Avoiding Kundalini Meditation extremes

Many of you must have read or heard about warnings given out against practicing Kundalini meditation on your own. There are many horror stories floating around about a few who experienced spontaneous total Kundalini awakening and suffered physical and mental turmoil.

This spontaneous tapping of Kundalini energy is a rare occurrence. It might happen when the practitioner has an unstable personality or other serious physical or mental issues. This kind of awakening of Kundalini can cause chaos and fear in a person’s life and can be totally shattering. It is like sending a million volt energy burst through a wire meant for handling 120 volts. You can imagine what it can be like.

The idea is to prepare you gradually through practice and have a gradual awakening of the Kundalini. Any kind of extreme is not the desired aim of our Kundalini practice. My aim is to prepare you meditatively to understand and channel the up flow of energy in a beneficial manner. I do not want you to overstress your system with extreme energy flow of any kind, and if you follow what I prescribe we will achieve that end effortlessly.

We will walk together through a practice which leads you through a gentle and safe process of Kundalini awakening. If you were looking for sudden bursts of energy then this is not the place for you. There are some traditional practices which aim at sudden surge of Kundalini energy through all the seven chakras, so that the top chakra (crown chakra) will be fully activated. This might make sense for a person seeking complete disconnection with normal consciousness for once and all. I personally do not teach such a method as I find it can be extremely de-stabilizing for some.

Although I like to maintain that I do not fixate on any particular chakra as I like to balance the attention we pay to all the chakras. Still I might be a little partial to the fourth, “middle” chakra, the heart or the love centre of human body and integrate the other six chakras around this one.

My aim is not to teach you how to achieve complete nirvana and detachment from everyday human life, rather how to charge our everyday life radiant compassion and spiritual power and use it in our day to day life activities in the contemporary life.

Kundalini and sexual awakening

One of the most talked and pondered about effect of Kundalini meditation is relating to the sex and arousal. Popular press and non serious mediators are fixated on this aspect of Kundalini meditation.

There is no denying that Kundalini energy is rooted in our personal creative energy, which no doubt is sexual in nature. As a matter of fact Kundalini meditation increases our sensibilities and consciousness to experience intense bliss in everything that we do, including sexual union. Sexual intercourse is the ultimate union of male and female energies in an act of creation; hence a surge of Kundalini energy is experienced.

All the learned teachers tell us that first a person should tune into his spiritual energies and devote time to solitary meditation. It is this practice that will bring a heightened sense of energy and an intense pleasure during the sexual intercourse.

Some schools of Kundalini meditation encourage the use of sensuous fantasies in order to awaken the first chakra, where the Kundalini goddess lies dormant at the base of the spine. This might be a good method for celibate monks studying under a master and living a solitary life but in our modern environment it can be counter productive.

Despite the myths to the contrary the purpose of Kundalini meditation is not to generate masturbatory rush of sexual energy through the human body. The idea and purpose is to consciously increase and nurture the overall balance of energy in the system.

You will definitely experience more sexual pleasure and potency as you progress with your meditation, but that is not the purpose or the goal of Kundalini meditation. I would say that it is just a very pleasant side effect which will happen on its own without you making any conscious effort.

You can and should explore the deepening of your sexual awareness and intensities of your orgasms with your sexual partner which results because of conscious awakening of Kundalini. I would deeply stress that your daily meditation alone is of prime importance and the sexual manifestations of Kundalini should be treated with gratitude and received as a gift of your spiritual practice.

I can assure you that with disciplined practice and dedication you will reach a stage where the continued blissful state will be far beyond any pleasure, sexual or other, that you might have experienced in life. Your daily mundane chores will give you intense pleasure and your awareness expands and engulfs everything within and without.