What Is Kundalini Psychosis

Kundalini awakening is a powerful psychophysical event that is frequently misdiagnosed as psychosis. Duncan Barford, a psychodynamic counsellor who specializes in spiritual crises, describes the symptoms and how psychotherapy intervention might help.

Can Kundalini cause psychosis?

Some authors claim that kundalini awakening, or its improper management, is a common cause of psychosis, while others claim that mental illness only happens in people who are predisposed to it or who already have borderline or narcissistic pathology prior to a kundalini awakening.

What are Kundalini symptoms?

Kundalini, as divine feminine energy, is normally latent in the root chakra (base of the spine). However, there are a variety of circumstances in which kundalini might be awoken unexpectedly, ranging from trauma to drug use to years of focused practice (such as through tantra or kundalini yoga).

I've separated kundalini awakening symptoms into two categories: “bright” and “dark” symptoms. Please keep in mind that kundalini energy is neither good nor bad; it is simply a fundamental power that exists within us. However, some of these experiences are pleasurable, while others are highly painful to the human mind:

‘Light' Kundalini Awakening Symptoms

• You have phases of Oneness during which your compassion for people grows.
• You're motivated to make significant, life-changing decisions and genuine changes in your life.
• The amount of synchronicity (meaningful or miraculous coincidences) increases dramatically.
• Your empathetic powers improve, and you are able to feel things deeply.
• You continue to receive large, cosmic “downloads” of data (soul communication)

‘Dark' Kundalini Awakening Symptoms

• External stimuli (bright light, TV violence, loud noises) cause your nervous system to become hypersensitive, and it shuts down or desires utter solitude.
• You are experiencing visual distortions that can be disconcerting (e.g., objects seeming to vibrate)
• Your body is suffused with strong heat, tremors, or electricity.
• You can't tell what's real from what's imagined (psychosis) and think you're going insane.

Other Kundalini Awakening Symptoms

The kundalini awakening indicators listed above are quite typical. However, as someone who has had kundalini energy travel through them, I can tell you that it does not happen in the same manner for everyone.

For example, one of the most recent experiences I've had was preceded by two weeks of low-level thoughts of ‘impending doom,' followed by the gentle movement of kundalini energy from my brain down through my body into my stomach. The energy was light, like a gentle breeze, and it seemed like it was ‘working' on something in my stomach when it reached it. Then it dissolved and gone.

What does Kundalini do to the brain?

It takes place in the brain and is projected to other sections of the body. Many specialists think that the rising of kundalini activates the brain's dormant or underutilized parts, hence increasing one's mental and spiritual capacities, according to Satyananda Saraswati's Teachings, 1981.

What are the stages of Kundalini awakening?

An old style of life will no longer work during a Kundalini Awakening. Personal crises, changes of attitude, tastes, likes, and dislikes can all occur in people.

This had already happened to me in the United States. For me, the life I was living there was insufficient. My feet were itchy, and my relationship began to come apart as I yearned for a new life. It wasn't enough that I lived in a beautiful little town with foxes, chipmunks, Aspen trees, and snow-capped mountains. I flew home on my own in the end. Life as I had left it didn't fit when I returned home. Things that used to make me happy were no longer making me happy. My gaze was drawn to a new horizon.

I became really ill, waking up one night with a fever and severe chills that rendered me unable to move or walk. I was transported to the hospital because I couldn't stand up on my own. With excruciating body aches (especially in my hips), fever, and physical weakness, I stayed there for two nights. I was eventually well enough to leave the hospital without a diagnosis after IV antibiotics, X-rays, and observation. I have no idea what was wrong with me to this day, but I believe it was one of the Kundalini Awakening Stages.

How does psychosis happen?

Psychosis is a mental illness that changes how information is processed in the brain. You lose contact with reality as a result of it. It's possible that you'll see, hear, or believe things that aren't true. Psychosis is a symptom, not a medical condition. A mental disease, a physical injury or sickness, substance misuse, or excessive stress or trauma can all provoke it.

Psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, cause psychosis to appear for the first time in late adolescence or early adulthood. Young individuals are more prone to contract it, but physicians are baffled as to why. You may display subtle changes in the way you act or think before what doctors term the first episode of psychosis (FEP). The prodromal period, which can last days, weeks, months, or even years, is referred to as such.

Even if you don't have a major psychotic condition like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, you can lose contact with reality. Secondary psychosis is what happens when this happens.

These occurrences are the result of something else, such as drug usage or a medical issue. Whatever the source, they usually go away quickly, and they often stay away if the underlying disease is treated.

What triggers a kundalini awakening?

Kundalini energy sits like a coiled serpent at the base of the spine, according to Tantra. Kundalini awakening occurs when dormant energy flows freely upward via the seven chakras (energy centers) and leads to an expanded level of consciousness.

A kundalini awakening is a profound spiritual event for which yogis and practitioners prepare for years. The experience can occur deliberately through activities like as meditation, pranayama, yoga, and prayer, or it might occur unexpectedly. In the spiritual world, this form of awakening is very common, although in Western civilization, kundalini awakenings are regarded uncommon.

What happens after kundalini awakening?

Kundalini awakening is the movement of powerful emotional and mental patterns in the subtle body, rather than a physical force that may be started and stopped as needed. As a result, awakening is impossible without taking the proper steps to purify the subtle body's pathways. Beware! Unpreparation could have disastrous consequences, such as a nervous breakdown during Kundalini awakening.

No human being can deny the reality of the Divine Mother Kundalini. It's simply a matter of reawakening the Holy Spirit and allowing the power to spread throughout the body. As she ascends to the crown, passing through various nadis and chakras, the divine power purifies both the body and the spirit. She ascends from Muladhar chakra by spreading her rings and passing every chakra in her way to the sahasrara, or crown chakra. She will begin by regenerating the chakras and repairing any harm produced by your poor lifestyle. She will use this to awaken the deities, bringing you closer to the stage of spiritual awareness.

Can Kundalini cause brain damage?

So, what's not to enjoy about that? B.K.S. Iyengar Swami Vivekananda, a yogi, compares the nervous system to an electrical system, including wire (nerves), circuits (chakras), and gates (locks) (bandhas). A Kundalini power surge, like any other electrical system, can disrupt the grid, causing serious mental and physical sickness. While the channels Kundalini flows through are broadly correlated with the neurological system, Kundalini is a subtle energy form that cannot be tested like normal nerve circulation.

Is Kundalini Yoga bad?

If Kundalini is performed correctly, there is little likelihood that its effects will be negative. The tricky part about practicing “properly” is that it is highly dependent on the teacher who is leading you.

Unfortunately, some Kundalini master teachers do not appear to be capable of successfully guiding all of their students (yet). Some gurus have been able to quickly build their own Kundalini energy experience, making them look appropriate within the yoga community. This does not, however, imply that you can effortlessly guide others through the same process.

Because it can bring up raw emotion, Kundalini Yoga can be a frightening and anxiety-inducing experience. Having a terrible experience with this method might range from being disappointed because you've been practicing for a few months and haven't seen any results to full-fledged psychotic episodes triggered by the severe yoga experience.

Traditionally, yogis were encouraged to begin a kundalini practice with a master of this unique form only after they were fully prepared for the experience of Kundalini. People in the modern world, on the other hand, learn about Kundalini on the internet and decide to begin practicing it right away because of its benefits. This isn't how it's supposed to be done, and it's obvious that jumping right in can have undesirable consequences.