Should I stimulate the root, or just pull energy up?
I restarted my kundalini efforts recently. For the past two weeks, I did 2-3 hours practice every night. As I understand it, I have to split the practice into two sections, which are repeated every few minutes:
Pull energy up through the legs terminating in the perineum
Stimulate the chakras, especially the lower ones.
When I pulled the energy up from the feet to the perineum and then stimulated the chakras by bouncing the energy from perineum up to the crown for 3 hours, basically nothing happens. It's rather boring.
When I pulled the energy up from the feet to the perineum and then stimulated the chakras by stiring or focusing on the center of the chakras I got strong, whole body energy sensations (quite blissful). This was especially true for the base chakra at the perineum. But when I was stiring the base chakra, it felt like, it released all the pent up energy from there and it flooded my whole body, and then I kind of exhausted that energy, so had to store more into the base chakra, and then the bliss flooded me again. Maybe I somehow released the energy prematurely?
So which chakra stimulation method should I continue with? The bouncing method which got me nowhere, but didn't release the energy? Or the direct chakra stimulation, which flooded me for several minutes, but also kind of discharged the base chakra? Or maybe the discharging does not actually happen, it's just my perception? But then why does the whole body bliss terminates after a few minutes? What am I doing wrong here?
In short, both.
Warm up exercises are boring, but they are necessary. Pull energy up to make it more available. Think of it as adding a buffer or reservoir for insulating the base chakra as you stimulate it. Advance this toward the other chakras as you progress.
Once you have adequate buffer, maintain that buffer, but, simultaneously, stimulate the base chakra, and through it, the other chakras.
The energy body, chakras, and energy, act very much like channels, pools, and forces of water. What you want to do is create a strong enough current to sustain your exercise. To do this, you need to prime, pool, flood, pull, and then shock.
What you are doing when stimulating your chakras is pulling. This creates a wonderful sensation. But it depletes because there is no more energy to sustain it, and your attention likely fades from it. This is where tantric practices come into play, providing you with the skills to distil the essence and ride that wave for longer periods. Anyway, I digress.
Whilst doing the other steps simultaneously, you need to do the final step. Shocking. This is quite a sharp and focused sensation, as if you are trying to extract the 'static electricity' from the pool of the pull, and send it up, intro, and through your perineum, then up the spine and nerves of your body. This should quite literally feel like you are shocking your perineum with a battery. You are trying to activate a completely different system of energy then what you might be used to through Tactile Body Awareness. Continue this to develop and increase the intensity of the electrical jolts that shock and supercharge the body and being until you activate a Kundalini spike and beyond.
However, the most important rule is to listen to your body in how it wants to go. Your job is to facilitate, its job is to flow. Stop and take a break if you feel uncomfortable. Resume when you feel better. Take your time. I hope that helps to clarify things.
Please let me know how you get along. I am very interested in your Kundalini journey and would love to collaborate with you further so that we can truly refine this practice for the benefit of everybody. Wishing you and your loved ones all the best.