Kundalini Head Pressure and How to Deal With It
- Nov 12, 2022
- 8 min read
Many people who practice spirituality, particularly as meditation and other techniques have become more widespread, experience kundalini energy pressure: headaches and pressure in the head connected to their practice. This article shares what I have found about managing it, from my own practice and from working with many people who have faced the same difficulty.
What Kundalini Head Pressure Is
Kundalini head pressure is one of the experiences that can arise during a kundalini awakening. It happens when kundalini energy rises to the head and cannot move through freely. The energy that cannot pass accumulates, and the buildup is felt as a distinct pressure that affects wellbeing. What obstructs the flow is the limiting beliefs and suppressed thoughts held in the head chakras, which the sections below explain in detail.
The energy-experience symptoms that this article addresses, and that the procedures later in the article are aimed at, include the following.
Pressure in the head and kundalini-related headaches.
Dizziness and difficulty focusing.
Heightened sensitivity to noise, bright light, and electromagnetic fields, along with a strong pull toward quiet and solitude.
Sensations of heat, vibration, or energy moving through the body.
Difficulty sleeping well.
Unusual food cravings or aversions.
These are the most usual symptoms tied to the energy imbalance described below. Head pressure of this kind can also appear as a secondary symptom of a kundalini awakening process that has partly gone wrong.
When to Get Professional Help
Some experiences that get described as part of a kundalini awakening are not things to address with a visualization. They are signs to get professional help.
Seek a medical or psychiatric evaluation if you are experiencing any of the following.
Difficulty telling what is real from what is imagined, or a sense of losing your grip on reality.
Panic attacks, or episodes of terror.
Persistent physical symptoms, such as digestive problems, nausea, autoimmune-type conditions, or chronic fatigue.
Intense or lasting psychological distress: feeling shattered, without a center, raw, and extremely vulnerable, over a sustained period.
There is an important reason for this. A genuine kundalini awakening and a psychiatric condition such as a psychotic episode or a panic disorder can feel very similar from the inside. From within the experience, a person often cannot tell which one they are having, and that is exactly why a professional assessment matters. A doctor or a mental health professional can make that distinction. A visualization cannot, and using one in place of proper care can let a serious condition go unaddressed.
This is not a reason for fear. Most committed practitioners who develop head pressure are dealing with the energy imbalance this article describes, not a crisis. But head pressure, dizziness, and the other symptoms should still be checked by a doctor first, to rule out medical causes, before being treated as energy-related. Once medical and psychiatric causes have been considered and excluded, the rest of this article applies.
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How Energy Flows in the Body
When I explain the body's energy fields to students or in articles, I often use the microcosmic orbit model from Tao-based spiritual schools. It is easy to picture because it resembles a home's plumbing: energy flowing through channels the way water flows through pipes.
In reality, the body's energy fields are more complex than that. They are better understood as a layered pattern of different vibrations. Even in a diagram, the chakras do not actually look the way they are drawn, and the energy fields do not have colors; colors are only used to tell the overlapping layers apart.
What matters is that the body's energy system is far more complex than the plumbing image suggests. Only a small number of advanced practitioners can perceive these structures directly. The system is closer to clouds of gas that mix, merge, and sometimes get stuck, all held within a powerful energy matrix governed by the soul. Those streams of gas are controlled by thoughts and emotions. When a person suppresses them, they effectively freeze, and the frozen energy is felt as a block in the mind and body.
Why Head Pressure Happens: Suppressed Thoughts
The head chakras, the third eye and the crown, are connected to the mental part of a person: thoughts and beliefs at the intellectual and spiritual levels. When someone experiences energy head pressure, they are, in effect, suppressing certain thoughts they do not want to think. The suppression is what is felt as head pressure, and it happens entirely unconsciously.
Over time, the suppressed thoughts build into a limiting belief, which solidifies the energy in the head. That solidified energy becomes a block, presses on the head's energy fields, and is experienced as head pressure.
This is also why people who do not practice spirituality meet less feel this kind of energy pain. They suppress thoughts too, but their energy fields operate at a lower frequency and are less sensitive to the higher energies, so the suppression rarely registers as physical pressure in the same way. A practitioner, working with higher energies, feels what others do not.
The Inner Conflict of Kundalini Rising
Kundalini awakening and ascension is a whole-body process. The difficulty is that the body's cells and organs start at different vibrations, so they cannot all progress at the same rate.
As kundalini rises, this uneven pace creates tension between the parts. Some lag behind, held back by the thoughts and beliefs blocking their progress. The conflict concentrates in the head chakras, where new spiritual insight and a pull toward honesty come up against the old ego and the limiting beliefs that are not ready to accept humbling truths.
What Kinds of Thoughts Get Suppressed
From what I have observed, people who experience head pressure tend to suppress particular kinds of thoughts.
Thoughts that call for self-criticism and humility.
Worries.
Intense fears.
Cravings.
Ego-driven desires, such as the thirst for power.
In my experience, people prone to this pattern often hold a high opinion of themselves and rarely examine their own actions critically. When they are criticized, they tend either to dismiss it or to become very upset. They find forgiveness difficult and hold onto grudges for a long time, even when they try to conceal it. Worries and strong fears can also produce kundalini-related head pressure, though in my work with clients this is less common than the ego-related pattern.
None of this is said to assign blame. Spiritual maturity involves recognizing one's own flaws, without harsh self-judgment, and working to improve them. I have simply noticed, consistently, that people who hold a high opinion of themselves are more likely to feel pressure in the head chakras during kundalini awakening and ascension.
Causes and Effects
It helps to separate causes from effects. The causes are the thoughts and beliefs a person holds onto that block energy in the head. The effect is the pain or pressure that is actually felt.
Both need to be addressed, but releasing the causes takes much longer, because it means working through one's own difficult material: a lack of forgiveness, a lack of humility, resistance to self-criticism, held grudges, fears, and the ego itself. That work can take a long time. But when the causes are released, the resolution is permanent. A person who does this work moves through a significant life lesson and raises their level of awareness, as a soul and in the body.
Working on the effects, the head pressure itself, takes much less time. It can relieve the pain, but only temporarily. If the causes are not addressed, the pain returns.
For practitioners who have accessed large amounts of kundalini energy, the pain when that energy reaches the head can be considerable, as long as the limiting beliefs and suppressed thoughts blocking the head are still in place.
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Procedures to Relieve the Pain
The two procedures below address the effects, the head pressure pain itself. They do not resolve the causes, but they provide real relief while the deeper work is underway.
Before using either one, an important step. If you are doing any practice that focuses energy on the head, such as third eye work, crown chakra work, or kundalini-rising practice, stop it for now. Do not resume until the symptoms have completely cleared.
The Waterfall Procedure
The aim is to move the excess energy out of the head and down to the navel.
1. Focus your attention on your navel. Think about it, and feel it.
2. Place the tip of your tongue gently against the roof of your mouth, just behind your front teeth. This connects the energetic circuit that helps the energy flow downward.
3. If you visualize easily, picture a waterfall flowing from your forehead or crown, down the front of your body, into your navel. Feel the energy draining downward.
4. Let go of whatever you are holding in your head. Let it relax, let it fall, and let it drain down to the navel.
Because energy follows attention, keep your mind on your navel throughout. Keep feeling it.
The Fire Method
1. Place the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth.
2. Picture the energy block in your head as a ball of fire.
3. Visualize your crown chakra as a downward-facing bowl.
4. Imagine drops of gold or white rain falling from the bowl into the ball of fire, both feeding it and calming it. As you picture this, make small circles on the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue.
Continue until you feel relief.
Working on the Causes
As described above, the lasting solution is letting go of the limiting beliefs and suppressed thoughts held in the subconscious. The limiting beliefs release service is one way to do this work with support.
Whichever way you approach it, the work requires commitment. The beliefs and thoughts causing the difficulty were accumulated over decades, and they will not clear in a few weeks. Working through the most difficult ones can take several months, sometimes a few years. Give the process a fair chance rather than stopping early.
The work is worth it. People who see it through tend to come out of it as a better version of themselves, in more areas of life than they expected.
Conclusion
If you are committed to a spiritual practice, you may experience energy head pressure from time to time. Once medical and psychiatric causes have been ruled out, the procedures here will relieve the pain, and the deeper work on the underlying limiting beliefs is what keeps it from returning.
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