being done, thus we can loose a lot of weight this way. People often report rapid
weight loss during their first awakening especially when this radical shock is more
in effect than in latter awakenings. Remember this shock is autonomic, we have no
control over it, except perhaps if we are an advanced yogi. The brain is a hologram
of the body, so the condition of various tissues throughout the body is reflected
in the nature of the brain. An occluded dead pelvis for instance would have its
corresponding occlusion and deficiency in the brain structure and chemistry. Thus
when we have kundalini moving through the pelvis it is simultaneously moving
through a particular pathway in the brain. The end result of this chemistry seems
to be an unlocking of connective tissue, a loosening of the entire body armor and
reduction in the pain of the pain-body.
Kriyas are seizure type impulses related to certain neurotransmitters and areas
in the brain. Traditionally it was thought kriyas were purifying movements or
cleansing actions revealing blocks to the flow of kundalini. They say that yoga arose
through observing the various spontaneously arising positions (asanas) created by
kriyas. I think this might be partly the case...whether a voluntary complying with
the way the energy wants to go, or involuntary compulsory asanas. It was assumed
that kriyas, or the spontaneous convulsions and contorted movements produced
by kundalini are stress being released in order to unblock and restructure the tissue
to convey greater consciousness. However kriyas are best explained in terms of
neurochemistry such as the “over excitation or disinhibition” of the body’s glycine
and GABA-producing neurons in the brain centers that coordinate movement. So
that the nervous system is all “go” and the inhibiting off-switch is incapacitated.
I think they are probably convulsive discharges of the letting go of the freeze
response and from spontaneous firing through the motor areas in the brain. The
convulsions are more likely to be the result of kindling type brain chemistry that
perpetuates itself and slowly changes nerves, brain and cells—until the whole body
is transformed to a higher rev state.
Kriyas might be painful with the spontaneous contraction of muscles, not
everyone experiences kriyas though. Mostly kundalini is not associated with pain
because of the extreme levels of opiates produced. Traditionally the spinal knots
that kundalini penetrates are called grathis. In the East they say the root chakra,
heart and third eye charkas are the greatest obstacles to the rising of kundalini.
However, the process is not linear, it moves with the seasons, returning again and
again to the same spot to work at a deeper level each time.
During acutely active kundalini it feels like there is white light flowing inside
the body and illuminating the world—a pervading sense of white even though one
cannot actually see it as white—it’s like we see white with our whole body. This
sense of whiteness maybe due to a general increase in nerve action potential and
the increased ionization of cerebrospinal fluid.
Visual acuity (transcendental vision) goes up in the heating and peak phases
of kundalini due to stimulation to the occipital lobe where the visual cortex lies,
and to increased pituitary hormones, nitric oxide, histamine, phenylethylamine,
dopamine, norephinephrine...and increased blood flow to the brain. Color is