Firstly, I sincerely thank all you people for having such an excellent place where we can share ideas and suggestions/guidance with people who are thinking about the same thing. I have sustained a tailbone injury recently (currently doing fine but having restrictions) and directed towards yoga by my doctor. I started reading about it on internet and this is how I came to know about chakra and kundalini. Since then, I have got a strong feeling that some apparently discrete events in past couple of years were actually a web of events to prepare my mind and to direct me here, and now I must make a conscious choice to follow this path. I have heard these names relating to chakra and kundalini and saw the pictures before, but these were mere names of some high level mystic ‘thing’, but now I got a lot more clarity and got to know the possibilities of following the path while living a common man’s life. As I plan to start, I have some questions:
What is the difference between ‘opening chakra’ and ‘awakening kundalini’ (both in terms of objective and procedure)?
My understanding says that my root chakra and sacral chakra is operating below normal. I can trace some reason to my budding years, and I think I am all set to set it right. Please tell me how to proceed to open them without triggering kundalini?
People sometimes appreciate my sense of humor, I have love in my heart and I can feel for others. May I consider that the third and fourth chakra is open or working properly?
At times I feel slight pressure followed by faint movement between my brows (third eye). It has increased in past couple of years, and I get it whenever I concentrate. Actually, couple of years ago, I read somewhere that life force centers between brows and people who meditates, concentrates here. I did not do meditation much but sometimes I used to concentrate here. Since then, I can feel this. I am very much fantasy prone, and it does not take much to get lost in an imaginary situation. When I laugh or I am tense, veins shows on my forehead (so the movement or pressure may be something very physical like sinus – ha ha, but the movement does not seem to follow the heartbeat). So what do you think about my third eye chakra?
I have read elsewhere also, and gone though elaborate experiences of people in AYP forum about a forced or premature awakening of kundalini. It made the best possible gift in their life (or may be lifes) the worst nightmare (my heartfelt best wishes for them for a speedy recovery and the taste of the bliss). I think I understood the statement that it better come a life time later than a minute too soon. Now, how do I know that I am not triggering kundalini when I am not ready, while I am working on chakras? And, how would I know when I am ready?
Something in the core of my heart says it will be a great thing to have the power awakened, however i have no clear idea. Would you please comment on what are the changes the life experiences when it wakes up the energy?
Thank you once again, and Om Shanti to all of you.