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Recieved: 1999/09/04 12:17
Subject: Re: [K-list] Scared, and I need advice
From: alingimp
On 1999/09/04 12:17, alingimp posted thus to the K-list:
-----Original Message-----
From: M OMAR <yogiartATnospamusa.net>
Scared, and I need advice
I am practicing hatha yoga and kundalini yoga, for several years now
(without
teacher), each time I start to feel the circles of energy rising I get
scared
and immediately stop it by getting my focus into something else. Usually
that
happens when I do a chackra meditation. The last time was two and a half
years
ago. I stopped doing the meditation. Now I started doing it again and this
is
what happened:
· I felt a link between the base of the spine and the 3rd eye point.
· Circles of energy covering the whole area and going higher and faster
· My body started sweating
· It was easier to let it flow up, but I didn't out of fears.
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A lot of people would proabably tell you that you need a teacher, especially
when dealing with chakras because of what could get unleashed once they open
up, but then there were always people who were on their own, including
myself for the most part. Only within the last year did I start to work with
a teacher.
.
· I had an old pain in my chest rib cage. I always feel it when I stretch in
any hatha yoga posture around that area. So when I started to feel slight
pain
in this area I got scared it would get worse as I expected expansion in it.
==
When practising hatha yoga you will find yourself becoming more aware of
blockages and sore spots in your body. The same goes for an awakened K. It
encounters blockages and it can get stuck there if you don't work on them.
Therefore I believe it can't hurt to continue Hatha Yoga, as long as you
don't notice any negative effects, because it stretches those areas that are
tense. I don't count being more aware of your blockages as a negative
effect, because in the end I look at any form of expanded awareness as
something positive and of course an expanded awareness will point to the
areas that are blocked, tense and generally need working on. Any of those
tense spots or blockages tend to have a direct connection to the mind. You
can search your own mind for eventual causes.
What probably happened is that when the energy started raising, it
encountered your blockage in form of an old pain in your chest and tried to
force itself through on it's way up. K for sure wants to reach the crown of
your head, that's just it's natural course. Are you afraid of the pain or
about losing control, or both?
=
So
I tried to relax the area.
I tried at that point to let the energy go down to the base of my spine to
allow it to go to one chackra at a time moving in the sequence (first to
second, then first to 3rd, then first to 4th..etc). So it doesn't rush up
very
strong. In a second I felt that I'll be totally out of control so I got
scared
more and I didn't know what to do whether I trust it and just leave it to
go,
or control it.
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I think once K is awake, you can't really control it. It will run it's own
course, which is towards liberation (from everything that is holding you
down) and it seems to me that people who go with it and don't try to resist
it are having a better time with it.
Karin
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