20 Facts About Kundalini

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Kundalini is associated with Parvati or Adi Parashakti, the supreme being in Shaktism; and with the goddesses Bhairavi and Kubjika.

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Kundalini awakenings are said to occur by a variety of methods.

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Kundalini Yoga is influenced by Shaktism and Tantra schools of Hinduism.

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The Kundalini experience is frequently reported to be a distinct feeling of electric current running along the spine.

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Kundalini arose as a central concept in Shaiva Tantra, especially among the Sakta cults like the Kaula.

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Kundalini's is pure bliss and power, the source of all mantras, and resides in the six chakras along the central channel.

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Yoga gurus consider that Kundalini can be awakened by shaktipat, or by spiritual practices such as yoga or meditation.

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Kundalini's, rising from the lowest to the highest lotus center will pass through and wake the five between, and with each waking, the psychology and personality of the practitioner will be altogether and fundamentally transformed.

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Yoga and Tantra propose that Kundalini can be awakened by a guru, but body and spirit must be prepared by yogic austerities, such as pranayama, or breath control, physical exercises, visualization, and chanting.

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Kundalini is considered to occur in the chakra and nadis of the subtle body.

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Kundalini is described as a sleeping, dormant potential force in the human organism.

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Kundalini is described as being coiled up at the base of the spine.

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Kundalini is said to reside in the triangular sacrum bone in three and a half coils.

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When Kundalini Shakti is conceived as a goddess, then, when it rises to the head, it unites itself with the Supreme Being of .

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Kundalini translated numerous original Sanskrit texts and lectured on Indian philosophy, Yoga and Tantra.

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Kundalini is thought to be an energy released within an individual using specific meditation techniques.

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Western awareness of Kundalini was strengthened by the interest of Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr Carl Jung .

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Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932 was widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience.

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Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation, with sensitivity towards a new generation's interest in alternative religions and psychological exploration.

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Kundalini argued that knowledge of such symbolism enabled much that would otherwise be seen as the meaningless by-products of a disease process to be understood as meaningful symbolic processes, and explicated the often peculiar physical localizations of symptoms.

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