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Lesson 135 - Q&A – Kundalini currents in legs and arms

From: Yogani
Date: Tue Mar 9, 2004 10:59am

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Q: I have been practicing yoga and pranayama for about six years. I
started this practice to get rid of my asthma condition now I
succeeded to 90%. Normally I do no do meditation except some self
affirmations and elaxations after my pranayam. As the sound OM is not
much interested me for my religious background. Now I found you and
practicing the meditation as per your instructions for the past
50days. (For the past three years my yoga is not regular, but I do
pranayama for five minutes a day, before starting meditation)

When I started the meditation it was good and in few days a sort of
pleasant cool breeze (cool current) started flowing in my back during
and after the meditation. During my prayers during the day and
afternoon I feel the same sensation in my back spreading till my
upper back. I do pranayama and meditation in sidhasana.

My question is, for the ten days during the day around 10 A.M. till
2.30 to 3 P.M. I am having the cool current sensation flowing in only
in my both the legs and hands from the shoulder till the finger tips.
Some times it is very strong but pleasant. Please le me know what
this condition is. As for my understanding the energy flows in the
upper parts of the body not down. Please let me know what it is or it
is the energy flowing down instead of upward. Kindly advise.

A: It is kundalini energy. It can be very evident in the legs and
arms. You have heard the expression, "lotus feet?" Kundalini goes
wherever the nervous system goes. This means to every cell in the
body. It begins in the spinal nerve (sushumna) and radiates from
there, sometimes instantaneously with the rise of ecstatic
conductivity in the spinal nerve, and other times with some delay in
time as kundalini energy works its way out from the spinal nerve.
Also, energetically, the subtle nervous system reaches far beyond the
body via the aura, and kundalini goes there also. That is how others
can feel our rising ecstatic bliss. Good vibrations, you know.

Many years ago the same experience you describe rose in me. It was so
pleasurably intense in my legs and feet that the only way I could
calm it down was by walking barefoot all over the neighborhood. It
was like having orgasms in my feet. I had the same thing in the arms
and hands too. Being physically active helps smooth it out. You may
want to check out the lesson on kundalini symptoms and remedies if
you feel the need to smooth it out.

The symptoms have much to do with friction between kundalini energy
and deep obstructions coming out. In time it evens out to be much
smoother unending ecstatic feelings everywhere in the body. Ecstatic
living!

If I have to take a guess, I'd say your pranayama has been opening
your nervous system up over the past few years, and now meditation is
taking advantage of that cultivated situation. You are very wise to
be taking up meditation to complement your pranayama. The
relationship of these two practices, and the importance of doing
both, is discussed throughout the lessons, beginning with first
instructions in spinal breathing. You may wish to bring your
pranayama up to the spinal breathing level, if you have not already.
This speeds up the effects of pranayama, while at the same time
providing much more balance of energies in the nervous system, so
there is more progress with less chance of excessive energy flows.

Good things are happening.

The guru is in you.

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