The following general recommendations may be helpful in supporting spiritual life and Kundalini process:
(In short, a healthy, stable, peaceful, virtuous, and spiritually focused lifestyle is the essential foundation for supporting and improving a Kundalini process).
Healthy Lifestyle:
– Have natural, wholesome, nutrition that is correct for your system.
– Eat with peaceful awareness.
– Get sufficient sleep and adequate rest.
– Create a life situation that is balanced and secure.
– Limit stress and overwork; simplify your life.
– Get gentle, simple exercise (walk, swim, bike, dance, garden, etc.).
– Enjoy uplifting pastimes (nature, music, the arts, reading, handiwork, etc.).
– Do your psychological inner work (journal, reflect, examine, uncover, etc.).
– Find and create supportive, understanding relationships.
– Cultivate objective awareness and loving kindness toward self and others.
– Establish strategies to remain undisturbed by potentially harmful others.
– Be spiritual and regulated in sex, honoring the single or married state.
– Seek appropriate health care to identify and treat medical conditions.
– Take appropriate dietary supplements.
– Forego unnecessary, intense, and risky interventions or practices.
– Do not use non-prescription psychotropic drugs, including hallucinogens.
– Do not abuse nicotine, alcohol, or other addictive substances.
Spiritual Lifestyle:
– Accept your spiritual process; do not fight against it or pathologize it.
– Find a tradition-based spiritual model for understanding your process.
– Cultivate discernment, and clarify your belief system.
– Choose a focused spiritual (not a merely metaphysical/esoteric) path.
– Practice your spiritual path sincerely and regularly.
– Inwardly clarify which aspect of the divine (or One) you best relate to.
– Identify and live by spiritual values, priorities, and purpose.
– Live by sound ethics and virtue.
– Perform your life duties with love, skill, and non-attachment.
– Use careful discernment if seeking psychic/energy/primal interventions.
– Refrain from cultivating or misusing psi capacities or occult practices.
– Seek moderation (not extremes, excitement, highs, wonders, or the sensational).
– Reduce behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that distract from the spiritual goal.
– Cultivate those behaviors that lead toward the spiritual goal.
– Create a peaceful home environment conducive to spiritual practice.
– Cultivate faith and devotion; have patience and perseverance.
Spiritual Practice:
– Establish a regular, appropriate daily personal spiritual practice.
– Find authentic, skilled spiritual guidance, education, and counsel.
– Make a time to engage in spiritual, scriptural study.
– Use a prayer/meditation pose that is correct for your body/system.
– Do carefully selected postures/stretches that are correct for you.
– Do correct, selected, gentle breathing practices.
– Use correct concentration, meditation, and contemplation methods.
– Use prayer, sacred chant, and mantra repetition.
– Affirm your spiritual purpose with dedication.
– Cultivate constant awareness of the Divine/One.
– Pray like a laser beam for spiritual guidance and divine assistance.
2020 continues to bring increased turmoil. The recent acts of racial violence are a horrific addition to our already troubled times, and the necessary peaceful demonstrations of protest to these hate crimes and their underlying causes highlights our desperate need to change as individuals and as a culture. We cannot let lower levels of consciousness define us as a people; we must identify with the Light that we are. Only Light can dispel the darkness of ignorance and hatred. […]