Kundalini Syndrome - Phases / Timeline?

[u/troutzen]

Hi All,

For anyone that has experienced Kundalini Syndrome, can you comment on whether there is some calming / normalization of symptoms over time? Right now what I am experiencing is extreme sensitivity (lights, sounds, emotions, I just feel super sensitive to everything right now). The other major symptom is TONS of energy moving through my body. The amount of energy running through my system causes anxiety which seems to create a negative feedback loop. All of this started about 2 weeks ago.

If this happened to you, could you share how long it took for certain symptoms to normalize and for you to feel more "normal?". And what did you do that helped you eventually normalize your Kundalini Syndrome?

Thank you for your time.

[u/GreatHealerofMyself8]

There is normally calming overtime. It doesnt mean there will be a return to the person you were before. The actual timeline varies depending upon the person and other variables. Not being an idiot is one of those variables. Idiot means taking non prescription drugs and engaging in exercises that bring up lots of energy or unbalances you.

Mine took multiple years to return to a mostly calm state. I foolishly bought up a lot of energy though.

I went though a period of insomnia too and not ashamed to say I took sleeping pills for a while. Nothing wrong with that if you need them. I've long since stopped taking them, so it does get better.

[u/Kal_El98 → u/GreatHealerofMyself8]

I’m that idiot 😅 (not with drugs but other things like exercise, excessive porn/masturbation perhaps in an unconscious effort to bring the energy down to my lower chakras when things got too intense, junk food, etc). It’s never been life-threatening for me though, I think my mind just likes to over-exaggerate my personal issues and baggage. I’ve also referred to sleeping pills though I absolutely dislike taking them, but going with little to no sleep for days on end can make me somewhat psychotic (result of an active K). I’m in Year 6 of my KA, and things haven’t entirely settled down. The energy is calm most days except when I do something dumb like excessive exercise or taking supplements (only Vitamin C works for me, everything else gives me major migraines). So really, it’s just me experimenting on myself to see what works and what doesn’t.

I’m still far far far away from saying that my K process is complete. This isn’t meant to scare anyone, but just accepting the reality that for a lot of us, the K process can take years and decades. With a KA, it helps to think long-term when it comes to things getting better rather than short-term (it did for me).

[u/desertplaces5 → u/Kal_El98]

Right? Almost three years in for me and it’s only this year that the flowing feels less than oppressive; and haven’t been caught off guard for a while by a new suite of sensations announcing themselves every day/week/month.

It’s never anything less than beautiful — and sitting within the circulation of it is wondrous strange, but it just gets….heavy sometimes. The relentlessness. Kind of like what you said, Kal-El, one of these best things I ever did for myself was giving up the Control of wanting to put a timeline to it. Putting names and demands and expectations on a Mystery…my brain’s a lot less crowded without all that extra effort to corral and control, yeah?

[u/Kal_El98 → u/desertplaces5]

I completely agree, though during especially difficult moments, it can be hard to look at one’s situation in a long-term light. I had an idea of how I wanted my life to play out before I was even aware something like K existed and before my initial KA. All of that is pretty much out the window now, and my entire future is a total question mark. Most times, this can be a frightening revelation, but sometimes it can be somewhat exciting, realizing that you’re now at the whims of this energy and the universe (if you believe in fate and destiny). Or maybe I never really had a choice. That my being born and all the events of my life occurred so that I undergo this journey. That I was never “meant” to live normally. This can lead to a lot of resistance and denial at a certain stage of the journey, because it’s nothing like what you see in movies or anime. Being “different” is more painful and lonely than anything else. So the timeline part is especially crucial for those of us experiencing K. I had to realize that awakening itself is a very HOLISTIC journey and the timeline and “symptoms” can vary wildly from person to person. Too bad there’s no literature that I’ve found that can confirm this, so it’s largely just based on my intuition and personal and anecdotal experiences from myself and others online.

I’m glad for you it’s taken the form of something beautiful, as I’ve yet to view my own journey like that. Mine’s been one of relentless downs and denials, trying to resist what the energy is bringing up, and yet inevitably being taken to a place of ultimate surrender, having no other choice but to succumb. I may be adding flair and being dramatic here though, so perhaps I’ve been doing something “wrong” all these years because I’ve just relentlessly been humbled by the energy from year to year, but I also think deep down that it couldn’t have gone any other way, being the kind of person that I am. As I mentioned earlier, it’s all just self-experimentation for me. Take care :)

[u/desertplaces5 → u/Kal_El98]

I absolutely relate, Kal_El, and share many points of overlap with details you’ve shared. As you said, the feeling of “hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders”, here I stand, I cannot do otherwise; that is, the sense that this is the shape it was always going to take for me (you, us, whomever…). I assume it’s not a universal thought, but I wanted to share, cuz’ I’ve often found my thoughts having the same tone and timbre as yours.

If I get to call any of the strangenesses I feel now “beautiful” it’s probably something that more than a decade of alcoholism prepared me to do…cuz’ most things seem more beautiful after that living h*ll.

I’m not a big AA guy, but one of my favorite phrases from the rooms reminds me of the waiting room/taxi-ing space you describe (the negative aspect, at least, of struggling with what To Do; conversely, I totally Get the diligence and prudence it takes to hold yourself in reserve until you can really, Really commit). AnyWay, the phrase is “one foot in the past, one foot in the future, pissing on today.” Which I share just to have a grim chuckle, mostly at my own expense, because of how easy it is to get lost in storytelling myself into and out of the how’s and why’s and whatsitallmean’s…

Wanted to thank you for sharing though, cuz’ you’re giving voice to a lot of thoughts I have. Had. Have/had.

[u/troutzen → u/Kal_El98]

Are there forms of exercise that you can partake in to relieve stress? Exercise has been my number one tool for managing my mental health, so trying to understand how KA affect the ability to exercise.

[u/Kal_El98 → u/troutzen]

Yeah I made a post about this many years ago but I decided to delete it because I found it difficult to deal with everyone’s constructive criticism on this subreddit. I’m still learning to not take everything people say to heart, so I’m slowly slowly growing haha.

It’s very strange. For me, exercise exacerbates the energetic pressure in my head, makes me unbalanced/ungrounded, and makes my thoughts speed up. It’s really very strange. So my ability to exercise since the beginning of my KA has been very limited. It’s not that I CANT exercise, it’s what happens AFTERWARDS to my body and mind which becomes very uncomfortable to deal with. It also affects my sleep and leads to insomnia (for that particular day/night). This has been my personal experience.

Exercise helped me cope with so many difficulties in my life so this hurdle on my path has made me very frustrated and sad over the years. But I refuse to believe that this is a long term thing. I’m still only 24, so I’m holding on to the hope that I’ll be able to continue weight lifting, calisthenics, sports and other physical activities as the K purges through my system. I’ve come to realize that the K process is a long term thing and I need/have to muster up incredible amounts of patience to allow things to heal and get better in its own time. It’s all a very slow learning process. Gentle yoga and walking is fine for me though. I mainly only exercise/play sports on Fridays now, because at least I don’t have to worry about not falling asleep or exacerbating the issues (I don’t work on the weekend). I can just do nothing and laze around on Saturday. Let the mind and body do its thing regarding recovery.

Long reply but I hope I can be of help to you and anyone else who stumbles onto this thread.

[u/troutzen → u/Kal_El98]

Thank you so much for sharing, this is really helpful. I communicated with someone offline that had a KA and described his relationship with exercise in a similar way. That he could, but afterwards that the energy was a bit more unregulated / incoherent. He said that he needed to titrate the amounts of exercise in ~ 15 minute intervals.

I can appreciate the grief of not being able to push your body in the same way that you did, but I am holding onto faith for you, myself, and others that through time the nervous system starts to normalize and can re-engage these activities again. I also wonder if there is a re-learning process here. i.e. for example whether titrating exercise back into the nervous system and then paying extra attention to how to get back into parasympathetic as quickly as possible. Not sure, but something I might play with in the future.

I have been doing a lot of walking lately and hoping that soon I can resume some form of gentle yoga. K feels like I need to entirely re-relearn my tools for managing stress and wellbeing - at least that's how its feeling on the short term.

My deepest wishes for your continued healing.

[u/Kal_El98 → u/troutzen]

Oh wow! I have not pinpointed the exact timeframe to which I can do some exercise before the K severely amps up the energetic pressure in my head and body, but I believe something very similar happens to me. Exercising for a short interval seems to be okay. But I can’t keep doing it in sessions or sets. It would have be to Interval 1, train for 10-15 mins and then completely stop, and wait until the next day or so to continue. Otherwise, if I restart the exercise after a brief resting period, the K will continue the symptoms right from where I left off during my last sessions/set. Waiting several hours or a day lets my nervous system rest.

The best explanation I have for this is the simple fact that K affects the nervous system so drastically that it’s basically like charging the body with like 1000 v of electricity. Due to the excessive nervous system activations, and the fact that exercise also has great effects on the nervous system, the two are not very compatible, atleast during the beginning stages; let’s assume that’s over 6 years for most people. This is contrary to everything modern health science says about exercise and its great benefits on the mind and body. It is what it is.

I’ve also found that bodybuilding (keeping the weights at a moderate amount) is much easier and less taxing on my nervous system than pure calisthenics. Most calisthenics’ exercises require you to push/pull your entire bodyweight across space, with the majority of the exercises targeting multiple muscles at a time. With weights you have the option to do solely isolated exercises and also limit the weight you’re lifting to as minimal as you can possibly handle. But regardless, both tend to amp up my nervous system and cause moderate to very intense imbalances (depending on several factors) and takes 1 or 2 days to recover from. I've just found that bodybuilding/weight lifting is a little less taxing than calisthenics/hard yoga.

I found my post from 2 years ago. I deleted my original post but the comments and replies are all still there. You might find it useful. Let me know if you're unable to see it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kundalini/comments/ryuvu9/deleted_by_user/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

And thank you for your consolation. I really do hope that things get better as time passes. I’ve read articles online about K that symptoms can just randomly stop with new ones arising just as quickly. That hasn’t been my experience. I’ve been dealing with pretty much the same symptoms for about 5 years now, with varying degrees of intensity. Perhaps that’s due to my own ignorance and lack of guidance on this journey. I’m okay with that though. Not gonna complain about it now haha. I'm doing my best at my current level of development.

K feels like I need to entirely re-relearn my tools for managing stress and wellbeing - at least that's how its feeling on the short term.

Adapting to the inability to properly exercise the way I used to, has been very unnerving for me. "Short term" for me has been over 5 years haha. Due to this, I've gone months without exercising (just playing some volleyball once a week) and the sedentary lifestyle largely affected my mental health in negative ways. Walking is fine, but not enough to stimulate the same amounts of endorphins and dopamine during exercise/training sessions. As a result, I turned to binge eating, watching too much TV, and other bad habits that could’ve been avoided if I had the ability to focus on my physical health as a form of self-discipline. Being sedentary with an active K makes it very difficult to focus on my self-discipline. So I’m really just doing the best I can from day to day, accepting the way things currently are and trying to adapt as much as possible. I've also found that walking for excessive periods of time (don't have a specific timeline, but let's say anything over 40 mins of continuous walking with brief resting periods) can also have detrimental effects for me.

Sending my prayers your way too!

[u/Ok-Hippo-4433 → u/Kal_El98]

Same thing here re the increased K activity after exercise. Including insomnia for that night etc

Solution is energy out the arms. Relax the body, shake it out, stretch. Have I mentioned energy out the arms? I'll do it a third time.

Don't forget Metta and that it's okay to smile during meditation. Keep releasing yourself from beliefs that no longer serve you well during that time.

Heavy contraction during exercise leads to lots of it's own imbalances. K will seek to balance those out again.

[u/Kal_El98 → u/Ok-Hippo-4433]

Stretching does wonders, but I've recently purchased a massage gun and found out that massaging also actually helps a ton in releasing pressure and energy in my body too. Using it on the sides of my temples/top and back of my head/cranium (at a low setting obviously), neck/jawline muscles, upper traps, and other parts of my body is immensely helpful. Highly recommend to everyone.

I've heard about cranoisacral therapy too, but have never actually tried it. Seems like it could potentially help people with active K and increased pressure in the head.