r/KundaliniAwakening

I have been made aware some time ago that this soft, hypnotizing, enveloping sound I "hear" permanently in my head is a nada-sound. I did a quick search about it and read about these sounds progressing from lower to higher pitches along with spiritual growth. I also got distracted with feelings of energy associated to it ("Mickeymouse Ears") or not (in- / through-flowing energy), and it was suggested to me to focus on the nada-sound only which I have been doing for about a week now.

At first, it was just the sound. Progressively it became more than just the sound. I feel like my energy levels, my vibrational state, raises and tunes to the frequency of the sound.

Can that be? Can the nada-sound be sort of a tuning fork to get us to raise vibrational states? A bit of the Universe coaching us along the awakening path?

i had what i think was a spontaneous kundalini awakening back in november. i’d quit weed a few weeks before after years of heavy usage and i was also processing an abusive relationship that i’d been caught in rumination spirals over. at one point i started doing some basic inner child work using IFS and i could like actually see my parts in the room with me as i worked with them and i could feel massive energy shifts throughout my body as i healed my parts and processed years and years and years worth of trauma. i think did too much too quickly and ended up with some minor delusions because my pattern recognition brain was going into overdrive but it was still an incredibly blissful and embodying experience that left me feeling an insane amount of love and connection to the world around me. i’d also never felt so present and grounded. for a few days i had this white python coiled around my torso with its head facing forwards, parallel to mine. and as i shifted into the afterglow the python morphed into this flashing rainbow display, ascended to the ceiling, and then dropped down through my mouth and into my throat and then settled in my lower torso.

about a month later my autoimmune issues flared badly and i spent january and february in constant severe pain. i’ve also been through a couple of other severe traumas since, and im still standing specifically because my kundalini was awakened i think but it also feels like it’s been dampened and i feel somewhat cut off from it.

over the last week i’ve started feeling a neutral pressure in my ajna chakra, as well as random phantom ant sensations on my skin which i assume is a prana thing. i think ive also had a few small nondual experiences with nature. i’m not really sure how to proceed. i still feel like a completely changed person, like my relationship to the world is just fundamentally different now. i just need some guidance i think, im not exactly sure how to move forward/interpret what ive already gone through spiritually

Last night I was trying to astral project. I turned on a Gateway Tape and found that I hit the "vibrational stage" rather intensely for the first time. But since the Gateway Tapes wake you up after 30 minutes I decided to listen to Pink noise for the night. Pink noise seemed to help to a similar degree as well.

I am curious as to whether I hit the regular "vibrational stage" or if I accidentally engaged in kundalini practices/ kundalini "energy".

I had a feeling of overwhelming joy (I mentally convinced myself that since I had already experienced AP before, hitting AP again would already be in the bag for me). I then started to feel my limbs fall into a numbness/ asleep feeling. I then started to have parts of me twitch/ convulse, (not in a spasm kind of way, but in a more random frequency).

Is this normal when it comes to AP/ hitting the vibrational stage or is this tied to Kundalini Energy?

My Story: From childhood.

I do regular yoga from age 12 (normal beginner asanas only)

(from age 15-27)
I have always lived with a hyper-sensitive system, even when I didn't have the words to explain it. As a child, I regularly saw black shadows in my home, heard distinct breathing sounds when no one was there, and felt sudden hot or cold phantom touches on my skin .

(27) : After I got married, this sensitivity evolved. I started having vivid early morning dreams and visions that would actually happen in real life within a day or two.

(30) But the real explosion of strange occurrences happened after I gave birth to my baby. On the day of my delivery, I clearly felt my deceased grandmother waking me up, and I heard multiple, beautiful angelic voices surrounding my baby.

(30 - after 5 months of delivery) : a profound intuition woke up in me that has never been wrong.

(after my visit to tirunala - post delivery 5 months) One morning, after a powerful dream where I was walking and looking at Lord Vishnu in the sky, my mom woke me up in middle and said u r burning like hell (seems you have high fever) at exactly 3:30 AM with a 105-degree fever.
I felt the heat heavily but at the same time I was completely normal like, I had zero energy drain, zero fatigue, and total physical alertness. just because of this heat i felt to lie down, nothing else.
This strange fever returned every evening for four days, lasted for 5 hours before vanishing. everytime when we checked temperature it is above 104 degree.

(Following this, after 1 year) I had three distinct astral out-of-body experiences. Each time, I would hear an intense high-frequency bee buzzing sound, and my consciousness would float out of my body into the air. I flew so high I literally felt the physical freeze and chillness of the clouds. When I opened my eyes, I could see the sofa I was lying on and the clouds at the same time, before my body would shock-drop back into my physical shell.

(and now my baby is 2 years and all of sudden i started having this from past 2 months)
Right at the beginning of this 2nd year 1st week of my baby, I felt a literal snake-like crawling sensation under my skin at night, specifically on my left side. Four days later, while taking a bath in a natural pool surrounded by dense trees and plants, I felt that exact sudden, fluid, snake-like movement again but this time it was on the right side of my back, feeling like water crawling like snake up my right .

I began a massive emotional purge, crying heavily every single night around 11:20 PM, on how badly my in-laws treated me. I felt all my past traumas killing me slowly for 1 month daily i stated crying in night . but after heavy crying i felt literally calm, but next day i wont get the same traumas its all different on each day. One night, after another heavy crying wave, I looked down with my physical eyes wide open in the dark, and I literally saw a bright light shining inside my chest, right where my heart is

Since that day, I felt overwhelmed and traveled to some sacred temples. Then started my mediattion.

After 2 weeks of meditation , today i felt free, empty, and clear of thoughts. The logical, analytical mind has gone completely offline. No more cries, and i dont feel the pain now.
But my meditation has shifted into absolute physical stillness. The moment I sit and form my mudra, my body locks. I cannot move a single inch, remaining completely frozen in posture until my eyes naturally open..

I am following this page after the snake movement started as my mother said snake moment happens during kundalini. so today I am here.

**So I**s my Kundalini already fully activated, or am I currently on the intense path of activation. Because I am so confused some symptoms feel like its already activated. But if its activated I dont see anything differently yet. so i am not sure whats happening.

Thanks.

A few months ago I listened to a kundalini activation frequency and something started to rise from the bottom of my spine but it stopped at somewhere between my heart and throat. I worked on my throat chakra for a while and it helped me during my singing lessons at the theater. Before that, my voice would get stuck in my throat.
A few weeks ago my kundalini started to rise from the bottom of my spine again. This time, I had done nothing. Still, it was stuck around my heart. Since then, I don't sleep much. I don't need to, so I don't force myself into it. But I don't really take action towards the things I want to have, though I have all the time to myself. (I don't have a job. I feel guilty. But when I try to start something that is even easy, I feel overwhelming anxiety. I don't even do the things I enjoy doing once I turn them into a responsibility.)
For at least two weeks, I've worked on kundalini yoga. Basically the videos on YouTube. I realized a few things about my body:
- My right leg is either numb or starts to shake during the sessions.
- Something is different on my right hand. I cannot make my thumb and and index finger meet as easily as my left one. Something is off.
- Something gradually started to move from my heart point to my left shoulder.
- When I release tension in my throat, something is moving on my hard palette.
- When I try to visualize during meditation, my right side is dark. I cannot easily have a light image of it. Also, I have difficulty in visualizing root and solar plexus chakras.

I am curious about the reason. Do any of you know how to evaluate this situation or do something about this?

Thanks for reading so far.

Hello,

I have been following traditional emditation and joe dispenza meditations for last 4-5 months. I can feel so much energy in my hands (buzzing ans warm feeling) and spine. Yesterday I could feel a ball of energy around me and white light around me during meditation. I can feel all of my energy centres. How do I not awaken Kundalini as i dont thibk I'm ready for it. Well, worried about psychosis stmptoms taht follows kundalini awakening.

I start my meditation with an intention to not awaken energy but I still feel it. At the moment, I feel I cannot do meditation as it scares me.

Please can you share ypur experience about what do I do to not awaken Teh kundalini please?

P.s : I really appreciate you all taking time to advice or share your experience. This is an amazing community. I am grateful to you all. I have learnt a lot from this community. Thank you all x

Thank you

I few days ago I experienced a lot of anxiety and fear, for no apparent reason. It was really awful, I almost thought I needed to be hospitalized. It seemed to just go away by the next day. The two days before it were quite happy.

Was this some sort of kundalini cleansing? Was it driving out a bunch of negative inner feelings? It was shocking how intense it was, then gone. I feel okay now, so a pretty confusing experience. I can’t really explain it to my wife. I was a basket case for a day.

What is the deeper reason for an awakening that happens without any practices, just randomly one day.

I believe this has happened to me, I went to the gym and made eye contact with a stranger and I felt something in me changed, it wasn’t romantic or carnal/lustful it was completely spiritual. I went home and had a kundalini awakening and that was four months ago.

Other people would call this “ twin flames” but I don’t really vibe with a lot of the concepts that people put out there about that. I don’t believe this to be a romantic connection, but perhaps a spiritual catalyst for transformation, expanding consciousness and spiritual evolution, I believe this was awakening is for me and about me rather than focusing on a romantic connection with this person. It has never felt like that at its core. I had seen this person once more after it happened, at a gym, however I didn’t feel the need to try to get his info or connect anymore after that. I had a feeling that this was meant to happen, the kundalini awakening and then we go our seperate ways.

Now I understand this seems really out there and unusual, but this is my truth of what happened that day and I’m wondering why did this happen like why is it that this only happens to certain people and a very low amount of people too, or why spontaneous awakenings happen in general? I want to know the spiritual reason for it, is it something that’s pre destined before birth? Not sure I wanted to see if anyone else could relate or had any insight. I have my own intuitive theories but I’m looking to explore other peoples ideas and insights!

Is there any higher purpose as to why some people experience kundalini awakenings? Is it a purpose to help others or raise consciousness for everybody or just for yourself?

I've been meditating everyday recently and I've started to feel headaches now, idk if it's a spiritual sign or a medical condition, and there's one more thing that I don't feel hunger anymore, I'm scared that I might faint is I don't eat but everytime i try I feel like I'm already full, there's also weird stuff going on like sleep paralysis, but I'm concerned about these headaches atm.. should I continue further?

Hi all - how do I know that I had experienced granthis piercing? Are there distinct signs? Does each knot only get pierced once?

About 6 years ago I was doing a kundalini awakening meditation involving breath retention and visualizing energy rising from the perineum to the third eye. During the meditation, my body started swaying side to side like a snake and my tongue began flickering on its own. What does that mean?
Was it just bc I was depriving my body of oxygen by holding my breath for so long or something else? Has anyone heard of this before? It scared me away from even practicing the law of attraction and I've felt spiritually stuck ever since. I turned to Christianity and that was rough bc | felt I lost all the power I had using the law of attraction and doing spell work. The people in the church were abs insufferable. So this kind of lead to me hitting a fork in the road and I didn't know which way to go. These days I'm still torn between what spiritual practices I should follow. It's exhausting. Any thoughts?

im going thru a kundalini awakening and i am young, 19 years old. the energy is so overwhelming all day, everyday, that its so hard so function in life. my anxiety is thru the roof. my body is visibly going through changes and ive pretty much isolated myself from the world the last few months. but now this is driving me into a depression on when i can have peace and be able to live my life again normally. I have bad fomo and honestly my inner child has no idea what’s happening to me.

any advice? i’ll appreciate it.

Context: In my 20s American tired.

I had a awakening experience few years ago for many months love bliss, genius, cosmic oneness, just fantastic.

But it's so clear everything around me (majority of the world actually) is anti-enlightenment.

It's just expected if you're in your 20s GRIND, school and work NOW GRIND.

Don't want to? Go get a physical labor job to wear your body down.

Or stay in low paying work forever. Compare to someone who has it worse.

Or go to the military doing evil across the world.

Or get with a rich way older person which is it's own problem...

I'm trying to make the best of everything but I can't maintain living so virtuously as so much of everything is excessively rajasic or tamasic.

Drink your caffeine, get your materialistic addictions, be gluttonous and carry on! Being professional means adopting a level of robot behavior that a low virtue society approves of even though it's dishonest.

I'm tired of all of this. Saying goodbye to my current life feels fine because I can't say it's much of a life to be honest.

But maybe in Rishikesh it will be worse. But idk...

A type of tired a vacation won't fix I can't help but resist everything I want to stop I know I should accept and forgive people for not knowing better/being more virtuous but all the time?

Obviously if Buddha or Jesus or whoever was like okay society is perfect! They wouldn't of been known. So even the historic greats were resisting to a degree the lower consciousness that goes on.

So... rishikesh?

I could really use some advice because this isn't what I signed up for.

The only reason I started practicing semen retention was because I noticed it made the emotions behind my affirmations and visualizations much stronger. When the emotion is more intense, it's much easier for me to genuinely believe what I'm visualizing, which is exactly what I was aiming for. I wasn't trying to awaken kundalini or have any kind of major energetic experience.

A few days ago I started getting pressure at the back of my skull along with a headache. One night I suddenly became extremely nauseous (to the point where I felt like I might throw up) and also started feeling very cold. The headache and pressure have mostly improved since then.

What bothers me the most, though, is this constant electrical/sexual tingling sensation in my spine. It starts in my lower back and moves upward. It's not painful—in fact it's actually pleasurable—but it's become almost constant, and that's exactly the problem. It doesn't seem to go away, and it's distracting and honestly pretty bothersome.

I wasn't looking for energy shooting up my spine or anything related to kundalini. I literally just wanted to use semen retention as a way to strengthen the emotional component of my visualizations and affirmations. Now I feel like I've accidentally opened a door that I never intended to open.

Has anyone experienced something similar from semen retention alone? If this is an energetic imbalance, what can I do to calm it down or reverse it? I'm not interested in intensifying it—I just want to get back to feeling normal while still being able to benefit from retention for my visualization practice.

KA can be a huge shock. You question your mental health. You might question religious beliefs. You question your perception of the entire universe and what you perceive as real. You will be told it is imaginary and it is really a mental health issue. Certainly a psychiatrist (in the West at least) can see it no other way. And indeed, it can disturb your mind to be experiencing what you always believed was impossible. There is no way you’d believe someone else if it hadn’t happened to you.

I knew practically nothing about Hinduism. I have since learned all the things I experienced… nadas, kriyas, visit by a Hindu deity… are considered blessings to be met with joy. The question “Why me?” remains and probably always will. I know Hindus believe it can be because of past lives. The deity did mention a past life. I have always been open to the idea of reincarnation. Some places you have never been feel familiar.

It is back and forth, deluded , something special, deluded, something special. Today I had that feeling of energy flowing out of my body, like I am reaching beyond the physical. My head feels partially in the clouds, but I am calm and peaceful. Less stressed. I haven’t experienced this type of feeling since the first few weeks of initial occurrence.

Spontaneous Kundalini awakening 3 years ago — now facing scary faces, shadow entities, and attacks during sleep. Has anyone been through this and come out the other side?

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Hi everyone,

I'm reaching out because I don't know anyone around me who understands what I'm going through. I live in Iran and there are no teachers or guides here familiar with Kundalini.

About 3 years ago, my Kundalini awakened completely spontaneously — I had no spiritual practice at the time and no knowledge of what Kundalini even was. It happened suddenly. I saw golden light and experienced all the classic awakening signs at once. It was overwhelming but also beautiful.

For the first year or so things were intense but manageable. Then, roughly 2 years after the awakening, something shifted. I started experiencing what I can only describe as a "dark phase":

- I see frightening faces and shadow figures with my eyes open, 3–4 times a day

- When I close my eyes and go deep, I sometimes suddenly see one of them nearby

- At night, before or during sleep, I feel attacked — like something grabs me, touches me, or laughs in a terrifying way near me

- I see doorways or portals opening

- There is a golden light around me that gives me hope and I hold onto it

I've been holding on for a while now, mostly alone. I'm not in crisis — I'm coping — but I want to understand what's happening and whether others have been through this and found peace on the other side.

My main fears are:

1. Did my Kundalini rise incorrectly?

2. Are these entities real external beings or projections of my psyche — and does it matter which?

3. Has anyone gone through this dark phase and actually reached genuine peace — not just "coping" but real light and transformation?

I would deeply appreciate hearing from anyone who has walked a similar path. Thank you for being here.

I'd like to share a bit more about my 1/2 century of kundalini work, in the hopes it may aid others traveling this unusual road. 

And as I said in my first post, everyone’s kundalini awakening is different and unique to their karma; I can only speak to what I have seen or witnessed myself. 

Each day now, I want
to say this –
I am here, in the eye of the world,
in the great wind in the pines
on our nearby mountain.

Each day now, I await
signals,
is it the stories the birds tell?

All of my stories have an end,
a middle, and a beginning,
but yours have none of these.

In your story, where do I place myself?

I take three things, and create
a fourth, – incense, breath, scraps
of ink on paper.

And all this time, I
am being hurled through space,
under a vast sky;
dreaming a life.

I believe it is not uncommon to have, at the beginning, some fantastical, otherworldly, or even blissful experiences, often of an obviously divine nature. It is almost as if we are given these gifts to sustain us through the long journeys of darkness through our interior self. 

Our unconscious is a luminous darkness, and our enlightenments exist on a continuum of slowly making the unconscious conscious. 

For some, it can be a lonely and dark journey, oftentimes stretching for years, decades, or even lifetimes. Our story is vast, and the glimpses of the Divine that we are given serve as our secret, inner talismans that we hold onto in order to give us the courage to persevere. 

In response to my first post, some folks asked what are the changes that I experienced after so long a practice. One of the primary changes is a development of inner detachment and non-reactivity to many events. As kundalini dissolves our inner tensions, we have less “buttons” to be pressed; we do not get triggered by things anymore. 

First I see you, then
I don’t.
You play hide-and-seek so beautifully
I forget we have been playing for
such a long time – I cannot even
remember when we started.

Here, the winter snows come
and go,
people always arriving and
departing.

I wait patiently for the Spring;
climbing up, the mountains are very
silent.

If you are not careful, you can easily
get lost in their white luminescence.

Another major outcome is a subtle sense of an expansion of reality. Things take on, (when our mind is not preoccupied,) a new depth. A very poor analogy is like when I was a hippie in my 20’s, we used to get stoned and sit around and listen to music, or go places, reveling in being high. Slowly, slowly that becomes our natural state, but it is not unusual anymore, our bodies and mind adapt, and it becomes a normal state of openness. Looking inside ourselves reveals an infinite depth, sometimes dark, sometimes light. 

Your ability to be present increases enormously, and we practice becoming an empty vessel, through which this creative and holy energy flows. This becomes a merging of ourselves and this vibrating energy, as we surrender ourselves to this inner flow. 

Your life will take on added dimension, and changes naturally occur as situations that no longer serve your growth fall away, and you will attract new ones. 

This is another way to say that your sensitivity will increase, and your life will appear both infinitely more precious and precarious. For the truth is that we live in an abyss of unknowing, and our only recourse is to live more consciously in the present.

Feel free to ask questions….

 When I close my eyes
your light is still there,
in fact, it’s even brighter

Can you see it now?

It tells me many things;
it tells me that all is
never lost,
that there are no errors,
and that one can have
only what one has given

Come, let me make you
some tea

We can converse about
these and many other things.

You can talk all
you want, I’ll just
listen

>Rudra Granthi (the "Knot of Shiva") is the third and final psychic knot in yogic and Tantric traditions. Located in the Ajna (third-eye) chakra region, it represents the ultimate energetic barrier before reaching pure cosmic consciousness. This blockage is characterized by intellectual pride, rigid mental conditioning, attachment to psychic powers, and a lingering sense of ego. It represents the final boundary that locks the Kundalini energy in the lower dimensions of the individual ego. The Rudra Granthi traps energy due to the higher mind's vulnerabilities.

Primary causes include:

>Intellectual Pride: Clinging fiercely to one's own opinions, dogmas, and the illusion of "knowing".

>Attachment to Siddhis: Desiring or becoming obsessed with paranormal or psychic powers (siddhis) rather than pursuing spiritual liberation.

>Separation (Otherness): Viewing the world through the lens of a rigid "us versus them" mentality.

I have noticed self proclaimed Kundalini experts who have strong attachment to their own opinions and dogmas, attachment to their psychic powers (to the point of financially capitalizing on them), and a strong "us" vs "them" mentality. It seems as though these people haven't pierced their rudra granthi and belittle people who have.

Hi

Since my deflected kundalini rising (assessed by pkyc), for the past three years I feel intense emotions in my manipura. All emotions I feel is located in my manipura, especially anger rising up and blocking my throat chakra causing me to energetically vomit (exhale, no liquid coming out) even happy feeling I feel in my manipura. Before my kundalini rising, I was sitll able to feel emotions in my heart but now, all emotions is in my manipura.

My question, is that common and why? Is it a process of cleansing my solar plexus / manipura region? Will it at some point change and I am able to feel in my heart again?

I feel this process rather uncomfortable and painful at times especially anger and sadness stirring up in my stomach causing discomfort. Its been 3 years and I pray that it will at some point get easier... 🙏🙏

I would be grateful to receive some insights from you.

When you find a song, movie, or meal you like you share it with others so they too can experience that joy.

Yet this. I open my mouth and it's like who knows... MAYBE IT'S REAL?

It's a myth to 99.9% of humanity. Oh god!!!! lol. Oh me!!!!!

I'm not sure realistically what I can do to bring people aboard on this.

To a much more spiritual life.

Yes I can show the fruits of my labor by simple interaction.

But over a lifetime how many will that inspire.

I stay in certain bubbles that fit my personality, yet the people that would benefit this influence the most are not part of the choir.

Religion amongst the low becomes low and that's what happened. Billion dollar enterprises represent religion today not offering for the majority of the intrigued a true way to raising the kundalini up the body.

It seems there is a risk of this species as a whole never discovering this.

In a way it somewhat bothers me because... I kinda wish I didn't experience it! IT'S SO GOOD how can I be quiet about it!

An yet I do my best cause to 99% of people it's a myth. Will remain a myth.

It's odd having friends or dating and just having huge hesitation over sharing one's super rare beliefs.

I've shared it before. Haven't converted anyone lol! One friend went into reading a lot about any form of paranormal phenomena and he can only work with what is out there.

Lot's of texts about NDEs, some psychic research, but kundalini remains in the dark.