So how do I turn the volume down?

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam, best way is to find a KY yoga teacher, begin your practice

and "learn" or "experience" or "understand" the "control" we all have

over our own environments. Couldn't begin to advise anyone from a

distance. Best advice is to begin.

Karta Purkh Khalsa

 

Kundaliniyoga, "kim_the_bombadier"

<georgesand42> wrote:

>

> Well, this promises to be a strange request... I've joined this

list

> in hopes that this is the right environment to begin asking this

> question. I know fairly little about Kundalini, but it's the

closest

> analog to my experience that I've found so far. I'm looking for any

> related experience or advice you can forward to me.

>

> So, I have what seems to be an "energy"-related problem. It feels

to

> me as though there is, and has always been, just too much energy

> or "chi" flowing through me-- as though my spiritual "electrical

> cord" carried twice the voltage of most people. My inspirations

(when

> they come) are all-consuming, my grief is incapacitating, my

> interpersonal mojo ("personal magnetism") is so strong that it gets

> me into trouble. I process things (psychologically) much more

quickly

> than other people, learn skills twice as quickly, etc. etc. I have

> maybe a dozen stories (which might easily be coincidences, I know,

> but are good metaphors either way) about electrical devices

> inexplicably breaking near me when I'm really upset about

something.

>

> I suppose it sounds great or interesting if you aren't born with

it,

> but it has made my life exhausting and overwhelming. 15 years of

> concentrated effort has made me, finally, able to keep a game face

> and shield the people around me from it (I come off as relatively

> mellow and stable), but it's not getting any easier on * me *. I'm

> finally coming to terms with the fact that I've got to learn how to

> channel / mitigate it or, it seems to me, it's going to do more

than

> just exhaust me... it's going to damage my body, and maybe the

people

> who're close to me. And, so you know, this isn't manic depression

or

> anything like that (or straight mania). I'm pretty familiar with

that

> brand of illness... this is quite different.

>

> The point is, I don't have the first idea of who to talk to about

how

> to learn to consciously handle this. Most of what I read about

energy

> medicine is about people wanting to awaken their energies; I want

the

> opposite. I either want a smaller current flowing through me, or I

> want to learn how to handle the current I have, smooth it out and

> calm it down, so it isn't so darned hard on me anymore. Meditation

> doesn't cut it... quiets my mind, sure, but doesn't slow or smooth

> out the energy. Yoga frees up energetic blocks, but... well, that

can

> actually make it worse.

>

> I really feel like I need help with this. My intuition tells me

that

> the Yogic disciplines are the best place to start looking, but I

just

> don't know who to start talking to. I probably need to work with

> someone, but... what kind of someone? Can an energy worker help me

> with this, or should I start somewhere else? Is there a name for

it?

>

> Please FWD me to any resources (books, ideas, people, disciplines

> etc.) that you think are appropriate.

>

> Thanks a lot in advance,

> --K

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Kim!

Begin the practice of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. If you can not

find a teacher near you, Guru Rattan has excellent on-line lessons for

beginners; www.kundaliniyoga.org which I am sure you have found already if you

are

here! Start with Lesson 1 and work your way through. As you progress the answer

to your question will be clear, your body(nervous system), mind, and spirit

will become so strong you will not want to turn the volume down!

Blessings in the Light!

Guru Ravi