I have become increasingly aware of a difficulty with working with downward moving energy. There is an area at my solar plexus that me and Kimberly discovered together that's tied to an old addiction to seeking..
I gave up the incessant need to meditate every day, and only do practices occasionally now. I can do anything without problems, and we've even moved now to a more quiet place. :)
But what's bugging me is that each time I try to do any practice that involves the downward movement of energy, my solar plexus ties itself up really rightly. It makes me feel like I want to cry and scream, and spreads out a bit so it ranges from navel to throat.
The problem is that this includes the grounding visualization, which is part of this course. If it happens in a kriya or anything else, that's fine. I just stop doing it, as it's not really important to me. What happens, not all the time, but often, is that when I move the energy down to drill through the earth, I feel this happening. I can move the energy up from the earth crystal without problem, and from the sky down into me without problem. Another example of its manifestation is if I do a kriya with the orbit (in this tradition you move down the spine), when I reach solar plexus-navel area, it wants to make a sharp bend or something and avoid the circuit.
I would at least like to be able to do the grounding visualization without problems. :)
The thing is, that when I check for grounding, my feet almost always tingle, the top of my head too (and hands), and my mind is centered in the Now and in a Witness state.
- Can trying to ground yourself when you are already grounded cause this problem? After all, I've worked with this technique since last fall, maybe I don't need to do it so often any more.
- Some sort of resistance? I seem to have a hard time discerning exactly what it is.
- When I had a vampire session and chat with you that other day, I felt none of it at all. I could easily move the energy through my solar plexus.. But before that, and the days after, it's there. (It's been there looong before so it has nothing to do with our session.) Kimberly said that it's because I am opening it up to focus on/do something for someone else rather than just my own spiritual growth that allowed the knot to unwind itself.
I get a feeling this is something very important, and will result in a major shift once I've moved beyond it. I could -really- use some assistance on this one!
Love, and Namaste
Gustaf
Here are some alternate ideas for clearing energy blockages that have worked for me.
The Taoist send smiling energy to their body parts for healing and clearing. It's called the Inner Smile. It works.
I would sit quietly somewhere and talk to my solar plexus and ask it what the blockage is. A direct answer might come, then I would send the issue through the heart and up into the light. I might have to move into the Witness State and observe the progress of my thoughts until they reached the roots of the issue. Many times, for me, just knowing what the root problem is makes it vanish. Example: I was angry at rich folks for endless years until I searched for the root of the issue and found that I was jealous. The idea of me being jealous of them seemed so ridiculous and funny that the whole problem evaporated right there on the spot.
I use EFT for stubborn issues. I would say an affirmation, "Even though I have this blockage in my solar plexus, I deeply and completely accept myself." %mdashrepeated three time while tapping the back of the neck. For the rest of the procedure look it up on Google.
Persistence works. When I've found a blockage in the past, I kept sending chi there until it cleared. I have a painful energy blockage in my tailbone that keeps resurfacing. The last time it happened, I used EFT and it went right away.
I don't think you can get too grounded. I've had tingly feet for a long time, but when I joined this course and started to connect with the center of the earth I felt a different kind of energy rush into me. I got tingly feet from doing the Taoist orbit and grounding exercises. It is chi. It feels like electric impulses or like flowing molasses if I get the energy up. This earth energy is different, it's solid, like I'm being filled with water. Chi is like being filled with light.
Walking barefoot in the mountains is good for grounding. I enjoy walking the trails of the Cascades where I live barefoot and place my awareness in my feet. This stops the pain. It's the same idea as walking on fire, except sharp stones are less threatening. It rebuilds the ground image of your aura that has died off from your feet being held captive in shoes for too long.
Something else that's strange: I opened my inner voice many years ago, but when I asked it if Goddess was the power behind him, this earth energy feeling took over my normal inner voice feeling and told me, "yes." Since then, my old prayer feeling is gone and is replaced with this new, stronger earth-feeling.
From this and other experiences, I conclude that connecting with this earth energy is vitally important to kProgress.
Another change that happened to me after being grounded properly with this earth center is that the sky connection has ceased to have much to do with the sun but is simply a pillar of light reaching upward. The energy moves through the crown almost without effort now. Before I got grounded I had to push to get chi to move upward through the skull. Right now, it feels like a draft in a well designed chimney. The energy feels cool, not warm like before.
Everyone has different experiences. These are mine. I hope they were helpful.
Love, Nicholas
The earth energy does fill me up like water, and it makes me feel very emotional in a sense that it's very in my face and present. Can't avoid anything.
After a karma vampire session with my wife, we also found that most of the anxiety associated with it is like smoke, from something that is burning very intensively at my solar plexus.. It looks like a roman candle that spurts upwards like a volcano, unable to withstand the pressure from below any longer. Celebrating life.
I observe this emotional state and go into it. It is not only anxiety, frustration and sadness, but it is also joy, celebration and an urge to just take off and fly. In fact, it can sometimes be described as blissful.
Yoga practices and Kriyas raises my energies -very- fast, so much that I don't do them much at all right now. I'm barely able to do it at all right now. Too much emotion to handle right away. Mystress has recommended more expression and less yoga =o) I am working on that lol. Sometimes I even seem to keep myself from feeling excited. Shakti is very exciting, and excited, and wants to celebrate.
One thing is for sure, I don't have to push anything to get it to move up the head. In fact, it's the opposite. If I push, it gets stuck in solar plexus very quickkly.
I feel both heat and cold, often at the same time. Like a blazing furnace driving winds or something. Maybe my chimney is not as bad as I make it up to be? Something has changed since I wrote the first post, though not sure what. It's something definitely in-process
Namaste
Gustaf
: Gustaf,
: Here are some alternate ideas for clearing energy blockages that have worked for me.
: The Taoist send smiling energy to their body parts for healing and clearing. It's called the Inner Smile. It works.
: I would sit quietly somewhere and talk to my solar plexus and ask it what the blockage is. A direct answer might come, then I would send the issue through the heart and up into the light. I might have to move into the Witness State and observe the progress of my thoughts until they reached the roots of the issue. Many times, for me, just knowing what the root problem is makes it vanish. Example: I was angry at rich folks for endless years until I searched for the root of the issue and found that I was jealous. The idea of me being jealous of them seemed so ridiculous and funny that the whole problem evaporated right there on the spot.
: I use EFT for stubborn issues. I would say an affirmation, "Even though I have this blockage in my solar plexus, I deeply and completely accept myself." %mdashrepeated three time while tapping the back of the neck. For the rest of the procedure look it up on Google.
: Persistence works. When I've found a blockage in the past, I kept sending chi there until it cleared. I have a painful energy blockage in my tailbone that keeps resurfacing. The last time it happened, I used EFT and it went right away.
: I don't think you can get too grounded. I've had tingly feet for a long time, but when I joined this course and started to connect with the center of the earth I felt a different kind of energy rush into me. I got tingly feet from doing the Taoist orbit and grounding exercises. It is chi. It feels like electric impulses or like flowing molasses if I get the energy up. This earth energy is different, it's solid, like I'm being filled with water. Chi is like being filled with light.
: Walking barefoot in the mountains is good for grounding. I enjoy walking the trails of the Cascades where I live barefoot and place my awareness in my feet. This stops the pain. It's the same idea as walking on fire, except sharp stones are less threatening. It rebuilds the ground image of your aura that has died off from your feet being held captive in shoes for too long.
: Something else that's strange: I opened my inner voice many years ago, but when I asked it if Goddess was the power behind him, this earth energy feeling took over my normal inner voice feeling and told me, "yes." Since then, my old prayer feeling is gone and is replaced with this new, stronger earth-feeling.
: From this and other experiences, I conclude that connecting with this earth energy is vitally important to kProgress.
: Another change that happened to me after being grounded properly with this earth center is that the sky connection has ceased to have much to do with the sun but is simply a pillar of light reaching upward. The energy moves through the crown almost without effort now. Before I got grounded I had to push to get chi to move upward through the skull. Right now, it feels like a draft in a well designed chimney. The energy feels cool, not warm like before.
: Everyone has different experiences. These are mine. I hope they were helpful.
: Love, Nicholas