Kundalini and the Art of Being ... 91imbalances are. If you go deeper into the pain and discomfort instead
of moving away from it, then you can find its source and resolve it.
Using the body in mutual cooperation with the more subtle spiritual
energies is essential in facilitating healing.
If you don’t know what to do, then try whatever you feel might help.
Pay attention to the effects of whatever you try. Allow your deeper
knowing/higher self to guide you through the process. Fully live the ex-
perience, to the extent that you can. Go walking or jogging, work in the
garden, take lots of warm showers, go to hot springs, do yoga or tai chi,
sing and dance, walk barefoot, meditate if you find it helpful, practice
whatever spiritual discipline you normally practice, read about other
people’s experience with Kundalini (such as you’re currently doing), and
seek out people having similarly strange or difficult experiences. Basi-
cally, make a point of doing something, of getting out and living your
life, rather than simply freezing up in fear and pain. It’s remarkable how
small, subtle things can completely change your point of view some-
times, just by getting the energy moving in the right direction. Basically,
what it all comes down to is: Energy not moving is painful; energy mov-
ing feels good. So, do whatever helps you to get the energy moving.
In my case, to my extreme distress, I followed a route that led me
through more pain and anguish before I began to experience anything
that felt like real healing. To compound what was already unmanage-
able, unbearable pain throughout my physical, mental, emotional,
and spiritual bodies, my suffering become greatly increased when I
had an accident a few months after my initial Kundalini experience.
I was visiting my best friend from childhood, Abram, who was liv-
ing in Willits (the town near where I was raised), about twenty miles
north of Ukiah. He lived in a cabin on some land in the woods a few
miles out of town, where he wrote, played music, and engaged in his
many creative projects, when he wasn’t working at the burrito shop
in town, that he owned with his older brother.
One of his many creative projects was a skateboard ramp, which
he had built along with his brother. I went to visit him one weekend