Your Kundalini Experience: Intentional or Unintentional? :det

[Bob Boyd]

Did you intend for kundalini to awaken or did it awaken without your intention? For example, a spontaneous awaken would be unintentional, and often the person has no idea what kundalini is. Many people who meditate and have kundalini awakenings also did not intend to rouse the k energy or knew what it was.

[amitofo]

totally un-intentional.  Two of my other friends also absurdly un-intentional.

[Metanoia]

Unintentional. Mine was awakened through the use of LSD. I was just trying to experience psychedelics and I had no idea what Kundalini was at all.

[Soul]

Hi...
Mine was also unintentional.
I had been practicing yoga, pranayama and meditation since 1994 and in 2003 one time while meditating my body started to move/energy moving up the spine/my head bobbing backwards and forwards. I didn't know what it was and the word 'kundalini' is the only thing I have found which could describe it. It still continues when I meditate or if I am in a quiet place in myself , like when  give a massage. I find I can stop it, though it starts spontaneously.
So great to find this forum....
Thanks Bob for all your efforts. I feel not so alone in this now I can share with people with similar experiences. I have told a few friends but they either don't understand or think they are missing out on something. There is one yoga teacher who lives close by who I have told and he says he had a similar experience for a few years but it has stopped, and a zen buddhist monk I did a retreat with told me he has seen it before and not to worry about it, that it is like a pulse.

wishing much peace to all.
Soul

[Bob Boyd]

Welcome, Soul. Thanks for the thanks about my efforts, and peace to you too.

[Artemis]

completly unintentional .... didnt do any practise of any kind... no yoga, no meditation... just practise ordinairy living... and then the universe just fall down on me... and I had never heard about kundalini... sometimes the life can take unexpected turns :psycho

[Bob Boyd]

Mine was unintentional too. I was practicing TM meditation and had no idea what kundalini was. I did know I was getting more spiritual energy. When I closed my eyes at night, I felt energy rise up to my head just like it did in meditation. After kundalini, that energy was more intense and 24/7.

[vera]

Mine happened while listening to the Alpha Mind Control mp3 file. I only listened to it three times in 3 days. The first time I went into a sort of lucid dream. The second time I tried to stay awake and analyze myself, and I noticed my emotions were dulled, as if I had taken an anesthetic. The third time the kundalini awakening happened. I haven't listened to it ever since. They do warn you of certain dangers when you download the file but let's be honest, that only makes the temptation greater. Luckily, I did know about kundalini, so I looked immediately for help online. That's how I came across this forum and I thank God I did.

[uki]

Unintelntional - it started while I was waiting for some Kriya Yoga initiation.

[AnneMcG]

Unintentional. I had no Idea what it was. I was very sick with ulcerative colitis, and in desperation, my cranio-sacral therapist suggested we do a double treatment (which she told me later was like 10x more powerful) with an acupuncturist. It happened right there on the table. A few days later (when I was in the psych ward), she told me that it was Kundalini. OOPS. That's when I started doing my research, but I didn't tell anyone because they were pretty much convinced I had become a crazy person. It seems like from then on, I have put a lot of energy into "acting normal". Gradually I am learning not to "act". When the serpent pokes out his little head, I try to enjoy it and go with the flow. She is usually going for some mid course correction

[lazarusx]

Unintentional. - Mine came about through the use of DMT.

[whitespy]

Unintentional. My first K activation came b/c of a horrible combination of LSA and
dope. My second more full blown awakening came from going deeply and directly
into the sorrow a broken relationship caused. The first experience left me with
anxiety and panic attacks and dissociation for years. Basically I hid from myself
for ten years because I had experienced such a terror . In the next ten years
I built myself up with yoga, meditation, therapy. I was in a better position now
to experience, to have the mental space for the K to arise.

[Swan]

Unintentional and at the time I didn't know what kundalini was but while it was happening, I had a vision and part of it was the word 'kundalini' in bright white letters.  I asked my wife what this was (she is a yoga teacher) and she helped me get some idea of where to find resources about it.

I didn't normally do yoga but was practising a tape called 'yoga aerobics' that a friend had given me to try out. It was probably about my 3rd attempt at the tape in a number of months.  Later I found the moves to be similar to kundalini yoga techniques.

Conveniently, the same exercises have been a great help in steadying the energy as well.

[dave_n]

My kundalini awakening was somewhat intentional. I was hoping to get some siddhic powers along with kundalini, but alas, they haven't materialized as of yet. lol.

[Horishi]

Hey guys first post...wooohooo...definitely unintentional...it happened after a rigorous schedule of meditation...hit me like lightning bolt out of now where...like the gods had zapped me.  The area where anja chakra...I've had tingling sensation there since then.  I read stories about the third eye...but never believed it until it happened to me.    I did some research and I found more about it.  All the symptoms was which was the Kundalini., even the months with bouts I thought was insanity.  I saw angels, ghosts and demons...I thought I was going mad.  Things cool down for awhile....and finally told my parents about it.  And my father made the recommendation I visit the local Buddhist monastery and talk with the head monk there.  Our family is buddhist...however I also went to catholic school when I was a child...so my family could fit in.

I talk to the head monk there...and told him about the things I saw..  We actually got into and in depth conversation that my father got lost...and he's a devote buddhist.  However at the end of our conversation, the monk verified that I had awakened my Kundalini and even invited me to go to India to an ashram school with him.

Unintentional or intentional...its one of the most amazing experiences that has happened to me.  It has enlightened and humbled me in so many ways.