Awakening Kundalini: The Path to Radical Freedom
Language: English
Pages: 296
ISBN: 1604079320
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The universal force known as Kundalini has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, yet it influences our every breath, thought, and emotion. With Awakening Kundalini, one of the West's most respected teachers and researchers in the field explores this spiritual principle in unprecedented depth, with detailed guidance for discovering and working with it directly.
In India's spiritual teachings, Kundalini is known as the principle within that compels us to evolve and grow. Traditions across the globe have described it as a force that lies dormant within us and, when awakened, connects us to the energy of creation and profoundly elevates consciousness.
With his unique expertise in modern psychology, neuroscience, meditation training, and spiritual traditions, Lawrence Edwards clarifies the many dimensions of Kundalini awakening, including practices and meditations for recognizing its manifestations and preparing your body and mind to enter its expansive, empowering flow.
When worked with skillfully, Kundalini is the most profoundly transformative power in our lives. Awakening Kundalini makes available a complete and practical resource for tapping into this force, and realizing your ability to live "radically free."
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This book isn’t a substitute for working with an awakened and skillful teacher, but because many people are having Kundalini-type experiences, some subtle and some profoundly apparent, this book is here to give supportive guidance. Awakening Kundalini isn’t intended to be a scholarly tome with countless references and endnotes. I’ve provided a bibliography at the back of the book that includes additional resources to pursue. There is so much to learn about Kundalini — much more than can possibly
knowing you shouldn’t indulge in something, yet being compelled to do it anyway? One of the components of subtle body is the unconscious. Yoga views the unconscious similarly to depth psychologists such as Freud and Jung, as the repository of past experiences and the driving force behind much of an individual’s current actions and thoughts. The subtle body is held to exist independently of the physical body and doesn’t undergo death as does the physical body. It contains the karmic impressions,
consumerism, though all one has to do is look through a yoga magazine to see the ways that consumerism and spiritual materialism infiltrate the yoga exercise milieu. Awakened Kundalini often inspires people to simplify their lives. They find they don’t need all the stuff they accumulated and donate their surplus to those in need. Just by practicing the yamas, you begin to really contain and transform the ego mind and cultivate a detached, dispassionate awareness that empowers you to step back
frees you from lifetimes of karmas. It purifies the subtle body, the mind, and the physical body. It heals illnesses and cures you of the disease of ignorance. Meditation cuts all the illusory bonds limiting your consciousness to the ego mind and body. Meditation opens the heart to love beyond measure, beyond comprehension, beyond even imagination. You are a living, breathing expression of that love. You are a direct conduit to the ocean of love that is the Divine; let it pour forth into your
discipline is critical. Kundalini unfolding is supported by practices of empowered mantra, Witness Consciousness, mindfulness, meditation, seva, chanting, hatha yoga, pranayama, the yamas and niyamas, cultivating positive attitudes towards yourself and others, aerobic exercise, and prana-filled food. By incorporating these into your everyday life, you will have a comprehensive set of sadhana practices. Every moment gives us an opportunity for cultivating compassion, patience, kindness, and