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Thanks for the link. I agree that energy practices can really fuck you up, especially if you don’t have good 1:1 guidance. It’s not really my wheelhouse. I know a few people who do tsalung practices as their main jam, so I have a lot of respect for skilful ‘energy’ stuff.

On chakras? Don't really know, been intending to read up on the topic but don't have any direct experience (that I would recognize as related).

Thank you for all the links everyone. I just have a vague intuition that chakras are onto something coz of fun times feeling my body in the dark, mostly focussing on period pain/sensation, digestive pain/sensation and sexual sensations (it’s WILD to have 2x ‘penises’ yay)

My first chakra experience was terrifying, uncontrolled, unexpected - for me & people around me. I didn’t know what it was at the time. It was directly connected to my first exploration of meditation. It was also positive and changed the course of my life in some ways.

This sounds a bit like what some people call kundalini syndrome, and others “spiritual emergency” For those who may not be aware, kundalini as a phenomenon is engaged with in some Tibetan Buddhist practices, but it’s languaged differently