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Kundalini – A View

Kundalini – VIEW

Kundalini Yoga is a discipline of meditation – or a system of meditation techniques and movements – in the yogic tradition that focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and potential of the body to mature. The practice of Kundalini Yoga is a number of bodily postures, expressive movements and expressions, cultures characterological, breathing patterns and concentration. Movements the work of the body and should not – according to some scholars of religion – considered mere stretching exercises. The concept of vital energy – Pranotthana – is essential for the practice and understanding of Kundalini Yoga. It also gives special attention to the role of the spine and the system endocrine in the understanding of yoga awakening. Recently, has been a growing interest in the medical community to study the effects physiology of meditation and some of these studies have applied the discipline of Kundalini Yoga in their clinical parameters.

Kundalini in World Religions: Kundalini is primarily associated with Hinduism. However, as a spiritual experience Kundalini is supposed to have parallels in most mystical and gnostic traditions of major world religions. There are several factors that point to the universality of the phenomenon. The early Christians were referred to the concept of "pneuma" and there are some parallels in recent contemporary charismatic Christian St. "Ghost" phenomena. Religious studies also note parallels in Quakerism, Shakers, Jewish Shuckling (torso rocking prayer), zikr dervish rocking and twisting of Islam, the thrill of the Eastern Orthodox hesychast, the movements of tai chi flowing, ecstatic shamanic dance, ntum trance dance of the Bushmen, the heat of the Tibetan Buddhist tummo as practiced by Milarepa, and Indically derived Andalusian flamenco (Sovatsky, 1998). Kundalini practice Home page group Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, and Kundalini yoga is also one of the stages of the professional is able to achieve.

Kundalini Rising: In the terminology of yoga force of Kundalini is supposed to be raised through meditative exercises and enabled on the concept of a body, subtle body of energy and finer substance. This process has been explained in detail by Motoyama (1981) and Sharp (2005). Motoyama bases the bulk part of the practice Kundalini Foster listed in the book about the Swami Satyananda Saraswati, as well as personal experience to help people various stages of Kundalini awakening. Sharp provides a kundalini meditation called The Great Invocation, with detailed guidance on the control and management energy flow and subsequent manifestation.

Kundalini experiences are often understood in terms of Hindu chakra system, understanding centers in the psycho-spiritual energy along the spine (Scotton 1996). According to Hindu tradition Kundalini rises from the base chakra through spinal canal, called sushumna and is believed to activate each chakra it crosses.

Each chakra is said to contain special features (Scotton 1996). In raising Kundalini, spiritual powers (siddhis) are also considered, but from the spiritual traditions see these phenomena as obstacles on the road, and encourages its students are not obsessed with them (Kason, 2000). Despite the opening of the chakras above, although only to mark advanced spiritual evolution, it is important not to measure spiritual growth solely by the opening of higher potentials. According to this view may be inadequate or chakras overdeveloped lower chakras are considered as important as superior. spiritual literature also describes cases that Kundalini is said to be initiated. Top Kundalini activity is generally regarded as having place in a practice called shaktipat. It is a form of taxation hand, where physical contact in the body or the front of the object the guru, or initiator, is supposed to cause an experience of Kundalini that later may persist and grow with the continued practice, or disappear if the practice is stopped. Scotton (1996) mentions that kundalini-symptomatology is associated with practices such as shaktipat. It also provides a case example of a This practice of a meditation retreat of America. According to the contemporary spiritual literature, and the field of Transpersonal psychology is not considered appropriate to make one of these practices without the supervision of a credible teacher or without thorough psychological preparation and education in yoga. Any form of contemplative practice and spiritual experience without the support of a cultural context, or without the support of the Readiness Fund psychological, is generally regarded as regrettable, and even in some cases dangerous. traditional teachers of Kundalini meditation are also warn neophytes of the potential dangers of testing techniques of Kundalini Yoga. These warnings should not be underestimated. A growing number of Clinical and psychological development seen increasing problems related to meditation, to the west of the contemplative life. Among them, the Kundalini syndrome (Which is presented more closely later in this article) and the different forms of the disease "wind" described in the Tibetan tradition.

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