Pain or overwhelming intensity

The opening experienced as unbearable pressure, burning, or agony

10% clearly described · 48 people
27% possibly described · 129 people
What is this

Extreme physical sensations accompanying the awakening process, sometimes indistinguishable from pain. Several accounts describe the opening as feeling like dying, burning, or being torn apart, an intensity that the body-mind interprets as threat even when something else is simultaneously recognized.

This appears most often in the context of kundalini activation and intense energy work, where the body seems to be reorganizing faster than it can comfortably integrate.

How common is it
48
Clearly described
Both independent readers marked it from the same rulebook. The conservative count, and the one to quote if only one number is wanted.
129
Possibly described
At least one of the two readers marked it. The wider figure: where the readers disagreed, this is the more generous reading.
From the accounts
Extreme, like you said, childbirth, extraordinary moment of pain that was so intense that actually I was writhing on the floor and losing consciousness.
There's no sign of infection, and yet the pain of it, the need to go to the bathroom, the feeling of needing to urinate all the time, any kind of burning sensation is always there.
Then the pain became even more intense and everything that was in my stomach and bowels came out several times.
If I was in extreme pain and needed to know that...
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