what´s the real function of "chills"?

[RMorgan]

Hey guys,

After experimenting a lot with astral projection and meditation, specifically after this experience that I´ve described on this preview thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?24380-extra-dimensional-beings-in-dreams

I started to have some really nice experience with chills. Somehow, I can control pretty intense chills, which give me very good sensations. These are more like "spiritual" chills, not just physical chills, when your hairs and pores arouse.

However, I have no idea of what´s their real functions.

I´ve researched a lot about it, but I couldn´t find anything about it.

Also, sometimes, with those chills, I have some pretty intense muscle spasms.

Does any of you can help me to learn more about this thing?

Thanks in advance,

Rafael.

[Jake]

Hello again Raf. I meant to get back with you on that thread, I am glad that you started a new one. Yes, I am right there with you. Never gave it much thought, but yes, I can control the 'chills'. I call them the 'heebeejeebeez'. I imagine that it is a gland, somewhere in the chest area. I do no know, actually. I do it often if I am cold. It will provide instant heat.

I have heard that it happens when someone walks over your grave,,, or the place that you will be buried. Old Wives Tale.

I do this often. Other times it does it on its own. It is a good example of learning to control involuntary body functions. I have heard that Tibetan monks can control their breathing beyond normal and even control their heart rate. Also, when practicing Astral Projection or OBE, one will have to learn to recognize and control aspects of ones energy body. When doing any type of Energy Work, one must learn to shape and control aspects of their minds to create the energy flow. Kind of like 'flexing' parts of your mind, or visualizing a 'pattern' and 'flexing' it.

Now, I am curious. I am going to do some research too. :):):):):)

[RMorgan]

Thanks Jake! Give me some feedback if you find something about it!

Cheers,

Raf.

[Flash]

I have chill (the good kind, not the wintery kind) when I have a sudden insight that affect my emotions or when I foresse something useful, or when I am at a turning point and recognize it suddenly.

HOwever, the older teenager (19) I taught to last spring and the friends of my dauhgter say that I am "chill" and it is supposed to be a compliment.;)

[Halvorsen]

Hello this is my first post so please go easy on me;-) Over the last two years I also have had these same sensations, approximately around five times a day & normally at the top of my head like a small charge/shudder making my hair stand up. Recently Im finding if i concentrate I can redirect that feeling to different parts of the body, good vibrations!

[Niobe]

I get the "chills", which I don't think is the best description for the sensation, when I get a heavy flush of energy rushing through my body. It feels like I've downloaded something, energy, information, whatever and it rushes throughout my body, like I've been supercharged. I like it :D

[RMorgan]

Thanks guys. In my case, I feel the "charging" sensation as well, and I feel a "cleaning" sensation too. I can control them like a charm, any time I want! It´s pretty nice, but I really would like to know more about them. I´m really looking forward to find some reliable info about this phenomenon.

It´s nice to know I´m not alone! ;)

[seko]

I can control the chills and I can actually generate them. I honestly don't know exactly where they come from, but for me it feels like it is coming from my root chakra.
It feels extremely good but don't know what are they for, anybody knows??

[christian]

What I figured out through experience:

In the auric field of people experiencing shills I see it like a rush of usually white sparkling light going across, can be other colors as well.

I figure, somehow a channel for energy flow is activated or gets a boost. So shills seem to be an infuse of energy somehow.

Now, to take one more step, I figure that eventually the frequency / auric field / energy is destined to develop to where the overall state already incorporates the energy frequencies that are experienced as a shill. Or as an analogy, you have a 40w light bulb that sometimes gets an infuse and gets as bright as a 50w bulb, but eventually it will 50w all the time. - Then the whole game 'starts again'.

But I also saw 'black shills' in the auric fields. So it can have every facet I figure and come from about any fathomable source, I tend to focus on the white ones, where they come from? The great spirit, maybe, who knows ... None is good or bad per se, maybe ...

[christian]

When it comes to muscle spasms, I saw videos of a healer, who combined acupuncture with the redirection of his chi through the client, who then experienced massive spasms, so it was like an awakening or reassembling of the body/energy field, dis-eases in the client were resolved this way. Again: It's not about experiencing muscle spasms over and over, it is about using that as means to an end, which would be to fully awaken or properly assemble the body/energy field.

[Lisab]

I got this alot after my reiki attunement and also sometimes during meditation. Other times I get it and I feel kind of anxious with it, heart racing etc. But mostly it's a good feeling. Can't explain it either but often wonder about it. Glad it's not just me x

[Nyce555]

I have these chills quite often. Usually involves me talking or thinking about spiritual things or experiencing some really positive emotion. I always thought is was a positive thing and kind of thought it was an Angel brushing by. :angel:

[iGnoramus_33]

Hi Rafael, thank you for this interesting post:) And that is a very awesome dream you described in the other thread, certainly makes me think.
As for "chills"; a number of years ago I've learned a meditation from a book by a Dutch meditation teacher named Ton van Gelder, and it's very relevant to what you're talking about here. As it seems, you're already very much in touch with this energy, and hopefully this will help you even further. It's a very simple and effective meditation, and it teaches to harness and control the energy that actually causes chills. In this book it described two energy channels, which have to do with the Ren Mai and the Du Mai (for more info on this, check out stuff on Chinese meridians. I use Chinese terms here, because Ton van Gelder did).
One channel, the feminine aspect, goes from the base chakra, running over the spine, out of the crown chakra. The male aspect runs from the sacral chakra to the forehead chakra (so the feminine channel involves two chakras;the base and the crown, the masculine the other five). As for chills, they are energy travelling through this feminine channel. The energy that makes a chill, starts at the base chakra, from the perineum it runs over the spine, and then along it's way up to the crown, it spreads over your body. It is actually your perineum that controls the release of this energy! Like for example, when you got to pee really bad, you tense up your perineum a lot, and you store a lot of energy there. Then when you pee, it's released, and you have those massive chills.
So as I said, the energy that flows over your body when you experience chills, is actually energy running up to your crown, but you release it earlier. It's an energy that comes from Mother Earth, I believe, being drawn from Her through the base chakra. You can experiment with this yourself, just by going outside, try to create those chills for yourself, and at the same time, visualize that you are drawing energy from the Earth. It's not too hard to feel the connection!
So, here's the meditation exercise. It's fun, simple, and it feels great! If mastered, it allows you to control this energy ALL the way up the spine, and flowing from your crown chakra, instead of getting "lost" over your body. It's not really lost of course, but you can benefit much more from it with some efficient "energy management".;)

*Sit in a lotus(-like) position, any way you're comfortable. Keep your back straight, but not tense. Just a simple meditation posture, no specific mudras or anything else required.
*Breathe a little while. Don't try to do anything special with your breath, just BE AWARE of your breath, and simple let it flow.
*After you feel ready, you start doing the following: As you breathe in deeply yet calmly, tense up your perineum IN SYNC with your breath. When your lungs feel full or air, your perineum should be at it's most tense. Hold in your breath a few seconds, while keeping the perineum tense, and then slowly breathe out, while again in sync releasing the perineum. And naturally, when your lungs feel empty, your perineum should be totally relaxed. Try this out, and you can discover the connection between breath and chills, and the lungs and the perineum.
*As you breathe this way more and more, the energy at your perineum builds up more and more. You literally store the energy that causes chills there. But, and this is very important, don't release the energy yet! Let it build for a good while, as long as you want, but I suggest at least 49 breaths to feel a good effect.
*After you've stored up a good amount of energy (again, this is totally subjective of course) at the base chakra, the awesomeness begins; you can probably clearly feel that you have a LOT of energy at the base of your spine. Then, you can make all that energy run slowly over the spine, all the way out of the crown chakra! You can mentally control it, as you'll discover. And from crown chakra, it keeps running slowly, over your head, like water, over your shoulders, like a shower of this "chill-causing" energy! And I mean that literally; it really becomes like a shower. In my experience, it feels like a golden/white/violet syrup running down your body.
*Maybe it will be a little difficult to fully control it, and you "spill" energy over your body, but that's okay. You can just keep doing it until you have as much of this energy as you want. And practice makes perfect.
*When all the energy has washed over you, relax, open your eyes when you feel like it, and do a little grounding before you stop the meditation. If it all went well, your aura and mind will feel very clear.

Alright, I hope this exercise can help you, as it helped me. I find it has a very good effect on my health, and clears my connection with the Earth. Also, it's a lot of fun to learn to get in touch with the subtle energies in and around your body, which is an opinion you seem to share. ;)

Peace, and thank you for reading. LVX

[TargeT]

I've been experiencing this more and more, but I would NOT consider it "chills"

there is no acompaning "shiver" or muscle spasm, I get this strange tingling, a lot of times it feels like it starts in my scalp and spreads downward, other times it has a seemingly different source. nearly every time, and especialy when its a full body feeling I have a rush of emotion, usualy joy or confidence, very positive feeling stuff.

Infact its so positive and energizing that I often find myself visualizing my body filling with light from above (or sometimes I visualize angel like wings growing from the back of my arms, its very confusing but only because I don't understand whats going on, not a panicy or worried confusion), or I feel like I should be / could be flexing the power that is in me, sort of like the scene in the Matrix when Neo "flexes" in the hallway and a sphere of force crushes the hallway floor/celing/walls, I feel like what that looks like.

I have almost no control over it, though it seems like if I embrace it and do the visualizations and just "experience" it the duration is longer (or maybe thats just my perception as I give it my focus.. of course I don't think time is "real" either so maybe its that...) and there is DEFINETELY a connection to urinating, which makes more sense based on the above post :cool:

Reguardless I've pretty much brushed it off as inconsequential (which I know i should do, everything has a meaning; but old habits die hard I guess...)

I think this is my only personal experience that would rank as "spiritual" or "uncommon" everything else untill now has been purely an intelectual persuit out of a strangly intense curiosity (i hardly "work" at work anymore, I'm mostly researching on sites like this, or watching video.. I feel very "behind" like I need to catch up; and some of the dates that "things might happen" seem very soon...)

anyway, there's abit of rambling on my personal experience with something I think may be similar to this topic (though I would definatly not define it as "chills" or "shivers" more like there's a billion ants made out of electricity crawling just below the surface of my skin, but not in a freak-you-out sort of way.. haha difficult to put into words).

Definately going to look more into this, thanks for posting this topic!

[TargeT]

ok, so I've gone to the bathroom about 4 times since posting this (I drink a lot of coffee/Tea when I'm at work.... and I'm still at w0rk....)and it's happened every time on the way to the bathroom, if i smile or laugh it seems to intensify ??

kinda weird, and my heavy sckeptism makes me laugh at myself when the idea "is this a sign" pops into my head...

placebo, real? I don't know but I feel like I'm getting in the way of myself again...

had to share, great topic!

[bearcow]

ok, so I've gone to the bathroom about 4 times since posting this

too much yin chi in the bladder meridians will make you pee and give you chills

[TargeT]

IT work demands stimulants at times coffee and tea mostly (for me, though I'm not comfortable with it)

luckily I have avalon to turn to while I wait for the blue bars to fill up :becky:


but its different than an involentary shake, its more like my hair is growing and my scalp tingles and that spreads down, sometimes to my whole torso..

I guess this is completely unrelated to this thread and I have gone way OT..

[RMorgan]

iGnoramus_33

Thanks so much! I´ll give this a try for sure and I´ll let you know about the results!

It´s really nice to get in touch with our own energy! It seems that our society has completely forgotten about it, unfortunately.

TargeT

I think you are into something indeed. These energies are real and they are coming up from your crown chacra.

The visualizations help a lot. I´ve also visualized angel wings growing up from my back several times, and the "ants under your skin" description is very accurate and similar to what I feel as well.

I few years ago, when I was taking meditation very seriously, I was completely in tune with those energies. I could move it trough my fingers and all parts of my body very easily but it seems that to be completely in touch with them, you need to dedicate a great part of your time to that, like I did. Today, I don´t have the time to practice it like I did in the past, and I lost 50% of my abilities to control these energies.

[Davidallany]

This is a rush of cosmic energy through chakras, eventually settling somewhere and bringing the chakras together in a unity wherever it settles. Thanks to the wave it's much easier to experience now than ever before, even non meditators have been experiencing it to some extent. That's our essence chakras and energy, the rest is just inanimate matter, the so called Human bodies or containers.

[hettleman]

I was told the chills you are describing here, is when your angels touch you. (The quickening of the flesh?) Their vibration being higher than ours causing the "quickening" when they come close and actually touch us. I get chills when I am speaking and have interpereted it to be "confirmation" when I am speaking "truth". I also get chills when others are speaking "truth". Just my experience and opinion!

[ghostrider]

when the great spirit passes close to you - you feel it- and you body reacts - the hair on your body stands, divine energy brushes by oh so gentle. and GOD says I SEE YOU. PAY ATTENTION BEHOLD OR THIS IS IMPORTANT what ever you were thinking, talking about , or seeing, IT IS IMPORTANT. if you don't get it , he will run it by again, and again and again. strangers will approach you and talk exactly about what you were just talking about, you'll get the same comformation from all directions. once you learn what to look for - you won't need the repeat/pause repeat/pause, you just get the chill, and the world stops and you carefully be silent, and say to yourself OKAY what is it I'm supposed to know or feel about _____.

[take]

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3951/like-a-drug-music-induces-same-chemicals

Interesting. I get these a lot.
I say it's evolution, there's a lesson everywhere.

[skamandar]

RMorgan, you don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for a post like yours! Thank you! Finally someone started talking on a subject I am not just interested in, but I can actually try to add some value to. So here I am, eager to exchange information and experience. Hopefully, together we can reach to a conclusion on what exactly is the function of the chills.

I started having chills 3 years ago. They were triggered by a beautiful and meaningful sentence I heard in a movie. The bliss was so powerful, that I felt on the ground and my body was shaking. I asked myself what was that, and how can I release the same energy again. At the beginning I was constantly searching for beautiful and powerful music, pictures, dances, books, and intelligent people to talk to or just listen to. So, I needed help from outside to get this energy flow from the inside.

After some time I learned how to release them without any help or reason, now I can do it anytime, any place. Actually I do it all the time – just a little bit, I can increase it if I decide, but cannot keep it constantly at a maximum rate. I learned to control my body and I am not shaking anymore while doing it.

While practicing on my newly discovered skill, I noticed it had effect not only on me but on the world around me. Until now I have like thousands of observations. I would like to share/discuss the effects I have observed so far, if it is ok? The only problem is that I cannot stretch my brain enough to put it in words that make clear and simple sense. Have you also noticed that it has effect on people, animals or plants, while having the chills?

What I want is to be able to do something like this. For example you use a particular soap. You know that when you use it, it does the following:
-cleans dirty hands
-removes body odour
-kills bacteria etc.

Unfortunately the only thing that is 100% clear to me, is that it improves health. I haven’t been ill, since I started having the chills constantly. I even experimented once, this winter, when absolutely everybody around me had the flu. I decided to stop the chills, get the flu and see what happens. So I got it, after 1 or 2 hours my body went into uncontrollable shake, I had extremely strong chills. I shook for about 1 hour, then I slept 12 hours – when I woke up I was completely fine – no sign of the flu.

And actually there is a second thing about it – if I release too strong chills, I can damage electronics. I cannot tell you how often I change light bulbs. I was so happy when I finally found your post that I released chills and had to restart the computer several times. Then I decided to calm down and apply for Avalon membership later, when I wake up and still feel sleepy and sour and basically not so happy. After I got it, I tried to write several times in your post puff…. I couldn’t, hopefully I will manage to do it successfully this time…I actually write in Word now, hope I can control myself long enough to copy it and paste it and send it.

And forgot to mention, in my case the chills are released from the heart, from some hot place there, which I located and I feel all the time (I go there very often in the winter, to get hot when I feel cold). Then it spreads allover the body like electricity and it makes almost every sell vibrate, and it is soooooo nice. This illustrates it in a very accurate way:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?12635-Heart-Chakra-Opening&p=111677#post111677

[Rocky_Shorz]

I get chills when angels are trying to get my attention, hair standing on your arms...

it's like your body knows a message is coming and you are energizing to the point of hearing it...

not sure if that makes sense to anyone, but being in San Diego, when I feel a chill, it isn't the weather... ;)

[Seikou-Kishi]

I get chills in constant waves (sometimes up to fifteen minutes at a time) when my mind is... I can only say that my mind is reaching beyond itself to find information or 'something' that my conscious mind cannot find or process... I hope that makes at least a little sense lol.

[skamandar]

I actually release most of chills when I am alone. But I decided to check what will happen if I do it in a crowd. I was so trilled about my idea. I created a plan. I decited that when I go back home from work, I will observe what happens with the people in the bus, when I do my maximum chill release.

I was so into my plan, that I actually forgot my bag with all my documents and money and debit and credit cards in the office. I was so concentrated, that I even didn't try to buy a ticket when I went in the bus. Naturally - when 5 guys came to check the tickets, I didn't have... They wanted to write me a fine, and they needed my ID. Then I realized I am in a deep s..t. I was taken out of the bus. Police came. It was very ugly...

Now I had like 7-8 guys, complitely agressive, unpolite, and they wanted to take me to jail!!! Then I started releasing the maximum chill. Just like that. And than one by one they just stopped shouting. When I looked at them I find out they were all staring at me with their mouths wild open. Then the subject of the conversation totally changed... They started talking to me in a very strange manner. They saied they have never seen such a beautifull person like me (imagine!!!). That it could happen to anybody to forget their ID and to forget to buy a ticket!!! And actually one of them was missing for some time, and he came back, with a packet of cigarets in his hand... he gave it to me. He saied he noticed I almost finished my cigarets. Then I looked down and I realised that during all this agresive and ugly thing, I was holding my pack of cigarets in my hands, opened... with just one cigaret inside it.. And I was so shocked, and they were so nice and polite... And they kept apologising for being so rough.

I totaly realise that if somebodi gets the chills, It is more like an intimate thing. But I need a feedback also, just to convince myself, that I am not complitely going crazy. Has anybody actually tried to go out of the intimacy of the chills and observe the effects?

[skamandar]

This is the thread that made me member of project avalon forum.

Arround the december 21-st there were many threads started here on massive energy/chills/sensations in the heart area.
Now at least I dont feel as lonly as before for sensing/producing/exepting this energies.

Is there anybody here who is willing to discuss in more details this energy function now?

[enfoldedblue]

Thanks for starting this thread. I have also been experiencing similar feelings. I have been feeling like a new sense is activating within me. I do not fully understand it, but it seems like possibly a result of a stronger connection between my mind and body. I remember a while ago a thread here about how Native American trackers could no longer function properly once their heads were shaved...I feel this is likely relevant to the phenomenon you are describing. Like we are beginning to experience a whole new aspect to our nervous systems.

I agree with others here that there seems to a relationship between these physical sensations and our chakras.

Personally I also notice a connection with digestion as well. When meditating, when I work through some mental energy, a corresponding gurgle signifies this shift in energy in my gut.

I look forward to seeing where this goes....

[westhill]

RMorgan...
All of the above. Chills, muscle spasms, tingling and flutters and so on, mainly from the earth/feet up.
It feels electrical. My body/spirit circuits are getting rewired. So WHY is this necessary is my question.
What is coming in that I need to adapt to? And is everyone going to be able to tap into this energy/surge?
Purpose, purpose, purpose!! So I do what skamandar does. I play, experiment and test (never to harm/control).
It's kinda like happiness rubbing off on someone. Contagious bliss and peace with no agenda or expectation.

[DeDukshyn]

Hey guys,

After experimenting a lot with astral projection and meditation, specifically after this experience that I´ve described on this preview thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?24380-extra-dimensional-beings-in-dreams

I started to have some really nice experience with chills. Somehow, I can control pretty intense chills, which give me very good sensations. These are more like "spiritual" chills, not just physical chills, when your hairs and pores arouse.

However, I have no idea of what´s their real functions.

I´ve researched a lot about it, but I couldn´t find anything about it.

Also, sometimes, with those chills, I have some pretty intense muscle spasms.

Does any of you can help me to learn more about this thing?

Thanks in advance,

Rafael.

Hi Raf,

My experience with what you call "chills" began happening as I started in some advanced spiritual practice (not like going to church or something, but real spirituality). I began to notice a distinction in the "physical" chills from the "spiritual" ones -- they are quite different but if your mind is coarse, it is hard to differentiate.

I now use these "chills" or tingles as I call them, as a sort of compass ... If I come into a grand learning of some type where my belief paradigm has to shift, I'll get the chills. I'll also notice these "chills" in response to my own questions and answers in my own mind. The closer I get to an "ultimate" truth, the more the chills come on, again, like a bit of a compass. I also seem to be able to use it almost as a form of communication with higher vibrational energy, perhaps my own higher self, or my spirit guides, where a "chill" may come on as a "yes" or a "your getting warmer" type of reaction to a particular thought or consideration of mine.

I have been feeling this for over 10 years now, and it comes and goes, but I always welcome the warm feelings it brings -- not the cold chills .. it is different.

My 2 cents ;)

[spiritwind]

I guess everyone has different concepts on this. My husband has always got goose-bumps/chills/hair standing on end and in many cases it has alerted him to danger. Since we have been together now about 12 years we often get them at the same time. It always seems to be a signal that heightens our awareness, causes us to pay more attention.

The first time it happened to us at the same time was kind of interesting. We were at my grand-parents house during the winter holidays. My 2 Aunts, their husbands, my Uncle, and my little sister, her husband, and 2 year old daughter were all there and it was around 9 am. I bring my lap-top with me and often do astrological updates for friends and family so was getting ready to do one for my sister. Within about 15-20 minutes of us talking about doing a “reading” everyone in the house suddenly has a reason to leave and does except my husband, sister, and myself. We’re sitting across the room from a small fireplace but it wasn’t particularly cold when we sat down (my husband is standing nearby). After about maybe 10 minutes one of us comments on how cold it seems to be getting. No biggie, we keep talking and getting colder and colder. I still don’t think anything of it. Then we even get up and go stand by the fire, all 3 of us. I still don’t make the connection. She is talking about something she is afraid to talk to anyone about and says it has to do with since her daughter was born. She has felt a presence around her ever since but doesn’t know if it’s good or bad, it just makes her feel kind of uncomfortable. She thinks it has to do with her husband’s dead brother for some reason. By this time we all notice that we can see our breath even though we are all standing right in front of the fire. We finally make the connection. Hey, do you think what we are experiencing has anything to do with what we are talking about. It was so weird. It was the first time I can recall anything quite this dramatic happening especially to the 3 of us together. At the time I was so taken aback I probably didn’t help her as much as I could have had I known more about what might have been happening.

Anyway, I would say it’s almost like another sense, like our ability to smell etc. I have a couple of other friends who also will get chills and goose bumps when talking about certain things. Since the first time it happened to me it would happen occasionally when someone was talking about a recently deceased relative, but many times it happens as well where when talking someone will say something that triggers a response, but it is generally not accompanied by as much of a sense of cold. It’s more just the heightened awareness and goose bumps. It often feels like a validation of sorts too, especially when several people experience the same thing at the same time.

[Elly]

For me, the "chills" or tingles starts from the head going down. I normally get this warm charging sensation when having a meaningful conversation with someone. I believe it is the result of a deep connection with the person, an exchange of energy of some sort. But I also remember experiencing this sensation when viewing a meaningful scene in a movie or documentary, listening to something that I deeply connected with. On that level, I find Dedukshyn compass description pretty interesting. It might be a physical reaction to a known Truth, when what we stumble upon aligns itself with what we are yearning for. Kind of the higher self telling you "YES, that is it".

[skamandar]

This song describes what it feels like to have the "chills". Hope it will resonate to other forum members.

"I'm waking up to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in the chemicals
I'm breaking in, shaping up, checking out on the prison bus
This is it, the apocalypse
Whoa

I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough to make my system blow
Welcome to the new age, to the new age.."
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