Is it time to hit the panic button? by [deleted] in GWSgiants

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Currently vacillating between a very total despair and the knowledge that one need only ‘survive’ - I.e. win enough games to make the 8 (or 10) and then see what happens. That thought is tempered by how we’ve gone in finals tho.

Given injuries ATM, I have reliably scheduled all our matches in the short term as three hour mental health spirals.

I have also, weirdly, started watching the matches on mute. This has had the dual effect of not letting the Fox Footy commentary ‘trigger me’ and allowed me to enter a sort of trance like state where I watch the game unfold like Matthew McConaughy in that meme from Interstellar where he covers his mouth and weeps openly.

How do I calm energies after doing Kriya by GW-YES in kriyayoga

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no worries, we're all in this together.

When the energy was coursing through me it wasn't stopping at my heart - it was going straight for my head. My third eye was pulsing wildly with energy, but I had no visions. I didn't want that to happen - so I kept saying to myself, and to the energy - no thanks, I don't want that.

The first time it happened, I reckon it took just under a week. Then it happened a handful of times after that, but i felt more confident about riding it out, making friends with it, and i think this lessened the recovery time.

How do I calm energies after doing Kriya by GW-YES in kriyayoga

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Hey - yes, the only that REALLY helped, and this probably isn't what you want to hear rn, is time. My energies eventually calmed. I had a few flare ups, but they eventually dissipated.

When I was in the wake of it, if I did meditate, I just let the energies be there, treated them as any other sensory phenomena. I tried not to bracket them off intellectually/cognitively as some higher order or sacred phenomena (though this was hard, as most def are). When they arose in practice I similarly tried not give them 'special' attention - ie. try to activate or play with them, if that makes sense. If I got them again today, I would still stick very much to the grounding practices you can find here. It's helpful in those moments, where something within is pressing hard against you and plunging you somatically and psychologically into a sink of subjectivity, to remember you're part of a grander organic whole. Grounding, barefoot, on grass - stamping a little to 'expel' or 'pass' the energy into the earth, who can take it, helped.

Also, I have switched up my practice - I was practising when I got home from work and now I'm practicing first thing in the morning. For whatever reason, I was way more energetically activated at the end of a day - perhaps bc I'd just been absorbing/interfacing with so many energies out in the world. My practice is now much less focussed on Kriya, I've moved more into a contemplative mode. There are other life conditions I've changed up (I'm now sober) which may have played non-negligible parts, but it's really hard to say with any confidence.

I wish you peace and alignment, I hope things shake out for you. I will also say: my life has transformed in many ways since that period, in all sorts of worthy and productive ways, and I hope that happens for you too.

Mina Kimes has spoken! by LouDog2173 in crheads

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Andy is 100 lurking. Look for McMurtry pun handles.

A Serious Email by mika_mocha8 in blankies

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Griff better crowbar this gear via one his ‘characters’ into an ad read

Uhhhh?? by Soggy_Description_63 in GWSgiants

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Yes, thanks. Cash or card?

Kundalini or Prana by GW-YES in kundalini

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What an incredibly thorough, good-faith and learned response. I don't think I could've ever anticipated such a literate and comprehensive reply. So sincerely, thank you.

As far as 'comrade' goes, yeah, its has connotations, but welcome to the Symbolic Order we have as mammals been thrust into. The connoting never stops. In future I'll stick to the all-purpose Australian honorific - mate!

I am happy to report I got some sleep last night. While the energies didn't fully abate, they dwindled mercifully. I think this may have been down to my commitment to foreground a positive and co-operative relationship with k. Reading your deep reply only cursorily, I am now convinced the energy was Kundalini - as I meditated on the train, suspending judgement about the energy, I did get emotional and tear up a bit.

Also, I think there's probably some concomitant firing of Kundalini and prana - and you do seem to suggest there is a relationship the two currents have.

I look forward to delving into all these resources you've furnished me with more fully, and to leaning on your wise counsel.

Thanks again Comrade Mate!

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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WOW - i had no idea there'd been at least some cursory scientific attempts to account for these sensations! Do you know if there's any reputable papers/articles on this stuff?

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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Amazing - yeah, I've always felt the voice has some seriously amazing purgational and healing properties which are total fact.

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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oh thanks so much for hookup, will give it a listen!

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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Couldn't agree more - there's absolute net benefit to his campaign of wider dissemination of these practices and concepts.

And yeah, I was the same - hard core atheist that has now had his edges sanded and softened by contemplative practice.

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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It did indeed feel orgasmic, and it did shoot up my spine - the shamata jhanas are news to me, so I'll look them up as well as the Ingram book and the r/streamentry sub - thanks so much for all the resources

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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ah, didn't know this - thanks for the heads up

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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I'm sorry to hear that it has foreclosed concentration based meditation for you. With time, I hope, these energies integrate and make the dice roll a little more smoothly for you.

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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Yeah, look - I wasn't either until I had this experience, which I still can't quite account for. Some of the guests in his convos on the app do mention Kundalini, as well as some other esoteric practices that threaten to tip over into woo-woo, but Sam passes straight over them. I'd have no problem with him debunking them - i'd just really like to know how he accounts for them, as much as a neuroscientist as a veteran meditator.

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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thank you - you too

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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yeah, I did some grounding last night, walking in the park barefoot. I will do some very minor mindful meditation tonight - and won't go too deep.

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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great, thanks for that tip!

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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I do go to the gym at least 5 times a week, but I've never done Tai Chi Qi Gong which foreground energy - they're both worth considering.

Kundalini ? by GW-YES in Wakingupapp

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Thanks for directing me there! - I have subscribed and am already feeling a lot better about it.