Night Time Oasis is on p. 81 of Poems For Your Heart
This poem is on the same topic as the poem Childhood Bedtime (p. 54 in Poems For Your Heart). On nights when I didn’t have those out-of-body experiences described in Childhood Bedtime, I had a different recovery from the day’s spiritual injuries. Kundalini is a body energy and everyone has it although for many people it’s blocked. It’s usually written about in association with Eastern spiritual practices, and to my knowledge, no Christian church ever mentions it. But all humans have kundalini; it comes with the human body.
Kundalini flows in its own channels that run along the spine. It begins at the base of the spine and rises through all seven of the body’s main chakras (energy centers), clearing out foreign energy, until it reaches the crown chakra (seventh chakra, at the top of the head). You can feel that chakra by placing your hand on the crown of your head; it will feel warm there. Three kundalini channels run along the spine; the main one begins at the base of the spine and the other two begin higher up, almost at the navel level. I believe some people’s Kundalini “awakens” by running up those two shorter channels. Mine has always started in the main channel. Eventually, the Kundalini fills the entire body, every organ and every cell.
Relaxing is Essential
Kundalini runs only when we’re relaxed. We can tell it to run or to stop running but it can’t be forced to run and if it’s trying to run but we’re resisting it, there may be discomfort. When we relax and stay in present time, not chewing over problems or grieving over past pain or injustice, the body is then open for Kundalini to run. Illness is not a problem; a person can run their Kundalini through illness and right up to their death as long as they’re relaxed and accepting of their condition. It can run lightly or heavily; the more heavily it runs, the hotter and more sweaty you can become but again, this is not a problem, just part of the healing experience.
You may have read or heard about Kundalini “awakening”. I believe that some menopausal women, freed of pregnancy concerns, relax as they haven’t relaxed in their younger years, and their Kundalini starts to run. Some women find it alarming and seek a drug to deal with it! It might be labeled “hot flashes” and regarded as a problem. This is all unnecessary and unhelpful. Better to just relax and let it run and get used to it as a new and healing experience in your life. Give your body permission to heal itself.
I ran Kundalini throughout my growing up years and didn’t learn its name or anything about it until I was 37 and took a short Kundalini class as part of my general spiritual education. Since it was running as far back as I can remember and probably before that, I haven’t experienced any of the alarming experiences that one can see described online. I would guess that they arise when we fight our Kundalini. There are sometimes months when mine doesn’t run and I’m preoccupied with other aspects of healing and growth; then it will start again and fill me with that familiar and welcome heat. Most often it runs heavily when I’m asleep so that I wake very hot and sweaty with the energy pounding throughout my body. If it starts when I’m waking in the morning, then typically it runs more lightly. In those times, I stay in bed enjoying it, grounding myself and focusing on “letting go”.
In the childhood bedtimes described in the poem, it ran spontaneously as I relaxed at the end of the day, finished with dealing with my mother or with the strict kindergarten teacher who loved finding fault. To this day I feel enormous gratitude for its presence. Perhaps you’ve been running Kundalini but haven’t had a name for it?