Becky Becky
Hi, 

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My question is, does anyone know how to calm this down? 

Olivier S
Dear Freya,

I'd be curious to know how this evolved and if you found management strategies, etc. !

Best wishes,

​​​​​​​Olivier

Hi Oliver, 

May 2022 I experienced stream entry, reflecting on Emptiness with 2 cessations, one of which was in a lucid dream a few weeks after SE. 
6 weeks later I had a review with an Arahant who said I was certainly in the top 5 Fetters.
I found myself working on the 8th Fetter on the retreat and also in the months afterwards. 
Sep 2022 I had another shift in which all of the feirce movements as described above transformed into beautiful movements, my qigong became spontaneous - very forceful energy moved my body, I performed around 20 mudras in meditation (I've never learnt mudra before), and I began performing energy work on myself or rather a force outside of myself did. The energy guides my hand and corrects my posture and behaves like a silent teacher, balancing the energies and moving my body so the central channel is clear and energy can flow. 
I also have other phychic energies coming through very strongly and now sign a kind of ancient sign language. 
The shift gave me the ability to see emptiness in all its fullness, the paradox of being completely nothing yet everything. I feel I have one more shift to happen now, as although things have opened up so much I actually stopped searching as I realise what enlightenment is, there is still more to go, of which it feels regardless of how much I practice this will happen when it happens, I am kind of sitting here enjoying the ride. I also wanted to add, I now have a lot of support around me, a psychotherapist and some excellent meditation teachers - I need them, this is a huge thing to happen in my life. 

Hmm management strategies for me where really good self care, boundaries, celibacy, patience, asking for help, body work, health - speaking to an excellent nutritionalist and balancing the bodies vitamins & minerals. Healthy grounding food, knowing my limits - and sometimes this was so frustrating as I was just so sensitive to everything (and still am). 

This is known in Chinese psychiatry as Qigong Deviation or 走火入魔. Unfortunately Western psychiatry has sometimes dismissed it as “culture bound,” despite the evidence that it is not. There is an introductory article about it on Wikipedia. You can read it here:

Hi Freya
Just saw this post.  Looks like it is about a year old.  I had a Kundalini awakening just over a year ago that was pretty intense. I thought I was having a heart attack and landed in a medical clinic once and an ER once and all the tests were negative.  The energetic symtpoms took several months to settle down.  Tara Springett's books are helpful as well as Bonnie Greenwell's.  I've read and discovered that once the Genie is out of the bottle so to speak, there is no putting it back in.  In other words, once Kundalini is awakened it is awake for life.  But, the good news is that the symptoms usually settle and one learns how to utilize this energy in ways that dramatically advance one's spiritual practice.
Hope your experience has settled down