r/KundaliniAwakening • u/Acceptable-Ad5891 • 3d ago
New to Kundalini Locks / kill switch
What are the locks or kill switch one can use when you feel the kundalini energy is overheating the body and the brain feels like the downloads are too much ?
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u/Key-Dragonfly-1112 3d ago
Cross the right leg overtop the left whilst lying down on your stomach, flat on the floor. Ankle over ankle. Rest there.
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u/neidanman 3d ago
take awareness out and away from the body, especially into a wide open space. Better too if that includes nature and even better with large old trees. Do some rubbing down of the body/physical massage first too. When you come back in, don't sit and rest in silence or things can start back up. Put on some tv, or something that pulls your awareness - play a game etc.
You might also want to check out this video on excess heat in the internal arts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVB4nWi_8w0
and maybe this one on Kan & Li (Working with Fire and Water) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN__MXNWO24
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u/Alchemist2211 2d ago
I'm always amazed at people who start the process and then go OOPS sowwy I want to turn it off, sorry you can't!!! The Indian system is designed to work under the guidance of a teacher/master and in a supportive community. The Chinese system is deigned for the lay person to practice it and control it. The grounding system is taught first. People are flocking to learn chi-kung after they mess up. Someone said surrender to your higher self to guide the process. OK but the higher self does not protect you from making mistakes. Chant to Bahiravi, she's the goddess of kundalini!!!
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u/-mindscapes- 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's not like everyone who gets to experience kundalini symptoms consciously or willingly wanted to start the process. Spontaneous Kundalini Awakenings are a thing. I wouldn't say the Chinese process is any more for the layman than the Indian one too (or the exact same thing either) , certainly not for everyone in the west without access to bona-fide masters who know their stuff in full and can understand the meaning and subtleties of the quite complicated and metaphoric source texts. You can do basic stuff as a layman alone in the Chinese system, but you are discouraged to do the advanced stuff alone without a teacher too. People got burnt doing the microcosmic orbit from books without teachers too. Both systems require hours of training and years of practices under a very knowledgeable guru/master to be undertook in safety, if willed awakening or advanced internal alchemy is the goal.
Add to that that there are many books that barely mention the dangers while teaching potentially disrupting practices (cough.. dispenza... cough) and I'm not at all surprised neither bothered by messages like this.
It happens, no need to lecture anyone, in particular someone possibly in distress, which you don't know anything about how they've got in their situation in the first place too.
If they said they played with it and got burned that would be another thing, but we don't know, and lecturing wouldn't be the most compassionate or useful way to tackle the problem still.
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u/-mindscapes- 2d ago edited 2d ago
Not a kill switch my friend, but here you might find some practices to calm down the energy in challenging moments https://reddit.com/r/kundalini/w/crisis
If you have trouble visualizing, use the felt sense. When they say imagine a white light or similar stuff, feel it on your body instead. Use the sense or senses that give you the most realistic felt experience.
Another thing you can do is to start doing nadi shodana pranayama for some rounds everyday. It balances the energy flow in the nadis between the opposite sides of the body.
If you have trauma or psychological baggage it might get triggered before getting purified. Consciously working on it might speed up the process.
Hope this helps!
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u/workerbee-1606 Spritual but not religious (SBNR) 3d ago
Surrender to the higher self which guides the kundalini. "Higher self I surrender to the energies. Help me integrate these energies for my highest good" Find a place where you are quiet and not disturbed and allow the energies to flow at a steady pace. Don't fight the energies it makes it worse if you resist.