Kundalini Awakening Symptoms
Symptoms of Kundalini Awakening
Real Life Experiences & Descriptions of Kundalini Rising
Are you going through a kundalini awakening episode or experience? Let’s find out…
Kundalini awakening symptoms are truly a very intriguing subject. Really there is no correct answer to the question, "What are the symptoms of Kundalini Rising?", as thankfully, each of us is absolutely unique and thus, on a unique trajectory on the path to Kundalini Awakening. That said, there are some common kundalini experiences that are often reported, which I would like to share with you in this article.
Although we can draw up endless lists of symptoms from third party accounts, I would like to instead make this series about kundalini symptoms that you or I have actually experienced. In this article, I will give a recent account from one of my students about what she experienced shortly after class, and then I will add my own kundalini experiences and observations as well.
In the comments section, I encourage you to add any kundalini awakening experiences or symptoms you have felt, so others can better understand what they might be going through. Here is the recent email I received from my student, Aida:
Aida’s Experience of Kundalini Awakening:
I am a student of the "Gentle Kundalini Class". I just finished taking a series of exercise specifically for the spine.
As I left the class I felt energized as I usually feel after each class, but this time it was a little different, I was feeling extra aware of my surrounding. Like a light turned on. My back was so straight. It lasted all day.If I could go to class every morning I would go. It makes my day start right in every way. And there are times when I am not feeling like going to class and I push myself to go and do not regret it.Thank you for being my teacher.Aida D.
For those interested, here is a link to the Spinal Warmup Kundalini Yoga Kriya we did in class that day. Thank you Aida, for sharing your personal experiences with us.
This particular experience of kundalini is very interesting and significant. This is because it is the common experience of advanced meditation and of kundalini yoga. In the article, Powerful Kundalini Yoga Battles Profound Zen Meditation, I described my own such experience with kundalini awakening, but not from doing kundalini yoga, but instead from doing Silent Mind Meditation!
Aida’s experience points at the two things that all yoga and meditation boils down to. Energy and Awareness.
My favorite description of Kundalini Yoga is, "The Yoga of Awareness," and as you see from her account, she felt more aware, as the energy of kundalini had risen up her spine. In meditation, it is the same. The demand for intense awareness, in order to comprehend the thought process via direct perception, leads to energy (kundalini) rising up and elongating the spine. Awareness then follows.
Jiddu Krishnamurti describes this experience of kundlaini energy flowing up the spine as "The rush of water filling up and thus causing a pipe to stand erect."
When we insist that the spine be straight during meditation, it is simply to facilitate this awakening and thus, to assist in being more aware. I have experienced kundalini rising and puling up with such force, during meditation, that it sometimes make me feel as if I am going to be launched right off the ground or as if it’s going to pull my head off and up into the sky.
Symptoms of Kundalini Awakening:
I am going to describe some of the physical symptoms my students or I have felt due to kundalini awakening. I know there are many emotional and mental symptoms as well, and you are welcome to share those with us in the comments section below. I am grouping the experiences into 3 categories, common, uncommon and rare, according to what I have observed.
Common Kundalini Awakening Symptoms:
- Tingling in the body and brain region. Also sometimes described as ants walking, tickling energy or flushes of energy. The brain being flushed with energy is quite pleasant :-).
- Heat or cold in the system, or running along various channels and chakra centers.
- Fluttering or twitching of muscles.
- Pinching or burning in various regions of the body or brain.
Uncommon Kundalini Awakening Symptoms:
- Pressure in the Third Eye Region (Ajna Chakra). This is pressure, tingling or other sensation in the center of the forehead. Can go on for years (14 years and counting so far for me). Caution: If the pressure, due to certain practices, intensifies to uncomfortable levels you feel are "immense", you should cease that practice and consult a competent kundalini yoga teacher.
- Sudden bursts of energy anywhere in the body. These are almost always short lived, from a few seconds to a few minutes.
- Spontaneous yoga asans or kundalini yoga movements. They may come on spontaneously, or they may take over, as if on auto-pilot when one is practicing Kundalini Yoga Kriyas or Exercises (For an example see article: Explosive Kundalini Rising in Class Today).
- Kundalini Shakti rising up and elongating the spine.
- Incredible feeling of love and desire for your partner (not ordinary lust, alcohol induced or otherwise :-). Usually comes upon you spontaneously, deep in the night. Sex feels like it’s the first such experience and the intense feelings of attraction emanate from somewhere beyond yourself.
- Unfortunately, pain in the lower back, back of the neck and headaches.
Rare Kundalini Awakening Symptoms:
- Experience of divine light within. Very intense light, usually pure white and incredibly beautiful. I call it the Radiation of the Lord.
- Tremendous vibratory energy (sometimes feels like it’s coming from the inner ears). Very blissful, but can intensify to the point where it would completely overwhelm your consciousness if you let it.
- Spontaneous bliss, intensely pleasurable.
- This one is a bit scary. Complete paralysis of the body. Complete immobility and rigidity takes place. As with the all consuming vibratory energy, it requires some courage to allow.
- This one is exceedingly rare. I have experienced it only once in my life, and have only ever read about it being experienced by one other – the master of awareness, G. I. Gurdjieff. The arms and legs churn like that of a baby. It happens naturally and cannot be simulated. It is also intensely pleasurable and quite a remarkable experience.
There are of course a wide range of transcendental experiences, some of which you will find described in the category Spiritual Enlightenment Experiences. Above, I have provide those that are more commonly associated with kundalini awakening, although many would argue, including Swami Vivekananda, that all enlightenment experiences have to do with kundalini entering the brain region in some capacity.
So if you have experienced some kundalini symptoms as well, please do share them with us below. I think it will benefit others identify if what they are going through is actually symptoms of the ever mysterious kundalini awakening.
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- Kundalini Yoga Seven Chakra System Overview
- Kundalini Awakening Symptoms
- Dangers of Kundalini Yoga
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- The Source of Yoga for Kundalini and Kundalini Yoga Kriyas
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April 16th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
I mostly practices meditation before sleep at night lying on my bed.
I keeps meditating in different parts and chakras.Lastly I stops at aagya (third-eye chakra).I gots dissolved in it and I can see the bright white light in closed eyes.But everything is dark on opening the eyes.Sometimes I cannot tolerate the brightness.So I keeps concentrating into cron chakra….Many a times I feels that i had left my body …. In the beginning I used to feel very horrible.Now i had learned to how to return again to body…Can any one please tell me something about this?If this symptom is good then how can I progress further? Please guide me about this.
April 14th, 2012 at 6:57 am
I started listening a beautiful veena (I am dam sure that this is not from this world) at 3.30 am. I used to see saints worshipping Lord which I was amazed to see them.
I saw a divine light coming from ether and enveloping my forehead. Plants which are growing and were asking me permission to grow.
Some times I used to stay in the body of Miss Universe who is contesting and used to reach my body after live telecast.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:24 am
to k,
it sounds like you have a beautiful connection…I guess there’s not a way to know if he’s even conscious of the extent of it…..
I sometimes think many psychic things happen between people without any conscious intention….
Though my experience is not as beautiful & loving as yours…we are not together because he didn’t want to be in a romantic relationship with me and is now with someone else, but I too was very aware when he was thinking of me and I had some visions which I will never be sure were from him or that came from my own unconscious… I have decided not to keep in contact with him because even though there was a connection he was not sensitive to my feelings….and he certainly was only aware of a connection when he wanted one……but that is another story :)) Like I said,
I would be more than happy to communicate with you more…..please feel free to write me at aviela@att.net. I have been reading alot about Kundalini & synchronicity as well as psychology and spirituality/religion…I feel that we are all evolving/changing as humans and that we will find that experiences such as these will increase as time goes by.
all the best to you…..it must be so wonderful to have warm & kind feelings toward someone that has been such a special part of your life. love & light….aviela :)
February 22nd, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Aviela-I forgot to respond to your first email. I too get the sensation in my head. It usually comes in on the right side directly behind my temple. It’s just a sensation and somehow I know it belongs to my friend. Sort of like I can read his signature. It’s really indiscribable. Often I get this when I am doing something very quitely. Like yoga or driving in the car. I do find that I am more receptive when I am outside. When i get this feeling an email will usually follow. One time I was sitting at my computer concentrating on somethng and a vision flashed infront of me of my friend kissing me. It happened in an instant but it seemed so real and 3 dimensional. Please let me know if this sounds familiar.
Thanks! Kim
February 22nd, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Aviela and Karen-
Thank you for your responses. It too has been very hard for me to be so in love with someone and not be able to show them or share my feelings. It has given me great pain (but also great joy when I don’t let it get the best of me). I feel like this is what the bible means when they speak of such struggles in life that will bring you closer to god. Through this whole experience I believe I have awoken to something extrodinary that I never intended to seek out. That being said, I still metally go back and forth as to what is really happening to me. I have asked my friend about the situation and have gotten no response. It is hard to verbalize it and not make this person think I have lost my mind. But I do believe he is also feeling these things. The thing is that I know he is a very spiritual person. I believe I have taped into his enery stream (and possibly he into mine) and a transfer has taken place. Everyday I also wonder if I am imaging it or that the feelings are only coming from me. I have several clues to tell me otherwise. One is that when the night time evnts would occur I would be awoken out of a deep sleep to the sensations and hear my friend speaking to me. As if I was being caressed awake. The other clue was that during a month of my friends most important religious holiday the feelings were completely absent. Sometimes I will be in the middle of a project where I am very focused and these intense vibrations will shoot through me. They start in the root chakra and go all the way to the top of my head. Sometimes my chest gets a warm sensation that fills me with love and joy. Also for about 2 months I swore I could feel my friends heart beat right next to mine. I knew when he was excersising and praying and at rest. It’s all so crazy. I have started to so mindful meditation wihich helps you practice being in the now. It has really helped me over come my emations for the situation I find myself in and things have calmed down. But I still can’t get over the revelation I have come to know through all of this.. It’s amazing. During these meditaions I have instantly seen my third eye. I now dream of things that tell me how to solve problems. I have asked my third eye questions and recieved answers that inevitably and eventually come true. All I can say is wow.
February 19th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Hi again,
In regards to K – I was also thinking that your being so open spiritually and in your heart is making you a “receiver” of energies…..it may also be possible that your strong feelings are “making love” with the other person…and that it’s happening inside of you at such a very deep level that it seems like he is participating….I’m not saying that you are imaging it but that it is coming from you and so you are creating it on some level.. This love may be transforming your consciousness to such a degree that you feel like you will levitate. Yes, please share more.
My situation was so painful that I have had to detach from the feelings and find ways to ground myself as I would always feel that I was falling from a great height…..or I would suddenly find myself feeling really happy on some deep level and forget about the reality of the situation.
best wishes :)
February 19th, 2012 at 2:35 am
Hi! This is for “K”. Yes, it sounds almost WAY too familiar but I don’t know if the other party has or did feel it at the time. Sometimes I think it’s just “me”. Sad but true. Also, the levitation part sounds like YES, what fun that must be!!! Let me know if you or anyone else actually “does” it! Bye for now and good luck! Sincerely, Karen.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:35 am
Response to k #518….
Hi,
I had a similiar psychic type connection with someone who has telepathic abilities. Read #495.
I have found that I could also feel/hear/sense him
…. I sometimes felt a presence and heard little sounds…. or a I just
get a sense that he is around.
I’m wondering if there is anyway that you can talk to your friend about these things and confirm for yourself what has been happening. My relationship ended in a hard breakup so it’s too difficult for me to get information….. he may or may not be consciously aware of what’s going on…..and it sounds as if these things happen on their own without any conscious intention????
I too sometimes know when someone is thinking of me or writing me…though i feel it more in my head…
Kundalini has been active for me recently and I’m still trying to understand it and integrate it.
I would love to hear more about your experience as I’ve not been able to find anyone that has had these types of experiences…..feel free to write me at aviela@att.net.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
I had an unusual kundalini/psychic awaking. I fell deeply in love with a man who was a previous aquantance. We were both married and decided to keep our distance and not persue a relationship. I thought of him very often. One day I realized I could feel him thinking of me too. If I’d recieve an emailfrpm him I would always get a little sensation af him in my right temple. Or I’d feel a wave of energy in my root and other lower chakras. I thought I was ging crazy. Then I realized if we were emailing of texting I could feel him opening my email and then hear his thoughts. To this day I have kept this a secret. We are still friends,I guess, but limit the amount of interaction we have with eachother. I still am unable to gert him off my mind. However, I am now experiencing many other peoples energy surging through my chakras as I email or text with them. One other thing was, with my friend, i believe that we had some sort of sexual energy experience that neither of us have ever talked about. But some nights I would wake up an feel and hear him and we would make love through our thoughts. My Kundalini would rise all he way up. Now when I meditate I feel like I’m about to levitate. Lots of information, sorry. Have you ever heard of something like this happening to anyone?
February 14th, 2012 at 12:36 am
Dear Don: Thank you for your input and I am going to use your same statements before I meditate and whenever I feel the presence around me in my home. I wonder if these are those entities Kathy Rose was talking about these “white light entities”? In any event, I do appreciate your insight and I will use same with your permission. Blessings, Karen.