Dear Margaret,

thank you for your fascinating sharings. There is one thing I wanted to pass on. I don't know if you read my posting about the inner smile meditation. That is a basic Taoist esoteric meditation which is then followed by the Microcosmic Orbit meditation. In that meditation the yin and yang energies are balanced and there is a "safety valve" to stop the rising kundalini energy from doing damage to the brain, organs etc. It is described in detail in the book "Awaken healing energy through the Tao" by Mantak Chia.

It goes like this, one concentrates first on the navel chakra, then on the sacral chakra, then the base chakra at the perineum (yin channel). Then comes the chakra at the coccyx, the chakra on the spine opposite the navel, the chakra at the level of the kidneys, the chakra at the base of the skull, at the top of the skull, at the third eye and at the palate (yang channel). Then the energy is passed down again through the tip of the tongue touching the palate, down to the throat chakra, the heart, the solar plexus and the navel (all yin). One doesn't pay any attention to the breath, one only concentrates on one chakra after the next. When you feel energy in the first, you pass on to the next. For inexperienced people it may take some time, up to weeks for them to open a chakra, but I think you probably have them all open already. In this way the energy circulates around the trunk of the body and doesn't (shouldn't) explode in the head and body. I can't tell from experience because my kundalini hasn't been full activated, but it's rising and I do feel the energy circulating. Oh yes! One more thing, Master Chia says to meditate sitting on a chair to ground the body through the feet.

Wishing you well,
Helen