I started the second section of the book. Liz has traveled to India now, and is staying in an Ashram somewhere near Mumbai. They start their day at 3:00 am and end it at 9 pm. They practice Yoga lots, and have a meditation hour from 4am til 5am. Liz's biggest problem is that she can't get her mind to stop going. She has a "monkey mind" as Buddhists would call it. Liz is controlled by her emotions. For example, when she has a happy thought she's in a good mood, but when she starts thinking of something that made her upset before and she's in an angry mood. Liz tries so hard to harness her mind as she's meditating, but isn't successful. She asks her friends in India what she can do. While she does believe their advice, most of it doesn't work and she ends up just wrestling with her mind during her meditation hour. Finally, her newest friend, Richard from Texas, gives her the simplest, yet successful, advice. He tells her that she needs to give her mind something else to do so she can get away from it. He tells her she needs love, and when she does this, she experiences kundalini shakti. This can be described as “a snake who lies coiled at the base of the spine until it is released by a master's touch or by a miracle, and which then ascends up through the seven chakras, or wheels (which you might also call the seven mansions of the soul), and finally through the head, exploding into union with God.
While it gets much more in depth in the book about this topic, it's quite hard to explain in a short summary. So it's best left in the book for the book to explain
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