THE KUNDALINI

SUMMIT 2017

AWAKEN YOUR ENERGY WITHIN

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SYMPTOMS OF

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TABLE OF CONTENT

3 ABOUT KUNDALINI4 A WORD ABOUT MENTAL STABILIZATION FROM

SADHGURU8 SYMPTOMS OF KUNDALINI

14 VARIOUS TYPES OF YOGA AND CONNECTED SYMPTOMS19 KRIYAS21 TRUE YOGIC EXPERIENCE FROM GOPI KRISHNA23 ABOUT ME

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ABOUT KUNDALINILong considered the most secret and sacred intent of yoga, Kundalini can also be awakened by meditation, prayer, bodywork, psychedelic drugs, a life crisis (such as extreme physical or emotional trauma, a near-death experience or the death of a loved one), childbirth, menopause, certain ascetic or esoteric sexual practices, or it can occur out of the blue. Kundalini is most likely to rise spontaneously in people who are spiritually inclined, creative, sensitive, open minded and open hearted—all risk factors I knew nothing about until after the fact.

Please note: Consulting a doctor is never wrong. With time you notice when it isup to seek medical help. I recommend to test vitamins and minerals annually, especially when you go through exhausting phases. Sometimes we develope littleattachments with physical symptoms – then it is time to have a closer look. Whycant you let go of this symptom? Does it make you feel special? Everything thatappears has to disappear again – till the void opens up.

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A WORD ABOUT MENTAL STABILIZATION FROM SADHGURUThe nature of your mind is such that it can make you see anything you want. It is a tremendous instrument, and it has so many layers to it. It can make you see things that you cannot imagine consciously because the imprints are there. So, before you enter into any dimension of experience, which goes beyond what is physically around us, it is very important that you create a good foundation for your mind; that the logical dimension of the mind – your intellect – is sitting on a stable foundation.

If you close your eyes, the world should disappear.

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If you seek experiences, then without your intellect sitting on a stable foundation, you will lose your mental balance, and after that, there is no stopping you. You can imagine all kinds of things. Imagination is more powerful than reality, do you understand? If you have been ever exposed to anybody who is in some kind of a pathological state, their imagination is far more powerful than the living reality. If you open your eyes, what you see is not as bright and clear as what you see with your eyes closed.

Fundamentally, you have eyelids – that is, if you close your eyes, you should not see anything. Just try this and see. For me, if I close my eyes, the world is gone; it does not exist. That is the idea. If you close your eyes, the world should disappear. If you close your eyes and see this world or another world, then something mushy is happening in this complicated mechanism called the mind. So, the first sadhana for anyone is that when they close their eyes, they should not see anything at all. If your mind becomes that stable, then if you see something beyond what your two eyes can see, that is called a vision; otherwise it will become madness.

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Please understand this, the line between sanity and insanity is extremely thin. Anyone who is perfectly sane can push themselves hard for three days and easily become insane because the line is so thin, anybody can lose it if they strive in that direction. This is why – always, always, always – we have been putting down any experience anyone says they have. Even when I see it is true, I will put it down because it is not necessary; it will not serve any purpose. Suppose you saw something hanging from a tree. Maybe it is intriguing, but what purpose does it serve? It does not serve the purpose of your growth and wellbeing.

If your mind becomes that stable, then if you see something beyond what your two eyes can see, that is called a vision; otherwise it will become madness.

So, do not seek experiences. The first and foremost thing is to stabilize this body and this mind. If it is stable, then if god comes, you can simply look. If the devil comes, you can simply look, if an angel comes, you can simply look. If it becomes so stable that you are

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capable of ignoring the angels, gods, devils, ghosts, then it is all right to see. Otherwise, it is best to see what you are supposed to see with your two eyes. I do not want to debate whether you saw something or not, I am saying you must stabilize your body and your mind to such a point that if you close your eyes, the world should be obliterated. If that is not there, you must not see anything. First, make use of the eyelids. The purpose of the eyelid is if you close it, the world should disappear. If you plug your ears, you should not hear anything.

Do not think you are advancing in the spiritual process because you close your eyes and see things, or you plug your ears and hear things, or you shut your mouth and are still speaking. This means you are losing control over a fantastic faculty called the mind. This fantastic faculty can be fatal if it goes out of control.

Your ascension will only be a successful possibility only when you keep all your choices of like and dislike aside, and above all, work upon your balance and stability.

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SYMPTOMS OF KUNDALINI

PHYSICAL

Muscle twitches, cramps or spasms (during meditation stronger?) Energy rushes or immense electricity circulating the body Itching, vibrating, prickling, tingling, stinging or crawling sensations Intense heat or cold Involuntary bodily movements (occur more often during meditation, rest or

sleep): jerking, tremors, shaking; feeling an inner force pushing one into postures or moving one's body in unusual ways. (May be misdiagnosed as epilepsy, restless legs syndrome (RLS), or PLMD.)

Alterations in eating and sleeping patterns Episodes of extreme hyperactivity or, conversely, overwhelming fatigue (some

CFS [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] victims are experiencing Kundalini awakening) Weird food cravings, repeated high protein cravings (due to increased

transmuting of energies), need for a lot of food fuel8

Sudden onset of or increase of allergies Sudden onset of chemical sensitivity Severe sensitivity to sounds, smells, lights, heat, cold, energies, other people,

lower energies, lower consciousness etc. Sudden eating/food changes, craving more protein foods, needing very light

foods, small amounts, eating at different times etc. Difficulty digesting all foods, inability to drink alcohol, take drugs etc. Phases of diarrhea, bowel sensitivities, bloating, pains & pressures Severe belly bloat, swelling in the gut & upper diaphragm area, the "Buddha

Belly" thing Intense phases of pain in the head, pressures in the head, skull sore and

bruised feeling Hair falling out, breaking, not growing, weak undernourished hair Repeatedly coming awake at specific times of the night–3:00, 3:33, 4:44, 5:55

AM etc. Profound physical exhaustion, emotional exhaustion, mental exhaustion Body weakness, muscle weakness, lethargy, achy body, bones, joints

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Intensified or diminished sexual desires Headaches, pressures within the skull Racing heartbeat, pains in the chest Digestive system problems Numbness or pain in the limbs (particularly the left foot and leg) Pains and blockages anywhere; often in the back and neck (Many cases of

FMS [Fibromyalgia syndrome] are Kundalini-related.) Inner body electrical-like vibrations, buzzing, inner shaking, slowly moving

inner energy vibrations

EMOTIONAL & PHSYCHOLOGICAL

Emotional outbursts; rapid mood shifts; seemingly unprovoked or excessive episodes of grief, fear, rage, depression

Spontaneous vocalizations (including laughing and weeping)—are as unintentional and uncontrollable as hiccoughs

Hearing an inner sound or sounds, classically described as a flute, drum, waterfall, birds singing, bees buzzing but which may also sound like roaring,

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whooshing, or thunderous noises or like ringing in the ears. Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating Temporary loss of certain words, names, terms etc. Hyper states, restless, edgy, can't relax, can't rest or be comfortable, mind

races despite exhausted body Forgetting the names of common everyday things, objects, places, people etc.

– like "milk", "hammer", "orange", etc. Having to triple check things because you can't remember if you actually did

them or just thought about doing it Losing track of "time", losing track of yourself within "time", suddenly not

knowing what time of the year it is or even what year it is! Insomnia and/or only being able to sleep for an hour or two and then waking

up repeatedly throughout the night Drastically less dreaming (because you're dealing with issues/energies

24/7/365. We're transmuting while awake too)

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SPIRITUAL OR MYSTICAL

Altered states of consciousness: heightened awareness; spontaneous trance states; mystical experiences (if the individual's prior belief system is too threatened by these, they can lead to bouts of psychosis or self-grandiosity)

Heat, strange activity, and/or blissful sensations in the head, particularly in the crown area

Ecstasy, bliss and intervals of tremendous joy, love, peace and compassion Psychic experiences: extrasensory perception; out-of-body experiences; past

life memories; astral travel; direct awareness of auras and chakras; contact with spirit guides through inner voices, dreams or visions; healing powers

Increased creativity: new interests in self-expression and spiritual communication through music, art, poetry, etc.

Intensified understanding and sensitivity: insight into one's own essence; deeper understanding of spiritual truths; exquisite awareness of one's environment (including "vibes" from others)

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Enlightenment experiences: direct Knowing of a more expansive reality; transcendent awareness.

Clairvoyantly seeing lights, seeing other dimensional Beings smelling smoky burning incense when none is physically there Clairaudiently hearing non-physical sounds, voices, words, clicks, buzzing,

unrecognizable sounds Sudden waves of dizziness, sense of falling, sense of tipping over, dropping

through the floor etc. Nightmares, archetypal dreams, lucid dreams Positive & negative psychic experiences, psychic attacks while awake & asleep Glorious changes and expansions in consciousness, perceptions, quantum

knowing things vs. linear thinking Ascension flu— flu-like body aches and pains but you don't get "sick" like with

typical physical flu Physical vision changes – blurring, seeing non-physical mist or fog , seeing new

colors, lights, heat mirages, warps, vortex swirls

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The spontaneous symptoms of kundalini awakening can be arranged into the various practices of yoga. Yoga practice or Sadhana, is essentially the speeding up of the flow of consciousness.

VARIOUS TYPES OF YOGA AND CONNECTED SYMPTOMS

KRIYA YOGAMuscle twitching, cramps or spasms, shaking, trembling, limpness, rigid-contraction, facial contortions. Itching, vibrating, pricking, tingling, effervescent bubbles of bliss. Tingling/throbbing in left foot and leg is one of the main signs that kundalini is active. Hot or cold changes in body temperature. Shooting currents of energy or heat. Zigzag or double helix of energy up the spine. Prana flow in the central nervous system. Pulsating sensation in the sacrum. Involuntary laughing or crying, deep sighs. Abdomen may flatten toward the spine. Contraction of visceral organs. The anus contracts and is drawn up

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(bandhas). Purging or constipation. Bad digestion. Chin may press down against the neck (neck lock posture). Eyeballs roll upwards or rotate. Eyelids may not open despite effort to open them. Left eyelid flickers, then towards the end of the awakening the right eye may flicker. Tongue rises to the roof of the mouth or stretches back. Repetitive popping sensation in the sinus above the palette. Body may twist in all directions. Body may bend forward or back, or roll around on the floor. Spontaneous asanas and mudras. Breathing constriction, heaviness or contraction of diaphragm. Unusual breathing patterns, tendency to belly breathe, emphatic out-breath. Racing heart, expansion pains in heart. Feeling of levitation or intensified gravity, radical grounding and associated lethargy, Chronic Fatigue. Body sense might expand to feel huge or small. Strange aches and head pressures, headaches. Clenching jaw. Yawning, excessive sleep. Inability to sleep during hyperactivation; Hyperactivity, need to constantly walk or exercise. Dry throat, great thirst. Feeling mindless, giddy, heaviness of head like one is wearing a helmet. Build up of pressure at the head, neck, spine, thorax and eyes. Paralysis during Samadhi or hypnogogic states. Numbness and pain in limbs, especially the left foot and leg. Numbness on the left scalp and down into

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left face, with drooping of the left eyelid. Years of pain in the throat (thyroid) or in the left foot or shin prior to the awakening. Loss of strength in the arms during rapture and heart expansions. Psychokinetic interference with electrical equipment. Smell of roses or peaches eminating from the skin.

LAYA YOGAInner visions and lights, flames, geometric shapes. Visions of deities, or saints. Dream-scenes. Inner sounds, celestial music, bird sounds, animal sounds. Buzzing or humming in the ears. Inner voices. Spontaneous mantras. Speaking in tongues or foreign languages. Smell of perfume arises. Transcendental vision, everything illuminated scintillating, vibrating. Dreams and visions in transcendental vision. Atom bomb dreams. Temporary loss of eyesight.

BHAKTI YOGALove with no object arises. Devotion. Sublime gratitude. Uncommon compassion and understanding. Tolerance and patience for "What Is." Enormous faith

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accompanies the bliss. Transcendence of reactive patterns, social conditioning and egoic habits. Intense sexual arousal without provocation. Intensified sexual and sensorial pleasure. Feeling of gaseous bubbles arising from reproductive organs, champagne pelvis. Feeling of radiating ambrosial bliss, an aura of nectar. Heat, sweat. Strange activity and bliss in different areas of the head at different times. Sensations of blissful honey moving through brain, spine and connecting heart to other parts of the body. Traveling bliss, or pervasive bliss, rapture. Spontaneous sexual ecstasy with no stimulation. Increased ESP, precognitive dreams, telepathy. Bio-location of loved one through heart's navigation. Alchemical preparation for future unknown events, ie: trans local, trans time development. Linear time transcended. Feeling of entire life reaching a nexus point in time. Heightened senses. Hyper-sensitive. Field of self widens, peripheral awareness increases. Exquisite awareness of one's environment and others. Ability to affect energetic states and promote heart expansion in others via sympathetic resonance.

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JNANA YOGADeep questions and answers arise. Spontaneous mystic poetry that writes itself. Important insights, Eureka's. Scientific and creative solutions. The Herald of the Muse appearing as a sound or voice in the upper right-brain field prior to the emergence of information. Increased creativity and expression. Intensified understanding. Finer focus on "the most important thing." Compulsive need to write.

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Kriya is deeply stored information of action on the karmic level within the physical, emotional, mental and energy bodies. They manifest externally as involuntary jerks and spasms, self regulating breath rhythm, spinal locks and stretches and body arranging itself into asana postures and mudras. Internally they can take the form of surfacing of buried emotions and thoughts , electric vibrations , hot or cold sensations up the spine, visions and out of body sensations and other phenomenon. The external developments can be due to the sympathetic nervous system information patterns, and the internal implosions due to the para sympathetic aspect of the autonomous nervous system. The degree of expression varies in frequency from light tremors to ground shaking earthquakes, depending upon the karmic accounts of a person who is being infused with kundalini.

Often they can be seizure type impulses related to certain neurotransmitters. In yogic terminology kriyas are element (Three Gunas) purifying movements pushing through blocks

KRIYAS

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in the flow of kundalini. Yoga was reverse engineered through observing the various spontaneously arising positions (asanas) created by kriyas for thousands of years . Whether a voluntary complying with the way the energy wants to go, or involuntary compulsory asanas forcing the flow in conscious recess , both serve the purpose of unfolding and animating new patterns.The spontaneous convulsions and contorted movements produced by kundalini are nervous stress being released in order to unblock and restructure the tissue to convey greater consciousness. Although they can be seen as convulsive discharges which cause spontaneous firing in the neuro motor areas of the brain , enhancing the brain chemistry and neural mapwork to evolve for a higher vibration capacity.

The only way to progress through is to allow full expression and let go to whatever is happening as an observer. The speed of advancement depends on ones quality of surrender.

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Illumination is the fundamental target of Yoga and every healthy form of religious or esoteric discipline, and that all other benefits and merits accrue from it. Etymologically "Yoga" means union of the individual soul with the Universal Spirit, and all great authorities on the science have laid emphasis on this aspect of the discipline. There is a gulf of difference between a teacher of Yoga and an enlightened man. The former may be well versed in some of the techniques employed but has no personal experience of the ultimate goal. He may have personally practiced the various disciplines ~ Shat-Karma, Asana, Pranayama, Dharana and Dhyana ~ and studied a mass of literature on the subject, but still remained entirely unaware of the extraordinary state to which true Yoga finally leads.

On account of this great difference, there is sometimes no concordance between what the unenlightened Yoga teacher prescribes for his disciple and what the illumined adept says. The former, who fails to rise beyond the dry disciplines and

TRUE YOGIC EXPERIENCE

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mechanical techniques, has nothing except the models or method and practice before his eye, while the enlightened one, who soars beyond the body, mind , and intellect into a world of eternal light and life, develops a far better grasp of the virtues and mental attributes that are necessary in one who tries to soar to the same ethereal height. This is the main reason why the writings or discourses of great sages like Sri Ramakrishna, Kabir, and others turn and again and again to the cultivation of ethical virtues and lofty traits of character as the essential prerequisites in one who aspires to Divine Consciousness. In fact, all the leading luminaries of India, including the Adi Shankaracharya himself, have given a secondary place to the mechanical disciplines of yoga as compared to the lofty mental and moral attributes necessary for success in a spiritual awakening.Gopi Krishna

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ABOUT ME

KUNDALINI GROUP ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/139627919959247/

Having “strange” experiences brought me in contact with spirituality at a very young age. Getting in touch with a Kundalini Shaktipat explained so much for me. Still my journey has not ended but it became easier to deal with all the phenomenon's that show up.

I hope you have a good start into the vortex of the kundalini summit. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me or the speakers of the summit if you have any questions! Love to hear from your experiences, insights etc too!

Ingrid@kundalinisummit.com

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