feeling a bit strange

[Guest guest]

Dear Anne-Sophie,

 

Regarding the experience of nausea and headache, when you practice kundalini

yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, you should drink a lot of liquids (water, Yogi

Tea, carrot juice, etc). The breathing causes some dehydration. Nausea is

experienced sometimes, as impurities released from the areas of the body that

came under pressure in particular kundalini yoga exercises where energy (air

saturated blood) was drawn in. The energy (life force) is readily taken in by

the cells of the body in these areas, displacing impurities in the body. This

will all pass.

 

The aching in the muscles is similar to any type of training, only the side

effect here is that the cells of the areas exercised and related internal

systems begin to carry an electromagnetic charge. Once you become used to doing

the long deep breathing and breath of fire and related variations correctly and

easily, you will begin to experience a sensation of resonance and radiance, at

first in some areas of the body, then throughout the body field and then even in

the aura. It may be hard to imagine that you can actually feel your aura (as

your Radiant Body expands), but in the not too distant future, as you continue

to go to classes and develop your own daily sadhana, participate in workshops,

as they become available, you will feel this.

 

Your mind will become balanced and neutral, not swaying towards either negative

or positive impulses, but centered in something single, still and clear,

intuitive and innately intelligent - your own innate Self.

 

Shakti (energy generated from Kundalini Yoga exercises, kriyas and meditations)

gives way to Bhakti (a sense of yearning to abide in purity and stillness) which

gives way to gyan (jnana - where the body, mind and soul come into complete

balance and harmony through which a sense of True Being, single pervasiveness

penetrates).

 

Each Kundalini Yoga exercise is a meditation in applied awareness itself. You

should view the exercises as having 2 aspects, active and passive, dynamic and

static, not active and a separate rest period, which can be avoided or not. In

the rest / passive / static period, the area of the body put under an expanding

or contracting pressure begins to decontract and in the process completes the

absorption of the purified and electrically charged blood (from the breathing).

This brings about an inner healing process, while chemically balancing the area

within all the body's systems, a process that takes 1 to 3 to 5 minutes,

depending on the duration of the active / dynamic part of the exercise. From

decontraction, you will begin to feel a sense of release of energy from the area

throughout the body and then a sense of wholeness and clarity in the mind. As

you continue to practice over weeks and months, you will begin to feel a growing

sense of etheric radiance and pervasive stillness penetrating in and through

every part of the body filling the mind with a sense of radiant light and

clarity that will extend out further and further from the body.

 

You can read more about long deep breathing and breath of fire in the website

related to this list, as learning the breath properly, until the natural

intuition of the breathing takes hold, is a key to easy advancement and

developing a sense of ease of practice regardless of how strenuous a Kundalini

Yoga exercise or kriya may seem now, because the breath empowers the nerves,

which transform the posture and movement from a muscular effort to one sustained

by the electromagnetic force fields of the body. This is also why angles and

mudras are important areas of consideration to proper effective practice.

 

In any case persevere. There are stages you will pass through, natural to any

development of mastery. And along there way, there will be glimpses of Truth

about your Self, intuitions. the less you try to hold and examine what they

mean and simply continue to practice without conjecture, the more you will

discover - new aspects of the wholeness of who you are that will simply emerge

within your consciousness, even as you proceed in what is a natural progression

of development as a human being, what Yogi Bhajan calls the "mind of light"

(human) "in the here and now" (being), the full meaning of which that you will

begin to realize.

 

Yoga, the experience of yoga depends on being pure in heart. In the Kundalini

yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, with concerted practice, the bondage to habitual

thought and imbedded impressions dissolves, as you move through the stages of

self mastery to mastery of Self (pradupati):

 

At first you are attentive to the basics, later you begin to feel the energy

flows and the postures, movements and breathing become second nature, while the

focus is on the resulting expanding experience. Then you begin to feel, know

and understand the process. This is just the threshold of the practice. You

feel that you have really discovered something entirely new. The mind has a

tendency at this stage to want to stop and examine and build a new sense of

identity around this newly emerging sense of self. If you can overcome this

stage, in which you might feel a new sense of empowerment and life force, if you

can leave behind the sense newness and strength in your identity, you begin to

feel a sense of deeper Self emerging within your consciousness, something

single, quiet, inward drawing, deep and still, grounding, until something

entirely different happens, a radical discovery regarding the Truth of your own

being that make you One and Whole. Yogi Bhajan calls the emergence of this

state, Sat Pad, the state of abiding in your True Identity.

 

The watch word of 3ho Kundalini Yoga is what? "Keep-Up!" - This simply means

perseverance regardless of circumstances and situations, the vagaries and doubts

and uncertainties of the mind, that will all in time pass, leaving you on a new

threshold to experience the "Possible Human."

 

Don't worry about feeling strange, etc. All this will pass, as the nervous and

glandular systems acclimate to and begin to support the higher voltage and

sensory experience generated in the body field, as you continue to take

Kundalini yoga classes. Just keep up for another 40 days and see what

happens... But don't put a time element on your practice. What else is life

about but to realize your essential and True Being. We read about the

possibility in scriptures of all religions. Within 40 days, you will discover

that this realization can be practically experienced. Shift attention from

time, practice, become pure and you will recollect who and what you really are.

 

Pieter

 

 

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Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:45:19 -0000 Kundalini Yoga Digest Number 1586

"anneso_james" <anneso

Just took my first Kundalini Yoga class

 

Hello everyone,

 

I just took my first Kundalini Yoga and Meditation class this evening and I am

feeling a bit strange. It was a two-hour class and it was quite intense. I

usually take Vinyasa and other Yoga types, but had never before tried

Kundalini... I have never done the Breath of Fire much before and doing it for 2

hours was rough... The teacher mentioned we were doing a lymphatic system

cleansing series (anyone know where I might find info on what we did?).

 

In any case, my body is very sore, and I am not feeling much like myself right

now. I assume it's to be expected... I am also a bit nauseous and headachy, so I

was hoping someone might have some good advice...

 

Cheers,

 

Anne-Sophie