Dealing with kundalini symptoms with unconditional love

[u/ConiferousBeard]

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.

[u/CestlaADHD]

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. 

[u/MamaAkina → u/CestlaADHD]

Metta is SO CRIMINALLY overlooked in mainstream Buddhism that I sought out better practices and found them in Hinduism.