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If the student finds in his meditation that the four great elements are out of harmony and body and mind are fatigued, he should rouse himself and make this meditation. Let him visualize placed on the crown of his head, that celestial So ointment, about as much as a duck's egg, pure in colour and fragrance.

Let him feel its exquisite essence and flavour, melting and filtering down through his head, its flow permeating downwards, slowly laving the shoulders and elbows, the sides of the breast and within the chest, the lungs, liver, stomach and internal organs, the back and spine and hip bones.

All the old ailments and adhesions and pains in the five organs and six auxiliaries follow the mind downwards. There is a sound as of the trickling of water. Percolating through the whole body, the flow goes gently down the legs, stopping at the soles of the feet.

Then let him make this meditation: that the elixir, having permeated and filtered down through him, in abundance fills up the lower half of his body. It becomes warm, and he is saturated in it.

Just as a skillful physician collects herbs of rare fragrance and puts them in a pan to simmer, so the student finds that from the navel down he is simmering in the So elixir.

When this meditation is being done, there will be psychological experiences, of a sudden indescribable fragrance at the nose-tip, of a gentle and exquisite sensation in the body.

Mind and body become harmonized, and far surpass their condition at the peak of youth. Adhesions and obstructions are cleared away, the organs are tranquillized and insensibly the skin will begin to glow.
If the practice is carried on without relapse, what illness will not be healed, what power will not be acquired, what perfection will not be attained, what Way will not be fulfilled?

The arrival of the result depends only on how the student performs the practices.

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Originally posted by no.thing

I'm going to resurrect this really old thread as I think it's one of the best on this entire board. It looks like Jim is no longer active here, but I thank him for his posts and hope he's doing well. I'm also struggling with a major front channel block, and wanted to add some feedback. Hopefully this will help someone, or if anybody has any new info after all this time, we can start a new dialog.

First off, I think Jim's suggestion about Pilates is a great one. The sensation of core activation seems to be exactly what is needed to get the energy to descend down the front channel. I have major tightness in the throat area and my observation after doing a lot of Pilates is that when the inner abdominal muscles are activated, it's no longer necessary to hold that tension as the stability comes from the abdomen. Pilates is great at teaching these sensations.

I think the tai chi exercise that Jim describes is basically zhan zhuang. That practice is supposed to be grounding, but I've found it too forceful - maybe for some it would work, but I feel worse instead of better after doing it. I think this is related to what Chinese medicine calls spleen qi deficiency, which Jim also mentions as part of his issue (the trouble with digestion, etc. - when one profoundly relaxes, the energy which is deficient to start with is dispersed, and thus relaxation may make some of the symptoms worse). But in theory it should work, so people with this issue might want to try it. There are great instructions in "The Way of Energy" by Lam Kam Chuen.

I also wanted to say that Chinese dietary recommendations may be more useful than Ayurvedic ones in this case. The ayurvedic recommendation for out-of-control kundalini seems to be to reduce pitta (stop eating spicy food, drinking alcohol, etc.) and increase kapha (eat heavy). While this is logical, it is likely that someone with firey energy rising to the head lacks firey energy in the digestive system. Therefore, eating heavy will dampen that already weak digestive fire even if it grounds the kundalini energy. It is necessary not only to reduce the firey energy in the body but to get it to descend to its proper place in the digestive system and kidneys. Chinese medicine has sophisticated ways of dealing with this and a person with this issue should probably both see a good Chinese doctor to get some recommendations and devote some effort and study to learning to diagnose themselves. For example, your body might be able to tolerate heating spices like ginger and garlic and they may make you feel better because they heat the digestive system without causing the energy to ascend wildly. The body is probably also depleted of moisture due to the out-of-control heat, but if you add the moisture back in right away it will dampen your already weak digestion. Chinese medicine provides specific advice on how to address these issues and in what order. I don't think diet or herbs will solve this problem, but they will provide some symptomatic relief.

There's also a particular kind of meditation that I've found very useful. The instructions are in a book called "Second Zen Reader," translated by Trevor Leggett. The Zen master Hakuin went to a Taoist hermit named Hakuyu in search of a remedy for zen sickness, which based on his description is exactly the same thing as out-of-control kundalini. The hermit takes his pulse by Chinese methods and offers the following suggestion:

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If the student finds in his meditation that the four great elements are out of harmony and body and mind are fatigued, he should rouse himself and make this meditation. Let him visualize placed on the crown of his head, that celestial So ointment, about as much as a duck's egg, pure in colour and fragrance.

Let him feel its exquisite essence and flavour, melting and filtering down through his head, its flow permeating downwards, slowly laving the shoulders and elbows, the sides of the breast and within the chest, the lungs, liver, stomach and internal organs, the back and spine and hip bones.

All the old ailments and adhesions and pains in the five organs and six auxiliaries follow the mind downwards. There is a sound as of the trickling of water. Percolating through the whole body, the flow goes gently down the legs, stopping at the soles of the feet.

Then let him make this meditation: that the elixir, having permeated and filtered down through him, in abundance fills up the lower half of his body. It becomes warm, and he is saturated in it.

Just as a skillful physician collects herbs of rare fragrance and puts them in a pan to simmer, so the student finds that from the navel down he is simmering in the So elixir.

When this meditation is being done, there will be psychological experiences, of a sudden indescribable fragrance at the nose-tip, of a gentle and exquisite sensation in the body.

Mind and body become harmonized, and far surpass their condition at the peak of youth. Adhesions and obstructions are cleared away, the organs are tranquillized and insensibly the skin will begin to glow.
If the practice is carried on without relapse, what illness will not be healed, what power will not be acquired, what perfection will not be attained, what Way will not be fulfilled?

The arrival of the result depends only on how the student performs the practices.

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This meditation seems to do a good job at getting out-of-control heat to descend. It's one of the most useful I've tried. Hope this helps someone. I'd like to hear more suggestions as well if anyone has them.

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Originally posted by filip
Is going to some smaller city with nature and sea good idea to be on my own, somehow I feel need to do it?

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Originally posted by Jim and His Karma

Anjesh, I'm afraid nothing in this thread was offered as emergency treatment for any sort of urgent crisis situation. It would be a mistake to view it or use it in that way. I'm afraid your guru let you down on this one.

I have offered here some chilled-out grounded ways to chill out and ground yourself, gradually, over the long term. It's a tonic if you've been engaged in overly geared-up practice. Unfortunately, from time to time highly geared-up people come across this thread in a geared-up state looking for geared-up solutions they can apply in a geared-up manner to fix problems they're all geared-up about. That's not what this is, I'm afraid. This is more about gearing-down.

If you want to take a nice cooling exhalation and embark on an approach that may eventually ground and chill you out, there's lots of advice above. I'd especially heed my oft-repeated suggestion to just act normally and do normal stuff with normal people and avoid falling into hyper-analysis of the terribly meaningful stuff going on with you. It's not so meaningful, I promise (you'll feel sheepish about it later, in fact). Your body is a bag of organs, well-optimized to function if you'll just let it do its thing while you play laser tag or learn pottery or play with your neighbor's kids or whatever. You don't need to manage it.

Get exercise. Walk...a lot. Cut back drastically on whatever spiritual stuff you've obsessed over to reach this state. Practice AYP - lightly, until you feel better - and heed its many, many "overdoing" warnings.

Good luck.


And please do answer BlueRaincoat's questionairre as a new discussion. This one is already getting super-long.

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