Shanti,
You said the sensations are like minty cold and warm. I sometimes feel something like that in my back. What is it? I don't think that is kundalini because if that is kundalini i am not aware of chakras and i am not percieving higher planes, seeing light or hearing sounds.
It is like along the spine but it branches out, especially around the mid to lower back. I've noticed that when i feel happy the sensations there increase. It is very similar to something i used to get that people call a shiver down the spine but the temperature sensations (that is how i usually describe it) are different to anything i have experienced before.
I feel pressure on my crown, medulla and bindu points, roughly corresponding. But you see, i used to get panic attacks which would create pressure in my head and i put these sensations down to anxiety. I also feel pressure or pain sensations in my eyes. ONe time when i had a very bad attack the doctors gave me valium and i felt these pressures receed backwards into the medulla and then poof! vanished completely. But that was many years ago and now i just feel a dull sensation that sometimes feels painful and especially when i meditate. In fact, i haven't had a proper sleep in many years because as i said in another post i like having a drink at night and i know that if i don't do that i will lie down, close my eyes and the pressure will rise up into my head and i won't have a nice time. When i close my eyes to meditate, soon enough the pressure "rises" up and i feel incredibly uncomfortable.
If these are kundalini symptoms then perhaps it explains why i have never heard of anything similar anywhere in literature or from doctors who explain that anxiety usually manifests in the chest area, whereas i feel it all in the head.
