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Kundalini And Your Soul’s Gifts

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Grounding kundalini provides a solution to the discomfort involved with kundalini energy, and a way forward.

It is my hope that I can help you understand why kundalini awakening can be uncomfortable and confusing.

You will learn about what the symptoms of awakening can tell you and how two different individuals can experience this type of awakening in completely different ways.

Most importantly, I will attempt to show you how you can work with this energy to harness it and give it direction.

The entire journey of experiencing the first twinges of a kundalini awakening to the grounding of the energy will get you started on one of the greatest journeys – that of becoming the being you were always meant to be.

What Is Kundalini Energy?

Kundalini is a store of energy that sits dormant at the base of the spine… until it is awakened.

It is often pictured as a coiled snake.

Once a kundalini awakening is initiated, the snake unfurls and travels up the spine, through the chakras, and out the head, connecting the individual to the greater spiritual energy and spiritual evolution.

What Happens When Kundalini Awakens?

A kundalini awakening can be hard to distinguish it from any other type of awakening because all awakenings release energy.

This process is often uncomfortable on a number of levels because a kundalini awakening is basically a shattering of your sense of self.

We all have an idea of what we see as life and our role in it.

We label ourselves with things like mother, chiropractor, teacher, etc.

Each of these labels comes with a set of expectations and rules on how to interact with life.

We limit ourselves to fit into these identities.

When we experience an awakening of any type, this sense of self is stretched to include more of who we are.

In most cases, this causes discomfort because we need to let go of whom we believe we are in order to become who we are meant to be.

6 Common Kundalini Awakening Triggers

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There are a variety of ways a kundalini awakening can be triggered. 

1. Kundalini Practice

Participating in a kundalini practice such as kundalini yoga or breathing exercises designed to awaken kundalini energy.

2. Healing Techniques

Some healing techniques will trigger a kundalini awakening.

A kundalini awakening can happen in conjunction with energy healing, massage, chiropractic work, etc.

These are designed to loosen any stuck energy and help it flow and sometimes that happens in a major way.

3. Meditation

When our nervous systems go into defense around trauma, our system removes our awareness from things that were deemed unsafe to feel.

Meditation increases awareness and can release the energy that was bound in us as a result of these survival patterns.

But, of course, it can also connect us with more spiritual states of being and open us to more energy.

4. Mind Altering Substances

Psychedelics, alcohol or mood altering prescription medications can awaken this energy.

By the way, here’s a blog post I did about psychedelics and awakening.

5. Trauma

Trauma such as an accident, or abuse, or growing up in an environment where there was drug abuse, alcoholism or mental illness can trigger an awakening.

Often people who are in an accident or subject to abuse of some sort report an experience of being outside of their bodies.

This can have part of us living in the more spiritual realms and can cause kundalini to arise.

6. Spontaneous Kundalini Awakening

Some people experience a spontaneous awakening.

It is important to understand that any awakening is done on a schedule determined by the universe.

This cosmic timing is perfect, and it will trigger an awakening at the perfect time for you to grow into the being you are intended to be.

Symptoms Of Kundalini Awakening

A kundalini awakening can happen gradually or suddenly.

It stands to reason that the quicker it happens, the more uncomfortable the symptoms may be at first.

Symptoms can be categorized as contractive or expansive.

Most people are drawn to the expansive ones but have an aversion to the contractive ones.

Contraction

Uncomfortable awakening symptoms can include the inability to sleep or focus.

You may experience strange sensations as you feel the energy flowing through certain body parts or getting stuck in a particular area.

Emotional disturbances are often present.

These can be extreme anger, depression, fear, or any other dark emotion that seems present out of proportion.

Another common symptom of a kundalini awakening is mystery conditions.

These are things like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or autoimmune disorders, Lyme dsease.

Expansion

Some of the cool symptoms that indicate a kundalini awakening include psychic events such as ESP.

Synchronicities appear frequently.

The individual may experience overall feelings of peace, bliss, or pure joy.

There is a feeling of spaciousness that can’t always be explained.

Now that you know what kundalini awakening is and what it feels like, let’s take a look at grounding kundalini.

Grounding Kundalini

Here’s a video I made on the subject:

…or if you’re the podcast type listen below, and/or find the BioSoul Integration Podcast and this episode where ever you get your podcasts:

Kundalini awakening can feel overwhelming, especially when you are experiencing troublesome symptoms.

In order to work with this energy and allow it to lead you to higher understanding, you need to ground the energy.

Since the thought pathway is so habitual in humans, the increase in energy associated with a kundalini awakening will tend to squirt into the head as thoughts.

We’ll tend to think all sorts of thoughts about how to make the uncomfortable symptoms go away.

The movement of kundalini is purifying us of the energy bound in tension that is associated with an old sense of self.

This old sense of self was formed largely when we were in the womb or when we were little kids–during a time when we weren’t thinking like you and I think right now–we were feeling.

So we can’t think our way out of an awakening, we can only feel our way through.

Perspective

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The first step is to change your perspective of the symptoms.

You need to understand that your body and the world is not working against you.

This awakening is not a mistake. You need to understand that the genie has been let out of the bottle and there is no putting it back in.

Instead of viewing these symptoms as a problem, understand you are undergoing an evolution that the spiritual world believes you are ready for.

Learn to work toward evolution and not fight against it.

Go Toward The Sensations

As your perception changes, focus your attention on the sensations.

Examine them from every angle.

Feel their color, shape, and intensity.

This is also true of emotions.

Emotions have a flavor.

What flavor is your anger?

Feel where the sensations are within your body.

Describe them as fully as possible.

Examine the messages they are sending.

Every moment that you can let your attention rest on the sensations in your body, you are integrating the energy and extracting the wisdom from it.

Moment by moment that information is transferred and integrated into your being.

You are becoming who you are meant to be.

Kundalini Awakening Is About Your Evolution

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Kundalini awakening is about evolution.

Life has saw fit to provide you with an opening to further your growth.

This is no mistake.

It is perfect cosmic timing.

Don’t try to fight the awakening.

Instead, embrace this chance to examine the sensations and integrate them into your being.

Know that your current sense of self is only a fragment of what you are.

You are growing and becoming.

As usual, if you enjoyed this information, please like and share it.

I read and respond to all comments on this blog and would love to hear any of your experiences with kundalini awakening.

There are certain benchmarks along the journey to healing that are common to everyone’s experience.

Click the link, answer one question about yourself and then receive your free, personalized BioSoul Integration Guide to orient yourself to the map of healing.

I look forward to helping you express more life,

Jay

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About the Author Dr. Jay Uecker

Dr. Jay Uecker is the founder of the BioSoul Integration Center near Boulder, Colorado where he's been practicing for over 20 years. He’s an author, chiropractor, healer, and online soul integration coach who weaves Network Spinal Analysis, intuitive Parts Work, Brainspotting, SomatoRespiratory Integration, and body-centered awareness practices into his own technique, which he calls BioSoul Integration. His work helps people release unconscious resistance stored in the nervous system so they can embody their soul’s gifts and express their purpose more fully. Dr. Jay offers group healing sessions and one-on-one care, both in-person and online. He also offers a self-paced online course and a growing collection of transformational books. For a limited time, claim your FREE copy of If It Didn't Hurt: How to Resolve Your Pain and Discover Your Life Purpose.

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6 comments
Carola Ruvira says March 23, 2022

Hello. Thank you very much for all the information you share. I want to comment about my experience in integrating a very difficult kundalini awakening. Im doing all the integration work with the help of cannabis. I did not use before my awakening but started using it after it to help me cope with extreme stress I was undergoing. For a long time I felt guilty about it and even made the effort of not using it during several months. I have now come to terms with the fact that in my unique path, with hard life situations, there couldnt have been possible to take me from where I was to where Im supposeddly (hopefully) going. The way I use it is to enter transmutation mode, to get into sessions of kriyas, shadow work etc. I am still facing very hard challenges and still I am in a day per day mode. Hope this can be of help for other souls which find themselves in similar situations. Thanks for the space!! Its a lonely journey

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says March 29, 2022

    Carola,
    Thanks for your comment. Sounds like a challenging time for you. If you feel like cannabis is helping, great. Go with that… for now. Since you addressed your comment to others I feel I need to put my two cents in. I would suggest that no substance is a good permanent solution to anything, certainly not your awakening. The awakening process is always a dance between expansion and contraction, making it happen and letting it happen, feeling better and feeling more, etc… Cannabis will always accentuate one of those and dim down the other. If you’re taking it during a period of your journey when the aspect that it accentuates is the same aspect that Life is inviting you to stretch, it might be useful. But that’s going to shift at some point and when Life wants to accentuate the other aspect in you, cannabis will be counterproductive. So just be open to cannabis not being the permanent solution forever.

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Krishna C. says February 6, 2023

Dear Dr. Uecker – I have been on antidepressant medication for 7 yrs. I am a regular practicer of breathing techniques and meditation. For the last two months, I have been experiencing shaking on the spine, towards the back of the neck and all the way to the top. Also there is tingling on top of the head at times. This has been happening every day. I have become more anxious, depressed and I can observe so many negative thoughts come to my mind. What advice do you have? I am considering grounding, reiki healing, hypnosis, etc. Please advise. Thank you

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says February 7, 2023

    Krishna,
    Thanks for reaching out. Sorry to hear you’ve been facing some challenges around depression and anxiety for some time and that it seems to be getting worse as of late.

    Breathwork is spiritual work. It’s going to tap into the energy in our systems that was stored there as a result of traumas experienced while we were here, patterns of trauma we picked up while we were in the womb and even patterns of trauma that have been carried through our lineage. Breathwork, or any such spiritual work (yoga, prayer, plant medicine, energy work, etc…) would not magically make depression and anxiety go away, it would increasingly draw us toward the unprocessed shadow material underneath that depression and anxiety. As that energy comes to the surface of consciousness it could manifest as any number of physical (shaking, tingling), emotional (increase in anxiety and depression) or mental (negative thoughts) symptoms.

    Also antidepressants work by dimming down our awareness of the emotional field. That can be useful in the short term But they’re rarely a very good long term solution. A) Our systems develop a tolerance to the chemicals and their effects, so need higher dose to get the same effect. B) In narrowing our awareness of the emotional field, they also dims down our capacity to feel joy and passion for example. Things like joy and passion are crucial to your evolution. Things like breathwork, on the other hand, are going to expand your awareness of the emotional field. So antidepressants and breathwork are diametrically opposed to each other. That’s not to make any recommendations about antidepressants, of course. Any change in that should be discussed with your doctor. That’s just to point out the relationship between antidepressants and any spiritual embodiment work like breathwork.

    On your own I would recommend focusing on the sensations of these things in your body, sensation of the shaking/tingling, sensation of the anxiety and depression and sensation of the negative thoughts. What does anxiety feel like in your body, what does depression feel like in your body, what kind of sensations do the negative thoughts generate in your body. Every nanosecond you can just be present with the sensations, you’ll be integrating that energy. In general when you’re wrapped up in thinking you’re spinning your wheels.

    It would be very helpful to seek out a practitioner of some somatically oriented, body-awareness based therapy. Look up brainspotting or somatic psychotherapy, or somatic experiencing in-person or online. in addition A kind of body work that could be really helpful is called Network Spinal Analysis. It connects you with what’s resourced in your nervou system so it can rewire itself based on what’s already resourced.

    I do online work with folks through my version of something called brainspotting. Here’s a link you can use to check that out: https://www.biosoulintegration.com/bio-soul-integration-coach-brainspotting/

    Aside from all that know that life is not messing with you. You’re right on track. Stay present with the sensations and trust whatever is happening. Apparently you have some big gifts to give and signed up to do some transformational work this time around.

    I hope all that helps,
    Jay

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DENISE ABRAMS says April 30, 2023

I just went thru a huge spontaneous kundalini awakening last week or so ago.. along with the eclipse.. holy moly.. my head was on fire.. but yes.. I am aware on KUNDALINI energy and have activated it on purpose before in KY. That was the first time I had experienced those sensations.. it was amazing.. but that was 2009. It’s 14 years later, I’m not practicing any yoga.. just got home from handling my dad’s probate and taking care of his home. I have been grieving for 3 years losing my mom, dad and my dog Snoogy my whole world. So, my onion has been peeling at a rapid-fire rate for 3 years.. the years of destruction. I recently had met someone who was quite younger than me but a man very much interested in me. He emanates a lot of sexual energy learning he is a LEO/SUN CHILD i am a LUNAR/MOON CANCER CRAB. The eclipse was a hybrid, SUN AND MOON and this next one is in SCORPIO/TAURUS 2 very complimentary signs for me, I’m hoping it will be calmer but who knows.
My awakening happened after I had spent some time with this young suitor. I was like you’re an old soul.. 26 but like 126.. very insightful cool calm and collected. His energy is very attractive. We had decided to do a massage for him. He’s very athletic build and I am a sports therapist with a long clientele of Olympic and pro athletes. so, I just had to get my hands on him, professionally speaking. At that point our physical energies/ our field energies blended. The massage went off just like normal. We did spend some time talking and cuddling but no sex. Within a few days, I had the biggest cosmic kundlini orgasm that went on for 2 weeks 24/7 and I am just now coming down and getting grounded. I should say, I have been intentionally celibate for 9 years, on purpose. I just wanted my body, my root chakra all of them needed purifying and so withholding or abstaining I felt was a good choice. It was effortless, I just did other things. didn’t think about it ,didn’t crave it, didn’t want it didn’t need it. THEN I MET THE LEO LION and man o man.. outta nowhere BOOM all this sexual energy. I feel that is exactly what set it off. I know enough to know what was happening but wow it was fantastic. I have spoken with my suitor/crush/ handsome young man about it. He’s evolved enough to enjoy the conversation about it. But it was overwhelming for me. I only had positive symptoms SO FAR.. i did have anxiety a lot of anxiety in my solar plexus and chest, my throat chakra must have been blocked bc I can’t shut up .. haha I mean I feel so exicted to have experienced this.. you cannot explain it, it has to happen to you.
So, I am trying to prepare for the next eclipse because I peaked on that last one with this kundalini it just shot up my body thru every chakra just blowing them all up, it was fast intense and then lasted, the symptoms the excitement the energy the sexual energy, was intense. Anyway, it just happened .I am integrating it now and trying to read and meditate more and allow it to come thru as it is intended via source. But, I am always interested in things I could do or what I may expect from here forward. I would love to come to your center I live in ASPEN COLORADO.

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says May 2, 2023

    Hey Denise,
    Thanks for commenting on my blog. I’m glad you found it useful.

    Sounds like you’ve been on quite a journey… an exciting one at that. It sounds to me like it’s been mostly positive for you and that you’re navigating it very well. The only advice I could offer to help integrate things as quickly as possible would be to spend as much time with the sensations in your body, as opposed to buying into as much the thoughts that arise from this experience. Every nanosecond we can let our attention rest on the sensations in our body, we’re integrating parts of ourselves that have been pushed away. Generally when we spend a lot of time with the thoughts involved, we’re spinning our evolutionary wheels… i.e. not integrating the energies arising in us. Other than that it sounds like you’re on the right track.

    If you ever want to line up a hands on session or two let me know. Generally I work in a series of 12 to 48 sessions because there are certain benchmarks that show up along the way. So it’s usually not a one-off kind of situation and for that reason the hands-on work is more suited to those who are local to me. And I do online work with those who are not. So that might be an option for you, too. Here’s a link to read a little bit about that if you’re interested: https://www.biosoulintegration.com/bio-soul-integration-coach-brainspotting/

    Again, thanks for commenting and blessings on your continued healing,
    Jay

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