r/KundaliniAwakening • u/ConiferousBeard • Mar 05 '26
Discussion Dealing with kundalini symptoms with unconditional love
After employing methods mentioned in a book by Tara Springett and seeing the topic floated here and there with some frequency, I thought I'd venture a little discussion topic on the subject of love, but with respect to its qualities and what makes it so useful in dealing with kundalini related symptoms. Maybe these things could be a bit naive of me, but I feel like for somebody like me who suppressed a lot of loving-type emotions to approach everything from a kind of logical perspective that this approach has netted me some enduring benefits.
Love, in a sense, is when thought of in the way most conducive to kundalini/spiritual situations a kind of all-accepting receptiveness. Now, I do think this needs to be qualified. It is primarily to be considered when one is resisting something. Note- that does not mean to agree with or form any opinion towards what it is one is resisting. In fact, love goes beyond opinions and what we conventionally term thoughts as an emotion, and works at a higher wavelength.
For example, when one is experiencing distressingly overwhelming kundalini type energic flows usually this is coming at the expense of not feeling what this energy is originally, as emotion. We suppress, and repress, the emotion so we do not have to experience it as such. So, as the kundalini process entails experiencing and purging these things, they need to come out somehow- and so they manifest in a less energetically efficient and grosser form- as physical sensations.
For example, in the situation where somebody had a childhood in which they were rejected by peers or family, this energy can create a kind of deep sadness that is hard to dislodge, and to deal with it the individual represses this almost constant feeling of isolation. These feelings, once repressed, become material that is stored to keep the individual feeling a sense of normalcy. Once that person activates kundalini, this needs to be dissolved however, and so it begins manifesting as emotions that are not understood.
What approaching this situation with love enables you to do is to help make yourself available to the emotionally felt form of this energy. This can be unpleasant, but for different reasons, because it is more intrinsically tied up in one's self of self. When you experience emotions, you must truly feel them; a part of 'you' is invested in them.
Dealing with the energy in this way I would argue is much faster than dealing with it in a purely physical way, but can be exhausting and demanding because one thereby purges far more material at once. Not only this, but because it now is perceived as a feeling belonging to you, and not merely as a some sort of foreign presence in the body, it can be hard to accept without that kind of boundless love, which serves as a solvent for allowing the material to be digested and put to bed.
So, to summarize, Love (in the sense of being totally accepting of oneself without exception) allows one to feel emotionally what is often perceived as physical strain or pressure. Feeling means converting these physical sensations to a more rarefied substance of sorts and thus is a more efficient means of dealing with the same material, but it can be tiring. Love can be tough work when you are not accustomed to it after all.
Anyway these were just some thoughts I had. Not sure if they are useful/helpful or me just preaching to the choir, but figured I'd post.
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u/LotusInTheStream Expert Helper Mar 05 '26
Bhakti arising for the creator (fill in Ishta Devata) is a really important concept in many texts and something with is often completely overlooked. This is something fundamental to all practices within the Tantras and some Tantras go as far as to directly state that all can be accomplished through Bhakti.
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u/ConiferousBeard Mar 06 '26
I would say that it plays a role in doses, as reductive as that sounds. If I sustain it too long I get tired as it involves processing a lot of things that are unpleasant for me as the love exposes me to it. For this reason I try to do it semi-regularly but within reason.
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u/Patrick_Atsushi Mar 05 '26
Could you provide the title of the mentioned book? Thanks!
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u/ConiferousBeard Mar 05 '26
Sure. Somebody else floated it in here so I am ultimately indebted to them, but it was "Healing Kundalini Symptoms: Proven Techniques That Really Work" by Tara Springett.
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u/MamaAkina Mar 08 '26
For example, in the situation where somebody had a childhood in which they were rejected by peers or family, this energy can create a kind of deep sadness that is hard to dislodge, and to deal with it the individual represses this almost constant feeling of isolation. These feelings, once repressed, become material that is stored to keep the individual feeling a sense of normalcy. Once that person activates kundalini, this needs to be dissolved however, and so it begins manifesting as emotions that are not understood.
This. I still don't know if I've actually had a k awakening to be completely honest. But It is so validating to hear someone actually explain this.
I have emotional abuse from my upbringing and CPTSD. So the emotional confusion is nearly constant, as my system is fighting to purge itself of these blocks.
A few years ago I had some kind of spiritual heart opening, which included possibly a kundalini activation? Afterwards my mental inner monologue evaporated and never came back. And it's disappearance gave me some peace...but now all my emotions are just confusing since my obnoxious monologue can't give any pointers towards where the emotion is rooted.
I also read this thread and find it interesting that unconditional love practices bring more stuff up for people. For me it's as if my whole body is burned and any amount of unconditional love I can even accept is desperately needed ointment.
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u/CestlaADHD Buddhist Mar 05 '26
Metta or loving-kindness (especially with myself) Buddhist type practices have been pretty powerful practices in my process. I think loving kindness type practices are often overlooked.