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How do you have a kundalini awakening? How do you know if you’ve had one?
I had done meditation, yoga, and the breathwork, shadow work, and could feel the energy up my core. It stopped at my heart. Head down energy would splay through my body. I had done third eye work and other astral projection/traveling/aspecting work. When I moved energy from my crown and third eye down to my heart the path way opened. Energy moving up and down by will. I define the Shushumah going from the perineum up through the center of my body, around the major blood vessels in the center of the body and the vagus nerve sheath. I know, I know, many practitioners and traditionalists claim it is the spine. Some traditionalists and those who practice nada yoga and as well as chi gong, it is this central channel.
Is that kundalini? Some say yes. The prana from my base, and apana from my head moving up and down. God and Goddess merging and dancing.
When I started prana or Chi accumulation and storing it in my shushuma at the hrit or dan tian, above the second chakra. Physically it is called the mesentery. And meditated by cycling the astral/prana/chi up my back, up to my head, and down my front, while meditating with nature, and doing my mantras, I would get spontaneous blissful euphoric full body or****ic vibrations. Either spontaneously from being focused about anything, or after my practice and mantras. It was just my honest relationship with the universe, God, goddess, or any being of having an honest relationship with. Some times I store that energy into more core again. Now just sitting still in meditation, my mind and body have this quiet afterglow. Very useful when having a stressful day.
If you don't have a teacher or a guide here is my basic advice. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself. Practice ruthless detachment with everything. Practice attachment with what you need to in life by choice. Prana exercises breathing attachment to the moment and space of where you are then detachment, as you move to the next moment of space and time and things that you need and choose to do. As a householder, you practice this detachment, so that when you can be still, detachment becomes easier. And at that point your spirit becomes one with the spirit of the world around and deities that you have relationships with. In other words, choose your attachments, and practice detachment ruthlessly. Ruthless honesty about yourself and your day to day relationships with everything.
The physical awareness of the body and how it relates to your memories with and with out emotions, managing what is yours and detach from what is not. Is a start.
This allows you to turn inward to recognize the energy your spirit and body picks up on that is not being generated from you so you can identify it. Your mind's eye and senses start identifying where those internal senses come from. Again, choose even there the attachments and detachments. Attachment to the spirit around you anchor you to where you are. You cannot row a canoe across the lake if you never take the oar out of the water and place closer to where you want to be.
The or****ic bliss of your relationship with the universe, is like being connected all at once with everything. It sort of mirrors how you choose attachments and detachments but is more about the flow and connection. Instead of being in a canoe your are the river systems. If that makes sense.
Some call it surrender. I call it residing in.
IF you experience burning, shocks, sound hallucinations, slow down, turn inward and see what attachments that causes resistance in the parts of the body, manage it and resume practices. I have had each of those experiences. Observing people and their interactions, you can reflect on which actions and patterns of actions you need to choose to deal with people who aren't aware. To be all of who you are with out the constrictions of people's patterns insanities daily can cause problems with dealing with people. People are stuck, and they are stuck in their expectations of how their relationships were with you. Like therapy choose your boundaries one at a time. Have patience with the rest. Have confidence that you will meet people on your journey. The friendships will be fewer but more rewarding and of quality. See the rest for what they are and meet them as anyone else does by choice. This will help with your personal psychological changes and your social interactions.
Being comfortable with the feelings and awarenesses as you practice as milestones is the pathway. Being in that state where you and the divine are one, and that relationship vibrates through your body is goal one. Keep going, and keep developing that relationship deeper and deeper. Relationship with people or the universe is one that we work at. Do have the ruthlessly honest relationship with each.
I hope that is useful for it in a nutshell.

The Bliss. When we can resonate with many teachings. Spring and fall when astral/chi from the environment is stirring up what was grounded out for months, many try to make sense of the everything that is happening all at once, along with a larger world awareness.
The Bubble of indwelling rising and expanding to escape the surface tension of the water that we live in. Maya still exists, and so also are the billions swimming in it.
Of the many teaching and patterns that can help people, each to their context. The ecstasy of the calling, versus the ecstasy of residing in awareness, compared to the ecstasy residing in the wider world of the mother. Each are different. Each are equally important. Each are moving dance. It is not about balance anymore. It is about dynamics equilibrium of moving forces.
I had a student, who got caught up in his belief of being a guru. There are always people who can sense one riding on a current and encourage them. After going down the rapids eventually one comes to the lake and to take time to reflect. He has yet to reflect nor change the nature of his being. He creates more suffering for himself and others.
Having been to the top of the mountain and riding the rapids down the valley the energy is , pulsing, alive, and indeed such pristine parts of the world that we connect to are connect everywhere, just about. Until we descend back in to the lake worlds where people dwell and Maya and the shared illusions have their own strength and dimensions. How do you take a handful of air and put it back into the glass of water? If you do, those live and breath in the water, how do you teach them breath air? While every body of water is different, it is similar. So to are the delusions that people live with, and the many faces of Maya.
Knowing the knowledge is one thing. Applying it is different. A lever works one fulcrum and a stone at a time. A community may build a road, or a boat.
Ego is a tool, lest it be a master. Freedom is gained one self at a time, lest the world be an enslaver.
Many a temple and church have been made. And after the prophet leaves, Maya and the Egos of others change it to reinforce the delusions. This process is humbling. Even with the light of the gods, here we take the steps one step at a time. May we find fellow travelers, and make the road more clear to each other.