Anthem, FWIW, in my experience, it's hard to differentiate between kundalini going "quiet and unnoticeable in the background" and kundalini going into dormancy. There were times when I felt it was the former, and then I'd suddenly have a big dramatic awakening, and say "ah, right...ok, yeah, THAT'S kundalini", though it was a bit less "dramatic" each time that happened (and it happened with geometrically increasing frequency). If you get buzzy ears from awake kundalini (as many of us seem to), that's the best bellweather. Better yet, of course, is to pay it no attention at all. But I, myself, am forced to monitor, because my "overdoing" headroom can shrink down to nothing if I'm not careful..
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This doesn't seem to fit with any AYP models on the evolution of the inner energies as I seem to be going in the other direction? There is emotional goood feelings (bliss?), but also not intense, and only when I am on the right side of the equation with practices and not over. Just general feelings of being happy and feeling love easily, some days now stretching from practice to practice for the most part and then to bedtime if I am lucky
That is very much a fit with the AYP model, actually.
You hit a point where you are no longer "waiting for something to happen". You know what happens...kundalini drama....and it becomes familiar enough that you realize it's just another experience. And it's so intense that you realize there's nothing else that can "happen", no other "experience" that will make you say "OK, I'm there!"....and you are finally able to truly settle in to doing practices like brushing teeth, without expectations, and that's when heady ecstasy starts coagulating into low-humming bliss.