Several things

[Ellie]

There are a couple of things that I would like to put out there for discussion. The first is a reponse to Jaxx's right side body pains. I had a similar though opposite expience. Well after six months after my Kudalini awakening a year ago, I experienced pain, weakness on the left side of my body. What I recognized after I worked with Mystress a couple of times, and this inlcudes the Tummo Fire initiatonn was that pain I expeirenced was blocked energy.

What I have done to remedy this blocked energy is to work with the energy at the physical level--- walking, doings things around the house, playing with anaimals, and service-- doing stuff for others, partly as means of burning karma and releasing the energy at the physical level.

That said, I wanted to also say that I have experienced something rather unusual. There are times, not necessarily in meditation, but more in a relaxed state of mind, that my breathing stops. I feel no fear and the experience evokes a sense of trust, but I have looked for information about this experience. I know that Goddess regulates the body as needed, but understanding the process would be helpful, as well.

* As a side note, I have been working on my heart voice this week. Occassionally, I will get movement from my plexus area and information seeps out in the form of the voice. I'm not sure if this is astral stuff lingering around, or if it is ego debris or what. In other words, I get the sense that my plexus wants to communicate when I try speak to my heart voice.  I did leave my body numerous times during the early part of my Kundalini awakening, but that has subsided over the months. Not aure what this means?...

[Mystress]

: There are a couple of things that I would like to put out there for discussion. The first is a reponse to Jaxx's right side body pains. I had a similar though opposite expience. Well after six months after my Kudalini awakening a year ago, I experienced pain, weakness on the left side of my body. What I recognized after I worked with Mystress a couple of times, and this inlcudes the Tummo Fire initiatonn was that pain I expeirenced was blocked energy.

Sometimes it is. Sometimes energy work alone can clear it, but other times it does take some chiropractic assistance.

: What I have done to remedy this blocked energy is to work with the energy at the physical level--- walking, doings things around the house, playing with anaimals, and service-- doing stuff for others, partly as means of burning karma and releasing the energy at the physical level.

Sometimes that works, but in Jaxx' case, I think it would tend to aggravate the imbalance.

: That said, I wanted to also say that I have experienced something rather unusual. There are times, not necessarily in meditation, but more in a relaxed state of mind, that my breathing stops. I feel no fear and the experience evokes a sense of trust, but I have looked for information about this experience. I know that Goddess regulates the body as needed, but understanding the process would be helpful, as well.

It is a normal Kundalini symptom, I have experienced it too. My sense of it, is that it occurs when the energy is so high that oxygen is replaced by pure chi.

 On a more mystical note: Gurus who advocate pranayama (breath control) suggest that the place of spiritual unity is between the breaths, between breathing in and breathing out and breathing in. So, it appears Kundalini enhances it by stopping the breath altogether for a bit.

 I do not advocate pranayama, I find it can be dangerous to your mental health... plus, it is often used for awakening K. Once K is awakened, the pranayama happens naturally, as you are experiencing, which is safer. Goddess has it handled.

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: * As a side note, I have been working on my heart voice this week. Occassionally, I will get movement from my plexus area and information seeps out in the form of the voice. I'm not sure if this is astral stuff lingering around, or if it is ego debris or what. In other words, I get the sense that my plexus wants to communicate when I try speak to my heart voice.  

Do several entity clearings on your power chakra, just in case.

The power chakra is often where the soul resides... so it may be your soul speaking! try the soul meditation on K-teacher, in the meditations section. (link below)

>I did leave my body numerous times during the early part of my Kundalini awakening, but that has subsided over the months. Not aure what this means?...

Let it go. Don't pay so much attention to wanting to understand all the phenomena, intelectually.  Ego seeks meanings. Surrender wanting to know. Thing with you, too much mental activity, mistaking intellectual understanding for experiential knowing...

 From my own experience: I once took a personal development course, was rather impatient because there was no new information, only stuff I already *knew* from reading books.

 I took the same course a second time, but instead of assuming, I actually participated fully in all the exercises and discussions. What I discovered was that although I "knew" this stuff intellectually, and had for decades, I had not made it work.

 It was not until I had support in putting it into practice, that it actually started to work, and affect me! I came to understand it in very different, more wholistic ways. As it says at the beginning, intellectualizing is very different from experiential knowing!
 You cannot learn to ride a bicycle from a book.

  Blessings!

• http://kundalini-teacher.com/meditations/soul.html">soul meditation.