Kundalini Story - my first experience - awakening
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- The story of my first kundalini experience. I wanted to share this, in case there is anyone in the same boat, who has no one to turn to in order to confirm their experience. We don't have a real knowledge or support system here in the West. I'm lending my voice to help bring that about.
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It is so amazing to read the voices of normal householders in the kundalini experience, voices un-entrenched in dogma of any kind. - Jak na to + styl
Mine has been opening the crown for the last 2 years. My ears ring daily on and off and the head pressure is immense. However bliss at times makes it worth it. Extreme heat at times too, especially in the chest region. Been moving upward from my heart since 2012. It has blasted away most of my previous personality along with most desires, addictions, and goals. Heaven comes at a cost! That cost is you.
Well said, Long. Not everyone will have the same experience, and it is possible to minimize the uncomfortability, or avoid too much kundalini experience. However, I would like to do a video that explains there are risks to deep meditation.
Dissolving of Ego :)
@@ForrestKnutson Thanks for your explanation. When you say “risks” it sounds like it’s something no one would want. I know it’s a complete transformation but why wouldn’t people want to become enlightened?
Pardon my ignorance:-)
My kundalini awakening happened in 1989, it was dramatic and it changed my life forever. Thankfully, I am a lucid dreamer, so I have always received guidance in dreams, as well as from earth angels who show up and speak to what I have been questioning. Thank you for sharing.💜
Nice. I lucid dream allot but it's mostly nonsense lol.
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences so openly! So very helpful!
Helpful info! Thanks, Forrest.
I am comforted by your work(if you see this)
I basically taught myself from books and experimentation since i was 13 and had all kinds of traumatic experiences which your content has given understanding of
That's very kind of you and thank you for sharing your experience which is really supportive.
My pleasure 🙏
I am very grateful to hear your experiences and explanations, particularly this one. Your connections of meditative experience and human physiology are more helpful than you can know. Thank you so very much!!!
Thankyou and please continue to share your experiences ...it is very inspiring and is very good to know that there is someone out there who is ready to listen and give advice....thankyou
Wonderful, Mantu! Thank you!
I’m glad you started this channel because this whole spiritual awakening was forced upon me. And it’s nice to see experienced people describing what they went through. Now I can compare the things that I’m going through with someone else’s experiences. I don’t know if that made sense but thank u for these videos.
Fantastic. That's exactly what it's for. 🙏🤩
Dear Knutson your way of explanation is great and compact........I appreciate
Thank you, Alok! That's exactly what I aim for.
I so understand not having anyone to talk to about my experience! I love you brother☀️🙏
You get what I'm saying. 😊🤗🙏
This is why we have a guru- one who has been there to guide us on our journey.
Hi Forrest, I can’t thank you enough for your channel and for this video specifically right now. I’ve watched many of your videos for a couple years now and I’ve been practicing meditation for some time; I also do extensive energy work so I am working with my energy daily. Tonight I experienced pretty much a mirror of what you’re describing in this video. I was meditating this evening, practicing HRV breathing of course, and I was pleasantly surprised (although the sensation was quite jolting) to find myself spinning uncontrollably (so I felt). At first it felt like the entire room spinning around me, and then it progressed to feeling like my body was spinning as well, almost like the room was spinning into my spinning body; it almost reminded me of the motion of the torus field. Because it was slightly nauseating and at first dizzying, if I had not seen this video maybe a year or two ago first, I would have immediately opened my eyes out of fear that I was “losing my body” because that seemed like a natural impulse. But I remembered your experience in the ashram and I simply surrendered into it. WOW. Profoundly intense and I am so grateful - although I’ve never met or spoken to you personally, I consider you such a special teacher to me and I felt like your words were guiding me through the experience. I just had to find this video again. I’ve had many experiences but not quite like this. The key was letting go and trusting. Thank you Forrest, from my heart! 🫶🏽
going back to check out some of your older stuff i’ve missed…. you’re an amazing guru, love your perspectives, and i’ve taken my meditations to a different level from your insight and teachings. thanks 🙏🏼
Fantastic Charles! Congratulations! 🤩🙏
I relate to this. Thank you, yours is a noble endeavour 🙏
Thank you Tanya!
I feel so blessed to have found this channel. ❤🙏
Thank you Bob! Love having you!
Since it is here for 8 years i now wonder which other gems yet have to find me. Everything to the right time i guess.
Hi Forrest, I am from Brazil. Your chanel is helping me a lot! Very Thankful!
Wonderful Flora!
Thank you for doing what you are doing!
Thank you!
I really appreciate this video. Helped me understand that spinning. Thank you.
I'm so glad to hear that! That's exactly what this video is for.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you Raja Sen!
You are correct; there is almost no one to talk to about experiences I’ve had. It’s very hard at times. Some people think I’m just going through some mental issues.
Exactly! Well, I'm so glad I can be a voice you resonate with.
You are fine. Keep going.
May the Force be with you!
I am sooo grateful for your channel. It is giving me so much confirmation that I couldn’t find anywhere for years actually! And it is actually starting to explain so many events I went through from childhood as well, for myself. I have always known it’s not a disease and it pains me that after finally reaching out about my experiences last year, at a psychiatrist, that I was given a diagnosis on the scizo- affective-spectrum. I know for myself it is not a disease because some of the experiences were clairvoyance for instance, that were undeniable for myself. And several other things like seeing colors from around the age of 12.. and just subtle voices and sensations throughout my life. All things I could still function with. But then I went into full blown psychosis 4 years ago. ..
I have always known modern medicine would label it something it is not. And it stopped me for years from getting help even-though I’ve been desperate for it at times. Because really no one around me understands. Luckily I do have few openminded people around to whom I can vent some of it. But most I keep to myself because it can be so wild.
I would not ever want to go through that (not being able to discern one dimension from another) again although I am also deeply grateful having gone through it.. But even during that time I was just praying for a medicine-man/ woman. A Buddhist teacher, someone of the older traditions that actually understands these phenomena. It was so so lonesome EVEN though the spirit world was helping me move through. They even “warned” me it was going to happen years prior. They told me “you need to prepare to let go of every concept you have about life”. But once it really hit, quite literally, all my frame of reference was gone..
sorry if I’m repeating some stuff from my last comment. It’s just that I feel a little overwhelmed. I just LOVE you for making this channel. I am calming down soo much compared to before.
“They” are telling me to just lead as simple a life as possible for now with as little impulses as possible.. And it is a prayer answered to find a person in the flesh, EVEN if I see you on a screen haha, that tells me it is ok.
You have done a HEAP for me by making these videos. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
So wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that! 🌹🙌🙏
Namaste sir. Wonderful kundalini experience. Get to learn more about it. Thank you so much for your kind reply. God bless. Much love
Thank you Vimala! I hope it sheds a little light on the subject. 🙏
Thank you soo much , right when I watched this video about a year ago...I didnt get it...now I do.
Hi Forrest and thank you for your great teachings, especially on Khechari, which I just started to stretch and train to attain one day!
Hi Thomas! Great to hear from you! I'm so glad the Khechari trainings are helping you!
stretch your tongue out long and hard straight down towards your chin, you don't have to use your hands or a stretcher, just notice how much further it will go back naturally after you do this. stretch it by it's own muscle strength down and then back towards the ganglion or past to the mudras position you are trying to achieve as am I. make it stronger and more flexible as a muscle tho don't over strain or damage trying to rush. it will happen eventually.
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing such wonderful knowledge, very few people on earth can experience it
Thank you Wiseman!
FK ji. Your sharings are excellent. We are indeed fortunate to have you with us, a gem who is always willing n prompt in helping, guiding spiritual aspirants, which are very helpful n encouraging to the Sadhakas.
Pl keep up the Great Work. I feel the The Great Gurus are Blessing u n guiding us
God bless you Dinesh ji, what a kind thing to say. I'm overjoyed at how this little work of mine has grown. 🙏🙏
wow.. How did these knots get so wound up in the first place? THANK you for creating a safe space for dialog!!
Btw you are a fantastic teacher and I would love to meditate with you!
Blessed to have you.
Thank you Lynn!
Jan. '23. Thank you. Amazing. Have had same experiences of "room and bed spinning", since I was young. Even lately, I had to reach out and grab either side of bed, from spinning. Had no idea what this was, other than an epileptic fit, and seizures that I was diagnosed w/ in 2014, under Obama Care. Spinning, like Dorothy, in Wizard of Oz. Thank you.
I love this community you have created and are sharing with. It means so much. Your personal experience is very inspiring. Thank you so much.
Thank YOU so much for watching and sharing with me!
@@ForrestKnutson but there is no wrinkles in your face.your face looks bright
Thank you so much, Forrest! This video is so relevant for me. It’s assuring to hear that others are having experiences I’m having. You have such a wealth of knowledge that I’m really enjoying.
That's wonderful! I'm so glad to be reassuring. No one ever told me anything, so it all came as quite a surprise to me, and when I tried to confirm it with the monks I was living with, they fell flat again. In the end I have to be responsible for myself, right? However, it sure is nice to have a helping hand along the way. So glad this helped.
@@ForrestKnutson So Forrest, I read Autobiography of a Yogi years ago and it was a real paradigm changer. I live in LA and have been able to visit Lake Shrine and meditate in the Chapel throughout the years. The energy of Krishna and Babaji have blessed me time and again even without a direct understanding of their philosophies. Their essence and presence have spoken to me quite profoundly. Here's the thing: I'm at the point in my life where meditation has become an essential priority. In addition, Lahiri Mahasaya is coming into my inner visions and I feel he is trying to teach me about Kriya Yoga. I noticed you've written "Hacking the Universe". Does the content reflect Lahiri Mahasaya's teachings? I'm really looking to dive in to Kriya. Thank you!
Great question! Yes, it definitely is. The only difference would be that I talk about Patanjali and his 8 fold system, while Lahiri Baba taught a 6 fold system. If you could write me at thatyogiguy@gmail.com I'd love to talk more about Lahiri Mahasaya and his original Kriya.
@@RichGenius44 I hope you have become an Original Kriya yogi! :-)
@@ForrestKnutson Wow, that's very interesting about Lahiri's path being a six fold path. Is it related to Patanjali's (i.e. omitting certain steps) or is it a completely different approach? Also, are there any books that discuss the 6 fold path?
Wow thank you so much, understand ways better now :D
Wonderful Oceana!
Thank you so much 🙏❤️🙏 you describe my questions very good - but I wonder Joe do you feel for example toung knots🧐
Much love from Sweden 🇸🇪🌍🪴💃🏻🎶
If you are not ready it becomes difficult to stay in body... always good to have someone around who understand atleast first-time...
Thank you for your comment. :)
Thanks Forrest, for the fresh, honest lion's roar.
Thank you, Ellen! So great to hear from you!!
The feeling of the room spinning is something I got a lot as a child. Sometimes it spun and snapped back then spun and snapped back again. I once had an OBE and for a month after until it faded I felt this stuff a lot and started to feel like like I was almost taking off out of my body again. I fought it along with the waking sleep paralysis but it is my biggest regret that I never gave in to it. I didn't know what it was and wished I had a book on OBE's at the time but you have irrational concerns that something might get into your body while you're out. I never had one again but try occassionally and fail.
Very helpful
I have had this experience, in a meditation retreat last New Year's night he finally woke up, after a couple of years of feeling signs, and particularly it is an energy that invites me to live IN LOVE WITH EXISTENCE, I feel at the spiral taking me and literally immobilizing me with an energy similar to a high tension tower in the spine, in the moments where I feel tempted to react impulsively or selfishly, the energy intensifies and I must stop, observe myself and choose to act from love ... and there the energy "calms down"
It is a new experience but I appreciate it, I feel that I am guided by this energy, by life. It is like a wave of consciousness.
Wonderful Vanessa!
Thanks 🙏 I’ve experienced the spiralling throughout my life yet I used to, I think, stop it and so I used to faint regularly. 🙏💕🙏
Oh no! It can be very disconcerting when we don't know what it is.
I have stayed in few ashram and I realized some how the elder and senior there don't really give me much answers and they just ignore me. Most of the time I felt like, no one to really share my meditation experience. I am glad u talk about this and least I know its not just my imagination
You're absolutely right and that was the combination of my stay in the ashram. That I realized they just didn't have the answers I was looking for.
Hey Forrest!
I've just found out your channel and you are helping me a lot. Thank you very much!
Also, I have something intriguing to share. I'm a beginner meditator and every time I meditate effectively I can feel by body spinning. It has become something so normal to my practice that when I don't feel myself spinning I feel like my meditation didn't succeed at all. Maybe I'm having my kundalini activation?
Eduardo! It's fantastic to meet you! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! That's a great sensation, and a very good indicator of depth. You might like to look at the couple videos here where I mention Lahiri Mahasaya's 3 knots, which is a downward progression experience. The turning that you are feeling is the 3rd knot. I have a new theory about what this actually is in the brain, which I hope to share in video soon. Thank you for your great question!
For me, it's the spine which starts to spin in a wave-like motion without me willing any motion into it. It's a very soothing feeling which usually culminates with a feeling of explosion of joy on the upper part of the skull
Perfect, Julien!
@Forrest Knutson! You are doing a great service by educating the people in this not-so-well understood spiritual practice. I wanted to find out if you have any specific video released that provides recommendations of specific foods to eat or not to eat by the people on their path to kundalini awakening. There are not many videos available on the net except some recommending eating Sattvic food and avoid Tamsa foods.
I talk about foods a little bit in this video: czcams.com/video/3zki_49Zob0/video.html
Forrest Knutson thank you! The video definitely provides some helpful information about . I will request you to make another video with more detailed list of different food materials that help or prevent from reaching the sadhaka from going into deeper meditation stages.
Thanks 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
I have out of body experiences every now and then. I have devised a technique for entering into the borderland sleep state. It's called squishing your eyebrows and meditating or holding that squished eyebrows posture and going to sleep. Mannnnn it works wonders.... I think it has something to do with pressure in the third eye.
Hey Forrest,
A few years ago I had an experience of oneness, love and bliss that was preceeded by what felt like a line of buttons being pressed form bottom to top along my back. What was very significant about the experience was the COMPLETE silence (no thoughts) that accompanied the experience of oneness and bliss. This experience dissipated after 5-10 minutes and the more it left the more the thoughts came back. Nobody I talked to could explain it, but I suspect it was a kundalini related phenomenon. What do you think?
Thank you for your videos, I really appreciate them.
Wonderful, NST, it the Big Bliss Training I explain and demonstrate what I call "The Roll-up." That's what you had, and then you had an Absorption. So, the question becomes, where you surrounded by the bliss with you in the center? Or did you feel at one with it? If you were at One. Then it was a samadhi experience also.
Mine was during a 2 hours meditation session, the eyes started pulsating at an incredible speed, I maintained my calm and kept observing and then there was an explosion of white light. I couldn’t move my body for some moments, it was like being detached from it and my life after that never been the same. I stopped being atheist, became vegetarian , reduced my alcohol intake...the ears now ring everyday and I had plenty of mind blowing visions, from the basic orbs of light , to the spiritual eye when I meditate or do breath work to still images from the past to cartons to high definition tv to math slides to alien spaceships and alien cities, out of body experiences and the spookier ones when focusing on the ear ringing in the evening in which one feels teleported and seems to be possessed by not friendly entities , or flying out of the body and being cared with such love by such a beautiful loving light to mind blowing cartoons series with sounds....it’s a process that will challenge all your conceptions about life and actually make you lose your fear of death or at least reduce it greatly....because the universe seems a lot more complex that one thinks...there is more to life than meets the eye. Thx a lot for your videos Forrest, it’s filled with beautiful advice and it’s very helpful to someone like me that thought he was going crazy....fortunately people like you , google and some kundalini books helped a lot to understand this experience that was very hard at the beginning, changed my life and some of my habits and inclusive my personality, I’m calmer now , more loving and more patient and it’s still ongoing...what a thing...
do you have a discord i would love to hear more of your story
i had my kundalini awakening 3 years ago during a prayer
I have had a few of these dreams. Most recently I had a dream like this 2 nights ago. I have been scared since my awakening and other experiences, so I feel like I have these kundalini dreams b/c they are "safer." I dreamt that my third chakra was spinning, and then I was spun around and pushed to the wall. Then I was surrounded by monks in red and yellow robes. They were blowing in my ear or whispering in my ear. It was intense!!!
Very cool! Sometimes it's easier in a dream.
your channel is very very useful
Excellent, Durga!
@@ForrestKnutson thank you for all the help and guidance.
Your channel is a goldmine! Thank you Forrest! I had a question, I experience all this when im singing, do u recommend ways to sustain the feeling?
Wonderful! I teach HRV Resonant Breathing which I think you'd like. Try the HRV playlists.
then you should definitely read chants of a lifetime by krishna das.
@@rocky821 thank u will check it out :)
When I was about 21 or 22 I was practicing aikido and part of the class was a centering and expansion meditation on the hara. After a while, I noticed that sensations kept wanting to rise to the heart and throat. I couldnt seem to keep my energy down there. After an intensive weekend I went home and found myself with a kind of prayer going on in my head (but I wasn't really conventionally
that religious). It was a frustrated longing to know what life was all about. It was very intense and out of frustration I called out angrily to the Universe. At that point, some kind of energy ripped up through my body, my heart, through my throat and out of the crown of my head. I was totally freaked and felt I was leaving my body and I was being called towards the stars. I thought I was dying and sat centering on my hara to stay alive! For months later I had a frickin feeling that a cool lazer type light was shining out of my crown. Man, was that strange! I have always felt I was reborn after that event......
Beautiful! I love it! 🤩🤩🤩🙏
jay GURU , brother kriyaban!
Hail to the Bringer of Light indeed!
@@ForrestKnutson HAIL, JAY!|
Thank You. Enjoying all your videos. they have been helpful. Is it easier to awaken Kundalini or open Third eye. Please can you give methods on doing so?
It is much easier to "open" the third eye. I have a video planned on this. ... The trick is to not look through it with your eyes, but with your attention. So you have to divide your attention from your physical eye focus. This happens automatically when we dilate the eyes significantly in meditation.
Thank You. I am looking forward to the video.@@ForrestKnutson
Wonderful! Thank you for your encouragement!
I have felt the first knot and now I want to experience the second one. How long does it take between the first and the second?
Thank you Forrest for sharing this experience,can you pls.explain the connection between pineal gland & kundlini awaking.
My pleasure. The pineal glad helps the rest of the brain put the pieces together. It deepens the trance to enable a deeper experience.
@@ForrestKnutson Thanks a lot,I took Kriya initiation 8yrs back from Yss,but now I live in Sydney here srf takes care off,but I am still on kriya one after hearing you I am more clear and transplant in approach,I really appreciate your efforts .practicing every 15minutes for 2yrs to develop spiritual eye.tell me forrest do you still drink tamarind?
Tell me if you want can you talk to the Masters through spiritual eye ? I mean two way conversations?Thanks
@@rajibsaini6820 no I only took tamarind for a month. ... The communication sometimes just arrives, and sometimes the golden light crystalizes into a face.
@@ForrestKnutson okay Thank you.
I envy you I'm a beginner with too may question still
You have a peaceful countenance.
Thank you Jason! I see two kids on your arms! What a beautiful family!
Extremely Informative - I stumbled upon your videos yesterday and they are so awesome!!! I had a query - how many levels are in kriya yoga? I hear diff figs all the time.thanks
Within every Lahiri Mahasaya and Panchanan Bhattacharya line there should be 7 Kriya levels with a few variations, as well.
@@ForrestKnutson thanks
@@harsh-dy8lp my pleasure!
I am doing meditation but need someone like you who can guide me step by step to go deep into that field and explore more, hope you will help me. thanks
Hello, that's what I do with my Patreon group, and through my trainings here: www.meditativemellows.com/
Hey forest It was around 5am lying in bed my body was super relaxed, my heals felt heavy and it felt like an overwhelming amount of energy that went flying from my heals to head surging up for about 7 seconds. But it overwhelmed my body what happened sir?
How is this spinning different from vertigo?
Newcomer here, just found your channel, incredibly excited to learn mindfulness/meditation techniques from a knowledgeable person like yourself. You seem genuine. On a note in regards to your spiritual"brother" at your retreat(?) , seems like maybe a jealous individual not wanting to share any information/knowledge on the subject? Anyhow, thanks for enlightening folks interested in the topic like myself...
Thank you, and welcome aboard! You might like the Playlists on HRV Resonate Breathing. This is the best way to start a meditative practice.
@@ForrestKnutson thank you! I will check it out right now!! I just finished my 12th day of beginners meditation through an assisted app and it is this far incredibly helpful for an anxiety ridden individuals like myself. I'll add this playlist to my morning/nightly ritual!! Thanks again
Once I felt like the third eye was flickering like it was trying to open it's eyelid...Off course I was practicing my sambhavi.....What does that mean...I asked around my brothers who practice priya..But they are yet to reach that state...It's too blissful there
I have a video about the 3 stages of Shambhavi. I mention the drawing, or magnetic state that the kutastha or medulla enters. That state is very blissful. This is part of the 3 Knots which happen in descending order. I have a video on the 3 knots, as well.
Woww looking back i did have an experience where i was curled up in a ball on my trampoline and i thought i was asleep but i knew i wasn’t and my physical eyes were closed but i could see myself spinning all over the trampoline in the same curled up position i was in and i just kept spinning going all over the trampoline like a pin ball. Then when i ‘woke up’ i was in the same place i laid down. What do you think this experience was because i’m not so sure. After this i have tried kundalini awakening meditations and have felt symptoms of such.
That's the experience of the 3rd Knot as you are on the edge of exiting the left brain. Very normal yogic sensation. Well done!
In 2011 after visualization / slow breathing I had a powerful orgasmic explosion in my head, I remember it felt like lightning bolts shooting from the top of my head downward along with the orgasmic waves. For about 4 days after that happened, a buzzing / electric noise woke me up at night and I seen vivid tiny complex geometric shapes moving in sync behind closed eyes. I got the feeling that I seen a part of the world I wasn't supposed to see lol, like behind the scenes code of reality.. That's why I'm researching kundalini yoga.
Anyway in 2016 a spinning sensation in front of my chest woke me up, it was like an invisible spinning magnetic pull.
Very cool. I've found it very helpful to read a bunch of kundalini stories. My goal has been not so much kundalini as it is just to raise prana, however it has benefited my understanding to hear all the stories and possibilities. ... I talk about the archetype of spinning in the 3rd knot of Lahiri Mahasaya. I have several videos on this that you might enjoy.
Your videos are very helpful! That first unexpected experience lead me to the yoga path, but I've never been able to recreate it. It was an accident that happened after I heard about astral projection from CZcams and tried to do it lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with people!
Thank you for sharing this. I have had the same frustration with being able to discuss my experiences or find related videos with tips
My pleasure Justin
Which ashram did you go to?
I would like to know if there are any blockages in meditation. For eg anhedonia occurring and is there a solution to it? Thanks for sharing such informative videos.
Anhedonia and depression usually happen when the past and the experience in our past, weigh on us so heavily that we can't imagine any possibly bright future. So we begin to give up hope. So it's an Affliction of both the past and the future as it is held in the unconscious mind. The best remedy that I know for this is a technique called the time line therapy. But you might have a hard time finding someone in your area that can help you with this. I'm planning on doing a series of videos about time line therapy and those may be of some use to you. I will try to get those out as soon as I can, but I have to set up the information correctly so everybody can understand.
Thank you for watching! Please let me know if you have anymore questions.
are you still active. i have many experiences with no explanations as to why i feel the things i do during meditation
When you meditate, do you see snakes around you? I keep seeing that. Often dream about them and think of them.
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Which Ashram did you learn in?
A master or one whos had Samadhi will know what u are speaking of..Your spinal Vortex moves it spreads n makes u feel u are spinning..the 3rd know opens Only in AUM ascention..u hear it u are enraptured by it it dissolves u..u hear d voice of god saying Vedanta at the heart knot..n LIGHT n u are ONE ... Narayana ..u are Narayana..then i was 5 days immersed totally in Lightrons !!So luminous so soft so Holy..!!
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Thank you Yatrik!
Hi Forrest! I just found your channel and LOVE your vibe 💓. One question please - three years ago in a meditative space, I had what I can only describe as a LIGHTNING BOLT enter my head. I could see all of my atoms move around in my brain and rearrange while LIT UP, and with this very loud and deep WHIRRRRR sound happening. This went on for a while and then there were five bright EXPLOSIONS of light inside of me. It is so hard to explain in words, but it changed me immediately, as I KNEW and still KNOW there is a Greater Presence connecting ALL things. Have you ever heard of this kind of experience, and would you describe this as a different kind of Kundalini? Or something else?? Thank You 🙏🏻 I have been searching for answers 💓
Beautiful! I once had that feeling of a lightning bolt coming through the top of my head and going down my spine while in prayer. Perhaps I should tell that story. This would fit within the category of Kundalini. Anytime we have a feeling inside of ourselves inside of the body of energy moving it fits within the category of Kundalini Awakening. We have become awake to the movements which are usually hidden. That you had a deep knowing because of this experience - that is a gift from the right brain - the guardian angel or the God brain inside of us. Welcome to the channel and I hope you find more and more answers. 🥳🙏
@@ForrestKnutson Oh my!! Thank you SO MUCH. I AM in tears reading this!! It’s been an awesome experience since that moment, but also very lonely as no one understood. Until YOU. What a gift on Thanksgiving Day (I am in Oregon, USA). Thank You for sharing your experience with me. I will definitely binge on your videos this weekend 😉 I send you so many blessings from my heart to yours. 🙏🏻
@@jacarandamarie be sure to listen to tomorrow's video, and I'll tell that story.
Hi Forrest, I appreciate your videos and your genuine nature. In meditation, I see what looks like the iris of an eye. As I relax deeper into meditation the pupil of the iris turns a violet color. At some point, I often feel a like a "swoosh" sensation as if I'm moving to the stars. This violet pupil is a portal and I start to see blinking eyes. I've seen this many times. On one occasion, I felt as though I had moved through the portal. I was face to face with the most beautiful being. It's skin was light violet in color and it literally had three eyes. It seemed benevolent enough. I was just startled and lost the connection. Any ideas? My higher self? Thank you again for your videos - Namaste
So that was the spiritual eye and when you feel that swoosh you are exiting from the preoccupation with the left brain and the sense of self or the consciousness is moving into absorption. If you were to go into full absorption then you would begin to enter a non-dual state. So what happened in that experience is you were right before that absorption and you entered what I call the download phase, and you had a meeting with an archetype of your Higher Self. Very awesome!
@@ForrestKnutson, Thank you for taking time for me and creating a safe space to discuss such things!
Hello Forrest - what an amazing experience! I have been reading a lot about Kundalini and sublimation, especially relating to the Golden Flower Meditation method. What are your thoughts on sublimation and Kundalini awakening in the case of householders? thanks as always!
Hi Julian, I don't agree that Kundalini is a process of sublimation. The principle of everything in moderation is a great one, but the principle of celibacy leads to problems every single time as we have seen within the last 10 years very clearly. It is true if you are worn out and low of energy then the Kundalini experience will be reduced. However this is minor the real process of what is happening is the integration with subconscious material. Great question!
@@ForrestKnutson thank you Forrest. That is good to hear. I am keen to experience Kundalini energy, but not at the expense of my family.
@@juliantaylor7368 that's wonderful. If you look back on my channel I do have a video on celibacy I think it's called The myth of celibacy. The lineage I represent is a householder lineage of meditation.
Does kundalini really changs body .skin and everything .i heard that but im not sure
No it's only experienced in the subconscious. Though it can make change in the body over time.
Dear sole, i have experience of kundalini in 2014 but at that time till now I don't have any guru who is present in body n guide me, i found beej mantras of chakras n chant them continues for 17 days, from 4 th day all experiences started drastic changes r there in my body , there r some shower of lights on body ,n also i m blissed with power of healing ,but on 18th day i experienced dangerous force my each n every cell force me upwords n there lot of fear so that I stop on that movement my sadhana n search for guru. Recently i got an adress of KRIYA Yoga Center located near Allahabad, Guruji Yogi Satyam is there who teaches n gives diksha ( initiation ) so i m going there for kriya. Also your videos are very valuable for me Thank You.
That's very good, congratulations. I recommend you slow down, and don't do it all at once. Chant OM in each chakra for a little time each day. Let it wash you out so the fear you felt does not return.
Thank you for the video Forrest.
I have a question.
While doing meditation, my cheeks start moving up individually. When an individual cheek moves up, the eyelid of the same side scrunches/squeezes down as well. Sometimes both cheeks come up involuntarily and my eyelids squeeze/scrunch
Lately, my eyebrows have also started moving up.
These experiences happen only when my mind is an calm state or after prolonged 40 min and up meditation sessions.
What is going on? What should I do?
Another Q.
I have only experienced it twice. But while doing meditation in chin mudra, I felt that one of my palms got warm.
Again, What is going on? What should I do?
Did you happen to see my video on Lahiri Mahasaya's 3 Knots? Please watch that one as the magnetism at the spiritual eye may be involved... Also, before you sit, spend a few minutes massaging the whole face so energy can move freely without binding.
2nd Question: I have videos about Heart Rate Variability and how it causes the hands to become Hot and Heavy. Try the Clinical Mindfulness video, and let me know if those clear things up. 😉
My cheeks move slightly and itch
Hi Forrest, I am not able to understand how can I keep these electric shocks going on through me during the day (that I experience after meditations during evening/night). I was buzzing with energy until I had to talk to a co-worker about some nonsense and he jokingly touched/hugged me a few times and I can't feel the energy as intense as before, though its still there. I understand now why the yogis preferred to go to those mountains where they would not be disturbed. But in current life situations, do you have any recommendations to lessen this effect of other people on you?
Kundalini experiences are fantastic, unless they begin to take us out of balance. However, it may not be sustainable for long periods of time. Which is why I teach HRV Breathing as the bedrock of meditation, along with sitting very still. I have that video entitled Clinical Mindfulness. Work on those 4 Proofs and develop those Meditative Mellows. Those are sustainable, and will heighten the somatic experience of kundalini. It's actually the kundalini awakening the 5 vital airs that we feel. Not the kundalini itself. I explain that here:
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Also, these 2 practices can strengthen the somatic ability:
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But most importantly:
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Forrest Knutson Thank you so much Forrest! I deeply and sincerely appreciate you taking the time for such a detailed reply. I cant get enough of this technology. I am going to look up these videos now.
Fantastic! Let me know how it goes for you.
What does it mean when I’m meditating and all of a sudden I start to see this beautiful purplish smoke or liquid ?
That is the spiritual eye. I have some older videos on this usually with the words shambhavi mudra, or just spiritual eye.
@@ForrestKnutson thank u so much. All these things are happening to me that I never thought possible. My mom thinks I have demonic spirits in me so it’s hard understanding these things. I appreciate you so much!!!
Thank you for sharing your experience Forrest. It is very inspiring. I have a question, why is Lahiri Mahasaya's first knot called the knot of the tongue , when the actual experience is automatic Shambavi mudra. Also, could you kindly explain the second knot in more detail.
The 3 Knots of Lahiri Baba are a profound subject, and deserve their own chapter ...their own book! ... If you think about it, the Tongue, in itself, is not the spine or the brain (of course) which is what meditation is really about (as you know). So, it isn't stretching the tongue for the tongue's sake that is helping us. Rather, it is what it gives us. It relaxes the Left brain, the soft palate wrapping stills the left brain, and it stimulates the deep brain. That stimulation is what the "knot" is really all about. The beginning of the unbinding process, which then continues in a downward progression. .... More to come! I'd like to do a talk on all of this! Thank you for your great question!
Your reply is so very useful. I look forward to more on this subject in the subsequent videos.
@@ashwins.selvarajan1714 I love the 3 knots! The 5 Breath States and the 3 Knots are the best internal map on the planet!
@@ashwins.selvarajan1714 I finally came through on my promise. A video on Lahiri Baba's 3 Knots!
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Sir please come up with a video on how to awake kundalini too
"Smiley all the time" I can't understand why the brother in the ashram would somehow dislike that. All the great masters always emphasised to always be like a child. Yogananda said: "All the great masters of India that I have known were childlike. They displayed all the qualities of sincerity, frankness, non-attachment, universality, forgiveness, truthfulness, calmness, sweetness, laughter, and freedom from worry of a child - minus the latter’s ignorance". It's very good to be smiley all the time :-)
Thank you! He was very Calvanistic in his philosophy, and probably right about me. I was going through some things at the time, and was trying to handle it by staying upbeat. In the end I turned it into a joke. I would see him coming so I'd purposefully overly smile. Then he'd see me, and I'd pretend to be caught and change my face into something miserable. It took awhile, but he finally got the joke and laughed with me.
@@ForrestKnutson Ah I understand, I am glad to hear he lightened up a bit and got the joke :-D
@@JK-nt8ou Yes, he did. Haha!
Sir, i am not yet initiated by a guru but i do meditate. now i feel sometimes when i concentrate to meditate. i feel the oscillation in my mind...it feels like i am feeling the earthquake but its not there for anybody else. Am i feeling something spiritual or is it my mind only? Please sir, its something i cannot explain to anybody...
That's the 2nd knot, the heart knot. See my video about the 3 knots of Lahiri Mahasaya. This is the 2nd one.
what do you think about the book Mastering Pranayama: From Breathing Techniques to Kundalini Awakening by Radhika Shah Grouven? thanks!
I haven't read that one. I'm all about HRV Resonance on this channel. It's the greatest pranayama technology on the planet.
@@ForrestKnutson Can a routine consist in only 1 pranayama? i am very new to yoga so i dont know what book or what routine should i focus first, thanks! (sry for my goblinoid english, not my first language lol)
Hi Forrest. Good to have found you here around a week ago.
I don't know if it could be called an awakening but I have been experiencing movement (of air?) In my spine from around 5 years now. I feel like it is stuck in the head( upper skull, like it's being pushed) , neck, throat and shoulder areas . Can sense things are heavy in other parts of the body as well when I focus in that area . I thought it will even out and heal itself on it's own with time , but that has not happened and I worry if this is going to be forever . confused about what to do about it. From the time of the 'event', mental and emotional states have been volatile.
Do you have any suggestions on what could I do to help my condition and any guesses of what is happening with me ? Your help will mean a lot.
Yes, that is the Kundalini Shakti at work. If we were close by, we could sit down and have a long talk. That not being possible...
I recommend you become as knowledgeable as possible about the Kundalini Process by reading these 2 books, if you can get them:
Joan Harrigan Books:
Kundalini Vidya: amzn.to/2DUOOB5
Stories of Spiritual Transformation: amzn.to/2R9w2sF
These 2 are also helpful:
Kundalini Rising: amzn.to/2MMR1CE
The Kundalini Guide: amzn.to/2NvISnt
Joan Harrigan began a wonderful project in
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They offer a consultation service where you can write in to them with your Kundalini symptoms, and they can offer suggestions on how to support and continue your particular Kundalini process. There are different potential routes that the Kundalini Shakti can take, and different places where it can become "stuck" and so different, suggestions can be more supportive than others. Often it is something that our own bodies and intuition have been telling us, but we've simply overlooked it somehow.
@@ForrestKnutson , thank you for a quick reply. :) . We can talk on googleHangouts etc at a time that's convenient for you, if there is something that you can share that could be of help.
The website says that the work is on hold as of now.
Could you from your understanding be able to say, if there is any internal damage ( nervous system etc) or if the work is merely in progress. I often experience trembling/tremors which become uncomfortable and embarrassing at times.
That is all normal. So, the first step is to accept that you are in the process, and that all of it is okay. That acceptance, not resisting whatever is needed, is often enough to make a big difference. No fear, no self judgement.
Please concentrate on the Medulla whenever you feel pressure. Even rub it with your hands, and put all of your mind there. Let me know how that helps.
Thank you Forrest for sharing your experiece. I would like to share mine if you don't mind about my own spiritual journey or more like a psychic experience. Ever since i can remember, i would have visions of things that will happen in the next 2-3 seconds. I always wondered how and why it happens. It reminds me of a Nicholas Cage movie titled NEXT. In this movie Nicholas would see things that will happen in the next 5 minutes. I also experienced SLOW MO effect thats when everything in my field of vision would move in slow motion just like when you push the slow mo button while watching a movie. This so far has only happened twice in my life. It happened while i was practicing martial arts and second was when i was in a emergency situation. I tried to replicate this feat or at least try to reverse engineer it . But i guest it was more a spontanious thing that got triggered. Thanks
Very cool! That's a wonderful experience! It makes sense that we are programmed for longevity, and that intuition is a part of that programming. I've had a couple experiences of perception slowing down and speeding up.
@@ForrestKnutson Nice, any idea why or how one's perception slows down or speed up ?
Thanks. I just discovered you yesterday. Could your coccyx actually become tender? Cause mine is. And I have recently found with with certain Inhalations I've had a sense of a spinning (a micro spin, which I've tried to embrace, as I feel it helps me deepen the meditation)
Welcome! Yes that's possible, as we all register internal somatic experience differently. ...The spiral is the 3rd knot of Lahiri Mahasaya. If you scan through my videos you should see a couple videos with this.
@@ForrestKnutson thank you for your quick reply! :-)
@@milenadeltorto2324 my pleasure!
Here's 2 of those videos:
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@@ForrestKnutson again, thank you. I've now heard both.
I wish there was some easy way for you to number your video work (in the order you'd think best to listen to).
There's so many and probably an optimal way to approach the guidance.(Maybe an index page?) Thanks again.
One time, when I was a teen, I was walking down the sidewalk of a busy and loud road. I was kind of deep into my own thoughts, and even though the traffic was loud, it was just background noise to my thoughts. My thoughts were light-hearted and not particularly important. Cars were whizzing by, horns were beeping, and also, someone was spinning their tires. All of a sudden, I heard a very loud crash and felt a burning sensation on the back of my calves, and without intention, I started high-stepping, football style, forward. The person that was spinning their tires, was not doing it intentionally, but because a fire hydrant was draining and she probably had bald tires, as she was turning onto the main road that I was walking on, she lost traction with the road and drove onto the sidewalk, extremely close to me. As far as I know, the car never touched me. I can understand my running, even if it wasn't a conscious decision to do so, because of the noise of the car hitting the curb, but what I don't understand is what caused me to feel a burning sensation on the back of my calves? I believe, ultimately, God saved me, but the intriguing thing is the process that was used. The reason why I bring it up after watching this video is maybe I was in some type of meditative mindset which left me open to the burning calves signal? Maybe it was an intense signal radiated from the woman who was driving the car and was trying to avoid hitting me? Sorry if this is off topic, I just think things like that are fascinating. A few other things in that realm have happened to me, too. Take care, and thank you for your work!
Amazing! Thank you for sharing! The Right brain, the Parent brain, is designed to look out for us continuously. Its view is omni-directional, and it operates without words. Often we find a way to short circuit its directions. In this case it was important enough for it to take over and save your life. Beautiful story! Yes, God saved you.
@@ForrestKnutson very cool insight; thank you! I've got some other cool and mysterious things that I've experienced, but I'll save them for another time. Take care!
Wonderful! Let me know... 😀
Forrest, how long since this happened?
I'm horrible with dates. I was in the Postulant Ashram. I remember the room it happened in. I think that was 2002, or 2003. It continued for the next 5 years until slowly balancing. At one point I couldn't talk more than 5 minutes about anything inspiring before getting a huge headache. Of course, the technique I was using at that time was kutastha focused, rather than medullary focused.
I have heard it said that you should pick only one god/goddess to follow in a kundalini sadhana because if you are devoted to two for example Krishna and Shiva that when the Kundalini begins to rise it will have two heads and thus will be split and instead of travelling up the Sushumna it will divert into the pingala and Ida,what is your take on this Forest ?
Great question! Kundalini Shakti is your body's own internal intelligence, and so the way it unfolds is all to do with your personal story, your needs (even physical as it will seek out injuries in order to work on them), and the specific meditations that you practice. This is one of the reasons I mention the importance of the medulla. That is a correct goal in Lahiri Mahasaya's kriya path. I've never heard of it splitting because of devotion to two god/goddesses. Ramakrishna was a case where he experienced a partial rising to the heart, and then had to let go of his devotional attachment so that he could complete the rising. Joan Harrigan talks a lot about partial risings. You might like her books. I have links for her on each video. Personally, all of them are dissolved in the understanding that it is the Higher Self that I'm seeking. In that understanding, Krishna is representative of the Medulla. His brother, Balarama, is one step above him. Most Goddesses represent the Kundalini Shakti, or the expression of Her unfoldment in the spine. So you see, it is all one. One path, one end experience, one truth.
Forrest Knutson thank you for the reply I asked after watching a CZcams of Satgurunath,mostly he stresses the importance of loyalty to one Satguru but at 18.20 of the video he talks about deities,would be interesting to hear how you interpret the video.
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I like what he's saying in terms of concentrating your efforts. These things are like orgone pumps, and the pump has to get going for the technique to work correctly. If you constantly change the mechanics of the pump -- in a fundamental way -- then you risk hampering the build of the pump. That being said, there's a lot of benefit in meditation to keeping it interesting in order to stave off the dreaded "sleepatation." So, I would say that was his core message, and not to worry about splitting a kundalini rising. I've never heard from anyone experiencing that. I've heard of MANY partial risings. That, I think would be a better subject to be concerned about. ...Now, if you're building a prayer practice, then you have to pick one Cosmic Model to build that prayer practice with. You have to build report and connection. And that won't work if you switch it often. Great question!
Why is the spiritual eye I see green rather than gold?
That happens it's usually an early version and as you go on it will turn more golden.
May you give us your teachings in spanish, please?
Okay Jose! Pronto haré un video en español. 🤩🙏
Did you also see snakes in your dreams, wonderful channel thank you
I don't remember that I ever had that. Others symbols came to me. I had a teaching dream about An Elevator Shaft, funny enough.
what people don't understand is considered a dream or madness. Scientists or rationalists are experts in this field. What if it was enough to induce a physical or mental rotational effect to awaken the kundalini? I am thinking in particular of the dance of the whirling dervishes.
I think so. I think that's what their practice is actually about. Not that there's any guarantee that it would happen quickly. However once you have had a deep experience it's easy enough to induce it by imagining it's happening to you.so the imagination becomes a gateway to the actual experience. In the same way that if you imagined yourself playing basketball every day you would get better at basketball in the real world.