My kundalini awakening began with intense pain at the base of my spine (I had a degenerative spinal disease at the time so I chalked it up to that). A friend who considered herself a life coach decided to “DNA activate” me thru bija syllables, and apparently it worked because within 6 or 7 months I had all sorts of symptoms, from pain and swelling in my neck to the experience of amrita dripping from the top back of my head + down my throat (again, had no idea what was going on and this time went to the hospital). The thing is, kundalini plumbs the recesses of the unconscious mind, and lights up layers upon layers of whatever trauma you’ve carried unresolved in your body. You know how a room sometimes gets messier before it gets cleaner? Same concept here. It’s cleaning house, resolving negative ego, but in order to do that it triggers/drags those aspects out of the unconscious into the conscious stream in order that they might be dealt with. It- as Carl Jung put it- makes the “unconscious conscious” and that includes disturbing thoughts and impulses, etc. So yes, some people go thru hell, depending on whether they’re grasping the personality construct. Let it flow, don’t resist. Watch any negative ideas or states which bubble up, but don’t engage them. Don’t identify with them, they’re only passing.

A year into this ALL my health issues are resolved, including the spinal disease. The only thing I struggle with anymore is anxiety. There are positives to this process, it just takes time. I also have meditative practice and do shadow work tho, plus a lot of in-depth research. We don’t fear what we understand. Wishing you well <3