Crisis Management
We do not have metamorphosis, metamorphosis “has” us. It is Kundalini
itself that is the Guru and teacher, question and the answer. You “make way” for
Kundalini, you get out of the road, you stop resisting, you learn to ride the power...
but the idea of controlling it is naive. In pure Necessity, kundalini will only take you
through events and intensity essential to the development of the Self. Kundalini
is a runaway train that one spontaneously has to learn how to drive. However the
more one learns how to drive the train the faster it goes. But if one defaults and
resists learning how to drive the train, it ends up derailing in a crash. Friction and
difficulty occur not so much from the process itself but from our conscious and
unconscious interference with it due to not understanding what is going on or
where we are going.
Because metamorphosis assumes precedence over all other life processes it will
continue by drawing energy from other functions. This loss of normal function
could pose as a crisis for those whose circumstances cannot accommodate such a
shift. A steady increase in the difficulty of meaningful work is perhaps one of the
most essential components of navigating the storm of awakening successfully and
re-integrating oneself into purposeful relationship to the world. The fact that we
are most often forced to make a living is a saving grace to those recovering from
kundalini for it forces us out in relation to the world. Studies show that doing
complex work as a main occupation lowers our risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The
researchers theorize that performing complex tasks may have an exercise-like effect
that builds up the “cognitive reserve” in the brain. This is reinforcement for the old
axiom “what you don’t use you lose.”
If we have had a trauma background there will be a need to do more orbitofrontal-
limbic neural networking by engaging in such activities such as bonding, playing
with kids, animals, martial arts and coordination, motor skills, sensory stimulation
work etc.... BEFORE you do any primal therapy and de-repression work. Normally
emotional regulation and the orbitofrontal-limbic link are built within the course
of healthy family life. But if there was abuse or deficiency in this you must build
up your container yourself as an adult. Then you can go do peyote, rebirthing,
holotropic breathing and other primal therapies. First build then regress, build,
regress and then all that terror (protest-despair) contained in your original wiring
will be released in a manageable fashion. If you do the primal therapies without
doing the orbitofrontal work as well, (when normal consciousness is perturbed by
whatever means) your limbic brain and brainstem will just take over and act out,
for they are trying to purge your original traumatic memory.
Because the activity of the limbic brain and brainstem is greatly activated
during Kundalini awakening, this offers the perfect opportunity for old neurology
to take wholesale control over your normal cognitive functions in order to
express its “protest”. It does this because our normal repressive mechanisms are
usually very strong and keep it “down.” The stronger your repressive mechanism