Kundalini Meditation

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Kundalini meditation is an integral part of Heart-Centered transformational work. Kundalini is the spiritual energy available to human beings which resides as a potential energy in the base of the spine until it is activated to flow up through the chakras. Kundalini is a psychophysiological event in the brain which gives the person who has spiritual inclinations the equipment with which to more adequately join with the divine, which is the original meaning of the word yoga (Sannella).

As we meditate and breathe life into each chakra, we unblock any previously closed energies. Opening the chakras is an important aspect of transformational work in that the chakras hold the energy key to each area of the body. When the chakras are closed, it is like trying to live without electricity in your home or office. Without it, nothing would have the power it needs to perform properly.

Another important aspect of the Kundalini meditation is opening up the heart center, the place of unconditional love. Any successful transformational system is built on a foundation of unconditional love. If the heart center is closed, the love doesn’t flow and the power of the work is lost. Through this meditation, the practitioner learns to quiet the conscious thoughts and move into the flow of profound love for all human beings. This state is brought into every session and is profoundly experienced by the client. This is more than empathy but it is actually a soul to soul connection. Therefore it is just as gratifying to the therapist as it is to the client.

As these issues are worked through, the individual begins to move into the spiritual experience of connecting with the full vitality of the life force energy flowing from this chakra. Jung saw this chakra representing the conscious world of ordinary reality, our earthly personal existence. We are entangled in the roots of our personal lives, of the ever-demanding ego identities. But awaiting an awakening is the Kundalini, the “divine urge,” “that which makes you go on the greatest adventures.” “The anima is the Kundalini” (Jung, 1996, p. 22). “As long as the ego is identified with consciousness, it is caught up in this world, the world of muladhara cakra [sic]. But we see that it is so only when we have an experience and achieve a standpoint that transcends consciousness. Only when we have become acquainted with the wide extent of the psyche, and no longer remain inside the confines of the conscious alone, can we know that our consciousness is entangled in muladhara” (Jung, 1996, pp. 66-67).

In transformational work, we regress the client to the developmental stages where the trauma exists and/or where the developmental tasks were derailed. By installing a loving, healthy, nurturing parent into the unconscious, the developmental tasks can be rehearsed and replayed until completed. As these stages are healed, the individual moves out of the ego issues and into spiritual expression, from expression of underdeveloped ego states to expression of a surrendering ego. The root and sexual chakras open and the person experiences the life force energy and passion opening up within. He/she has released the fears and shame that block these vital energy channels.

The seventh chakra is the crown and opens up as the individual grows into self-actualization or God-Realization. This does not happen until the lower chakra work is well on its way to completion. The lower chakras are portals to the upper ones. Each door that is opened, opens the door to the next. They don’t always open in order; they open according to urgency. The Personal Transformation techniques of hypnotherapy, breath therapy, psychodrama, Kundalini meditation, and interpersonal clearings all work together to move the energy which has been blocked and open the chakras.

Jung, C. G. (1996). The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C. G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani (Ed.), Bollingen Series XCIX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sannella, L. What Is Kundalini? with Lee Sannella, M.D. Available at http://www.intuition.org/txt/sannella.htm.

Zimberoff, D., & Hartman, D. (2003). Transpersonal psychology in Heart-Centered therapies. Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies, 6(1), 123-144.

Updated: February 21, 2006