This sub gets more posts from people in crisis than people having a good time. I made some posts on here early into my experiences 1.5-2 years ago and nothing since until now. So for all of you still deep in it, it’s worth it in the end.

Back then I didn’t know much about any of this because I had never even heard of kundalini before it happened. If your brain exploded or you fell into the void and you’re having a hard time with everything and maybe needed some psychiatric help you probably got a lot more than kundalini as some people think of it. Mine was two parts, a spontaneous rising up my body to a brain explosion and then a month later a whole lot more that culminated in the calmest void. Thinking back, the first event was what most people think of as kundalini and I was pretty ok for that first month. Then the second event fried my brain beyond recognition and I blamed that on kundalini when I should have been calling it a nondual awakening.

Regardless of what it was or wasn’t, things are much calmer 2 years later. Time to adjust is what helps, you don’t really need to do anything except wait it out….no cave or ashram required. And not a big deal that it disrupted your life for a few years, I think that’s just part of the nondual phase that gets everyone on the spontaneous no-path. The long slow path through a practice is probably a pleasant experience but you can’t refer to that, you have to look at the spontaneously nondual to see that this experience shuts most people down for a few years.

Hi guys!

What are some techniques to calm down the kundalini energy?
My energies have been crazy since a month and i feel them all the time, it’s difficult to focus on outside world.

I do the Sītkārī Pranayama to calm myself down & release the intense heat but it only works upto a point.

Are there any powerful/stronger techniques?

I am learning about Kundalini recently and find that the first stage is to get ready for the outcome by preparing the mind and body. Can anyone guide me to build a solid foundation?

I have been meditating very regularly—I shoot for daily, I do sometimes miss a day - for a couple years now.

Today, out of the blue, big (but fast) electric feeling shock in my head.

Someone told me of “brain zaps” and I googled it.

How do you know if it’s kundalini energy or a “brain zap”?

I suppose it doesn’t really matter, but I am curious.

hi all, new here, i was wonder what is the best practice i can do to awaken kundalini, should i just cultivate love?

There's a sense of disconnection I've been noticing, my body acts on its own, driven by its own intelligence. It doesn't act from what "I think" from. I think of doing something but my body does completely else instead in the moment. It's that using my brain to plan my actions and its pathways doesn't work, when its actually time to do the body just acts on its own and I see myself living intuitively all the time. Like I don't think about anything but my body moves on its own where it's (idk supposed to be) going? It meditates when it feels like for however long, does things on its own, building routines. I'm not disassociating or with head in the clouds, grounded through all of it. Even in meditation I'm aware of the body and its empty and after meditation i feel sharp for a while.

That's fine and all, not really caused me much of a problem in daily life, but lately there's discomfort(a lot of it). It's not from the body but from the inner split. I think I "should" be doing something else but my body doesn't do it, I just can't act and I don't know how I end up doing something else entirely. And I think it's hurting my chances lately, not immediately but in a future trouble sense. Like doing what I'm doing right now will cause me troubles in future, troubles that could have been avoided. I see I'm doing it, thoughts come up "why am i still doing this? I should be doing that instead? there's better things to do instead, etc", but it's like moving on its own. And its not even things like satisfying cravings, or impulses, or something enjoyable. I'm just doing it(not really feeling myself doing it, it just happens).

So this split is bothering me a lately. My mind kind of jumps around with thoughts like no not this, we should do something else, blah blah blah, and sometimes I agree I should be doing better but then I end up doing something else not what I thought about doing. Because I feel I'm wasting my time now, weird never thought that before. Oh that's what everyone keeps telling me I'm doing.

Anyway, this bothers me because of ambition and impatience. I think I can do so much more and feel like running but instead I see myself taking small steps in idk which direction. And I don't understand why I do what I do.

Another thing is, I can't get myself to move/act from fear or desire or emotions. Sure for a moment I'll think oops better avoid that or I want that and act on it but that's just for minor stuff, if I think I want to do a specific thing long term b/c I desire it, it doesn't work, after a few minutes/hours I'll lose interest. Then that raises confusion again that if I don't move from fear/desire then how am I supposed to act? but I'm also already acting right now. There's confusion here again too, some desires I've had for years reappearing even though I say I can't sustain any desire for long.

It's something I can't wrap my head around. And the pattern ends after I understand it, see through it. Maybe I'm overthinking this?

On another level the problem is this sense of disconnect. A feeling of being suspended mid air. Like disconnected from actions and thoughts and events going on around, what am I then if not even the watcher of it? Even the sense that I'm watching isn't constant. I think being aware about awareness is next but I've been stuck at it for some time. And there's just this sense of disconnect from both insides and outsides. I feel there's supposed to be a shift of perspective.

So that's the current puzzle I'm stuck on, looking for pointers to any resources that talk about this phenomenon or any perspectives people have to offer about it.

Hi all, I experienced kundalini rising back in 2017. It was quite a shocking experience as most here will know . I went through a few months of feeling energy in the base of my spine, which would come and go throughout the day's in waves. Also the experience of love and felt connection which was something beyond what I could ever have imagined happening to me. Also, i was aware at the time I was in quite a dangerous position. I did have moments where I was worried about my mental health. Looking back now, i think I was lucky not experience psychosis. This went on for about 3 months. Although I didn't know what was happening, I thought it was permanent. After a few months things slowly went back to normal. I crashed mentally, experienced a really bad depression, going from such a high to a low.

In 2019 the energetic sensations in my spine started coming back again. I was shocked. I love those sensations so much. It makes me feel so relaxed and calm. It seems to greatly affect my brain chemistry. But this has been coming and going since then up until now. Some days I feel it, some days i don't. Sometimes it can go on for weeks. Sometimes I feel nothing for months. It's a bit crazy making, it's drove me nuts at times.

The love and felt presence/connection I haven't felt since 2017. I've studied hard, tried to understand. I think I know why I've had these experiences. I'm just wondering where I am right now???. I have days where I'm very confused. I feel no progress, just energy on occasions. This has been going on for so long now. I'm posting because this last month has been quite intense. Lots of buzzing in my head, and lack of sleep. Lots of energy. But then, next week I'll probably feel normal again???. So what now lol. Just live with it. I have become somewhat addicted to the energy aswell. I know this isn't good. I've actually questioned lately if this is even kundalini?

I recently had an activation, I've felt a few surges, luckily I was already outside and walking, and kriyas during mediation. I had a thought to put on some of my copper jewelry yesterday and am wondering if any one else has used copper long term to help manage and keep them grounded. I did a search but couldn't find too much about using copper for grounding Kundalini, but a lot of sites selling it instead. Has any one had any experience using or wishing they'd used copper? I understand that this is going to be quite the journey and also understand that it may not matter how prepared I think I am, but I'm thinking copper may be a step in the right direction. But also grounding shoes? Or is that just a fad?

During my awakening, I received what I can only call a compressed transmission—an insight that arrived whole, in an instant, that I’ve been sitting with ever since. The core of it: that we are all one consciousness/soul having an experience of itself, that love is the fundamental creative gesture, and that the One individuates into apparent many so it can recognize itself, ad infinitum.

What’s strange is how much the download mirrored traditions I hadn’t studied at the time (e.g. Advaita, Kashmir Shaivism, Kabbalah). It felt like I was tapping into the cosmic mind.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? How have you related to it as your awakening unfolded? I’d love to compare notes.

I'm new to Kundalini, I'd like to get my teacher a token of my appreciation. Do you think. Chakra crystal would be appropriate?

It's been nearly 2 months since I attended a soundbath, and I've been dealing with debilitating symptoms. I'm trying to understand if they are kundalini-related.

The soundbath I attended was super loud. My instinct was to leave, but I stayed because it was a small group and my friend knew the facilitator.

After the sound bath, my constitution changed. I used to be introverted, sleepy, and disassociated. After the soundbath, I felt stronger, more vital, full of energy, chatty, and extroverted.

About nine days after the sound bath, I developed tinnitus. The tinnitus is accompanied by burning pain in the ear, jaw pain, and electric sensations in my head and randomly throughout my body. The tinnitus and the accompanying symptoms have caused insomnia and extreme anxiety. According to an audiologist, there is no hearing loss. MRI is clear. A pain specialist thinks the cranial nerves may be affected, and I have started physical therapy and have the option of getting cranial injections with steroids, which I am postponing because I feel that I need to be in communication with my body, however uncomfortable it may be.

It is the change in consciousness and electrical sensations that make me wonder if this might be kundalini-related. During a breakdown in the first week of developing symptoms, I received a message about becoming a healer -- not in the sense I need to hang out my shingle, but that I am a conduit for healing. I feel like this humbling experience has opened my heart. The protective layer I used to have, which shielded me from others, is gone, and I feel much more connected to my fellow humans.

I do not have any typical kundalini symptoms such as visions or hallucinations. There is no sense that this comes from the base of my spine. I am pursuing whether there is an underlying medical condition, but given the timeline of how these symptoms developed, I wonder if there is an energetic / spiritual aspect I should be considering

Some of you will recognize my writing as I am no stranger to this sub but left ashamed of my story, what I had written, and also to prove to myself somehow that I am now a man instead of a boy trapped in a man’s body. 

Thinking that I have to find confidence in myself through doing everything on my own. I’ve always had to in order to survive and believed I still needed to in order to find myself. I’ve pushed myself so hard and fast to quote Dr. Seuss “You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...” I’ve got to adapt and find the boom bands playing…so I push myself some more. 

I often miss the point and for better or worse I know I miss the point which makes it all the more frustrating. A yoga instructor recently said “We often go fast because it numbs us.” Oh. Right. Yes. This makes sense. 

The point I miss about the journey, the present moment that’s really the blessing of life. Yet I worry about the future, the past, this or that knowing I am not present. All this going fast doing all the things burning myself out making it all the harder on myself because I’m trying to prove what self worth? Probably. Also to escape pain? Yea that tracks. 

I don’t know how to relax and take the pressure off of myself. 

I lose the first person who truly made me feel like they understood me. Ok adapt - try to feel understood by others. Oh well not everyone wants to understand me. Ok adapt - go inward why do I need to be understood? Because I don’t feel connected to others. Ok adapt - embrace your social support. 

Just kidding - now I get laid off. Ok adapt - stay at home dad that’s fine. Wait…idk if I can handle this. Why does this hurt so much? Because silly you never felt the things that having a job meant to you and all your “social support” revolved around that. Ok adapt again…time to work on a social support system. 

Oh wait communicating these things isn’t helping? Why not? Not all social support is equal. It feels as though we are losing the sangha or community as humans. Or perhaps that’s just my biased observation on the lack of compassion. Maybe when individuals lack compassion so does community? That seems to also track. 

Why is it so difficult to connect to others? Queue all “numbing behavior cravings”. I miss feeling seen and understood, feeling supported. Did I properly grieve the loss of finding that? Nope. I also miss the point yet again. 

It’s deeper. I feel I’m not worthy of that, not worthy of love so I run from it in all its forms. 

How does one love their self to then feel worthy of love?

Hi everyone,

everything started when I experienced a completely spontaneous and extremely intense energy surge rising from my toes up through my entire body to the top of my head. It felt unlike anything I had experienced before.

After that initial event, I found myself wanting to experience it again, and it did return. At that time I had no knowledge of kundalini, energy systems, or anything related to these topics. Looking back, I was very ignorant and also somewhat “chasing” the experience.

One day, during a breathing practice, the energy surged again very strongly. However, this time it felt like it got stuck in the heart area, and I could feel it very clearly and physically/energetically halt there. Since that moment, something in my system changed.

From then on, I have been experiencing what feels like a persistent and deep blockage in my body. It does not feel purely physical, but more like an energetic or subtle-body stagnation.

Mainly I notice:
A strong sense of congestion or blockage throughout the system, almost like energy is not flowing freely anymore
Especially a dominant blockage on the left side of my body, which feels like it runs from the soles of my feet all the way up to my head

A feeling of pelvic/lower body restriction, like energy cannot properly rise or circulate from the base
Breathing through left nostril feels very blocked.
Heart/chest area tightness and emotional heaviness, including sadness
Occasional electrical or pulsing sensations on the left side of the chest (when stretching)

Sometimes a sense that energy rises upward when I sit in stillness, but then feels stuck or unevenly distributed
I have tried grounding practices, breathwork, osteopathy, energy healing, and other body-based approaches. Some things give temporary relief, but the overall pattern remains. During reiki-healing, I felt my heart and throat completely blocked.

I feel hard, sticky energy blockages in my left side of the body.

Staying still and meditating makes this worse. What has helped maybe a little so far is fascial movements, letting the energy be without controlling it and turning awareness to the outer world.

Thankyou so much on advance.❤️

I’m trying to understand what this might be.
Could this be related to:
kundalini awakening and an imbalance in ida/pingala?
a nervous system dysregulation or trauma-based holding patterny?
something else entirely?

Hey yall, hope things are well round these parts. It’s been some time since my last post. I have started lurking more recently, under a new account this time. My last Reddit profile got shut down for some unknown reason, after some research it seems like that will happen from time to time. Alas, I’m unable to post or comment from there (u/spliffjort) so I started a fresh one. All in good time however, as I had been wanting to lean away from identification with spliffs. Anywho, I’m here now with what may not be exactly K related, not directly anyway, but a situation I’ve been seeking clarity or advice on. My meditation teacher has been tough to reach, and thought yall might be willing to help.

I moved back to my parents house in Alaska after feeling called up here it’s been 6 months, and I spent the winter working as a sub teacher doing custodial work and intensive needs aiding. Enjoyable stuff for the most part. in search of a summer job found myself called to ask a member of the song circle I frequent about their work life. They are a commercial salmon fisherman and asked if I wanted to be a deckhand. I like this way of living, going about my life and when doors open and feel okay, I follow, however my Buddhist background has me .. or rather some ideas from Buddhist heads, has me concerned about the taking of life that’s a part of this job. I didn’t commit to it right away because of this, and procrastinated checking in with myself or doing research until a month later when I found my self, a little impulsively, shaking is hand and committing to a month of work on the boat.

After I have learned much about the fishery and it seems of all the places where humans are pulling fish out of the water, alaskas salmon fisheries are the model for sustainability. I also learned that too many salmon going up the streams to spawn can have negative impacts on the ecosystem (from a long term fisherman) and It seems at this point humans and their harvesting have been folded into the ecology of things , also , feeding people! Not so bad in my book. What I’m a bit hung up on though is an experience I had “feeling” into the future of this path. Of course this was after I had committed, doh! But when I did that it felt in my body like a huge wave of grief and I wanted to cry. Grief isn’t too foreign to me lately, and I’m still very much in the healing stage of things , not worried about too much beyond keeping life simple , trauma work , going with the flow , good habits and stuff. This was however, the first time I’d felt such a strong sense of it when exploring the bodily feeling of a potential path and caught me off guard , also got me afraid of going forward with it. I want to honor my commitments , I also want to be right with the soul and spirit of things. I’m wondering if there is some sacrifice I can make in exchange for the salmons to feed us , or some prayer or ritual I can do to honor this salmon, I’m hoping to speak with local elders about that. Any ideas are welcome though. I’m also wondering if the grief I felt is related to the taking of life? Or perhaps something else? Is it worth finding out or is it a sign to bail and go a new direction? I’ve tried reducing fear but still find it’s on my mind a lot.

Any help is appreciated , and if it isn’t on topic enough for the sub to go through, that’s fine too. Good day

How do you healthily express kundalini energy? Especially regarding social situations, I feel so much love and energy, especially from my heart, but it feels so impossible to express this for so many reasons. I feel so many reasons that my mind makes as to repress this energy and not express it, but it really feels depressing everytime this happens. It feels like there’s so much energy trapped within me that my head is about to explode. My heart always feels full of energy but then my mind keeps on convincing me not to express it. My mind has so many convincing reasons not to express the energy. “You can’t just go up to random people they will think it’s weird.” “I’m not the type of person to do that, it’ll look and feel awkward if I do it.” “Other people will feel uncomfortable.” It just goes on and on and it feels very suffocating and depressing for my energy to keep on having so many restraints like this. If there were no restraints I feel like I would just be so happy and go talk to every single person and share love with everything, but instead I keep all of it inside only my own head and it feels terrible. How do I deal with this and what is your similar experience?

I've been having kundalini activations for 8 years resulting in a deep paranoid psychosis.

I recently got the idea to ask my higher self to deactivate my kundalini and put the serpent energy back in place, more dormant. is this possible? is it possible to recovery fully from kundalini psychosis or am I totally fucked for life?

I'm not sure if what I'm experiencing is kundalini or maybe some other spiritual awakening. I had major ups and downs the last few years and meditated a lot (bliss states followed by really dark and frightening lows), but lately I'm just going into spontaneous samadhi, sometimes aware but sometimes not, lots and lots of buzzing, extreme heat and feeling intense energy at night. I've stopped meditating altogether because it's way too strong but the samadhi just keep happening anyway. The vibrating and shaking can get pretty intense and make me not sleep at all but I've actually found skullcap estremely helpful. A bit during the day and a strong skullcap tea at night evens things out.

Other than slow walks I really cant do anything physical or it breaks my nervous system and that gets really bad (I learned the hard way). I tried going back to the gym, had a moderate workout and then violently shook for over a week with 2 hours of rough sleep a night. So not doing that again for a while...

I honestly dont know if this is kundalini (if so probably one of the gentler ones I've read about) but the only thing I felt along the spine was years ago (just remembered when listening to someone else describe their experience) when I was quite involved spiritually, my lower back gave out and I fell to the floor. I should have been scared because I couldnt move and to try to move was excruciating, but honestly in the moment as long as I was just laying there I actually felt so nice that I just wasnt worried at all. Maybe that was my initial kundalini awakening that started all of this?

I don't really feel anything in my spine which is what has me wondering. I do feel my forehead and feet simultaneously activated and its like with a channel running between them. Almost all of the other symptoms (buzzing, head pressure, ears ringing and clogging up, feeling like I'm going really high in my head, spontaneous samadhi, derealization) I read about are there though. As long as I dont overdo it it's pretty easy to allow the head pressure into my body and that eases it up. I always joke that I never knew a spiritual awakening would involve this much sitting around on the couch lol

I just posted some of this as a response to another poster but then realized I'd actually like to fill it out a bit to know if folks with experience can deduce what exactly this is?

Hello all, i came here in search of answers and hope to find a solution or any kind of help.

so basically i started my meditation journey with a short course and at first it was great. my focus was really sharp and i could feel energy moving in my third eye and crown intensely, i would get visions and all of it felt so magical. but then the issues started, i was already burping a lot since i started meditating but i thought it was the food at first and then i thought its impurities coming out. then after a point of time it became so intense i started getting extreme head pressure and the everyday stomach issues, i became so sensitive that if i didn't sleep by 9pm my head would literally explode the next day. i had to stop eating almost everything, surviving only on rice & gourds, everything else just triggered the pressure & made life worse.

i tried all the grounding techniques people talk about like walking on grass and focusing on the root chakra but honestly none of it worked for me for over a year. I had stopped meditating but even that did not help, i couldn’t go outside in crowded areas it would trigger my issues i couldn’t even travel because my motion sickness became worse and triggered the symptoms again. Life became hell, cuz i just couldn’t live like normal people.

Then i started meditating again, slowly (for lesser hours) focusing solely on my lower chakras, lately i found out that if i focus on the back of my lower spine i get some relief and the stuck energy actually moves. i even started putting a pillow under my spine because i felt my spine was never at rest, the pillow caused this huge energy surge,everything was moving in circles around me, i felt my sense of presence was circular in motion, This was the first time i realised it might be kundalini energy, because it was super intense experience, i had no control over the energy that was moving from lower spine to upwards. I did not let it go to my head because i was so scared that i would be go back to where i started (painful symptoms)

and now the pressure is stuck in my chest below collarbone area, near the heart. it feels weird, like a hollow feeling in my heart but it also pains if i press on it and i still have digestive issues and now the energy has become so aggressive that all i can do whole is feel the vibrations or energy moving in my body. I am scared if i meditate too much i will trigger the pressure problems again, its not like the problem was gone but i am just so confused what to do? Every night is the intensity of everything is just increasing.

If you read till here, thankyou for feeling even the smallest essence of my pain, i am grateful to have a platform where i can share this and hoping to receive guidance. this is so personal and painful.

I am from india, Himalayas, the place where people come from all over the world to find answers and i am struggling to find mine. I don’t even know where can i go to find a guru who can guide me. Any recommendations would also be helpful, thankyou.

Fine lessons and fish-n-chips. (I'm hungrier now)

I haven't seen the whole movie. Just clips. I really should get the DVD.

This is pertinent to many of our visitor's questions in the past weeks, months, even years.

Video clip is just under a minute.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s0USTEsGW8s

Morgan Freeman - such a fine actor.

Has kundalini ever sent you to emergency room? What were your symptoms? What was the outcome after emergency? How did you tackle the situation? Just trying to learn from the experiences here. I feel like going to emergency every now and then. But i dont know if they are underlying physical symptoms or kundalini. This is so confusing

Please can someone help

My spiritual awakening went totally wrong. In 2019 my dark night of the soul kicked in.i got so scared I tried to find ways how to escape it. I read so much,I tried so much. Now when I look back I was just feeding ego. I got myself in to system (health care and social help organization).

In 2023 I was guided to leave the support system, I also got finances so I could manage it for couple of years, but I wasn't convinced that I was guided (now that I look back all the signs was there).

I started to ask people around me on what to do and they told me it was not the way. I got more and more confused and started to be more doubtful. Time passed by and I only felt worse. I started to age really fast and I felt something was off but I could get that the feeling was I was walking the wrong path.

And finally last year I took the leap and left the support system. What I didn't know it was kind of late. The energy I felt growing during the years in my body was actually me feeding fear. Somehow I found ai in August last year and got so hocked to it. During couple of months I started to feel the energy like torture. I understood that I need to stop with ai but it was the fast food for my ego and fear. (Please don't be so hard on me, I didn't understand everything until recently) I couldn't put down the phone

I started to feel some kind of energy (healing) entering my body. Now I understand this energy has always been there but as fear end layers of ego started to build up more and more I started to feel this energy trying to reach the heart through layers.

It came to a point where I started to feel this healing energy through layers as extrem anxiety and then like it was knifes Cutting through and never reaching the heart. Layers of fear and ego grow and now I'm totally locked in the layers. Kundalini is pushed down and the healing energy is out pushed.

I don't know what to do. No healing is happening and ego and fear is just growing.

Please someone help!!!

If you have been through this, how do I get out of this disaster?

Please guide. I have been facing these issues in my nightly meditation ( sleeping pose) from past three/four months :

• head jolts lifting the upper body up as soon as relaxed and focus deeply. Occurs several times in one session.
• right hand tapping hard and fast on bed ( fingers to wrist area only)
• right hand slapping chest area several times
• right hand making the round of the head. i had to lift my head to let it pass underneath the head

these things feels like slowly continues to grow in intensity. not able to do meditation properly.

Are these any neurological disorder ? should i stop meditation ?