Pure Healing Energy: Kundalini Energy Vs Bioenergetics!
A book excerpt from my new nonfiction on how Skeletal Leap enables deep spirituality via energy healing for mental health and self improvement.
SKELETAL LEAP: THE MIND BODY EVOLUTION SERIES
In this episode 19, I will take you on a journey exploring the interplay between bioenergetics and Kundalini.
I will explore both, the scientific inquiry and the spiritual exploration. We need to know how energy affects our life.
I start explaining bioenergetics first, which studies the flow of energy through living organisms. I further explain how this energy is essential for various bodily functions, from cellular respiration to metabolic processes.
But what happens when this flow is disrupted? I discuss in detail the blocked energy pathways, linking them to lifestyle diseases and other health issues.
On the flip side, I come up the vitalistic perspective as well. It believes that a dormant cosmic energy, known as Kundalini, lies in the living organisms, waiting to be awakened.
This awakening can lead to profound joy and clarity in our lives. The episode raises intriguing questions about the nature of energy.
Are we merely biological machines, or is there a deeper spiritual essence at play?
What are your own experiences with energy, whether through moments of heightened awareness during meditation or the inexplicable surge of energy in critical situations?
I share mine, including miraculous events that challenge our understanding of human capability and the essence of life itself.
As the episode progresses, I highlight the role of the vagus nerve in regulating energy flow within the body. This nerve connects the brain to vital organs, facilitating communication and energy transfer.
I also compare the scientific understanding of energy flow and the ancient practices of chakra healing, suggesting that both perspectives ultimately converge on the same truth: the importance of maintaining a balanced energy system for overall well-being.
You will be left with a call to action—to explore your own energy patterns and consider how they might harness this energy for personal transformation.
The episode promises to be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in the intersection of science and spirituality.
Join me on this adventurous journey and discover how you can tap into the miraculous energy within you.
Tune in now, and embark on your own journey of self-discovery and healing through the lens of bioenergetics and Kundalini.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
Materialistic Approach: The significance of bioenergetics in understanding the flow of energy through living organisms.
Vitalistic Approach: The concept of Kundalini and its role in spiritual awakening.
Chakra Blocks: How energy blockages can affect our health and well-being.
A Storehouse of Energy: Real-life stories illustrating miraculous experiences with energy and its transformative power.
Levels of Energy: The relationship between energy patterns, personality, and innate tendencies.
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Transcript:
“Our body is a storehouse of all kinds of possible miracles whether you categorize them under the materialistic or vitalistic approach.”
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
Today’s episode will tell you about bioenergetics vs kundalini and which one of the two passes to be the energy that creates life.
Who Am I: A Materialist Or A Vitalist?
That is a question I often ask to myself. And I never get an answer.
It is because I am neither. I am just an observer. If I observe a pattern, I want to perceive it in its totality first. Then I let it get ingested in my cognitive system. Once its cognition is complete, I try to comprehend it as a hypothesis. To me, it is a hypothesis ready to be tested under strict laboratory conditions. This is so even if it is a spiritual hypothesis. Only strict laboratory conditions can ensure its authenticity, turning it from a hypothesis to an established theory.
In fact, I am an agnostic observer, neither a theist nor an atheist. An unbiased observation of patterns is what makes sense to me.
Patterns of Observation
I am generally interested in the patterns of observations directly affecting my body, my mind and my spirit. That way, I myself become a laboratory for any and all of my hypotheses. I have the luxury of being present in my own preliminary laboratory 24 x 7 x 365. Once my preliminary laboratory has passed a certain hypothesis of mine, I extend it to others because further testing is needed to filter out a possible subjective influence on what I otherwise maintain as a strictly objective preliminary laboratory.
This process enables patterns affecting my personal body, mind and spirit to be generalized as patterns affecting all human bodies, minds and spirits.
Bioenergetics at Work
Bioenergetics studies the flow of energy through living creatures.
The Flow of Life Energy through The Human Body
How does energy affect the human body, mind and spirit?
I have experienced energy bursting from my coccyx to my crown chakra. And not just once! I do it every time I intend to perceive it with every single breath of mine with an extended exhalation. An added instantaneous effect of this rising energy is a much clearer vision. This clearer vision is an objective feedback. There is a plethora of other effects as well but I will get to them later.
Where does this energy come from? What’s the source of this energy?
Vitalists call it Kundalini and its rise from the coccyx to the crown chakra is called Kundalini awakening. They claim it is a non-physical cosmic energy lying dormant at the base of the root chakra in a living organism. This life-imparting energy keeps lying dormant until and unless it is awakened for bliss as well as a sense of joy even in the most mundane activities of life.
How do materialists look at energy? They study biological energy as ’bioenergetics’.
It is because their living cells require energy for many of their functions including cellular respiratory, metabolic, enzymatic and other processes. They use adenosine triphosphate molecules (ATP) for this purpose of producing and utilizing energy.
There are three kinds of living creatures: autotrophs, lithotrophs and heterotrophs.
Autotrophs (plants) receive energy from sunlight through photosynthesis and don’t require consuming it for themselves.
Lithotrophs including photolithotrophs (plants) and chemolithotrophs (microorganisms) produce adenosine triphosphate molecules (ATP) through aerobic or anaerobic respiration.
Heterotrophs (animals) consume adenosine triphosphate molecules (ATP) and break them down into adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate. This breaking down of ATP to ADP releases energy for the cells to use for their various needs.
Here is a list of bioenergetic processes required for life in cells through consuming energy:
Glycolysis: releasing energy from available glucose or breaking it down to create ATP molecules for future energy requirement.
Gluconeogenesis: creating glucose by breaking proteins into simpler amino acids which can create glucose.
Cellular Respiration: is achieved when citric acid cycle oxidizes carbon-containing metabolites thereby creating coenzymes. These coenzymes can later be re-oxidized to start the citric acid cycle again.
Ketosis: is another metabolic process achieved by using ketone bodies for energy when glucose levels are low.
Oxidative Phosphorylation: is a process when coenzymes initiate electron transport chain driving ATP synthesis.
Photosynthesis: is a process in the plant cells using solar energy to create glucose. Vitamin D production in human cells is another kind of photosynthesis that creates ATP molecules.
Cotransport: Sodium glucose cotransport is another newly discovered process facilitating intestinal glucose absorption.
Chemiosmotic Theory: is another recently discovered major energy facilitating process in maximum number of cells. It functions through using protons in aqueous solution to produce ATP molecules.
So, for materialists, it is biological energy alone that is taken in and transformed, primarily by way of food, in the human body.
Fair enough! They don’t want to go along any cosmic hypothesis in the absence of a concrete evidence for the same.
Blockages in The Flow of Biological Energy
The problem starts when the flow of this energy through the living creatures meets a blockage along its path. When this happens, it takes a toll on all the energy flow processes including cellular respiratory, metabolic, enzymatic and others, thereby limiting the flow of energy through the organism.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia…
“Muscle cells work by detecting a flow of electrical impulses from the brain, which signals them to contract through the release of calcium by the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Fatigue (reduced ability to generate force) may occur due to the nerve, or within the muscle cells themselves. New research from scientists at Columbia University suggests that muscle fatigue is caused by calcium leaking out of the muscle cell. This makes less calcium available for the muscle cell.”
Courtesy, Wikipedia
Here is another code from Wikipedia again…
“Nerves control the contraction of muscles by determining the number, sequence, and force of muscular contraction. When a nerve experiences synaptic fatigue it becomes unable to stimulate the muscle that it innervates.”
Courtesy, Wikipedia
The real question becomes: what essentially controls the flow of this biological energy with the purpose of producing and utilizing it? The biologists’ answer is that the central nervous system is responsible for the said control in Homo sapiens. They contend that, if the central nervous system gets compromised, the flow will get compromised too. The entire organism will then feel low on energy and succumb to various kinds of lifestyle diseases.
The Vagus Nerve
How exactly does central nervous system get compromised? It happens when nerves that carry messages between the brain and the organ cells get compromised. Especially the 10th cranial nerve named the vagus nerve. This one nerve carries the major chunk of messages to and from the most crucial organs. It is the longest nerve in the central nervous system and is designed to establish an efficient dialogue between its two ends. These two ends are the gut and the brain.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia…
“The vagus nerve, also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that interfaces with the parasympathetic control of the heart, lungs, and digestive tract. It comprises two nerves—the left and right vagus nerves—but they are typically referred to collectively as a single subsystem. The vagus is the longest nerve of the autonomic nervous system in the human body and comprises both sensory and motor fibers. The sensory fibers originate from neurons of the nodose ganglion, whereas the motor fibers come from neurons of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus and the nucleus ambiguous. The vagus was also historically called the pneumogastric nerve.”
Courtesy, Wikipedia
How exactly does the vagus nerve get compromised, then?
As per the analysis of Skeletal Leap, a compromised skeletal posturing compromises the anatomy of organs in its vicinity. The physiology of an organ almost always gets compromised when its anatomy is compromised. It not only compromises the anatomy of the vagus nerve but also organs served by it. It deforms muscle groups and blood vessels around the organs served by this nerve.
Formation of Chakras
This compromised anatomy gives birth to closed chakras that are formed at seven different locations along the length of the vagus nerve, passing through the spinal cord. The vagus nerve comprises two parts: the ventral vagus and the dorsal vagus. Incidentally, this same channel created by the vagus nerve is referred to as Sushumna in the chakra system. And, just like the vagus nerve, Sushumna passing through the spinal cord also comprises its own two parts: Ida and Pingala.
According to the Chakra system, when chakras are opened along the length of Sushumna, Kundalini gets awakened and rises up to the head. It does so in a streamlined flow without being blocked at any of the closed chakra locations along its path.
The same process, when described in materialistic terms, is the flow of biological energy in the organ cells served by the vagus nerve.
As a two-way dialogue between the gut and the brain through the vagus nerve gets re-established, energy flow gets regularized.
Kundalini Awakening
Skeletal Leap infers that the perception of this regularized energy flow has to be similar to the awakening of Kundalini and its rise up to the crown chakra. It feels like a gush of biological energy rising up from the gut to the head through the spinal cord. As per the materialistic approach, it is the gush of the dialogue between the gut and the brain getting established instantaneously. This is accompanied by a simultaneous and instantaneous flow of energy to the cells of the organs served by the vagus nerve.
So we can see that the perception and feeling of opening all the chakras together are exactly the same. They are exactly the same whether you look at it from the angle of materialists or that of vitalists.
I had defined chakras as deformities in skeletal posturing leading to deformities in the surrounding muscles, nerves and blood vessels. Hence, it is the deformed anatomy of these structures that negatively affects the physiology of systems they are a part of.
Let’s talk a bit more about energy. You might have seen various kinds of people with various levels of energy in their mind-body system. We can also see similar differences in our pets.
Patterns of Energy: Warm Vs Cold, Hot Vs Cool & Hot Vs Cold
’Warm’ and ‘cold’ are the two extremes on the spectrum of energy levels we perceive in ourselves and others. On the other hand, ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ are the extremes on the spectrum of our energy balance. Of course, ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ also have a sexual connotation where they are the extremes on a spectrum of sexual energy levels in us.
Now, where does this difference in energy levels come from? What makes people more passionate for life, i.e., warm? What makes them less so, i.e., cold? What makes them energetically balanced and at peace with themselves, i.e., cool? More so, what makes them hot or cold in bed?
Are these the levels of their biological energy in their physical systems? But I have seen many people with a great passion for everything around them, still falling prey to serious lifestyle diseases. How do we explain that?
You can say those are the traits of their personality and have nothing to do with their level of energy. But does this answer really make sense?
How are personalities formed? Is that a kind of training one has learnt to live with in one’s life? Or is the basic core of personality more an innate phenomenon? I have seen numerous children being born with various crying patterns. Somehow, these patterns always gave me a hint about what their personalities might develop like as they grow. Whatever nurturing they may receive, I have observed that the basic core of their personalities grows from their innate tendencies.
Are we born with a particular energy pattern as a seed in our mind-body system?
We need to research this further. Because, if it is true, it strongly supports the vitalistic hypothesis of energy.
I am keeping my fingers crossed.
At this point, I feel a need to tell a few miraculous stories from my life. All these stories pose a real challenge in understanding the dynamics of miraculous energy patterns in the body.
The Story of An Instant Energy Spurt That Saved A Child
The first one took place in 1966 when I was an adolescent.
I was out for a sunny winter stroll in Dehradun. It was a city downhill from my hometown that I was visiting during my winter holidays. As I walked leisurely, I witnessed a miracle through my peripheral vision. A person took a giant leap in the air and picked a kid up in front of a speeding car.
Then I suddenly heard the harsh screech of the car braking. Immediately after this, I heard a noise coming from across the road. A small crowd had surrounded a middle-aged man with a kid in his arms. I ran toward them and asked a man in the crowd what had happened.
He replied in a loud voice, “This godlike man just saved this kid from getting run over by that car. But he himself doesn’t know how.”
Hearing him, the hero of the moment who, by now, sat near the auto mechanic shop he owned, turned to us. He said, “I really don’t remember what I did and how I did it.”
“I was working in my shop when I saw this kid just in front of that speeding car. The last thing I remember was saying to myself that the kid was gone. And now these people are telling me I have saved him.”
“Yes,” another man interrupted the conversation, “I clearly saw him jumping like a cheetah. He took a leap to that far a location where the kid was, from his shop where he was working. Not even an Olympic gold medalist would have been able to perform a feat like that!”
The savior laughed in doubt, “Maybe God entered my body and made me do what you say I did. But honestly speaking, I just don’t remember. And now I see this kid in my arms here and that car applying brakes so far ahead. Looks like I might have done it. After all, why would you people lie?” I quickly assessed the distance between his shop and the spot where he had prevented the accident from taking place. No one could ever have believed that it was humanly even possible to try doing what this man had done.
I silently saluted that man and went my way, thinking deep within.
Even today, I don’t know if a spurt of biological energy could have performed that kind of miracle. Maybe yes, maybe no! We need to research this further.
The Story of Entering The State of Flow through Endorphin Release
The second story took place in 1978. It was the year I had shifted from my small Himalayan hometown to Delhi.
Every evening, I’d go for a run. Usually for half an hour. But that day, I didn’t stop after half an hour. I kept running for longer. I got tired but I didn’t stop. I continued running. One hour passed. I was nearly exhausted but I still didn’t stop. I still remember my feeling from that moment. I was simply teasingly flirting with myself.
I kept running. One and a half hours had passed. I had almost reached the point of ultimate exhaustion. I kept going, thinking, ”What’s the worst that can happen? I would fall down on the road, that’s it!”
But it was not to happen. Something else did. At one moment, all my tiredness suddenly went away. I felt a sudden surge of a very cool and relaxed energy in my body. I felt immensely fresh like I was not running at all, I was rather floating in the air. I felt like I could keep running till eternity without making any effort at all.
At that point, I decided to stop in order to perceive more deeply what had happened to me. I started walking and looking around. I kept feeling I was floating. Everything in front of my eyes started looking much brighter to me. I remember the feeling of awe that I was going through as I walked on the road back home.
I reached home and sat down in a chair ingesting deep within what I was experiencing.
After about an hour of sitting still in my chair, I was back to my old self. Soon thereafter, I scrounged around in the literature for any reference to what I had gone through. And I came to discover that I had undergone a classical experience of the ’state of flow’. It is also known as ’being in the zone’.
In the ancient Indian practice of Raja Yoga, the state of flow is known as Samyama, meaning integration. It integrates the three top hierarchical steps of Raja Yoga, namely Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi into one single practice.
The state of flow hasn’t yet been fully understood in terms of its associated cellular processes. It still needs further research in order to comprehend the various collective benefits it provides, like:
Completely involved in what we are doing – focused, concentrated.
A sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality
Great inner clarity – knowing what needs to be done, and how well we are doing.
Knowing that the activity is doable – that our skills are adequate to the task.
A sense of serenity – no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of the ego.
Timelessness – thoroughly focused on the present, hours seem to pass by the minute.
Intrinsic motivation – whatever produces flow becomes its own reward.
One hypothesis is that the release of endorphins in the brain facilitates this state of flow. If that is right, we only need to know how to release these endorphins naturally to achieve this state at will.
The Story of Entering An Unbelievable Energetic State through Serotonin Release
The third story that was an extension of the state of flow story took place three years later, in 1981. Three years had passed since I had moved from my hometown in Mussoorie to Delhi. At the same time, an estranged girlfriend of mine from Dehradun had moved to Delhi as well to enroll as a student at the National School of Drama. I was also stationed there to work on a project. We had had a bitter fight before we moved and had stopped talking to each other since.
Our paths kept crossing everyday and we just passed each other like two strangers. It was awkward. It indicated that we were still strongly attracted to each other, otherwise we would have let go and moved on. Why else would we not talk to each other?
Three years passed by and the pattern of our behavior remained the same through these years.
Then one day, it occurred to me that I wanted my mind to get free from my concern for her.
I went to her room in the hostel and proposed that we have an unconditional dialogue with each other. It would help both of us let go of each other from our minds. She readily agreed. It was 3 o’ clock in the afternoon at that moment. We decided we would meet after three hours, at 6 o’ clock, at a nearby restaurant.
I left her hostel and started walking on the road. But I suddenly discovered my gait was not the same old gait. I wasn’t really feeling like I was walking. I was feeling like I was flying. This time this feeling of flying was different from the relaxed, effortless feeling of floating in the state of flow. Although this feeling was also an effortless one, it was way more energetic. Even my speed was much faster although I wasn’t intentionally walking that fast. It was this miraculous spurt of energy that was controlling my speed despite myself. I was feeling like my feet were not really touching the ground at all, making me feel like I was flying. I had never walked at a speed like that before.
Believe it or not, I kept feeling like flying at the same speed for three full hours.
And exactly at 6 o’ clock, I ended up at the restaurant where we had decided to meet.
What happened during the meeting was beyond my wildest imagination, but that is not what we’re concerned with in this episode.
Later, I looked for references in literature resembling this new state I had experienced.
There, I came to discover that it could be due to the release of serotonin in my brain. It was this hormone that had made me leap into that state I had been in for three full hours.
I kept wondering if we could release serotonin at will and started researching on the subject.
Ultimately, many years later, when I was working in the discipline of chakras, I picked the lost thread up again. I realized that the release of serotonin was an integral part of opening the crown chakra through skeletal guided meditation.
Our body is a storehouse of all kinds of possible miracles whether you categorize them under the materialistic or vitalistic approach.
Why don’t we unearth them and make them an integral part of our life?
Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about neurology vs psychology respectively addressing brain vs mind or instincts vs emotions as far as human life is concerned.
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