Living with Kundalini or Rebounding from Childbirth

Living with Kundalini

Author: Gopi Krishna

This classic first-person account of spiritual awakening was first published under the title Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man —here expanded with two-thirds new material drawn from the author's writing to make a complete autobiography.

Table of Contents:

	Editor's Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Awakening of Kundalini	1
1	Recollections of Childhood	8
2	Life in the Village of Gairoo	25
3	Memories of High School	40
4	Lessons Learned from My Father	64
5	Mother Arranges My Marriage	78
6	Fighting Against Corruption	97
7	Stumbling Blocks in the Path of Evolution	119
8	Living Through a Prolonged Nightmare	140
9	An Unearthly Radiance Filled My Head	154
10	Still No Sign of Miraculous Psychic Powers	173
11	Perennially Conscious of an Inner Luminosity	202
12	The Transformative Power of the Divine Energy	220
13	The Cause of All Genuine Spiritual Phenomena	240
14	Losing Hope, I Prepared for Death	258
15	Stretching Out Immeasurably in All Directions	286
16	A Triumph of Love	305
17	More and More, I Returned Towards Normal Living	325
18	The Marvelous Ingenuity of Nature	342
19	A Complete Metamorphosis in Consciousness	354
20	Creating a Mental Climate to Remove the Threat of War	368
	Epilogue	387
	Glossary	389
	Other Books by Gopi Krishna	393
	Index	395

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Rebounding from Childbirth: Toward Emotional Recovery

Author: Lynn Madsen

"Never mind what you've been through. The baby's here, he's healthy. That's the most important thing, isn't it?" Few women planning a pregnancy or anticipating childbirth would dispute that the safe birth of a healthy child is their primary concern. Even when this happy outcome is achieved, however, the process of childbirth itself can wreak havoc on a woman's emotional and physiological well-being--especially when unforeseen medical complications change the expected course of labor and delivery. Rebounding From Childbirth--the first book to focus exclusively on the mother's feelings about a difficult birth--shows how traumatic childbirth forces a woman to suddenly relinquish cherished hopes for her experience of actually becoming a mother. Amid the joys of a healthy baby, the mother's feelings of anger, grief, failure and disappointment often get scant attention from family, friends and medical personnel. Drawing from her own life as a professional counselor and mother of three, Lynn Madsen argues that a woman should not underestimate her own need to recover emotionally and physiologically from a violent birth experience. Without true healing, Madsen's analysis reveals, a new mother's suppressed sense of loss and pain can affect her relationships with her baby and husband, her body image, her feelings about going back to work, even her hopes for future pregnancies and births. Through her own story and those of other women, Madsen offers comfort, hope, and an intensely personal perspective to new mothers who feel alone with a range of negative feelings about childbirth. Taking a dual stance as counselor and mother, she structures self-analytical questions and outlines techniques suchas journal and letter writing to help the reader begin the healing journey. For obstetricians, nurses, midwives, new mothers and mothers-to-be, Rebounding From Childbirth provides moving insight and counsel on a difficult subject.