Kundalini raising that occurs prior to sufficient cleansing and spiritual awareness are considered premature, producing many different symptoms. In addition to short periods of heightened awareness and states of bliss or enlightenment, there may be times of extreme dullness or depression, erratic behavior, unexplainable illness loss of or poor memory, feelings of disorientation with oneself, friends, work or the world in general. If the liver is affected, the skin may take on a yellowish color, an almost dirty look, due to the release of negativity or some areas of the body may take on a reddish or bluish cast. There may be other shadings relating to energy concentrations of differnt vibrational rates. (Each vibrational rate has its own color.) A person may look old, tired, or ill but a few hours later look years younger and full of vitality, or the reverse. Symptoms are different in each individual because each person has blocks, or energy concentrations, in different areas. It is very difficult to know just how a particular person will react.

One may compare the Kundalini, when a large number of waves are released all at once, to a garden hose turned on full force: if the spine is clear and straight, the force flows through to the top of the head unhampered; if blocked, twisted, or bent in some way, the free flow is stopped or hampered and the energy goes into the nearest area. A very sway-backed person, for example, will dump this energy into the belly and solar plexus area, causing intense emotions. A force that continues over a period of time may result in physical damage, stomach upsets, or even ulcers. 

Energy locked in the chest may make one may think of heart trouble. Blockage in the brain causes loss of memory and/or mental aberrations because of the varied symptoms and lack of information about Kundalini, the blame for improper and excessive release is generally misplaced. People may feel hypochondriacal with all their different aches and pains. At times they may feel ill but not actually be ill. They may feel they do not have long to live, but at the same time feel perfectly all right. Confusion is prevalent when unprepared people experience excessive Kundalini release.

Some people will experience schizophrenic symptoms as the Kundalini releases energy from strong but unintegrated past-Iife personalities; it may be that there was little relationship between the soul and the personality and the personality remained separate, to be integrated during another life. Kundalini will seek to cleanse all locked in memories, whether physical, emotional or mental, whether of traumatic or ecstatic events. Spontaneously or through meditations, people can relive experiences from childhood or past lives. Power trips, unexplained anger, base or perverted sexual fantasies or feelings these are all part of personal demons, hidden away only to be brought to light by the cleansing of the Kundalini. It helps not to be afraid to face the memories locked within. When all blocks are released, the Kundalini flows through unhampered, refining the cells and thus allowing the prana or divine and universal energy to come into the system in pure, strong form.