Every spiritual tradition associated with the process of regeneration, has its own model. Most of them are descriptions, emphasizes the subjective aspect of the experience, considering objective evidence of accidental or even ignore them. Thus, these explanations, being themselves well founded, can not provide any help in an objective comparison of different traditions. When it comes to psychological interpretation, most of these models are virtually irrelevant to the case.
An exception is the model of Kundalini Yoga. It is understood as the Kundalini "energy", which usually resides "sleeping" at the base of the spine. When this energy is "awakened", it rises slowly up the channel in the spine to the crown of the head. This could mean the beginning of the process of enlightenment.
With its booming Kundalini causes central nervous system to get rid of stress. Pockets of stress usually cause pain during meditation. Kundalini when faced with these foci of stress, or "blocks", she begins to act "on their own", including a self-managed and self-limiting process is disseminated throughout the psychophysiological system to remove these blocks.
As soon as power is eliminated, Kundalini flows freely through this place and continues to climb as long as experience another area of stress. In addition, in this journey of Kundalini energy is dissipated, so that it can act on several levels, eliminating a number of different units. When she completed the movement, the energy again to come together and focuses on the crown of the head.
The difference between the final and the initial state is not simply that the Kundalini is focused elsewhere, but in the fact that during this time it has gone through every part of the body, removing blocks and awakening consciousness. Thus, the overall effect of the Kundalini can be considered as a process of purification, or balancing.
The electric current produces light as it passes through a thin tungsten filament in the bulb, but not when it is on the thick copper wire, because the thread has given him considerable resistance and the lead - no. Similarly, the Kundalini is the greatest feeling when it comes into the areas of the mind and the body, which are "clogged" or "blocked". But the "heat" generated by the "friction" Kundalini when passing through these areas of "resistance" soon "burn through" the block, and then the feeling stops.
Similarly, a strong flow of water passing through a thick rubber hose, make this hose squirm, while the passage of the same flow through a fire hose will be barely noticeable. Similarly, during the Kundalini through contaminated "channels" in the body or mind is movement in these areas as long as the pollution will not be "washed away", and the channels are not "expand". (The terms "channel", "expansion", "blocks", and so it should be understood metaphorically. They can not relate to the actual physical structure, issues and processes, and be just a convenient analogy for understanding this model of the Kundalini. Actual process is certainly a more subtle and complex.)
Spontaneous gestures, moving bodily sensations and other phenomena that we identified in the course of cross-cultural research and in my own practice, can easily be interpreted as a manifestation of the Kundalini. Besides Isaac Bentov recently proposed a physiological model of the Kundalini, which explains many of our observations. Later we will evaluate his research in terms of our own results. In view of the objective orientation of the model Kundalini, its universal applicability and its possible physiological interpretation, we will accept it as a basis for further discussion.
However, there are differences between our observations and the classical concept of Kundalini. The most notable of these is the fact that, according to our observations and reports of some traditions, the energy or feeling rising from the feet on the legs, back and spine to the head, but then goes down over his face and through his throat, ending his movement in abdomen. This is entirely consistent with the predictions of Bentova, but somewhat at odds with reports Muktananda, Gopi Krishna and classical texts of yoga.
Therefore, we propose the term physio-Kundalini for the physiological and psychological aspects of Kundalini awakening, which can be explained by purely physiological mechanism. We'll talk about the process of physio-kundalini cycle of physio-Kundalini, the mechanism of physio-kundalini and complex physiological Kundalini. Bentova model describes these physiological changes that do not require any supernatural forces.
Slow progress "feel-energy" rising up through the body, and then drill down through the throat, accompanied by a variety of body movements, sensations and mental disturbances, which are terminated after traveling this stimulus reaches its peak in the abdomen. This sequence of events is so characteristic that we call it the cycle of physio-kundalini.
When energy is faced with resistance, then overcomes it and cleans the system of this unit, we will say that the place where this unit is "open." "The opening of the throat" - a typical example. This gives us the terminology related to the concept of Kundalini that is appropriate for the level of our observations and allowing physiological interpretation. At the same time it allows us to maintain in full force the classical meaning of Kundalini without associating themselves with the belief that this mythical concept corresponds exactly something objectively real.
Now we have two models of Kundalini: the classical description of yoga and physiological model Bentova, as well as our own clinical observations. Those aspects of the process, which could have a purely physiological basis, the one that has bent, or some other, we called the physio-kundalini. Fall into this category, most of our clinical observations, and we have recently engaged in a test of the extent to which they can be explained by a model Bentova. But the process of physio-Kundalini yoga is different from the classical descriptions of some essential points.
The most important of these is the route by which the "energy" of Kundalini, or physical sensation, moves during its passage through the system. From a classical point of view of energy, "wakes up" in the base of the spine, moving straight up the spinal canal and completes its journey, reaching the top of the head. But it is claimed that along this road are several "chakras," or centers of psychic energy through which the Kundalini must pass in order to reach its goal. These chakras contain the "pollution" that Kundalini has eliminated before it can continue on your way up.
On the other hand, in the usual clinical sense of energy moves up your legs and back to the top, and then down the face through the throat to the end point in the abdomen. How do these two descriptions?
We have to realize that the descriptions of yoga are not only dogmatic, but also very thin. Western scholars argue that the actual location of the senses - sensory cortex, although the feeling is felt as being on the periphery. Similarly, yoga might have in mind that feeling, "blocks" and "disclosure" (such as "opening the throat"), which are felt in different parts of the body, some subtle way in the chakras are located along the spine.
There is another possibility, which involves the experience of one of the disciples of Muktananda, who said (in person) that could feel the energy spread through his whole body, but especially as it comes down from his forehead to the face and throat, then to chest and abdomen, then to the bottom spine, and only then begins to move up through the central channel of the spine. He said he was feeling in the spine are more subtle and harder to accept than the sensation of the peripheral areas of the body - probably because most of the power had not yet entered his spine.
The time factor is also different in the classical and the clinical picture. All the characteristic elements of the complex physio-kundalini are classical description. At the same time, we find a completely "normal" people who cycle physiological Kundalini is completed in a few months, while yoga treatises assign at least three years to reach full awakening of Kundalini in the case of the most advanced initiates. Therefore, we assume that the full Kundalini awakening includes a vast complex, in which the process of physio-Kundalini is the only one of the parts.
It is still too early to accurately determine their relationship, except, perhaps, that the mechanism of physio-Kundalini is a separate process that can be activated in the context of the full awakening of the Kundalini. Much of the problem is related to the difficulty of comparing the different stages when both flows are many competing processes. Further complicate the picture of individual differences. But, apparently, it is possible to clarify all these things, remembering a theoretical definition of the process of the Kundalini as cleansing and balancing process.
If "pollution" or imbalances have any objective reality was, it should be possible to detect them by physiological or psychological tests and correlate them with the removal of clinically observable specific signs and symptoms. Since we now know that this process can be run in a turn, and are able to recognize it in the initial stages, the next obvious step in this research should be long-term observations covering the period of the process. They could be extremely valuable to establish what the objectivecharacteristics of the Kundalini make it beneficial.
PROBLEMS OF DIAGNOSIS
The results of our observations indicate a clear difference between psychosis and complex physio-Kundalini and give some criteria that distinguish these states from each other. In some cases we have seen that a condition similar to schizophrenia may be the result of the experience of Kundalini meets backlash, expressed or social pressure, or in the resistance of the individual, has maintained his belief.
The fact that these states are clearly different and are not related to each other, according to two cases in which our patients have become "psychotic" after placing them in a mental health facility for disruptive behavior. Every one of them told us that during his stay in the appropriate clinic he (and a few other patients) could confidently say who found there was really "crazy" and who - just "shifted" and "not of this world ".
Perhaps this is a situation where "birds of a feather flock together," and the one who has awakened Kundalini, can intuitively feel the "Kundalini-state" from other people. This is particularly interesting because it points to the possibility of using these people as assistants in determining the proportions in which these two processes are in each individual patient.
Clinicians usually very thin "nose" on psychotic symptoms. For the most part this is the ability to sense the "smell" of psychosis tells us whether the patient imbalance of this kind, or whether it is influenced more positive mental strength. There is also a feeling that dictates whether a patient is dangerous to himself and others. In our experience, people in the early stages of Kundalini awakening, even if they are angry or hostile, rarely inclined to vent it on others.
You can also say that those patients whose dominant element kundalini experience, tend to be much more objective in relation to themselves and willingly tell what happens to them. Those who have more pronounced psychotic component, tend to be very evasive, secretive and overrun by thoughts of some vague, but "significant" aspect of their experience, they can never fully transferable.
In light of our own results and the model Bentova we have several distinguishing features. So, the feeling of warmth are typical of these "peak" of the states, but are rare in psychosis. It is also characterized by feelings of "vibration" or trembling, tingling and itching, which travel through the body in a specific pattern - usually described above. But this movement can be erratic in unusual cases, or in people who have preconceived notions about how "must" to circulate energy through the body.
With all this, you may receive an inner sense of bright light. There may be pain, especially in the head, which suddenly appear or expire during crucial stages of the process. Often there is an unusual rhythm of breathing, as well as other spontaneous body movements. People hear the noise like a squeak or whistle, but obsessive unpleasant voice, as in psychosis, are rare. When the voice is still heard, they are perceived as coming from within, and they are not confused with the external reality.
TIPS AND DISCUSSION
Our results support the view that the power of the Kundalini is positive and constructive. All we have observed patients, in their own view, succeed. They report that it is easier to cope with stress and get more satisfaction from relationships with other people than ever before. Classic cases indicate that the result of the completion of the entire process of awakening the Kundalini may have special skills and a deep inner peace. But in the initial stages of the stress experience, combined with a negative attitude to him by the person involved in this process, or the people around him can be overwhelming and cause severe illness.
Experience suggests the right approach to such situations, combining insight, strength and soft support. Spontaneous trances that bothered one of our patients, stopped when we urged him to go into a trance at will. Recognizing the difference between a "psychotic" and "mental activity", we passed it to the trans relationship as something valuable and meaningful. As we thus take this state, the patient was also able to take it.
Trance states themselves stopped them "control" as soon as he ceased to resist them, and the forces behind them. Similarly, in another patient had severe headaches, but they stopped as soon as she left the attempts to control the process and simply "gave herself to him." In other words, the pain was not the result of the process, and its resistance to it. We suspect that this is true of all the negative effects of the process of physio-kundalini.
Symptoms, which generates the process eventually disappear on their own. Since this is, in essence, the "cleansing" and the balancing process - and each person has a finite amount of "dirt" that removes the kundalini - the process is self-limiting. Therefore, the observed disorders are not pathological but rather therapeutic, causing the elimination of potentially pathological elements. Kundalini force arises spontaneously from the depths of the mind and clearly directs itself. So the tension and imbalance are not the result of the process, and conscious or unconscious intervention in it. Help people to understand and accept what was happening to him - perhaps the best of what we can do.
Usually the process of being left to himself, found his own, natural pace and balance. But if he was too quick and sharp, our experience suggests that it is possible to recommend mitigation measures such as the use of a heavy meal, suspension meditate and vigorous physical activity.
People whose physio-Kundalini process activates the easiest and whom he is most often sharp and restless - those who have especially sensitive nervous system, natural psychics. Many of our patients awakening preceded some experience psychic phenomena. Natural psychics often find the experience of physio-kundalini so intense that avoided classical meditation, regular exercise, which usually contributes to the process of Kundalini, they either completely abstain from meditation, or practice some of its forms of his own invention. But many of their anxieties, apparently caused by a lack of understanding and lack of knowledge of the process of physio-kundalini. And to us, rather than reinforce their fears, it should give them the knowledge and confidence that will allow the process to develop in the most comfortable and natural for their own pace.
Much can be achieved by changing the attitude to the process of Kundalini first experiencing its people, and ultimately society as a whole. This would benefit not only these people, but to all of us who need the samples for their own spiritual search. Some other cultures are more advanced than ours in respect of understanding the positive value spiritually or mentally developed people.
So, on the island of Bali a trance in children has an important adaptive function. In some parts of Africa, trance, which is necessary for Kundalini awakening is socially and religiously necessary phenomenon.
In South Africa, one of the tribes living in the Kalahari Desert, a condition that Western psychiatry is likely to be called "acute schizophrenia" is a prerequisite for initiation into the sorcerer.
It must be said here about the many creative people who are currently suffering from the mistakes that we, as a professional psychiatrist, admitted in the past. And we must make every effort to correct these errors. Currently, in our society, such charismatic and strangely behaving people like shamans, trance mediums and " MAST "(" God-intoxicated "), may well be in a situation of forced hospitalization.
Perhaps now there are many people in the same situation, which could be found and released, they found a more positive use in our society. The problem is to recognize them among other patients, our mental health facilities. From this point of view, a useful model for the study is the work of Meher Baba with the "suits." If it is true that "birds of a feather flock together", people who have already experienced first hand the process of physio-kundalini could find yourself special and invaluable use as assistants in such a project.
Many of those exposed to the process, at times feel completely insane. If they behave well and to remain silent, they manage to escape what they will be called schizophrenic, hospitalized or would treat anxiety drugs. However, their isolation and the sense of separation from other people can cause them a lot of suffering. We need to convey to these people, to their families and to society information to help them understand their situation as a blessing, not a curse.
Of course, we should not expose more people who may be in the midst of the process of rebirth, drug or shock therapy - approaches that are on the opposite end to the creative self.
These people, although they are confused, frightened and disoriented, are already inside therapy, which is far superior to any treatment of those that we have that we can use outside.
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