Kundalini Awakening is a Process

I was sitting today at my favorite Thai restaurant reading when someone commented how straight my posture is. I smiled and replied that I had to, sometime a few years ago when I picked up golf I had realized how crooked my spine had become. She smiled and said that she is a yoga instructor and has an eye for those things.

We have to watch our posture because that’s where the kundalini energy is flowing. It has been many, many years in the making for me personally. It started with breathing exercises, and then became in exercise in straightening my spine. Sometimes you feel the bubbles moving up the spine, and just by observing the energy in motion thinking stops, for me anyway.

The irony is that even learnt proper breathing late in life. I grew up in polluted West Berlin in the 70s and was always struggling with sinus infections as a child my mother was a chain smoker and I only realized much later when I reached the clean ocean-filled air in Providence RI that I must have been allergic against it. As a graduate student I suddenly could breathe like normal people do!

Feelings-wise I was stuffed up as well. Not sure what blockage was at work there but every feeling was evaluated by my mind. Some time since my Awakening the blockage to my heart opened up and I suddenly felt things. I feel the energy of people and places. Most of you will probably roll your eyes given our community is full of empaths, but for me this was part of the Awakening journey.

Fear has completely disappeared from my life. My thinking stops for large stretches and I just perceive things without bothering with the ‘afterthought’ of what is occurring. Life is meditation for me but I don’t want to claim that I am always happy as our gurus claim we need to be. I am not, I am sad at least as often as I am upbeat, but that’s probably just me. I certainly don’t want to generate the impression that I am Awakened. Awakening, but work in progress!

I hope you see that the process of Kundalini Awakening is natural. For some the break-through might be instantaneous. Others may have techniques to stimulate the flow of prana energy, I would just say face the Awakening journey to the best of your abilities; work a little on breathing, meditation and your posture and everything else will proceed like clock-work.

No need to hurry with anything. Our energy centers open up whenever we are ready to take the next step,