Hi David,

Thanks for the feedback. Yes I realise Kundalini energy is to be respected. However, this IS the energy of ascension and needs to be mastered if we are to continue on our evolutionary path. That's what Openhand Meditation is all about. The energy is released and then channeled into the body rather than straight upwards. If the energy goes straight upwards, you get peak experiences which can also be very dangerous.

However, if the energy is channeled into the body, the effect is not nearly so dramatic because the energy 'illuminates our darkness' and catalyses it's transformation - so the power is used up. Only when the mind and body are pure and balanced does the energy flow straight through the body and THEN upwards. Hence the practitioner can deal comfortably with the kundalini energy and it becomes a part of daily life.

That's why I would encourage daily practice of Openhand Meditation or some other similar artform.

Cheers

Chris

Hi David,

I find it really interesting to hear of your experiences. When I was 20 years old I had a major spiritual awakening - no labels to define it, no one to talk to - so I just carried on with life as usual - except I was looking at the world with a completely different awareness. I experienced a bolt of light energy through my body, and shot right through my head as a fountain of light... my entire being became emersed in divine light, and the world literally fell away from me. The experience gave me a powerful dose of reality (erm.. as opposed to illusion that I'd been saturated in!), and a direct experience and connection with the truth. As you say - it is mind blowing... and integration in the world that we know can be somewhat challenging. I fully experienced the oneness of all things! I mean - yes this is most divine and beautiful, but it presents a vast array of challenges. It meant that my levels of compassion skyrocketed.. any lack of compassion on my part meant a torturous pain in my heart. I felt it with remarkable intensity - the suffering and pain of Mother Earth and the creatures and animals we share the planet with. My awareness of the 'oneness' was so prevalent that I fully felt the suffering of the planet and creatures around me with ferocious intensity. Eventually, I learnt to integrate this to the point where it became a most beautiful way of life.

It was an incredible gift, that has guided me to be of 'service'. Life is truly amazing.. but only when I allow the natural flow of the universe to guide me in each given moment (the degree of peace in my heart is always a great indication of whether or not one is flowing with oneness of all).

I wholeheartedly agree with you - it is not just always a pretty picture. The challenges of integration consistently brought me right in to the centre of my heartspace, and still do to this day.

In Love and Light
Trin

I agree with Chris, but I also realize that not everyone gets the choice on how to handle the Kundalini energy. For me, about a year ago I noticed that in meditation some power was forcing my head back. I began to regularly clear my chakras then one day the energy on its own flowed and stopped at all 7 chakras. It would expand in the chakra, contract and then expand again in a soft blossom of light. I began to initiate this every day in meditation. I think it helped to clear out a lot of junk, and one day I noticed that it wanted to stop at a spot between my heart and throat chakras, right around my collar bones. It opened up an 8th chakra there I never knew existed. Then after about 6 months of this I felt an inner need to move on. So I began a Kundalini meditation where my goal was to work the energy up to the crown chakra and to clear out any blockage along the way. It was what I am still doing, although I can feel most of the blockage gone new challenges await at every new meditation.

I have no one to guide me with this, so I pretty much do it all from an inner compass. I've heard people give all kinds of advice, but I think ones Kundalini experience is as individual as the person and there really is no one way to go through it.

Hi Tom,

Welcome to Openhand and thank you for sharing. Following our own inner compasss is the most powerful way of all! I agree that each experience is unique.

That reminds me of a sharing I made last year of a full blown kundalini awakening that I had a few years back here.
http://www.openhandweb.org/03_06_09_a_full_blown_kundalini_awakening_my_...

Warm regards
Trinity

Thank you, Trinity. I'm at an odd juncture in my Kundalini meditation these days. I get to a point where I've broken through the blockages and send the energy straight through the crown chakra, and gone through several levels. I cannot feel the top of my head anymore and it opens up into what seems to be a black vacuum. My consciousness feels bendy, like anything including the Kundalini energy loses shape and direction. there is no longer a way to feel or to direct it. It kind of expands out and goes to my heart chakra. I cooperate and open it up and the white light within goes off into the blackness. then I will end the meditation by calling on Omega to draw the Alpha energy I'd expanded out in meditation, chakra by chakra, beginning with the crown, and it is as if the top half of my head is being layered back on and all the rest of it goes to where Omega has determined it should.

this is alot different that what I expected. I thought I would break through to higher and brighter levels, maybe someday experiencing unity consciousness. I don't know. maybe it will change again to something else.

Tom

In essence kundalini energy is formless, so I not surprised that it is losing apparent shape or direction. Any concept of shape is illusionary in the first place.

Kundalini energy is everywhere. It is a flow. Many people believe that we can control it. The truth is we can't - our invitation is to simply align with it. When we are aligned with it, we experience the 'downward' flow of Unity Consciousness and the interconnectedness of all things as a way of being. It happens when we have gone into and unraveled all of those contractions in which we are identified.

My experience with this energy, is that if we 'move out of the way', it will flow wherever it is meant to thereby illuminating those aspects of ourselves that are holding back our journey.

It can be helpful to meditate without expectation or direction. Higher Consiousness will then guide us, move the energy and take us wherever we need to go. Simply watch, experience and surrender into the process. Contrary to popular belief, it's not always 'light and roses' either! If we have an idea that we should experience 'this', 'that' or 'the other' then we are mis-aligned with the flow of energy even before we start.

Yes I totally agree with you Trin. In any case, if we are truly connecting to Kundalini energy, the experience is of there simply being no one controlling or shaping anything. There is simply crystal clear clarity of the Seer and an experience arising from that.

Another mis-conception is that we can activate kundalini simply by meditation when in truth, we have to do much inner purification first and then true kundalini is activated as we strip away the conditioning of day to day life.

It's only when we've cleared the emotional body, gone deep into subconscious mind, and then dissolved the inner child and teenager identities that true kundalini activation can happen.

It is possible to circumvent this process with meditation and all kind of 'spiritual' process but this can be dangerously destabilising, ungrounding and diversionary if not aligned with a step-by-step inner purification and clearance.

During the elevation of our vibration in this way, it is highly likely that we'll feel shifts of energy up the spine, but it's not until ego identification has truly 'bitten the dust' that unfettered kundalini energy will flow.

Then it is simply the case of allowing the energy to move us as it will. All attempts to control it will simply lead to the embodiment of further shadow identities.

Chris

David i know how you feel about having a shattered nervous system and struggling to integrate your experience. I also felt this but am so grateful to have found openhand and to have been helped by the people here to accept my experiences and to use them to live a more authentic, meaningful and beautiful life. I hope you have now found a path that brings you peace xxx

And to Tom, I do think that we all have a choice how to handle the energy. In my experience if meditation is taking me to places i don't fully understand i choose to stop meditating for a while. I do this regularly and instead focus my spiritual development on mindfulness on a moment to moment basis. This way i get the divine download as i call it (downward flow of Unity Consciousness) and i let this direct me and give me the information i need to make decisions as to the level of meditation i can handle. I find this method also leads to synchronization and wonderful experiences which again illuminate a way for me to move forward with my self-realization.

I find this an amazing way to progress safely and without destabilizing myself. We become destabilized only when we can't relate our experiences to reality, so we need to be informed before we dive into deep meditative experiences.

Also i find that instead of doing chakra work during meditation i do deep relaxation meditations such as yoga nidra. These practices let me develop skills such as sustained concentration and awareness and learning to be deeply relaxed so that we have a stable basis within ourselves to progress forward from.

With Love
Elle x

It's interesting that many enlightened teachers hardly ever talk about things like chakras system, Kundalini activation, opposing consciousness, spirit guides and angels etc.. all they talk about in their satsangs is 'staying present', it is as if they've never had a kundalini activation experience and never experienced opposing consciousness. I wonder what the reason might be for this. Is it possible for a person to become enlightened with certain chakras still very much closed?

I've frequently felt sensations on my back over the past few years, it started on my lower back and have now moved up to my mid and upper back, sometimes it felt like a slight pain as if there's a blockage. I sense this has to do with kundalini energy. I'm not sure if there any point in trying to anything about it.

Lei

Hi Lei,

I know that some of the teachers say as few as possible to prevent mimicking.

Sometimes when you read, see or hear something, it forms a pattern to copy and then builds an identity which feels, think or behaves this way. I see it very often and I know it happened to me a couple of times.

For example, let's assume that someone evolving spiritually necessarily begins to hear ring-bells every morning and evening. If you read or hear about it every day, and you desperately want to evolve spiritually, with time you might begin to believe you do hear them.

So, maybe this is the reason why.

When something happens, sometimes it's good to know what it is, but it doesn't change the fact - it's happening to you, you've heard about it before or not..

If you hear about something before it happened and you want it to happen to you, you might contract around it and build a desire to have this experience.

So it's 50/50..it has it's benefits and withdrawals.

I personally found that I come across things when I need them. Sometimes it happens just before I experience something, and then it goes like "Ah, that's what they meant!"; and sometimes afterwards "Ah, that's what it was"..
And sometimes I stay with having no idea what it was. After all the path is individual and different for everybody.

Now these teachers...maybe they do open their chakras and do awaken kundalini, but they don't call it anything.

In Kabbalah all these mechanisms described absolutely differently - in terms of forces, sefirot and 'vessels correction'.

So the fact is that all those teachers you talked about didn't mention kundalini, but the other fact is that there are other sources that do talk about kundalini. And didn't you find a place where kundalini is mentioned?

Isn't that the most important?

Hi Yulia,

I find your words to contain lots of wisdom. What you say is very true, but I just find it very strange many highly evolved and even enlightened teachers, Eckhart Tolle for example, never talk about things like Kundalini, opposing consciousness, guides & angels etc, it's as if they've never experienced these things. Personally I'm fascinated by these topics, it's not really important whether they talk about it, I'm just curious why this is, especially considering the importance of kundalini activation in ones spiritual journey and its potential double edged effects, it really should have been given more attention if this is truly an universal experience on everyone's spiritual journey.

much love,

Lei

Hi Lei,

You're assuming of course that Echart Tolle is enlightened!
I'm not at all sure that he is. My observation is that his teachings tend to cause people to dissolve their true path in life which might explain why he doesn't speak of some of the higher spiritual experiences.

Chris

Hi Chris,

That's very interesting. I actually did always assume that he's enlightened, I hardly ever doubted it, although in truth I really don't know. He does seem to be very genuine and present all the time, he did mention he has no painbody in an interview and indicated in his book The Power of Now that he's enlightened by saying he has found the peace other seekers have been looking for. But I noticed he frequently stutters in his speech, maybe his bodily vehicles of expressions are still not completely resurrected.

It does seem that many who follow his teachings tend to become quite passive. I have certainly experienced this myself. But I wonder how can one dissolve their own path by following his teaching? At least to me it seems as we become more present in our daily lives, our innate knowing just takes over and we just know what to do in situations, it's almost impossible to dissolve one's own path by becoming more present. Also, what's wrong with people dissolving their path (assuming this is actually happening) if in the end they all attain his state of awareness by following his teaching? Wouldn't the world be a more peaceful and joyful place because of that?

Actually there're lots of teachers in the spiritual circle teach basically the method as Eckhart, it does seems to be one of the most popular spiritual teachings at the moment. I'm not sure if these teachers are enlightened, but it does seem many of them are always very present. It just puzzles me these teachers hardly ever mention anything about kundalini, chakras, dimensions and opposing consciousness and such.. I'm glad I have found openhand, it's really helped me to fit pieces together!

love,

Lei

Hi Lei,

You said...

"it's almost impossible to dissolve one's own path by becoming more present. Also, what's wrong with people dissolving their path (assuming this is actually happening) if in the end they all attain his state of awareness by following his teaching? Wouldn't the world be a more peaceful and joyful place because of that?"

What I've noticed frequently happens, and what I've outlined at various places in my book, is that with these teachings and similar, there's a tendency to always focus on peace and stillness. But the stillness is not absolute stillness. It is a stillness of action. Absolute stillness is beyond action and through ALL action.

So impulses may arise inviting action, but often those impulses are either denied, suppressed or dissolved out by focusing on non-attachment. If the person has a gentle soul ray harmonic anyway, then the arising energies can be quite subtle as they initiate - the practitioner barely notices they are there.

And yes, they may indeed attain HIS state of awareness, but what about their OWN? And you say that it may lead to a more peaceful place, but not if the naturally arising energies are suppressed. This simply stokes up karma that must be dealt with further down the line.

I've had people come to me who've tried this approach for several years and lived in apparent peace and freedom, only to find themselves eventually very dissatisfied, unfulfilled and depressed - although even the depression has been subdued behind a smile.

To be enlightened is to be enlightened by ALL things. There is no one resisting the inner arising energy. Just acceptance of it and alignment with it. To me, this is the destined way of being that we're each naturally moving to when nothing is resisting or denying.

Chris

Very well said Chris, thanks!
It's good to know this as I've also had the tendency to always focus on peace. I did realize that mistake when I first came to openhand and then forgot, it's good to be reminded again!

It may help to look at it this way.

We are all on a journey up a mountain.
There are many paths.
Eckart Tolle and many other spiritual teachers have built cabins along the way up the mountain where we can find rest and directions for continuing our journey. If we stop too long at the cabins we run the risk of becoming complacent and not returning to our own journey up the mountain, because we are comfortable in the cabin.

Gather whatever wisdom you can from these teachers and then continue on. The only path is the one you make yourself.

in peace,
zin

Very well said Zin - I like it!

Chris

"There is no one resisting the inner arising energy. Just acceptance of it and alignment with it."

Sharp as a japanese sword

A big note about the discussion here:

1. Many spiritual teachers say many things. There also many things that some teachers say and others don't, 'that are very important'. But I say it again, if one is sensitive to himself and following his own inner guidance, he will actually 'hit' the 'right' teacher, saying the 'right' thing in the 'right' time, exactly the thing he just needed.

Needless to say that sometimes this very important information can come not from a spiritual teacher at all, but from anywhere, including nowhere. You just get it!

2. What I think that people of art, science and religion, if they are giving themselves entirely away in what they do, they become some sort of channel, and unbelievable things come to our world. Did you have this feeling when you see a ballet or listen to the music or read about some mind blowing discovery that it could not come from human?

It's too powerful, too divine to be done simply by this body or mind?

I think that some writers/poets just sometimes hit it, they channel some piece of truth.

3. Another point is if I am the one who designs the reality around, and everything is just a projection of my inner configuration, then why should I care what name to put on a message I get - Tole, God or Chris Bourne ?

The point is I was ready to get the message and start working with it.

4. I came to the conclusion that all those who get stuck somewhere with the 'wrong' message just don't want to go further. They let others entrap themselves.. and then they complaint that they were being fooled.

They miss that they are the masters of their spiritual evolution. And of all the other staff in the world this is the only thing nobody can take from them.

Sensitivity to myself, my state, inner pulls, inner yearnings and signs around, together with fearlessness to follow them and full trust, for me are the most important tools and help me most.

I learn to focus on them, sacrificing all the rest, including my precious analytical mind :'(
Kidding..

Yulia

Lovely post, Zin!

Thank you too Yulia! I particularly resonated with your initial point, it appears the Universe is our best teacher

What struck me is how we need to experience "stuff" for ourselves in order to best learn and realise the lessons.

Galileo stated that "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."

I have found that my greatest learning occurs when I have discovered things for myself, really explored the issues through personal experience. Teachers (in whatever form) point the way, offer options to explore, answer questions, ask questions, challenge, encourage and support, but to really "get it", I've had to explore deeply within myself.

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." Mark Van Doren

I've watched children learn and acknowledge the sense of empowerment and appreciation they gain from discovering things for themselves, it is a joy to watch. Teachers can point the way, facilitate experiences and support the learner, but at the end of the day learning appears most effective and beneficial when it has personal relevance and meaning within one's life.

Happy discovering and gratitude for so many wonderful teachers, love, fiona

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." Mark Van Doren

Wow, I agree so much!

The great example to it is my professor in university.
Even though we discuss science, I feel uplifted each time I go out of the room.

On one hand, he makes me feel secure, safe. I know I can ask him if I get too lost. But on the other hand he never says too much, and leaves me a space to learn and discover things myself.

The opposite effect I felt yesterday. I felt a pull to go to kabbalah convention that took place this week here in Israel.

In the end of the evening the teacher, which I respect and give him the credit he deserves, began to describe what states the audience is having. At this point I couldn't stay anymore.

It's really very different to find out something yourself. It brings the most joy

Yulia

"We don't need to be taught anything we don't already know within. Sometimes we just need a gentle hand to help reveal it."

Great thought of the day, feels very apt, I would add that (in my experience) sometimes the benevolent hand may not appear to be that gentle. Nevertheless we are not presented with more than we can deal with and learn from... sometimes we need to explore the darkness in order to find and really appreciate the light!

Love and gratitude, Fiona

Hi folks,

This morning, I found myself singing Whitney Houston's song "The children are our furture" and recognsied the connection with this discussion (and with the forum on the divine in the world), the following quote seemed particularly relevant...

"Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside"

Here's the video with some beautiful photos, love Fi

Hi everyone...hope you're all doing well. In my time away from here over the last 6 weeks or so, I've been spending a lot of time going inward, clearing my mind and developing my inner world....allowing myself to become my own teacher.

My heart tells me, it's time to return here once in a while when it seems appropriate.....

I very much see the wisdom in Fiona's quote from Galileo stated that "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."

Another couple of lovely quotes from the Tao Te Ching:

"The sage can act without effort and teach without words"

"The sage governs by emptying minds and hearts"

....so, although the forums, discussions, arguments(!) here are useful, ultimately we will only find our truth within....I got to the stage where the intensity of the discussions I was involved in here began to take over my mind and become too intense. Hence the need to fly away....I realise I learned a lot from those circumstances though.

In the first flush of my Kundalini awakening, I definitely found it hard to ground the energy and this led to massive bursts of creativity - hence my (perhaps over) enthusiasm for the Openhand site and everything it has to offer and allowed me to offer. I became too deeply attached to it, so I realise that I needed to go away for a while in order to return. I may have even created the circumstances that made me do this.

What I have been doing in my time away is beginning practice Kundalini yoga every day http://www.kundaliniyoga.org/

I have found the free lessons amazing for me in terms of grounding and distributing the energy more evenly throughout my body.

I have learned that I am my own Master, my own sage. Ultimately, though the advice, thoughts etc of others are good signposts along the path, true mastery will come from going inward into the silence.

Kundalini yoga is now providing me with this practice..to tune in to the universe, to align body, mind and soul. I then find I am calmer, more focused and centred.

I now clearly understand that spiritual evolution involves both physiological and energetic/spiritual changes within us, which enable us to interact efficiently with the universe. Yoga is the technology that activates our latent abilities.

Synchronicities seem to happen all the time these days for me. I see the deeper meaning of events. I realise objectively that the mind is not entirely where the answers are.

So, please check out Kundalini yoga as a possible means to develop the technology within which will allow you to become your own Master.

The journey is actually very simple - we don't have to make it complicated.

"Successful living is a triumph over confusion and a journey towards simplicity" Martin Marty

We can try all we like to have route maps and signposts and engage in a 'yomp' across the spiritual landscape, but we facilitate the unfolding of this landscape as we journey - it's different for everyone and it is not a linear process that can be cut up into fragments that connect in a specific way in time and space...the World is mystical, cyclical and the energetic changes we experience within are reflected in the events around us.

A more evenly distributed kundalini energy will provide a much better grounding to actually function within the current reality and bring heaven to Earth here and now. This is the goal of kundalini yoga...grounding is very important...it is an ancient wisdom that is tried and tested through millennia. Try it! It's working for me!

In love and light,

Seagull

A small description from the Kundalini yoga web site:

Shakti the Serpent bids you "Sat Nam!" and welcome to Kundalini Yoga, the mother of all yogas and the most powerful yoga known. As brought to the West in 1969 by Yogi Bhajan, it produces results 16 times faster than ordinary yoga.

Its power comes from the Kundalini, an enormous reserve of untapped potential within each of us. It is normally depicted as a coiled or sleeping serpent, located in an area towards the base of the spine.

By gradually and safely awakening this serpent and employing its power, you will benefit greatly from an elevation in consciousness, promotion of physical well-being and an expansion of awareness. You will feel more relaxed and at ease with yourself. Your life will be transformed into one which is happy, healthy & harmonious.

Hi Seagull,

It's a nice synchronicity that you've posted about Kundalini yoga - today Trin and myself are running a course here in Malta where we be guiding work including many ancient principles of kundalini yoga! As practitioners of Openhand will know, we've embodied many principles of Kriya yoga into the Openhand work. We express it in our own way of course, but the Kriya I was initiated in does indeed dedicate much attention to the development of rising kundalini.

In the development of the Openhand work, we were very much guided to evolve the practice for day to day use in the general circumstances of daily life. We were shown experientially the many dangers of direct, full blown kundalini activation, without full integration in this way - that's what we'll be talking about today on our Five Gateways course.

So I've experienced quite a few people in my life who've activated kundalini too quickly, have literally blown apart all relationship to the outer world and as a consequence found themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals. It's then taken them many years to fully integrate and centre themselves again.

In moving the energy up the spine using these meditations, the Openhand aproach differs in bringing attention to where the energy is blocked, but rather than trying to remove the blockage, we accept that the blockage is there for a reason. We then direct the energy into the blockage but don't force anything or try to move past it.

Instead, the energy now directs attention into one's outer life. It shapes new experiences there. By incorporating the Five Gateways approach, we help people diagnose exactly what is going on in the outer world and why (mostly in their interactions with people for example). Then it's a case of working with the internal blockage through the day-to-day events of our lives.

In this way, the Openhand approach to kundalini activation shines light on the areas we are being invited to evolve through. Then, over time, the blockage is removed and the new energies integrated in a balanced and safe way. Our vibration rises in a way that is manageable. There are no sudden and dangerous expansions that can potentially leave us ungrounded and uncentred.

So for us, it's not just about the practice itself, but relating that directly to what goes on in the outer world.

Chris

Hi Chris...thanks for that info. If I have any blockage right now, it is a right side problem in the back and down the leg....the yoga I have been doing has really opened this up and started the energy flowing again.
All the best, Seagull

Hi Seagull,

So the question now is what is the blockage telling you? What is it that you're not doing in day-to-day life which is limiting your evolution at this time?

I've found a very useful key is to ask... "show me" and then just watch what happens in day-to-day life.

As a friendly hint, my intuition tells me it's to do with loosing one's connection to the divine in everyday circumstances - that's signified by the blockage in the right side of the body and right leg (the right side of the body tends to represent our divine connection, the left our connection into the physical world).

I'd say you're being invited to take more steps that come from divine guidance rather than mind led ones. This then would potentially be the way of integrating your kundalini yoga into your daily life. Then you'll probably find you get even greater impact from the practice.

Much love

Chris

Dear Chris - thanks for those insights....I can totally see that - what you have highlighted makes great sense to me....it is something I already began to become aware of as a consequence of asking questions like the one you suggested....this is a challenge for me, I think (particularly as an academic) to let the mind-based side go and work more from the heart (intuition, divine guidance).

The good news is (for me at least!) that my right side blockage has already improved immensely having been working on it with the yoga. I also have a great ayurvedic massage therapist who is also helping to get this energy flowing in me...I could feel it the other day really after a session with him - it was flowing freely down my right leg - awesome . But I do realise the answers cannot be found outside myself and to have the energy flowing all the time under its own "steam" is the goal. I understand that I have to take responsibility for this growth - hence the yoga practice. My challenge is to make time to go within more and just Be...to develop those heart-based facets of my journey and to integrate this into my every day life more fully in the environment I am currently engaged in - I couldn't agree more. But the fact that you have put this in to such kind words has reinforced this in me. It is much appreciated.

With my best wishes,
Seagull

Interesting snippet...having just posted the above and read Chris kind words, I can feel the energy flowing down my leg from my hip to my big toe, like it had been released again...amazing what feelings, flowings, blockages within the body can teach us...we just have to be open to the signs and use our intuition as well as the wisdom/experience of people like Chris to help us see this.

In love and light to all!

Seagull

For me it was interesting to see how the body releases tension without me doing anything.

I just "do my job" every day, not trying to fix any particular physical or psychological problem... And then one day I find myself being able to relax the muscles between my shoulderblades, for example. Or one day I don't have constipation anymore

This way I discovered I was very blocked in the front neck and chest muscles. I was not aware at all, I have all these small muscles there!

But I do agree that yoga helps a lot. Even though I don't use it to solve my physical problems, but I can't not see the correlation between me doing yoga, becoming aware of my tightness and releasing the tightness.

Another interesting thing I've noticed lately is that any tightness is released from the chest first, and only then from a particular area in the body. (I mean, I feel this way). As if all the tension in my body has it's origin in the chest area.

Is it something that anybody here experienced?

I too notice any tightness initially in the chest. When I feel very clear the breath comes very easily..all the way down in to my abdomen - it feels easy and the energy collects in my heart chakra and solar plexus and then spreads out to wherever it is needed to do its work. In my experience, it is about bringing the prana in with the breath and allowing it to flow naturally to any areas that are blocked or tight i.e. to where it is needed, but without 'efforting', without pushing it anywhere with the mind. The body is intelligent enough to allow the energy to go wherever it is needed and 'knows' things about us we're not consciously aware of!

Hi Yulia and Seagull (and others reading),

It's wonderful to hear the openings and movement the energy is creating. Yes, spiritual practice like yoga (for me Kriya) is truly a powerful catalyst.

And I note that we all have different terminology for the work. You speak of "bringing prana into the heart" Seagull and then letting that spread through the body.

When this began happening for me, I just knew it was what some would call "The Christ Consciousness". Not a religious nature of course, but powerful transformation (and non -denominational!) energy.

It's the energy I know to be "non-judgmental discernment". I activates the bodymind through the heart, then it invites us to become increasingly present with the choices we make in the outer world. What are we really being invited to do? How can we raise our vibration by changing the circumstances of our lives and how we live? But of course, not judging the lower energy we then evolve past.

Whatever we call it, when this prana kicks in, it's breath-takingly life changing!

I'm thrilled that this is happening for you!

Chris