Kundalini Practice Skills

With a kundalini self-care program we are literally capturing the energies of nature and
putting them into the cells!
Kundalini will permanently rewire the bodymind to release the stored tension of the body
armor, but one has to be physically/mentally/emotionally and spiritually developed enough to
handle the kundalini. If there is a significant loosening of the armor without sustained integral
practice and intent, then the armor will reinstate itself and rubber band back into place.
Following are tools of self-recovery for the dispossessed self--for all we do to our self in the
form of contraction, denial, negation, abuse, shaming, neglect in an attempt to avoid our True
Nature. This set of kundalini coping skills is gleaned from spontaneous arising solutions
stemming from many years of process, and merely hints at what is possible.

This list of practices and tools is not meant to disempower you to find your own way through
the storm, for I think each of us can find whatever answers we need within ourselves. Thus a
kundalini awakening is its own solution if we listen deeply and trust. Since it is the energy of
individuation it is the source of creativity and gnosis. To find ourSelf we need not look
beyond our Selves. A sovereignty that comes through another or needs the confirmation of
another is not much of a sovereignty is it? Hence to thine own Self be true. I think a combo of
strengthening, stretching, shaking, aerobic, listening, exploring, extending, feeling, fast and
slow, grounding and vocalizing practices to be the "best." Whatever we are called to do by the
energy itself, and you will find kundalini literally commands you to be out in nature.
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 conditionsit is a priori state or
attitudeit is an unconditional perspective of sublime humor. Emotional selfperpetuation 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 funto take fun where no man has gone beforeto
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 thingSpiritual 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 MeditationSpiritual 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 bodys 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 minds 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 HakaThe 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/hakafeature/haka.cfm
Animal YogaTo reinstate our connection with the planet and the deeper parts of
ourselves this practice of animal yoga is done in natural environmentsin 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 youthe grass, the trees,
the rocksput 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 pickme-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.
Pulsating BrainstemThere is often a pumping sensation in the brain stem...you can
aid this by lying on the ground. Doing the primal release pose on the grass. Or putting
one hand on the base of the spine and one hand on the back of the neck, while

engaging in nasally breathing. Doing the inner smile with the mind's eye focused on
the back of the skull at the notch where the spine enters will unblock and organize the
energy.

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.
AffirmationsAffirmations 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 MeditationThis 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 mindI 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-mindsoul-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 TemperatureDuring 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 BathsOne 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 chemistryis 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 CyclesPerhaps 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 silverwhite 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 MeditationI 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 StressThe 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 Sapolskys video. Stress: Portrait of a Killer DVD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjU0-dOTLM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPS7GnromGo
http://killerstress.stanford.edu/
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:
o Pharmacy For The Soul: A Comprehensive Collection of Meditations,
Relaxation and Awareness Exercises & Other Practices for Physical and
Emotional Well-Being, Osho.

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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