they did not want to reach. Does this happen if the energy is awakening collectively, not personally? That the collective being is enlightening, and the pieces simply do not understand, what is going on?

Well I don't want to disturb your self-help, when you have questions and problems, you have the right for answers and solutions - but there is a general question for everybody, and this is about our culture and what we lack here to make us so vulnerable by enlightenment, that the terms "diagnosis", "symptoms" or "syndromes" come into play instead of nice-sounding words from the East? Is this a specific way, how the Western Training would approach to anything? Or are the doctors working so much on other tracks, providing people all kinds of help against spirituality itself, that suddenly we have not learnt the philosophy, which would guide you through? Is there something wrong about our bodies - are the Eastern people somehow trained and raised to the bodies, which do not have so much problems with energies? Sure, I cannot say that in East, you do not have energy blocks or such stuff - simply, from the books I've read it seems such particular problems are not very common, because they would at least mention something so serious and typical.

Hi Erika! I’m very new to this life and still have so so much to learn, but I do believe that we can communicate with her and develop a relationship. There are times my body will begin convulsing wildly out of the blue and I will focus on slowing my breathing which helps me to gain control over my thoughts. And I can usually quite things for the time. The other day I was laying down with my daughter and started shaking. I asked if we could do this when I was alone after kids are asleep and things went quiet. I’ve found if I give myself to the energy every day she is more willing to work with me on when it happens. 🤷‍♀️ who know though

This has been so helpful, thank you so much 💗

Relax in to the feeling that everything is going according to the plan of this life energy. And that it is actually the best gift you could ever get. There is nothing to fear. Even the fear itself is according to the plan. All of this is happening because it needs to happen so that you can see who you truly are. If you just trust that, you don’t need to do anything. Nothing can be different, just trust the plan. witness what you are experiencing as your body. All the sensations without label anything. Witness with love and compassion to yourself and what you experience as fearful. Be intimate and loving to it. Put yourself on the ground barefoot and just walk slowly and experience how you are being held of this ground. See how a smile on your face affect the sensation of your feet on the ground. Try to jump and land heavily as an elephant on the ground, be curious and see what happens. When I had the life force rised in me 4 years ago I thought that my body was actually dying.

I heard a voice. Why die in fear when you can die with curiosity and playfulness?

Hi Erika,

Thanks for getting in touch with us, just to reinforce what Alan wrote, the symptoms you are having are very normal for those of us with activated Kundalini, and yes they can feel overwhelming. My personal recommendation would be to stop practises that are seeking to raise and clear energy right now and focus instead on things that ground you. These can be simple things like walking in nature and gentle mindfulness techniques, among other things. If you feel you wish to talk things through one to one do check out our support page. This might be helpful for you in the short term as it's 4 weeks until our next group zoom call. Feel free to direct message me via this site if you want any further info on one to one support options. All blessings on your journey, Julie French

Hi Erika, sorry to hear that you have been going through such a difficult time.

Firstly, to say what you describe is not unusual...Many others have experienced tremors, vibrations and intense pressure.

Kundalini I believe is a positive clearing process and as she works through our trauma and conditioning often we do experience these kind of symptoms.

To offer you some thoughts; my personal advice would be if the energy becomes too intense and overwhelming , is to stop all spiritual practice, as such practice makes the energy stronger. Also ground yourself. The Spiritual Crisis Network has good advice on grounding. https://spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk/grounding-andselfcare

I am not sure that acupuncture would help...it might do...we are all different .......but acupuncture for me triggered my own kundalini eruption in the first place .....so I would advise caution.

Kundalini has her own intelligence and rather than try to force anything I would personally try to get myself out of the way and let her do her own thing.

Others have also found they could communicate with the energy and ask her to turn it down when it became too much.

Another point to hold onto is that the process does very much tend to become easier and less intense over time.

I hope these thoughts are useful.

Welcome to the Collective; you may well find the zoom meet ups useful and the 121 support too. See the support section of this website.

Warmest wishes