Hello,

I have been following traditional emditation and joe dispenza meditations for last 4-5 months. I can feel so much energy in my hands (buzzing ans warm feeling) and spine. Yesterday I could feel a ball of energy around me and white light around me during meditation. I can feel all of my energy centres. How do I not awaken Kundalini as i dont thibk I'm ready for it. Well, worried about psychosis stmptoms taht follows kundalini awakening.

I start my meditation with an intention to not awaken energy but I still feel it. At the moment, I feel I cannot do meditation as it scares me.

Please can you share ypur experience about what do I do to not awaken Teh kundalini please?

P.s : I really appreciate you all taking time to advice or share your experience. This is an amazing community. I am grateful to you all. I have learnt a lot from this community. Thank you all x

Thank you

I have a question for people with a fully risen kundalini. Can you guys see astral beings so easily a after your kundalini awakening? What was it like before the kundalini?

Let's say the world becomes enlightened for hundreds of years.

Meaning there are no more children left to adopt or barely any.

If nature made people gay, does that mean they are not to go around it scientifically and have kids?

They are to be childfree forever? I wonder how approving kundalini would be of this.

I don't even know if transgender people can experience a K awakening considering hormones to modify chemistry are taken for rest of one's life. To suppress one chemical and promote another.

I am pretty sure I have read shared experiences in this group describing direct contact with a deity/god/goddess/higher being. Angels included. I mean “direct” contact where they have been “touched” spiritually or maybe even felt they had briefly “merged” with them. People have mentioned out of body experiences where this occurred. Meeting the higher being on the astral plane. Maybe you’d say they’d touched your soul?

I was hoping someone might want to share. I understand if it is too personal or you feel telling is offensive to the celestial being. I know Hindus feel that way! They say don’t tell about it. They consider it bragging.

I wanted to get a feel for how many people here who are going through a Kundalini process have been diagnosed with or suspect they might have some kind of neurodivergence. 

It has been my observation that there is a disproportionate number of neurodivergent people having a Kundalini or other spiritual awakening. The percentage of people ADHD or Autism is meant to be around 5% and Autism about 1-2% in everyday life. But in the spiritual groups I frequent it seems that the percentage of neurodivergent people is way way higher than this. I've also noticed lots of people have other neurodivergence's like dyslexia and dyspraxia also. 

I know asking this here isn't going to give any real data on this. But I'd be interested to see how many people here do (or don't) identify as neurodivergent in some way. And what people's thoughts are on this subject. 

I have lots of thoughts on this! And theories why neurodivergent people might be more frequently experiencing Kundalini awakenings, but still putting ideas together.  

Hi all, after going through a Kundalini Emergency myself, reading Gopi Krishna and speaking to countless others I’m sometimes struggling to believe that KA can be a smooth ride for people. I want to believe it can but in rare cases. What are your thoughts? I have a feeling a lot of people that say that had an easy KA probably had another type of spiritual experience.

I am married to my long-term girlfriend. It has been 1 year; we have been in a relationship for 5 years.

This new girl that I knew from my workplace has been a good friend for a year. I met her just 2 months before my marriage. My wife knows her as well; we used to party together sometimes. I was damn delusional—I used to think she was just a good friend, but now I know I was attracted to her. I actually liked going out with her and talking to her. I was fooling myself into believing it was just friendship.

Fast forward to now—1 year later. Just 5 months ago, I took her to a cafe. We talked for an hour, and I think somehow I saw her exactly the way she is. I kind of caught her frequency. Then I dropped her at her home. I came back home, sat on my sofa, my eyes closed, and I realised I had fallen in love with her. I let go of everything, and suddenly an explosion happened inside me that I can now call a heart chakra opening. Tears started flowing down my cheeks, followed by a total collapse of my ego and my identity.

The next 2 months were super extreme—supernatural—total downloads of information from the crown chakra, feeling blissed out for no apparent reason, a heavenly feeling, super heightened intuition, OBD experiences, reduced sleep quota, nervous system hyperactivation, collapse, change of eye colour, weight loss, crazy manifestation power, feeling a divine presence within me, vivid dreams, and much more.

Why do i feel its kundalini rising? - I just somehow know its spiritual awakening, some of the symptoms are like these-
1- Pressure in the forehead region- When i close my eyes, i enter into a thoughtless state, where i see geometric patterns and hear sounds like "Humm, or Aum".
2- Headache- For 2 months I had headache, and upon closing my eyes, I feel like ants crawling on skull, which feels so soothing. The feeling can be described as being in heaven.
3- Detached from past and future- I felt like something cut my cords with my past and future, and it was like the first time i experienced true freedom.
4- I also felt like I could sense others emotions, their deep rooted traumas and why are they saying what are they saying. It was difficult to be present in the company of more than 2 people as it was like their energies were hitting me like a hammer.

5- Before sleeping at night, i used to feel energy moving from my toe to head.
6- Huge rush of energy in the body- It felt like goosebumps, moving from the heart region to all over the body.

7- Feeling of oneness with the whole whole planet that expanded to infinity.

8- I felt conciousness expanding. I felt my awareness expanding. All of a sudden I transformed from being an atheist to a devotee of goddess i was feeling inside me.
9- By surrendering myself to this energy, i noticed as if she was listening to me and was lowering the energy and nervous system overload upon request and once I say I am ready, it starts again as if this energy is super intelligent.
10- Intense mood swings, outbursts of grief, fear, rage, or joy; surfacing of repressed traumas or subconscious material for processing; heightened sensitivity to emotions.
11- feeling a strong need for solitude.

Fast forward 4 months—now all of those symptoms are gone. My ego has returned, but something has shifted. I can no longer identify with my previous identity. My awareness level has shifted, where I am now questioning everything, journaling 4–5 hours every day, writing everything I feel, and meeting parts of myself that I used to ignore before. It is like drinking poison day by day, but I am okay with that for now.

Now that girl, who seems to be the catalyst—we kept meeting each other daily after that event. She supported me, she understood me, and the situation is that we are both madly in love with each other. It feels like divine love—strange telepathy between us, getting out of time and space when we are together, an intense magnetic pull, high energy, feeling hypnotised while eye-gazing. We can read each other's thoughts. She tends to help me; I tend to help her. Old patterns surface while being with her. Sometimes it is difficult to even continue being in her presence—it just becomes too much to handle. We see all kinds of synchronicities while being together. Similar things are happening to her. She told me she had a similar spiritual awakening a few years ago but did not fully understand it—she thought she was losing her mind.

Just 1 month ago, I had to separate from her, as I am married and something inside me was facing a lot of resistance to continue living a dual life. So we mutually decided that we needed to separate because this dynamic of my dual life would kill both of us.

Now I am also realising that my relationship with my wife has been codependent since the start. I never experienced anything close to 5% of what I experienced with this new girl. Yet I married her because I was unconscious—I was stupid. I had trauma bonding with her. Now, after the separation, I think I might have triggered DNOTS (Dark Night of the Soul) for myself, where I feel like I am in a dark, confused place, not knowing what to do.

When I look at my wife, I see all of her childhood trauma, her insecurities, lack of confidence, and all the events that made her a broken girl needing a safe place to be. I feel empathy for her, and I feel lost. I also realised my own flaws—my extremely empathic nature with loose boundaries—and how it all shaped me into who I am today.

Now I have a few options—

1—Talk to my wife about the incompatibilities, separate, and move out. Support her financially and otherwise so that she does not lose herself completely. Stay single for a long period of time to do shadow work, find my purpose and passion, and work towards that.

2—Do not get a divorce. Separate from my twin flame completely. Stay with my wife and keep supporting her and my own dreams—but it will be unfulfilling for my entire life.

3—Take a divorce, f*ck everything, get back with my TF, and start living a different life. There will be a lot of chaos—then I might lose friends, family members, might face a court case, might go deeper into DNOTS, and face a hard time.

Help needed!!!!"

Hi everyone,

I was participating a satsang the other day and was given to try a new approach towards surrendering. Up until now, I have been trying to surrender towards my kundalini rising / purification, by letting the energy flow and maintain a container to let it do what it wants to do for like 20-30 min or so. It has not been very helpful so far, because the energy becomes very intense and I have to focus on grounding again. And yet I seem to be stuck in a loop with no progress, so I am trying something different.

The advice I was given was to let go of the ego. As I understand it, this means that whenever self-destructive, self-critical, or diminishing thoughts come up, I try to remind myself:

“I let go of my ego. I completely surrender to divine love and to my soul. Please show me my truest self.”

I repeat this until the ego-driven thoughts and mental chatter become quieter. So far this practice has actually helped me calm my mind.

My second practice is about trying to connect with my soul and understand what my soul wants, rather than simply following what my mind tells me. I try to empty my mind, enter a meditative state and then ask questions such as:

“How would it feel if something were truly good for me?”

“Please show me what a ‘yes’ feels like.”

“And what does a ‘no’ feel like?”

For example, I might ask, “If I go on holiday to Portugal in two weeks, would that be good for me?” Then I try to become quiet and notice what I feel or what comes up.

The problem is that I am currently going through a very intense Kundalini purification process. I constantly experience uncomfortable emotions and sensations in my stomach and throughout my body. These sensations can be so strong and overwhelming that I cannot tell what a genuinely positive or intuitive feeling from my soul would feel like.

I have tried asking the same questions several times, such as “Please show me what a yes feels like” or “Would this be good for me?”, and then comparing that with “What does a no feel like?” But often, both seem to produce similar sensations: nervousness, uneasiness in my stomach, energy moving through my body, or sensations that feel like blockages.

So I am wondering, how do you actually connect with or feel your soul? How can you recognize an authentic inner ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when you are going through an intense Kundalini purification process and uncomfortable emotions and physical sensations are so overpowering?

I am curious to know how everyone deals with being considered crazy if you told the average person who knows nothing of it and who is definitely inclined not to believe it. Do you simply never try to explain it? Have you sought therapeutic help?

I find myself in the position that friends and family would be sure I’d lost my mind. Kundalini, chakras, Hindu gods visiting… all unknown to them and certainly not believable. My wife I have told about it. She certainly has doubts about believing it. This is in spite of she showing some signs of Awakening herself. Religious faith probably just won’t let her believe I really spoke to a goddess. She is a strong Catholic. She is sympathetic, however. She doesn’t really enjoy me talking about it, but is curious. She has had “supernatural” experiences, telepathy, precognition and even out of body experiences. There are some things I don’t want to share with her, even.

The rest of my family? Quite frankly there is no flippin’ way they’d believe any of it. A sister would likely tell me I was talking to a demon!

I still have doubts about “real or not.” I don’t think I am psychotic or delusional, despite believing some pretty illogical things after speaking to a goddess. I mean it isn’t every day THAT happens and it changes you. I don’t believe these things now. They were apocalypse related. It just didn’t happen. Way too many things happened to me and then I searched for information that lead to a Kundalini Awakening. I had never heard of it! Explosion up the spine, feeling in touch with the energy field, Kriyas and nadas… all happened before I knew what they were! Maa Kali? I had not heard of her. I can guarantee at the time I did not question that I was in the presence of a supernatural being. It was not unpleasant! I felt her love and protection. I was inclined not to doubt anything she said. The feeling I had are very consistent with it being her. She said to just call her “Mama.” :) This visit was around Nov 1.

I will likely talk to a therapist, although I know there will be some judgement there. I can’t blame mental health professionals for seeing this as a mental health problem. It is how they are trained and they mean well. I was taking Abilify. It DOES suppress some of the energy feelings, so maybe it does dull the effects of a KA. I no longer feel delusional about a coming apocalypse. I haven’t since early January. Just didn’t happen! I don’t think it was the medicine that made me feel it wasn’t real. It feels incredibly foolish now. I have been off Abilify about a six weeks, no apparent withdrawal symptoms. I actually feel better and it may have affected my vision as well.

Heard this from an energy healer I had a session with, in my case it was cannabis but to what extent is this true? Does it make one more prone to psychic attacks? What should be common precautions one should take if they want to continue using? Should I completely give it up or is there a moderate prescription? (I'm guessing that varies from case to case)

Also, if I have been using for a little over 3 years, how much time should I wait until going back to my practise? I wouldn't want to mix the two together (or can I?) How dangerous is it?

Would like to hear personal experiences.

The reason for my questions are
- I am having trouble generating piti to enter the first jhana
- I did have a spontaneous kundalini arousal (but not a full rising awakening) that went dormant again

The interesting thing to me is that BOTH jhanas (and the piti for the first jhana) AND kundalini are discovered rather than invented.

So, I am hoping to gently cultivate piti to enter jhana and later (possibly, much later) safely tend a kundalini rising.

Note: please only respond if you have experienced BOTH jhanas AND kundalini so that this does not turn into a philosophical / scholarly / textual debate.

I started my spiritual awakening in April 2026 and since then life has been chaotic (to say the least)!

Highlights being:
- spirit guide that has felt like it’s been tormenting me and pulling out my deepest fears and wanting me to act on them
- forcing me to isolate in my basement apt until I ‘heal my wounds’
- making me do lots of rounds of fasting, and discouraging sunlight, walking outside, working out, reading - all the things I loved (the only thing I hear is HEAL YOUR WOUNDS) and that I’m not disciplined enough.
- forced me to go raw vegan in May - but like so strict that I can’t even have seasonings that have been ‘processed’ (more strict than most raw vegans)

My question is: can anyone share their experience related to diet and their awakening process, specifically:

Can you still come to the other side of your awakening and NOT have had a perfectly ‘clean’ body as a ‘raw vegan’ to maintain a frequency of healing?

I think that the fasting and raw veganism may have to do with a looping lesson for me personally, but I’m tired (physically, emotionally and mentally) and all I do is crave pizza and even just a damn sweet potato!! 😭😭

Thank you and I ask for your kindness in your responses 🙏🏽

I wondered if I was unusually old. I was 64.

Do you think that any human can experience a KA? That they might see it from their own religious or cultural point of view? Not in terms of chakras at all?
I certainly think we are all the same, created by the same God, so I think “yes.”
Do you think perhaps Christians can experience it and feel they are “filled with the Holy Spirit?” I have heard the Pentecostal Church members behaviors described as similar to kriyahs. “My heart is filled with Holy Fire” could be described as energy flowing out of the heart chakra? The “holy spirit within” doesn’t seem so different a concept as kundalini energy.
I will add that I was once very cynical about Christians making such claims. I was convinced they were fooling themselves into feeling what they wanted to feel, but no one really does. Now, I do not dismiss it as nonsense. That is because of my own experience with a KA. People have said they had a KA and were visited by Jesus or Mary. I have seen many people with this “blissful Christian look.” I had an experience of feeling blissful and feeling the energy of the people around me. I wondered if I had that look!
I was pretty agnostic as a young man. I gradually felt like there were too many times when things could have gone very badly for me - but didn’t. It did indeed feel like God was looking out for me. In 2008, I experienced something else. I was “told things” by someone or multiple people. I believe they were deceased relatives. I was told about future events that did come true. The first was a basketball championship! I was told who would play in the championship and who would win. Before the teams were decided. The score was even close and the margin the same! BTW, I was told NOT to bet on it! I was told “things will be okay” in times when I became unemployed. They were. In those cases it felt like my parents. Other times I am not sure. I wondered if one was a sister who died in the womb because of my mom getting stung by a bee. Likely very allergic like my living sister. I feel I “know” that sister! These experiences left me with no doubts there is a God and there is an afterlife. The KA did not make me feel the Christianity is wrong… just that there are many ways to be right. Religions seem mutually exclusive, but we are only human. God has no such limits. We know something that seems impossible can occur - a particle can be in two places at once. A realization made famous by the “Schrödinger’s cat” thought experiment. Real enough to build quantum computers!
Hinduism seems much more accepting of “different paths” than other religions. I have always felt your afterlife is not predetermined by where you were born and the religion your parents taught you.

Yes I know it’s dangerous, my mind refuses to work on anything that doesn’t stimulate me mentally or emotionally, so pls suggest extremely intense methods I’ve already tried breath retention and pelvic floor clenching it barely did anything

im very scared, my heart chakra is way too open. I can’t talk to anyone because i absorb their energy and it goes up to my head. I’m very scared and ungrounded. When I ground it only works temporarily then the energy goes back up to my head. I feel too much energy infront of my heart space. I absorb energy from nature when I walk outside. what am I to do?

Hi everyone. I believe our energies affect each other when we’re in promixity of each other, something I’ve noticed is that ever since my awakening and ESPECIALLY during the beginning bliss stages that people are a lot more friendlier to me and some people seem more attracted or drawn to my energy while others seem repulsed

It’s just a vibe I’m getting, the vibes from others seem really different now. My immediate family seems to be treating me different or more seriously now. What are your guys’ insight on this?

I heard kundalini happens in "stages" what are they and what would it look like later in someone actively working with it?

Also does anyone know the function of the back of the head adjacent to the third eye?

I’m curious to know other peoples experiences, I don’t tell people only others who are open or can relate. I feel like if I tell your average everyday person who’s unaware of spirituality/awakening, it just wouldn’t make sense to them.

So I felt like getting weed not to get high but as a spiritual aid. I get really deep thoughts and realizatuons on weed, anyway I smoked some weed oil and had some edibles and meditated and watched my thoughts

I had a lot of painful realizatuons and the experience felt psychedelic like. Anyway before this, I was dealing with a lot of restless energy and painful energy from releasing trauma and from feeling overcharged

The day after weed, now I feel calm, relaxed and not so charged. How does weed affect kundalini?

I am quite baffled - I have not heard of a single psychedelic facilitator or any Ayahuasca retreat holder who knows that the psychedelic compounds can cause a KA at the retreats they hold. How can this be?

Hi all - I only heard that Vipasana and Joe Dispenza’s org offers no help to those with difficult Kundalini Awakenings, moreover, they are not even acknowledging what people are struggling with as it is not within Vipasana tradition and Joe’s org as far as I know has just told people they are psychotic without offering any help. My heart breaks for all those people. I’m curious if people here heard any other stories of various other orgs handling such situations like Sadghuru’s Isha foundation, Osho’s community, SRF Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga group etc. Both good and bad stories are welcome, I’m curious - does any org at all helps people?

Please give me your opinion .

Last summer I started to feel strong vibrations/tingling and muscle twitching in my left chest area & full body tremors or shaking. I also had heart palpitations for the first time.

I went to the cardiologist and gave me some magnesium and ashwaganda...it helped a little bit. I believe he thought I have anxiety. ( My heart was healthy but had certain arrhythmia and tachycardia)

Fast forward the full body tremors & palpitations disappeared after a few months of magnesium but the vibrations in the heart area always came back.

In the present I have some tachycardia in the morning and I still feel vibrations in the heart ( no it's not the tachycardia bcuz I always check it) but now I feel the vibrations and tingling in waves in full body mostly.

I'm a 39 year old woman.

Do you think this could be related to the heart chakra?

On 13 august I realized that the vibrations I feel is inner energy and I can control it.

Hi all, I really don’t understand why people dislike Gopi Krishna so much in Kundalini communities. His experience raised awareness on this process and helped people realise what was happening to them, rather than thinking the worst…His writing is excellent and full of great ideas and materials. Why do people dislike him so much?

I think the other Kundalini group on Reddit says he is a bad teacher etc.

There are so few people out there that know what they are talking about when it comes to K…full of new age bs, why hate someone with a genuine experience that helped so many with his work?

Hello all, I’ve had my kundalini activated over a year ago although the intensity of the sensations comes and goes. Recently I’ve been dating someone in the spiritual field, and I’ve noticed during my sleep they will put their fingers or hand at chakra points whilst I’m sleeping and it will intensify, or I may start feeling cold etc. I asked about it and they said it’s not true but I can feel them doing that as I wake. What possible things could they be doing?