Prana, Pranayama, and Shakti

[Mystic Wolf]

Prana, Pranayama, and Shakti  
http://kundalini-teacher.com/lessons/air.php

There are only two kinds of energy. One which is the air energy, which is referred to as chi, or ki, or prana, and then there's also the Kundalini Shakti energy, which is the energy of cosmic consciousness.

Prana is also used to refer to the breath. When we take a physical breath, there is a corresponding movement of prana in the subtle or astral spine. Prana flows up in the subtle spine in conjunction with the inhalation, and down with the exhalation.

This link between breath and the flow of prana is central to many of the techniques of meditation. By controlling the breath, which is easily felt, we can influence the flow of prana, which is much more subtle and difficult to feel.

Chi energy needs to be directed. Reiki is Chi that is being directed by symbols implanted into the healer via initiation. Chi can be affected by human thought. You can change it; direct it and alter what it does.

Pranayama (prana = energy + yama = control) is a type of meditation technique that involves various ways of controlling the breathing, with the goal being to raise one’s prana (also called Kundalini in this case) up the deep spine to the spiritual eye or sixth chakra, which brings one to enlightenment.

Kundalini Shakti is very different because you cannot tell it what to do. You can ask it nicely, but you cannot control the Shakti energy. The Shakti has its own intelligence that is infinitely wiser than any human being. The Shakti is the God-force, the Goddess-force. It is intelligent.
So, when you work with chi, to invoke healing, or when you are opening and drawing the light down inside, you're using energy that needs to be told what to do.

When you are radiating Shakti energy, you don't tell it what to do. You just send it out, and its own wisdom makes it take whatever form is needed by the client. Since you are not directing it, you don't know what form it takes. It's the unconscious of the person who receives it, and their own Divine guidance that decides what that Shakti shows up as.