Hi everybody - my first post

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Welcome, Dave!

 

I am very new to this, so won't have any experience to

share, but I can tell you from the standpoint of

someone new to this group that this is the most loving

and supportive group of people I've encountered

outside of my friends and family. You've found a warm

home here.

 

Claudia

 

> daveshaw67 <daveshaw67 wrote:

>

> My name is Dave and I heard about this group through

> the thoughtfulness

> of a guy at another group, Kundalini Yoga,

> which I joined earlier

> this week. I posted the following there:

>

> Hi everybody, I am wondering if any of you can shed

> some light on a

> development I'm experiencing. I began to practice a

> form of Kundalini

> meditation a few days ago. I've been interested in

> meditation per se for

> a few years but have never settled into a regular

> and committed

> practice. Last weekend I found the Kundalini Yoga

> website and

> immediately felt drawn to it. I'm still finding my

> way around the site

> and slowly absorbing some of the background to and

> principles of KY.

> Meanwhile, I remembered that I had a copy of The

> Five Tibetans by

> Christopher Kilham, so I picked it up and found the

> section where he

> gives a description of a beginner Kundalini chakra

> meditation. For those

> of you who haven't read it, he suggests a half hour

> meditation which

> begins with a basic 'settling into' a meditative

> state, then develops

> into a focused meditation on each of the chakras,

> starting at muladhara

> and progressing upwards through each of the others.

> He recommends

> bringing the attention to each chakra for about 3

> minutes and breathing

> regularly but not particularly deeply into each

> energy centre. I

> began the practice on Monday. I'm not the world's

> best meditator (!) and

> so far have only been able to get as far as the

> throat centre (once!)

> but I'm persisting because I know it's a matter of

> practice. My

> difficulty has been in processing what 'comes up',

> particularly in the

> solar plexus area (a great deal of repressed anger).

> But hey, that's my

> stuff! What I'm curious to know is, would following

> this type of

> meditation produce a 'ringing' in my left ear all of

> a sudden? Because I

> was woken by it on Tuesday night, and then while I

> was at work yesterday

> it returned and hasn't really gone away. I'm now

> aware that it's

> basically there full-time, and while it's not

> disturbingly loud, it

> occasionally increases in pitch and intensity. It's

> kind of like a sonic

> whine, I don't really know how to describe it.

> Obviously I've wondered

> about tinnitus, but there is no history of any

> problems like that in my

> family as far as I'm aware, and I've certainly never

> experienced

> anything like it before (except a couple of times

> after loud concerts

> and the like, which goes away within a few hours.)

> Could the meditation

> practice have sparked something like this? If I know

> it's likely to

> pass, I won't worry about it. Otherwise, I need to

> think about getting

> it checked out. Coming across KY at the weekend

> seems like a stage on

> a path for me, because I've been Reiki Level II

> attuned for two and a

> half years now and so have been working with the

> chakras in that way for

> some time. I have to say, however, that I'm finding

> this meditation

> practice particularly powerful. I'd be grateful if

> anybody feels they

> can shed some light on this.

>

> Since posting that, the noise in my ear has

> quietened down somewhat but

> is still there. I'm not disturbed by it, I simply

> find it interesting at

> this point and I can live with it so far. In fact,

> it's only really when

> I bring my attention to it that I remember it's

> there, so it's better

> than it was at first. I'd still appreciate any

> insights you guys might

> have into this, though, and I'd love to hear about

> any similar

> experiences you have had.

>

> I'm really at the very beginning with Kundalini,

> just starting to find

> out about it and trying to discipline myself to

> practice the meditation

> regularly. I did practice the Tibetans for a while a

> couple of years

> back, but then I had an accident which frightened me

> and I stopped doing

> them. I remember feeling at the time that I'd

> generated an energy that I

> couldn't manage properly and that's why I'd ended up

> in considerable

> pain for 2 or 3 weeks, but I'm thinking of trying to

> practice them again

> very soon.

>

> I'd be very grateful if someone could advise me on

> how to make best use

> of my membership here as this and the Kundalini Yoga

> group are the only

> groups I've ever belonged to, and I'm not sure

> quite how they

> work.

>

> Thank you chrism for responding to my request to

> join so quickly and

> welcomingly. I'm looking forward to being an active

> member here and

> sharing my Kundalini adventure with everybody. Right

> now, I don't really

> know where I'm headed with this, but I'm happy to be

> in the company of

> the people who post here.

>

> Namaste,

>

> Dave

 

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