| | hey,
so last winter around mid january, i suffered an injury to my lower back. bending forwards pulling a heavy object upwards i managed to bulge or displace a disc (not sure exactly, no MRI yet) and i now have a condition known as sciatica which i've been suffering from for almost a year to date. it's a shooting pain starting in the lower back region and shooting down through my right hip into my right leg and down past my knee.
anyways, i've tried everything besides surgery...yoga, accupuncture, IMS, physiotherapy, painkillers (lol) but the only thing that seems to really help is meditation.
the injury was caused i'm told by my physio by an imbalance in my body. i've treeplanted for the past 5 summers, a practice which involves bending over several thousand times daily to plant a small seedling, i plant around 4-5 thousand per day usually.
here's a vid of me planting so you can get an idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_TyTlARBI
so the physio says my body has shifted to the right and this caused the disc issue when i bent over to lift the heavy object. my body was horribly unbalanced, leaning in a certain direction instead of being aligned properly.
so far the only thing that has helped has been meditation. i kneel, knees touching the ground, but body erect from the knees to the head (my butt is not touching my heels) and breath deeply using the david deida circular breathing method...down the front into the balls on the inhale and up the spine and out the brain on the exhale)
what will happen when i do this for extended periods of time (usually by the 20th breath or so, 4 seconds in 1 sec hold 4 out) is i'll get weird trembling feelings right at the source of the pain in my lower back above my right hip bone. it feels like the disc is trying to move back into place, and it feels really good, like a satisfying feeling. throughout the day i can definitely feel some sort of blockage...like a hose with a kink in it is the best way i can describe it. but the meditation seems to unkink it a bit. if i do this for 100 or more breaths and then do a quick back bend i'll get a really satisfying crunch usually which is accompanied by feelings of release in the region. the injury seems to be improving. the more i do the meditation, the better it gets it seems.
basically my question was about kundalini...i was wondering if this was related...a couple times when doing the meditation i've had crazy trembling sensations in the region...felt like something was stirring around really hard, trying to escape and move upwards. i searched kundalini awakening and i've been having many of the symptons. also it feels like once that energy moves upwards, it will feel like the most wonderful release imaginable as i've had this blockage down there for months now.
does anyone know how to hasten a kundalini awakening? what is a good way to stimulate that chakra at the base of the spine? the orange one i believe. i'm really quite ignorant on these matters so if anyone has some educated input for me i'd be very grateful...thanks |