There is a large and growing community of people who have experienced a phenomenon known as kundalini, tummo, golden flower, or awakening. This used to be an extremely rare occurrance, often requiring a guru or teacher in order to reach it. Because so many have managed to “flip the cosmic light switch,” a group of people who have had little to no grounding in yogic practices or methods are suddenly dealing with the rammifications of such an occurrence.
There are many symptoms tied to awakening, and most of them are listed on this blog on the symptoms page found along the top menu of this blog. One of the symptoms or effects from the energetic event that is kundalini is a range of near flu-like symptoms. I am going to go into understanding this symptom and ways to cope with it if it happens to you.
I have had to deal with this symptom in a variety of ways throughout my awakening process. Before the full “rising event” I was experiencing bouts of diarrhea that had no apparent cause, something that would come and go about every three to four weeks in the run up to the fuller awakening or rising event that took place in January of 2007. I even went to the doctor for it, but nothing could be found that could have been the culprit. It was suggested that I try adjusting my diet, a mention of perhaps too many fats in my diet, or that I might be eating at odd hours. It was a kind of mouse that roared.
After the full rising event happened, just a week or two after my visit to the doctor, most of my initial stomach distress went away. I hadn’t felt flu-like symptoms through my body, just the odd coming and going of diarrhea. I never felt really sick. This was different, I just didn’t know how it was different at that time. Since my stomach trouble seemed to resolve itself, and with the blast up my spine not long after that, I quickly forgot about the incidents of that distress.
My awakening process was gradual, one that came in stages over 5 months,so while the energy hadn’t risen, it was moving.
Over the next two years, however, I would have more symptoms much more like flu. These were never marked by an elevated temperature, at least not one that I would consider out of the normal. But I would feel something very close to flu symptoms of a mild sort.
I would sometimes feel warm, but not hot. I would feel nausea the most. I would also feel a mild but fairly persistent nausea as if my stomach felt on edge. I would lose my appetite sometimes, but I never would throw up or feel so bad that I wouldn’t be able to work. Often, it could be pushed into the background and ignored.
During the first five years after awakening I had many changes physiologically, and from time to time stomach upset would come and go. In some cases it would affect my appetite somewhat, and at other times my appetite would not be significantly impacted. I went through periods where I couldn’t eat meat, and there were times when I would crave certain foods. There was a period during high energy that eating spicy foods would make me feel blissed-out, but that would cease after about six months, only to be replaced by some other facet of reactivity with digestion.
My sense has been, watching my own process, has been that stomach issues have remained but have changed, waxing and waning depending on the way in which the energy, prana, has flowed or has been blocked along certain channels in what we know or call the light body.
I found that there were foods that I was directed to eat at one stage by a being who unceremoniously entered my bedroom early in the morning hours, showing me what some of them should be.
I was shown that during this early stage of awakening that I should eat eggs for protein. I was also shown cantaloupe. I ate both. I found that the cantaloupe had an unexpected yet welcomed effect of smoothing out the energy. This worked for about a year after this initial experience. I think the changeability was due to my own working through the knots or samscaras, suppressed emotion, that was rapidly being liberated from my system. My reaction to foods was based on my inner process I observe, dependent in part to the effects that stored emotion has in a body “lit up” by this excess of energy.
I continue to eat a lot of eggs as a protein source. I also have found duck eggs to be very good I suspect because ducks are a very calm bird. Their chemistry I suspect has an effect on what compounds wind up in their eggs.
Overall I have found bland foods, often grains, have been helpful. I have found oatmeal to be soothing while providing good amounts of fiber. At one point I lived on the stuff because of what I was going through digestively.
If you have read through my blog you might know about the five month period where I inexplicably lost my appetite. I began to fast and never felt hungry. I did eat a meal each week, though, because I felt like it might not be healthy to simply not eat. The very curious thing about this is that while I did lose weight, I didn’t lose as much as I thought I would. It was kind of bizarre, really. I had developed sensitivity to potato a couple of years previously and I suspected that I was mildly sensitive to wheat as well. I tried to avoid it, but never cut it (wheat) out completely.
My appetite returned after this period and I went on to eat like a horse, and a range of foods.
I found that high fiber foods were very good. There would be times when I would eat close to a vegetarian diet while at other times I ate like a caveman. I would say, though, that a plant diet has been the kindest to my system.
I would reccomend having a powdered milk protein that you can mix up in smoothies when your stomach feels bad. You can experiment with nutrients. I was using blue-green algae for nutrition as well as fruits and vegetables. I was given a juicer right at the time when I thought juicing might be a good thing to do. Sometimes a liquid diet is very soothing. I often took lunch at work as a shake or drink with good nutrition. I often did this by taking a thermos to work to provide this during my short lunch period.
It turns out that in the Hindu system, melon is used to “cool” kundalini. That means cucumber, watermelon, honeydew, and cantaloupe are all good. Cucumber is surprisingly nutritious and can be used to calm your system at the same time. Consider how you can include cucumber and these melons in your diet. While cantaloupe was prescribed specifically to me by a guide, you might find other melons as helpingto “cool” the energy as you experience. While melon didn’t calm my stomach, it had at a specific period in my process a positive overall effect on the energy as a whole. You could say it calmed my mind and response to the energy.
When worse comes to worse, pepto-bismal has calmed my stomach. I suspect that it should only be used occasionally, though. It may be that other things that coat the stomach can soothe it during periods of irritability.
Nausea is often felt as a result of the stomach producing mucus. Mucus is a way to protect the stomach lining, and mucus is what can cause nausea. For me, nausea is a sign that I am running strong energy or that blocks are being dissolved. I have learned that mild nausea is part of the experience. Small buts of some foods, mentioned above (bland grains-if you don’t have reactions or allergies to them).
Broths can be beneficial if you are having trouble with heavier foods. Try bone broths, or vegetable broths, created by cooking these things down. You can create flavor by first sauteeing them, browning some of the vegetables first. Consider using oils like roasted sesame, which will impart lovely flavor once the vegetables have been browned, then boiled. Other light soups can be very soothing. Miso has been particularly good. I can add ginger (which is soothing to the stomach) and garlic along with onion and other vegetables and udon noodles (Japanese noodles-found in Asian food markets most often) if you want to go all out.
It’s important to listen to your body through this process. Make adjustments when you do not feel well. What grains work? What protein sources feel the best to you? Are uncooked vegetables better or do cooked work better? I say this because awakening has a great deal of variability that its hard to say exactly where you are in how the energy is impacting you. It can change from day to day!
During times when I feel like not eating, often it has been eating that has been the very thing that helped calm my system. Nothing has led me to think that only a vegetarian diet was THE way to go forward, but a vegetarian diet is a healthy one provided you keep your diet balanced so you get enough protein and iron.
I suspect that some stomach problems are linked to awakening. Celiac and other conditions considered permanent I suspect can be brought on by a reaction to prana (this is not to say celuac IS a condition stemming from awakening only). I have observed a few historical cases of individuals who showed a level of awakening who also had stomach trouble.
I hope that this helps you and that it gives you some insights and ideas of your own for caring for your system. Additionally, I would be interested in your own experience, whether it is similar or different. This blog is about helping understand and come to grips with this phenomenon.
Blessings…
Waking The Infinite 
Thank you for this sharing. As for experiencing flu-like symptoms, I’ve experienced times (like this past Monday) when I disagreed with my husband, and because of his wiring combined with being 100% unhealed and unaware, he became deeply emotionally triggered. My body responded by creating a shift of energy within me (as it does when he gets upset). Something deep within me became activated and when I fell exhaustedly into bed that night, I shivered for a few hours until I was finally able to fall asleep. Then heat moved in. I woke up a few times too hot. The next few days I had no appetite and had diarrhea as my system purged. When this happened a year or two ago I’d have all of these symptoms, but I’d also feel like I’d taken a cannon blast to my solar plexus, as it would ache for a few days or more. Back during the first year of my awakening, I had days when I’d feel chills and shiver for a few hours, followed by heat moving into either my whole body or parts (like just my lower legs). I recognized it as energy moving and shifting.
As for food, it seems like the higher I’ve ascended, the more sensitive I’ve become to foods. I’ve taken a food allergy blood test a few times over the past several years and have been to an intuitive healer who muscle tested my body to a bunch of foods. What can be really frustrating is before Kundalini opened, I’d done a lot of healing work around food cravings so it was easy to leave foods alone that my body didn’t resonate with. Yet now that I’m so unbelievably ungrounded and not myself I find myself craving and giving into cravings for foods that leave me feeling even more ungrounded, tired, foggy headed, and exhausted.
Sometimes I need more meat and protein and other times I only want fruits and veggies. I generally follow what my body is wanting when I’m feeling more balanced (which hasn’t been often enough). Thanks for sharing about the cucumbers and melons. There have been times when I’ve craved a vegan pesto with lemon juice in it (spinach or basil, nuts, olive oil, fresh garlic and lemon juice), so I’ll have it for days in a row on gluten free pasta. (Gluten and wheat aren’t my friends lately). One persistant desire has been for cacao, mostly in the form of very dark chocolate. It will be interesting to see what I can and can’t eat in the next 5-10 years.
Thank you for your feedback, it has the variation I knew probably was out there and which varies from my own experience, and its good to hear about. It is interesting to see how your body processes the energy as heat and stronger symptoms in areas of the spectrum that are different from my own.
I only had one noticeable heat event that began on its own (no singular event I could point to as the catalyst for it), which caused me some alarm because the heat became unusually high, higher than anything I had been accustomed to. I leapt out of bed, looking at my torso which had gotten beet red, wondering if I would catch fire. By that time, the episode had passed. For whatever reason, this heat never seemed to couple itself with flu symptoms or to express that way, so it’s good to see another experience where it looks like it has. I think
I always felt like my gut was getting electrocuted, reacting mostly with nausea.
It would be hard for me to remain in an environment with others who were unhealed and not concerned with that work. It’s one reason why my spouse and I naturally, or unnaturally, divided ways some years ago. But I applaud your dogged persistence in your relationships.
Was your shivering brought on in the same way as one shivers from having a high temperature, or did it feel different?
Believe you me, it is hard to live in a home where no one is interested in healing and they live with things like anxiety and ADHD. It truly sucks but I’m basically stuck here for now. If I had energy, could support myself and didn’t have to homeschool my son, we might have separated. But my full-time job for the past 17 years has been taking care of my son (who lives with invisible disabilities).
As for the shivers, yes, it was a lot like shivering from having a temperature, without having a temperature. Like the room was suddenly too cold. The first time I felt heat spontaneously in my body was actually a few years before Kundalini opened. I was watching a video about Andara crystals and when one of the crystals were shown I suddenly felt heat on my back, behind my heart. It was bizarre! There have been many other times when I’ve felt heat here or there in my body but none that were so intense as to feel on fire (as some people experience), and none that turned my skin red, as happened with you. The feelings you experienced of your gut getting electrocuted must have been horrible! The worst I’ve felt there was feeling like I’d been hit by a cannonball. Really big aches and some pain. Had aches and pains around other places in my body as well. And sometimes itching (from nerves I think). Oh the fun of unbridled Kundalini energy!
When I say electrocuted, I mean what a few extra volts might do over the course of weeks, months. For me, it creates a slight tension, a feeling of protection of that area…which makes things worse overall. So loosen, breathe, let go, let the energy flow and trust this is leading somewhere. It always does.
I have had those same odd reactions with things. I found a book called The Triadic Heart Of Shiva and began having spontaneous mudra reactions aling with a sudden heart opening just a few sentences before I got to a part about… opening the heart.
You reminded me an experience I had few years ago. When I felt like 2m balloon and all senses had been working on 1000% I didn’t have to even eat food to know it energetical value, just look and all was known. For sure meat coffee and cigarettes are most grounding stuff. We have to understand that veggie is not relevant in the beginning. Body is telling exactly what we need. There is period for meat, sauer products etc. I mentioned in previous posts about solar plexus. It could be painful process ( I couldn’t walk for few months. Absolutely depleated ) there could be change in the mood and revaluation. Many things loose its meaning. I have noticed that food is really good to slow down kundalini when energy flow to quick.
By the way is there any chance to make an topic about third eye and opening process.
Wow.
I thought I had a post on the third eye and I searched. I found a post a few years ago but I didn’t find it very clear. I will see if I can put something together that is a little simpler and more straightforward.
Would be grate. I have noticed some changes especially when close my eyes trying to fall a sleep. ( Places and pictures pop up, they seems to be random but vividness is outstanding )
Well sounds like your third eye is active. I find silencing mind and not trying, no doing, but focusing there, I can get images to resolve. Very gently, I try to move into the scene. This is hard because as soon as I think “Hey I’m doing it!” That state breajs the spell. Its almost like being asleep…but awake.
Exactly 🙂 they start to appear when mind stop being active. Somewhere between awake and sleep. When I realize that thing I see are not seen by my eyes I get excited then all fade away within few seconds.
Yep!
It is very comforting to read about your experiences. As much as I try to stay away from letting my ego become identified with different journeys, it does help to know that others are going through this. I had a long bout of diarrhea 2 years ago after a spiritually intense year and figured it was related to the changes in me, but thought that maybe the energy is making me become more sensitive to certain foods (I suspected dairy). My results were fine, and it all calmed down after about 2 or 3 months. I too, lost my appetite completely, but forced myself to eat once a day, mainly because people were getting really concerned as I lost quite a lot of weight. After about 6 months of very little eating, I felt I needed to ground myself more as I was shrinking away (it became a constant worry for my environment), and reluctantly started strengthening myself by working out every day, although I still prefer going for long walks in nature. This put me back in a stronger physical shape, grounded me mentally and also balanced my appetite. In the end I think the middle way is always the best. Staying a little grounded in physicality, but focusing on the spiritual aspects. I feel the same as you, like the moment something happens, diarrhea appears. And also I constantly feel all my emotions passing through that area.
On another note, in indian yogic food categories cantaloupe is high on the list of sattvic foods as one of the best that is highest in prana.
I’m glad it helped. It’s equally helpful to me to hear your story in regards to this issue because in the beginning I thought something was wrong with me. I just tried my best to trust that this issue with appetite was yet another one of those things. And it was. For all I know, it may have detoxified our bodies of some hitherto unknown thing, or maybe it accelerated a replacement of body tissue for who knows what reason, a kind of dying off in order to better deal physiologically with this new condition? Who knows, maybe we will find out one day. What I do know is no one is doing any research of any substance on this phenomenon thst I am aware of, so until then sharing this information is what we have. So thank you.
I didn’t know about the tie-in with cantaloupe (is sattvic part of ayurveda? I really should get up to speed on that stuff).
Yes and also yogic diet that helps purify the body/mind of spiritual seekers/ monks in monasteries. But I learned most of what I know when I was on Vipassana silent retreats and helped out in the kitchen :). Papa Google may tell you more solid information.
Thank-you, I will dig into that. If I may, did Vipassana play a role in your awakening?
In my case, definitely. It taught me how to really focus and meditate, after many years of “meditation”. After Vipassana it was like the switch came on. Everything in me and around me started speeding and opening up. I consider it one of the few true methods out there that managed to escape being diluted into pop-spirituality or transformed into religion/cult. But it was just one very important step that put me on track, and after it others came. Self inquiry and meditation is kind of ongoing now. TRE (I found your site many years ago looking for information on TRE, THANK YOU!) in my experience is another very important tool, people do not realize yet how greatly it speeds up the opening of the soul/body.
That is very interesting. I have made a lot of noise about doing this without a teacher or method, and it’s been to drive home the point that once we get that initial inner linkage right, the rest can actually fall into place quite organically….but that said, I must admit that I had a couple of pretty key things come my way at just the right time that drove that initial movement forward. One of these was a meditation technique that required me to silence my mind in a way I had not done before in the type of meditation I had been doing for years before this one simple method came. While it wasn’t Vipissana, I suspect from what little I do know of the technique/retreat that this ingredient is one very important one. I guess it is the goal of most meditation techniques, I just didn’t get there before this because I used meditation for calming my mind and body and to feel my energy (without bringing the two sides of the energy together in that linkage that I suspect drives the larger process of awakening forward).
Before TRE, though, I had a lot of very good results going to a weekly Chi Gung (Gong) class that did White Crane style. It was like learning dance moves, dozens and dozens of them. I just followed along because it was hard for me to remember all of them. This was pretty eye opening for me because of how it helped to accelerate the release of stored material. In fact it made me feel sick after the first week, but my good friend who knew more about this than I did said not to stop because it was a sign of it working really well. It was one instance where having a group and a teacher who knew the moves was helpful. My sense is that TRE workes on the core, especially the hips and legs where the really deep stuff seems to be stored. This has been the hardest for me to release. Maybe because it is so fundamental, or maybe it is more fresh and is getting triggered the most in my crazy monkey mind in the day to day? But after hundreds of releases, I have been able to see or realize, I can cletsr that too if I can just bring love, surrender, and grace to the moment.
And I completely agree with you on not needing a teacher! 🙂 It is similar to the ego always looking outside and projecting, even looking for God or Jesus outside. As long as the attention is outside on another person or thing, the mind escapes turning inward.
But… it is easier to see things now, it was not as easy at the beginning. And I distinctly remember being very lost and fed up with half truths, trendy teachings after several years of seeking and I remember asking the universe to help me find a clear path, that can take me to the truth, because I felt that the meditations and all the spiritual seeking that I was doing was not taking me closer to God.
I learned since then that you have to become very conscious of what you want and ask, and it WILL come, but in the early period there is so much haziness, so much not knowing. A good, practical, guruless guidance may be very useful, because the temptation to idolize another person is strong at that phase. And of course, we also have to be ready for the information to sink in, but that is another issue. And yes, the difference in the meditation is amazing to me. Just by learning to really focus and silence the mind you suddenly understand. It is like being given shaktipat, you learn what it is all about and have a reference point, even if you fall back into mindlessness after it.
I read a lot about how Chi Gung is very effective and if you have such a strong reaction it might be what you have to work with. You are doing such great work, but still stayed balanced and practical, while all the time being led by the heart.
Regarding TRE, for me the tremors move into the lower back, the psoas muscle and trigger the K. energy very strongly. Now, when I am in stressful situations the same tremor appears instantly and I shiver inside even if I am among people. BUT I noticed the same sudden shiver when I have a big release in meditation or a realization in self inquiry about a false concept. It all ties together. But I am still learning.
As you open more and more, listening to yourself and where the energy takes you is probably more than enough, like in your case.
For me at the moment, I feel that meditation, TRE and energy work (I had Bowen and Craniosacral for about a year) is not always enough to bring into consciousness the disowned parts that are stuck really deep down. Like Ram Dass said, if you feel you are so enlightened, go and spend a week with your family 🙂 I can still be triggered in daily life. So I focus on intense self inquiry/ shadow work, too.
I think you really hit on some important points regarding the genesis of the phenomenon, part of which is your mention of turning inward to ask the question (“is this all there is,” or “I want to know what is behind all of this” and similar kinds of direct ontological questions). That, coupled with quiting the mind, tapping the part that resides in that seeming silent part of our consciousness (mirrored at least in part by the brain–dominant linear left vs nonlinear spacious right) is often what drives many awakenings-a unitary state ultimately….at least as I have seen so far.
What is so remarkable to me is what you touched on, which for me is how the nature of events change as consciousness changes. By that I mean how events begin to track our thoughts or intent….to the point where if it is important and a clear hope/wish/desire, that intent can manifest itself in hours or days and in ways that boggle the mind and our traditional view of how we think reality works. It reveals to me that the fabric of reality is designed to support our own creative drives by way of intent/desire alone absent any effort physically to make it happen.
I think you hit on a really important part of releasing the deeper stuff when you mentioned the psoas. The Hindu consider this muscle the “seat of the soul” and my observation is that may be because that muscle is responsible for storing many early traumas, and is the hardest to get to and deal with. But clear that muscle of that collective tension, and you create a foundation free from those deepest of fears and reactive moments. I am keenly aware of just how much my right hip has something stored in it. I have been putting it off because as I approach these blocks they always look so much bigger in the front-view than they actually are. I need to get on it and begin releasing from that location.
Just as an aside, I had the same tightness in my left hip, but that was released after, of all things, I had a visit from my grandmother who had died earlier that same day. I had laid down for quick nap, exhausted from the emotions stemming from the news of her death earlier that day. Then “bing!” She is right there, next to me talking to me, describing in detail what her death was like and how she had a lively reunion with family members who she had not seen in many decades. As she left, she turned and reached out with her hand, touching my left hip. Just like that, the hip released everything in it. Along with it came an old memory of me from a past life where I had been a woman and had been kept a prisoner because of my ability as an oracle. Telling, because this came out of the left “yin” side of the energy body. This really put the yang or right hip block under a bright light and it has been suffering from stage fright ever since! I really need to get a move on. For me, though, it showed me how sometimes releasing these blocks can be very simple. It was like she just tapped me with a magic wand and poof! No syruggle, no hard work, just gone if I could be ready. As open as I was, maybe that had a role in how easy it released. Or maybe because I am focused as a man this time that makes the left easier to let go and the right side so stubborn…anyway….
So here’s to all of our success at clearing and cleaning out those dusty corners!
Wow, the story with your grandmother is so sweet. Theoretically it is that easy, it is the mind that makes letting go so complicated. I would put out an honest intent about wanting to find out/let go of the blockages in the right hip (first inquiring into what the resistance is really about, to clear it). It will bring some kind of answer.
Seeing you as a man operating more from the heart and body (as we should to balance out this left brained world, and K. also brings this on) just made me realize where I, as a woman, still lean towards the yang and work more through the mind, due to my early experiences. It is interesting that even a conversation like this can bring so much insight into the self.
Yes, here’s to all of our success in this great adventure, I am happy we got connected.
Well…I haven’t abandoned the rational. I use it maybe a bit too much gor my own good, but if I can keep its capabilities in perspective with the larger side to the equation, I seem to be able to keep a decent balance between it and the cosmic.
Nice to have had this impromptu chat with you from other sides of the world.
I really enjoyed reading this piece, along with all the comments. Thanks to everyone. And like one or two others, I have felt happy to read something about ‘kundalini and diet’ which resonates.
To be truthful, I have not found very much material ‘out there’ on the topic which has been very helpful, or which seems to speak very much to my own life. This article does so far more. I like the pragmatic, down-to-earth, human tone of it, rather than long lists of do’s-and-don’ts about food.
When kundalini awoke, my digestive system was already a bit of a mess. It was actually in a long, slow process of recovery from ‘IBS’ type symptoms. IBS seems a bit of a catch-all expression, but fits the bill. It was the result of years of living with too much stress, anxiety, life not quite being on track – the usual stuff. A couple of months after the kundalini energy really got going, it began to work its way up my colon, and eventually throughout the digestive system. It was smoothing out the digestive tract, healing the trauma captured there. I was intensely grateful.
Since then, real IBS has not properly re-emerged, but I experience similar bouts of diarrhea, or maybe just going to the loo more frequently than I want, as described in the article and comments. I sometimes feel the energy in the intestinal tract, simultaneously bringing bliss and exciting it.
I have been vegetarian for forty years; maybe I am an interesting case study! In general, I have found my body increasingly sensitive to food and diet since the appearance of kundalini. I don’t eat a lot of vegetables, my body generally prefers fruit. Some tropical fruits, like papaya, mango, go well. Lots of bananas.
A simple diet works best. Some people would find it boring, but I find it tasty enough. Not too many different foodstuffs in any meal, and no complicated recipes. A little and often is also preferable, so the body is not overloaded. I also try to eat little processed or manufactured food. Orthodox scientists may tell us that there is no difference between a freshly-cooked carrot and one out of the supermarket freezer and into the microwave, but experience tells me that energetically they are very different. No prizes for guessing which one the stomach is happier with….
‘Appetite’. In times of strong kundalini flow, I can happily go without eating much food at all. I may feel hungry, but it’s just a sensation that I don’t take too much notice of. However, being a skinny guy, in these times I make the effort to eat a reasonable amount of food. I have had two or three periods of intense, insatiable appetite, however. It seems connected to the seasons, as they have always happened in late autumn.
There was one in particular, about three months after kundalini first arose. My wife and I were going on a weekend break away. I sat for two hours on the coach with a huge empty hole in my stomach, and began to hallucinate eating meat. ‘I need a huge juicy steak’ I said to my wife, who was quite surprised.
We got to the hotel and went for dinner. ‘Are you going to have that meat then?’ ‘No, I’ll leave that for now.’ I ordered an Indian dish, vegetable biryani, maybe. The food arrived and I began to eat voraciously. Some of the vegetable ingredients seemed a bit strange in texture, and then I realised. The chef had made a mistake, and this was chicken biryani! ‘Tell them they made a mistake, and take it back’ my wife said. ‘No way! The Universe has given me my meat, and I’m going to enjoy it’.
Thank you, all-knowing Universe.
And that’s it for now.
I cycle between meat and a vegetable diet. Last week I went to my go-to place, a salad bar. I find thst I think my body is now better suited to that diet….but then when in the market I saw tenderloin on sale. Sigh…
But fruit…I have a daughter who is vegetarian and said to me, “Dad, I think I could just eat fruit.” I said that I totally get that. I could to. Shades of the character Prot from the movie Kpax stirred in my mind.
People say how vegetarianism changes ones vibration. I am not sure that is so. Seems what I do inwardly determines that…but that said, I think a vegetarian diet probably supports a body chemistry that is amenable to a range of chemistry for greater calm and clarity of mind.
I don’t know why, perhaps the tightness in my hip, perhaps a remaining series of blocks clustered there, building a tension that radiates up through the gut into the stomach and solar plexus…the last dragon.
The curious thing, something I was concerned with years ago once I saw that the hardest blocks would go last most likely.
Early on, I came into this with a lot of turbulence and intensity. I learned to rely on that turbulence to shake things loose. After years of working with this to open up to letting this work, I had hundreds of releases big and small. About two or three yesrs ago things got smoother. Nice, actually. On the other side of the coin, it has made this last bit harder to remove. I am suspecting that I need to do some deep hip work stretching into the right psoas muscle and breathing deep into it. Maybe, finally after all of this, some hot yoga or other work.
OT, but just wanted to say thanks for the blog and articles. My K process really doesn’t want me to read much these days, but I get the odd chance every so often, and I enjoyed reading the interviews yesterday.
You are very welcome. Glad to be of service when needed!
As an aside, something that this discussion sparked between the post, comments by others, here is an interesting tidbit, maybe something to look into—it might have to be tested first but it sounds like it could be tied in? Here goes…
So Im scrolling down my Instagram feed and this lady is talking about different intestinal flora is tied to both weight gain and weight loss. Not so tied in, but she talks about a cabbage concoction along with salt (this sounds like saurkraut, which is known to be a powerful probiotic) and how it supports not only good weight but it helps to alleviate a number of symptoms that *might* be in the spectrum along with kundalini effects. It also helps with bloating as well as intestinal distress and Crohns disease.
I do have to wonder if this might be of assistance for us as well? I am not fond of saurkraut. I don’t think O gave eaten it since my spouse and I parted ways soon after my awakening got underway. But maybe its worth trying again.
One consideration, though, is commercial pickled products often are laced with preservatives. The guy who stocks the shelves of my local market got in a discussion about pickles and it was clear he knew how modern practices are a world away from how they are normally done at home….in a crock and allowed to…ferment. “I wouldn’t eat anything on this aisle because of the chemistry they have in them” he explained. So maybe home made. How hard is it? Not hard at all.
When I was seven a local German family took us under their wing and came over to show us how ‘kraut was made. It was incredibly simple. It it sliced, layered, and salted, then covered for a set period of time. You could make it in small batchesi on your kitchen counter. So maybe I will give it a whirl and see what it does for me. Just a thought…
I’m always curious about other’s symptoms, which can vary it looks like.