If ones spiritual focus does not actually contribute to an expansion and deepening of ones life and ones contribution to Life, then such a focus is a idle waste of time, consciousness and energy, and indeed a waste of Life.
- Gratitude--gets the whole ball moving to melt the fear and
resistance to life that has solidified in the body. It also helps deal
with the disorientation and vulnerability inherent in opening oneself
up to the world. We don't really know the meaning of gratitude until we
experience the amplified love and heart expansion generated by a
kundalini awakening. Gratitude is the measure of our aliveness. It is
insurance against stress, hypertension and depression, and it increases
happiness and efficacy.
- Big Fun Practice— Big Fun is the transcendent condition
of metanoia. It is actually disembedded from body, mind, circumstance
and conditions—it is a priori state or attitude—it is an unconditional
perspective of sublime humor. Emotional self-perpetuation determines
our experience of existence. Happiness fires up the prefrontal lobes
and so “play” naturally makes us more creative. Novelty is a
permutation that allows reconstruction and refinement. Thus because it
increases consciousness in stream of daily life Big Fun is our growing
edge and our highest practice! I want to distinguish between the normal
way we think of pleasure and fun and Big Fun. Big Fun is an upheaval of
our comfortzone, we are not just playing around, we are Really Playing
in full originality and resourcefulness. That is we are performing in
perfect sync in the moment without hesitancy, ego blockage or shades of
depression that would pull us back from our edge. Big Fun is life in
the raw. In Big Fun the “content” of our lives finds a peaceful resting
place in the spaciousness of Big Mind and we have room to expand out to
the totality of our lives periscoped into the moment. It is not the
normal myopic-fun we try to have from a sense of deprivation with our
addictions, substitute gratifications, entertainment, or social
distractions. Big Fun is not of Thanatos, but of Eros so it is not had
by "trying" but by "being." By alignment of body, mind and soul to live
the life of the Spirit. And since Spirit is already complete Big Fun is
a liberating radiance rather than a coying need. Big Fun is
transpersonal, it is transcendent of the life of the mind and body. Big
Fun is transcendent of work, duty, family and relationships...it is a
cathartic transmutation of daily life. It is the Grand Adventure...the
dance of the Muse in the Eternal. It is the integration of the soul in
ones lived experience, in the engagement of Kosmic Purpose...Big Fun is
Nomind, Flow, “I and the Father are one,” Noself; and the only thing
standing in the way of Big Fun is fear. The Big Fun prerogative is to
express ever more genuine and higher fun—to take fun where no man has
gone before—to bring serious fun into the lives of others. To not just
be pumped up on the hysterical pretend fun of Thanatos, but to be
engaged in the real thing—Spiritual Fun (Eros). Big Fun is redemption,
release, relief, purification, rarefaction, rebirth, redemption,
forgiveness, salvation, sanctification, validation, absolution,
atonement, transubstantiation, rebirth, innovation and revolution. Big
Fun is the most strenuous practice demanding the most acute growth
curve and pious effort to remain on focus as to the next spontaneous
Big Fun action. Our experience will evolve over time to more genuine
and deeper forms of Big Fun. How does ones Big Fun fits into the larger
scheme of things, will it be a force for social change and
transformation? How much Big Fun can I allow ourselves? What are the
consequences of Big Fun? What am I doing here if not to have Big Fun?
What is Big Fun in the 21st Century?
- Solar Plexus Breathing--Breathing and Toning are the
number one kundalini coping skills. We can prevent morbid overextension
of both the on and off sides of the nervous system by conscious
breathing into the largest plexus of the body--the solar plexus. If we
find ourselves either in a high or a slump then long walks focused on
such solar plexus breathing help to integrate and balance the energy.
This is the major way to cope with panic states, excess sex energy or
excess energy in general when the sympathetic nervous system is
hyperactivated. But also solar plexus breathing is especially important
years after an awakening to aid in the integration and establishment of
the spiritual will and prevent a morbid hyper-parasympathetic condition
of stagnation and depression. The solar plexus is the seat of shame and
one of the greatest areas that propagate self-division.
- Vortex Zero-point Meditation—Spiritual myths and laws
(formop) are “external” training in the ability to act automatically.
But we need “inner” training on the ability to act in Kairos...that is
in sync with the universe...in God's time.
I found one method we can do this, I call it Vortex Zero-point Meditation! First you go watch some Schauberger clips at google video and look for the upward twisting vortex...imprint that image on your mind. While lying in bed, deeply rested, visualize the upward pulling vortex as you draw your body’s energies into it. You will find all thoughts and concerns disappear and the body may go through a series of "sudden falls" into increasingly relaxed zones as you do this. You may also find that your upward spinning vortex may take some twists and turns and even go downwards. Just watch this deviation, and eventually return once more to the powerful upward spinning tornado. Remember I said that toning helps to restore a harmonious higher frequency to our psychesoma, in a similar way that vortexing water helps to clear it from the memory of harmful pollutant frequencies. Well, this vortex meditation operates in a similar fashion to "wipe the slate clean" through the awesome power of the visual field and the inner kinesthetic sense of the mind’s eye.
- Full Already Breathing Meditation--Consider that the
Golem in us is created out of deprivation, fear and pain. We can
directly approach this state rather than working through the myriad of
content within the Golem personality. You lie on you stomach in bed and
breathe into your belly. On the in breath you think "Full" and on the
out breath you think "Already." You keep doing this till the sense of
need, Void and lack of Presence in the belly is relieved. I think half
hour sessions would be good for a start, tuning in nightly. By lying on
your belly you get a tactile sense of the "hole" in ones belly and by
felt-sensing the words "Full Already" it's like calling ones spirit
home. The more you do this the more you get a sense of what it is you
are depriving yourself of, your "precious" Presence, and what being
Full Already means in all facets of ones life. Happiness comes down to our ability to generate unconditional joy
as our baseline state. The karma of our daily life reflects our
capacity to en-joy ourselves...that is to fill ourselves with joy
simply through breathing and being alive. I notice that if you are
mindful of the air atoms hitting the nostrils, you can actually
generate en-joyment. Then once is the chemical state of en-joyment,
then the duality/samsara is not as convincing, we do not get "stuck" so
much.
- Rejuvenating Breath--As you exhale: First you tone
Saah, this empties the bottom of the lungs, then Huum, this empties the
middle of the lungs, then Ommm this empties the top of the lungs. And
you carry the ommm up into the head. The effect of this is quite
refreshing. Another type of regenerating breath that is good for energy
integration during panic attacks or heart expansions is Fish Breathing.
The mouth is completely relaxed an open, you breath in and out of the
mouth without a pause between in and out breath. This is especially
effective while walking. The continuous, nonpause breathing can be done
through the nose also when needing more brain power during peak
kundalini activity; make the inbreath nasally and the outbreath throaty.
- Toning--Mantra is the main method of treating
consciousness and is helpful for healing all levels of the mind inner
and outer. The sound and breath combination help move cerebrospinal
fluid which cleanses the brain and spine. Lie in a deep hot bath and
hum one tone on the expiration of one breath. You will notice that your
tone wavers, perhaps due to the spasticity of the diaphragm. If one
continues using this technique regularly perhaps with both higher and
lower tones, the diaphragm should strengthen and release its spasticity
through the vibration. Joe Alexander says toning works better than any
other self-healing tool. I cannot stress enough that toning and mantra
are the most effective tools we have for integrating energy during an
awakening and helping the kundalini to clear through blockages. Thus if
you have any difficulty at all with kundalini I suggest half an hour of
toning a day...keep it simple, either Huuu, Mooo, Om or Eeee will do,
or whatever sound you are drawn to.
- Syncopated Toning--One day I found a neat affect when I was sitting down by the river near a little waterfall/rapids...and started to Huuu. Then I toned vowel sounds very loud...and I noticed that when the tone is directed toward the rapids, the air filled with the sound of the rapids creates an interference pattern with the tone one is emitting and what ends up happening is a staccato vibration in the diaphragm created by the interference pattern of the merging sounds. In this way the effect of toning on the body is greatly amplified when the tone is directed at the noise of the falling water.
When each tone finds Atonement with the river sound the staccato effect is "felt" and heard. If the tone is slightly "off" in relationship to the river the syncopation effect doesn't occur. However the sensitive body-voice naturally tunes to the correct tone...nature the great tuning fork. The syncopated toning I found July 2002 when in extreme horniness with the kundalini...I went down to the river to try and get some relief and found that staccato effect...I was so blown away, I thought I had discovered a new law of the physical universe, of course this distracted me from my oppressive sex energy. Once the diaphragm learns how to do this you can retain the staccato ability even without using a river when the kundalini light is highly active.
- Excess Grounding--In July 2000 my Christ Heart or the Solar
Heart was coming on daily as I walked outside and as it did I was being
pulled into the earth with such force that I found it hard to walk. To
ease the grounding I learnt to lie flat on the ground with my spine on
the earth...this greatly speeds up the grounding process, so that when
I stood up again I could walk around with ease. From grounding in this
way there was less "pull" on my heart but the heart expansions
would then break open my chest. To take the pressure off my heart I
remembered that apes beat rhythmically on their thymus when
nervous...this thumping on my chest helped to take the unbearable
tension off my expanding heart. So when the gravity warping and
grounding pull come one with the Solar Heart first lie on the open
ground for at least half an hour, then thump the sternum. Also a
repolarizing technique when one is radically being pulled into the
ground, is to sunbath exposing ones genitals to the sun.
- Increase Grounding-- How to prevent your kundalini from
blowing up your computer? My kundalini energy used to turn the radio or
CD player on spontaneously at 3am in the morning during my awakening,
but I didn't have computer problems. The primary grounding procedure is
to lie your spine on the earth or rock for half an hour. Hang out at a
stream or waterfall while you do this and you get bonus points. The
Spinal Shower is a great way to for remove extra static energy (see
below). Need I say that sex will help reduce extra brain electric
interference, but it also will increase kundalini. Dancing would be
good. Put some more green plants around your computer, and if you are
still having problems you might want to invest in an inexpensive
negative ion generator for your computer room or an indoor waterfall.
Grounding exercises include lying on ones back and pushing ones feet
against a wall or tree. Standing in Haka position like a Maori,
which is kind of like a gorilla stance and stamping one leg at a
time...actually doing the Haka itself with facial expressions, vocals,
hand and feet movements is a big bonus...watch the All Blacks prior to
a rugby game for how to do it. Of course there is the traditional
method of grounding...horse riding, gardening or farming. Drive around
in cars less, and spend more time outside of buildings. Move to Hawaii
or vacation there, it's the primary grounding place on the planet.
Meditate at sunset on iron rich rocks. Hug a tree, or go to sleep under
trees. Any kind of body-work, swims or water therapy. Clay body pack.
If you have synthetic carpet in your computer room it might be best to
tear it up and put something more natural down, either a wool carpet or
wood or something. Get a kitty or dog to pet.
- War Haka—The haka is a Maori war chant that precedes
battle, in order to motivate the warriors psychologically. it is
delivered with loud shouting and forceful flexing arm movements,
to invoke the god of war and to discourage and frighten the enemy. It
involves fierce facial expressions and grimaces, poking out of the
tongue, eye bulging, grunts and cries, waving of weapons and rhythmic
thumping of ones thighs, biceps and chest. The hands, arms, legs, feet,
voice, eyes, tongue and the body as a whole combine to express courage,
annoyance or aggression. The haka is an excellent kundalini tool, both
for raising kundalini, freeing its movement and for grounding and
integrating the energy. It will also enhance confidence and improve the
immune, lymphatic and circulation systems and clear the lungs. Also
will also eliminated stagnant energy from the nervous system and aids
in the liberation of pent-up or repressed emotions.
www.newzealand.com/travel/about-nz/features/haka-feature/haka.cfm
- Animal Yoga—To reinstate our connection with the planet
and the deeper parts of ourselves this practice of animal yoga is done
in natural environments…in your back yard, a park or wilderness. First
ground the body by lying on both your back and your front on the grass
for a while. Then using the nature around you—the grass, the trees, the
rocks—put yourself into various animal postures while feel-sensing
yourself as that animal. Some possible animals to try are the dog, cat,
frog, rabbit, seal, monkey, turtle and bear. Use the full tactile
impact of the environment around you to get deeply into the various
postures to become the spirit of the animal. Because it is an attempt
to more fully enter the electromagnetic sensorial environment, animal
yoga is best done in the nude if possible. You will find this deeply
reviving, integrating and centering.
- Yoga--The evoking and yoking of Spirit via the Grand
Alignment of body, mind and soul--is the source of our muse, our noble
destiny, our soul-work (Dharma), our security, our financial
integrity/right livelihood, our spiritual worth/inherent nobility and
our happiness.
- Hanging--Hanging from the hips over a bar 10 minutes a
day is the best place to “start” our kundalini skills practice. I think
it the most significant factor in “sustaining” a de-contraction
progress. It is a general pick-me-up and the more pick-me-up we do, the
higher our general operating mode. The higher our baseline level then
the higher we ascend during an expansion of consciousness, and the more
likely we are to have the resources for stabilizing, substantiating and
gaining productivity from our excursions into deeper aspects of
ourselves. It opens the pelvis to energy from the earth bringing new
life into the legs, elongates my spine giving the nerves new life, and
feeds the brain of course by being upside down. It allows the
sympathetic trunks and plexus to be fed better with the decompression
of the spine, and new blood/lymph/O2 entering the area. Hanging is a
catalyst to metabolism and consciousness in general, due to increased
blood to the brain, but also through extra lymphatic stimulation. The
bar should be about 1.5"-2" wide; put a towel over it for padding; hang
from the hips with both the arms and legs hanging free off the ground.
Start off at 5 minutes in the morning, and 5 in the late afternoon or
so. Do not do handing during major heart expansion periods, or during
times of high blood pressure in the head associated with sympathetic
nervous system hyperactivation.
- Spinal Rebirthing--I had a dream that I did a spinal extension technique on a young woman who had been affection deprived in childhood. She crouched on the ground (in a squat position on her feet with hands on the ground in front) and I put my hands on either side of her spine at the back of her chest. She pressed up into my hands, while I pressed down against her. Her spine cracked about 10 times.
This spinal compression/extension can be used at the bottom of the spine by pushing up into a therapists hands with the legs. In the middle of the spine by pushing up on all fours and at the top of the spine by pushing with the arms. It is the most cathartic and radical form of back release I have found. Theory being that the contraction can be released by overextending already contracted muscles. When they are relaxed they let go further than they were originally. Emotionally the burden is lifted once the tension is acknowledged, rather than carrying the load around for years...making to body numb with pain. With spinal rebirthing we "feel" into the numbness and recover what was lost to us due to the freeze response.
- Presses--To assimilate kundalini some strengthening
integrating exercises might be in order. The upper-body wall press is
perhaps the perfect exercise for integrating heart expansions. I found
that when the autonomic shock of the white death made me "not in my
body" then leg presses against the wall helped me to come back into my
body. The arm is raised and placed against a wall and you push into the
wall and hold for 10 seconds feeling the stretch throughout the chest.
Repeat 3-4 times several times a day.
- Swan Pose--Stand like the Maiden on the Prow of a ship,
arms back, chest radically protruding and breath deeply into this pose.
Breathe in through the crown chakra and out through the solar plexus.
Adopting this stance as a general living posture will change ones
wiring and life in short order. It especially helps overcome the sexual
harassment, shaming and victimhood of living in this culture as a woman
and for powerlessness in general.
- Heart Entrainment of the Three Lower Chakras--We have
to suspend reptilian reactivity long enough for the higher order to
come into play. If we are not radiating love from our solar plexus then
we are engaged in a power struggle with the world, fighting with fear
for our "own" survival. We CLEAR to let go of our reptilian clinging
and aversion in order to become increasingly human and increasingly
divine. This is the alchemy of incarnation-transubstantiation, Eros and
Agape, Evolution and Involution, Immanence and Ascendancy.
- Clearing Negative Attachments--One method of releasing
negative, primitive defense mechanisms is to CLEAR the solar plexus of
its unhealthy attachments. Imagine you are floating in space and you
have an umbilical cord connected from your solar plexus to those you
are emotionally bonded to. One by one cut off the umbilical cord to
each person and see them float away from you. When all the cords are
cut do all kinds of flips, cartwheels, swimming movements and twists
and turns to express your glee at being free and boundless in space,
with no gravity weighing you down. This is one way to give up the
reptilian--clinging/aversion level of bonding to elevate the
relationship to the heart and higher chakras. The lower unconscious
bonds diminish US all.
- Affirmations—Affirmations can be used like pointing out
instruction to corral thought/emotion/state into more expansive
directions. Often you might find yourself slipping down in mood or
thought and need to catch yourself with some well remembered little
catch phrases that pull ones state up by the bootstraps. In the book...What to Say When You Talk to Your Self by
Shad Helmstetter, he suggests that such self-talk, used in
reprogramming more idealized behavior and states, can be recorded on
tapes. If one listens to such self-talk tapes the information tends to
be absorbed by osmosis into the subconscious. Such a technique will
also help to keep at the ready and fresh in the mind the catch phrases
that will tune our being in the direction that we really want to go in.
- Integrative-Empowerment Meditation—This is simply
focusing, first on the body, then mind-temporals, the heart and the
soul-prefrontals with the minds eye and saying to each one: I empower
my body...I empower my mind…I empower my heart...I empower my soul.
What happens is that the focused attention forces one to breath life
energy into all these aspect of ourselves one after the other. The
meditation is to help empower prepare one to "walk through the barrier"
that separates one life era from another. That is to make changes. You
can lie down or sit during the meditation and envision a door, or gates
that one stands before while doing this...without relating to any
"content" of the life journey. Consciousness can be focused and the
body-mind-soul-heart infused with consciousness is a lot happier and
whole than one in which amnesis is occurring.
- Active Imagination--The visual neurology plays a huge role in the integration of our being. During the later stages of awakening it is important to exercise the visual faculty to encourage neurological potency, plasticity, detoxification and to maintain psychic-ESP function. Therefore at this time art, visualization, guided imagery, lucid dreaming and visual forms of meditation are vitally important. During the peak however liability and suggestibility are so extreme that active imagination should only be done with theraputic assistance, unless one has a very stable constitution. I emphasize that psychic capacities will drop off to be less than they were prior to awakening if the visual neurology is not exercised. Psychic level is a "higher" energy condition than normal consciousness, so anything that increases energy/kundalini will increase psychic level activity. Such as fasting and letting Nature restore your batteries; do some breathing, toning and exercising and take some nootropics. Oh and set yourself a profound adventure.
Like meditation visualization does take actually "practicing" it. You might want to note what time of the day or night you find it most easily to focus on inner visualization. Warm up first with a little exercise and stretching, hanging, meditation and breathing. Then take yourself on various visual journeys, perhaps a quest to find certain answers you are seeking. Visit relatives or loved ones or make new friends with stangers. Travel to interstellar space and visit alien cultures, or go back in time to past eras that attract your interest. The ways in which the imagination can be used are infinite. Any beautiful visual stimulous will help activate the visual hardware, such as DVD's like Michael Dubois's Luminous Dimensions or Artmind - The Healing Power of Sacred Art with Alex Grey. Alex specializes in visual exercises for the artist, I strongly recommend attending his workshops. Marie-Louise von Franz claims that active imagination is the most powerful tool in Jungian psychology for achieving wholeness.
"[Jung] continued to explore the inner images and fantasies. In the course of the work he would get so emotionally wrought up that he resorted to yoga breathing exercises to calm himself. Then he would plunge in again and let the images and inner voices speak. Actually, he was doing just the opposite of what yoga and certain forms of meditation strive to achieve. Instead of seeking to let go of and eventually abolish all psychic contents and images, he concentrated on the images and let htem affect him emotionally. He found that when he was able to translate the emotions into images--that is, to find the images that were concealed iwhtin the emotions--he was calmed and reassured. He realized that it was higly therapeutic to uncover the images buried within the emtions, and he incorporated this discovery in the practice of active imagination." 122, ~ Gathering the Light, V. Walter Odajnyk
In his fabulous book Walter says that Jung thinks that active imagination is the most appropriate form of meditation for westerners to further their psychological and spiritual growth. His section 120-132 in Gathering the Light on active imagination is good. For general readership there is The Old Wise Woman: A Study of Active Imagination by Rix Weaver. Other works on the subject include Alchemical Active Imagination by Marie-Louise von Franz and Jung on Active Imagination by C.G. Jung. And Encounters With The Soul: Active Imagination, Barbara Hannah. Inner Work: Using Dreams and Creative Imagination for Personal Growth and Integration by Robert A. Johnson
- Building a Self System--Although it is useful to use all the
guided meditation materials out there, we really need to build the
sense that we are our own "tour director." That to build the power to
initate and choose inner content is the first step in a deeper
relationship with ourselves. Active imagination and visualization work
for all building a self-structure, boundaries, wound healing, and
creating trust, faith and openness. These are internal skills which are
essentially not taught and so we have to grow our own internal sense of
self. I have found Rebuilding the Garden, Healing the Spiritual Wounds of Childhood Sexual Assault
by Karla McLaren to be the best workbook for self-boundary. One doesn't
need an abuse background to benefit from this work for it basically is
about the recovery from ignorance and unconsciousness, and we have all
suffered under this almightly hammer. Active imagination work done
while kundalini is active is probably twice as effective and potent as
done under normal chemistry.
- Fluctuating Temperature—During kundalini there are
several factors operating on our temperature regulation. First there is
extra energy moving through the hypothalamus which controls body
temperature. Then there is the fluxing back and forth of the
parasympathetic and sympathetic sides of the nervous system. And also
there is the change in metabolic energy generation in the mitochondria
of nerve cells and other cells that can generate great heat at times.
Plus changes in neurotransitters like serotonin and histamine which
regulate heat, and also the sex hormones themselves increase basal heat
generation. Thus during kundalini we often fluctuate between being hot
and cold with the activation of the different sides of the nervous
system. Sympathetic activation causes contraction of the blood vessels
and draws blood away from our body surface and into the skeletal
muscles. While parasympathetic activation opens out blood vessels and
activates the fire in the digestive system.
If you are too cold then avoid caffeine which contracts blood vessels; sugar and fruit also can make you feel cold. Take warming herbs like calamus, cayenne, ginger and spicy foods. Focus on deep breathing into the solar plexus. Go for a run, take a hot bath, sun bathe. Meditate and empty your mind of problems, worries or negativity. Imagine you are lying on a tropical beach getting massaged. If you are too hot then drink plenty of cool water spiked with Himalayan salt. Sit or swim in rivers or the ocean. Drink lots of green drinks with cucumber in them, lie in cold grass and put feet in an ice-cold foot bath. Avoid spicey foods. Use an icepack on your forehead, back of neck and base of the spine. Imagine standing in an icey cold waterfall while drawing heat energy up and out. Freeze some berries such as blueberries or strawberries and periodically pop one in your mouth and suck on it. Make a berry smoothie with mango, berries, bananas that have been frozen.
- Eliminating enervation--Reduce stimulants, cut back on
fruit %, increase greens and kelp for minerals, and drink heaps of
water. Preferable one has done ones major cleansing and fasting prior
to the onset of kundalini. Avoid energy sapping people, situations, and
environments.
- Raw Diet--Cooked food and other denatured substances
compound primal contraction through increased toxicity, free radicals
and acid pH, which contract all tissues and occlude the light of life.
The body will need maximum enzymes, water and minerals during the
decompression-expansion phase, or else the tendency is to retreat back
our former hypoxic, acidic, toxic, contracted/defensive condition.
Nature's true needs must be addressed beyond our concepts and habits.
The best raw recipe book is: Raw: The Uncook Book, Juliano Brotman and
a great overview of the raw diet system is: Living Food For Optimum
Health, Brian Clement.
- Take Time for Rapture--At certain times of the year,
often in April and July, the circuit between the heart and brain
amplifies and the bliss and symptoms of kundalini increase. Give
yourself permission to go into rapture at this time for this is what
the body is wanting to do. Lie in bed, listen to music, breathe, do
CMR. Carry the hand positions down over the liver, spleen and the
belly, one hand on the belly and the other on the back of your neck.
When the body wants to go into rapture, follow nature and obey. If you
try to keep going with busy-work at this time, you will just do a
half-pie job and experience dissonance and fatigue because you are
disobeying the highest organic directive.
- Healing the Heart Hole--This is a very direct way of
addressing pain and deficiency in the heart. You just turn your etheric
field from your brainstem back into the heart area at the back of your
chest. Imagine lines of magnetic force turning out of your head &
brainstem. This works rapidly and is amplified when used in combination
with walking; it can probably used in panic and emotional trauma
situations especially if assisted or encouraged by a stable
practitioner.
- Spinal Shower--The ultimate healing devise is a 3" column of warm (mineral) water which falls about 4 feet onto the spine. It has radical effects in "unconditional meeting" and eliminating stored pain and emotion. While sitting under this flow one goes into a deep trance, facilitating healing of both the muscular and nervous system at the deepest level. I also think a sensory-maximization-super-spa with hundreds of jets may work to release fossilized tension. The great thing about water flow is that it is chaotic; this arrhythmic flow helps to break up structure and resistance.
Figure 2: Spinal Shower
- Cold Showers--Or jumping into cold streams etc... is
essential to wake up the immune system, promote emotional strength and
break victim-weakness mentality that perpetuates the destructive
behavioral patterns. Baths and cold water dips are a life saver during
kundalini awakenings for emotional strengthening and integration of the
energy.
- Hydrotherapy Baths—One thing you might try is something
that I am doing during periods when I need to grow-flow rapidly, or to
metabolize high kundalini and high revelatory chemistry—is to take long
baths with 1/4 cup of epsom salts. During these baths I drink 2-3
quarts of chilled sunwater spiked with a drop of seasalt. Don't forget
the breathing, candles, plus music or audio programs while doing this.
It really is the fastest way to both detox the body and to get
consciousness flowing at much deeper and faster levels. The sunwater is
made by leaving a glass bottle of filtered water out in the rays of the
sun and moon for about 24 hours. Although modern science might not be
able to tell us why at this point, this sunwater does have a sweeter,
less metalic and champagne-like quality.
- Foot Baths--Soaking feet in ice water when the
kundalini heat or sex energy is high gives great relief. Also taking
herbal baths or foot baths is stabilizing and nurturing. To energize
use red clover, mint, peppermint or rosemary. To calm down use
chamomile or catnip. For pain use ginger root. For unblocking and
cleansing use the leaves of burdock, plantain, dock, yarrow and
dandelion. Steep the chopped herbs in a big pot of water just off the
boil, as though you were making a tea.
- Sun meditation--I find most expedient for gathering the
necessary energy, and creating the greatest background sense of bliss
and well-being. It is vital for continuing on this difficult work of
unveiling the inner self. Lie on your back on the bare ground naked,
opening legs and arms to the sun, like a solar collecting dish, turn
closed eyes toward the sun and draw energy up the spine. This is great
while doing hot rock therapy and taking intermittent dips in a cold
stream. Obviously it's not good for the skin to do this too long in the
midday sun. Lying on the ground on ones back and exposing the genitals
to the sun is the ultimate way of repolarizing during the exhausting
grounding phase of the Solar Heart initiation.
- Rock Meditation--Meditating at sunset or sunrise on
rocks (especially iron rich rocks) seems to have an amplifying effect
on the meditation, such that it can help prompt an acute phase of
kundalini alchemy. Samadhi is more easily achieved this way. You might
also notice an intense grounding episode after doing this; if so lie
the spine on the ground if necessary.
- Hot Rock Therapy--Collect various shapes and sizes of
rocks that hold the heat from the sun well. You can build a healing
temple space in the wild or use the rocks at home. After the sun has
heated the rocks put them over your body, on your stomach, pelvis,
chest, neck. You can hold them to your jaw, temple and face or wherever
there is congestion, pain and contraction. Lie and meditate in the sun
with the rocks on your body (rf: sun meditation). Also to move energy
through the pelvic area to counteract Western-numb-pelvis syndrome or
sexual abuse numbness--pile some rocks on your belly/pelvic area and
masturbate gently while trying not to tighten your stomach muscles.
Orgasm is not important with this exercise for the focus is on moving
energy through the pelvis/stomach without tightening muscles to force
or control pleasure.
- Sex in Nature--Going nude in nature really helps to
empower our full senses/sentience. The Kosmic human starts returning as
soon as the body is placed unclothed in a vibrant natural ecosystem.
This has something to do with the opening of the human energies fully
to the larger energies of earth and Kosmos. Also you might find that
when you do go into nature thus, and try immediately to have
intercourse, the bodies are not receptive to sex in the normal
self-indulgent soft-bed style. The bodymind first is engaged in
integrating on a higher plane and needs time for "assimilation" of this
super-sensory or aboriginal human condition. So one has to go into
nature many times in the nude to elevate oneself to these higher
energies, to make them conscious and to experience what full sensory
intercourse is all about. Being so used to ego-driven usury sex, one
has to wait for nature's timing of these higher experiences of
autopoietic Soul-sex.
- Leg pushes--Immanence or Grounding is the other half of
incarnation yet sometimes it is hard to get into and stay in our
bodies, and there are no lasting spiritual gains unless we do. Lying on
the ground and pushing ones legs against a tree or a wall helps to
center, clear and get us out of our head, into a more embodied
existence. Pushing into a wall or against a doorframe with ones arms is
similarly helpful. It pays to remember we can only go up in Spirit as
far as we can go down into Matter...this is the process of
incarnation/evolution.
- External Pressure--Also some sort of double layered
pressurized suit, that you climb into and blow up with air. The idea is
to put sustained force on the exterior of the body so the most inner
musculature thinks it can relax its grip because someone else is doing
the work. Even a pile of bodies on top of one would probably work.
- Rosen--is a form of bodymind work which is essentially
meeting contraction with unconditionally loving hands and presence.
This is excellent for addressing the gross and current manifestations
of primal contraction. No other bodywork seems to get the individual to
focus on the reality of their deep condition and to face their truth
beyond the strenuous ego-armor blocking that occurs. Rosen is the
lightest of bodywork, but it was more excruciating than Rolfing for me,
because I began to feel the pressure of my own internal contraction as
prana (consciousness) was "allowed" to move through the tissue.
(kriyas).
- Queen and King--I found that during meditation to direct ones eyeballs and ones attention back into the brainstem
that this profoundly increases ones steadiness, centeredness and
nobility. Brainstem mediation is good for centering, soul recovery,
boundary formation and general healing of the entire bodymind. Perhaps
it focuses consciousness in the occipital lobes which are serotonin
based, contributing to integration and harmony.
- Soul's Posture--If one walks along unconsciously,
usually the shoulders are a little hunched and forward and the chin is
out. It is exhausting to the bodymind to be in this posture-state. When
one remembers the Self pulls the shoulders down and back, tucks in the
chin (neck-lock-posture) and walks being pulled by an imaginary string
at the top of one's head...one immediately enters the noble state. It
is effortless to walk in this fashion, there is infinite energy
available...one just needs to be mindful enough to catch oneself when
one has slipped into the ego's walk. This shows how close the distance
between hopeless-deprivation and faithful-sufficiency. The Self
embodies the body differently than the ego does. Mindfulness helps us
build the bridge of ego-Self in all our thoughts and actions.
- Belly love--During meditation if one turns the eyeballs
directly down into the cheek area the energy flow is directed down into
the belly. The belly is then nurtured with energy and a greater
connection is achieved between the heart and the belly increasing
digestive health and emotional equilibrium and awareness.
- Visualization--(Spontaneous Inner Visuals) and dreaming
is good for transforming the atomic memory level and as a diagnostic
tool. Affirmation or positive mental outlook is essential for improved
immunity and the strength needed to change and grow. Substantial visual
stimulation and nature stimulates our inner visual cortex, as does
spiritual relationship. The body integrates/heals through the
inner-visual cortex...or during healing images appear in the visual
cortex. Sun meditation is excellent for increasing inner visual
healing.
- Mindfulness--must address our daily habitual responses,
in a pervasive contraction watch...The egos habits of mind rule the
body so we must open and reveal the mind, differentiate from the mind
to free the body. Naming each thought as it arises allows us to
differentiate from the reticulating mind: defense, justification,
worry, blaming, avoidance etc...
- Death phase--There is a senescence phase of spiritual
metamorphosis after a solar heart/kundalini movement. The main cycle of
this death phase is 3-4 days in which staying in bed and drinking water
is all we are often able to do. It is important to go with this phase
and not try to fight it. The more we go into it in feeling and inquiry
the more we will emerge a larger being after the bodymind has finished
its radical catabolism of its former pupae structures. Lying in the
death pose in a warm tub of clay inside a cave for several days may be
an "advanced" form of this death work. I would say that juice fasting
in combination with this death cycle would be the deepest and fastest
route to transformation. Its the type of thing where if one could lie
around in a spa for a couple of days one's whole life would
change...but we just don't give ourselves the chance to completely
collapse, and collapse again...as much as we need to, to be reborn.
- Loving Self-talk--One has to reclaim one's full sexual
power from unconscious social fear-shame, in order to be a spiritual
autonomous being. That is we have to rise above Mummy's and Daddy's
controlling (Superego/judge) impact on the bodymind-soul, in order to
be reborn as the Self and be in communion with other Selfs. In this way
we transcend culture. Spirituality is the free-flow of conscious energy
in the body such that there is no division between the individual and
the Kosmos. Even if we do not use our bodies for sex, we must be fully
sexually ignited in order to be whole. One way we can do this is
self-talk. To work against the gravity of contraction and the winding
down of energy...throughout the day we can say to ourselves: "You are
so luscious, so beautiful, so sweet etc..." Just as though we were our
own Beloved. This counteracts the social forces that would seek to use
us as an object for the "machine". For a while it is counterintuitive
to do this, however, this is not self aggrandizement, but merely
attending to the needs of the bodymind to grow in an environment that
is conducive to the fluid circulation of flows, hormonal production and
neuronal strength. Liberating our soma in this way, we free up our
lives for depth, precision and evolution. It must be done to overcome
the cold claws of Thanatos that attempts to make us infinitely smaller
than we really are.
- Understanding Cycles—Perhaps the most important aspect to
grasp in navigating the evolutionary energy, is that it is hyperbolic
in nature, as is all nature. After the grace of the influx of Light,
the darkness is entered. After tasting the stars one has to deal with
the mud of ones existence and convert that mud into the lotus.
Spiritual mastery involves rising equally to the challenge of both the
light and the dark. After the light backs off there can be depression,
achy body, sense of emptiness and self-pity. And if you are not aware
that this is all just shifting cycles of chemistry there may be
disillusionment, despair and self-hatred. Working with the dark means
breathing positivity into the feelings, rearranging beliefs to be more
empowering and giving the bodymind plenty of down time and
resuscitation in nature.
- Cultivating Emotional Equilibrium--Since it is the
degree of emotional tension we hold which determines whether our
emotional responses are healthy or hurtful to us, we should cultivate
emotional equilibrium. That is the absence of accumulated emotional
tension, so that we can experience equanimity. We reach this emotional
equilibrium by "building energy reserves," while "discharging tension."
This is accomplished by diet, fasting, sports, martial arts, intense
vocalization, psycho-drama, addressing relationship problems,
meditation, toning etc.... A state of high emotional tension is a weak
and vulnerable state in which learning and Being is made impossible
through discord.
- Outside in Nature--If you are "working with" your
awakening you will probably find that you are drawn to be outside in
nature as much as possible during the day. This is a compelling
intuition which should be followed. One's life field is greatly
expanded while kundalini is active and being indoors, especially in
steel framed and concrete buildings, we notice that it feels like we
are separate from ourselves or cutoff when inside buildings. The
energetic charge and metamorphic process works more profoundly, deeply
and with greater ease when the body is under an open sky, in touch with
the bare earth, around moving water and fields of green. "...the
earth's natural field is severely distorted or altogether eliminated
while you are inside." P198, Subtle Energy, John Davidson.
- Handling increased sexual energy--Of course kundalini
awakenings mean radically amplified sex energy, so how do we deal with
this? This entire list of kundalini skills will help strengthen our
ability to handle sex energy. The irony is the more one works on
integrating ones sex/kundalini energy the more it can flow, but we just
become less wimpish about handling it. Once we "turn toward" it we can
ask it to show us what is to be done; we "allow" it to transmute us.
Toning, the microcosmic orbit, breathing and drawing the energy up the
spine really helps...toning can be a lifesaver both when we are under
energized and over energized. Note especially the need to ground your
body through nature, lying on the ground, jumping into streams etc...
It is most important to ones energy toward some higher creative project
or to assist others. During the height of my 2000 awakening the only
way for me to integrate the sex energy was to walk for hours outside
each day for a period of 6 months or more. As far as dealing with
excess sexual energy, you need to circulate and draw it up the body,
breathe into it and do not fight it or try to squash, diminish or waste
it.
Taoist Yoga and Sexual Energy; Internal Alchemy and Chi Kung by Eric Yudelove
Tao & The Tree Of Life: Alchemical & Sexual Mysteries of the East & West by Eric Yudelove
Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy by Mantak Chia
Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy by Mantak Chia
Sacred Sexuality: A Manual for Living Bliss by Michael Mirdad
- Working with Excalibur, the Silver Cord--Stand tall
with shoulders back, chin up, stomach pulled in, pelvis tucked under,
with feet about a foot apart. Imagine a silver-white lightening rod
extending through your spine, shooting up into the sky from the crown
of your head, and extending deep into the ground from the coccyx. This
lightening rod connects heaven and earth. As you draw energy in the
Silver Cord begins to glow and pulsate dispersing energy through your
body. Play with a ball of lighting between your hands; this energy can
be used for healing yourself or others.
- Ecstasy Meditation—I found this meditation while
developing a painting for Michael DuBois, the webmaster of this site. I
was drawing an image of a woman in ecstasy so I needed to put my face
into ecstasy to get the right position of the features and the
lighting. So lying in bed I held up mirror up to my face while
attempting to put it into ecstasy. Needless to say that when one does
this the crystal chamber does light up, and the lesser mind is
obliterated. I found out that if one does this meditation prior to
sleep using the mirror as a biofeedback machine to ensure a perfect
facial representation of ecstasy, that sleep is much deeper. Also
during the day as I was walking down the road, I remembered the ecstasy
meditation and could put myself in ecstasy on command. Ultimately if
done consistently it should change the facial features more toward
happiness which will alter ones social relationships and personability.
- Self-care Shortlist for Dealing with Social Stress—The
way through blockage, resistance and opposition is to raise your energy
level and presence till the miasma becomes transparent, disappears and
can be released. Know that you cannot change another, but you can
change yourself. Light a candle, put on some music (Koyasan - by
Deuter) and take a long path with Epsom salts. Do this at least every
second day for a while. Drink extra water, with a pinch of Himalayan
salt in it...up to 5 qts a day. Do stretching daily, do spinal rolling
with the Fitball Rollar (www.balldynamics.com) and hang if you can find
something to hang on...lie on the grass 1/2 hour a day doing breathing,
take long walks in nature if possible...do some feet stomping, wall
pushing and do boxing motions coordinating the whole body...check out
the Haka war chant videos on the web. Beat on your chest like a gorilla
while making gorilla sounds. Social tension (especially shock) tends to
get caught in the glut muscles, so bend your knees – stick your ass out
and wiggle it like a bee; then while still slightly bent jump from foot
to foot real fast as though you were warming up for a game of sports.
Focus on rooting your energy into the ground through your feet, build
the sense of a cord going through you and extending out the top your
head to infinity and generate energy in your Hara. Eat extra greens and
sprouts. Take 1/4 tsp of magnesium citrate with a large glass of water
prior to bed if you are constipated...which often happens when we are
under some form of persecution. Do drumming and go dancing, find
someone to laugh with, check out new environs, a new movie and get some
new positive stimulation. To learn how social stress is the most
pernicious and pervasive form of stress watch Robert Sapolsky’s lecture
on google video. He is also doing a documentary with National
Geographic.
- How to avoid a kundalini awakening--Eat a heavy cooked
diet, do not exercise or spend time in nature, waste your energy on
alcohol and cigarettes, do not meditate, avoid spiritually advanced
people, do not get into stressful or challenging situations, do not
sail across the ocean or do anything remotely adventurous, breath
shallow, avoid music, dance, drumming and raw food. Do not fall in
love, and especially do not love any guru type. Do not feel any
gratitude or mystical feelings. Have no awe over creation, cultivate a
mean, small and nasty nature, do not use your intellect, and do not
follow your muse or your heart.
- Why not to avoid a kundalini awakening--You can try to
avoid kundalini if you are bent on avoiding your soul and your edge,
because kundalini is just the energy of life amplified. It's the
coil-essence of all the energy generating systems in the body at peak
energy and communication. It may be inconvenient, but I don't think one
is truly alive without experiencing a kundalini awakening. It's the
beginning of the mystic journey. Whether one is on an up-cycle or a
down-cycle all kundalini activity occurs within a background of bliss.
There is nothing to fear with kundalini, but our ignorance of it.
- Further Reading on skills for awakening--A useful set of exercises and coping strategies are in the books:
- Pharmacy For The Soul: A Comprehensive Collection of
Meditations, Relaxation and Awareness Exercises & Other Practices
for Physical and Emotional Well-Being, Osho.
- Mending The Past And Healing The Future With Soul Retrieval, Alberto Villoldo.
- Human Technology: A Toolkit For Authentic Living by Ilchi Lee and his Brain Respiration Self-Training
- Excellent books by Bruce Kumar Frantzis: Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body: Chi Gung for Lifelong Health
Relaxing Into Your Being, The Water Method of Taoist Meditation Series, Vol. 1
The Great Stillness: The Water Method of Taoist Meditation Series, Vol. 2
- Lifting The Veil, Practical Kabbalah with Kundalini Yoga
by Joseph Michael Levry
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Continue to Intro to the Inner Arts
- Pharmacy For The Soul: A Comprehensive Collection of
Meditations, Relaxation and Awareness Exercises & Other Practices
for Physical and Emotional Well-Being, Osho.