Meditation/relaxation Sudden Burning Sensation Options

Has anyone ever recieved a sudden 'burning sensation' while they were meditating? I was doing my usual 15 minute a day meditations and I suddenly felt the front of my stomach completely burn up like it was some powerful energy floating around, but it wasn't a painful burn it was a comforting burn (If that makes sense) but it was deffinitly intense. My only assumption is I was meditating on a sun of light moving around my body, maybe my body kind of manifested and felt what I was feeling on my body. I kind of needed to stop and recollect myself and continue because I never felt that sensation before - has anyone else experienced anything like this? I've been researching and the only thing I could come up with is kundalini injury or something, any ideas

I wouldn't call it a "kundalini injury" but it might be an arousal of so-called kundalini. Although the literature explains it in different ways and although people like to go with the oft en-ead point that the sensation begins at the base of the spine, I can tell you from personal experience and the direct reports of others that it can be experienced as beginning as an intense heat in the abdomen that may then press upward, crossing the neck into the head. When it does happen, especially the first or second time it happens, it is kind of shocking--fascinating, ecstatic,and terrifying at the same time. It is not that uncommon but it is rare that it leaves a person "enlightened." The energy "burns through" the system. Although it is metaphorically spoken of as occuring in the etheric body in the chakra system, it is occuring in a loop in the brain--and some Hindu spiritual teachers and yogis are indeed also speaking about it in these terns nowadays. A dramatic change in consciousness occurs. But for most people, they become quickly reoriented, the energy filters back down, and they go back to ordinary life. A paradigmatic shift has occurred., though, and they are different than before. The meditative experience is actually a symptom or epiphenomenon of it and it can occur again and again. Change then occurs gradually. The mistake for the practitioner is to become desirous of or addicted to the sensation or having grandiose expectations about what the experience "means.". You stunt further advancement and delude yourself by doing this--and some people unleash major psychological problems by abusing meditation practice and the phenomena that arise in this way.

So continue with your practice and if this sensatiion occurs again, just observe it. Rest in it, don't manipulate it. Leti t take it's own course in a graceful and safe way.

This post has been edited by Zosimo: Mar 16 2009, 09:20 PM